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Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.
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Merry Christmas from Far North Queensland. Just about to go for a beer & swim in the Coral Sea. Hope those having a white Christmas are are really jealous :-)
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Good Christmas morn to all. The egg nog is drained, the tree is (almost) trimmed, the stockings are (about to be) filled. And Mass is but a few hours nap away.
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Merry Christmas and God Bless America. I can think of no place I'd rather be nor folks I would rather be with than Burgers. Blessings to you and yours in the new year.
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Merry Christmas to Rantburg and the special people who read and share here. Its a daily dose of sanity on the left coast and help when life almost convinces you that you slipped through a wormhole into an alternate dimension.
Thank you all and God bless America in the coming year.
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The stockings are filled, and my checkbook is empty - a sure sign that we're going to have a very Merry Christmas. Here's wishing all RBurgers the very best, now and as long as Fred can keep this site up (something to help may be coming in the New Year, Fred).
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Merry Christmas to all the RB crowd. Thanks to Fred for this bit of sanctuary and the MODs for keeping it up and straight.
My thought today are filled with being thankfull for being allowed to serve this nation and to the men and women guarding and fighting on the outpost of the world. As I sit here with coffee, warm next to my wife, the kids, the dog, and the tree, I know that somewhere there is an American is firing a weapon in anger, insuring me and my family are safe. I thank them with all my heart. Aim straigt, aim true.
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Merry Christmas to all here on the 'burg....and yes, Classer, your wish has been granted by me personally as I stare out the window at that evil white crap building up in the yard. ;)
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Merry Christmas Burgers -- and to those who have served and serving still -- blessings to each of you who continue to serve and fight to give us this day, to enjoy the day and to worship as we choose.
Tonight, Mohamed Ibrahim is out after posting $100 bond. Earlier in the day, he was arrested after police say he walked into several Memphis businesses and threatened to blow them up. Court records show Ibrahim was also telling people he was Muslim, and wanted to start a jihad, or holy war, in Memphis. Police say when they arrested him, he had a butcher knife hidden in one of his jacket sleeves.
I'm confused. The Muslim man is walking around with a butcher knife up his sleeve and making explicit threats of jihad, so the authorities turned him lose?
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Even a loonie can do major damage. I hope the police released him with a homing chip in his shoes.
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The bond appears to be excessive and possibly rascist. Things like this still do happen in the South. He's such promising looking lad. Why can't we all just get along?
A suicide bomber on a horse and cart has detonated himself in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, killing eight people and wounding five others, police have said.
The blast on Thursday evening ripped through a guesthouse sometimes used by foreigners near the provincial health ministry directorate, according to Sazel Ahmad Shairzad, the deputy provincial police chief.
"Five of the dead were killed while sitting in a car nearby," Shairzad said, the other three dead were passers-by.
The suicide bomber detonated explosives on his body and in his cart after being ordered to stop by police.
Windows in buildings on both sides of the road were blown out, and nearby walls were partially damaged.
Kandahar was the site in late August of a massive truck bomb that killed 43 people and injured another 65, most of them civilians.
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Yemeni forces, backed by the United States, launched a major attack Thursday on a meeting of senior al-Qaeda operatives thought to include the Yemeni American cleric linked to the suspect in the Fort Hood shootings, U.S. and Yemeni officials said.
U.S. officials believe that the cleric, Anwar al-Aulaqi, was probably killed in the assault, as were two al-Qaeda leaders, according to a senior Obama administration official. One of those leaders was the head of the terrorist network's operations on the Arabian Peninsula and once served as Osama bin Laden's personal secretary; the other was a Saudi national and former detainee at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Yemeni officials, tribal leaders and eyewitnesses said it was not clear whether Aulaqi and the al-Qaeda leaders were killed or wounded in the strike. They cautioned that it could take days for authorities to identify the dead.
Still, the U.S. involvement in the strike in southeastern Yemen -- along with a similar strike in the country last week -- appears to reflect greater willingness by the Obama administration to use military force in confronting terrorists outside the traditional war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan. Last week's strike was seen at the time as the most significant example of the new approach, according to a senior U.S. official with knowledge of the planning and execution of the attack.
It was not clear whether U.S. firepower was employed in either attack. A U.S. official said the United States did provide intelligence and other support.
The Thursday assault killed at least 30 suspected militants, according to Yemeni security and government sources. In a statement, the Yemeni Embassy in Washington said Aulaqi was thought to be at the meeting, as were Nasser al-Wuhayshi, al-Qaeda's regional leader, and his deputy, Said Ali al-Shihri. A U.S. official identified the two al-Qaeda leaders as "the two biggest fish in the most violent offshoot of al-Qaeda that exists in the world."
"This is a decapitating strike on al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula," said the official, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the matter on the record.
U.S. officials said Aulaqi was a member of al-Qaeda and has been moving up the ranks, having recently been promoted to regional commander. But the officials described him less as an operational leader than an inspirational one, whose contacts with members took place largely online.
The Yemen Observer, a paper with ties to the government, reported that Aulaqi's house was "raided and demolished" in Thursday's strike. But in interviews, Aulaqi's distraught relatives said they have had no official word about the cleric. They said they had spoken with relatives and friends in Shabwa province, the site of the assault, and do not believe that he was among those killed.
The cleric's father, a former Yemeni minister of agriculture, Nasser al-Aulaqi, said his son was living in the home of an uncle and, he believed, had left that residence about two months ago. The uncle's house is more than 40 miles from the attack site, the elder Aulaqi said in a rare interview.
"If the American government helped in attacking one of [its own] citizens, this is illegal," the father said, his voice cracking. "Nidal Hasan killed 13 people and he's going to get a trial. My son has killed nobody. He should face trial if he's done something wrong."
"If Obama wants to kill my son, this is wrong," he said, adding that despite his son's ideology, the younger Aulaqi had no links to al-Qaeda.
Shabwa is a known haven for al-Qaeda militants. Yemeni security and government sources said the dead in Thursday's attack included suspected al-Qaeda members of Yemeni and foreign nationalities, but they would not elaborate. Al-Qaeda here is made up largely of Yemeni and Saudi nationals, according to analysts. Tribal leaders and eyewitnesses said they buried five al-Qaeda operatives after the assault. Lahmar bin Salfooh, a tribal chief, said all five were from Aulaqi's tribe, which dominates Shabwa province.
In the Fallujah Forum, an online discussion forum for al-Qaeda sympathizers in Yemen, participants said Shabwa residents had noticed yellow-and-green military-style spotter balloons floating above the area in the three days before the strike, said Evan F. Kohlmann, a terrorism expert and researcher for the Nine/Eleven Finding Answers Foundation. That might have warned Aulaqi and the al-Qaeda leaders at the meeting. "This may have given these guys the sense that something was going on," Kohlmann said.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Government forces have launched fresh airstrikes on northern Yemen, killing at least seven people, including two women.
Witnesses said the Thursday attacks took place in Yemen's Al-Jawf province.
Earlier in the day, the Houthi fighters said that Saudi warplanes had also attacked the country's north with more than 400 missiles. A Houthi spokesman said 25 people including women and children were killed in the overnight raids.
Saudi Arabia joined Sana'a's months-long fierce armed campaign against the Shia fighters in November.
The conflict between the central government in Sana'a and the Houthis of northern Yemen began in 2004. The conflict intensified in August 2009 when the Yemeni army launched Operation Scorched Earth, alleging that the Houthi fighters had violated the terms of a ceasefire by taking foreign visitors hostage.
The offensives, meanwhile, have been taking their toll on the locals with the Saudis reportedly venturing beyond the Houthi positions, targeting civilian areas and using unconventional weaponry including flesh-eating white phosphorus bombs.
On Wednesday, a Houthi spokesman announced that the fighters were willing to withdraw from Saudi territory in exchange for an end to the attacks by Saudi forces.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees estimates that since 2004, up to 175,000 people have been forced to leave their homes in Sa'ada and take refuge in overcrowded camps set up by the United Nations.
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On Wednesday, a Houthi spokesman announced that the fighters were willing to withdraw from Saudi territory in exchange for an end to the attacks by Saudi forces
...now we begin to know the truth. invade a neighboring country..get your azz kicked
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Why, in the name of all that's holy, would the the Houthis invade another country when they were busily engaged in armed rebellion against their own government?
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What I'm missing here is why the Mad Mullahs aren't stirring up trouble in the Saoodia-occupied northeastern quarter -- that region is mostly Shi'a.
And it's where most of the oil is.
The southwest quarter around Yemen is mostly nothing but sand, as far as I can tell on various maps.
Where's the profit for the Mad Mullahs?
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draws the saudi military farther away from Iran?
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Essentially. The Saudis have significant forces based in the NE. The Iranians are hitting them in another Shiite region where they ain't.
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I'd guess that there aren't actually enough radicalizable Shia in the oil region to make much of an insurgency. From what I've heard over the years, they're oppressed, closely-watched, and totally disenfranchised. Che-head blovation aside, that isn't really a fertile mix for revolution. Isolated, under-supervised, neglected, and with some experience at self-government are much more promising subjects for radical mobilization. Bandit country is pretty much ideal, really.
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LANDIKOTAL/PESHAWAR: Terrorists blew up three schools on Friday in separate attacks in Landikotal and Peshawar, officials said. Buildings of two government high schools about 1.5 kilometres apart were blown up in Landikotal. No casualties were reported, as both schools were empty at the time.
Separately, terrorists tried to blow up a government boys high school in Spin Wari village in Peshawar. According to the police, the blast only damaged the schools boundary wall.
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The Taliban blew up Friday three schools in northwest Pakistan where troops are fighting against militants in the tribal region bordering Afghanistan, officials said. Buildings in two boys' schools about 1.5 kilometres (one mile) apart were blown up in the Khyber tribal district which lies between Afghanistan and Peshawar, the capital of North West Frontier Province.
"Militants blew up a government boys' high school and a middle school with explosives around 3.00 am (2100 GMT)," tribal administration official Rehan Gul Khattak told AFP. There were no casualties because the properties were empty at the time, he said, blaming the Taliban and militants from the Lashkar-e-Islam (Army of Islam) led by local warlord Mangal Bagh for the attacks.
Another government boys high school was bombed in the Peshawar district of Sufaid Dheri, damaging its boundary wall and two rooms, senior police official Mohammad Karim told AFP.
O brave, brave Lions of Islam, fighting empty, unguarded school buidlings instead of the Palistani army.
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The "Mighty Pak Army" shoots back, TW. I've never heard of a building doing that, unless there were people inside. The Taliban go for low-hanging fruit because they're afraid of heights.
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Four people were killed and 24 others injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up near a security post in NWFP's provincial capital on Thursday, according to police and hospital staff, as another suicide attack killed a six-year-old girl in Rawalpindi.
Peshawar SSP (Coordination) Muhammad Alam Shinwari told Daily Times that four people -- one policeman and three civilians -- were killed and 24 injured in the attack, which was carried out using a suicide jacket packed with eight kilogrammes of explosives.
The bomber struck at the junction of Mall Road and Arbab Road in front of an insurance company's office, where a police and army post had been set up to inspect vehicles.
A policeman told Daily Times the bomber was on foot and detonated explosives strapped to his body when policemen stopped him at the post.
NWFP Information Minister Iftikhar Hussain said the bomber was headed to a crowded area.
The president, the prime minister and the US have condemned the attack.
In Rawalpindi, six-year-old Arooj was killed and two people -- including a head constable -- were injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside an imambargah on Kurri Road.
The bomber blew himself up when Head Constable Ittefaq intercepted him at a picket set up for the security of the imambargah, where a congregation was being held.
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Police in Mianwali arrested four terrorists on Thursday and recovered as many suicide vests and a large cache of arms from their possession. The police arrested a suspect, Muhammad Jamil, from Gulberg Chowk and recovered videos of suicide bombings and also arrested his accomplice, Egal Khan, on the basis of the information provided by Jamil. Further information provided by the two men led to the arrest of Amanullah Hattar and Imran Pathan from Kacha Gujrat area of Mianwali. The police recovered explosives, suicide vests, CDs, cell phones, documents, maps and ball bearings from the suspects' possession. Officials said the accused were planning to carry out a terrorist attack in the city during Muharram.
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Police have seized 500 kilogrammes of explosives from Mardan and 2,000 kilogrammes from Bannu, a private TV channel quoted NWFP Police Inspector General Malik Naveed as saying on Thursday. Speaking with the media in Peshawar after the suicide blast at the Mall Road, the IG said the NWFP government had thwarted six potential suicide attacks in recent weeks. He said police were conducting raids in the suburban areas of the city. Regarding security arrangements for Muharram, he said as many as 700 ex-servicemen of the Frontier Corps had been recalled to protect citizens.
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Staggered explosions apparently targeting Shiite Muslim pilgrims killed at least 31 people, including a provincial councilor, and injured 105 others on Thursday, authorities said, raising fears of further sectarian attacks at the approach of Shiite Islam's most solemn holiday.
The deaths come three days before the climax of Ashoura. The holiday's observers have frequently been attacked in the past.
Police Maj. Muthana Khalid said the first bomb exploded around 2 p.m. Thursday in Hillah, the capital of Babil province, about 60 miles (95 kilometers) south of Baghdad. He said the second explosion came as police rushed to the scene 15 minutes later.
The bombs apparently targeted Shiite pilgrims observing Ashoura who had gathered near a bus station in downtown Hillah.
"Provincial councilor Neemat al-Bakri and two policemen, were killed in the explosions, which wounded 10 others," an Iraqi source said.
Neemat al-Bakri was a member of the multi-confessional alliance formed by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to contest parliamentary elections scheduled for March next year.
Colonel Taleb al-Chamri, one of the two police officers killed in the blast, was in charge of local efforts to eradicate improvised explosive devices.
Thousands of Shiites are expected to converge on the central city of Karbala for the Dec. 27 holiday to mourn the Prophet Muhammad's grandson, Imam Hussein, killed in 680 A.D. during a battle that sealed the split between Shiites and Sunnis.
Hilla, 100 kilometers (62 miles), south of Baghdad, had become a generally quiet area as violence dropped across most of Iraq. Major attacks and ongoing insurgent activity continue in Baghdad and northern Iraq.
On Wednesday, 13 people were killed in violence around the country despite security forces ramping up their presence ahead of Christmas and the Shiite commemoration ceremonies of Ashura which culminate on Sunday.
The security situation in Iraq has improved dramatically over the past three years, after Sunni tribesmen and former rebels made common cause with the U.S. military against al-Qaeda.
The Iraqi government has assigned more than 25,000 police and soldiers to protect pilgrims during the celebrations but has been unable to stop all the attacks.
The Shiite holiday was banned under former dictator Saddam Hussein. The majority of Iraqis are Shiites but Saddam's administration was primarily Sunni.
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A dispute is rumbling between Israel and the US Consulate in Jerusalem after a US diplomatic car allegedly tried running over a Defense Ministry security guard recently at an IDF checkpoint in the West Bank. The car had been stopped after the occupants refused to present identification papers.
World Israel is also furious that one of the consulate cars was found to have transported a Palestinian without permits between Jerusalem and the West Bank.
The identification of American diplomats from the consulate at IDF checkpoints has been a major sticking point for several years.
In January 2008, the Civil Administration of Judea and Samaria filed complaints with the Foreign Ministry after both US Security Coordinator Lt.-Gen. Keith Dayton and then-consul-general Jacob Walles refused to roll down their windows or open their car doors and show identification papers at a checkpoint.
However, Israel's ire reached a new level after an incident on November 13 in which a five-car convoy of consulate vehicles with diplomatic plates arrived at the Gilboa crossing.
According to a detailed official Israel Police description of the incident obtained exclusively by The Jerusalem Post, the drivers refused to identify themselves or open a window or door. The drivers, according to the report, purposely blocked the crossing, tried running over one of the Israeli security guards stationed there and made indecent gestures at female guards.
The entire incident was documented by cameras at the crossing. Some things never change---I remember incidents with US consulate cars from first Intifada. Basically, these people are Rachel Corries with diplo passports. Eventually, one of them will be dead and there will be enormous American indignation.
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Apparently these foggy bottom Arabists have forgotten all about their colleagues Cleo Noel and Curtis Moore, murdered by Black September goons on Arafat's orders in 1973.
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Stopping at a random checkpoint in a diplomatic convoy is asking to become a political statement or a hostage. Before we go blasting the State jerks or Isreal, we need to know what the agreements are with regard to diplomatic convoys and detaining them. There is an agreement. The issue usually is that properly marked Diplomatic vehicles are agreed to be allowed to bypass road blocks with a cursory check. Some police or military refuse to honor it, or just dont know about the do not detain agreements. This does not mean they get to stop the convoy and search each person and their papers, usually just the first vehicle and bypass any lines. Remember the best place to ambush a convoy is when it has stopped. Fake uniforms and roadblocks are common. I was once stopped by a traffic block driving a dip registared vehicle, they were checking ID, registration, and insurance. I gave them a copy of my papers, like our agreement says. They wanted the originals and when I said no they tried to arrest me. I locked the doors, armored cars are tough to get into. They drew their guns and ordered me out. .38 vs level 4, ha. After 20 minuted the calls came to them to apologize and let me go. The traffic cops just did not know the laws but they were still upset. To further diffuse the situation afer I went and bought the cops lunch. As friendly as I was there was no way they were getting into my vehicle, or the contents in that vehicle.
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Couriering Palestinians and lewd gestures are probably not part of the deal. DIPSEC and PSD agreements, secret signals, tags, nods, "...*uck you we called ahead, didn't you get the word?" ...all aside bottom line, their country, not ours. Host nation trumps all others.
A year after Operation Cast Lead, the IDF is continuing to update its maps and highlight international and humanitarian institutions - adding several hundred in the past year - to prevent them from being targeted in a future conflict, The Jerusalem Post has learned. During the operation, which began a year ago next Sunday, the IDF distributed maps filled with over 1,500 dots, designating buildings that were off-limits to all air force and ground force commanders. These dots marked hospitals, United Nations facilities, schools, and homes of foreigners and journalists. The constant updating of the maps underlies the Israeli assessment that a future conflict with Hamas could be around the corner and that the IDF needs to be prepared at all times.
Despite this work, carried out by the IDF's Gaza Coordination and Liaison Administration before Cast Lead, Israel has been accused of intentionally targeting civilian infrastructure, including hospitals and UN compounds. The IDF has said that while it will refrain from initiating an attack against the sites on this list in the future, it reserves the right to respond with force if it is attacked from within the buildings.
According to the latest IDF casualty findings, 1,166 Palestinians were killed during the operation. Of these, 700 were terrorists - 600 Hamas and 100 Islamic Jihad - 295 were civilians and 162 remain unidentified. In contrast, B'Tselem claims that Israel killed 1,387 Palestinians during the operation and that more than 50 percent of them were civilians. The latest IDF assessments show that Gaza remains Israel's most volatile border, particularly in light of Hamas's continued efforts to rearm itself since Cast Lead.
Today, the terror group is believed to have a few thousand rockets, including several hundred with a range of 40 kilometers and several dozen with a range of between 60 km. and 80 km. Intelligence assessments are that Hamas smuggled the long-range Iranian-made missiles into the Gaza Strip through tunnels and in several pieces, to be assembled later by Hamas engineers.
Hamas is building large missile silos that can contain and simultaneously launch over 20 rockets, and is also digging dozens of kilometers of underground tunnels, connecting open fields with urban centers in the hope of drawing the IDF into the built-up areas next time. The group is making unparalleled efforts to obtain other types of advanced Iranian weaponry, such as anti-aircraft missiles and Russian-made armor-piercing anti-tank missiles.
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Will the IDF be allowed to shoot back when they are attacked from these sites?
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In for a dime, in for a dollar.
Line up a few dozen big Cats and scrape the whole place flat into the sea (or to Egypt) the next time they push beyond the limit.
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g(r)om, how am I being ridiculous? IIRC, the ROEs for Americans in Iraq forbade returning fire if they were fired upon from a mosque. They could not call in an air or artillery strike either.
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I personally don't care if every building in Gaza is demolished, down to bedrock. In fact, knowing Hamass and Hezbollocks as I do, I feel that is the only humanitarian thing to do. It will not only relieve the suffering of Israelis, it will also relieve the suffering of paleostain "refugees" who have been bottled up in "refugee camps" since 1948. If Hezbollocks should attack from Lebanon, Israel should totally level everything from their northern border to the middle of Beirut and all the Bekaa valley. Screw the "UN Peacekeepers", who are at least complicit in the re-arming of the northern border. The Israeli use of nukes against its enemies should be a given, since that's the only way the "humanitarians" in the world will learn that Israel not only has the RIGHT to use whatever weapons it has in its arsenal, but also the moral imperative to use whatever is necessary to protect its citizens. I would suggest that Israel hold at least one nuke back for use on Brussels when the EU begins their criticism.
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g(r)om, how am I being ridiculous? IIRC, the ROEs for Americans in Iraq forbade returning fire if they were fired upon from a mosque. They could not call in an air or artillery strike either.
Sorry. Sometimes, I assume things.
(i)I'm sure US servicemen in Iraq comply with these procedures religiously. I know I did with similar ROE during the first intifada. How shall I put it? There is an American expression "It's better to be tried by twelve than carried by six." We have a somewhat similar expression in Hebrew.
(ii) After 15 years of Oslo war, nobody in Israel---not even the Peace-seeking left (the EU funded Tranzi fringe doesn't count as Israeli in my book), believes that sacrificing IDF soldiers lives to "World Opinion" does any good (it took some time, but most Israelis noticed that the more concessions we make, the harsher World Opinion treats Israel).
A reformist former government spokesman, Abdullah Ramezanzadeh, who backed opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi in the vote, was sentenced by a court for six years in jail. The charges against Ramezanzadeh include acting against national security, propagating against the Islamic system and possessing classified documents. The report of his jail sentence coincides with mounting tension in Iran after the death of a leading dissident ayatollah and opposition reports of clashes between the cleric's supporters and security forces in the city of Isfahan. Ramezanzadeh, who held his post during the 1997-2005 presidency of reformer Mohammad Khatami, was among scores of senior pro-reform figures and activists detained after the poll on accusations of fomenting post-election unrest. "Based on the court's decision Ramezanzadeh was given a six-year obligatory jail sentence," Fars news agency quoted a Revolutionary court statement as saying. It did not say when the verdict was issued. Revolutionary courts usually handle security cases. Last month, Iranian media said reformist former vice president Mohammad Ali Abtahi was also sentenced to six years in jail. He was later released on bail of $700,000 pending appeal.
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"give us his GPS coordinates and we'll make sure he's healthy taken care of"
/there's been a lot of ass-covering between San Diego-office FBI and DC-office on Hasan. It appears the locals made DC aware and are now being made the scapegoats. They are fighting back with media leaks of emails showing they made DC aware and were told, basically "we're on it". Should make for good fireworks as the internal housecleaning of PC ass-coverers starts. None too soon IMHO
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"Ask a cyber soldier what it means when the enemy is using specific tactics to infiltrate your lines of communication, and you might notice a slight smile cross the soldiers face. When the enemy is in your lines it means bad news in traditional military terms, but in the asymmetrical world of cyber warfare this development should be seen as an opportunity.
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Ask a cyber soldier what it means when the enemy is using specific tactics to infiltrate your lines of communication, and you might notice a slight smile cross the soldiers face.
So how many "cyber soldiers" have you spoken with lately?
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So how many "cyber soldiers" have you spoken with lately?
No laughing matter actually. Many are former soldiers, retirees, contractors, etc, stuck away doing God's work in basement offices and complexes. With a few PhD's and super geeks sprinkled in, these sites are cyber technology incubators. Very necessary these people and their work.
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#1 Ask a cyber soldier what it means when the enemy is using specific tactics to infiltrate your lines of communication, and you might notice a slight smile cross the soldiers face.
So how many "cyber soldiers" have you spoken with lately?
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Now, now, Pappy, there are some of us Airdale types that have "gotten our boots muddy" a time or two. Some of us have even been shot at (and returned effective fire).
The stuff downloaded from the TR-1 (and a few other birds) is all encrypted. I'm sure the data from drones is not encrypted because the encryption equipment is pretty cumbersome - it has to be to be effective. Still, something as simple as PGP could have prevented this kind of debacle.
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Last night I saw upon the net
A cyber-soldier who wasnt there
He wasnt there again today
He said to stop calling him that.
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"There was a soldier, a Cyber Soldier,
Who wandered far away, and cyber'd night and day..."
Grunter: LOL! We will have to get Alex Beaton to sing that one!
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Hay Abdule look at the cool video we intercepted. Yo Abu that looks like out house, allah be praised, it is our house. Look at the pretty cross hairs on our lovely mud hut.
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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.
Tonight, Mohamed Ibrahim is out after posting $100 bond. Earlier in the day, he was arrested after police say he walked into several Memphis businesses and threatened to blow them up. Court records show Ibrahim was also telling people he was Muslim, and wanted to start a jihad, or holy war, in Memphis. Police say when they arrested him, he had a butcher knife hidden in one of his jacket sleeves.
Yemeni forces, backed by the United States, launched a major attack Thursday on a meeting of senior al-Qaeda operatives thought to include the Yemeni American cleric linked to the suspect in the Fort Hood shootings, U.S. and Yemeni officials said. 
The Taliban blew up Friday three schools in northwest Pakistan where troops are fighting against militants in the tribal region bordering Afghanistan, officials said. Buildings in two boys' schools about 1.5 kilometres (one mile) apart were blown up in the Khyber tribal district which lies between Afghanistan and Peshawar, the capital of North West Frontier Province.
A year after Operation Cast Lead, the IDF is continuing to update its maps and highlight international and humanitarian institutions - adding several hundred in the past year - to prevent them from being targeted in a future conflict, The Jerusalem Post has learned. During the operation, which began a year ago next Sunday, the IDF distributed maps filled with over 1,500 dots, designating buildings that were off-limits to all air force and ground force commanders. These dots marked hospitals, United Nations facilities, schools, and homes of foreigners and journalists. The constant updating of the maps underlies the Israeli assessment that a future conflict with Hamas could be around the corner and that the IDF needs to be prepared at all times. 
