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US Predators kill 3 'militants' in South Waziristan

www.longwarjournal.org — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:24:29 +0200

US Predators struck today in Pakistan's
Taliban-controlled tribal agency of South Waziristan, killing
three "militants." The unmanned, CIA-operated Predators or
Reapers fired a pair of missiles at a vehicle parked in a
compound in the village of Azam Warzak. AFPclaimed that the "militants" escaped the strike, but The Associated Presssaid three were killed in the attack. No senior Taliban or al
Qaeda operatives were reported killed in today's strike. The
attack occurred in an area of South Waziristan controlled by
Mullah Nazir, the leader of the Taliban in the Waziri tribal
areas. The village of Azam Warzak sits on the border with
Afghanistan and serves as a transit point for Taliban, al Qaeda,
and other terrorists heading to and from Pakistan's war-torn
neighbor. Senior al Qaeda leaders are also known to shelter in
Azam Warzak; a top al Qaeda financial chief is thought to have
been killed in the town earlier this year. And in 2004, the Pakistani military fought the Islamic Movement of
Uzbekistan as well as Chechen and Arab fighters in Shin Warzak
and surrounding areas. Today's strike takes place as the US and
Pakistan are waging a war of words over the latter's support of
the Haqqani Network, the al Qaeda-linked Taliban subgroup that is
based in Miramshah in North Waziristan. Several US officials,
including Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton, and outgoing Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff Admiral Michael Mullen, have accused Pakistan's
Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate, or ISI, of directly
supporting Haqqani Network attacks inside Afghanistan. Most
recently, the US said that the ISI aided the Haqqani Network in
attacking the US Embassy and ISAF headquarters in Kabul. "Good
Taliban" leader Mullah Nazir also an al Qaeda leader Mullah Nazir
has openly supported Taliban emir Mullah Omar and al Qaeda leader
Osama bin Laden, and wages jihad in Afghanistan. In an interview with the Asia Times, Nazir rejected claims that he opposed al Qaeda, and affirmed
that he considered himself to be a member of the global terror
organization. "Al Qaeda and the Taliban are one and the same,"
Nazir said. "At an operational level we might have different
strategies, but at the policy level we are one and the same....
This is wrong that I am anti-al Qaeda. I am part of al Qaeda."
Pakistan's military and intelligence services consider Nazir and
his followers "good Taliban" as they do not openly seek the
overthrow of the Pakistani state. In the summer of 2009, the
military signed a peace agreement with Nazir stipulating that he
would not shelter al Qaeda or members of the Movement of the
Taliban in Pakistan, which were based in the Mehsud tribal areas
of South Waziristan. The Pakistani government launched a military
operation against the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan in
October 2009, but left Nazir's areas untouched. Nazir has
continued to allow the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, al
Qaeda, and other terror groups safe haven in his tribal areas.
Significantly, more senior al Qaeda leaders have been killed in
Nazir's tribal areas during the US air campaign than in those of
any other Taliban leader in Pakistan. Nazir also shelters the
Mehsuds from the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, in
violation of the peace agreement with the Pakistani government.
In the past, the US has killed several senior al Qaeda leaders in
Nazir's territories. One of the most senior al Qaeda leaders killed was Midhat Mursi al Sayyid Umar, better known as Abu Khabab al Masri. On July 28, 2008, Abu
Khabab was killed in a Predator strike along with four members of
his staff. Two other top al Qaeda leaders killed while in Nazir's
care were Osama al Kini (Fahid Mohammed Ally Msalam), al Qaeda's
operations chief in Pakistan; and Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan, one of al Kini's senior aides. Both men were wanted by the US
for their involvement in the 1998 suicide attacks on the US
embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The US believes it killed Abu Zaid al Iraqiduring a Feb. 20, 2010 airstrike in Azam Warzak. Abu Zaid is said
to be al Qaeda's top financier in Pakistan. In another strike in
Nazir's territory, US Predators also killed Abu Hazwa Jawfi, who is said to have led Jundallah, a Pakistani terror group
that is based in Karachi and maintains close ties with al Qaeda.
And Ilyas Kashmiri, the leader of al Qaeda's Lashkar-al-Zil, or
Shadow Army, is reported to have been killed in a June 3 Predator
strike in Nazir's tribal areas. Kashmiri's death has not been
confirmed, however. The Predator strikes, by the numbers Today's
strike is the third in Pakistan's tribal areas this month, and
the first in four days. In the last strike, which took place in
North Waziristan on Sept. 23, no senior al Qaeda or Taliban
leaders were reported killed. The previous strike, on Sept. 11,
killed killed Abu Hafs al Shahri, whom US intelligence officials have described as al Qaeda's
operations chief for Pakistan. The pace of the US strikes has
been uneven over the past year, and the monthly strike totals
have generally decreased. From January through August 2011, the
strikes in Pakistan were as follows: nine strikes in January,
three strikes in February, seven in March, two in April, seven in
May, 12 in June, three in July, and six in August. In the last
four months of 2010, the US averaged almost 16 strikes per month
(21 in September, 16 in October, 14 in November, and 12 in
December). So far this year, the US has carried out 52 strikes in
Pakistan. In 2010, the US carried out 117 strikes, which more
than doubled the number of strikes that had occurred in 2009; by
late August 2010, the US had exceeded 2009's strike total of 53
with a strike in Kurram. In 2008, the US carried out a total of
36 strikes inside Pakistan. [For up-to-date charts on the US air
campaign in Pakistan, see LWJ Special Report, Charting the data for US airstrikes in Pakistan, 2004 - 2011.] In 2010 the strikes were concentrated almost exclusively in
North Waziristan, where the Afghan and Pakistani Taliban, the
Haqqani Network, al Qaeda, and a host of Pakistani and Central
and South Asian terror groups are based. All but 13 of the 117
strikes took place North Waziristan. Of the 13 strikes occurring
outside of North Waziristan in 2010, seven were executed in South
Waziristan, five were in Khyber, and one was in Kurram. This
year, an increasing number of strikes are taking place in South
Waziristan. So far in 2011, 33 of the 52 strikes have taken place
in North Waziristan, 18 strikes have occurred in South
Waziristan, and one took place in Kurram. Since Sept. 1, 2010,
the US has conducted 113 strikes in Pakistan's tribal agencies.
The bulk of those attacks have aimed at the terror groups in
North Waziristan, with 86 strikes in the tribal agency. Many of
the strikes have targeted cells run by the Islamic Movement of
Uzbekistan and the Islamic Jihad Group, which have plotted to
conduct Mumbai-styled terror assaults in Europe. A strike on
Sept. 8, 2010 killed an IJG commander known as Qureshi, who specialized in training Germans to conduct attacks in their
home country. The US campaign in northwestern Pakistan has
targeted top al Qaeda leaders, al Qaeda's external operations
network, and Taliban leaders and fighters who threaten both the
Afghan and Pakistani states as well as support al Qaeda's
external operations. The campaign has been largely successful in focusingon terrorist targets and avoiding civilian casualties, as
recently affirmed by the Pakistani military. For a list of al
Qaeda and Taliban leaders killed in the US air campaign in
Pakistan, see LWJ Special Report, Senior al Qaeda and Taliban leaders killed in US airstrikes in
Pakistan, 2004 - 2011 .

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Taboo tattoos

gulfnews.com — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:54:22 +0200

Body art may make life a little difficult for expats
here as it's considered a stigma in some societies

Taboo tattoos

gulfnews.com — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 17:08:11 +0200

Body art may make life a little difficult for expats
here as it's considered a stigma in some societies

Taboo tattoos

gulfnews.com — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 06:12:46 +0200

Body art may make life a little difficult for expats
here as it's considered a stigma in some societies

Obama Tells Congress to Get Act Together and Wait for ItPass This Jobs Bill

nation.foxnews.com — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 02:57:05 +0200

By Andrew Restuccia, The Hill President Obama used
his weekly radio address to urge Congress to get its act together
and pass his jobs bill. "Its been almost three weeks since I sent
the American Jobs Act to Congress three weeks since I sent them a
bill that would put people back to work and put money in peoples
pockets," Obama said. "And now I want it back. It is time for
Congress to get its act together and pass this jobs bill so I can
sign it into law." Obamas nearly $450 billion jobs bill known as
the American Jobs Act would raise taxes on the wealthy, invest in
infrastructure, extend the employee payroll-tax cut and fund
unemployment insurance benefits, among other
things.

PETA is not normal. No. Theyre insane.

www.achgut.com — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 02:57:03 +0200

(Fundstück) "We are very glad that Mr. Wickersham is
going to be ok, but we do hope that this painful and frightening
experience makes him think about the pain and fear that hes
causing to fish and other fisherman are causing to fish.
http://gizmodo.com/5844848/peta-doesnt-give-a-shit-about-humans

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Nigeria: Arrest of Some Sea Pirates

www.eaglespeak.us — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 02:56:55 +0200

A report of the arrest of some Nigerian sea pirates found at here: We asked all the crew members to lie face down or be shot. We
searched everybody but the money and other properties we took
were not enough hence we ordered the captain to search for money
or we shoot him dead. Sensing danger the ship captain at gun
point went inside and brought N15, 000 and we and ordered him to
tow our boat to a sandy area where we found our way. We later
shared the money and I was given N5, 000. We abandoned the boat
as we could not go with it again, but the following day we went
to see what we could do to remove it so that the money we would
pay the owner would not be too much as the owner charges N5, 000
every day and we were not ready to pay more than a day., he
said.

Criminals Grab Disabled French Woman from Kenyan Island

www.eaglespeak.us — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 02:56:54 +0200

Or, as the BBC puts it, "French
woman kidnapped in Kenya resort": A French woman has been kidnapped by an armed gang on Kenya's
northern resort island of Manda, officials say. The elderly woman
- who is said to be disabled - was attacked at a rented thatched
bungalow at Ras Kitau. Witnesses said they heard shots being
fired before the woman was taken away in a motorboat. Two
coastguard ships later surrounded the boat carrying the attackers
and the hostage near the Somali border, Kenya's tourism minister
said. Najib Balala added that the attackers were firing into the
air - apparently to try to scare off the vessels. A police
helicopter is also taking part in the rescue operation. Whether
the attackers are Kenyan, Somali or some combination thereof,
they are certainly among the scum of the earth.

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US Predators kill 3 'militants' in South Waziristan

Taboo tattoos

Taboo tattoos

Taboo tattoos

Obama Tells Congress to Get Act Together and Wait for ItPass This Jobs Bill

PETA is not normal. No. Theyre insane.

Nigeria: Arrest of Some Sea Pirates

Criminals Grab Disabled French Woman from Kenyan Island

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