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Good morning
Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot

Jill Adams aka Ann Vincent in "The Green Man" (Died in 2008 at age 77)

Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 07/22/2010 0:17 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Norwegian Soldiers vs Taliban Terrorists
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 07/22/2010 11:38 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Uff da!
Posted by: mojo || 07/22/2010 12:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Lutefisk all around!
Posted by: Glinegum Stalin6076 || 07/22/2010 14:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Looks like they're shooting at sand dunes.
Posted by: Graising Ulinter8671 || 07/22/2010 15:57 Comments || Top||


Six Afghan Police Beheaded in North: NATO
At least, six Afghan police were beheaded in a raid by the Taliban in northern Baghlan Province, NATO said on Wednesday

The Taliban insurgents attacked a police post in Baghlan, a turbulent northern Afghan province, and beheaded the policemen, a Nato statement said.

Confirming the incident, provincial governor, Munshi Abdul Majid said on Tuesday that eight police officers were killed in the attack.

Meanwhile, by calling the Taliban 'brothers' in his speeches to convince the insurgents to lay down their weapons and join the Afghan society, the Afghan President seems quite optimistic about the Taliban reintegration and reconciliation with the West- backed Afghan government.

It came on the same day as the International Conference agreed Afghan forces should be leading security operations across the country by 2014, with the aim of relieving foreign troops in some areas by as soon as the end of the year.

Based on the reports, a spokesman for the Taliban has confirmed the attack, but denied the alliance's report on beheadings.

The attack took place as the US is pumping additional troops into Afghanistan in a bid to face down the Taliban and bring stability to the country.
Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  Afghanistan provinces

Ethnolinguistic groups
Posted by: Anonymoose || 07/22/2010 6:12 Comments || Top||

#2  Barbarians
Posted by: Parabellum || 07/22/2010 8:05 Comments || Top||

#3  And not a whine from MoD which is now engaged in 'disciplining' a Gurkha for 'offending' Muslim culture.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/22/2010 8:55 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Mauritania jails Qaeda mercenary kidnapper
[Al Arabiya Latest] A Mauritanian court on Wednesday sentenced a Malian national to 12 years in prison for his role in kidnapping three Spanish aid workers and handing them over to al-Qaeda.

Omar Sid'Ahmed Ould Hamma, who was arrested in February by Mauritanian security forces, was the ringleader of a gang of kidnappers who abducted the Spaniards the previous November.

The court in Nouakchott also sentenced an elderly Mauritanian shepherd to a one-year suspended sentence and acquitted four others.

Earlier prosecutors said they had dropped calls for the court to impose life sentences on the alleged kidnappers. The prosecution said it would instead seek a jail sentence of between five and 20 years. It said this was because Hamma was "no longer physically detaining the hostages."

Two of the Spaniards kidnapped in November last year, Albert Vilalta, 35, and Roque Pascual, 50, are still being held by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, which prosecutors said paid Hamma and others to hand them over. A female colleague, Alicia Gamez, 39, was released in March after three months in captivity.

Hamma, who with the other accused denies the charges, was arrested in February in an operation by Mauritanian security forces on the border with Mali.

The kidnappers have demanded payment of several million dollars in ransom and the release of Islamist prisoners held in Mauritania, which along with neighboring desert states Mali and Niger has witnessed a rise in terrorism-related kidnappings of westerners.

The 12-year sentence handed down to Hamma will include hard labour and the confiscation of all his assets.
A gun, a knife, some brass knuckles, and a few grenades. Wotta haul.
This article starring:
Omar Sid'Ahmed Ould Hamma
Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in North Africa


Arabia
Fresh clashes claim 49 in north Yemen
At least 49 people have lost their lives in four days of clashes between Shia fighters and members of an army-backed tribe in northern Yemen.

"The confrontations between the Houthis and the supporters of the tribal chief Sheikh Sagheer Aziz have resulted in the death of 20 tribesmen and 10 Houthis," AFP quoted a tribal source as saying on condition of anonymity.

But a member of the Houthi media office told Press TV that the latest clashes in Yemen came as a result of the army's attacks against the Houthis and the tribes in the region of Souffian.

He said that Houthi fighters have surrounded the Yemeni military bases in the area. He also confirmed that both sides had suffered casualties but did not specify the number of killed or wounded from either side.

The Houthi source also said he did not rule out the possibility of Saudi and American involvement, saying the US was "intervening via Arab hands."

Northern Yemen witnessed violent clashes following a massive offensive in August 2009 on Houthi fighters who took arms against the Sunni-dominated Sana'a government for its repression against the country's Shia minority.

The offensive, soon joined by the Saudi military, took a heavy toll on civilians and drew repeated warnings of a humanitarian disaster before a ceasefire deal put an end to the conflict in February.
Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  no matter the death toll, it's always in our favor
Posted by: chris || 07/22/2010 22:34 Comments || Top||


Bangladesh
When Purbo Banglar commies attack
[Bangla Daily Star] Police are certain that banned Purba Banglar Communist Party (PBCP) gunned down three policemen in Pabna but could not detect why the outlaws attacked the unarmed lawmen.
Send in the Detective-Supervisors! This case takes superior detecting abilities.
Locals hinted that the Red-Flag faction of PBCP might have killed the policemen to take revenge for continuous crackdown on them by law enforcers. Many of their fellows got killed in "crossfire" in the outlaw-infested regions over the last couple of years.
Ladies and gentlemen of Rantburg, it appears there will be more Crossfire Gazettes in our future. Prepare yourselves to do it by the numbers... but not today. Today we mourn the death of three policemen, killed by Purbla Banglar Communist badmen in the line of duty.
A band of around eight criminals armed with sophisticated weapons
Definitely we need the Detective-Supervisors. Ordinary detectives are no match for sophisticated weapons.
first caught the policemen around 7:00pm
Henchmen are allowed to be awake that early? Never have I heard of a meeting of such before the dark hours of the night, when good people are long since a-bed.
Tuesday in Dhalarchar of Bera upazila on a remote shoal in the Jamuna River.
Dear me, all that? It's in a river, which gives us a chance of finding it. These Crossfire Gazettes have forced me to improve my mapreading skills.
The criminals dragged the three to local Maldar Bazar and shot them dead.
Dragged them? And in broad daylight, too, the vicious brutes!
Moments before the assault, the gunmen chanted a slogan "Police er khoy, amader joy" [damage to the police, victory to us].
Lawless, vicious brutes, with a nasty tendency toward bad doggerel. This drive toward originality must be suppressed, and quickly, before the sonnets appear.
"After observing all these things we are sure that an outlawed group made the attack," Deputy Inspector General of Rajshahi Range Police Mokhlesur Rahman told The Daily Star yesterday.
It takes a full deputy inspector general to develop such profound insights.
The attackers used sophisticated SMG rifles, fired around 30-35 shots and launched the attack with a slogan. All these suggest they were outlaws, he added.
Police Sergeant Belal wisely remained silently in the background.
Asked which outlawed group, he said it was the Red-Flag faction of PBCP.

The bodies of the slain policemen -- Sub-inspector Kafil Uddin, Nayek Abdul Wahed and constable Shafique -- were taken to their village home yesterday.
We can be sure their mothers loved them, and were not alone in their grief.
State Minister for Home Shamsul Haque Tuku visited the spot yesterday and directed the law-enforcement agencies to apply their maximum combat power to contain the extremists.

Inspector General of Police Nur Mohammed, Director General of Rapid Action Battalion Hassan Mahmood Khandker and other high officials accompanied the state minister.

Police and Rab have planned a massive crackdown combining forces from different adjoining districts to arrest the attackers.
Let all miscreants beware! The Rab have taken an interest in the situation. 'Twas they, after all, who invented the by-the-numbers operation.
The operation plan was taken at a meeting of top police and Rab officials at the office of Pabna superintendent of police yesterday afternoon with the IGP in the chair. The DG of Rab was also present.

During a visit to Dhalarchar it was found that most of the houses in the village where the policemen were killed were empty. No male or female was found for a talk despite visiting around 25 houses.
How odd. What could that mean?
They know what happens when the RAB takes an "interest". They wisely don't want to be the focus of that "interest".
The 32-square-kilometre shoal (char) near the conjunction of the Jamuna and Padma is home to around 25,000 people, mostly fishermen. The remote char has for long been used as a safe haven and hideout for different outlawed groups.
Oh. That's not good.
Police informant Abdul Gani
Aka "Abdul the Weasel"...
witnessed the killing as he was accompanying the victims during the attack. He said he along with four policemen from Dhalarchar camp went to Daspara to collect firewood in a buffalo-cart on Tuesday afternoon. "When we were returning to the camp after collecting the firewood, eight to 10 masked people equipped with firearms appeared and asked us to halt," he said.

One of the three slain policemen walking behind the wood-laden cart identified themselves as police, but the gunmen continued to ask them to halt and raise their hands, he added. "Kafil Uddin sir argued with them and asked why they would raise their hands and who they were. The gang then grabbed them, dragged them away to Maldar Bazar and gunned them down with a slogan," Gani continued.

"Another policeman luckily escaped as he was a little away to answer a call of nature. The gunmen did not bother about the cart driver as he passed the place a little earlier," Gani added.
The cop with the weak bladder was either very lucky or.....something else.
During his visit to the area, the state minister also vowed that everyone involved in the killings will be arrested and brought to justice. He sought help from people of the locality to help the law enforcers by providing information about the killers.
Which explains why the people are no where to be found
Later, the state minister along with the high officials of police and Rab took part in the namaj-e-janaza of the three policemen at Pabna police lines mosque around 2:00pm. Earlier, autopsy of the bodies were carried out at Pabna General Hospital morgue.
"They're dead, Jim."
"Dr. Quincy, how do you do it!"
Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Caribbean-Latin America
Sinaloa: Mexican Army Busts 19, Seizes Drugs and Weapons
Google Translate. For a map click here,
Elements of three different Mexican Army units arrested a total of 19 people, seized several kilograms of marijuana and seized a quantity of weapons in operations Tuesday, according to Mexican press accounts.

The Mexican 42nd Infantry battalion was carrying out local recon near the town of Angostura and found two warehouses totalling 10,000 square meters.

Soldiers arrested 16 men and seized 4251 kilograms of marijuana in 623 taped packages, and a vehicle and two trucks, one of which had a trailer with a secret compartment.

Meanwhile elements of the Mexican 8th Infantry Battalion patrolling near the village of El Roble in Mazatlan detained a man and a woman at a residence.

Inside the house the soldiers found: five kilograms of marijuana, a .50 caliber Barrett rifle, 13 AK-47 assault rifles, two AR-15 assault rifles, five handguns, a homemade explosive device, 71 magazines and 2,418 cartridges.
That seems rather a lot. Probably a good thing they've been taken off the street.
Also seized were: two trucks, one armored, 10 tactical vests, tactical clothing and accessories such as belt and holsters, night-vision devices, backpacks, boots, tunics, uniforms and helmets.
These people are serious.
At roughly the same time elements of the Mexican 94th Infantry Battalion operating in the PEMEX barrio in Culican, arrested a man at a residence and found: 248 grams crystal meth, 30,500 pesos ($2,382 USD), three pistols, four magazines and 31 cartridges.
Posted by: badanov || 07/22/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


More Mexican Mayhem
14 Die in Northern Mexican Violence

Fourteen people lost their lives in ongoing violence related to drug and criminal gang activity, including an unidentified CIPOL agent shot at in Juarez and an unidentified armed robber in Torreon, Coahuila.
See map here.
  • An unidentified 35 year old man was shot to death in Juarez Tuesday afternoon, say Mexican press reports. The attack took place near the intersection of calles Toronja Roja and Asfodelo, of the Lucio Blanco district when witnesses observed a Nissan Altima drop off two men at a residence, who then went inside the home and shot the victim to death.

  • A man was shot to death in Juarez, according to Mexican press accounts. Víctor Acosta Reyes, 25, was shot near the intersection of calles Grosella and Morelia of the Erendira district. Witnesses say he was shot four times in the head.

  • An unidentified man and woman were found shot to death north of Chihuahua, Chihuahua only hours after being abducted. The abduction took place near the intersection of Avenida Niños Heroes and Calle 31st Tuesday afternoon. Witnesses say the couple were forced from their van by a group of masked armed men who spirited them away in a car.

    The couple were found dead near the intersection of calles Corregidora and America Latina in the Miramar district. The couple were shot multiple times. Witnesses prior to the discovery of the corpses reported hear gunfire, signifying the two were shot at the location they were found.

  • A Chihuahua CIPOL agent was fired on by unknown assailants Tuesday night, according to the Mexican daily La Polaka. The agents was driving a Mercury Marquis when he was fired on by armed suspects near the intersection of Rinconada de las Torres when a State Police officer was burst at the intersection of Buffalo and Rincon de Extremadur in the Rinconada de las Torres district.

    The agent suffered injuries requiring hopsitalization.

  • An unidentified man was found dismembered in various locations in Juarez, according to the Mexican daily La Polaka. The gruesome discovery was made on various dirt roads around Zaragoza Plaza.

  • The owner of a hamburger stand and his employee were shot to death Tuesday night, according to Mexican press reports. The attack took place near then intersection of Calles Ramon Rayon and Lucero in the Hacienda de las Torres district when a pair of armed suspects surprised the two shooting them both. Investigators at the scene say a 9mm pistol was used in the attack. Police think the murders were because of protection money.

  • One unidentified man was shot to death and another was wounded in an armd assault in Juarez, according to Mexican news reports. The attack took place at a residence near the intersection of Calle Emilio Pacheco And Bulevar Zaragoza on the Infonavit Solidaridad district. Both men were shot with a 9mm pistols. The surviving victim is said to be the warden of the Juarez prison also known as CERESO.

  • Four people were shot to death Tuesday night in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, according to Mexican press accounts. The attacks took place at a residence near then intersection of Calles Rodolfo Zamudio, near calles Los Nogales Highway and Industry in the Chihuahua 2000 district of Chihuahua.

    Witnesses say the shooters descending from a Trail Blazer and a white gold Durango dressed in tactical gear, and started firing in the residence.

  • An unidentified armed suspect was shot to death by Coahuila state police agents during an attempted robbery of passengers aboard a bus late Tuesday night, say Mexican press reports.

    Three men were in the process of robbing passengers aboard a bus near the La Margarita commons near Torreon, Coahuila when Policia del Estado and Policia Preventiva agents intervened. The three suspects immediately exited the bus and began a firefight with the police agents. One armed suspect was shot to death while the other two escaped towards the mountains.

  • An unidentified woman in her 30s was found shot to death in a remote district of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, according to Mexican press reports. The find was made on San Roque Road in the Escamilla district at about 1030 hrs this morning. The woman has been shot in the head with a 9mm weapon, and was bound by her hands and feet, and gagged according to investigators.

From the You-Really-Should-Find-Another-Line-of-Work Department

A truck hijacker had to be rescued by police after he was beaten by a trucker in Juarez Tuesday, according to the Mexican daily Tiempo Authorities think the victim may have been been killed but for their intervention.

Uriel Humberto Herrera Rodríguez, 20, who has an apparent long criminal record had finished robbing a truck at gunpoint, when the victim radioed other truckers in the area about the crime. Rodriguez then fled on foot from the scene.

One of the truckers receiving the broadcast, caught up with Herrera Rodriguez near the intersection of calles JJ Calvo and Valleño and proceeded to beat him until police arrived to rescue the him.

The suspect had the gun he used for the robbery and the money he took on his person. The trucker was also arrested for assault.
Surely it will be ruled justifiable.
Posted by: badanov || 07/22/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russia:Terror Attack on Power Station Kills 2
H/T Free Republic and Snowy Thing
A daring terrorist attack on a hydropower station in the southern republic of Kabardino-Balkaria on Wednesday killed two police guards and stirred fears that Islamist militants, emboldened by a first success, might start pursuing other economic targets.

The attack, which saw three to five gunmen break into the 25-megawatt station and plant five bombs on the premises, marks a milestone for Islamist militants, who have threatened to attack economic targets across Russia since at least 2009 but never before succeeded.

The Baksan station, located 24 kilometers northwest of the regional capital, Nalchik, will be closed for six to eight weeks for repairs, Ali Sottayev, director of RusHydro's unit in Kabardino-Balkaria, said on NTV television.

No power outages resulted from the attack, Vesti state television reported.

The unidentified attackers entered the station at about 4:20 a.m., shooting the two guards to death, the station's owner, state-controlled RusHydro, said in a statement.

The attackers then captured and tortured two employees to find out the location of the generators, which are the core of the station, a RusHydro official told Gazeta.ru. The station has an alarm button, but the employees failed to react quickly enough to activate it, the report said.

The attackers struck one employee with the butts of their guns and slashed the other with a knife, but left them both alive, the official said. No other people were present at the station.

Moving on to the room housing the station's three generators, the assailants planted five bombs, four of which went off at about 5:25 a.m., RusHydro said. The fifth bomb was defused later by the Federal Security Service.

The resulting explosions destroyed two of the generators and sparked a fire that took 3 1/2 hours to put out, the Emergency Situations Ministry said.

But the station has no dam, which means that the neighboring area faced no danger of flooding, Channel One television reported.

A bomb exploded near a police station in the town of Baksan an hour before the attack in what investigators said was likely an attempt to distract the police. The bomb damaged several buildings but caused no injuries, the regional branch of the Investigative Committee said in a statement.

The power station bombs were planted in areas that inflicted the greatest possible damage, possibly indicating that former station employees were among the attackers, Vesti said.

No one has claimed responsibility for the attack, but a law enforcement source told RIA-Novosti that the attackers had been identified. "They are members of a gang led by a well-known rebel," the source said, without elaborating.

Lifenews.ru said the chief suspect was Asker Dzhappuyev, also known as Emir Abdullakh, who declared himself leader of Kabardino-Balkaria's militants after the previous leader, Anzor Astemirov, was shot dead by law enforcement officers in March.

Dzhappuyev has been blamed for a drastic increase in attacks in Kabardino-Balkaria in recent months, the report said.

Twenty-one explosions have occurred in the republic since June 1, and 13 others have been foiled, the news web site Kavkazsky Uzel said Wednesday.

President Dmitry Medvedev, who was on an official visit to Finland on Wednesday, was briefed about the attack by FSB chief Alexander Bortnikov and Kabardino-Balkaria President Arsen Kanokov, whose term expires in September, the Kremlin said in a statement.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin ordered Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin to ensure that the station be rebuilt "in the shortest time." The station was opened in 1936, making it one of Russia's oldest.

RusHydro said security had been stepped up at its all power stations across the country, especially in the North Caucasus.

"An order has been given for a high alert at all sites in the fuel and energy sector to prevent terrorist attacks," Sechin said, Channel One reported.

This is the first officially confirmed terrorist attack on a power station in Russia.

Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov claimed responsibility for the disaster at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydropower station in Siberia that killed 75 people last August and threatened to target other strategic sites in the future.

But the authorities have dismissed Umarov's claim, saying the disaster was the result of negligence and human error. No traces of explosives have been reported at Sayano-Shushenskaya.

Umarov also claimed responsibility for the March suicide bombings that killed at least 40 passengers in Moscow's metro.

Andrei Soldatov, an analyst on Agentura.ru who tracks the security services, said law enforcement agencies shared some of the blame for Wednesday's attack because they had not beefed up security at strategic sites.

"The rebels have openly showed their interest in these sites, and it's absolutely unclear why law enforcement agencies have not improved security measures there," Soldatov told The Moscow Times.

In November, Kabardino-Balkaria police foiled a terrorist attack at the Aushigerskaya power station when they discovered four kilograms of explosives and seven grenades in a forest about 200 meters away from the station.

In more recent attacks in Kabardino-Balkaria, an explosion at a racetrack in Nalchik killed one person and wounded at least 20 on May 1.

Several mobile phone towers and radio and television relay stations were blown up in a series of attacks in Kabardino-Balkaria on July 11.

Wednesday's attack coincided with a visit by the Kremlin's envoy to the North Caucasus, Alexander Khloponin, to Kabardino-Balkaria, where he met with Cossacks.

Khloponin called on the Cossacks -- who fulfilled many functions of the FSB and riot police in tsarist times -- to help fight the local threat of Islamist militants, Interfax reported.
Posted by: Sherry || 07/22/2010 14:55 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Tom Clancy started one of his novels...Red Storm Rising, iirc...with an attack on a major power transmission point.
By jihadis.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 07/22/2010 22:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Cookies are good.
Posted by: badanov || 07/22/2010 23:44 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
U.S. to blacklist more Nork entities, individuals in 2 weeks
WASHINGTON, July 21 (Yonhap) -- The United States said Wednesday it will blacklist more North Korean entities and individuals within two weeks to cut off money flowing to its leaders through the trafficking of weapons of mass destruction and counterfeit and luxury goods in violation of U.N. resolutions.

"We'll have more to say on the specific steps that will be taken in the next couple of weeks," State Department spokesman, Philip Crowley, said. "There will be additional State and Treasury designations of entities and individuals supporting proliferation, subjecting them to an asset freeze; new efforts with key governments to stop DPRK trading companies engaged in illicit activities from operating in those countries and prevent their banks from facilitating these companies' illicit transactions."

Crowley said that the U.S. will not only use existing measures like the Patriot Act, which "gives us the ability to go after known North Korean counterfeiting in money," but also establish "new executive authorities."

"It is to interrupt programs and funding that enable them to conduct these illicit activities: conventional arms exports; counterfeiting; drug trafficking," he said.

Crowley was following up on remarks by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who said earlier in the day that Washington will impose new financial sanctions on North Korea in response to the North's torpedoeing of a South Korean warship. The steps also are intended to press the impoverished nation to abandon its ambitions for nuclear and missile programs.

Clinton took note of Washington's freezing of more than US$25 million in North Korean accounts in Banco Delta Asia in 2005. The U.S. designated the Macau bank as an entity suspected of helping North Korea launder money it earned by circulating counterfeit $100 bills called supernotes.

"We did get some action from the North Koreans as a result of these steps that were taken at that time," she said. Clinton is currently in Seoul to attend the two-plus-two talks with Defense Secretary Robert Gates and their South Korean counterparts, as part of her weeklong tour of South Korea, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Vietnam.

A diplomatic source here, however, said, "I don't think Washington will single out any one foreign bank, like they did to the Banco Delta Asia. I understand they are coming up with general guidelines for financial sanctions on North Korea."

The U.S. lifted the freeze in early 2007 to entice the North to come back to the six-party talks. Washington officials have said the freeze effectively cut off Pyongyang's access to the international financial system and dealt the nation a devastating blow.

Scores of North Korean entities and individuals are already blacklisted.

North Korea, however, has been evading U.N. sanctions, Crowley said. "North Korean entities are adapting to the existing actions that we have been taking," the spokesman said, noting "the abuse of diplomatic privileges" involving North Korean diplomats "convicted of smuggling cigarettes, I believe, through diplomatic channels" in Sweden recently.

"North Korea in turn has adapted their networks, created front companies, entities in various countries," he said. "They look to see which countries have been effectively complying in enforcing U.N. Security Council resolutions."

Crowley urged China to do more in effective implementation of the U.N. sanctions. "In some cases we're seeing that on the surface it appears to be legitimate trade, but beneath the surface there's an illicit activity that supports the programs that are in fact sanctioned under U.N. Security Council resolutions," he said.
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#1  CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > [Robert Clappper]CIA WARNS NORTH KOREAN WILL TARGET US NAVY + JAPANESE NAVY | OBAMA CIA CHIEF-NOMINEE WARNS OF MORE NORTH KOREAN ATTACKS [agz US Allies in ROK-Region].

ARTIC > CLAPPER = warns that the US-World is entering a "DANGEROUS PERIOD" where the DPRK = NORTH KOREA may resort to VARIOUS TYPES OR KINDS OF UNILATERAL MILITARY OR OTHER VIOL STRIKES to accomplish its Goals.

Also in Artic > GOP SENATOR Kit B. indic that US ONI needs a STRONG CENTRAL FIGURE [as LEADER] lest the USA's 16 INTEL Agencies continue to suffer from detrimental Intra-/Inter-Agency probs as per INFO/INTEL-COLLECTION ACTIVITES + hence e. g. INDUCE THE USG TO FAIL IN GETTING NORTH KOREA [IMO also read,IRAN = ROGUE STATES] TO POSITIVELY CHANGE ITS COURSE.

* ION SAME > ANOTHER 500 CPLA DF-21D'S AIMED AT NEW DELHI + ARUNUCHAL PRADESH [China = SOuthern Tibet]

CMF POSTER > reminds that former Soviet SSR BELARUS had estimiated the WARHEAD MASS CAPACITY = NUC EXPLOSIVE YIELD of the DF-21 as being 25 Megatons or the equivalent of the capacity of the SOVIET SS-18 MOD "B" ICBM.

* CHINA DAILY > US-ROK DRILL IN YELLOW SEA "BY EARLY SEPTEMBER".

Also from CHINA DAILY > CHINA'S GRAIN RESERVES MAY BE CONTAMINATED, by GM-grains as tested in HK Laboratory.

IOW, GM-GRAINS, OTHER -CROPS? may not be DISEASE-RESISTANT as promoted or claimed???

STARVING NORTH KOREA meets STARVING CHINA???

* ION WMF > VIETNAM FURIOUS: CHINA'S PLAN TO PROMOTE, DEV INTERNATIONAL TOURISM ON PLA'S HAINAN ISLAND + OTHER VIETNAM-DISPUTED SOUTH CHINA SEAS ISLAND GROUPS ANGERS HANOI. BEIJING ACCUSED BY HANOI OF USING "TOURISM" AS A COVER TO FORCIBLY IMPOSE CHINESE SOVEREIGNTY ON DISPUTED ISLANDS [e.g. Paracels + Spratleys] INCLUD THOSE ISLANDS CAPTURED BY CHINA FROM VIETNAM DURING SINO-VIETNAM MIL CLASHES.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 07/22/2010 1:01 Comments || Top||

#2  WMF > "WALL STREET JOURNAL" + CSIS PACIFIC FORUM US MEDIAS: US + US NAVY DOES NOT REGARD THE YELLOW SEA AS LEGALLY "CLOSED" OR BARRED AGZ THE US-ROK NAVAL DRILL + INTERNATIONAL SHIPS.

* SAME WMF > THE REGIONAL FUN WID US OKINAWA BASES IS JUST STARTING: THE US IS QUIETLY, GRADUALLY RETREATING FROM EAST ASIA TOWARDS ITS GUAM BASE [Hawaii + US West Coast?] WHILE GUAM INCREASINGLY LEANS BACK POLITICALLY + ECON TOWARDS JAPAN.

* WMF > JAPAN TO FORTIFY ITS SOVEREIGN COASTAL/BORDER ISLANDS + YONAGUNI GARRISON WID NEW RADARS, RELATED ESM SYSTEMS TO MONITOR AGZ PLAN.

* WMF > SOUND THE DEATH KNELL: THE PENDINIG ARRIVAL OF THE "USS GEORGE WASHINGTON" NUCLEAR AIRCRAFT CARRIER IN YELLOW SEA PROVOKES THE RISE OF PLA HARDLINERS AGZ THE US + REGION.

* WMF > THE CPLAN AS NAVAL TIGER + FOX VERSUS WEAK DOVE: THE "USS GEORGE WASHINGTON" AIRCRAFT CARRIER + YELLOW SEA CRISIS SHOWS WHY CHINA NEEDS MANY AIRCRAFT CARRIERS, BALLISTIC MISSLE SUBMARINES, + AN ACROSS-THE-BOARD POWERFUL PLA TO BE A TRUE GLOBAL SUPERPOWER. THE USN'S AIRCRAFT CARRIER IS [already]A COMPLETE MULTI-CAPABLE BATTLESPACE SYSTEM THAN CAN STILL BE IMPROVED UPON, THE US NUCLEAR SUBMARINE FLEET SOON WILL BE THE SAME.

* WMF > NORTH KOREA + ITS RULING SOCIALIST REGIME HAS MOSTLY BUT NOT COMPLETELY LOST ITS NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL MANUFACTURING, ETC. SYSTEMS TO CHINA SINCE 1980 DECLARATION OF PERMANENT FRATERNITY BETWEEN THE CHINESE + DPRK COMMUNIST PARTIES AT THE WORLD SOCIALIST CONGRESS. RISING THREAT FROM JAPAN AGZ CHINESE-MADE/SUPPLIED CONSUMER, INDUSTRIAL GOODS INSIDE NORTH KOREA.

* WMF > THE TRUE SECRETS OF SINO-SOVIET AIR FORCE COMBAT OPERATIONS AGZ THE US DURING THE 1950-53 FIRST KOREAN WAR LIES BURIED IN THE VARIOUS SOVIET OR PEOPLE'S MARTYR'S MILITARY CEMETERIES IN AND AROUND PORT ARTHUR [Dalian Region of the Russian Far East].

ARTIC > PORT ARTHUR = CHINA's largest Mil Cemetery(s) for the dead from its 1950-1953 CHINESE PEOPLE'S VOLUNTEERS AIR FORCE [CPVAF].

* WMF > "YONHAP" SOUTH KOREAN MEDIA: SOUTH KOREAN FOREIGN MINISTER YU MYUNG-HWAN DEMANDS THAT NORTH KOREA FORMALLY APOLOGIZE FOR THE "CHEONAN" ATTACK + UNILATER PROMISE TO NEVER ENGAGE IN SUCH MIL/WAR-PROVOCATIVE ACTS AGZ SOUTH KOREA EVER AGAIN. FM MYUNG-HWAN SAYS THE US-ROK DO NOT NEED CHINA'S CONSENT TO HOLD A MIL DRILL IN THE YELLOW SEA AS CHINA ITSELF HAD NEVER ASKED PERMISSION OR OTHER APPROVAL FROM ITS SOVEREIGN NEIGHBORS TO HOLD PLA DRILLS IN SAME, + HAD NEVER SIGNED ANY INTERNATIONAL TREATY RECOGNIZING ITS SOLE DOMINION OER THE YELLOW + CHINA SEAS.

* WMF > SOUTH KOREA BEATS THR DRUMS OF WAR: SOUTH KOREA'S FOREIGN MINISTER SAYS THAT CHINA HAS NO RIGHTS TO STOP US-ROK NAVAL DRILL IN YELLOW SEA.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 07/22/2010 1:54 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Kurd rebels blow up Iran-Turkey gas pipeline
ANKARA — Suspected Kurdish rebels blew up a pipeline carrying natural gas from Iran to Turkey, forcing the shutdown of the conduit, officials said Wednesday. The powerful blast occurred overnight at a section of the pipeline near the eastern Turkish town of Dogubayazit, in Agri province, several kilometres (miles) from the Iranian border, a local official told AFP by telephone, without giving other details.

“The explosion is believed to have been carried out by members of the separatist terrorist organisation,” Agri Governor Ali Yerlikaya said in a statement, referring to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

Security forces were looking for the perpetrators, said the statement, carried by Anatolia news agency.

Television footage showed a large blaze raging over the pipeline after the blast which Anatolia said shattered the windows of nearby buildings.

The explosion cut the flow of Iranian gas, but an official at Turkey’s state oil and gas company BOTAS ruled out a supply shortage, saying that gas coming via pipelines from Russia and Azerbaijan was meeting the needs.

“There is no problem at the moment,” she told AFP.

Repairs at the damaged section of the Iranian conduit were expected to take about a week, she said, adding that the fire had been extinguished by Wednesday.

Russian energy giant Gazprom said Wednesday that it was increasing supplies to make up for the shortfall. Gazprom has increased its deliveries from 14 million cubic metres per day to 22 million cubic metres, the statement said.
Posted by: Steve White || 07/22/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I know the PKK is supposed too be a terrorist org. But I think I klinda like them. What's the saying the enemy of my enemy is my friend?
Posted by: chris || 07/22/2010 1:19 Comments || Top||

#2  The PKK has been responsible for thousands of civilian deaths over the past 4 decades; some were incidental to attacks on military targets but some were purely against civilian targets.

It is true that recent PKK killings have been mostly of Turkish military personnel. But pipeline sabotage goes back into the anti civilian territory.
Posted by: lord garth || 07/22/2010 8:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Years before the Iraq war, it could be foreseen that eventually the Kurds were going to become a serious problem. Because even though divided mostly between Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria, they were a major pain to all four of those countries.

The key difference between them and other restive minorities was that the Kurds were smart enough to realize that they could never militarily force their way into having a Kurdistan. So instead they went for western schooling to figure out other ways to get and keep a nation for themselves.

This paid off in spades with the formation of Iraqi Kurdistan, so now the Kurds in Turkey, Syria and Iran are, albeit quietly, redoubling their efforts for at first autonomy, the then unification with Iraqi Kurdistan.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 07/22/2010 10:04 Comments || Top||

#4  wonder how many Kurds have been killed by Iranian , Turkish AND Iraqi troops over the years? Also look at how well Kirkuk turned their city around very soon after the Iraqi war started. I think there should bee and independent Kurd state. They seem too wanna do better for themselves instead of taking handouts like the rest. Also hitting the pipeline hits the pocketbooks of the mullahs, so would hitting a power plant in Iraq or Iran be a civilian target too in a time of war?
Posted by: chris || 07/22/2010 10:07 Comments || Top||

#5  Go Kurds!
Posted by: Hellfish || 07/22/2010 12:37 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Taliban chief and helper 'die making bomb' in Pakistan
Ain't that a shame.
A Taliban commander and his assistant died when a bomb they were assembling blew up, Pakistani officials say.

The militant leader, Irshad Khan, is suspected of several attacks on Pakistani soldiers in the region.

Several of Khan's family were wounded when the device exploded at his home in the Bajaur tribal region of north-western Pakistan, officials said.
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/22/2010 13:35 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A "feel-good" story for today!
Posted by: gorb || 07/22/2010 14:24 Comments || Top||

#2  "when the device exploded at his home"...and Coyote too.
Oh God, please, stop me from laughing out loud, for so long.
Posted by: 2sealys || 07/22/2010 14:47 Comments || Top||

#3  talk about having too many chiefs and not enough indians. They have more commanders than the US military.
Posted by: chris || 07/22/2010 14:53 Comments || Top||

#4  Was a manly hug involved? Apparently quite a number of trainees have died that way just before leaving...
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/22/2010 16:52 Comments || Top||

#5  Ya don't build the thing at your own house. And you don't build it yourself. Ya let some schmollie build it, and blow himself up with his house.
Dumbass...
Posted by: tu3031 || 07/22/2010 17:19 Comments || Top||

#6  Shhhh, tu - don't tell the other dumbasses.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 07/22/2010 18:13 Comments || Top||


'Most wanted' militant killed in Indian-Administered Kashmir
[Dawn] One of Indian-Administered Kashmir's "most wanted" militants has been killed in a fierce gunbattle, dealing a blow to the insurgency in the volatile Himalayan region, the military said Wednesday.

A Pakistani identified as Nouman, commander of the Pakistan-based Harkat-ul-Mujahedin rebel group in Indian-Administered Kashmir, was killed in an overnight shootout with soldiers, army spokesman JS Brar told AFP.

Harkat-ul-Mujahedin is one of a number of groups fighting against New Delhi's rule in Muslim-majority Kashmir, which is divided between India and Pakistan. The most powerful group is thought to be Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).

In recent years, Harkat and LeT have carried out joint operations, a move military analysts put down to depleting recruitment.

Brar said Nouman was the Kashmir valley's "top most militant", wanted for a number of attacks including masterminding a nearly 24-hour siege at a hotel in the centre of Indian-Administered Kashmir's main city Srinagar in January.

"His death is a big jolt to insurgency in Kashmir," he said, adding Nouman was an expert bomb-maker.

The gunbattle that killed him took place in Sopore town, about 50 kilometres, north of Srinagar, and also left an unidentified accomplice and an Indian soldier dead.

In further violence, police said suspected militants shot dead a civilian in the southern district of Kishtiwar early Wednesday.

Kashmir has been hit by demonstrations since June 11, when police were accused of killing a 17-year-old boy. Since then, another 16 protesters and bystanders have been killed.

Indian police and paramilitary troops enforced a strict lockdown Wednesday in parts of the Kashmir valley after separatists called for fresh protests, while in Srinagar and other main towns a general strike called by the separatists disrupted life for the fourth day running.

More than 47,000 people have died in Kashmir since anti-India militants launched an insurgency in the scenic region in 1989.

The violence has declined sharply since India and Pakistan started a slow-moving peace process in 2004. Both nuclear-armed rivals hold the region in part but claim it in full.
Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Harkatul Mujahideen


Targeted killings claim 14 lives in Karachi
[Dawn] Incidents of firing continued in Karachi on Wednesday as three more people were killed and their bodies disposed.

The death toll of Karachi violence in the past 36 hours has now gone up to 14.

According to police sources, the three men were killed by unknown assailants and their bodies were disposed off in Karachi's Pak Colony, Surjani Town and Baldia Town. The body of the victim found in Surjani Town has been identified as Amjad Hussein.

The funeral for two of the three political workers killed in Gulistan-e-Johar last night was held today in Pehlwan Goth. The funeral for the third victim will be held in Alfalah's Green Town area.

During the funerals and protests against the killings, people restored to stone pelting and aerial firing causing businesses in the area to halt. Two people were also injured when unknown gunmen opened fire when the funeral procession was passing from Perfume Chowk towards Pehlwan Goth.

There remains a heavy presence of police and Rangers in the affected areas.
Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


At least 25 militants killed in Orakzai clash
[Dawn] At least 25 militants were killed in clashes with security forces in the Orakzai tribal region, DawnNews reported.

According to government sources, security forces were advancing through upper Orakzai's Dabori and Alikhel areas.

One soldier died during the clash while four others were injured.

More than 1500 militants have been killed during military action in the Orakzai tribal region in the past three months.

Due to army action in the region, militants in large numbers are fleeing to the neighbouring Kurram tribal region.
Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Iraq
Rocket attack kills 3 in Baghdad Green Zone
A rocket attack on Baghdad's international Green Zone on Thursday killed two Ugandans and a Peruvian working for a U.S. security contractor hired to protect U.S. facilities in Iraq, the U.S. embassy said. Fifteen people, two of them American, were wounded in the attack, the embassy said in a statement.

The dead and wounded all worked for the contractor Triple Canopy, a firm based in Herndon, Virginia, founded by U.S. special forces veterans. Its guards man security checkpoints for the embassy and U.S. military facilities in Iraq.

"This cruel and senseless attack will not deter the United States from carrying out its goal of working with the Iraqi government and people to build a democratic future," the embassy said.

U.S. officials declined to say exactly where the rocket landed. An Iraqi police source said it struck near the sprawling U.S. embassy complex.
Posted by: ryuge || 07/22/2010 13:24 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Army officer, 2 cops wounded in Mosul
NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: An army officer and two policemen were wounded in two separate incidents in Mosul on Wednesday, a security source said.

“A bomb, stuck to the vehicle of Colonel Aziz Soliman of the 3rd division of the Iraqi army, went off in al-Makouk village in al-Qayara district, south of Mosul, injuring him,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

“An improvised explosive device went off on Wednesday (July 21) targeting S.W.A.T vehicle patrol in al-Yarmouk region in western Mosul, injuring two policemen,” he added, without giving more details.
Posted by: Steve White || 07/22/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Car bomb explosion kills 28 in Iraq
[Iran Press TV Latest] At least 28 people have been killed and 46 others have been wounded in a car bomb explosion in the central Iraqi city of Baquba.

The explosion occurred near a mosque in the predominantly Shia neighborhood of Abu Sayeeda on Wednesday.

The strong blast also caused a building to collapse. Some reports, however, say that the explosion occurred near a crowded market.

Police officials say women and children are among the victims of the explosion, adding that the casualties are expected to rise.

Police have cordoned off the area, arguing that more bombs could be planted in the area.

Wednesday's blast is the latest in a series of deadly attacks in Baquba in recent days. Seven people were killed and 21 others were wounded on Monday after a car bomb exploded in front of a coffee shop in the Iraqi city.

Seven people were also wounded in a bomb blast in Jadidat al-Shat district west of Baquba.
Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Amazing how they target civilians.
Posted by: American Delight || 07/22/2010 5:57 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IDF kills 2 terrorists on Gaza border
After weeks of relative quiet, clashes erupted on the border with the Gaza strip on Wednesday as IDF troops opened fire at a terrorist cell approaching the border fence.

Two Palestinians were killed and several others were wounded by Israeli gunfire near Beit Herun in the northern Gaza strip. The dead men were reportedly known Islamic Jihad operatives.
Posted by: lotp || 07/22/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Southeast Asia
School director gunned down in southern Thailand
A school head was shot dead and two passers-by wounded Wednesday evening by a group of four terrorists presumed insurgents in the southern border province of Pattani, local police said. The bullet-riddled body was identified as Pichai Suasang, director of Ban Dusongpayae School in Yaring district.

According to preliminary police investigation, the educator was driving home in his car when assailants on two motorcycles fired at him. The victim died instantly.

Gunfire also hit two local residents on the roadside, both of whom were helped by a bystander. Police are seeking the suspects.
Posted by: ryuge || 07/22/2010 02:18 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Thai Insurgency


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Lebanon sentences Israeli spy to death
[Iran Press TV Latest] A military court in Lebanon has sentenced a Lebanese national to death on charges of spying for the notorious Israeli intelligence service, Mossad.

The former school principal, Hassan Ahmed al-Hussein, received the death penalty on Wednesday after the court convicted him of providing Israel with sensitive information in 2008 about the leadership of Hezbollah and the location of sites used by the resistance movement.

Ahmed al-Hussein, 59, is the third person to face the death penalty for spying for Israel since Beirut launched its crackdown on Israeli spy networks in 2009. None of the sentences, however, have so far been carried out.

Dozens of people have been arrested since last year on suspicion of collaborating with Mossad, including members of Lebanon's security forces and telecommunications personnel.

If convicted, the spies will face life sentences with hard labor. Should they be found guilty of contributing to the loss of Lebanese life, the agents will face capital punishment.

Earlier last week, Hezbollah Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah -- whose resistance movement repelled a 33-day onslaught launched by Israel in 2006 -- called on the Lebanese judiciary system to take the issue of Israeli spies more seriously, arguing that they have caused extensive damage to Lebanon.
Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:



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