On this day in history: April 19th
1587 Francis Drake sinks the Spanish fleet in Cádiz harbor.
1770 Captain James Cook sights Australia.
1775 The Battle of Lexington and Concord which began the American Revolutionary War.
1927 Mae West is sentenced to 10 days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
1943 In Poland, German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews, beginning the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
1951 General Douglas MacArthur retires from the military.
1956 Actress Grace Kelly marries Rainier III of Monaco.
1971 Charles Manson is sentenced to death for the Sharon Tate murders.
1989 A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors.
1993 The 51-day siege of the Branch Davidian building outside Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Eighty-one people die.
1995 Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, is bombed, killing 168.
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Now when I look at you girl I get an extension
And I don't mean Alexander Graham Bell's invention
Switchboard Susan can we be friends
After six and at weekends
I'm a long distance romancer
And I keep on trying until I get an answer
Give me! give me! one more chance
'Cause she's the greatest little operator
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Hey, just i just wanted to remind, tha global I4oTuFskPCc4 is near.
Eighteen people including two civilians were killed in violence across insurgency-hit Afghanistan, officials said on Saturday. Two civilians, including a woman, were killed when a bomb placed on a cycle of violence an abandoned bicycle was detonated remotely in Kandahar, a local health official told AFP. Four other civilians were wounded in the incident near a hospital, provincial health director Abdul Qayoum Pukhla said.
Casualties: Three militants were killed in a joint riding, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a statement. In Khost province, near the Pakistan border, ISAF troops killed one militant and detained two others after they were spotted by an unmanned surveillance aircraft placing an improvised explosive device (IED), ISAF said in a separate statement. In Farah province, Afghan soldiers assisted by coalition troops killed two militants after coming under fire on a combat reconnaissance patrol in Khaki.
Separately, NATO-lef forces and Afghan troops killed three suspected militants during a raid in central Afghanistan, where insurgent attacks have spiked this year, officials said. At least two other suspected militants died in an airstrike in the south. The joint force was targeting insurgent commanders in a village in Logar province. The three suspected militants were killed in a gunfight following a call for them to surrender, a NATO statement said.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] Somali pirates have attacked two more vessels in the Indian Ocean seizing a Belgian dredger but failed in their attempt to hold a tanker.
A Belgian dredger -- fishing vessel -- with 10 crewmembers on board was hijacked by pirates on Saturday morning, Belgian broadcaster VRT reported later in the day. The ship, the Pompei, which is owned by Belgian dredging firms Jan De Nul and DEME, reportedly went missing off the Somali coast. It sounded a silent alarm twice, early in the morning, a staff member of the Belgian government's crisis center told the VRT.
Jaak Raes of the crisis center, which is monitoring the situation, said the crews on board the Pompei include two Belgians, one Dutchman and several Croatian and Filipino nationals.
The Pompei first sounded the alarm at around 5:30 a.m. a second distress call was received by coast guards at around 6 a.m. on Saturday.
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Why don't the crews put barbed wire/razor wire around the edges of the decks when the ships go into pirate territory? The Israelis did this on one of their ships and it seemed to work.
The Somali parliament unanimously approved on Saturday a government proposal to introduce the Sharia law in the country, parliamentary Deputy Speaker Osman Elmi Bogore told AFP.
"There were 340 members at the session and they voted unanimously for the implementation of Islamic Sharia in Somalia," said Bogore, who presided over the debates in the absence of speaker Aden Mohamed Nur. "The bill ... is approved by the parliament ... We have an Islamic government," he added. Somalia's cabinet last month endorsed the plan to introduce Sharia.
"Islamic Sharia is the only option to get solutions for the problems in this country," Information Minister Farhan Ali told reporters on March 10. On February 28, President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed agreed to proposals by local and foreign religious leaders for a truce with the hardliners and the implementation of Sharia.
The Shebab militia has already imposed the law in areas of the war-torn country under their control. Ahmed was elected president on January 31 following a United Nations-brokered reconciliation and vowed to form an inclusive government. But the Shebab and other militia have continued to battle the government and its allies.
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Germany will launch one of its biggest terror trials in decades on Wednesday against four alleged Islamic extremists accused of plotting devastating attacks against US interests.
The so-called Sauerland cell was named for a region east where authorities captured the suspects in September 2007 along with 26 detonators and 12 drums of hydrogen peroxide, the substance used in the deadly attacks on London's transport system two years before. A fourth suspect was extradited from Turkey to Germany in November. Their aim, authorities say, was a deadly bombing "of unimaginable size", according to chief federal prosecutor Monika Harms, that would also punish Germany for its military presence in Afghanistan.
Prosecutors say the four are hardened members of the Islamic Jihad Union, a militant Islamic extremist group with roots in Uzbekistan and ties to al-Qaeda which is believed to have set up training camps for militants along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. The suspects are accused of planning to car bomb targets including US institutions in Germany and nightclubs popular with Americans.
Two of the men, Fritz Gelowicz and Daniel Schneider, are German converts to Islam, a third is a German citizen of Turkish origin, Attila Selek, and the fourth a Turkish national, Adem Yilmaz. The cases of Gelowicz and Schneider have particularly shaken the country, raising questions how seemingly "normal" Germans could covert to Islam, become radicalised by extremist preaching and then attend terror training camps.
Their trial will take place in a high-security courtroom of the superior regional tribunal in the western city of Duesseldorf on charges of belonging to a terrorist organisation, plotting murder and conspiring for an explosives attack. Schneider also faces an attempted murder charge for allegedly grabbing the handgun from a police officer when being arrested and firing off a shot. No one was wounded. Hundreds of officers had been tracking the group's movements around the clock for months when elite commandos swooped on the suspects, holed up with the explosive chemicals and paraphernalia in a holiday cabin.
The prosecution has built its case around wiretapped conversations in which the cell discussed its plans. In one, a suspect asks the amount of hydrogen peroxide solution required to kill an American: "How many grams do you need do blow him to bits?", according to media accounts. A man believed to be Schneider responds: "If you pack it in steel, 20 grams, 30 grams. Then he's dead."
Police say they caught Gelowicz, now 29, Schneider, 23, and 30-year-old Yilmaz red-handed concocting explosives. Selek, 24, is believed to have obtained the detonators. They also said they captured the men just in the nick of time, as they were planning attacks before October 12, 2007, the date parliament was to vote to extend German participation in the Nato peacekeeping force in Afghanistan.
German media have called it the biggest terror trial since the urban guerrillas of the Red Army Faction faced court in the 1970s. It could last two years or longer and the defendants each face up to 15 years in prison.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Security forces in France have arrested Jurdan Martitegi, the suspected top military leader of the armed Basque separatist organization ETA.
Martitegi was detained along with two other ETA suspects in the vicinity of the southwestern French city of Perpignan in an operation carried out in cooperation with Spanish security forces, Spanish national radio reported on Saturday.
Spanish news reports said Martitegi confessed his identity to the arresting officers, who also seized three guns and a car with false number plates.
Hours later, Spanish security forces detained a further three people in the Basque Country province of Alava in a related operation.
The Basque news agency Vasco Press said Martitegi, 28, had been a member of ETA's most active unit, the Viscaya cell, which was dismantled by the Spanish police last July with the arrest of several members.
He was believed to have replaced Aitzol Iriondo -- who was arrested in southwestern France on December 8 -- as the leader of ETA's military operations.
Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) is considered a terrorist organization by the European Union and the United States as it is blamed for the deaths of 825 people in its 40-year campaign of bombings and shootings to carve a Basque homeland out of parts of northern Spain and southwestern France.
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According to the May 30, 2005 Bradbury memo (at link, page 37), Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times in March 2003 and Abu Zubaydah was waterboarded 83 times in August 2002
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The electric chair does not "work" if you do not leave it on long enough...
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M.Muecek, i was thinking along the same lines as you, i think the first time they tried the electric chair on someone it didn't go over so well either
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Waterboarding more than once is stupid. The US was doing the equivalent of waterboarding during the Philippine Insurrection. C'mon! That's not even WWII technology.
The only credit I would give waterboarding is that it is fast. But unless you get information fast, then your technique is wrong.
Even if we just used pharmaceuticals, there are probably over 200 choices available that would extract information at the speed of a tiny time pill. And don't even think "sodium pentathol", because that is your grandfather's truth serum.
Heck, we use so many twilight anesthetics in ordinary surgery today that some doctors require surgical staff to sign non-disclosure agreements when patients babble something embarrassing or incrimination. And they *do* babble, about anything and everything.
We know how to do drug induced hypnosis. We have endorphin inhibitors that block the body's natural painkillers. We have drugs that make people intensely afraid of everything. Or paranoid. Or that make them think you are their best buddy in the whole world.
And drugs are just the tip of the iceberg.
And they don't remember a bit of any of it, after. Like Rohypnol.
ISLAMABAD: Hardline cleric Sufi Muhammad, who played a key role in enforcing Islamic law in Pakistan's restive northwestern Swat valley, on Sunday said there is no room for democracy in Islam and it contravenes the Quran.
Addressing a gathering of thousands of people at Mingora, the main city in Swat district, the chief of the banned Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Shariah Muhammadi (TNSM) described democracy as an un-Islamic system.
The existing political system in the country contravenes Islam and the Quran, he claimed.
"You never saw ol' Mo stand for election, did you? Did you?"
Asserting that there is no room for democracy in an Islamic system, he accused Pakistan's rulers of appeasing the West by thrusting the system of 'kafirs' or infidels on the people of the country.
Muhammad said many years of struggle for implementing Shariah or Islamic law in Malakand division, which includes Swat, were now bearing results. He claimed all un-Islamic laws will soon be abolished in Malakand.
The radical cleric, who set up Qazi or Islamic courts in Swat even before President Asif Ali Zardari ratified a controversial law to enforce Shariah in the region, said no appeal could be made against a decision by a Qazi court in civil courts. Such decision could be appealed only in Darul Qaza, or superior courts in the Shariah system, he added.
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I do think we need the Master of the Obvious graphic here....
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After lying low during Assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET) has asked people to stay away from parliamentary elections in the state and threatened "action" against them for violation. "We would take action against the people participating in parliamentary elections," LeT spokesman Abdullah Gaznavi told a local news agency.
Gaznavi said the outfit would carry "suicide attacks" in Srinagar. "People should keep away from political rallies and completely boycott the elections. People should restrain from working as polling agents of political leaders," Gaznavi was quoted as saying by another local news agency.
The Lashkar spokesman also threatened that the group will strike in Srinagar "in a big way" in the coming weeks. Anantnag, Srinagar and Baramulla parliamentary segments in the state are slated to go to polls on April 30, May 7 and May 13 respectively.
The threat of LET comes close on heels of a showdown between moderate Hurriyat Conference headed by Mirwaiz Omer Farooq and PoK-based United Jehad Council (UJC), an amalgam of 13 militant outfits.
While Hurriyat has said it would not give a call for boycott of elections, UJC headed by Syed Salahuddin has asked people to stay away from Lok Sabha polls.
Despite a boycott call by separatists, a record voter turnout was witnessed during Assembly polls last year.
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The US launched an attack against a terror training camp in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of South Waziristan.
An unmanned Predator strike aircraft fired two Hellfire missiles at a Taliban and al Qaeda training camp in Gangi Khel near the town of Wana, a US intelligence official familiar with the attacks in Pakistan's northwest told The Long War Journal. The camp was also used by the Jaish-e-Mohammed, a Pakistani terror group that has fought in Kashmir but has largely relocated to Pakistan's tribal areas, the official said.
Eight Taliban fighters are thought to have been killed in the strike, Geo News reported. No senior Taliban or al Qaeda leaders have been reported killed at this time.
Today's strike in Gangi Khel is the third attack in the village time this year. "The place is a Taliban hotbed," the US intelligence official said. A Jan. 23 Predator attack hit a Taliban compound in the town. Ten al Qaeda and Taliban fighters were reported killed in that attack. An April 8 strike on a Taliban truck at a bazaar killed four Taliban and al Qaeda fighters.
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The Taliban, meanwhile, believe they have busted most of the spy networks operated by the US and Pakistani militaries. "We used to watch these planes, but had no idea they were chasing us and taking pictures of our activities," said a Taliban commander in North Waziristan. "In the early days ... our training camps were visible and people would come and go. We were not so concerned about the security of our locations, but that has all changed now. We [have] abandoned all our old camps and re-located to new places."
How's that working out for you?
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i have an idea, bomb anywhere in that region where more than 2 ppl are at the same location
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What we SHOULD do is think about dropping a tactical nuclear bomb on this tribal area... we may not be able to figure out where Bin Laden is in a 20-25 mile area, but we can sure destroy the entire the place.
If there is ever another series attack on the US, God forbid, you will see the above scenario likely happen.
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There are equally lethal ways that don't make as much news. Send a few goats in there infected with Hong Kong Dong. Contaminate some of their food with particularly nasty intestinal parasite eggs. Etc.
[Geo News] As many as seven militants were killed and one injured in clashes with security forces here in F.R Kohat on Saturday, police sources said. According to sources, security forces carried out search operation in tribal area Shendhund here which ended in deadly skirmishes between militants and security men. As a result, at least seven militants were killed and one injured while 20-kilogram explosive material and nine detonators were also seized from a suspected vehicle, sources added.
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[Geo News] Police claimed capturing a suspected person and also recovered explosive material from his possession near Red Zone area late on Saturday night, police sources. According to police sources, during the routine checking near Bari Imam area, a suspected figure was searched. As a result, 15 detonators, 5 bombs, and another 200 grams explosive material was found from his handbag. Following that, police arrested him and shifted to unknown place for further investigation. The security measures for the sensitive places located in Red Zone have been beefed up after the arrest of suspected person while vehicles are also being monitored strictly, police sources added.
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A man was killed and another three seriously wounded when explosives stored in a house in Hangu blew up, police said. They seized weapons from the house, which belonged to one Bakhtiar Ali, and said they had begun investigations after a first information report.
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Army troops escaped a remote-controlled bomb explosion near a tableeghi centre in North Waziristan on Saturday, residents and officials said. Helicopter gunships fired at suspected Taliban hideouts in retaliation. "A military convoy travelling from Dattakhel to Miranshah was attacked with a remote-controlled bomb near a tableeghi centre. However, all the troops escaped unhurt," the civil administration officials said. Meanwhile, a resident of Quetta was killed on charges of spying for the United States, residents said. "This man was spying on Taliban for America," said a note attached to his body found near Miranshah. The man was identified as Akhtar Gul.
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In a video released last week, the Taliban are seen shooting a 19-year-old after he confesses to planting small transmitter chips that guide CIA's drones to their targets.
"I was given Rs 10,000 to drop chips wrapped in cigarette paper at Al Qaeda and Taliban houses," he said. "If I was successful, I was told I would be given thousands of dollars ... The money was good so I started throwing the chips all over. I knew people were dying because of what I was doing, but I needed the money."
A US official talking to the NBC dismissed the video as "extremist propaganda".
If we had a CIA worth anything we'd be spreading the word that the chips are hidden in various shipments of money and gold from the ISI to the Taliban, and that key people in the ISI have been turned to our side ...
The Taliban, meanwhile, believe they have busted most of the spy networks operated by the US and Pakistani militaries. "We used to watch these planes, but had no idea they were chasing us and taking pictures of our activities," said a Taliban commander in North Waziristan. "In the early days ... our training camps were visible and people would come and go. We were not so concerned about the security of our locations, but that has all changed now. We [have] abandoned all our old camps and re-located to new places."
The commander said 40 training camps had been moved because their friends in Afghanistan had tipped them off about planned US attacks.
The commander said that the Americans had then started paying Pakistani and Afghan citizens to identify their locations. "Finally, with the help of our sources in the Pakistani and Afghan intelligence agencies, we detained two Afghan tribesmen, who after five days of interrogation, confessed to spying for US forces in Afghanistan. They revealed other names and then we knew there were entire networks of spies operating in our areas," he said. A government official said the Taliban had recently executed more than 100 alleged spies in North Waziristan.
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Ima thinkin' of a new marketing scheme: An RFID chip in every pack of Marlboros and a CIA number to call. It'll make millions.
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have you seen the price of Marlboros lately, hell alot of bombs are cheaper
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RW - just remember that 60% of the price of a pack of smokes is government taxes, added by Democrats to "stop our addiction to tobacco". The Constitution says NOTHING about social engineering, anywhere. Maybe the Taliban aren't the only ones we need to be targeting.
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The Taliban in Mohmand Agency said on Saturday that the Yakaghund tehsildar they had abducted last month was dead. Taliban spokesman Ikramullah told Daily Times that Arshad Ali had died due to kidney failure. The government official was kidnapped on March 8, after a fierce gunfight between troops and the Taliban. Fourteen soldiers had been killed in the clash.Taliban had demanded the release of their arrested accomplices in return for the tehsildar's release. They have declined to return the body until their demand was met.
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Four people were killed in a remote-controlled bomb blast in Tirah Shalobar area of Bara tehsil on Saturday. Sources in the area told Daily Times that the dead included Sadiq -- a shura member of militant outfit Ansarul Islam (AI) -- and an aide. The men were on their way to Tirah Larbagh when the explosive device -- planted on the side of the road -- went off. The men were injured by the explosion and died later. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack so far.
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A jirga of the Ahmedzai Wazir tribe on Saturday negotiated a successful ceasefire between the Taliban and government forces in South Waziristan. "Both sides have agreed to a ceasefire," MNA Abdul Malik told Daily Times after holding talks with Political Agent Shahab Ali Khan.
Malik said the Taliban had made two demands, including the removal of two government checkposts. "We have only agreed to the ceasefire. All demands will be considered later," he added.
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The US government is starting a broad effort in Pakistan and Afghanistan to prevent the Taliban from using radio stations and websites, senior US officials have told the Wall Street Journal. Since the Paks won't jam them, we will. Why don't we just send some drones to bomb them?
American military and intelligence personnel are working to jam the unlicensed radio stations that Taliban fighters use to broadcast "threats and decrees". US personnel are also trying to block the Pakistani chat rooms and websites joining the extremist underground. The websites frequently contain videos of attacks and inflammatory religious material that attempts to justify acts of violence. Y'know, as long a we can geolocate the transmitters and even the websites, why don't we simply send a little zap along to say "hello"? Oh. That's right. It'd violate Pak sovreignty. Psychological operations: The push takes the administration deeper into "psychological operations", which try to influence how the US, its allies and enemies are seen, the report said, noting that officials involved with the new programme have said such operations are a necessary part of halting the deterioration of stability in Pakistan and Afghanistan. It's not "psyops." It's Electronic Countermeasures. Jamming equipment: In Pakistan, Taliban leaders use unlicensed FM stations to recite the names of local Pakistani government officials, police officers and other figures marked for death by the group. Hundreds of people named in the broadcasts have later been killed. "The Taliban aren't just winning the information war -- we're not even putting up that much of a fight," said a senior US official in Afghanistan. "We need to make it harder for them to keep telling the population that they're in control and can strike at any time," he added. The US may also provide radio-jamming equipment to the Pakistan government, according to US officials familiar with the plans. They don't have their own? How strange. They can't buy their own? Even stranger, since you can buy it off the shelf from any number of places, many of them not even export controlled... Rwanda radio: Richard Holbrooke, the administration's special envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan, publicly told reporters there were 150 illegal FM radio stations in Swat Valley, which allowed militants to go "around every night broadcasting the names of people they're going to behead or they've beheaded". He likened the Taliban radio stations to Rwanda's Radio Mille Collines, a sectarian broadcaster widely believed to have helped fuel the Rwandan genocide. Interservices Intelligence and/or Military Intelligence are somehow incapable of conducting the elementary radio direction finding operations that would allow the Mighty Pak Army to turn the operators of the stations in the dead guys and the transmitters into piles of scrap metal.
The new push reflects the influence of General David Petraeus, head of Central Command and a major proponent of using psychological operations to reduce popular support for armed insurgent groups. The Pentagon, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Central Intelligence Agency declined to comment, the report added.
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We have more drones underway. Also, who cares who they kill, it's among themselves. Less work for us...I'm here and to me there is no inocent people here. After loosing friends to 13 years old and woman, I say, let's get them all. Islam is not a peaceful religion, is like comunism, they wanna take over the world. So the few filthy mulas pedaphiles can sodomize, rape and murder at will. That's not what the prophet Muhhamed intended...
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Twelve BUFFS, loaded to the gills, down the Swat Valley, one time. That's all it would take - that and a threat to do the same to any other area that harbor Taliban, Al Qaida, LeT, JMB, whatever. ONE act, and we're on it. Of course, that would take a cold-blooded SOB with a heart of steel to do the job, and our current "president" doesn't have enough testosterone in his system to even allow the NAVY to do its job. Things are going to get a lot worse...
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[Jerusalem Post Front Page] Egyptian security forces uncovered five smuggling tunnels along the Gaza-Egypt border on Saturday, Israel Radio reported.
The openings of the tunnels were found in the Egyptian part of Rafah, a town cut in half by the border. Food, motorcycles and computer components were inside the tunnels, according to the Egyptians. Egyptian security officials the tunnels would be destroyed.
Earlier Saturday, Egyptian officials told the London-based Asharq Alawsat that interrogation of Hizbullah members detained in Egypt over the past two weeks revealed that the cell was planning to smuggle explosive belts and dynamite with the help of Israeli Arabs in order to carry out a suicide attack inside Israel.
According to the officials, the members of the cell had two suitcases containing dynamite when they were captured.
Over the weekend Egypt opened the Rafah border crossing for two days to allow Palestinians who left the Gaza Strip to receive medical treatment in Egypt to return home. An Egyptian news agency reported that approximately 200 Palestinians convalescents were expected to cross back into the Strip in 30 ambulances.
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someone was late with the protection money
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Two Israeli police officers were injured on Saturday when a Palestinian ran them down near a Jewish settlement outside Jerusalem in the latest incident of cars being used as weapons, police said. "Two police officers were injured, one lightly in the legs but the other more seriously in the head, when a Palestinian man drove at them deliberately in his vehicle," police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told AFP.
He said the incident occurred at the Hezmeh checkpoint near a Jewish settlement in the West Bank north of Jerusalem. "The 37-year-old Palestinian was arrested and said when questioned that his plan had been to kill the police officers," Rosenfeld added.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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Eighteen people including two civilians were killed in violence across insurgency-hit Afghanistan, officials said on Saturday. Two civilians, including a woman, were killed when a bomb placed on 
Germany will launch one of its biggest terror trials in decades on Wednesday against four alleged Islamic extremists accused of plotting devastating attacks against US interests.
The Taliban in Mohmand Agency said on Saturday that the Yakaghund tehsildar they had abducted last month was dead. Taliban spokesman Ikramullah told Daily Times that Arshad Ali had died due to kidney failure. The government official was kidnapped on March 8, after a fierce gunfight between troops and the Taliban. Fourteen soldiers had been killed in the clash.Taliban had demanded the release of their arrested accomplices in return for the tehsildar's release. They have declined to return the body until their demand was met.
Four people were killed in a remote-controlled bomb blast in Tirah Shalobar area of Bara tehsil on Saturday. Sources in the area told Daily Times that the dead included Sadiq -- a shura member of militant outfit Ansarul Islam (AI) -- and an aide. The men were on their way to Tirah Larbagh when the explosive device -- planted on the side of the road -- went off. The men were injured by the explosion and died later. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack so far.
A jirga of the Ahmedzai Wazir tribe on Saturday negotiated a successful ceasefire between the Taliban and government forces in South Waziristan. "Both sides have agreed to a ceasefire," MNA Abdul Malik told Daily Times after holding talks with Political Agent Shahab Ali Khan.
The US government is starting a broad effort in Pakistan and Afghanistan to prevent the Taliban from using radio stations and websites, senior US officials have told the Wall Street Journal.
[Jerusalem Post Front Page] Egyptian security forces uncovered five smuggling tunnels along the Gaza-Egypt border on Saturday, Israel Radio reported. 
