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To: Box-By-The-Riviera™ who wrote (297298)	11/9/2004 10:12:23 PM
From: Michael Watkins	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 436258

Rogue sub sparks Japan sea alert There has been a military alert in Japan after an unidentified submarine was detected inside the country's territorial waters. news.bbc.co.uk [Its either Radical Islamists, or the new Kentucky Fried Submarine (tm) !]

To: Box-By-The-Riviera™ who wrote (297298)	11/10/2004 9:56:48 AM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Respond to of 436258

Iraqi PM's Cousin Kidnapped, Islamists Threaten Reuters Wednesday, November 10, 2004; 7:43 AM By Luke Baker BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen have abducted three relatives of Iraq's prime minister from outside their Baghdad home, the interim Iraqi government said on Wednesday. A hitherto unknown Islamist group threatened to kill them in 48 hours unless premier Iyad Allawi calls off the U.S.-led assault on the rebel-held city of Falluja and frees prisoners. But the government said it would not be influenced. The prime minister's 75-year-old first cousin Ghazi Allawi was seized with his wife and son as they were leaving their home in southwestern Baghdad on Tuesday evening, it said. "This is yet another criminal act by terrorists and will not thwart the determination of the government to combat terrorism," the government said in a brief statement. The kidnapping came a day after Allawi ordered a full-scale assault by U.S. and Iraqi forces on Falluja to rid the city of rebels and suspected foreign Islamist fighters. A previously unheard of group calling itself Ansar al-Jihad (Holy War Followers) claimed responsibility for the kidnappings in a statement posted on the Internet. "If the agent government does not meet our demands within 48 hours we will behead them," said the posting dated Wednesday on a site often used by Islamists. Its authenticity could not be immediately verified. A government spokesman gave no details of the circumstances of the kidnappings, but a police source said there had been a short gunbattle at the home in the Yarmouk neighborhood before the hostages were bundled into a car. "This is a close cousin -- Allawi's father and his father are brothers," government spokesman Georges Sada told Reuters. Hundreds of Iraqis have been kidnapped by criminal gangs in a wave of abductions in recent months, with wealthy individuals such as doctors and businessmen most regularly targeted. Most are freed after a ransom is paid. Scores of foreigners have also been seized, with many handed over to Islamic militant groups who have threatened to kill them if political demands are not met. More than 35 foreign hostages have been killed, several by beheading. In its statement, Ansar al-Jihad demanded the release of all Iraqi prisoners, a demand similar to those made by other militant groups. Referring to the holy month of Ramadan, it said: "With the help of God in this holy month a unit of Ansar al-Jihad kidnapped three relatives of head of the Iraqi agents, Allawi, may God burn him and slaughter him." (Additional reporting by Ghaida Ghantous in Dubai)