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* Taliban target shrine sacred to Pashtuns

U.S. drops “enemy combatant” term; only individuals offering al-Qaeda “substantial” aid can be detained

Not to worry, however: “The new construct clearly allows for the continued detention of admitted 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and a handful of his acknowledged al Qaeda operatives.” As for the rest of the 240 detainees, sounds like they can now go back home and finish their jihadi training in the terrorist camps where they were first rounded up.

“U.S. reverses policy, drops ‘enemy combatant’ term,” by Terry Frieden for CNN, H/T JW

* We have no enemies. All we need to do is address their grievances, and everything will be alright…

Continue reading That will make them like us: lets drop the "enemy combatant" term, because dropping the "War on Terror" worked so well…

From Atlas:

There was a Pied Piper who said We live in the greatest country in the world. Help me change it!

*And the people said, Change is good!

Then he said, We are going to tax the rich fat-cats,

*And the people said, “Sock it to them!”

and redistribute their wealth.

*And the people said, “Show me the money!”

And then he said, Redistribution of wealth is good for everybody

*And Joe the plumber said, “Are you kidding me?”

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Caught on camera: The moment a suicide bomber blew himself up at a Sri Lankan mosque, killing 14

Daily Mail/H/T ZIP

This astonishing sequence of pictures shows the moment a suicide bomber blew himself up behind a crowd of people at a Sri Lankan mosque.

Fourteen people died in the blast.

While fighting rages in the north, the suicide attacker struck in the southern town of Akuressa as six ministers led a procession toward a mosque for a ceremony to commemorate the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday.

Television footage showed men in white robes and caps slowly parading down the street before the blast sent them running in all directions. 

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Afterward, charred bodies lay scattered among their torn clothes and severed limbs just outside the mosque compound’s gates.

‘I heard a huge sound, and then I saw people had fallen everywhere. They were covered with blood and flesh, and the wounded people were screaming,’ Ahamed Nafri, 29, said by telephone from the hospital in the nearby town of Matara.

Police and bystanders hauled the badly bleeding Minister of Posts and Telecommunications Mahinda Wijesekara into a van. He was later flown to the capital for treatment to a head wound.

Dr. Hector Weerasinghe, director of Colombo National Hospital, said the minister underwent three hours of surgery and was still in serious condition late yesterday.

The government said the attack killed 14 people and wounded 45 more.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s office said selecting a mosque on an Islamic festival for the attack showed the rebels’ ‘hatred’ of Muslims and strengthened the government’s resolve to defeat them.

The government blamed Tamil Tiger separatists for the blast, which wounded 45 other people.

Officials claimed the rebels had grown desperate in the face of an army offensive that has driven them close to defeat after more than 25 years of civil war.

If the assault was carried out by the Tigers, it shows that the guerrillas can still launch strikes far from their traditional strongholds in the north and east even as they face battlefield defeat.

As the military has pushed the rebels into an ever-shrinking sliver of territory in the north, human rights and aid groups have voiced concern for the fate of the tens of thousands of civilians trapped in the pocket. 

Heavy artillery attacks yesterday killed at least 49 ethnic Tamil civilians and wounded hundreds of others, the top government health official in the war zone said.

There was no indication Muslims were specifically targeted yesterday. 

However, the Tamil Tigers used violence to drive many Muslims and ethnic Sinhalese, who are mainly Buddhist, from areas dominated by Tamils, who are mostly Hindu.

In one of the bloodiest incidents, suspected rebels attacked a mosque in an eastern town in 1990 with guns, grenades and machetes, killing 140 worshippers.

Muslims, many of them descendants of Arab or Indian traders, make up about 7 per cent of Sri Lanka’s population. Many speak Tamil but the community has largely stayed out of the war.

With most communication to the north severed, rebel spokesmen could not be reached for comment.

The Tamil Tigers have fought since 1983 for an independent state for the Tamil minority, which suffered decades of marginalization at the hands of governments dominated by the Sinhalese majority. 

More than 70,000 people have been killed.

* Lets not mention Islam or Muslims, that could make them so angry they might resort to terrorism to defend their religion; can’t have that!

Dutch authorities foil terrorist attack planned by, uh, people

Who was going to do this? People. Men. Well, six men and one woman. Suspects. A person. Uh, Dutch people of Moroccan ancestry, and, er, one of them was a relative of one of the 2004 Madrid jihad attackers.

Hmmmm. What could have been motivating these people, these men, these suspects, these Dutch nationals of Moroccan ancestry? Could it be…the doctrines of Islamic jihad and supremacism?

What are you, some kind of Islamophobe?

“Dutch police arrest 7 suspected of planning attack,” by Toby Sterling for Associated Press, H/T JW