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PESHAWAR, Pakistan – The government agreed to impose Islamic law and suspend a military offensive across much of northwest Pakistan on Monday in concessions aimed at pacifying the Taliban insurgency spreading from the border region to the country's interior.Hey, it works with pirates, right? I mean, paying ransoms has all but eliminated piracy near Somalia, hasn't it? Right? Hello?
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"Our whole struggle is for the enforcement of Shariah (Islamic) law," Swat Taliban spokesman Muslim Khan said. "If this really brings us the implementation of Shariah, we will fully cooperate with it."
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...the main changes were included in existing laws stipulating Islamic justice that have never been enforced. They allow for Muslim clerics to advise judges when hearing cases, but do not ban female education or mention other strict interpretations of Shariah espoused by the Taliban in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Labels: GWOT, Pakistan, Religion of Peace?, Taliban, terrorism, terrorists
At Least One American Believed Killed by Freed Gitmo PrisonersRead the rest here.
If the Guantanamo prison base is shut down, critics say, some military combatants currently held there will be sent back to their home countries — where they will rejoin terrorist groups and ultimately kill Americans.
It's already happened.
A New York woman was killed in a terrorist attack at the U.S. Embassy in Sana, Yemen, in September. And U.S. counterterrorism officials have now confirmed that Said Ali al-Shihri, 35, who was released from the Guantanamo Bay prison center in 2007, is the deputy leader of Al Qaeda in that Mideast country and is a suspect in the attack.
State Department officials have identified Susan Elbaneh, 18, of Lackawanna, N.Y., as one of at least 16 people — including her Yemeni husband — who died in the coordinated strike.
Elbaneh was initially thought to be the first American victim of a freed enemy combatant, but a Defense Department source told FOXNews.com Friday that she was not the first American "possibly" killed by a former Guantanamo detainee.
"Due to classification, I cannot get into who or when other than to say it was before the Embassy attack," the source wrote....
Labels: Gitmo, GWOT, politics, terrorism, terrorists
Obama Administration Moves to Halt Guantanamo Trials
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba -- Military judges on Wednesday will consider motions by the Obama administration to suspend the Guantanamo war crimes trials for 120 days during a review of the system for prosecuting suspected terrorists.
The motions, filed late Tuesday at the direction of President Barack Obama and Defense Secretary Robert Gates, will be heard in the cases of five men charged in the Sept. 11 attacks and of Canadian Omar Khadr, who is accused of killing an American soldier with a grenade in Afghanistan in 2002.
Labels: Barack Obama, Gitmo, GWOT, politics, President Barack H. Obama, terrorism, terrorists
Photographer Detained After Filming Taliban Execution of Two Women in Afghanistan
Friday, July 18, 2008
By Ahmad Shuja
The Afghan journalist who filmed and photographed the July 12 execution of two women by the Taliban says he was detained and held for two days by authorities in Afghanistan for suspected ties to terrorists.
The footage and photographs of the executions were distributed by the Associated Press and widely circulated on the Internet, giving rise to suspicions that the photographer, Rahmatullah Naikzad, was connected with the Taliban.
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Naikzad interviewed and filmed the Taliban, who said on tape that the two women “took the pure girls and women” and “indulged them in immoral acts.”
After the interview, he said, the Taliban picked up the two burqa-clad women from a house, put them in a white Toyota Corolla and drove off to a different location.
Naikzad said he followed the Corolla on his bike, with a Taliban car following him.
About a half-hour later, he said, they stopped near Arzo village, close to the Ghazni-Paktika highway, on the outskirts of the province.
The women — one of whom appeared to be carrying a shopping bag — were then taken out of the car and told they would be executed.
Naikzad said he tried to persuade the Taliban not to carry out the executions.
“I told one of the Taliban, ‘These are women, they are harmless. Why would you want to kill them?’ But they didn’t listen to me.”
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Photos from the execution here (WARNING - GRAPHIC!)
Video from the execution here (WARNING - GRAPHIC!)
Somebody tell me why I'm supposed to feel sorry for these scumbag terrorists when they get locked in Gitmo, again?
Labels: Afghanistan, GWOT, Operation Enduring Freedom, Religion of Peace?, Taliban, terrorism, terrorists
Hezbollah Returns Bodies to Israel in Exchange for Lebanese Militants
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
NAQOURA, Lebanon — Israel freed a notorious Lebanese attacker and four others Wednesday after Hezbollah handed over two black coffins with the bodies of Israeli soldiers, a dramatic prisoner swap that closes a painful chapter from the 2006 war in Lebanon.
The five — including Samir Kantar, who had been serving multiple life terms in Israel for a grisly 1979 attack — were brought home in International Committee for the Red Cross vehicles and received a red-carpet welcome in this coastal border town.
In Israel, family and friends outside the homes of the Israeli soldiers burst into tears when TV images showed Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas taking the coffins out of a black van.
Labels: GWOT, Hezbollah, Israel, terrorism, terrorists
Labels: Al Qaeda, Gitmo, Good News, GWOT, terrorism, terrorists, USS Cole, USS The Sullivans
Guantanamo cell is better than freedom, says inmate fighting against release
Labels: Afghanistan, Gitmo, GWOT, terrorists
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Labels: GWOT, opinion, terrorism, TWA Flight 847
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