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COLOMBO - Sri Lankan police on Saturday arrested 266 people on the eve of independence day celebrations in a security roundup after finding a powerful bomb in the capital.
The 2.5-kilo (5.5-pound) was found in a three-wheeler taxi parked in a garage near the R. Premadasa International cricket stadium, where troops are billeted, and defused by explosives experts. ‘The police arrested people who could not immediately explain their presence in the area,’ said a police official involved in the investigation.
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Egypt charges four with spying for Israel
Sat Feb 3, 2007
CAIRO - Egypt has charged an Egyptian who holds Canadian citizenship and three Israelis with spying for Israel, a state prosecutor said on Saturday. High State Security Prosecutor Hisham Badawi said the Egyptian, Mohamed Essam Ghoneim el-Attar, 31, had been arrested and charged. The rest of the suspected spy ring, who are in Turkey and Canada, were charged in absentia.
Badawi said the Israelis had recruited Attar while he was living in Turkey in August 2001. Intelligence agents assisted him in obtaining a residency permit in Canada under a fake name and found him work in a bank. Attar was paid to spy on Egyptians and Arabs during his time in Turkey and Canada, and used his position in the bank to obtain information on specific accounts, Badawi added.
He was also expected to scout and approach potential recruits, according to Badawi, who said Attar was paid $56,000 between August 2001 and January 1 2007, when he was arrested at Cairo airport as he entered Egypt for a family visit.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070203/wl_nm/egypt_spies_arrest_dc_1
UPDATE on article previously posted:
Four Britons arrested in Kenya 'members of Islamic militia'
Sat 3 Feb 2007
FOUR Britons believed to have fought alongside a Somali Islamic militia group are being held by Kenyan police. The men were detained on January 20 and Kenyan officials say they will be deported. The Foreign Office said the men were apparently arrested trying to leave neighbouring Somalia.
Ethiopian forces invaded the mainly Muslim Somalia in December to stop an Islamic movement ousting the weak, internationally-recognised government.
Last month there were reports that Britons had been fighting alongside the Islamic forces, with some killed, injured or captured in the fighting. Somalia's deputy prime minister also claimed that some financial support for the Islamic militant movement in his country was coming from the UK.
A spokeswoman for the British Embassy said: "We had confirmation from the Kenyan authorities that they are holding four British nationals. "We continue to press urgently for consular access so that we can confirm their nationality and offer every assistance."
The Britons were among a group of ten foreign nationals held, including two Americans, one of whom is wanted in the US for links to radical movements.
A contract worker at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport has been charged with offering to help passengers get large sums of cash out of the country.
Riad Skaff allegedly accepted $1,500 from an undercover investigator as a fee for getting $25,000 through airport security, CBS News reported. The investigator said Skaff told him to place the money in an envelope and pass it to him in a public area of the airport and then returned it at the door of his plane.
By law, people leaving the country must declare cash in amounts of $10,000 or more.
Skaff, a U.S. citizen born in Lebanon, had worked as a customer service agent for Sunline Services Inc., an Air France subcontractor, since 1999, the company told CBS. He had a Security Identification Display Area badge that allowed him to enter all areas of Terminal 5 at O'Hare, including the jet way.
http://www.postchronicle.com/news/breakingnews/article_21262314.shtml
This is interesting.
Thank you Oorang.
Islamic Jihad officials called for their supporters to come to a mass rally on the Temple Mount on Sunday. The purpose of the rally is to protest the work being done around the Mugrabi gate. According to the officials, the improvements to the gate are actually part of a plan to topple the mosques on the Temple Mount by digging underneath them.
The Jerusalem police have decided to limit entrance to the Temple Mount in response. Only Arab Muslims with Israeli citizenship will be allowed to enter on Sunday. In addition, the police have increased their presence in Jerusalem’s Old City.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=120839
Al-Qaeda tells British cells to carry out wave of beheadings
February 04, 2007
ISLAMIC terror cells in Britain have been instructed to carry out a series of kidnappings and beheadings of the kind allegedly planned by the nine terrorist suspects arrested in Birmingham last week.
The “strategic” assassination instruction was issued by Al-Qaeda’s leaders in Pakistan and Iraq to dozens of their followers in this country. It was uncovered by MI5 last autumn, senior security sources say.
As a result police are on standby for multiple attempts by terrorists to kidnap and then behead people across Britain. MI5 is conducting a counter-terrorism surveillance operation to prevent such an attack.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2583241,00.html
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Iranian nuclear scientist 'assassinated by Mossad'
2007/02/04
A PRIZE-WINNING Iranian nuclear scientist has died in mysterious circumstances, according to Radio Farda, which is funded by the US State Department and broadcasts to Iran.
An intelligence source suggested that Ardeshire Hassanpour, 44, a nuclear physicist, had been assassinated by Mossad, the Israeli security service. Hassanpour worked at a plant in Isfahan where uranium hexafluoride gas is produced. The gas is needed to enrich uranium in another plant at Natanz which has become the focus of concerns that Iran may be developing nuclear weapons.
According to Radio Farda, Iranian reports of Hassanpour’s death emerged on January 21 after a delay of six days, giving the cause as “gas poisoning”. The Iranian reports did not say how or where Hassanpour was poisoned but his death was said to have been announced at a conference on nuclear safety.
Rheva Bhalla of Stratfor, the US intelligence company, claimed on Friday that Hassanpour had been targeted by Mossad and that there was “very strong intelligence” to suggest that he had been assassinated by the Israelis, who have repeatedly threatened to prevent Iran acquiring the bomb.
Hassanpour won Iran’s leading military research prize in 2004 and was awarded top prize at the Kharazmi international science festival in Iran last year.
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January 31, 2007
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http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2007/January/07_crt_064.html
Florida Man Sentenced in Cross Burning
WASHINGTON – Neal Chapman Coombs, a 50-year-old resident of Hastings, Fla., was sentenced today to 14 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, the Justice Department announced today. Coombs pleaded guilty on August 16, 2006 to a racially-motivated civil rights crime involving a cross burning.
In August 2006, Coombs was charged with knowingly and willfully intimidating an African-American family that was negotiating for the purchase of a house in Hastings, Fla., by threat of force and the use of fire. Specifically, it was alleged that Coombs’ actions were motivated by the family’s race and that he burned a cross on property adjacent to the house.
“Cross burning remains a vicious symbol of hatred and intolerance,” said Wan J. Kim, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division. “Our welcoming society encourages people to live where they choose, undisturbed by such racist threats. This prosecution sends a clear message that we will not tolerate such deplorable criminal conduct.”
“This display of racial hatred is alarming. Victims of this crime can be assured that our office will vigorously investigate and prosecute those who would choose this form of ugly criminal conduct,” said Paul I. Perez, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Florida.
According to the plea agreement, on the afternoon of Jan. 15, 2006, an African-American family of four was looking at a house for sale in St. Johns County. The family was accompanied by their real estate agent and his wife. The parents were in the process of negotiating to purchase the house.
The plea agreement notes that while the parents were inside the house with the real estate agent, their son and daughter, who were 15 and 12-years-old at the time, were outside the house, where they overheard the defendant, who was in front yard, speaking loudly, apparently to a man on the street. Coombs, who is Caucasian, made a remark about having a “house-warming,” and also made derogatory remarks about the visiting family.
In Coombs’ front yard was a set of wooden beams in the shape of a cross. The cross, which was approximately six feet tall, faced the house the family was considering purchasing. Coombs squirted a flammable liquid from a bottle onto the cross, and lit the cross on fire. Coombs then looked at the boy and stated, “I don’t want to see you around here again, boy.”
The family was alarmed and frightened by the defendant’s actions and words, causing feelings of intimidation and disinterest in living in the house.
Prosecuting the perpetrators of bias-motivated crimes is a top priority of the Justice Department. Since 2001, the Civil Rights Division has charged 163 defendants in bias-motivated crimes.
The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Scot Morris and Andrew J. Kline of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division.
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Thank you for the ping Oorang.
OVERVIEW, RECAP AND UPDATE:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=thailand
http://www.jihadwatch.org/cgi-bin/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=1&search=Thailand
http://www.saag.org/searchb10.asp?search=Thailand&searchtype=all&B1=Submit
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http://www.saag.org/papers21/paper2081.html
Paper no. 2081
03.01.2007
"POLITICISATION OF BANGKOK BLASTS - INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR--PAPER NO.172"
By B. Raman
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http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2370241
TERRORISM MONITOR
"2007 Marks the Key Year in Thailand's Southern Insurgency"
By Ian Storey
(February 1, 2007)
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/015070.php
February 01, 2007
Thailand: Buddhist ice cream vendor beheaded
Will the Islamophobia never end? "Ice cream vendor beheaded," from Reuters, with thanks to Jeffrey Imm:
AN ice cream vendor was killed and his headless body left sitting on the bicycle seat of his cart in Thailand's rebellious Muslim south today, police said.
The vendor, a 45-year-old Buddhist originally from the country's northeast, was shot three times in the back of his head while riding his cart into a Muslim village in Pattani, one of the three provinces hit by the violence, police said.
"They chopped his head off and walked away with it, leaving his body sitting on the ice cream bike's seat," a Pattani policeman said by telephone.
"Under current circumstances, he shouldn't have ventured into such a village," the policeman said.
Right. Not "Under current circumstances, we must step up law enforcement efforts to neutralize people evil enough to behead an innocuous ice cream man," but "Under current circumstances, he shouldn't have ventured into such a village." And that is emblematic of the worldwide reaction to Islamic rage -- it's the same thing Dinesh D'Souza is advocating now: we shouldn't call Muslims to acknowledge and reform the elements of Islam that give rise to violence, because that will just anger them. Instead, let's tiptoe around them and hope they don't hurt us.
Posted by Robert at February 1, 2007 09:41 AM
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http://osint.internet-haganah.com/archives/000774.html
January 27, 2007
"Thailand surrenders
Thailand considers Sharia law in troubled Muslim south"
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"Teacher sacked over religion row"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A supply teacher has been sacked from a secondary school following complaints from Muslim pupils.
Andrew McLuskey was sacked from Bayliss Court Secondary School in Slough after a Religious Education lesson discussing the pros and cons of religion.
Pupils at the predominantly Muslim school claimed Mr McLuskey said most suicide bombers were Muslim."
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February 4, 2007
From combined dispatches
HOLTON, England
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"Taliban leader killed in NATO airstrike"
Yahoo/AP ^ | 2-4-07
Posted on 02/04/2007 1:29:42 AM PST by STARWISE
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By Michelle Malkin · February 02, 2007 10:18 AM
NOTE TO ALL CHURCHES AND SYNAGOGUES: We are back to living in September 10, 2001 world. What are you doing to protect your church or synagogue?
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http://www.wcnc.com/news/topstories/stories/wcnc-020207-krg-churchdisrupt.442c6634.html
"Kannapolis churches abuzz about 'disruptions' 6:53 PM "
07:12 PM EST on Friday, February 2, 2007
By NICOLE KONKAL / WCNC
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ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Kannapolis Police say something very bizarre happened at several churches this past Sunday. It was a disruption, they say, that left some church goers fearful and others saying “it's a God thing.”
Nearly a dozen churches reported the same thing to police: three men walked into their church during Sunday morning’s service. They walked right up to the pulpit and began speaking Hebrew.
David Lewkowicz is the pastor at West Point Baptist Church and understood what they were saying.
“They said things like, ‘God is peace, God is love, God is comfort, God is joy.’ That is all they said to me,” Lewkowicz said.
The men stayed at the churches for about two or three minutes, then left.
“They didn’t say anything bad about God or offend the church in anyway. They came in peace and left in peace,” Lewkowicz said.
Still some other congregations are concerned about exactly what the men may have been up to. One church reported the men dropping to their knees as they entered the door, then they got up and left."
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Police said these men didn’t commit a crime. If they had refused to leave, it would have been a misdemeanor offense. But the church pastors said they were peaceful and posed no threat at the time.
Nevertheless, police want to know who these men are and what their intentions were. If you have any information you are asked to contact the Kannapolis police department, 704-920-4000."
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Attacks on British Jews at Record High
The Baltimore Reporter ^ | February 2, 2007 | Robert Farrow
Posted on 02/04/2007 1:09:27 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
While the UK’s Islamic advocacy groups whine furiously about “Islamophobia:” ’Wave of hatred’ warning as attacks on Jews hit record high.
Attacks on Britain’s Jews have risen to the highest level since records began.
A study published today shows the number of reported anti-Semitic incidents has almost tripled in 10 years, with more than half the attacks last year taking place in London.
The findings prompted the report’s authors to warn of a “wave of hatred” against Jews.
The number of incidents increased to 594 last year, up by 31 per cent on the previous year.
Violent assaults soared to 112, up by more than a third on 2005.
A Look at The Global Jihad:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1778986/posts?page=582#582
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=2922
Anti-Insurgent Operations Continue in Iraq
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4, 2007 – Coalition forces killed a suspected terror-cell leader in Iraq this morning as anti-insurgent operations continue, with dozens of suspects and multiple weapons caches seized since Feb. 1, Multinational Force Iraq officials reported.
Today, coalition forces disrupted explosives cells in Mosul and Baghdad, killing a suspected key car-bomb cell leader and detaining five suspected car bomb terrorists, officials said.
The raid in Mosul targeted a terrorist who is believed responsible for producing explosives used in attacks against coalition forces in the city.
Upon entering the targeted building, coalition forces encountered two suspected terrorists. One of the terrorists ignored their instructions and reached into his jacket. The troops responded with proper self-defense methods in response to the perceived threat, officials said. The terrorist subsequently died from his wounds.
The other suspect, also believed to be responsible for the attacks, as well as two other suspected terrorists believed to have ties to the Mosul car-bomb network, also were detained.
Coalition forces, acting on intelligence reports, also detained two suspected terrorists during a raid in Baghdad, officials reported. The troops searched the residence of a suspected terrorist believed to be actively planning, financing and executing car-bomb operations.
During the raid, ground forces found more than 250 cell phones and various types of bomb initiators, officials said. The troops seized the materials and also found a vehicle in front of the building that was wired for detonation. They destroyed vehicle's engine block, rendering it useless for future attacks.
In other news, coalition forces killed four terrorists and detained 29 suspected terrorists during raids targeting foreign fighters and the al-Qaeda network throughout Iraq yesterday morning.
During a raid in Fallujah, coalition forces targeted a terrorist with known ties to a foreign-fighter network, Multinational Force Iraq officials reported.
As ground forces approached the targeted building, three armed terrorists attempted to fire on them. Coalition forces killed the three terrorists. They also detained 10 suspects.
West of Taramiyah, coalition forces targeted terrorists with ties to al Qaeda.
Upon approaching the objective, a suspected terrorist advanced toward the forces. They ordered the man to get on the ground. He initially complied, but then got up and charged toward the forces with what appeared to be a grenade, officials said.
Coalition Forces used proper escalation of force to mitigate the threat, and after searching the man, determined he had a rock in his hand, not a grenade.
The suspect died from his wounds.
The forces detained eight suspects during this raid.
Another five suspects were detained during an operation in Taramiyah after intelligence reports indicated they were involved in al-Qaeda kidnapping operations, placing roadside bombs and foreign-terrorist safe house activities. Coalition forces also uncovered a weapons cache consisting of AK-47 assault rifles, pistols, wire spools, 60 mm mortar rounds and a pressure plate during the operation.
In Ramadi, four terrorists suspected of operating a foreign-fighter safe house were detained, and another two suspects were detained in Kalar for their ties to foreign-fighter facilitation.
In Mahmudiyah yesterday, Multinational Division Baghdad soldiers seized an Iraqi man suspected of murder, officials said.
A local witness reported the murder to a patrol from Battery A, 2nd Battalion, 15th Field Artillery Regiment. The man gave a description of the vehicle and the three men allegedly involved. The unit began a search for the vehicle, soon finding one that matched the description being towed by a repair truck.
Three men were found inside the vehicle, one of them with a 9 mm pistol and black ski mask and dried blood on his hands. All three suspects were detained and turned over to the Iraqi army, which is holding them for questioning.
Also in Iraq, three Iraqi civilians were killed and 11 wounded Feb. 2 by terrorist activity 15 miles southwest of Baghdad, officials said.
Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment “Golden Dragons,” 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), heard mortar fire near Patrol Base Warrior Keep, just outside Sadr al Yusufiyah. After hearing the rounds impact, soldiers of 2nd Battalion 14th Infantry Regiment, responded with counter fire.
When the firing ceased, the Golden Dragons patrolled the area where the enemy mortars impacted and found three Iraqis dead and 11 wounded. Two of the dead were children.
"This attack is an example of the blatant disregard for the Iraqi people," Maj. Brock Jones, executive officer of the 2nd Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment, said. "For them (the terrorists) to execute a deliberate attack on both women and children shows they have no thought for others."
Four of the residents were treated for minor wounds and seven were evacuated to receive further medical attention.
“The soldiers acted without hesitation in order to render as much aid as possible to the local nationals,” Jones said.
The same day in Kahdra, a western Baghdad neighborhood, elements of the 5th Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army seized a cache of weapons and explosives, officials reported.
Working from a tip to the 6th Iraqi Army headquarters, the troops searched an abandoned house and discovered 57 mm rockets, rocket-propelled-grenade rounds, 120 mm mortar rounds, 100 mm mortar rounds, 107 mm rockets, 130 mm artillery rounds, 122 mm artillery rounds, 152 mm artillery rounds, 85 mm projectiles, 155 mm artillery rounds, roadside bomb timers, a mortar tube, AK-47s and machine guns.
An explosives disposal team took the explosives to a U.S. base for disposal.
In other developments, Iraqi army soldiers detained 24 individuals during cordon-and-search operations Feb. 1 and 2 in the villages surrounding Tuz, about 110 miles north of Baghdad. The detainees are suspected of involvement in insurgent activities.
The Iraqi Army’s 2nd Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, with coalition forces providing tactical overwatch and logistical support, conducted the two-day operation.
The soldiers also confiscated AK-47s, shotguns, bolt-action rifles, 9 mm pistols, grenades, basting caps and bomb-making materials.
On Feb. 1 north of Ramadi, members of the Iraqi 2nd Battalion Emergency Response Unit discovered a weapons cache while conducting a patrol.
The cache consisted of mortar rounds ranging from 60 mm to 120 mm, Katusha rockets, 155 mm rounds prepared as homemade bombs and mortar fuses.
That same day near Yusufiyah, Iraqi army soldiers running independent operations detained five men and seized two homemade bombs.
Soldiers from the 3rd Battalion, 4th Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division, discovered the bombs while conducting cordon-and-search operations near a village in rural farmlands 10 miles southwest of Baghdad.
Iraqi army troops searched a house and found a 120 mm artillery round and a 155 mm artillery round, both rigged as bombs and prepared for emplacement. The troops detained five men in the house and seized the bombs. The suspects are being held for questioning.
(Compiled from Multinational Force Iraq and Multinational Corps Iraq news releases.)
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=2923
‘Wolverines,’ Iraqis Discover Massive Weapons Cache Near Baghdad
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4, 2007 – Iraqi army and Multinational Division Baghdad soldiers uncovered more than 1,100 81 mm high-explosive mortar rounds yesterday at a cache near Route Tampa, the main highway leading into Baghdad, officials said
Troops from 3rd Battalion, 4th Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division and Troop B, 1st Squadron, 89th Cavalry Regiment “Wolverines,” 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), made the discovery during Operation Wolverine Alesia near Yusufiyah, just 10 miles southwest of the capital, officials said.
Acting on a tip from a local resident, the troops conducted a search of the area, which resulted in the largest cache find in 2nd "Commando" Brigade's history. In all, 1,129 mortar rounds were uncovered.
The cache, which was buried in the dirt, was larger than expected.
“These mortars rounds are in the configuration to use as improvised explosive devices,” Army Lt. Col. Mark Suich, the 1st Squadron, 89th Cavalry Regiment’s commander, said. “The mortar rounds in this state cannot be used for indirect fire; they are fabricated and stored to be used against the coalition and sectarian enemies as IEDs.”
Suich said the seizure of so many munitions can only hurt terrorist operations. “We put a significant reduction in the enemy's ability to emplace (roadside bombs) in this area today,” he said. “We are pretty sure that these are affiliated with al Qaeda in Iraq.”
The area around Yusufiyah has long been identified as an al-Qaeda and former regime safe haven where attacks against Baghdad and coalition and Iraqi security forces originated.
”This is what we refer to as a weapons supermarket-type cache,” Maj. Mark Aitken, the 1st Squadron, 89th Cavalry Regiment’s executive officer. “The terrorists place a large cache of weapons in one place to draw from. They then pre-position what they draw in many other smaller caches around the countryside.”
During the operation, Iraqi soldies detained four people for suspicious activity near the cache.
At a second cache site located nearby, Troop C, 1-89th found 120 mm mortar rounds, 81 mm mortar rounds, medium machine guns, rounds of machine gun ammunition, rifle scopes, fragmentation hand grenades, pounds of homemade explosives, boxes of 5.56 mm rifle ammunition and rocket-propelled grenade projectiles.
”Today we took over 1,100 IEDs off of the streets of Baghdad,” said Army Maj. Web Wright, spokesman for the commando brigade. “Not only did we take these weapons off of the streets, 3-4-6 IA is fully integrated into this operation. Last night, they found three caches and were actively involved in finding these two.”
The mortar rounds were destroyed during a controlled detonation by the explosive ordnance disposal detachment, creating a blast that could be heard for more than 20 miles.
The four suspects detained are being held for questioning.
A day earlier, the same Iraqi and coalition forces discovered two weapons caches two miles north of Yusufiyah, as part of the same operation.
The first cache included 81 mm mortar rounds, 120 mm artillery round, 57 mm anti-aircraft rounds, a high-explosive tank round, an improvised rocket-propelled grenade round made from industrial metal tubing, an armor-piercing RPG round, rounds of AK-47 assault rifle ammunition and a 60 mm mortar tube. Four prefabricated projectile canisters also were discovered.
At the second cache site, 300 yards away, Iraqi troops found 60 mm mortar rounds, sticks of dynamite, AK-47s, a case of AK-47 ammunition, 107 mm rockets, RPG rockets, shotgun shells and a medium machine gun.
Operation Wolverine Alesia is an ongoing joint operation designed to deny terrorist sanctuary along Route Tampa, the military designation for Iraqi Highway One, leading into Baghdad from the south.
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The Superbowl,brought to you by those who serve,and have served to keep us free.
2/4/07
Posted on 02/04/2007 1:26:40 PM PST by mdittmar
"It is the soldier, not the reporter, Who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, Who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the organizer, Who has given us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier, Who salutes the flag, Who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, Who allows the protester to burn the flag."
How do you thank someone that keeps you safe,that is willing to offer up his life for people he's never met,in a country he's never seen.
As we prepare to watch the Superbowl,in the Greatest Nation on Earth,remember those who serve.
And maybe tomorrow,send a message of thanks,To those who serve.
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