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  • CAPTIONS? Israeli Deputy PM Yosef Lapid showing a sword presented by All India Anti-Terror Front

    09/09/2003 10:53:02 AM PDT · by swarthyguy · 19 replies · 1,754+ views
    Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Yosef Lapid showing a sword presented by All India Anti-Terror Front chairman Ms. Bitta at a function in New Delhi on Tuesday, September 9, 2003 Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (L) talks to President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam during a meeting at Rashtrapati Bhavan (The Presidential Palace) in New Delhi on September 9, 2003. Sharon kicked off his visit to India, the first by an Israeli leader, on Tuesday promising to build closer ties, a move that has raised concerns in neighbouring Pakistan. SnipSharon, who arrived Monday night, visited Rajghat, the tranquil memorial to the father...
  • Saudi official's son tortured pregnant girl in UK

    09/05/2003 11:35:52 AM PDT · by swarthyguy · 36 replies · 2,827+ views
    ITV ^ | 9.5.2003
    A pregnant teenager was tortured and kept captive in a luxury apartment by the son of a former top Saudi official, a court has heard. English language student Sammy Shadukhi, 22, who has been jailed for five years, imprisoned the 17-year-old girl in his riverside home, whipped her regularly and subjected her to a string of so-called "punishments" over one month. She told the two-week trial that her ordeal began almost from the moment he invited her into his waterfront apartment in Rotherhithe, south London, in January last year. She recalled that sometimes he bound her hand and foot, dumped...
  • Kashmir - Woman, boy fight with jihadis, snatch weapons Militants gun down 5 of a family

    09/03/2003 2:01:22 PM PDT · by swarthyguy · 7 replies · 846+ views
    RAMBAN, Sept 2: In a brazen act of violence, a group of militants last night struck at the residence of a well educated family, which was engaged in pre-marriage celebrations, killing five family members including three brothers and a woman at village Chamalwas, about eight kms from Banihal. Two members of the family including a youth and a woman put up a strong defiance and even snatched weapon of a militant before they were shot dead. Official sources identified the victims as Mohammad Khadim Hussain, 48, the lone elected Sarpanch of Chamalwas and former State secretary, Minorities Cell of the...
  • Osama is in Kunar, but the US can't get him

    08/31/2003 4:11:34 PM PDT · by swarthyguy · 32 replies · 1,099+ views
    AsiaTimes ^ | P. Escobar
    PESHAWAR - Al-Qaeda, "the base", is now extinct. Al-Qaeda has a brand new name: Fath-e-Islam (Victory of Islam). And Fath-e-Islam's leader, none other than Osama bin Laden, is very much alive. But not anymore in Pakistan. Osama has returned to Afghanistan. More precisely, the Kunar province. Key players in the ultra-complex Pakistan-Afghanistan game had been saying that since the fall of Kabul in November 2001 that "the last battle" in this ongoing war would be in Kunar. The scenario now seems more than likely. The Taliban and the rebranded al-Qaeda have full tribal support in Kunar - where everybody seems...
  • Kashmir - 5 killed, 11 injured, 20 rescued in nightlong gun battle

    08/29/2003 10:38:13 AM PDT · by swarthyguy · 5 replies · 544+ views
    DailyExcelsior ^ | 8.29.03 | Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
    SRINAGAR, Aug 28: Prominent counter-insurgent and National Conference (NC) leader, Javed Hussain Shah, his personal security officer (PSO) and a guest have been selectively gunned down by militants who created a major media scene on occasion of the presence of the Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and the Union Home Minister L K Advani in this capital city overnight. Even as security forces managed to kill a militant, a total of 11 people, including DIG BSF Desraj, have sustained splinter injuries and gunshot wounds in the fierce armed clash. Guns roared and blasts occurred for the whole night even as...
  • Oops! Delhi stripping down to basics?

    08/29/2003 9:37:41 AM PDT · by swarthyguy · 6 replies · 536+ views
    HT Tabloid ^ | 8.29.03 | Khalid M Ansari
    While failed actor-turned-director Deepak Tijori's 'Oops!' may have done little to salvage his box office fortunes, male strippers in Delhi can barely hide their delight. According to Ali G Reza, the man whose life reportedly inspired the film, the demand for Full Monty has more than trebled since 'Oops!' was released. "Of late Delhi has become the most lucrative for male strippers, leaving Mumbai far behind", he claims. Reza says that while male striptease may be a novelty for man-on-the-street, it's been a staple at high-society dos for a long time now. "What 'Oops!' did was to bring adult entertainment...
  • Islamist Hydra ( Tashbih Sayyed

    08/21/2003 12:32:54 PM PDT · by swarthyguy · 8 replies · 413+ views
    PakToday ^ | Tashbih Sayyed
    Two more American sons died in Iraq, two more mothers lost their sons in Israel to Palestinian terrorism. 53 more Muslims were slaughtered by Wahhabis in a mosque in Quetta, Pakistan. Maher Hawash, an Intel software engineer whose detention in Oregon, USA, prompted high-profile protests about civil rights abuse, pleaded guilty to a federal charge of conspiring to help the Taliban in Afghanistan. And taking advantage of our democratic traditions, religious radicals, disguised as Islamic advocacy groups have launched a campaign of intimidation to stop President George W. Bush from going ahead with his appointment of foremost Islamic scholar Dr....
  • Kashmir - 10 killed, 58 injured - Cop, 2 civilians killed, 58 wounded blast

    08/14/2003 9:32:50 AM PDT · by swarthyguy · 4 replies · 455+ views
    DailyExcelsior ^ | 8.13.2003
    SRINAGAR, Aug 13: Two days before the Independence Day, militants have intensified their attacks on security forces. While as one Police constable and two civilians got killed and 48 others sustained splinter injuries in a major IED blast at Bandipore, seven others died and 10 more got injured in other militancy related incidents in Kashmir valley since last evening. Informed sources in north Kashmir told EXCELSIOR that a deafening explosion occurred near State Bank of India at the main market in Bandipore town today. Apparently, the IED had been planted on a bicycle. As many as 45 civilians, one Kashmiri...
  • Sixty-One Said Killed as Afghanistan Violence Erupts

    08/14/2003 9:28:46 AM PDT · by swarthyguy · 19 replies · 446+ views
    Reuters ^ | 13.8.2003 | Sayed Salahuddin
    KABUL, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Sixty-one people were killed and dozens wounded in outbreaks of violence across Afghanistan in the troubled country's bloodiest 24 hours in more than a year, officials said Wednesday. At least 25 people, most of them factional fighters, were killed after fighting erupted early Wednesday between forces of a sacked provincial official and his successor in a remote district of Uruzgan province, a cabinet minister said. Also Wednesday, at least 15 died, including a woman and children, when a suspected Taliban bomb blew apart a bus in the southern province of Helmand. Government forces said they killed...
  • Kashmir - 5 ultras eliminated - 6 soldiers killed - SAUDI CONNECTION TO FOILED NEW DELHI PLOT

    08/12/2003 10:55:18 AM PDT · by swarthyguy · 6 replies · 476+ views
    JAMMU, Aug 11: Six army soldiers and five militants including a ‘commander’ of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) outfit were killed while four jawans were injured and a militant of Hizbul Mujahideen was captured in separate incidents across the region overnight. Four army jawans and a militant were killed in a fierce encounter at village Daneka in Kalsian area in Nowshera sector of Rajouri district this afternoon, official sources said. They said the operation took place when an army team was ambushed by a big group of militants. Other militants escaped during an hour long exchange of gun fighting. Enforcement of troops has...
  • 9/11: The Pakistan Connection

    08/07/2003 2:28:15 PM PDT · by swarthyguy · 17 replies · 583+ views
    Sify ^ | Wilson John
    On July 31, 2003, John S Pistole, Deputy Assistant Director, Counter-terrorism Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation, testified before the US Senate Committee on Government Affairs on 'Terrorism Financing: Origination, Organisation and Prevention'. One of the key findings he referred to was the link between the terrorists involved in the September 11, 2001 attacks and Pakistan. Though Pistole chose not to divulge too many details of the FBI investigations, his conclusions were revealing. "A continuing investigation," said Pistole, "in coordination with the PENTTBOMB Team has traced the origin of the funding of 9/11 back to financial accounts in Pakistan where high-ranking...
  • America AFTER 9/11: None the Wiser

    08/02/2003 11:54:55 AM PDT · by swarthyguy · 14 replies · 490+ views
    SAAG ^ | 7.31.03 | B.Raman
    The US Government and many of its non-governmental experts are not any the wiser about the deficiencies in their intelligence apparatus, physical security infrastructure and policy-making towards rogue states, which led to the catastrophic terrorist strikes by Al Qaeda in US homeland, on September 11, 2001. 2. Mental blocks, which distorted their threat perceptions before 9/11, thereby enabling the jihadi terrorists based in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia to spectacularly succeed in their long-stated (at least since 1993,often openly) objective of carrying the jihad to the US homeland, have not been removed even long after 9/11. 3. Consequently, their policy-making...
  • Kashmir - Young girl shot dead, mother hurt in Surankote 9 ultras, jawan killed; Major injured

    07/30/2003 11:06:31 AM PDT · by swarthyguy · 2 replies · 217+ views
    DailyExcelsior ^ | july 28 2003
    JAMMU, July 28: Army and police today gunned down nine militants including four of them in a single operation at Mahu, Banihal in which an army Major was also seriously injured. Of nine slain ultras, five were foreign mercenaries. An army jawan also lost his life in one of the operation. In another incident, the militants gunned down a young girl and critically wounded her mother at Faisalabad, Surankote in Poonch district. Official sources said the troops of 17 Rashtriya Rifles and Banihal police carried out a search operation in hilly Mahu village in Banihal tehsil under Ramban police station’s...
  • IRAQ - Special Operations Chief Describes Vast Scope

    07/28/2003 10:18:53 AM PDT · by swarthyguy · 34 replies · 4,915+ views
    NewYorkTimes ^ | 7.28.2003 | THOM SHANKER
    MacDILL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. — Brig. Gen. Gary L. Harrell, commander of Special Operations missions for the war in Iraq, sat in an office whose interior design favors hand-tooled tomahawks and recalled the day he ordered a dozen Green Berets and a small band of Kurdish fighters to take on a division of Iraqi Army troops. It was in northern Iraq, during the hottest days of ground combat, and American commanders were improvising on a war plan that had called for the Fourth Infantry Division to attack from Turkey — an option vetoed by the government in Ankara. On...
  • Kashmir - 12 militants, 2 soldiers, 2 civilians killed 13 killed in 3 major gun battles

    07/26/2003 9:11:53 AM PDT · by swarthyguy · 8 replies · 381+ views
    DailyExcelsior ^ | July 25 2003
    SRINAGAR, July 25: At least 12 militants, two soldiers and two civilians have died in different militancy related incidents in Kashmir valley since last evening. Informed sources in north Kashmir told EXCELSIOR that troops of 12 JAK Rifles had laid an ambush near Manjoo Post at Nageena Bridge, close to LoC, in Karnah sector late last evening. After some time, a heavily armed group of infiltrating militants was noticed and challenged. Militants opened fire and made attempts to escape. However, troops directed heavy gun fire on the militants, killing five of them on spot. Five to eight militants are believed...
  • An airship that can counter cross-border terrorism

    07/17/2003 10:34:33 AM PDT · by swarthyguy · 11 replies · 370+ views
    HT/IANS ^ | 7.17.2003 | Imran Qureshi (Indo-Asian News Service)
    An American company is seeking India's cooperation in building the prototype of an airship that can combat cross-border terrorism and change the face of telecommunications and healthcare in the country. StratCom, a firm headed by Lt Gen James Abrahamson, the first director of the US "Star Wars" programme, is seeking India's partnership in the stratospheric airship project for its expertise in vehicle design, payloads and control systems. "India can demonstrate its leadership by partnering this programme. It has the right mixture of talent and the challenges it has faced," Abrahamson told a news conference in Bangalore on Thursday. Asked if...
  • CENTCOM: US Facing Guerrilla War in Iraq

    07/16/2003 1:58:01 PM PDT · by swarthyguy · 39 replies · 652+ views
    VOA ^ | 7.16.2003
    The new head of the U.S. Central Command says U.S. troops in Iraq are facing a classic guerilla war led by people loyal to ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. General John Abizaid says members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party are among those behind the almost- daily attacks on U.S.-led coalition forces. He says the attacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated. General Abizaid spoke at the Pentagon Wednesday after a wave of attacks around the Iraqi capital of Baghdad left one U.S. soldier dead and several wounded. In one incident, an Iraqi boy was killed when an assailant tossed a grenade at...
  • Giant sea specimen baffles scientists

    07/02/2003 5:24:45 PM PDT · by swarthyguy · 45 replies · 849+ views
    SANTIAGO, Chile - Fishermen found the 39-foot-long carcass of a sea creature on a beach in the south of Chile, and conservation specialists were trying to determine if it was an octopus. The creature, believed to be of the species octopus giganteus, was found near Los Muermos, 683 miles south of Santiago. The remains weigh about 13 tons. Elsa Cabrera, of the Cetacean Conservation Center, said that similar animals have been found recently in New Zealand. Cabrera, who is a specialist in submarine photography, took samples of the creature to send to Italy, France and the United States to determine...
  • 12 soldiers killed in Jammu & Kashmir suicide attack

    06/28/2003 11:59:09 AM PDT · by swarthyguy · 9 replies · 461+ views
    HT and NYT ^ | 6.28.2003
    Two militants attacked an army cantonment in Sunjwan, on the Jammu-Srinagar bypass early on Saturday, killing 12 army men and injuring seven. The two militants, who seemed to have been on a suicide mission, were shot down in the six-hour gunfight that followed the surprise attack on the camp. The Army and police believe the militants were Pakistanis. The police have sealed off entries to the cantonment. Brigadier B.S. Jind and army spokesman Lt. Col. B.S. Rathore said the militants were wearing Indian Army uniforms and were hiding in tall bushes around the camp. At about 4:30 a.m., they hurled...
  • Brajesh Mishra proposes India-Israel-America axis to combat terror

    06/27/2003 10:37:52 AM PDT · by swarthyguy · 15 replies · 663+ views
    HindustanTimes UK ^ | June2003 | Dr Bhaskar Dasgupta
    Brajesh Mishra, the Indian National Security Advisor (NSA), recently gave a speech at the annual dinner of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) in Washington, in which he proposed an informal association of democratic countries, which come together for a limited aim of combating terrorism. Needless to say, this elicited frantic and foamy reactions, with accusations of neo-colonialism, treachery, selling out, Zionism, injustice, unfairness, warmongering, toadying, machismo etc. flying about like confetti. Hold on just a cotton (non-GM??) picking second, just what DID Mishra say that was followed by such vituperation and angst? Brajesh Mishra was a guest at the annual...