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Posted on 06/02/2008 12:04:34 PM PDT by nwctwx
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=50159
Iraqi, U.S. Forces Kill Three al-Qaida Terrorists
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, June 10, 2008 – Iraqi and coalition forces killed three terrorists and detained five suspects in northern Iraq today during operations targeting al-Qaida in Iraq, military officials said.
Iraqi and coalition forces captured an al-Qaida in Iraq member linked to terrorist activities during an operation in the Kirkuk area. Three armed men confronted the joint Iraqi-coalition force and refused to comply with instructions to surrender.
Iraqi and coalition forces engaged the armed men with small-arms fire and supporting aircraft, killing all three terrorists. Inside the target building, Iraqi and coalition forces discovered rocket-propelled grenades and homemade explosives, which they destroyed on site.
In another operation today, coalition forces employed detainee-provided information to target foreign terrorist facilitators in northwestern Iraq, detaining three suspects and destroying four terrorist hideouts.
Also today, information from a May 27 operation led coalition forces to Mosul, where they captured a wanted man believed to be involved in a Baghdad car-bombing network. One other suspected terrorist was detained in the operation.
“The combined forces are removing terrorists from northern Iraq, reducing the effectiveness of AQI and increasing the quality of life for the Iraqi citizens,” said Navy Lt. David Russell, Multinational Force Iraq spokesman.
Yesterday, Iraqi soldiers and police and U.S. soldiers discovered multiple weapons caches during a series of operations across Iraq.
In and around Baghdad:
— U.S. soldiers discovered a cache in Baghdad’s West Rashid district, consisting of two AK-47 rifles, a 9 mm pistol, 10 light machine gun ammunition drums, four extra machine gun barrels, and assorted weapons parts.
— Iraqi and U.S. soldiers seized a weapons cache in Baghdad’s Kadhamiya district. The cache contained four rocket-propelled grenades, nine rockets with propellant, four armor-piercing explosively formed projectiles, and more than 700 7.62 mm armor-piercing rounds.
— Iraqi police found 47 AK-47 rifles, three sniper rifles and a Mauser rifle in the Ur area of Baghdad’s Adhamiyah district.
— North of Baghdad, Iraqi police seized two 155 mm artillery rounds with improvised-explosive-device fuses, two 122 mm artillery rounds attached to two propane tanks, four rocket-propelled grenades, a rocket-propelled-grenade launcher, 21 AK-47 rifles, six other-type rifles, a roll of command detonation wire, and a tripod.
— In the Shaab area of Baghdad’s Adhamiyah district, a local Iraqi alerted U.S. soldiers to a video camera that was filming the area in and around a combat outpost. U.S. 4th Infantry Division soldiers confiscated the camera and brought it to a nearby operating base for examination.
— In the Neel area of Baghdad’s Rusafa neighborhood, U.S. soldiers were alerted to a weapons cache turned in by several local residents and “Sons of Iraq” citizen security group members. The cache consisted of an IED, 80 57 mm anti-aircraft projectiles, 65 81 mm high-explosive mortar rounds, 30 120 mm illumination rounds, 12 60 mm high-explosive mortar rounds, six 81 mm illumination rounds, six 61 mm high-explosive mortar rounds, 10 grenades, eight RPGs, four RPG launchers, a 122 mm rocket, a 107 mm rocket, five rocket launchers, five 107 mm rocket motors, eight rocket motors, an anti-personnel mine and two rocket motor propellant charges.
— U.S. soldiers received a tip from an Iraqi resident about a large weapons cache northwest of Baghdad. The soldiers found 163 60 mm mortar rounds, 84 82 mm mortar rounds, and 43 81 mm mortar rounds.
— Iraqi police found two 82 mm mortar rounds and three AK-47s in the Risalah area of Baghdad’s Rashid district.
— A group of U.S. and Iraqi soldiers seized 25 60 mm mortar rounds, 19 82 mm mortar rounds, five RPGs, 64 sticks of TNT, a mortar tube, and several fuses in the Saydiyah area of Baghdad’s Rashid district.
— A Sons of Iraq leader northwest of Baghdad turned in six rocket-propelled grenades, 42 RPG propellant chargers, and a rifle to U.S. soldiers.
Yesterday in Baghdad’s Sadr City section:
— Iraqi troops found four explosively formed projectiles, 15 pounds of homemade explosives, 26 120 mm mortar rounds, a 120 mm mortar round fins, three 82 mm mortar fuses, 15 60 mm mortar rounds, seven rocket propelled grenades, two RPG launchers, a detonating device, a spool of wire, 70 blasting caps, a 82 mm mortar system with base plate and bipod, a 60 mm homemade mortar tube, 24 AK-47s, two SKS rifles, a PKC barrel, a sniper rifle, 300 rounds of 7.62 mm ammunition, 40 rounds of .50-caliber ammunition, and four military helmets.
— Other Iraqi soldiers seized 14 AK-47s, five sniper rifles and two other rifles.
— Another group of Iraqi soldiers seized three 122 mm rockets, an anti-tank rocket, an AK-47, a flare, a battery, and detonation wire. A man was detained.
— Another contingent of Iraqi soldiers seized a locally made rocket from an abandoned bus.
— An Iraqi military patrol uncovered a weapons cache at a school. The weapons included three IEDs, a rocket-propelled-grenade launcher, a mortar base plate, and a rocket.
— Another group of Iraqi soldiers discovered a cache containing a 60 mm mortar, a 155 mm round IED, three 120 mm IEDs, two AK-47 rifles, a submachine gun and a rifle. Soldiers in the same unit later found two more caches that contained seven AK-47 rifles, three rockets, three anti-tank grenades, four rocket-propelled grenades, 10 rifle magazines, two rocket-propellant charges, a sub-machine gun, a rifle, a concussion grenade, a cell phone, and two flak jackets.
Yesterday in Basra, Iraqi police found a large cache of explosives and explosively formed projectiles inside a residence in the city’s Fursi district. Residents greeted police in the street as they arrived to discover more than 650 pounds of bulk explosive, more than 330 pounds of C4, seven large-body EFPs, 15 smaller-body EFPs, a reel of detonation cord, a large amount of armor-piercing ammunition, and a machine gun barrel. The cache was in a hole cut in the wall of a room in the back of the house.
“This is just another sign that the fine citizens of Basra want to get rid of the evil in their city,” said Army Capt. Chris McNair, a spokesman for Multinational Division Southeast. “The fact that someone called in a tip to direct police to these dangerous munitions means there are citizens of Basra who want a safe place to raise their children.”
(Compiled from Multinational Force Iraq and Multinational Corps Iraq news releases.)
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=50160
U.S., Afghan Troops Use Mortar Fire to Thwart Insurgent Attack
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, June 10, 2008 – U.S. and Afghan troops used mortar fire yesterday to defeat insurgents who fired upon a forward operating base in Afghanistan’s Zabul province, military officials said.
A group of insurgents attacked the base with small-arms and mortar fire. Afghan and coalition forces responded to the attack with mortar fire. One insurgent was killed in the exchange, which occurred near the province’s Deh Chopan district.
No civilians, Afghan security forces or coalition forces were injured. The base incurred minor damage.
In other news from Afghanistan, several militants were killed and one was detained by coalition forces during a counterinsurgency operation in Helmand province June 8, military officials said.
Coalition forces searched compounds in Kajaki district for the second time in four days, targeting a Taliban leader linked to public executions of Afghan National Police officers.
Coalition forces identified a group of armed militants occupying defensive positions and responded with an air strike. A second militant group engaged the coalition force with small-arms fire. Coalition forces responded with small-arms fire. Several militants were killed during the two engagements.
Coalition forces discovered several AK-47 rifles and a cache of narcotics. The weapons and drugs were destroyed.
(Compiled from Combined Joint Task Force 101 news releases.)
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“Report: US strikes inside Mohmand tribal agency”
By BILL ROGGIOJune 10, 2008 2:01 PM
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“11,000 University of Florida Student Social Security Numbers Posted Online”
FoxNews ^ | June 10, 2008 | Associated Press
Posted on June 10, 2008 6:43:28 PM PDT by BloodOrFreedom
It's more than a feeling Unrepentant VN Vet.
FAQ on US judicial and legal corruption
Snippets: There has long been a great problem in America, even going back more than a century, of judges who end up twisting the law and re-interpreting the law in some way to meet a preconceived political objective. In such cases the judge often goes to the extent of ignoring the Constitution or the laws as clearly written, and just making up his own rules or laws, using the terrifying power that American judges possess over the people appearing in their courtrooms.
The process of bending and twisting the law for political purposes has been accelerating over the last century. It has been accelerating extremely rapidly since the 1960s and 1970s, with the rapid expansion of lawsuits, prisons, and the power of lawyers and judges in America. Nowadays, lawyers just laugh at the "stupid Americans" who still read the old Constitution, or some written law, and expect to be protected by those laws or provisions. To an American lawyer, now, what is legal or not, just depends on what judges say is legal. What is written in the law, are just some words that the judge will use as a starting point as he plays the "legal game" in his courtroom.
Requesting a secretary for Christmas.)
Hoping you have excellent rapport with Santa. (smiling).
I was gifted with a small hand shovel and two digging implements this past week (not exactly magazines, chocolates or perfume). Manual labor is good for us!!!
Off Topic: Back from the dead before organs removed
THE case of a man whose heart stopped beating for 90 minutes only to revive just as doctors were preparing to remove his organs for transplants is fuelling ethical debates in France about when a person is dead.
The 45-year-old man suffered a massive heart attack and rescuers used cardiac massage to try and revive him without success before transferring him to a nearby hospital.
Due to a series of complex circumstances, revival efforts continued for longer than usual for a patient whose heart was not responding to treatment, until doctors started preparations to remove organs.
It was at that point that the astonished surgeons noticed the man was beginning to breathe unaided again, his pupils were active, he was giving signs that he could feel pain -- and finally, his heart started beating again.
Several weeks later, the man can walk and talk.
Mexico's human rights agency canceled plans yesterday to investigate whether new Prince William County policies violate the rights of illegal immigrants over fears that its visit might cause an uproar in a county already roiled by anti-immigrant sentiment.
Oh my gosh...what a miracle.
OPINION:
The Mexican officials have a lot of huevos to worry about our “human rights.”
Maybe they should worry ASAP about the human rights of the widows and children in Mexico who have lost their police officer/prosecutor dads who were fighting the war on the drug cartels.
http://www.truthusa.com/MoreThanCartoons.html
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“What the Cartoons Have Unleashed”
By Robert Spencer
FrontPageMagazine.com | Wednesday, June 11, 2008
We have an early morning STUCK ON STUPID award winner.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,365401,00.html
“Group Plans to Send Letters to Troops in Iraq on How U.S. Government Planned 9/11”
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
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www.theresistancemanifesto.com/
Where are they getting the names and address of the soldiers to whom they are sending these letters?
One can not send a letter or package addressed to “Any Soldier Serving in Iraq” the label must be addressed to a specific soldier or it isn’t accepted.
THE AVALON PROJECT AT YALE LAW SCHOOL: "Testimony of Steven Emerson Before the Senate Judiciary Committee. 'DOJ OVERSIGHT: PRESERVING OUR FREEDOMS WHILE DEFENDING AGAINST TERRORISM.' AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE MODUS OPERANDI OF TERRORIST NETWORKS IN THE UNITED STATES: THE STRUCTURE OF OSAMA BIN LADEN, AL-QAEDA, HAMAS AND OTHER JIHADIST ORGANIZATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES" (December 4, 2001)
"www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/Taliban/talebanlec.html": "In The Name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, The Most Merciful LECTURE: TALIBAN IN AFGHANISTAN" -Syed Rahmatullah Hashimi (Senior Advisor to Amir ul-Mu'mineen, Mullah 'Umar, Afghanistan) March 10, 2001 University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California"
OSFI-BSIF.gc.ca - Documents - Advisories - SNIPPET: "Consolidated List (as of October 31, 2001) In order to assist Canadians, and particularly financial institutions, in continuing to cooperate with authorities and in complying with the United Nations Suppression of Terrorism Regulations and the United Nations Afghanistan Regulations, the Government of Canada has prepared the attached consolidated list of individuals and entities whose property should be frozen and reported to the relevant authorities."
USDOJ/OIG Special Report: "BOMBS IN BROOKLYN: HOW THE TWO ILLEGAL ALIENS ARRESTED FOR PLOTTING TO BOMB THE NEW YORK SUBWAY ENTERED AND REMAINED IN THE UNITED STATES" (March, 1998) (Note: This url is 404 and may have expired.)
CatStevens.com: "CALL FOR ISLAMIC CHARITY AND A UNITED UMMAH" by Zakiah Koya, New Straits Times, Kuala Lumpur, December 12, 1997, Courtesy of Kirby
"TRANSCRIPT OF OSAMA BIN LADIN INTERVIEW BY PETER ARNETT Transcript of Osama Bin Ladin The first-ever television interview with Osama Bin Ladin was conducted by Peter Arnett in eastern Afghanistan in late March 1997. Questions were submitted in advance. Bin Ladin responded to almost all of the questions. CNN was not allowed to ask follow up questions. The interview lasted just over an hour." (March 1997)FOX NEWS.com: Washington - "DOCUMENTS SHOW STATE DEPARTMENT WARNED CLINTON ABOUT BIN LADEN" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The State Department warned the Clinton administration in July 1996 that Usama bin Laden's move to Afghanistan would give him more fertile ground to spread radical Islam, according to newly declassified documents." (August 17, 2005)NEWSMAX.com: "IRAQI GENERAL: BIN LADEN VISITED BAGHDAD" by Carl Limbacher with the NewsMax.com staff (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Speaking in halting English, former Iraqi Gen. Georges Sada described the bin Laden visit to ABC Radio's Sean Hannity. "I can make sure one thing - I know - I have seen by my eyes. It was in '84, '85, Osama bin Laden himself was coming to Iraqi air force headquarters. "Gen. Sada explained: "At that time he was looking for contracts to build air fields in Iraq."") (January 27, 2006)OSINT.INTERNET-HAGANAH.com (YNETNEWS.com): "ISRAEL WARNED U.S. OF BIN LADEN [IN 1988]" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The name Bin Laden became familiar to the Israeli Mossad in the years 1986-1987, Bar said. At that time Israel had been gathering written material in Gaza and the West Bank, and came across the name of Bin Laden, who was described in one of the documents as a Saudi millionaire who joined Sheikh Abdullah Azzam's Mujahidin that ventured to Afghanistan to aid in the war against the Soviets. The document referred to Bin Laden's preaching and his fatwas (Muslim law rulings). Mossad investigators realized at that point that Azzam's movement represented a problem, and that anyone involved in it could represent a threat to the western world.") (January 25, 2006)
That’s a good question and I don’t have the answer for you Kalee.
You may want to write to Fox News and ask the reporter or news desk.
Note: The following news brief is a quote:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3554253,00.html
4 mortars fired at Negev
Published: 06.11.08, 12:16 / Israel News
Four mortars fired from Gaza landed in open areas near Israeli communities situated by the security fence. No injuries or damage were reported, and the residents were asked to remain indoors. (Yonat Atlas and Shmulik Hadad)
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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3554218,00.html
Mortar lands in Negev; no injuries
Published: 06.11.08, 11:31 / Israel News
A mortar shell fired from Gaza landed near a western Negev kibbutz. No injuries or damage were reported. (Yonat Atlas)
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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3554195,00.html
“Man lightly injured in mortar attack on Negev kibbutz”
SNIPPET: “Factory in Nir Oz hit for second time in a week by two mortars fired from Gaza; workers evacuated after fire breaks out. ‘Government must put an end to the attacks launched against us,’ kibbutz secretary says”
Yonat Atlas
Published: 06.11.08, 11:09 / Israel News
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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3554180,00.html
Nir Oz: Fire fighters attend fire following mortar shell attack
Published: 06.11.08, 10:57 / Israel News
A fire broke out in the Nirlat factory in Kibbutz Nir Oz due to two mortar shells landing at the site. Fire fighting teams and hazardous material crews have been dispatched to the scene. (Yonat Atlas)
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http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=20240&Itemid=128
Press Release A080610a-208
June 10, 2008
Baghdad’s AQI leaders under pressure; three wanted men captured
BAGHDAD – Coalition forces captured three wanted men and two of their associates in Baghdad Monday.
Using information from an operation May 27, Coalition forces captured two wanted men, one of whom is allegedly a leader in an al-Qaeda in Iraq group. The two men, captured with two associates, allegedly belong to an AQI group with roots in Anbar province, but currently operating in the northern belt around Baghdad. The men are suspected to have ties with AQI leaders in the capital.
Also in Baghdad, Coalition forces captured an alleged AQI leader with long-standing ties to various terrorist networks, including AQI’s bombing network and other terrorist leaders. During the operation, a man ignored several warnings and approached the security perimeter. After repeated warnings to halt his advance, including warning shots, Coalition forces perceived a hostile threat and engaged the man, killing him.
“The Iraqi people have grown weary of terrorists and criminals,” said Lt. Patrick Evans, MNF-I spokesperson. “They have increasingly begun to partner with Iraqi and Coalition forces to capture and disrupt terrorist and criminal networks.”
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http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=20267&Itemid=128
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20080610-11
June 10, 2008
ISF, MND-B Soldiers seize weapons throughout
Baghdad
Multi-National Division – Baghdad PAO
BAGHDAD – Iraqi Security Forces and Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers seized multiple weapons caches throughout Baghdad June 9-10.
At approximately midnight June 9, Iraqi Army soldiers with the 22nd Brigade, 6th IA Division, discovered a cache in the Kadamiya district of Baghdad based off the tip of an area citizen.
The cache consisted of a light anti-armor weapon rocket, communication devices, two sets of body armor, four PKC barrels, communication wire, a rocket propelled grenade anti-personnel warhead, small-arms ammunition, five boxes of 5.56 mm rounds and various grenades.
They also confiscated three vehicles and one moped. Extra fuel tanks had been welded into the beds of two of the trucks they confiscated. Iraqi National Policemen and MND-B Soldiers with the 8th Brigade, 2nd Division National Police Transition Team found two improvised explosive devices in the New Baghdad district of Baghdad at approximately 6:30 a.m. June 10. One of the IEDs consisted of a 130 mm artillery round, and the other, a 107 mm artillery round.
The team also seized a large number of weapons during their morning mission, including 62 AK-47s, six sniper rifles, four 9 mm pistols, 12 full AK-47 magazines, four full 9 mm magazines and a machete.
At approximately 8:30 a.m., IA soldiers with the 3rd Bde., 1st Div., seized
five AK-47s in the Sadr City district of Baghdad.
MND-B Soldiers with the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, MND-B, discovered a weapons cache at approximately 9 a.m. The munitions included a 60 mm mortar system, a 107 mm rocket, two blocks of C4 explosive, 12 sticks of the plastic explosive PE-4, five rocket propelled grenades, detonation cord and blasting caps.
At approximately 10 a.m., an Iraqi citizen turned over two 120 highexplosive mortar rounds, two HE pineapple grenades and a possible explosively formed projectile tube to MND-B soldiers with the 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, at a nearby camp.
Soldiers with the 2nd SBCT, 25th Inf. Div., MND-B, found a weapons cache northwest of Baghdad at approximately 10:15 a.m. consisting of 20, 7.62 mm sniper rounds; a camouflage net, magazines for 7.62 mm rounds, a sight for an RPG, a set of bipod legs and a decoy RPG.
At approximately noon, soldiers with the 3rd Bde., 1st IA Div., seized a weapons cache in Sadr City. The cache consisted of seven AK-47s, a Berno rifle and an RPK machine gun.
“Throughout the city, Baghdad residents are coming forward in increasing numbers, providing tips and information on weapons and munitions caches and extremist activity,” said Lt. Col. Steve Stover, spokesman for MND-B and 4th Inf. Div. “They are tired of the violence and foresee a brighter future through their actions.”
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http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=20269&Itemid=128
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20080610-12
June 10, 2008
Iraqi Special Operations Forces detain 4 suspected terrorists
Multi-National Corps – Iraq PAO
BALAD, Iraq – Iraqi Special Operations Forces detained four suspected terrorists in the Tall Abtah area, approximately 95 kilometers northwest of Mosul, June 9.
The ISOF conducted an operation to capture the four suspected members of an al-Qaeda in Iraq cell. The detained men are reported to harbor insurgents and make improvised explosive devices. Two additional suspects were detained during the operation.
“This operation is expected to disrupt the cell’s terrorist activities in Tall Abtah and improve the security and stability for the citizens in the area,” Lt. Col. Neil Harper, a spokesperson for the Mult-National Corps-Iraq.
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Press Release A080611a-063
June 11, 2008
Coalition forces detain suspected Special Groups IED expert near al-Kut
BAGHDAD – Coalition forces captured a suspected Iranian-trained Special Groups explosives expert Wednesday in Numaniyah, about 180 km southeast of Baghdad near Al Kut.
Acting on intelligence information, Coalition forces targeted a suspected Iranian-trained improvised explosive device expert. Using information provided by Special Groups criminals already detained, the targeted criminal is believed to have traveled to Iran several times for explosives training. Intelligence sources also said the suspect has numerous Iranian contacts with whom he would meet when smuggling weapons and bomb-making materials into Iraq.
Coalition forces entered the suspected criminal’s residence and subdued him without firing any shots after the man made a move toward a weapon.
“Significance progress is being made, and Iraqi people are a big part of the operations to stop terrorists throughout Iraq,” said Navy Lt. Patrick Evans, MNF-I spokesperson.
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