Month: August 2006

Iranian IED Factories

British Government scientists have already established that the mines are precision-made weapons thought to have been turned on a lathe by craftsmen trained in the manufacture of munitions

The London Telegraph details the Iranian manufactured IED’s being used to kill civilians wirq20b.jpgby the thousands, and occasionally British and American troops, including one of ours today. There’s no Adnan Hajj snapping the photos in the marketplaces of Iraq, no Green Helmet Guy holding up the dead Iraqi children that Iran is creating, so folks aren’t paying much attention.

I blogged this back in July, here, but then not many folks stop by here. Now that the Iranians are mass manufacturering them, and now that they are precision honed as well as factory assembled, we have to come up with a new name, for these are not “improvised”.

Excerpt from the London Telegraph story:

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The Police Blotter of Terror

As well as the bomb making equipment, we have found more than 400 computers, 200 mobile telephones and 8,000 items of removable storage media such as memory sticks, CDs and DVDs. So far, from the computers alone, we have removed some 6,000 gigabytes of data

The British have now released as full details as we will see for a while for the Heathrow Airline terrorist arrests. It looks like a very comprehensive set of evidence, as well as a goldmine of data for investigations into other terrorist groups. Below is verbatim and complete from the MPS site, bolding is mine:

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Potential Bin Laden Sighting: Upgraded again

Potentially a Bin-Laden sighting from India, this could be more credible than some past false sightings just due to the pressure being exerted both sides of the Kashmir and in Afghanistan on Terror groups right now.

Update: We have this report, that I had forgotten about from the hectic pace at work (you really would not want to be me right now.) So I am upgrading this again. From ADN Kronos in July, which matches aproximate timeframe of the Hindustani times article:

Islamabad, 21 July (AKI) – The Pakistani authorities on Thursday ordered the evacuation of a northern area of the country, near the border with China, of tourists and foreigners after receiving intelligence reports of the possible presence of Osama bin Laden in the area. According to Arab daily al-Hayat, the presence of the al-Qaeda leader was reported in the extreme north of Pakistan in an area that borders China and Afghanistan. For this reason hundreds of tourists – most of them European – were made to leave the Chalinji Pass and the Wakhan corridor and the security forces closed all access to the area.

The intelligence reports that had reached Islamabad indicated that bin Laden and his deputy Egyptian doctor Ayman al-Zawahiri – along with other leading figures of the al-Qaeda terror network – had decided to use the area bordering China as a secure refuge as it is not controlled by the US military.

Al-Hayat says the reports were confirmed by Western embassy sources in Islamabad, who indicated that the choice of sticking near the China border was because US military bombers would not attack that area for fear of hitting China.
 

UPDATE:   The page has been taken down at Hindustan times, the link to this page is still up at Counter Terrorism Blog as well. I am going to have to consider this a false report from Hindustan Times, with a strange method of retraction. I’m going to have to start getting semi-professional and take screenies of my page links from now on.

Potentially a Bin-Laden sighting from India, this could be more credible than some past false sightings just due to the pressure being exerted both sides of the Kashmir and in Afghanistan on Terror groups right now. There are also a couple of Special Task forces in the area from the US, and they have disappeared from the map and the news. Let’s hope they are up to something real good.

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India Rediscovers Patriotism

the government has declared that children in schools will sing the first two stanzas of Vande Mataram, the song that was on everyone’s lips as they won their independence from Britain. It’s not the official National Anthem however, since the Islamists in the country object to it and have issued Fatwas against its singing

However, in India it’s the motherland, so it’s really Matriotism. To celebrate centenary adoption of the National Song, the government has declared that children in schools will sing the first two stanzas of Vande Mataram, the song that was on everyone’s lips as they won their independence from Britain. It’s not the official National Anthem however, since the Islamists in the country object to it and have issued Fatwas against its singing.

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Bill Gates Foundation Buys Fairbanks Daily News Miner

Seeing the banner again reminds me of happier times and stories, like the time the Mayor’s portrait got stolen, and some people who shall remain unamed taped together a hostage note for ransom and signed it “The Fairbanks Liberation Front”. This was during the time of the Patty Hearst kidnapping, and back then Islamofascist terrorists were still a considered a joke

Well, sorta. Sorry I couldn’t resist the headline since the Fairbanks Daily News Miner was my home town paper growing up. We sometimes called it the Daily News Minus, but let’s face it there’s not much to report in a small town that far North.

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Snipers Attack Shia Pilgrimage in Baghdad, Weapons Cache discovered

During the pilgrimage snipers attempted to disrupt by sniping from rooftops but were quickly subdued by Iraqi and US forces. 20 were killed, and 300 were injured but that’s better than last year when mere rumor of a bomb caused a stampede that killed almost 1,000 pilgrims.

US Forces also captured a large weapons cache of mortars, rifles, and rpg’s found in a warehouse. Video from Reuters.

Nepal is Still Teetering on the Brink

It is not easy to draft even an interim constitution, as the experience that Iraq just went through to get to a real government shows, however in Nepal the committees are taking much too long. Every delay creates time and over time the Maoist thugs will win. Remember the promise that Prachandra made of an “October Revolution”. The communists/ Maoists of Prachandra are killing still, and anyone who steps forward to lead is being murdered.

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Blow of Zolfaghar aka Zarbat Zolfegar

The Iranian “war-games” appear to be a crackdown on ethnic Kurds disguised as a military excercise

The spin from IRIB, Iranian Republic Radio: 

I.R. of Iran’s Army launched massive wargames Saturday over a large swathe of the country. Code-named Zarbat Zolfeqar (Stroke of Zolfeqar, the name of Imam Ali’s sword), the wargames began with fighter planes carrying out air sweep operation with troops commissioned to disrupt the movement of the hypotheical enemy.

Also the Airforce delivered heliborne operations to parachutists of the Army’s ground force by Chinook and 214 choppers and quick reaction units and elite forces simulated modern battle conditions.

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Iranian Mullahs Try to Stop Information

Silly Mullahs, information can’t be stopped as long as people can speak and read. Oh, that’s right, most of your people don’t read, and that’s they way you like it, I wonder why?

Silly Mullahs, information can’t be stopped as long as people can speak and read. Oh, that’s right, most of your people don’t read, and that’s the way you like it, I wonder why?

See Gateway Pundit for an update on satellite dish destruction, blog and internet filtering. They are likely trying to stop information like this from getting in.

The Seduction of Gunter

A week has passed or more, and you can see the rehabilitation efforts continue, but once you’ve been a nazi, you’re a nazi. Just like once you’ve been a terrorist, you are a terrorist. Here you see more on how Gunter was victimized and seduced by Nazi propaganda

A week has passed or more since Gunter Grasses’ original admission, and you can see the rehabilitation efforts continue. However once you’ve been a nazi, you’re a nazi forever. Just like once you’ve been a terrorist, you are a terrorist forever. Here you see more on how poor Gunter was victimized and seduced by Nazi propaganda, as per the UK times online article:

In the memoirs, Grass writes of the pull of Nazi propaganda, telling how when he was assigned to the 10th SS Panzer Division Frundsberg he found “nothing offensive” about the prospect. He says he viewed, Joerg von Frundsberg, who the division was named after, as someone who had fought for “freedom and liberation,” in the 16th century.

“So, enough excuses,” he writes in the book which will be on shelves September 1. “And yet I refused for years to admit to myself the word and the double letters.

“That which I accepted with the dumb pride of my young years, I kept silent about after the war out of growing shame.”

Of course this is just opportuni$tic true confe$$ional time, maybe he needed more money or notice in his retirement, who knows.

Past articles on this subject.