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Ann Sheridan is going to have to stand up at some time; otherwise she will not be able to get that all-over clean feeling. The tub is just too small for her.
The IMU "foreign fighter facilitator," who was not named, was captured along with several associates during a special operations raid in the village of Basuz in the Taliban-controlled Chahar Darah district. Security forces found weapons and materials used to make roadside bombs at the compound.
"The commander maintains ties to local Taliban as well as Iranian-based Uzbek Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan facilitators," the International Security Assistance Force stated in a press release.
A senior US intelligence official told The Long War Journal that the captured IMU facilitator operates in Iran with the support of Qods Force, the special operations branch of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.
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i dont know which one is worse iran or pakistan?
At least the young population in Iran seem to be western leaning but do we have any hope with Pakistan or their Idols/heroes the Saudis?
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It sounds like the Special Operations guys are getting very useful intelligence... quite possibly from the villagers who don't appreciate IEDs being manufactured within their walls.
Dozens of bad guys killed in the last three weeks.
Credit where due: President Obama has supported the increased use of UAVs to get jihadis hiding in Pakistan. One can hope that will be his legacy, not his little domestic efforts.
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the Taliban's "brutal punishment and beheading of spies" was apparently failing to halt the villagers' cooperation with government forces, who have increased their tip-offs to American intelligence operatives.
The locals grassing on their tribal enemies. Not exactly the most reliable formula for making sure you are zapping the right guys.
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And who will say something nice about the 'military-industrial complex' as the do-badders are being kicked in the a$$?
"Not I," grunted the pig from his muddy patch in the garden.
"Not I," quacked the duck from her pond.
"Not I," purred the cat from his place in the sun.
"Enjoy the garden, pond and sunny day," said the little red hen. "Working hard in service to the nation is the right thing to do, even though it is plagued with lazy douches right now. This too will pass."
I get what you are saying there rammer and I agree with you; it is the catch phrase I have an opinion on. I look at the life and body of work which is Eisenhower and I can come away with, "It is OK to pull the hammer out if you have to, just have good reason and get it done. It is those who purposely perpetuate war (that includes provacaturs and politicians not just those who build a supply of arms for demand) for bullion we have to keep an eye on."
I don't know who is who in the mixer of targets, but if we are getting the bad guys then credit to everyone involved. As it is permission comes from way up, but I figure picking out the right targets is no small matter either.
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Personally, I am happy if all we are doing is gutting the tribal leadership of the Pashtun in Pakistan. The Pashtuns are the root of the problems in the area -- they are the grunts of Al-Queda, the Taliban, and the drug gangs. So reducing their numbers is essential to winning in the area, and taking out their tribal leadership ensures that the next group of Pashtuns do not have the traditional social stamp of approval, and so have to fight and kill Pashtun rivals to gain it. Win-Win.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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There may be factors at work whose real nature will come as a tremendous shock when they are finally revealed. More than 3 years ago, reporter Bob Woodward made several cryptic statements about new developments that would rival the Manhattan Project in their importance. He said he couldn't say more because lives were literally at stake, but the analogy suggests a revolutionary technical development of some kind rather than a political or procedural one.
Personally, I am quite sure Woodward is onto something big, but I don't think it would be prudent to speculate any more than that.
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phil_b, I'm pretty sure there is more to it than blowing up some guy on the unsupported word of a local. The Taliban and their supporters admit as much in fact. A tip from an informant is not verification, it tells you where to look for verification. Tips are important but once in hand they have to be checked and verified against whatever other information comes to hand.
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AC, I have a better idea than most of what can be done with satellites and network analysis. I was looking to prompt a discussion.
I find it remarkable that the first truly 21st century war is being fought in FATA and no one bats an eyelid, even the crowd who still go apeshit at the mere mention of 'Iraq'.
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#8 AC hello!, B. Woodward is in my opinion is and always has been spoon feed information. His handlers will tell him when to report and it will be an exclusive. The outcome will be a major benefit to a political group. Besides I just don't trust the man.
[Ennahar] One soldier was maimed Saturday morning, September 11, in the kaboom of an IED, officials security sources said.
One soldier was maimed Saturday morning, September 11, in the kaboom of an IED, officials security sources said. The kaboom took place in the massive of Akfadou in the province of Bejaia.
The maimed soldier was participating in a search operation in this area. He lost a leg.
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[Ennahar] Two armed gunnies were killed overnight Sunday in a clash with Algerian security forces in the region of Tebessa, 600 km east of Algiers, said Monday a security official, quoted by news agency APS.
Security forces opened fire on an armed group in response to a terrorist attack against a communal guard post near Tlydjen, some 50 km south of Tebessa.
Other terrorists, whose number was not specified, were injured during the exchange of gunfire, the sources said.
We want sepsis! We want sepsis! (Although we'll accept sucking chest wounds and shattered kneecaps, if that's all that's on offer...)
About fifteen gunnies were killed since mid-August in several regions of Algeria, according to security sources and the press.
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[Al Arabiya] The B.O. regime is considering filing the first criminal charges against radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki in case the CIA fails to kill him and he is captured alive in Yemen. The decision continues the White House's strategy of fighting terrorism both in courthouses and on battlefields.
Perhaps he should be parked in Guantanamo Bay while charges are being framed. It's the safest place for him, far from any patriotic thieves and murderers in America's high security prisons who might be tempted to act precipitously.
Al-Awlaki, a U.S. and Yemeni citizen born in New Mexico, has inspired a wave of attempted attacks against the United States and has become al-Qaeda's leading English-speaking voice for recruiting and motivating terrorists. Counter-terror officials said al-Awlaki, since mid-2009, has become a major operational figure who selects targets and gives orders.
Shortly after the failed Christmas Day bombing of a U.S. airliner, which officials believe al-Awlaki had a hand in planning, the White House took the unprecedented step of authorizing the CIA to kill or capture him. A decision on criminal charges is expected in the next several weeks, officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the deliberations.
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TOPIX > UN WARNS OF GROWING INTERNATIONAL SECURITY THREAT FROM SOMALI MILITANTS.
* SAME > SHARIA A DANGER TO US SECURITY, SECURITY EXPERTS SAY [POTUS Bammer urged to abandon Admin position that Islam is NOT linked to Militancy-Terrorism].
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* NEWS KERALA > TERRORISTS SOUGHT SOMALI CLERIC'S "FATWA" TO WAGE JIHAD AGZ "DECADENT" AUSTRALIA [Relations advised to stay home in ME as Oz is too decadent for Muslims].
Comes off as though someone is goading someone else...
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So was Awlaki an anchor baby? What a shining example of a great program...
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49 Pan, Wikipedia has a nice write-up. Apparently young Anwar was born in New Mexico while his father was studying there. They returned to Yemen when the boy was seven. He returned to the U.S. to go to college, having wangled a scholarship from the Yemeni government, which doesn't seem to have gotten much return on the investment.
[The Wire Service That Shall Not Be Named] On the heels of a government crackdown on Shiites, the cars of two Sunni Bahrainis, one of whom works for the interior ministry, blew up near the capital, Manama.
Two hundred fifty have been arrested, among them 23 political activists accused of plotting to overthrow the government. Most are Shiites, as are the majority of Bahrainis, whereas the ruling family are Sunni.
[Iran Press] Spanish police have jugged nine people suspected of having links to the Basque separatist group ETA days after the armed group declared a unilateral ceasefire.
In a predawn raid by Civil Guards forces, five men and four women were detained in the Basque country and Navarra Province in northern Spain.
Police sources said those jugged are accused of heading Ekin, the body that "prepares and sends out the directives of ETA."
Ekin was ruled as "part of the heart" of ETA by Spain's National Court in 2007.
ETA, itself, has been blacklisted as a terrorist group by the European Union and the US.
The arrests come eight days after ETA declared a ceasefire, vowing to stop its decades-long campaign of violence for an independent homeland in Spain.
Only hours after the declaration, however, the Spanish government dismissed the announcement as "insufficient" and demanded ETA to renounce violence "completely forever."
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Anonymous phone threats turn out to be false, but the Eiffel Tower was closed to tourists for three hours while police searched with dogs. The underground St. Michel train station was closed for an hour.
It seems the French have gotten a lot of this kind of thing over the years, so they take it fairly calmly.
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Perhaps the mayor of Paris should suggest that the threats are just as likely to have come from people disgruntled about the French health care system as from Islamists upset by the burka ban. It worked so well for Bloomberg, after all.
[Dawn] A fierce shootout between two political groups caused panic and led to a traffic gridlock on the Sharea Faisal on Monday night.
Police said workers of a party in the ruling coalition came under an armed attack while they were hoisting flags on electricity poles on the Natha Khan bridge.
Panicked drivers tried to turn back from the bridge, causing a traffic jam at both ends.
According to police, the shootout lasted over 30 minutes, keeping the traffic on a patch of Sharea Faisal suspended.
"No casualty was reported," Shah Faisal Colony SP Tanvir Alam Odho said.
"A brief traffic gridlock was handled after deployment of police backed by Rangers in the area."
He said the muscle were hoisting flags on electricity poles without any police security and no reason for the clash had been ascertained.
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[Dawn] Indian police patrolled the streets of Kashmir on Tuesday, threatening to shoot anyone defying a rigid curfew imposed on the region a day after troops battled protesters in the streets in violence that killed 19 people.
The region has been wracked by anti-India protests throughout the summer, but the chaos Monday --exacerbated by reports of a Koran desecration in the United States --was the deadliest here since large-scale demonstrations began in June.
In an attempt to prevent another round of violence, police and paramilitary soldiers drove through the deserted streets of the main towns of Indian-administered Kashmir, using loudspeakers to announce that curfew violators would be shot on sight.
But scores of demonstrators took to the streets of Baramulla and hurled rocks at police.
Soldiers retaliated by firing shots in the air and launching tear gas shells, wounding three protesters, said a police officer speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media.
In overnight protests, demonstrators set fire to a police vehicle in Charar-e-Sharief, 30 miles (45 kilometers) southwest of Srinagar, police said.
The region has been roiled for months by separatist protests that often descend into clashes with government forces.
The violence has killed at least 88 people this summer --mostly teenage boys and young men in their 20s.
The anti-India protests turned into rare anti-America protests Monday as reports of a Koran desecration in the United States intensified the anger of demonstrators, with muscle chanting ''Down with America'' and burning an effigy of President Barack B.O. Obama.
The protesters burned government buildings and Christian missionary school and threw rocks at troops, who responded by firing into the crowds.
The corpse count from that violence rose to 19 on Tuesday, including 18 demonstrators and one police officer.
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I'm beginning to think of these periodic anti-infidel riots as mere jihadi recruiting rallies. "Uncle Mo wants you for jihad!"
[Dawn] Unidentified men bumped off a journalist in the volatile town of Hangu in the northwest early Tuesday, police said. Haji Misri Khan had received threats from Islamic fascistiafter publishing stories about their activities.
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[Iran Press] Iraqi border guards have detained five Saudi arms dealers in the southern province of Najaf while trying to smuggle weapons, ammunition and drugs into the country.
The men were jugged in Najaf's Waksa district on Monday as they were traveling in a car, carrying drugs, explosive-laden belts and fire arms fitted with silencers, local media reported.
Iraq's Buratha news agency had earlier disclosed documents indicating Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz, who heads the Saudi National Security Council, has appointed a new leader for the al-Qaeda cell operating in Iraq.
Known for his support for a number of regional terrorist groups, the prince has reportedly chosen a turban leader identified as Abu Suleiman as the new commander of al-Qaeda forces of Evil in Iraq.
Abu Suleiman holds both Saudi and Iraqi nationalities and replaces al-Qaeda leaders Abu Ayyub al-Masri and Abu Omar al-Storied Baghdadi who were killed earlier by Iraqi security forces.
Reports released by officials in Baghdad show tens of Saudi nationals are being held in Iraqi prisons over charges of terrorism.
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Since when does Prince Bandar "appoint" Al Qaeda leaders?
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It's Iran Press. While the statements might be true, they're not being made for the purposes of eliminating the jihadi menace in Iraq.
[Iran Press] Iraqi security forces have killed nearly a dozen al-Qaeda suspects near the city of Baqouba in the eastern province of Diyala amid their continued attacks on Iraqi police.
Eleven gunnies were killed and 22 others maimed in clashes that broke out on Sunday between al-Qaeda operatives and Iraqi security forces in the al-Hudaid area, west of Baqouba, security sources told Aswat al-Iraq news agency on Monday.
He said four Iraqi security servicemen were also killed in the clashes.
Security forces jugged 32 Boskonians who had come to Diyala from other provinces, he noted, adding there were senior operatives of al-Qaeda among those jugged.
On Monday, an IED attack targeted a police patrol in northern Storied Baghdad, injuring four coppers. It also caused damage to a number of nearby shops and civilian cars.
Unknown gunnies used guns with silencers to kill a police officer as he was driving in the capital's western neighborhood of al-Jamea.
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(Ma'an) -- Two Paleostinians were injured Tuesday after Israeli forces fired on a group of Paleostinians in the central Gazoo Strip, medical and security officials said.
One Paleostinian was seriously hurt following the incident near Juhor Ad-Dik, east of Al-Bureij refugee camp, medics told Ma'an.
Israel's military said a group of faceless myrmidons fired an anti-tank missile at soldiers operating near the border fence in northern Gazoo. "No injuries were caused," the army said in a statement.
"The force retaliated by firing tank shells and light fire at the suspects and identified hitting one of the thugs, who was apparently killed," the statement said. "Terrorist organizations are constantly aiming to harm IDF soldiers and the citizens of Israel."
The statement quoted Brig.-Gen. Eyal Eisenberg, who said, "The Gazoo Strip is controlled by the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, terrorist organization. We hold it accountable for anything that takes place in the strip."
Israeli forces also opened fire at a march held to protest the army's imposed no-go zone along the border near the Erez crossing in the north, peace muscle said. No injuries were reported.
The latest attacks come two days after Israeli shelling left dead three shepherds in northern Gazoo on Sunday. Two of the victims were identified as Ibrahim Abu Said, 91, and his grandson Ismail Abu Odeh, 21.
An Israeli military investigation determined that they were not all "terrorists," as was initially claimed.
The army says investigations into the incidents reveal that two of the three were "not involved in an act of terror," the commander of the Gazoo Regional Division said in response to a Ma'an inquiry.
Brig. Gen. Eisenberg said that while the investigations into the incident have not yet concluded, "we understand from a re-creation that we undertook that the three casualties were no involved in act of terror."
At the time, a military front man said forces identified a number of suspects attempting to fire an RPG toward an Israeli position in the Beit Hanoun area. He said forces fired on the Paleostinians, apparently hitting them.
The upsurge in violence comes amid reports that operatives in Gazoo launched six homemade projectiles into Israel in the past 48 hours. Israel has initiated airstrikes across the coastal enclave in response.
Also Tuesday, a senior commander of Hamas' armed wing the Al-Qassam Brigades vowed to "continue the path of resistance against the occupation until victory."
"With the power of faith, weapons and missiles, tunnels and commandos we will achieve victory for Paleostine and we'll end the occupation in Gazoo too," Ahmed Al-Jabari said.
Denouncing the latest round of direct negotiations hosted by Egypt, Al-Jabari said in a statement published on the Al-Qassam website that Israel should "only be treated with weapons and battle."
Prime Minister Salam Fayyad has accused Hamas of carrying out two deadly shooting attacks in the West Bank, in which four Israeli settlers were killed, in a bid to stay the progress of negotiations.
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[Al Arabiya] An Iranian diplomat called Tuesday for an uprising against the Tehran government, as he became the third Europe-based envoy to defect this year and announced he was seeking asylum in Norway.
"I'm seeking political asylum with all my family," Farzad Farhangian, a press attaché at the Iranian embassy in Brussels, told reporters in Oslo, adding he intended to join the opposition to President Mahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad.
"I'm apologizing to the Iranian people. During the last 30 years I was of service to the Iranian people, 23 of them in the diplomatic service, but the deviation that the Iranian republic has reached leaves me no choice," he said.
"I hope to be a voice of the opposition," he added.
Farhangian, 47, is the third Iranian diplomat this year to seek protection in a Nordic country.
A senior official at the Iranian embassy in Helsinki, Hossein Alizadeh, told reporters Monday he was seeking asylum in Finland, and the ex-consul general of Iran's embassy in Oslo, Mohamed Reza Heydari, was granted asylum by Norway in February after he resigned the previous month.
When asked how he had decided where to seek asylum, Farhangian said he had chosen to defect to Norway as Heydari was an old colleague.
"I'm hoping that in cooperation we will improve the campaign against the present government," he added.
Haydari, who was present at Tuesday's press conference, meanwhile told reporters: "I expect there will be more defections very soon."
Farhangian also said he would support the use of violence in the struggle against the current administration in Tehran.
When asked if there should be a violent uprising, he answered: "yes, given the recent events I want it (the government) to be overthrown."
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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
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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The IMU "foreign fighter facilitator," who was not named, was captured along with several associates during a special operations raid in the village of Basuz in the Taliban-controlled Chahar Darah district. Security forces found weapons and materials used to make roadside bombs at the compound.
Indian police patrolled the streets of Kashmir on Tuesday, threatening to shoot anyone defying a rigid curfew imposed on the region a day after troops battled protesters in the streets in violence that killed 19 people.
