02-18-2007, 04:35 AM
Two news reports.
1) http://au.news.yahoo.com/070217/23/12gdy.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Prince Harry to serve in Iraq: report</b>
By 7News
Britain's Prince Harry will reportedly be serving in Iraq by the end of the month.
A senior military source told London's Daily Mirror that Prince Harry, 22, a second lieutenant in the Blues and Royals Regiment would probably be joining reconnaissance missions near the Iran border.
"The final details are being sorted, but he is definitely going. Naturally, his royal status has to be taken into account - but he will see action,'' the source was quoted as saying.
The newspaper said Harry is likely to be in charge of a troop of 12 soldiers in light armoured vehicles who will likely spend days or even weeks out in the desert conducting reconnaissance missions.
(News is foolish to make this public beforehand. They should have let him go secretly, and when he's back the army can talk about it/show pictures for proof of his having fought in the same war on terrorism as the British army.)
It added that Defence Secretary Des Browne is expected to announce the news on February 26.
But a Ministry of Defence spokesperson said the newspaper's report was entirely speculative and no final decisions have been made on which units will relieve the 19th Light Brigade currently in Iraq.
She added the next handover of troops is also not expected until around May.
A spokeswoman for Clarence House insists no final decision has been made on whether Prince Charles' second son will be sent to the Middle East and the Royal Family is still waiting to hear.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Also, now the royal family will be seen as an active body in the war in Iraq, rather than a passive one that allowed for it to happen.
2. The theatre of the battle of Faithfuls competing for allah's truth expands:
http://au.news.yahoo.com/070216/2/12gbq.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Bomb explodes in southeast Iran</b>
Police and insurgents have clashed after a bombing in southeastern Iran near the site where an explosion killed 11 members of the elite Revolutionary Guards this week.
"Minutes ago, the sound of a bomb explosion was heard in one of Zahedan's streets," the state-run news agency IRNA said on Friday.
The semiofficial Fars news agency said clashes broke out between Iranian police and armed insurgents after the explosion.
Fars quoted the governor of Zahedan, Hasan Ali Nouri, as saying the blast was a "sound bomb explosion"- a device that creates a loud boom but that usually does not cause casualties.
Nouri said there was gunfire heard but that it was late at night and that police had cordoned off the area.
On Wednesday, a car bomb blew up a bus carrying Revolutionary Guards, killing 11, in Zahedan, capital of Sistan-Baluchestan province, which sits on the border with Pakistan.
A Sunni Muslim militant group called Jundallah, or God's Brigade, which has been blamed for past attacks on Iranian troops, has claimed responsibility for the Wednesday bombing.
Iran has accused the United States of backing militants to destabilise the country. Tensions between Tehran and Washington are growing over allegations of Iranian involvement in attacks on US troops in Iraq, and over Iran's nuclear activities.
Fars said Friday's explosion was at a school in Zahedan.
"The insurgents began shooting at people after the explosion. Clashes are continuing between police and the armed insurgents. Police have cordoned off the area," the Fars agency said.
IRNA quoted an unnamed "responsible official" late Friday as saying that one of those arrested on charges of involvement in Wednesday's bombing, identified as Nasrollah Shanbe Zehi, has confessed that the attacks were part of alleged US plans to provoke ethnic and religious violence in Iran.
The confessions by Zehi helped police detain an unspecified number of Jundallah members and confiscate weapons and documents from the group in a raid Thursday in Zahedan, IRNA also said.
A majority of Iran's population are Shi'ite Muslims but minority Sunnis live in southeastern Iran.
Friday's blast came just hours after the funeral of the 11 Revolutionary Guardsmen in the capital.
Iran's state-run television showed footage of Zahedan residents marching in the streets with the coffins of the killed Guardsmen. The crowd chanted, "death to hypocrites," in a reference to the insurgents.
The blasts are a sharp flare-up of violence, but the remote southeast corner of Iran, near Pakistan and Afghanistan, has long been plagued by lawlessness. The area is a key crossing point for opium from Afghanistan and often sees clashes between police and drug gangs.
Jundallah, which is believed by some to have links to al-Qaeda, has waged a low-level insurgency in the area and is led by Abdulmalak Rigi, a member of Iran's ethnic Baluchi minority, a community that is Sunni Muslim and also can be found in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Rigi has said his group is fighting for the rights of impoverished Sunnis under Iran's Shi'ite government.
Fars said that Rigi appeared on a station run by an opposition group known as the People's Mujahedeen, which is based in Iraq, minutes before Friday's explosion. The People's Mujahedeen has long sought to overthrow the Iranian government by force.
Iranian officials have often raised concerns that Washington could incite members of Iran's many ethnic and religious minorities against the Shi'ite-led government in Tehran.
Iran has faced several ethnic and religious insurgencies that have carried out occasionally deadly attacks in recent years - though none have amounted to a serious threat to the government.
In December, Jundallah claimed responsibility for kidnapping seven Iranian soldiers in the Zahedan region, threatening to kill them unless group members were freed from Iranian prisons. The seven were released a month later, apparently after negotiations through tribal mediators.
In March 2006, gunmen dressed as security forces killed 21 people on a highway outside Zahedan in an attack authorities blamed on "rebels," though Jundallah was never specifically named.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Almost certain this is a backlash for Iranian infiltration of Shi'ite reserve militants into Iraq.
The beginnings of this in Iran means that this might in time even engulf India. Christoislam's gift to the world: unrelenting war, death and misery.
1) http://au.news.yahoo.com/070217/23/12gdy.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Prince Harry to serve in Iraq: report</b>
By 7News
Britain's Prince Harry will reportedly be serving in Iraq by the end of the month.
A senior military source told London's Daily Mirror that Prince Harry, 22, a second lieutenant in the Blues and Royals Regiment would probably be joining reconnaissance missions near the Iran border.
"The final details are being sorted, but he is definitely going. Naturally, his royal status has to be taken into account - but he will see action,'' the source was quoted as saying.
The newspaper said Harry is likely to be in charge of a troop of 12 soldiers in light armoured vehicles who will likely spend days or even weeks out in the desert conducting reconnaissance missions.
(News is foolish to make this public beforehand. They should have let him go secretly, and when he's back the army can talk about it/show pictures for proof of his having fought in the same war on terrorism as the British army.)
It added that Defence Secretary Des Browne is expected to announce the news on February 26.
But a Ministry of Defence spokesperson said the newspaper's report was entirely speculative and no final decisions have been made on which units will relieve the 19th Light Brigade currently in Iraq.
She added the next handover of troops is also not expected until around May.
A spokeswoman for Clarence House insists no final decision has been made on whether Prince Charles' second son will be sent to the Middle East and the Royal Family is still waiting to hear.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Also, now the royal family will be seen as an active body in the war in Iraq, rather than a passive one that allowed for it to happen.
2. The theatre of the battle of Faithfuls competing for allah's truth expands:
http://au.news.yahoo.com/070216/2/12gbq.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Bomb explodes in southeast Iran</b>
Police and insurgents have clashed after a bombing in southeastern Iran near the site where an explosion killed 11 members of the elite Revolutionary Guards this week.
"Minutes ago, the sound of a bomb explosion was heard in one of Zahedan's streets," the state-run news agency IRNA said on Friday.
The semiofficial Fars news agency said clashes broke out between Iranian police and armed insurgents after the explosion.
Fars quoted the governor of Zahedan, Hasan Ali Nouri, as saying the blast was a "sound bomb explosion"- a device that creates a loud boom but that usually does not cause casualties.
Nouri said there was gunfire heard but that it was late at night and that police had cordoned off the area.
On Wednesday, a car bomb blew up a bus carrying Revolutionary Guards, killing 11, in Zahedan, capital of Sistan-Baluchestan province, which sits on the border with Pakistan.
A Sunni Muslim militant group called Jundallah, or God's Brigade, which has been blamed for past attacks on Iranian troops, has claimed responsibility for the Wednesday bombing.
Iran has accused the United States of backing militants to destabilise the country. Tensions between Tehran and Washington are growing over allegations of Iranian involvement in attacks on US troops in Iraq, and over Iran's nuclear activities.
Fars said Friday's explosion was at a school in Zahedan.
"The insurgents began shooting at people after the explosion. Clashes are continuing between police and the armed insurgents. Police have cordoned off the area," the Fars agency said.
IRNA quoted an unnamed "responsible official" late Friday as saying that one of those arrested on charges of involvement in Wednesday's bombing, identified as Nasrollah Shanbe Zehi, has confessed that the attacks were part of alleged US plans to provoke ethnic and religious violence in Iran.
The confessions by Zehi helped police detain an unspecified number of Jundallah members and confiscate weapons and documents from the group in a raid Thursday in Zahedan, IRNA also said.
A majority of Iran's population are Shi'ite Muslims but minority Sunnis live in southeastern Iran.
Friday's blast came just hours after the funeral of the 11 Revolutionary Guardsmen in the capital.
Iran's state-run television showed footage of Zahedan residents marching in the streets with the coffins of the killed Guardsmen. The crowd chanted, "death to hypocrites," in a reference to the insurgents.
The blasts are a sharp flare-up of violence, but the remote southeast corner of Iran, near Pakistan and Afghanistan, has long been plagued by lawlessness. The area is a key crossing point for opium from Afghanistan and often sees clashes between police and drug gangs.
Jundallah, which is believed by some to have links to al-Qaeda, has waged a low-level insurgency in the area and is led by Abdulmalak Rigi, a member of Iran's ethnic Baluchi minority, a community that is Sunni Muslim and also can be found in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Rigi has said his group is fighting for the rights of impoverished Sunnis under Iran's Shi'ite government.
Fars said that Rigi appeared on a station run by an opposition group known as the People's Mujahedeen, which is based in Iraq, minutes before Friday's explosion. The People's Mujahedeen has long sought to overthrow the Iranian government by force.
Iranian officials have often raised concerns that Washington could incite members of Iran's many ethnic and religious minorities against the Shi'ite-led government in Tehran.
Iran has faced several ethnic and religious insurgencies that have carried out occasionally deadly attacks in recent years - though none have amounted to a serious threat to the government.
In December, Jundallah claimed responsibility for kidnapping seven Iranian soldiers in the Zahedan region, threatening to kill them unless group members were freed from Iranian prisons. The seven were released a month later, apparently after negotiations through tribal mediators.
In March 2006, gunmen dressed as security forces killed 21 people on a highway outside Zahedan in an attack authorities blamed on "rebels," though Jundallah was never specifically named.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Almost certain this is a backlash for Iranian infiltration of Shi'ite reserve militants into Iraq.
The beginnings of this in Iran means that this might in time even engulf India. Christoislam's gift to the world: unrelenting war, death and misery.