One Taliban leader killed, one surrenders

Painting by Gerald


Senior Taliban leader killed in Afghanistan

KABUL: British forces killed a Taliban leader, while another Taliban commander in the southern Afghanistan surrendered to the Pakistani authorities, the British Defence Ministry said on Tuesday.

Abdul Rasaq, also known as Mullah Sheikh, a Taliban leader in southern Helmand province, was killed along with three others in a missile strike north of Musa Qala on Sunday, the ministry said. Hours earlier, Mullah Rahim, said to be a senior Taliban leader in Helmand, had given himself up to the authorities in Pakistan, it said.

In an other incident, the United States-led coalition and Afghan forces killed or wounded more than 30 Taliban during fighting in the west of Afghanistan, a senior police official said on Tuesday. Fighting broke out in the Bala Boluk district of Farah province on Tuesday, Regional Police Chief Ikramuddin Yawar said. "So far more than 30 Taliban insurgents have been killed or wounded in the operation," Yawar said, adding, "The toll might be more than 30 because the operation is ongoing."

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C07%5C23%5Cstory_23-7-2008_pg7_48


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Malta and international press digest
Times of Malta - Valletta,Malta
The Times of Central Asia reports British forces in Afghanistan have killed their third senior Taliban leader in little more than three weeks. ...

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Baitullah Mehsud : DEAD?

Report: Strike targets Baitullah Mehsud's hideout in Pakistan
June 15, 2008 2:26 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

The US military may have targeted Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud in the town of Makeen in South Waziristan

http://www.longwarjournal.org/

http://snipurl.com/2j10d

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Background noise and chatter indicates they are checking for ID on Baitullah Mehsud,
at least 4 people have posed as Baitullah Mehsud. More here:

Gerald
I was in the mist of writing a post about all the chatter, and how it might relate to the Afghan threat to go into Paki, when a bot brought me the story about the Missile strike. So I rewrote the post, here it is.

Paki politicians scrambling in DC for more time, Details here: Bottom of post.
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Zawahiri Killed?

pdate:



Jawa is speculating that Zawahiri was Killed?

While we have no info and have put out feelers to all sources,
We have been picking up rumors only since our first post on this: here.
Strike 1800 gmt 060208

Our highly placed source said:"Khanadan Khan was the house owner, ran a madrassa."

We had noted back ground noise and chatter that US Military was
very busy today and last Tues, across the board Military commands
were very busy.

We have picked up NO background noise or chatter from terrorist on Z.

We think our friends at Jawa are wrong, but we hope.




Gerald
update:
Haven't heard from down range yet about the confirmed HVT identity.
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Abu Yasir al-Saudi KILLED

"Jar Allah and Hamdan were barbaric terrorists who will never again threaten innocent Iraqi civilians with their indiscriminate violence," said Beck. "Iraqi and Coalition forces will continue operations to hunt down al-Qaeda leaders and operatives, disrupting their operations and improving security across Iraq."
SOURCES: MORE:

al Qaeda media KILLED

bye bye

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Multinational Forces Iraq began to heavily target al Qaeda's media apparatus over the summer of 2007. The capture of Khalid Abdul Fatah Da'ud Mahmud al Mashadani, a senior al Qaeda in Iraq and Islamic State of Iraq leader and close associate of al Qaeda commander Abu Ayyub al Masri, was the first major blow against al Qaeda's media network. Mashadani, also known as Abu Shahed, was al Qaeda's media emir. He confirmed that Abu Omar al Baghdadi, the purported leader of the Islamic State of Iraq, is an imaginary figure created by himself and al Masri.

After Mashadani's capture, the Coalition began rolling up numerous al Qaeda media cells and operatives of al Furqan. "Since the surge began, we've uncovered eight separate al Qaeda media offices and cells, have captured or killed 24 al Qaeda propaganda cell members....

Since that briefing, several more cells have been dismantled and scores of al Qaeda media operatives have been killed or captured. During the month of November, Special Forces teams killed two media operatives and captured 44 suspected associates of the cells.

On November 12, Coalition Special Forces hunter-killer teams captured the media emir of Diyala province. In a separate operation in Samarra, the Special Forces teams "targeted an al-Qaeda media headquarters and safe house, also believed to be used by foreign terrorists." One terrorist was killed after reaching for a suicide vest, while another seven were captured. Six days later, Special Forces "captured one wanted individual and detained 10 other suspects while targeting al-Qaeda in Iraq's media network" in Baghdad and Samarra.
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archiv...l_qaeda_in.php

GERALD

All from peroid Aug. thru Nov. 2007

this day 1985 Islamic Jihad, killed William Buckley

on this day 1985 - The Shiite Muslim group Islamic Jihad announced that they had killed American hostage William Buckley. 39 yrs ago.
Later another American hostage said that he believed that Buckley had died four months earlier from torture...

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William Buckley Kidnapped in Beirut Wednesday, March 16, 1984 (Philadelphia Daily News) - A U.S. Embassy diplomat was kidnapped by gunmen in Muslim west Beirut as heavy fighting in the capital threatened a cease-fire negotiated by the nation's faction leaders meeting in Switzerland. The kidnapped diplomat was identified as William Buckley, a political officer at the embassy.

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William Buckley Executed in Beirut Friday, October 04, 1985 (UPI) -- Islamic Jihad terrorists announced the "execution" of official William Buckley. "We declare a revenge for the blood of the martyrs by announcing the execution of the death sentence for the American CIA agent in the Middle East and the head of its Lebanon station."

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American Hostage Buckley Held in Iran Tuesday, November 25, 1986 (UPI) -- William Buckley, the CIA's Beirut station chief who was kidnapped in 1984 and said to have died after prolonged torture, reportedly was secretly spirited through Syria by Iranian gunmen and delivered to Iran for interrogation. Buckley was flown by from Damascus to Tehran after his abduction.

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William Buckley Body Recovered Friday, December 27, 1991 (UPI) -- The decomposed body of CIA officer William Buckley was dumped in southern Beirut early Friday, Lebanon's chief coroner said, nearly eight years after the American was kidnapped by pro-Iranian extremists. The return of Buckley's remains closes the file on Americans taken hostage in Lebanon,

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Hostages Remembered as Heroes Monday, December 30, 1991 (AP) -- Two men who met wretched deaths at the hands of Lebanese captors arrived home today in flag-draped coffins and were honored as "American heroes" by leaders. ''Today the nation gathers into its arms two of its bravest sons . . . patriot-warriors who died trying to bring peace to a ravaged land."

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Abu Yaqub al-Masri, DEAD

This morning during a Pentagon teleconference, Army Major General Kevin Bergner trumpeted recent "successes" against insurgents and terrorists in Iraq, including last month's targeting of the man allegedly responsible for the massive August bombing that killed 400 members of the Yazidi sect. "Abu Yaqub al-Masri was killed when coalition forces conducted operations to detain him on 31 August west of Tarmiyah," Bergner said in a follow-up email.

THEY ARE NOW ON THE THIRD OR FOURTH STRING PLAYERS, less and less experienced leaders.

Ops round up

al qaeda;s YELLOW flag

al-Qaeda commander told to SHUT UP..

An al-Qaeda commander in Afghanistan has been ordered to break off contacts with colleagues after being linked to a string of arrests in Saudi Arabia.

Militant Islamic forums have been carrying a message appealing to Abu Nasser al-Qahtani to cease making direct contact with people in Saudi Arabia and blaming him for the arrest of 23 people there.

The message says: "The brothers are asking you not to contact anyone in person, but do it through others instead, the leader does not make calls in person. With every call a brother is detained and God help us."

Al-Qahtani was one of 16 al-Qaeda suspects who escaped from US detention at Bagram Airbase in July last year.

He is now leading attacks against US troops in the Khost area and has featured in two recent official al-Qaeda videos.

Neil Doyle

http://www.neildoyle.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=451


http://tinyurl.com/2scem4

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Letter form Osamma???
Doubt it, how would he know?

The brother and successor of slain Taliban commander Mullah Dadullah said in a television interview that he received a letter from al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden expressing condolences for his brother's death.

Dadullah Mansoor told Arab satellite channel Al-Jazeera that bin Laden sent him a letter after his brother, Mullah
Dadullah, the former top Taliban field commander, was killed in southern Afghanistan last month.

«He is alive, active and well,» Mansoor said of bin Laden. «He preferred to stay away, and we preferred that, because he should stay in hiding and give instructions.

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Syria backing Fath Al-Islam militants: to avoid investigation.

The Lebanese government and the March 14 forces are accusing Syria of training and arming the Fath Al-Islam militants, and of bringing them into Lebanon. They are claiming that Syria ordered the organization to launch a large-scale attack on the Lebanese army at this point in time so as to prevent the U.N. Security Council from approving the establishment of an international tribunal for the Al-Hariri assassination.

Furthermore, the March 14 Forces link Fath Al-Islam's attack on the Lebanese army to the threats made recently by Syrian President Bashar Assad, which were reported by numerous media outlets. According to the reports, Assad threatened, in a conversation with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, to set fire to the region "from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean"; another time, he threatened that civil war would break out in Lebanon if the tribunal was approved.

http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=IA36207



http://tinyurl.com/2urc56

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$10,000,000 reward paid, for info on al qaeda group,


JOLO, Philippines (AFP) - The US government Thursday handed over part of a reward of 10 million dollars to four men whose information led to the deaths of the two top leaders of the al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf group


http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070607/pl_afp/philippinesusattacks;_ylt=A0SOwmLACmhGAUgAQQRvaA8F


http://tinyurl.com/2eqgvp

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Iran shipping C4 to Taliban:

NATO officials say they have caught Iran red-handed, shipping heavy arms, C4 explosives and advanced roadside bombs to the Taliban for use against NATO forces, in what the officials say is a dramatic escalation of Iran's proxy war against the United States and Great Britain.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/06/document_iran_c.html



http://tinyurl.com/ywfg8a

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Woman reporter shot 7 times/killed, 10 mo. baby next to her.

KABUL, Afghanistan, June 6 — An Afghan journalist was shot dead by unknown gunmen in her home north of Kabul on Tuesday night as she slept beside her 10-month-old baby, Afghan officials said Wednesday.

The journalist, Zakia Zaki, 38, was the director of a private local radio station in Jabal-us-Siraj, an hour’s drive north of the capital, Kabul. She was shot seven times, said Abdul Jabar Taqwa, the governor of Parwan Province. The baby survived.

Ms. Zaki, the mother of six children, had been receiving threats for the last few months demanding that she take the station off the air, Mr. Taqwa said. The nature of the threats was unclear, but she had been involved in women’s rights advocacy and political activity.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/07/world/asia/07afghan.html?ref=world

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Israel wants nuclear deadline for Iran


Israel will propose to the United States an end-of-year deadline for Iran to show it is backing down from its nuclear ambitions.

Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz, who heads the Israeli team in the U.S.-Israel strategic dialogue, said he would propose the deadline Thursday, when the dialogue participants meet for the second time this year.

"Sanctions must be strong enough to bring about change in the Iranians by the end of 2007," Mofaz told a group of Hebrew-speaking reporters after meeting Wednesday with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Mofaz also said that it was his understanding that the United States was prepared to lead a separate bid to increase sanctions against Iran if the U.N. Security Council does not authorize new sanctions.

http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/102287.html


http://tinyurl.com/2ce37c

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Al-Qaeda spark for an Iran-US fire
By Gareth Porter

WASHINGTON - After revelations of a US administration policy to hold Iran responsible for any al-Qaeda attack on the United States that could be portrayed as planned on Iranian soil, former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski warned last week that Washington might use such an incident as a pretext to bomb Iran.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IF07Ak04.html

http://tinyurl.com/2yms8l