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Thusoper Tojo5736, you've obviously missed Rantburg the last few days. Go back and check out the last couple of days, and your question will be answered.
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Plesae avoid speaking of women and shower curtains. Remembers me of Hitchcock's "Psycho".
Afghan border security guards (ABSG) arrested a Canadian national on the Pak-Afghan border at Chaman, as he had illegally entered Afghan territory, Chaman police told APP on Sunday. David, who was later released, was arrested by the ABSG after they found his passport without a valid Afghan visa. He was handed over to the Pakistani police authorities at the border after investigations.
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Cops noticed the Toque....
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Thank you, Barbara. Mr. Wife studied Arabic when he traveled to that part of the world, temporary daughter wants to study Arabic when she gets to college because the school she wants doesn't have Farsi. And of course, lots of Rantburgers actually speak the language. It seems I've picked up enough to amuse. :-)
A foreign soldier, two policemen and 12 Taliban were killed in clashes in a key Afghan opium-producing area on Sunday, while three troops were hurt in a suicide blast in Kandahar city. The soldier with the United States-led coalition was killed while conducting operations in the south-western province of Farah, the force said in a statement that gave no further details. Twelve Taliban were also killed in the clashes, said police spokesman for western Afghanistan, Abdul Mutalib Rad.
Kandhar: Meanwhile, a suicide car bomb blew up near NATO troops in the southern city of Kandahar, Canadian and Afghan officials said on Sunday. Three soldiers with NATOs multinational International Security Assistance Force were wounded, ISAF spokesman Major Martin ODonnell told AFP. He did not provide the nationalities of the soldiers. One child died while two children were hurt in the blast, Afghan police said. Canadian Captain Fraser Clark confirmed the bombing was a suicide attack.
The Taliban have claimed responsibility for the suicide attack. Qari Yousef Ahmadi, a spokesman for the militant group, identified the attacker as Mullah Naqibullah, from the Nad Ali district of southern Helmand province.
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Unknown armed groups have shot dead two civilians in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Friday night according to the residents.
The two were killed in Dharkenley neighborhood eastern part of Mogadishu when armed men entered in business site in the locale where the man and his wife were jointly killed. It's yet unknown the motive behind the killing of the man and his wife although some speculation in the neighborhood say that they were associated to the government troops.
It's not the first that civilian people came under deadly attack from unknown armed groups carrying the illegal weapons in the lawlessness horn of Africa country.
Somewhere else heavy fighting between Ethio-Som troops and armed groups has erupted in Yaqshid neighborhood north of the capital Saturday morning according to the residents.
The fighting has begun after armed groups have attacked at Ethio-Som soldier's checkpoints in Towfiq and Mogadishu football stadium where sudden fighting started.
Two civilians were killed in the vicinity of Towfiq after Ethiopian troops opened fires on the deceased people were walking near their houses.
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A Dhaka court yesterday placed two operatives of the banned militant organisation Harkatul Jihad Al Islami (Huji) on a three-day remand for interrogation in connection with the CPB rally bomb attack case.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Ehsanul Haque passed the order after the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) produced Maulana Idris Ali and Maulana Monir Hossain before the court with a prayer for 10-day remand.
The blast at the Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) rally at Paltan Maidan killed five people and injured many others on January 20 in 2001.
Idris and Monir are also accused in a number of grenade and bomb attack cases, including the cases filed in connection with the August 21 grenade attack on an Awami League rally and the April 14 bombing of the Pahela Baishakh celebrations at Ramna Batamul. Idris and Monir are relatives.
In the forwarding report placed before the court, CID Inspector Delwar Hossain, the investigation officer of the case, said the two were involved in the attack.
He said the agency would be able to make a significant breakthrough in the case and identify and arrest others involved in the attack if the two were allowed to be quizzed in remand.
Several other Huji leaders and activists, including the outfit's detained top leader Mufti Hannan, have so far been shown arrested in the case.
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Colombia's largest rebel group today confirmed the death of its top leader, Manuel Marulanda, the latest blow to a Marxist-inspired insurgency that has been weakened by the demise of senior commanders and attacks by government troops.
The 77-year-old leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, died of a heart attack on March 26, one of his lieutenants, Timoleon Jimenez, said in a video sent to Venezuelan television station Telesur. A guerrilla known by his alias Alfonso Cano was named Marulanda's successor, said Jimenez, better known as Timocheko.
President Alvaro Uribe, yesterday said he hopes FARC's tribulations would prompt members to lay down their arms and free hostages, who include three American defense contractors. Marulanda's death was first revealed yesterday by Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos.
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Say hi to himmler for us, sucker!
"The only good marxist is a dead marxist".
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Saain Bugti, caretaker of the late Nawab Akbar Bugtis land and properties, was shot dead along with his brother Karim Dad Bugti in the early hours of Sunday in the Jorry area of Dera Bugti district, Dera Bugti police said. Saain Bugti had answered a knock at his door when assailants opened fire on him and his brother Karim, killing them both instantly. The assailants escaped from the scene and were still at large until the filing of this report. The motive behind the incident was not known, police said, adding that investigations were underway to arrest those responsible.
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I see pipelines exploding in the near future.
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An unmanned United States aerial vehicle, or drone, and several fighter jets have violated Pakistani airspace five times in North Waziristan, ARY TV reported on Sunday. The channel stated that the US drones and fighter jets flew 10 km inside the Hamzori area of North Waziristan, spreading panic amongst locals. It said that US spy planes had been continuously violating the Pakistani airspace for the last four days.
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Can the locals even see or hear these drones? And I doubt that US fighter jets would show up on that side of the border unless there was a serious reason. I call BS.
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"several fighter jets have violated Pakistani airspace five times in North Waziristan"
Only five times?
Quit slacking and step it up, boys.
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It ain't your airspace if you don't exercise sovereign control over it. It's the airspace of the anti-government NW provinces who incidentally harbor enemies of civilization.
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Once again you have muzzies wanting the benefits of society (sovereignty) without doing what it takes to earn it. (in this case, exercise control of the renegade frontiers.)
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It ain't your airspace if you don't exercise sovereign control over it.
All your airspace..... and while you're at it GTF off our ocean.
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I long for the day when the US conducts ARCLIGHT strikes and napalm bombing runs against the lawless tribal areas of an ungoverned phakestain. Until we do, there can be no peace in Afghanistan.
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SteveS:#1 These are not the drones you are looking for.
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Can the locals even see or hear these drones?
Depends on which model it is. The Global Hawks stay very high for recon/surveillance. Predator class flies lower and there are newer models that fly at a variety of speeds & altitudes.
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The latest issue of Discover magazine showed a picture of the next generation spy drone -- palm-sized, with two upward pointing stabilizing fins. It's a short-distance flier, thus far capable of only fifteen minutes of flight time... but awfully cute.
When they develope smart honey bee size drones, with stingers, and program them to swarm the enemy, I will PAY to watch those video feedbacks. I think they would be REALLY cute!
Taliban chief ideologist and suicide bombing trainer Qari Hussain survived Operation Zalzala earlier this year in South Waziristan, saying on Sunday that he was born to live and serve the Taliban.
That and disco is his life.
The army had said in a media briefing at Speenkay Raghzai on May 18 that they had intercepted militants wireless communication saying that Qari Hussain had been killed in the several weeks long operation launched on January 24. I am alive, dont you see me? the influential Taliban trainer told Daily Times minutes after Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan chief Baitullah Mehsud addressed a news conference inside a government school building.
"No. You're lying. Now shut up and lie down!"
House destroyed: The Kotkai mud-house of Qari Hussain was destroyed in the operation, in which military commander Brig Ali Abbas had said tanks were used for the first time in South Waziristan. Since my house was also targeted during the operation and it was destroyed, some of my mujahideen may have said on wireless that I am dead and the military believed it, grey-haired Qari, in his early 30s, added. Asked if he was still training suicide bombers, Qari Hussain did not respond directly and started looking at the Taliban standing by. Hussain also evaded a question asking whether he was affiliated with a banned militant sectarian organisation. I am with every Muslim group, he said in the brief interview.
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He was probably hiding in a cave like the al-qaeda disipates.
Six Iraqi Teens: Man Forced Us to Become Suicide Bombers
BAGHDAD Six teenage boys who said they were being trained as suicide bombers were detained Monday in the northern city of Mosul, Iraqi officials said.
Interior Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Abdul-Karim Khalaf told The Associated Press that the boys were between the ages of 14 and 16, and that initial investigations show they were being trained by a Saudi militant who was killed in military operations.
The soldiers were acting on tips when they found the boys in the basement of an abandoned house that was being used by insurgent groups in the Sumar area in southeastern Mosul, deputy Interior Minister Kamal Ali Hussein said later at a press conference.
He said the boys had been recruited over the last month to carry out suicide bombings against Iraqi security forces in Mosul, although the specific targets had not been revealed to them.
The insurgents had threatened to kill the boys or their families if they refused to obey, Kamal said, adding that the group included the son of a female physician, the son of a college professor and four who belonged to families of poor vendors.
"They were trained how to carry out suicide attacks with explosive belts and a date was fixed for each one of them," he said.
The U.S. military in northern Iraq said American forces were not involved and had no information about the arrests.
U.S. and Iraqi military commanders claim that Al Qaeda in Iraq is increasingly trying to use women and children in attacks to avoid stepped-up security measures. There has been a series of recent bombings by women.
Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, is believed to be the insurgent network's last urban stronghold. U.S. and Iraqi forces launch a crackdown there this month.
The Iraqi government is trying to assert control over the country and the Mosul offensive is one of a trio of major operations. The other two are focused on Shiite extremists in Baghdad's Sadr City district and the southern city of Basra.
A roadside bomb struck a U.S. mine-resistant armored vehicle known as an MRAP on a road that runs parallel to the canal on the southern edge of Sadr City, but it caused no casualties, according to the American military.
Military spokesman Lt. Col. Steve Stover said American forces have faced other roadside bombings in the district since anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his Mahdi Army militia to stop fighting after fierce clashes that killed hundreds of people.
But he said the truce had brought the numbers sharply down.
In other violence Monday, a bomber on a motorcycle struck a checkpoint manned by Iraqi police and U.S.-allied Sunni fighters Monday north of Baghdad, killing four people, officials said.
The blast occurred about 200 yards away from the house of the head of the local awakening group, which has joined forces with the Americans against Al Qaeda in Iraq in Tarmiyah, according to a police official and a member of the group.
Those killed included a policeman, two Awakening Council guards and a civilian, according to the police. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to release the information.
A U.S. soldier also was killed and two others wounded Monday in a roadside bombing in the northern Salahuddin province, raising to at least 4,082 the number of American service members who have died in Iraq since the war started in March 2003.
Another roadside bomb exploded near an Iraqi army checkpoint on the road that leads to the Baghdad International Airport, wounding five people, including one Iraqi soldier and four civilians, police said.
The attacks came a day after the U.S. military said violence in Iraq had reached its lowest levels in four years.
Rear Adm. Patrick Driscoll, a U.S. military spokesman, said Sunday that the number of attacks in the past week decreased to a level "not seen since March 2004," although he did not give specific figures.
Suspected Al Qaeda fighters also kidnapped an Awakening Council leader, Sheik Saleh al-Karkhi, and his brother after blowing up his house Monday in the village of Busaleh in the volatile Diyala province north of the capital, a police official said, declining to be identified because he wasn't supposed to release the information.
(VOI)- Unknown gunmen attacked and killed a senior official at the Iraqi Health ministry while driving his private car in the capital Baghdad, a media source from the ministry said on Sunday. Unknown gunmen shot dead Ali Hashem, the Investigation department head of the Inspection General office of Health Ministry, yesterday evening in Tunis neighborhood, eastern Baghdad, the source, who spoke on anonymity condition, told Aswat al-Iraq- Voices of Iraq- (VOI). The source added that the attackers fled to unknown destination.
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Just trying to contribute to the progress there, obviously. Expect more of the same if you let them take hold.
(VOI) Iraqi forces deployed in the troubled eastern Baghdad district of Sadr City found a large amount of arms and explosives in different areas of the district, an Interior Ministry source said on Sunday. "Several Caches were found inside a mosque and another nearby building and a hospital. They contained hundreds of rifles, anti-tank landmines, bullet-proof vests, 100 missiles and large amounts of anti-armor shells," the source, who did not want his name revealed, told Aswat al-Iraq Voices of Iraq (VOI). "The campaign came within raids conducted by hundreds of Iraqi soldiers in different areas of Sadr City in search of weapons," the source added.
Sadr City, a stronghold of Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militias, has been witnessing armed clashes since Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki announced in March the commencement of a security operation codenamed Saulat al-Forsan (Knights' Assault) in the port city of Basra, Iraq's second largest province and an oil-hub, 590 km south of Baghdad, which he said targeted "outlaws." Hundreds of Sadr supporters were killed or wounded in intense fighting, which still continues.
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I thought the the MA claimed they had nothing but light weapons. I guess I must be remembering wrong.
(VOI)-Two civilians were wounded in an attack launched by unknown gunmen against an Iraqi army checkpoint in Mosul, a Ninewa security source said.
Two civilians were wounded when gunmen shot RPG missile against an Iraqi army checkpoint in al-Tahrir district, east Mosul, a Ninewa security source, who requested anonymity, told Aswat al-Iraq-Voices of Iraq (VOI). The source noted the servicemen went unscathed while two civilians were wounded with splinters. He did not provide further details about the accident. Mosul, the capital city of Ninewa province, lies 405 km north Baghdad.
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(VOI) - Army forces arrested 75 wanted suspects and defused ten roadside bombs during operations conducted in different parts of Baghdad over the past 24 hours, a security operations command statement said . Security forces captured 75 wanted men and suspects, a Baghdad operations command statement received by Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI)said. The announcement noted security forces defused ten roadside bombs and seized two vehicles lacking property documentation.
Five wanted men were captured in Karkh, west Baghdads sector, along with the seizure of a large quantities of weapons and explosives, the statement continued.
In Baghdads east sector, Rusafa, forces detained five wanted men, three suspects, and seized quantities of explosives and weapons, the statement said. Elsewhere in Baghdad suburbs, the statement added forces captured nine wanted men and 63 suspects along with seizing quantities of medium and heavy weapons.
The U.S.-backed Iraqi security forces have launched a large-scale security operation dubbed as Fardh al-Qanoon (Law Imposing) to crack down on on gunmen in Baghdad and its suburbs since 2007 February.
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Maliki is definitely wining over the hearts and minds of... America.
(VOI) - One man was killed and six others wounded in the violent actions that took place in Baghdad over the past 20 hours, a security source said. A media source from the Ministry of Health said unknown gunmen killed Ali Hashem, an investigation official at the inspection department, in a drive-by shooting in Tunis neighborhood, east Baghdad.
In Mosul, a roadside bombing targeting an Iraqi army patrol in Yarmouk Doura district left two servicemen wounded, a military source said. Elsewhere in Mosul, a police source said a police force conducted a raid-and-search operation in Wadi Ekab district, arresting five wanted men and seizing a large explosives factory.
In Basra, joint army and police forces arrested ten wanted men and seized quantities of weapons and explosives during a raid-and-search operation conducted in al-Zubair district, south-west Basra, a security source from Basra operations command said. The same source said a force from the Rapid Reaction Brigade captured three individuals, including a women wanted by the court in Qibla district, and arrested four wanted men along with seizing weapons and ammunition.
In Kirkuk, a police source said a roadside bombing against a police patrol in Tiseen district, central Kirkuk, left four policemen wounded and caused damage to their vehicle.
In Tikrit, Interior Ministry forces arrested a senior al-Qaeda network commander identified as Ali Hussein al-Sanjari during a raid-and-search operation in al-Huda mosque in the city center, a security source noted.
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What was the count in New Orleans over the weekend?
(VOI) Twenty gunmen who confessed to having killed more than 300 civilians were captured in the city of Mosul, a spokesman for the Iraqi Defense Ministry said on Sunday. "In addition to these, some 1305 gunmen were captured since the operations began in Mosul, 251 have been released so far," Maj. General Muhammad al-Askari said during a joint press conference with the spokesman of the U.S. army in Iraq, Admiral Patrick Driscoll.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki had launched Operation Za'eer al-Assad (Lion's Roar) on May 10 and later its offshoot Operation Umm al-Rabiain to track down gunmen belonging to al-Qaeda network. Mosul, the capital city of Ninewa, lies 405 km north of Baghdad. "Iraqi forces also managed to defuse 261 explosive devices and find a large weapons cache in the area of Wadi Akkab, western Mosul," Askari said.
For his part, Adm. Driscoll said that violence toned down by 70% compared to March 2004, referring to dependence on weekly data provided by U.S. field commanders. "Most of the weapons found were Iranian-made," Driscoll said.
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confessed to having killed more than 300 civilians
I don't imagine they had to be read their Miranda rights in Iraq. But these orcs are probably so demented that they take pride in these killings and brag about it to the police.
A senior member of the al-Qaeda in Iraq group was arrested in the northern Salah-al-Din province, a security official said Sunday, a day after the arrest of seven commanders of the Islamic State of Iraq extremist group in the neighbouring province of Diyala. Police arrested overnight Ali Hussein al-Sanjari, a senior preacher and issuer of religious rulings in the extremist al-Qaeda in Iraq group in Salah al-Din, said Ahmed al-Fahal from the anti-terror unit of the local police.
Al-Sanjari was arrested as he was coming out of the al-Huda mosque at the centre of Tikrit after he gave a sermon to a gathering of young men about rulings on declaring Muslims as Kafir, meaning Muslims who break religious rules and are doomed to hell. Al-Sanjari, who is from the town of Siniya in Bayji, issued a religious ruling sanctioning the killing of civilians and attacks on Iraqi troops in Salah-al-Din. The arrest comes after Iraq troops backed by US forces in Diyala province, to the east of Salah-al-Din, captured 29 members of the Islamic State of Iraq in Buhruz, seven of whom are commanders, the province police chief, Ghanim al-Qurayshi, told the pan-Arab al-Hayat newspaper. The Islamic State of Iraq is a Sunni extremist group with close links to the al-Qaeda terror network.
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"And Allan frowns upon the Kafir and they are subject to arrest by the Infidels!"
IDF special forces arrested Ali Tormesani, a wanted operative from Fatah's Al-Aksa Brigade, in the center of Ramallah Sunday evening. The army said that Tormesani was part of a list of wanted persons granted amnesty, however of late he has been repeatedly involved in terrorist activity. He was transferred to security forces for interrogation.
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Tormesani was part of a list of wanted persons granted amnesty, however of late he has been repeatedly involved in terrorist activity
A local official was shot dead in Pattani and two Thai Army soldiers were wounded in separate attacks Monday. Adulroning Sulong, an assistant village headman, was gunned down in his house in Thung Yang Daeng district. In another incident, two Royal Thai Army soldiers were wounded in a bombing in Pattani on Monday morning. Detonated by remote control, the bomb targeted an eight-man military patrol as it proceeded on its rounds in Maelan district. Both Sgt. Thavorn Yapakdee and Pvt. Denchai Jit-ada were wounded and rushed to hospital.
The military confiscated at least 200 sacks of ammonium nitrate and 50 blasting caps, materials used for improvised explosive device, during a raid in Indanan, Sulu on Saturday. The military said the joint team from the Philippine Marines and Philippine Navy confiscated the ammonium nitrate worth P849,000 in Buansa pier.
The blasting caps, a .45 pistol, three magazines of ammunition, and a handheld radio, meanwhile, were seized in a nearby house.
Maj. Gen. Juancho Sabban, commander of Joint Task Force Comet, suspected that al Qaeda linked Abu Sayyaf could be involved, noting that the raid was conducted in the area near the Abu Sayyaf camp, which was overrun by the military during its last months surgical strike. "With blasting caps, and the ammonium nitrate, which is the basic ingredient in the so-called fertilizer bombs, it is obviously meant for a terrorist action," Sabban said.
He said investigation is still ongoing to determine who should be held liable. He said the confiscated materials will be brought to the Firearms and Explosives Division of the Philippine National Police.
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Lebanon's parliament elected armed forces chief Michel Suleiman president, ending a power struggle in which Hezbollah, labeled a terrorist organization by the U.S., gained authority at the expense of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora's pro-Western government.
The result of the vote was carried by international broadcasters and was a foregone conclusion. Siniora's parliamentary bloc and the Hezbollah-led opposition on May 21 endorsed Suleiman, 59, as part of an Arab League-brokered deal struck in Qatar to end a political crisis that sparked the worst fighting since the 1975-1990 civil war. Suleiman was elected by 118 of the 127 lawmakers who voted, Agence France-Presse said.
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I had the privilege of watching and advance copy of the entire 4 hour remake of the Andromeda Strain. It is strange that it is starting on Memorial Day, because military brass are the bag guys, in a sub plot. Otherwise the military scenes are well done. On the whole, the series is excellent, with lots of red herrings and clever scientific deduction. It is different from the original in that the methodology of biohazard containment has advanced in 38 years. The same producers came out with "Aliens."
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Best 'Memorial' address, done a good time ago, given on a Thursday afternoon in November, outside a small Pennsylvania town -
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicateâwe can not consecrateâwe can not hallowâthis ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before usâthat from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotionâthat we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vainâthat this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedomâand that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." - A. Lincoln.
#6
Thank you to those who sacrificed to protect us, and to sustain our freedom. Though many who our military fought and died for over the centuries didn't (and don't) deserve it, they did it anyway.
Our words will never be enough - but thank you all.
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Re Google's latest refusal to post a celebratory logo on Memorial Day: they have been doing that for years, even as they post notices on Valentine's Day and Halloween. Many of the founders of Google are of Russian descent; maybe they would prefer to champion the Red Army. What did Lenin say about the last capitalist, who tries to sell the rope with which he is hanged?
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So the Googleniks are self-righteous idiots, only capable of celebrating trivialities -- they're exactly the type of people stereotyped to have no social awareness or social skills whatsoever, and thusly they demonstrate the truth of the stereotype. At bottom they likely are incapable of understanding how deeply they offend more than half their customer base, and what risk they run financially when (not if) someone else comes up with a significant improvement on their product.
But more importantly, those who gave themselves and their futures that our freedoms continue have my everlasting gratitude. I have tried to rear my children to cherish those freedoms as part payment on the debt I owe those brave men and women.
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Even tho some folks don't deserve the freedoms they have. I was at Gettysburg yesterday - new Visitor's Center, quite crowded. Walking out of the introductory movie, the 40-something lady behind me remarked, "We've just passed 4,000 killed in Iraq, but this was worse."
Funny, and yet unspeakably ignorant.
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We cherish too, the Poppy red
That grows on fields where valor led,
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heroes never dies.
Moina Michael
In the early to mid-40's my dad was Commander of the local chapters of the VFW and American Legion. During one period, both at once, IIRC. So, at this time of year, I sold Buddy Poppies as well as the Legion Auxiliary Poppies. I thought I was pretty good at it until I found out years later that my dad was a local WWI hero. So people were buying the poppies from "Bud's boy" as way of honoring him. That was even better.
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James and I brought three graduate students from China to today's Memorial Day parade. Afterward, we had a cookout. Talked about all sorts of things. These young men aren't quite used to being able to speak their minds about issues.
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James and I brought three graduate students from China to today's Memorial Day parade. Afterward, we had a cookout. Talked about all sorts of things. These young men aren't quite used to being able to speak their minds about issues.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Colombia's largest rebel group today confirmed the death of its top leader, Manuel Marulanda, the latest blow to a Marxist-inspired insurgency that has been weakened by the demise of senior commanders and attacks by government troops. 
Taliban chief ideologist and suicide bombing trainer 
BAGHDAD Six teenage boys who said they were being trained as suicide bombers were detained Monday in the northern city of Mosul, Iraqi officials said.
A senior member of the 
Lebanon's parliament elected armed forces chief Michel Suleiman president, ending a power struggle in which Hezbollah, labeled a terrorist organization by the U.S., gained authority at the expense of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora's pro-Western government. 
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