Posted on 06/17/2004 11:16:30 PM PDT by AdmSmith
ISLAMABAD (CNN) -- A tribal leader accused of harboring Al Qaeda militants in Pakistan's western border region was killed Thursday night in a targeted missile strike, according to Pakistan intelligence sources. The Associated Press quoted an army spokesman Friday as identifying the tribal leader as Nek Mohammed, a former Taliban fighter.
He was killed late Thursday at the home of another tribal chief, the spokesman said.
"We were tracking him down and he was killed last night by our hand," Maj. Gen. Shaukat Sultan told The Associated Press.
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>>>>>>>Dog, I think you're being blasphemed again.
Ain't nuttin compared to what Osama and Co think of dogs!
Personally, I think their hatred of dogs springs from jealousy.
Dogs routinely do (at least male dogs) what the male of homo sapiens cannot, unless you're a contortionist.
Enough jihad.
The Yankees are in town (Boston).
Down with NooYawk!
--Boot Hill
Ok, picture this...
The Shawal region divided up into 4 quadrants, each projected into 3D and then spun to maximize detail on the ways in and out of the valley, saved as TIFFs and blank...utterly blank.
Now imagine a folded printout list of the 100 villages closest to say...Bosh, reaching out 15 km in all directions, each along with an 8 digit coordinate set (6 after the decimal point).
Now picture me squinting through 2 diopter reading glasses and 9.5 diopter contacts...from list to MicroDEM on one monitor to Photoshop on another monitor...placing each town in MicroDEM to see if maybe it helps form a pattern over the ridgelines or not, and if it does, a tiny red square and placename go on the Photoshop map.
Then another list....say...villages close to Sholam...then Mantoi...three to five such lists per map.....four maps....
Do you think I'm a happy camper finding out what "Narai" and "Kandao" mean???
Let me tell you, the crowd 'round these parts is ON THEIR FEET!
I'll take you up on that phone offer, but not sure when right now. Busy tonight and during the day tomorrow, but I'll fit it in, you can count on that.
Thanks again.
(Two maps done, ready to post, NW and NE quadrant, one half done, SW quadrant, one yet to start, SE quadrant. They'll probably go up early to midweek.)
>>>Do you think I'm a happy camper finding out what "Narai" and "Kandao" mean
Stick to Vindaloo and Tandoor. Far more satisfying.
That would be Mansoor Ijaz, perhaps?
The guy who said that two convoys of 30 Iranian trucks each entered Iraq with WMD heads back in January, headed for US troops in Baghdad?
Yeah, I know that guy.
He wasn't always such a loon though.
Back in the mid 90's he dumped a bunch of money on Clinton's campaign to try and get Bill to accept all the passport data the Sudan had collected on AQ people moving in and out of the country.
Bill didn't bite, but I wish he had.
Keep repeating to yourself, the objective on the Pak-Afghan border isn't to catch any HVTs, it is to deny AQ long term haven in the area. That's some ugly country in there, too easy for one or two guys to slip out....but if we do get us a big fish, so much the better.
"Dog, I think you're being blasphemed again."
No way, not our Dog.
That's from an old lawyer book I remember. Been a long time but it goes something like this...
You say my client's dog bit you?
My client's dog doesn't bite.
Plus he was chained up that day.
In another state.
After having his teeth removed.
Which killed him.
Dog?
My client doesn't even HAVE a dog.
Mansur Ijaz wrote an artice for the Guardian of all papers detailing Osama's mountain lair, protected by concentric rings of armed guards, natural and manmade barriers with a mountain redoubt in the center.
Northern Pakistan, Gilgit, Kashmir area, south of the Pamirs and the Afghani panhandle.
Didn't get much attention at all - Sept 2003.
Said the US and Pakistan knew about it but were unwilling to take him and his minions on.
Why did Mansur say it when he did? And why the Guardian and not the WSJ, for example?
FWIW.
Many questions about this guy. Including his nuke background and potential connections to Khan and the Paki NUke Network.
He has some info, but a salt shaker is needed.
OK, now this is getting silly.
"How come my dog don't bark when you come around anymore?"
- Dr. John.
I like spicy.
It just doesn't like me.
I know, TMI.
Well, Dog, it's Friday night and all I can think of is, that perhaps it's time for a little "hair of the Dog that bit you"! (yuck, yuck, yuck, I crack myself up!)
--Boot Hill
LOL!
Funny!
I do not know if it is better to have them in Pakistan or Afghanistan, but here they come:
http://www.thedailystar.net/2004/07/24/d40724100390.htm
Humanitarian crisis looms as Afghan refugees flee Pak al-Qaeda hunt
AFP, Kabul
Aid workers and Afghan officials are struggling to avert a looming humanitarian crisis as thousands of Afghan refugees living in Pakistan pour across the border fleeing Pakistani army operations to hunt al-Qaeda-linked militants.
Over 20,000 refugees have already crossed the border into Afghanistan's insurgency-hit southeastern provinces, many of them leaving Pakistan after decades with only hours to pack what little they can carry, aid workers said.
"Because of the military operations in South Waziristan many refugees have been forced to leave and because they have no time to pack or gather their things they face difficulties when they come back to Afghanistan," UN refugee worker Paul Stromberg told AFP.
The refugees are streaming into the Taliban stronghold of Paktika province over border crossings where the UN and aid organisations have no presence, said Stromberg, senior repatriation coordinator the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan's southeastern provinces bordering Pakistan are a hotbed of Taliban-led insurgency. The Afghan government, the UN and most aid organisations have pulled out fearing attacks on their workers.
They put that up about two weeks ago. I guess they got tired of me emailing them about the errors I found, like the following one...
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Native Chamkani, Darya-ye
Name Country Code: AF
(4) STM 32° 36' 00" N 071° 20' 00" E AF00 YB10 NI42-16 -3371818 -4790635 1998-06-26
Native Kurram River (UNI= -4790636)
Short Form: Kurram
Name Country Code: PK
Variant Laza (UNI= -4808999)
Variant Korram, Darya-ye (UNI= -4807417)
Variant Kormah (UNI= -4807404)
Variant Kurram (UNI= 452046)
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The feature is listed as being in Afghanistan, but the coordinates place it in smack-dab in the middle of Pakistan, near the Indus River!
(For the life of me, I can't figure out why they keep sending me hate-mail!)
--Boot Hill
--Boot Hill
The reason is that "The devil is in the details".
Boot...
I think one of them is closer to Iraq......like in Iran.
That's my 2 cents.
LoL
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