Government Troops advance on Red Mosque Pakistani troops moved in on the Red Mosque complex early Friday morning, engaging in fierce gun battles with the remaining militants within On Thursday, the standoff between the militants within and the Pakistani government had continued. About 50 of the several hundred remaining hold-outs had surrendered, and the leader, […]
Iraqi Parliament Fails To Reach Quorum
Buyukanit Implies US Soft on Terrorism Major engagement near Baquba kills Dozens Iraqi Parliament fails to Reach Quorum Al-Hayat reports in Arabic that the Iraqi parliament was unable to reach a quorum on Wednesday. As a result, it postponed discussion of pending legislation, including bills on petroleum, on the distribution of petroleum receipts, and on […]
Pakistani Radical Cleric Captured From
Red Mosque Leader Arrested in Burqa Dawn reports, ‘ Maulana Aziz was caught after a group of 50 burqa-clad women from the mosque started screaming as they were taken to a nearby school for security checks after giving themselves up, saying the procedure was un-Islamic. “Our officers spotted his (Aziz’s) unusual demeanour. The rest of […]
Massive Street Battle In Pakistans
Massive Street Battle in Pakistan’s Capital Army versus Muslim Militants Dawn reports on the fierce fighting in the streets of Islamabad between radical fundamentalists and the army loyal to secular general Pervez Musharraf, which left 21 dead (including one soldier) and 150 injured. The government’s Interior Minister had recently warned of the spread of Taliban-type […]
Al Maliki Plans Overhaul Of His
Al-Maliki plans Overhaul of his Government 18 Dead in Bombing of Shiite Market Aljazeera Arabic is showing clips of a speech by PM Nuri al-Maliki of Iraq in which he is promising a radical set of changes in his government, so as to make it less ‘sectarian.’ Al-Sharq al-Awsat writing in Arabic says that the […]
Libby Was Small Fish Bush Really
Libby was the Small Fish Bush really Commuted the Sentences of Rove and Cheney George H. W. Bush called those who leak the names of CIA operatives “the most insidious of traitors.” In his son’s administration, CIA covert operative Valerie Plame’s name was leaked to the press to punish her husband, Ambassador Joseph Wilson IV, […]
6 Us Soldiers Were Announced Killed On
US Air Raid on Diwaniya Allegedly Kills 10 Civilians 6 US Troops Killed Iran Denies US Charges of Covert Ops in Iraq 6 US soldiers were announced killed on Monday in Iraq. They were all killed in Sunni Arab areas. Militiamen in the southern Shiite city of Diwaniya, probably tied to the Mahdi Army, launched […]
Jordanian Iraqi Physicians Behind Uk
Jordanian & Iraqi Physicians behind UK Bombing A cell made up of 7 medical personnel from Jordan and Iraq appears to have been behind the attempted bombing at Picadilly Circus on Friday and the actual car bombing at the Glasgow airport this weekend. One is a neurologist, Muhammad Asha, from Jordan. Another is an Iraqi […]
Afghan Civilian Deaths_02
Afghanistan’s president, Hamid Karzai, called Sunday for a formal investigation into reports that a US/NATO air strike on Taliban positions in a village last Friday killed 45 civilians. Karzai and NATO have decried the Taliban tactic of hiding among civilian villagers, but the mounting death toll this year of Afghan civilians being killed in NATO […]
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