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Gad, the NYT is recylcing old news articles from the 70's. You could sub "ARVN" for "Afghan Army" and change a few names and this could be a dispatch from way back when.
Boy, the lefties in the media seem stuck on some old saws and story lines that have them in a rut.
Who reads the NYT anyway? Only Dems as far as I know.
Yep, Karl, the NYT is only good for fish wrap and bird cage liners these days.
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I don't think the Afghan forces have tanks so this taliban claim is obviously bogus.
However, the idea of doing the operation deescribed in the article with only 300 people seems really bad ( with no pre-positioned reinforcements), especially if they are relatively untested Afghan troops. An idea like this probably comes from a political type ordering the Afghan military to do something.
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If this article is true ...
At least they feel they are in a position to give it a try. If I remember right, the Iraqis had a few false starts before they got it together. They're probably really paying attention now at more than just the grunt level.
Also, if I remember right, the Iraqis at least had the sense to warn us that they were going to do one by themselves.
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Actully they do have tanks but the who knows what the truth is. The taliban are not above bullshitting. The question is whether the ANA will take any lessons home from this.
[Tolo News] Foreign forces killed 3 Afghan civilians and arrested 5 others on Wednesday night in the central Maidan Wardak province
Residents in the central Maidan Wardak province on Thursday protested against the killing of 3 civilians and the arrest of 5 others by NATO forces in the province's Zarin Khil area on Wednesday night.
Protesters have blocked the Kabul-Ghazni highway to prevent the traffic.
The protesters who were shouting anti-American and anti-government slogans, said the murdered civilians were university students in the capital Kabul who had come to the province for holidays.
The demonstrators were also shouting that foreigners have not come to build Afghanistan, but are here to create problems.
The Police Chief of Maidan Wardak, Nawad Haqyar, confirmed the killings, but refused to give further details about the incident.
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Lets see now... the ole' poor-innocent-college-student-goes-on-holiday-to battlefield-becomes-martyr.
I guess that means we got a bunch of the Taliban bad boys then.
These guys do have a flair for the tale, ya think?
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notice they never protest taban killing innocents.
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The demonstrators were also shouting that foreigners have not come to build Afghanistan, but are here to create problems.
The demonstrators are actually right about this.
In 2001 foreigners came to Afghanistan not to build the country but to hunt down and kill create problems for Islamofascists.
The specific reason was that that these people
who were members of an organization based in and sheltered by the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan came to the US and did this:
and this
and this
and this
After this tragedy massacre, President Bush declared that "We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them."
Days later he issued an ultimatum
"These demands are not open to negotiation or discussion. The Taliban must act, and act immediately. They will hand over the terrorists, or they will share in their fate."
which that the Taliban ignored.
Hence Operation Infinite Justice Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.
[Tolo News] At least 5 Taliban militants have been killed and 6 others wounded in a NATO and Afghan forces' operations in the southern Ghazni province in the past 10 days. At least 5 Taliban militants have been killed, 6 wounded and another 7 arrested in joint counter-insurgency operations conducted by NATO and Afghan forces in the past 10 days in Qarabagh, Moqur, Gilan and Andar districts of the southern Ghazni province.
"Five Taliban militants were killed and another six were wounded in these operations," Rajab Ali, Commander of the 203 Military Corp told TOLOnews reporter. Seven Taliban, along with some ammunition have also been arrested. Police has also captured 22 mines, he added.
A Colombian forces' tank was hit in a mine blast during the operations, Sayed Ismael Jahangir, a spokesperson for the governor of Ghazni told TOLOnews reporter. But he refused to provide further details on troops' casualties. The Colombians have tanks in Afghanistan? Why wasn't I told!
The joint operations conducted by Afghan and Polish forces are planned to continue in the next few days.
Afghan and coalition forces have escalated their counter-insurgency attacks in Afghanistan's volatile regions, including the insecure southern Ghazni province, in an effort to wipe out Taliban militants.
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[Maghrebia] A Mauritanian court on Wednesday (August 11th) rejected an appeal from the convicted kidnapper of three Spanish aid workers, ANI reported. Magistrates in Nouakchott upheld the 12-year forced labour sentence for Malian national Omar Sid'Ahmed Ould Hamma (aka Omar Sahraoui), the ringleader of the armed group that ambushed a humanitarian convoy on the Nouakchott-Nouadhibou road last November. Albert Vilalta and Roque Pascual remain held in Mali by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
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[Dawn] Four British riot squad officers have been charged with beating up a Briton now awaiting extradition to the United States to face terrorism charges when they arrested him, prosecutors said on Thursday.
Babar Ahmad, a 36-year-old computer expert, was detained in a dawn raid on his home in Tooting, southwest London, in December 2003.
"Mr Ahmad suffered a number of injuries during that arrest, including heavy bruising to the head, neck, wrists and feet," said Simon Clements, head of the Crown Prosecution Service's Special Crime Division.
"Our conclusion is that there is sufficient evidence and it is in the public interest to charge four of the officers involved in the arrest of Mr Ahmad with causing actual bodily harm to him."
Before the raid, police had been told that Ahmad, a Muslim, was believed to be connected to al Qaeda, was the head of a south London terrorist group and was potentially very dangerous.
However, he was released after questioning by counter-terrorism detectives.
The Crown Prosecution Service initially rejected charging any officers involved, but last year Ahmad won 60,000 pounds in damages at the High Court from London's Metropolitan Police over the incident.
Clements said the CPS had reviewed the case after that ruling and decided it could now take action against Police Constables Nigel Cowley, John Donohue, Roderick James-Bowen and Mark Jones from the Met's Territorial Support Group (TSG).
They will appear at the City of Westminster Magistrates' Court on Sept. 22.
"I am pleased that the CPS has decided that a jury will hear the evidence in this case and it will now be for the jury to determine whether any police officer should be punished for the assault upon me in December 2003," Ahmad said in a statement.
ACCUSED IN US
Although he has never been charged with any offence in Britain, Ahmad was re-arrested in August 2004 after US officials accused him of running a website that raised funds for militants in Afghanistan and Chechnya.
He has spent six years in custody and is still awaiting a ruling on whether his extradition would contravene the European Convention on Human Rights.
The decision to charge the police officers comes weeks after the CPS was widely criticised by politicians and the media for not charging a riot squad officer over the death of a man in violent protests during last year's G20 meeting.
The TSG officer was filmed shoving newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson, 47, to the ground shortly before he collapsed and died.
The CPS said while there was sufficient evidence to show Tomlinson had been assaulted, conflicting medical evidence meant that a prosecution case could not be proved beyond doubt.
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17 Die near the city of Santiago Papasquiaro, Durango
A gunfight in Durango between elements of the Mexican Army and armed suspects Thursday morning led to a toll of 12 suspected drug gang members killed and three wounded soldiers, according to Mexican press accounts.
A detachment of the Mexican 10th Military Zone was fired on in the town of La Soledad in Santiago Papasquiaro on the road leading to Los Herrera. The firefight lasted for two hours.
According to reports an initial battle took place near the city of Santiago Papasquiaro in which apparently no one was hurt, then hours later a second battle took place near Los Herreras at rancho El Cazadero 10 kilometers northwest of Santiago Papasquiaro.
Following the gunfight the army seized 16 rifles, 110 magazines, 13 bulletproof vests, and four vehicles. Documents found in the vehicles lead authorities to think the gang belonged to the Sinaloa drug gang.
Santiago Papasquiaro is about 25 kilometers northwest of Victoria de Durango, the capital of Durango, and about 200 kilometers west of Gomez Palicio.
Meanwhile, in Santiago Papasquiaro Wednesday the decapitated and mutilated bodies of three workers were found on calle Primero de Mayo in the Nueva Esperanza district.
Earlier that morning a bar tender and a waiter at the bar Poolerama shot to death by armed suspects.
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Elements of the Mexican Army killed one unidentified armed suspect and seized a quantity of contraband including fuel, cars and weapons in two separate operations, according to Mexican news reports.
In Benito Juarez, Nuevo Leon early Thursday morning a Mexican army patrol was fired on after attempting to stop a convoy of suspicious vehicles. Returning fire, soldiers killed the driver of a pickup truck as the rest of the convoy managed to flee the scene.
The three other occupants of the truck were placed under arrest, including a Guadalupe, Nuevo Leon police agent. The officer was later released.
Soldiers seized four kilograms of marijuana aboard one of two vehicles which had subsequently arrived on the scene.
The area around Benito Juarz, which is about 20 kilometers east of Monterrey, was the focus of national attention with the discovery of a mass grave containing 51 victims last month.
Also, Cadereyta, just east of Benito Juarez, had been the focus of several firefights between the Mexican Army and criminal gangs the last of which took place the day before with the toll of one dead armed suspect.
Meanwhile, in Sinaloa, elements of the Mexican 42nd Infantry Battalion in Operativo Conjunto Culiacan-Navolato seized three safe houses, five stolen vehicles and munitions and materiel in the town of Campo Thursday.
Three unidentified suspects were arrested in the operation.
Vehicles seized include eight pickup trucks, four of them stolen, plus a sedan, also stolen.
Weapons and munitions seized include 11 rifles, four 40mm grenades, two 40mm grenade launcher attachments, 58 magazines and 1,951 cartridges.
Other materiel seized include two cell phones, six tactical radios, eight vests, two pixelated American uniforms, six black caps five with the national emblem and a badge of the FBI.
A total of 14 individuals were murdered in ongoing drug and gang related violence which included a former Nogales police commander shot to death and a bank robber in a botched armed bank robbery attempt.
An unidentified man was shot to death Wednesday night in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, say Mexican press reports. The assault took place at the bar El Patio near the intersection of calles Segunda and TrÃas in the Centro Historico district when three men and a woman dismounted from a Nissan Altima and proceeded to shoot at the entry door of the bar. A second victim was wounded. Investigators at the scene found 9mm spent cartridge casings.
Three unidentified men were found shot to death near Riva Palacio, Chihuahua Wednesday night, say Mexican news reports. The three victims were bound with material from their clothes, blindfolded with their own shirts and had been killed with a single gunshot wound to the head. The victims were found on Km. Marker 38.5 of the Sainapuchi-Cienega Grande road.
An unidentified man was found shot to death in Juarez Wednesday afternoon, say Mexican press accounts. The victim was found near the intersection of calles Villas de Portugal and Facundo de Suviria in the Villas del Sur district. Investigators found 23 .223 spent cartridge casings at the scene. The victim was the last of four brothers in the same family who all died under similar circumstances.
An unidentified man was shot to death in front of his residence in Juarez Thursday, according to Mexican new reports. The assault took place near the intersection of calles Juan Escutia and Ramon Rayon in the Zaragoza district.
One unidentified man was shot to death and two others wounded in Juarez Thursday afternoon, say Mexican press reports. The assault took place as the three victims were riding aboard their Mercury Grand Marquis on Via Juan Gabriel when they were shot at by armed suspects riding aboard another vehicle. The driver crashed the vehicle and fled the scene along with the others, but the armed suspects pursued the victim and shot him dead. The two survivors found refuge in a seafood restaurant nearby.
An unidentified man was found shot to death in Nogales, Sonora late Wednesday night, according to Mexican press reports. The victim was found near the intersection of calles Maraton and Kennedy in the Kennedy district with a gunshot wound to the head and another in his leg.
An unidentified man was found dead on the Saltillo-Monterrey highway Thursday, say Mexican press reports. The victim was wrapped in grey duct tact and stuffed into two cardboard boxes and left beneath a bridge at the 43 Km. Marker. The body was showing signs of decomposition when it was found.
Two unidentified men were found murdered in two separate crimes in northern Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, according to the Mexican daily Milenio. The first victim, a man in his 30s, was found dead with a single gunshot wound in a vehicle near the intersection of calles Basamento and Brezo in the Fomerrey 114 district. In the second crime an unidentified man in his 20s was found in the trunk of a sedan near the intersection of calles Titanes and Minerva in the Nueva Linda Vista district. The victim was showing signs of decomposition.
From the It-Was-The-Clacking-That-Scared-Them Department
One dead and two wounded unidentified armed suspects, and one wounded civilian was the toll in a botched bank robbery attempt in Juarez Thursday afternoon, according to Mexican news reports.
The robbery attempt was made at the Bancomer Gomez Morin when six armed suspects entered the bank and proceeded to order the police officer on guard to disarm. Instead, the officer open fired on the group, causing the robbers to return fire then flee the building.
Two armed suspects were hit in the initial exchange of gunfire. A bank teller was also wounded in the crossfire. Outside one of the armed suspects were killed by gunfire from police.
Four members of the group were arrested. The sixth suspect managed to escape.
[Jerusalem Post Front Page] German politicians called on Thursday for an international investigation into the reported use of chemical weapons by the Turkish military. The weapons were used against members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), according to the online edition of the German weekly magazine Der Spiegel.
"Turkey needs to urgently look into these accusations," said Ruprecht Polenz, chairman of the Foreign Affairs committee in the Bundestag and a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union party.
Polenz recommended an international investigation to examine the deaths of eight Kurdish activists from the PKK. Claudia Roth, co-chair of the German Green party, echoed Polenz's criticisms, seconding his call for an investigation.
MP Andrej Hunko urged the German Foreign Ministry to file a complaint against Turkey with the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague.
A forensic report from Hamburg University Hospital confirmed that the eight Kurds had been murdered by "the use of chemical substances."
Turkish Kurdish human rights members delivered photos in March to a delegation of German politicians, Turkey specialists, and journalists. The bodies in the photos were severely deformed and torn to pieces; the photos formed the basis for the forensic report. Hans Baumann, a German expert on the authenticity of photos, confirmed that photos had not been doctored.
The eight Kurdish PKK members were killed last September. The 31 photos, according to German media, are so disturbing that news organizations have been reluctant to publish them. The murdered PKK rebels -- two women and six men -- range in age from 19 to 33.
The allegation of employing chemical weapons against the Kurdish minority group could further taint Turkey's battered human rights record.
Turkey's nearly 12 million Kurds are seeking increased rights and autonomy. Turkey's armed forces have, according to human rights groups, brutally suppressed the Kurdish ethnic minority's attempts to secure more independence in the southeast. In July, a series of violent clashes between the Turkish military and Kurdish rebels broke out. The PKK had previously attacked a Turkish military post, killing eight Turkish soldiers, prompting a wave of military strikes resulting in the deaths of 12 Kurds.
Turkey is a signatory to the Chemical Weapons Convention. The alleged use of chemical weapons would constitute a violation of the anti-chemical weapons treaty.
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They keep getting more and more gleeful with over defining what chemical weapons are. This began in earnest with the Swedes complaining about the US use of tear gas against tunnel occupants in Vietnam.
From there, they tried to redefine defoliants as weapons, white phosphorus, even propane bombs.
#7
He cut a hole in his gas mask to put his pipe through.
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One description of the injuries sounded like a fuel-air explosive detonation : hardly a chemical weapon, unless the Left is now defining a chemical weapon attack as any involving the use of any form of chemical at all, i.e., C-4 explosive.
[Iran Press TV Latest] The military trial of the youngest Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadre was postponed Thursday after the defendant's lawyer collapsed during a break.
Witnesses say Khadre's attorney Lt. Colonel Jon Jackson requested a five-minute break while questioning a prosecution witness and suddenly fell to his knees and fainted, AFP reported.
He was transported to a medical facility on the US naval base by ambulance.
"He's stabilized, we hope it's not serious," Khadr's civilian lawyer Denis Edney told reporters, adding that Jackson had undergone a gallbladder surgery six weeks ago.
The trial was postponed until Friday morning, but according to Edney it is "too early to speculate."
Khadre, who was by Jackson's side when he collapsed, "was very upset, feeling helpless to do anything," Edney added.
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Witnesses say Khadr's attorney Lt. Colonel Jon Jackson requested a five-minute break while questioning a prosecution witness and suddenly fell to his knees and fainted was beheaded by Khadr, AFP reported. "It was a spontaneous response" Khadr said. "Who are you to condemn my religious culture?"
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[The Nation (Nairobi)] Osama Bin Laden's former cook was sentenced to 14 years in prison today in the first prison term handed down by a Guantanamo Bay court since President Barack Obama took office. But Ibrahim al-Qosi has already agreed a plea deal with prosecutors, the details of which remain secret, raising the possibility that he could serve a much shorter sentence, or be repatriated to Sudan.
The 10-member jury deliberated for just over an hour before handing down the sentence.
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14 years for the cook? Is this the best we can do? Make an example out of a spoon? So of all of the Guantanamo inmates we go after the cook first!? Fucking idiots, now the left will feed on this like sharks. If thats all the better DOD can do, a cook for christs sake, let DOJ have them.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Israel has rejected a Palestinian proposal to begin face-to-face peace talks on the basis of a statement by major powers that would set their terms of reference, Israeli newspaper reports said on Thursday.
Reports in the left-wing dailies Haaretz and Maariv said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told U.S. envoy George Mitchell on Wednesday that he wants direct talks to start immediately but will not accept any preconditions.
Netanyahu spokesman Mark Regev had no direct comment on the reports, which said Mitchell's mission had "failed".
"The government of Israel has been calling for the immediate start of direct peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians for more than a year now," Regev told Reuters.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas refuses to engage in direct talks before Netanyahu agrees to a clear agenda.
Without an agenda, Palestinians say, Netanyahu may propose terms for a peace treaty that are completely unacceptable, and leave Abbas looking like a rejectionist when he turns them down.
This week ahead of Mitchell's latest shuttle visit Abbas indicated that he could go for face-to-face negotiations, if talks were based on a March 19 statement by the "Quartet" of powers involved in Middle East diplomacy -- the United States, European Union, Russia and United Nations.
This was the proposal Mitchell took to Netanyahu, the newspaper reports said, although it is not clear whether Israel was asked to formally sign up to it or merely acknowledge it.
The Quartet statement says Israel should halt settlement building in the West Bank and reach a full peace agreement with the Palestinians within 24 months, creating a state on the basis of the borders that existed before the 1967 Middle East war.
U.S. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley on Wednesday said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had discussed Abbas's proposal with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and former British prime minister Tony Blair, the Quartet's Middle East envoy.
"If a Quartet statement can be helpful in encouraging the parties to move forward, obviously, I think that's something that we the United States support," Crowley said.
The Palestinian source said he believed the Quartet would still issue its statement by Monday or Tuesday, giving Abbas the international backing he seeks and putting the ball back in Netanyahu's court.
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Don't do it Netanyahu, don't ever do it. You won the '67 war fair and square; thousands of Arab fighters have no interest in the inane proposals put forward by Abbas or Hillary. Acquiescence is suicide.
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Paleos want to play the game starting on Israel' 30 yard line
/Pre-season NFL games have started!
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ISRAEL NN > [PA's]GAZA'S INTERNAL "TINDER BOX" MAY EXPLODE SOON. Syria-backed HAMAS versus Iran-backed ISLAMIC JIHAD ready to rumble agz each other???
Three police officers were seriously injured in a bombing incidents early Thursday in the insurgency-plagued province of Narathiwats Rangae district.
Pol Lt-Col Somchai Muangmin of Ranage Police Station, Pol Sub-Lt Manus Anukul and Pol Cpl Pichet Mipvaree were wounded when their four-door compact pickup truck passed between a petrol station and the home of Narathiwat MP Najmuddin Uma and was blown to pieces by a roadside bomb. Responding investigators confirmed that the bomb destroyed the vehicle and noted that the remains of a passenger seat was stained by a pool of blood, said Pol Capt Sornphet Tantiamornchaikul of Rangae police station.
At the crime scene, the explosion blew out a hole one foot deep and three feet across and fragments were scattered around the petrol station and roadside area. The five-kilogramme homemade bomb was placed in a metal box and detonated by cellphone.
Police assumed the incident to be linked to the jihadi insurgent movement as a group of local terrorists insurgents earlier announced that they planned to incite unrest during the Muslim Ramadan fasting period beginning August 12.
Meanwhile, security officials say they are making progress in investigating a car bomb which exploded outside a Kasikornbank branch in Narathiwat's Rueso district on Wednesday.
Rueso district police said yesterday a surveillance camera at the bank was able to capture footage of the two suspects. The car which contained the bomb was bought from a used car shop in Pattani. Police said the suspects were allegedly members of an insurgent group led by a man identified as Lukman Jehpor.
Police said the group planned to conduct attacks in parts of Narathiwat during Ramadan, the Muslim fasting month which began on Wednesday.
[Asharq al-Aswat] Al-Qaeda is appealing for financial donations for the third time in a little over a year in a sign that the terror network might be short on funds.
A message posted on a militant website Wednesday repeats a June 2009 appeal by the group's top Afghanistan commander, Mustafa Abu al-Yazeed. He said then that many militants in Afghanistan were unable to fight because they lacked money and equipment.
Al-Yazeed was killed in an airstrike in May.
The web message also included an earlier audio recording of Osama bin Laden urging businessmen to direct their alms to al-Qaeda.
Abu al-Yazeed's appeal was echoed a month later by al-Qaeda deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri, who called for financial support from Pakistanis.
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"Al-Qaeda is appealing for financial donations for the third time in a little over a year in a sign that the terror network might be short on funds."
Or in a sign that such appeals actually work.
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"UNABLE TO FIGHT"???
VERSUS
The US is repor warning of new mass Terrstrikes being planned agz INDIA + PAKISTAN.
* WAFF > [StratFor =long]HEZBOLLAH: RADICAL BUT RATIONAL [IMO Artic also read, MIDEAST LOCAL BUT ALSO GLOBAL, + more internationally Mil Potent = Mil-Capable than Al-Qaeda]. The Hezzies Hizzies Huzzies Hazzies, etc. wanna attack infidel America while liking + loving their ability to make Milyuhns + Dilyuhns of $$$ for thier Org vee their fronts or activities in the US.
* Also from WAFF > [World of Judaica]TURKEY ARMS HIZBULLAH WID IRAN + SYRIA | ERDOGAN_
AHMADINEJAD_ASSAD_NASRALLAH AXIS OF EVIL. Among other, alleged new covert Agreement all but removes any Boundaries or Delineations as per LOGISTICS ROUTES + ROAD DELIVERY OF ARMS, ETC. BY IRAN'S IRGC INTO LEBANON + NASRALLAH'S HIZBULLAH.
* Also from WORLD OF JUDAICA > CIVIL WAR IN LEBANON? HEZBOLLAH: IFF WE ARE ACCUSED OF HARIRI ASSASSINATION WE WILL OVERTHROW LEBANON GOVT [Emergency intervention, mediation by Assad JR. + espec Saudi King Abdullah saves Lebanon's coalition Govt from being beheaded by Coalition- domin Hezbollah].
* TOPIX > ]Ahmadinejad]IRAN WARNS ISRAEL ON LEBANON INVASION/STRIKE [Israel will be mil counter-attacked by Iran + several ME Countries]???
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Three police officers were seriously injured in a bombing incidents early Thursday in the insurgency-plagued province of Narathiwats Rangae district.
