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Posted on 08/01/2008 12:17:04 PM PDT by nwctwx
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PROPAGANDA On The Internet:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXW9Xu1biok
UPDATE - Quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059628/posts
President of of Poland has provided his website for the President of Georgia.
www.president.pl ^ | 09.08.2008
Posted on August 10, 2008 3:27:24 PM PDT by lizol
Along with military aggression, the Russian Federation is blocking Georgian internet portals. On request of the President of Georgia, President of the Republic of Poland has provided the website of the President of Poland for dissemination of information.
If you like to see the latest news and statements published by the Presidenty of Georgia, or Georgian MFA - click http://www.president.pl/x.node?id=479
(on the right side of the web-site)
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UPDATE:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7551298.stm
Page last updated at 11:57 GMT, Saturday, 9 August 2008 12:57 UK
“Somali pirates free two Germans”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Two Germans kidnapped by pirates off the coast of Somalia and held captive for five weeks have been released.
The couple, named only as 63-year-old Jurgen K and his companion, 51-year-old Sabine M, were sailing through the Gulf of Aden when they were seized.
A ransom worth $1m (600,000 euros; £500,000) was reportedly paid to secure their release.
Speaking to reporters, the president of the semi-autonomous region of Puntland apologised for their experience.
Yacht ransacked
Adde Muse vowed that if the Puntland authorities captured the pirates behind the kidnap they would be jailed or executed.
“We are really sorry for what happened,” Mr Muse said during in Bosasso.
“We put a lot of effort towards their release and I wish to thank everyone who helped.”
The couple - who were beaten and given very little to eat during their ordeal - appeared dishevelled and upset during the news conference and were unable to comment.
During the kidnap the couple’s yacht - en route to the Thai coast - was ransacked. The pair were then taken to the northern Somali region by speedboat.”
http://www.defence.gov.au/media/DepartmentalTpl.cfm?CurrentId=8044
10/08/2008 MSPA 253/08
“SENIOR TALIBAN EXTREMIST COMMANDER CAPTURED BY AUSTRALIAN SPECIAL FORCES”
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BLOG:
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/08/taliban_shadow_gover_1.php
“Taliban ‘shadow’ governor for Uruzgan province arrested”
By MATT DUPEE
August 10, 2008 9:40 AM
Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=50754
Coalition Forces in Afghanistan Capture 3 Militants
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10, 2008 – Coalition forces in Afghanistan captured three suspected militants yesterday during an operation designed to disrupt terrorist networks in Paktika province, military officials said.
As part of the operation, coalition troops searched compounds in Urgun district targeting a militant responsible for rocket attacks against coalition forces.
In other news, a terrorist was killed and an Afghan woman from the Zarghun Shah district was medically evacuated, officials said. The evacuee as injured Aug. 9 during a coalition forces’ operation to disrupt militant activities in Paktika province.
The operation targeted a militant who has attacked Afghan and coalition forces and is linked to foreign fighter operations in the area.
Coalition forces identified the targeted militant maneuvering near the compound and killed him in an air strike.
Coalition forces then identified a separate militant group maneuvering against them and responded with small-arms fire. It was during this engagement that the woman, who was moving with the militant group, was injured. Another woman and four children were unharmed.
The injured woman’s condition required immediate medical evacuation. Coalition forces coordinated for a male family member to travel to the hospital. Coalition medical personnel immediately treated the woman’s injuries at the scene and transported her to a coalition medical facility for further care.
During the operation, coalition forces discovered and confiscated several pieces of military equipment, weapons, and ammunition.
(Compiled from Combined Joint Task Force 101 and NATO International Security Assistance Force news releases.)
Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=50753
Coalition Troops in Iraq Capture 9 Suspected Terrorists
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10, 2008 – Coalition forces in Iraq captured eight suspected terrorists during a series of operations conducted in and around Baghdad and another in Mosul today, military officials said.
Coalition forces in Baghdad captured two suspects tied to al-Qaida logistics operations. Two other suspects are linked to a terrorist bombing cell that operates between Baghdad and Fallujah.
Another man captured is believed to be part of a car-bombing network and suicide operations and three others linked to al-Qaida operations.
In Mosul, coalition forces captured a man linked to al-Qaida senior leaders in the city.
In other operations yesterday:
— In the village of Abu Wali, about 65 kilometers northwest of Mosul, coalition forces captured a suspected al-Qaida member linked to a foreign terrorist network.
— Near Muqdadiyah, coalition forces captured three suspects with links to al-Qaida bombings and providing false documents to terrorists fleeing Diyala province during current anti-insurgent crackdowns.
— In Mosul, coalition forces detained two suspected al-Qaeda members.
— In Baghdad, coalition forces captured three suspects linked to al-Qaida affiliated terrorist operations in the area.
In Aug. 8 operations:
— Coalition forces killed two armed terrorists near Muqdadiyah, about 90 kilometers northeast of Baghdad. Coalition forces followed two men who left the site and engaged them, killing both. The coalition troops found weapons, a military-style assault vest, a pistol belt and grenades.
— Coalition troops captured a man during an operation in Hamam al-Alil, just south of Mosul. The detainee is linked to senior al-Qaida leaders and their financial infrastructure.
— Near Beiji, about 160 kilometers south of Mosul, coalition forces detained two suspected al-Qaida members linked to a foreign-terrorist network.
— In Baghdad, U.S. soldiers and Iraqi security forces discovered multiple munitions caches containing myriad rockets, rifles, mortars, ammunition, explosives and other ordnance.
— U.S. soldiers patrolling Baghdad reported that a Sons of Iraq member handed over a 120 mm mortar round to a joint security station in the Karb De Gla neighborhood.
In other news, U.S. and Iraqi soldiers found weapons caches in three locations during operations near Baghdad Aug. 7.
Iraqi soldiers found a cache approximately 23 kilometers southwest of Baghdad. The cache contained mortar rounds, grenades, mortar sights and two 12-inch rockets. The cache and a detainee were transported to an Iraqi army compound.
Iraqi troops found another cache in Mehdi Village, approximately 33 kilometers south of Baghdad. The cache contained mortars rigged with detonation cord and timers, an anti-tank mine, two improvised explosive devices and a homemade claymore mine. Explosive ordnance disposal personnel disposed of the cache on site.
U.S. and Iraqi soldiers found a third cache near Baghdad that contained a machine gun and 600 machine-gun rounds. The Iraqi soldiers also detained seven suspects for questioning.
In other Aug. 7 operations:
— U.S. soldiers seized a weapons cache west of Baghdad. The cache contained hand grenades, high-explosive projectiles, mortars, rocket-propellant charges, mortar-propellant charges, machine-gun and rifle ammunition, hand grenade fuses and a variety of bomb-making materials.
— U.S. soldiers discovered numerous weapons during operations in the Rashid district of southern Baghdad. Items confiscated included artillery rounds and rocket-propelled grenades, a rocket rail system, artillery and mortar rounds, explosives, a 57 mm S5KO rocket and washing machine timers.
(Compiled from Multinational Force Iraq and Multinational Corps Iraq news releases.)
Qaeda deputy Zawahiri releases video in English
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Ayman al-Zawahiri, the second-in-command to Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, has released his first English-language video call for jihad in Pakistan, the US-based IntelCenter said Sunday.
The message was aired on Pakistan’s ARY television network, IntelCenter said in a statement, adding that it marked “the first official message ever ... in which he speaks English.”
Zawahiri “calls for the people to support jihad in Pakistan and lists a litany of grievances against the Pakistani government and US involvement there,” said IntelCenter, which monitors extremist websites and communications....
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5je9HGApJxEhQErfQ3Q0yBDvEj8iA
“in which he speaks English.”
OPINION-SPECULATION: That almost sounds like a message in itself.
Thanks Velveeta for the heads up.
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iMHMxTwpwFlUzUclt2H_nsCymvSw
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C08%5C06%5Cstory_6-8-2008_pg1_4
http://blogs.reuters.com/pakistan/author/sanjeevmiglani/
http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11893663
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-08-06-Pakistan_N.htm
http://deepbackground.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/21/1212847.aspx
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24078316-25837,00.html
Note: The following post is a quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2059766/posts
China’s Uighur rebels switch to suicide bombs
Times Online ^ | August 11, 2008 | Richard Lloyd Parry
Posted on August 10, 2008 10:43:33 PM PDT by cmdjing
Suicide pipe bombers made a dozen attacks on police stations, government offices and businesses yesterday as Muslim separatists in the far northwest of China stepped up their Olympics bombing campaign.
At least 11 people died in the raids, which took place before dawn in Kuqa, an oasis city on the northern edge of the Taklimakan desert in the predominantly Muslim region of Xinjiang. Ten of the dead were reported to be attackers, three of whom appear to have blown themselves up to avoid capture.
It was an unprecedented event in China, which has no history of suicide bombing, and a grave escalation of the deteriorating security situation in one of its most tense and isolated areas.
Last night checkpoints sealed off the road to the police headquarters where attackers detonated a wagon filled with explosives at 2.30am, killing a civilian guard and injuring two police. According to the Xinhua news agency, the police fired back, killing one of the attackers and capturing two after a fourth killed himself with his bomb.
Half an hour earlier, an explosion blew out windows in a row of businesses. The owner of one café, where people were drinking at the time of the explosion, said: “Suddenly there was a big bang. The customers and I just ran away. When I looked back, my shop was totally destroyed.”
At 8.30am, police cornered five of the alleged attackers under a market stall. Two were shot dead as they threw their bombs while the other three blew themselves up. There were also attacks on a local government building and the premises of a trade organisation. A curfew was imposed and businesses in Kuqa county were ordered to close as police hunted for attackers, who, said Xinhua, had used bombs made from pipes, gas canisters and containers ofliquidgas.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
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“India doesn’t let North Korea plane overfly to Iran”
India Express ^ | 08/07/08 | Pranab Dhal Samanta
Posted on August 10, 2008 11:24:02 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Well now this isn’t nice:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/022150.php
August 10, 2008
“”soone or later you shall pay””
...and this isn’t nice either:
BLOG:
http://ezralevant.com/2008/08/syed-soharwardy-admires-muslim.html
Ezra Levant
“Syed Soharwardy: admires Muslim Brotherhood terrorists, threatens me that I’ll “soon pay””
By Ezra Levant on August 8, 2008 8:14 PM
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “See update, underneath the photo, below.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “But he did give me a warning: I’ll “soon pay”, he shouted, with half of Toronto as his witness, his voice rising to a girlish trill.
Normally, I’d laugh at that old fart. But, given that two of Soharwardy’s critics at his mosque have been violently attacked, maybe I should take Soharwardy’s threat seriously. What did he mean by I’ll “soon pay”?”
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059787/posts
China: Xinjiang Terrorists are Predominantly Women in 20’s (Ta Kung Pao of Hong Kong)
Yonhap News via Chosun Ilbo ^ | 08/11/08
Posted on August 11, 2008 12:48:36 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
UPDATE:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059799/posts
“’New attacks’ in Georgia conflict”
BBC News ^ | August 11, 2008
Posted on August 11, 2008 2:14:20 AM PDT by Schnucki
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“Thousands flee from Georgian city amid fears of Russian invasion”
Times Online ^ | August 11, 2008 | Tony Halpin in Gori, Kevin O’Flynn in Moscow, and Jenny Booth
Posted on August 11, 2008 2:10:40 AM PDT by Schnucki
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=743A9FBC-3DAF-4144-83FE-97ABABE2C029
“Almost Infamous”
By Thomas Joscelyn
The Weekly Standard | Monday, August 11, 2008
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “MUCH HAS BEEN WRITTEN about Salim Hamdan, an admitted driver for Osama bin Laden who was convicted on charges of supporting al Qaeda by a military jury at Guantanamo Bay earlier this week. Said Boujaadia, the suspected terrorist who was captured with Hamdan in Afghanistan in late 2001, has received far less attention. In some ways, Boujaadia’s story is more intriguing.
Like Hamdan, Boujaadia was once a detainee at Gitmo. But Boujaadia never received the high-profile trial Hamdan did. Instead, Boujaadia was repatriated to his native Morocco in May of this year—more than one year after authorities at Gitmo authorized his transfer. Boujaadia was held at Gitmo as a witness for Hamdan’s trial, and when his role there ended Moroccan authorities took custody of him. But, Boujaadia’s transfer does not mean he has been deemed an innocent. According to the last public accounts of his case, Moroccan authorities were investigating Boujaadia’s plethora of ties to al Qaeda and global terrorism. Indeed, according to unclassified files produced by the U.S. government at Gitmo, the Moroccans have much to investigate.”
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“Michael Savage vows to take Islam fight to Supreme Court
Popular radio host seeks to expose CAIR’s ‘international funding sources’”
Posted: August 10, 2008
4:50 pm Eastern
By Aaron Klein
http://www.memri.org/syria.html
http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/site/html/search.asp?isSearch=yes&isT8=yes&searchText=T104&pid=167&sid=13&preview=
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http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1218104252289&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Aug 10, 2008 10:05 | Updated Aug 10, 2008 14:27
“’Hizbullah received advanced launchers’”
By JPOST.COM STAFF
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The senior aide to Syrian President Bashar Assad who was assassinated last weekend had been in charge of supplying Hizbullah with advanced anti-aircraft weaponry, the Sunday Times reported.
According to the report, Brig.-Gen. Muhammad Suleiman had provided the guerrilla group with advanced Syrian SA-8 anti-aircraft missiles, Middle Eastern sources told the paper. Such missiles could potentially challenge the IAF reconnaissance flights which are currently conducted unhindered over Lebanon.”
Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=21743&Itemid=128
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20080810-07
Aug. 10, 2008
IA, MND-N Soldiers discover IEDs in school
Multi-National Division – North PAO
DIYALA PROVINCE, Iraq – A patrol of Iraqi Army and Multi-National Division- North Soldiers discovered several improvised explosive devices in a school before it could detonate in the village of Tahwilla Aug. 9.
“This in another despicable example of the anti-Iraqi insurgency knowing no boundaries in its cruelty,” said Col. Pat White, Commander of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, Multi-National Division -North. “To rig up a school with explosives in order to potentially kill school children sets another low for these criminals.”
An explosive ordnance disposal team investigated the IEDs and did a controlled detonation on the visible explosives, then called in an air strike to destroy any remaining explosives left in the school. The Diyala province is one of the poorest in Iraq, and the loss of the Tahwilla village school will be a tremendous blow for the area.
Iraqi and Coalition forces give a high priority to protecting civilians and private property. They were successful in disposing of the enemy’s weapons and supplies.
“The criminals were looking for a spectacular event, but ISF and CF foiled their efforts,” said Maj. Wayne Marotto, a spokesman for the 2nd BCT, 1st Armored Division. “The operations in northern Iraq will continue to expand the Government of Iraq’s capability to increase essential services and reconstruction to villages like Tahwilla.”
The Iraqi Army, establishing a long-term presence in Tahwilla, will work with provincial officials to develop a way ahead to replace the school.
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