Posted on 09/13/2005 7:06:50 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter
Terrorists Put a Bounty on the Head of Iraq PM al-Jaafari
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Iraq's Third Army Brigade said it had killed 40 insurgents in Tal Afar on Monday, bringing the guerrilla death toll since Saturday to around 200.
An estimated 350-500 insurgents were in the town when Iraqi forces, backed by U.S. troops, began the offensive.
The brigade said 21 "terrorist emirs," or senior insurgent leaders, had been captured.
"We also seized a cache of heavy weaponry, including mortars, artillery, explosives, TNT, ammunition and rocket-propelled grenades," the brigade's media officer said.
Abdelaziz Jasim, the defense ministry official in charge of operations in Tal Afar, said his forces were nearly in control of western areas of the town.
"Overall 157 terrorists have been killed and 291 arrested since the beginning of the operations," Jasim told a news briefing in Baghdad before the new offensive in Tal Afar.
The Iraqi army lost its first soldier in the Tal Afar fighting on Monday, he said, adding six civilians had also died.
A senior Iraqi officer in Tal Afar, who gave his name only as Colonel Khalaf, said: "Under our plan, by Thursday the city should be clear and safe."
The United States and Iraq say Tal Afar is a staging post for foreign fighters and military equipment from Syria on their way to cities across central Iraq.
On Sunday, Iraq closed part of its border with Syria.
IRAQ: 2,300 TERROR SUSPECTS ARRESTED IN AUGUST
The multi-national forces in Iraq arrested some 2,300 terror suspects in August, but released 1,085 after interrogating them, the Kuwaiti news agency KUNA reports. The suspects were detained for carrying out operations against coalition and Iraqi forces, but some fifty percent of them were later released due to lack of evidence. The military stressed that those in detention were treated fairly, in accordance with international regulations and the Geneva Convention.
Taliban commander killed, four arrested in Logar
Aziz Zahid
Afghan forces killed a key Taliban commander and arrested four militants in a clash in Logar province, officials claimed Tuesday.
Interior Ministry spokesman Dad Mohammad Rasa said commander Qari Abdullah was on the hit list since long. He was gunned down during a search operation in Logar last night, Rasa told Pajhwok Afghan News.
He informed Qari Abdullah was killed in the encounter while his four colleagues were arrested. Security forces suffered no losses in the clash, Rasa added.
(Qari Abdullah was the man in charge of the Taliban's anthrax program. I can't be sure if this is the same guy but this is a big "get" if it turns out to be him.)
ITALY: LONDON BOMB SUSPECT TO BE EXTRADITED AFTER LOSING APPEAL
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Italy's highest court of appeal - the Court of Cassation - on Tuesday threw out an appeal by Hamdi Issac - one of the suspected bombers in the botched 21 July attacks on London's transport system- against his extradition to Britain. The court ruled that Italian and British police would carry out Issac's extradition within ten days.
The court's reason for rejecting Issac's appeal against his extradition will be made public on Wednesday. However, Paolo Iorio, a lawyer representing the British government, expressed his "satisfaction" with the ruling, saying it "had fully implemented Italian and European law". Under the new fast-track European Arrest Warrant, Issac should be flown back to London, the court ruled in a sitting that lasted less than three hours.
He has been pressing for Issac's extradition to Britain since Issac - also known as Hussain Osman - was arrested at his brother's home in Rome on 29 July, after having slipped out of Britain unobserved on the London to Paris Eurostar and reached Rome by train.
On 17 August, a lower Italian court ruled that 27-year-old Issac should be extradited to Britain within 35 days, but his defence lawyer, Antonietta Sonnessa appealed against the ruling. Issac has admitted taking part in the 21 July terror attempts, in which bombs planted on a bus and three subway trains failed to explode, but he has insisted he only meant to scare not injure people.
Issac is currently in the high security Rebibbia jail in Rome, detained on international terrorism charges following his arrest in July. Italian prosecutors have been investigating him for subversive association with intent to commit terrorist acts, and possession of a false document, and should complete their probe by the time Issac is extradited.
The failed London attacks came exactly two weeks after apparent suicide bombers killed more than 50 people on London's underground and bus networks and injured some 700 on 7 July.
Five suspected Taliban arrested in Miranshah
Pakhtun Sahar
Pakistani security forces have arrested five suspected Taliban militants from a seminary in the border town of Miranshah. The religious school belonged to former Taliban minister for border and tribal affairs Maulvi Jalaludin Haqqani, a local official told Pajhwok Afghan News on Monday.
The official, requesting anonymity, said the seminary had recently reopened after a period of closure. Accompanied by tribal elders, police and militia forces searched the madrassah and arrested the Taliban. A local resident, Malik Mumtaz said the elders wanted to accompany the security forces to the seminary in a bid to avert bloodshed. He expected the presence of more Taliban fugitives in the area.
(The source for this article, and a few others here, "Pajhwok Afghan News" seems to have stories from Afghanistan a day or 2 before anyone else and sometimes has stories no one else covers. It is worth reading if you are interested in events in Afghanistan)
Pakistani forces arrest 10 suspected militants
Pakistani forces supported by helicopters arrested at least 10 suspected militants on Monday in raids in tribal areas near the Afghan border, intelligence and army officials said, the Associated Press reported.
The arrests were made in the lawless region of North Waziristan: two from a home in the main town of Miran Shah, and eight others, including a foreigner, in the nearby village of Dandi Darpakhel where soldiers seized rockets, artillery and other ammunition from houses, said a senior army official.
The foreigner appeared to be an Afghan, said the official, who is based in the northwestern city of Peshawar. He spoke on condition of anonymity as he wasn't authorized to speak to media about the operation.
Residents in Miran Shah said troops had blocked off a road leading to Dandi Darpakhel and surrounded a house, believed to be owned by relatives of a senior Taliban commander, Jalaluddin Haqqani.
An intelligence official, who also requested anonymity because of the clandestine nature of his job in Pakistan's tribal regions, said tribal elders and clerics persuaded five local tribesmen inside the house to surrender. He appeared to be referring to the same arrests in the village as the army official. Another two men were arrested separately in the village.
Neither official identified the arrested men, and it was unclear if they had links with the Taliban commander.
One army soldier was seriously injured after a radio antenna on his vehicle hit an overhead power line as he traveled to the village, the intelligence official said.
Pakistan, a key ally in the U.S.-led war on terrorism, says al-Qaida-linked militants have been hiding in the North and South Waziristan tribal regions that border Afghanistan.
Pakistan has recently stepped up its troop presence at the border as it has come under pressure from U.S. and Afghan officials to prevent infiltration of militants launching attacks to sabotage September 18 elections in Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, security forces found the bodies of three men whose throats had been slit in a village east of Miran Shah with a note warning that anyone spying for the United States would face a similar fate, another intelligence official said. None of the victims was identified.
Islamic militants have been blamed for killing people accused of spying on them in the region.
Associated Press writer Sailab Mahsud contributed to this report from Ladha in South Waziristan.
Two former commanders surrender in Kunar
Aziz Zahid
ASADABAD, September 13 (Pajhwok Afghan News): Accepting a general amnesty offered by the Afghan government, two former jihadi commanders have surrendered in the eastern Kunar province.
The newly surrendered commanders included Maulvi Rahman Gul of the Hazb-i-Islami and Mullah Rahmatullah of the ousted Taliban militia. They vowed to become part of the reconciliation process initiated by the government.
Speaking to Pajhwok Afghan News Kunar Governor Asadullah Wafa welcomed the two commanders and asked other rebels and jihadi commanders to join hands with the government in reconstruction of the war-ravaged country.
Maulvi Rahman Gul and Mullah Rahmatullah also surrendered heavy weapons to the authorities in the province. A few days back, five commanders belonging to the student militia and Nijat Milli had surrendered to the government in the province.
HuJI commander among two militants killed in jk
Two top militants of Harkat-ul-Jehadi-Islami (HuJI), including its deputy district commander, were killed in Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir today, official sources said.
Acting on a tip off, a search and cordon operation was launched by the army in Nowapachi belt of Kishtwar tehsil, the sources said.
The operation led to a fierce gunbattle between militants and troops following which the two militants were killed around 0630 hours, they said.
The slain militants have been identified as deputy district commander HuJI Mohammad Musafir Kandy and Imtiyaz, they said, adding the encounter was still on when the last reports came in.
One AK rifle, one sniper rifle, 303 rifle, twelve grenades, 150 rounds, three magazines, one radio set and some explosives were recovered from the site, the sources added.
Guerilla leader killed in Chechnya
Federal forces have killed the commander of a guerilla unit acting near the Chechen village of Avtury.
"Federal forces clashed with a group of militants in a special operation held near the village of Avtury in the Shali district. One of the militants was killed in the clash," a Russian Interior Ministry source in the North Caucasus told Interfax on Monday.
"The militant has been identified as Avtury illegal armed unit commander Movsar Botayev," he said.
Six militants gunned down in Zabul, Kandahar
Aziz Zahid
Defense Ministry Tuesday claimed killing six Taliban and capturing three others following a crackdown in southern Afghanistan.
Speaking to Pajhwok Afghan News Defence Ministry spokesman Zahir Azimi said the operations were jointly conducted by the Afghan National Army (ANA) and coalition forces in Sha Joi and Arghandab districts of Zabul and Kandahar.
He informed the military had seized 27 machineguns and rocket launchers so far. The swoop on was launched on 9 September and was still going on to root out insurgents from the area, added the spokesman.
Regarding casualties on government side, Azimi said Afghan forces suffered no losses during the operations. Security has been beefed up in and around Kabul as the landmark parliamentary elections are only four days away.
US could withdraw 50,000 troops by year end: Talabani
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States could withdraw as many as 50,000 troops from Iraq by the end of the year because there are enough Iraqi forces ready to begin taking control of parts of the country, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani told the Washington Post.
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Thanks for the daily real and good news. The Jihadist Terrorists are dying all over Iraq, the Middle East and other countries. Many are being captured which will lead to others being killed or captured.
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Thanks for ALL your posts SV! I love the smell of dead terrorists in the morning!
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Thank you for the daily posting of this excellent "must read" thread.
Your effort is very much appreciated.
bump! Some more real good news today!
News to put a smile on your face. Thanks Straight.
Love the good news....the Bad guys are on the run....
Excellent work!
The military stressed that those in detention were treated fairly, in accordance with international regulations and the Geneva Convention.
What country and uniforms are these foreign terrorists wearing these days???
Good Work.... God Bless You...
CD
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