Archive for November 8th, 2006
Hamas to Muslims: Attack US targets
Straight from the Jerusalem Post: “Signaling a change in tactics, Hamas’ military wing on Wednesday called on Muslims around the world to attack American targets after an apparent misfiring of an IDF artillery shell in the Gaza Strip. “America is offering political, financial and logistic cover for the Zionist occupation crimes, and it is responsible for the Beit Hanoun massacre. Therefore, the people and the nation all over the globe are required to teach the American enemy tough lessons,” Hamas said in a statement sent to The Associated Press.”
Israeli police imposes nationwide high terror alert after Hamas’ Khaled Meshaal orders “deeds not words” in response to Beit Hanoun deaths
Straight from the DebkaFile: “The “hudna” (informal truce) ended at the end of 2005, “ said the hardline Hamas leader in Damascus. “The armed struggle is free to resume, as dictated by local conditions.” Hamas PM Ismail Haniyeh said suicide attacks would resume and Palestinian unity talks were suspended.
OC Southern Command Maj.-Gen. Yoav Gallant: The artillery salvo which killed 19 Palestinian civilians in Beit Hanoun Wednesday followed an intelligence report that Palestinian missile launchers were on the point of attacking Ashkelon for the second day in a row. Gaza’s Palestinians kept up their daily Qassam attacks on Israeli civilian locations Wednesday. One of the day’s 10 missiles landed near a children’s home in Kibbutz Kfar Aza. Another exploded near a bank in central Sderot.
Defense minister Amir Peretz has ordered IDF artillery fire on Gaza halted and the Beit Hanoun episode investigated.
A Palestinian protester in a violent demonstration in Hebron was mortally wounded in the head by IDF fire. Unrest has spread across the West Bank as well as Gaza.
EU commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner said so many civilian deaths in Gaza, including many children, is profoundly shocking. European and Arab leaders have added their voices to her condemnation of Israel.”
US 2nd Brigade Combat Team Dep. Commander Lt. Col Eric Kruger was killed in Iraq three weeks after his unit left Fort Carson base in Colorado
Straight from the DebkaFile: “No details on the circumstances. Early Wednesday, US forces killed 10 foreign al Qaeda operatives near Muqdadiya, northeast of Baghdad and rescued a kidnapped Iraqi policeman. Tuesday, American soldiers raided an al Qaeda meeting place in Ramadi, killing 4 insurgents and detaining 48.
Tuesday night, a suicide bomber killed 21 Shiites at a coffee house in northern Baghdad.
Earlier, the death of a British soldier was confirmed at his base in Basra Monday.
On Wednesday, Saddam Hussein’s trial was adjourned until Nov. 27. He and his seven co-defendants were in court Tuesday for their second trial, charged with committing genocide against the Kurdish people. In a grandstand gesture, the former dictator called on the Iraqi people to reconcile, forgive and shake hands. Saddam and two of his aides were sentenced to death by hanging for crimes against humanity victimizing the Shiites of Dujail village in 1982. The appeal process will delay execution for some months.”
Microsoft buying $240 million worth of SUSE Linux
Straight from Ars Technica: “The agreement between Novell and Microsoft is actually three agreements, and one of them will see Microsoft buying $240 million of SUSE Linux certificates. New details about the deal surfaced yesterday in a Novell filing with the SEC, where the company spelled out the financial arrangements in detail.The two companies have actually signed three separate agreements: a Business Collaboration Agreement, a Technical Collaboration Agreement, and a Patent Cooperation Agreement. All three deals are designed to make virtualization simpler, something we suspected when the announcement was first made. The agreement on technical collaboration requires both companies to make sure that their respective operating systems run well as guest systems, and both have agreed to make it easy for each operating system to “command, control, and configure” the other OS in a virtual machine environment. The two firms will also work on interoperability between the ODF and Office Open XML file formats.
Interesting, to be sure, but what about the money? The Business Collaboration Agreement is the one that will have Microsoft buying $240 million of SUSE subscription certificates, which the company can distribute as it sees fit. Microsoft will also spend the least $12 million a year marketing the Windows/Linux combination and will pump $34 million into developing a sales force for the combined offering.”
New Samsung lappie redefines portable computer
Straight from SciFi.com: “Think your cute little MacBook is a small computer? Please. That thing is a regular behemoth compared to Samsung’s new SPH-P9000, a super-slim foldable laptop that looks like a fancy PDA. Featuring Windows XP, a 1GHz processor, 30GB of hard disk space, and 256MB of RAM, it’s not going to impress anyone playing Half Life 2, but that’s a lot crammed into a tiny package. The laptop folds itself out into its full form with a 5-inch screen and foldable keyboard that reimagines how a laptop should look. Rounding out the package is built-in WiMAX and EVDO and even an iSight-esque 1.3-megapixel camera. Not that this should come as any surprise, but sadly this sweet looking computer is coming straight to Korea and nowhere else for the time being.”
