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Aloha, still TAD on Kaua'i. Monday we had sea trials with PBPs. (Paddle Board, Personnel) Kilo Bravo did 5 or 6 crash dives before she figured it out. Still got my sea legs.
Today we took to the air and did some touch and goes on the Zip Lines, caught the number three wire seven times.
Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Angie Dickinson aka Sergeant Suzanne "Pepper" Anderson in "Police Woman" aka Beatrice Ocean in "Ocean's 11" (age 79)
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We'd prefer not to have overtly religious tracts posted. Could create problems knowing where the borders are down the road. Thanks.
AoS
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I fully understand the concern. However, it is unfortunate that we entertain literally tomes of data here in the Burg with regard to Islam, moderate Islam, 5 pillars, radical Islam, Islamic clothing, heritage, customes, sex, pattern of life, education, etc, but the mention of an, albiet fringe Christian theory is deleted less than an hour following it's post.
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Didn't see the post before it went, so can't say how or if it fits, but, as a Chisitian, I'm used to our views being toxic from the get go. That's how The Man said it would be. Mark of pride...
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Besoeker, we don't entertain the topics re: Islam here so much as we note them because of their relevance to the GWOT.
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You have my full and unconditional support Besoeker. As well as the generations of Americans who uniquely saw fit that freedom of speech included theory. It is this generation that has lost it all together and that is why His "light upon the hill" that has shown through this once great nation is being taken away once and for all.
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I saw it and to label it "War On Terror - Operations" was a stretch to say the least.
The piece attempts to fit current geopolitical developments and NEUTRON BOMBS into a framework of Biblical prophesy. I have a broad tolerance for dissenting or non-mainstream views; I will consider biased analysis, as well as inductive analysis. "If everyone is thinking alike then someone isn't thinking." - G.S.Patton However, (the infamous however) this wasn't so much an analysis as a heap paragraphs.
It is wrong on the geopolitics, wrong on the theology, and a complete waste of my time. It has zero utility as an explainer or predictor of world events. It's a recruitment tract for Christianity -- the End is Nigh, so join up before it's too late. That is the only thread that unifies that jumbled mess.
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Sure thang Pstanley. Scortched earth certainly wouldn't apply here! It did at Hiroshima - Berlin and recently the World Trade Center and sections of the Pentagon reduced to burning rubble. Oh my, that was us! Therefore, I am left to conclufe that "it" has only just begun.
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I have a broad tolerance for dissenting or non-mainstream views..... I will consider biased analysisIt is wrong on the geopolitics, wrong on the theology, and a complete waste of my time. It has zero utility as an explainer or predictor of world events. It's a recruitment tract for Christianity -- Pstanley
Someone! Anyone! Please Help me to my feet!!!!!
Whahahahahaa
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As well as the generations of Americans who uniquely saw fit that freedom of speech included theory.
That's all very noble, Zebulon Unaish5931/wr, but you wrote without thinking it through. Freedom of speech refers to public government spaces only, not private spaces. Rantburg is a private space, more specifically Fred Pruitt's private space, into which he has put a great deal of his own money and even more of his time. It's as private as the living room of his home; we are his guests here only so long as he chooses to play host to us. Anyone who finds this objectionable should find a more congenial spot.
Please note, Besoeker gracefully accepted the ruling that the article he posted is not suitable for this site. If you or anyone else chooses to fuss inappropriately about rights, I will personally ban his IP address until such time as he persuades Mr. Pruitt that he's learnt to mind his manners.
My clue bat is decorated with lovely periwinkle ribbons. It is nonetheless useful when needed.
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If it's not War on Terrorism, then it DOESN'T BELONG ON RANTBURG. Far too many of you treat Rantburg as the "silly link of the day" type of website. Look, it's a video of a monkey feeding a cat bananas! Har har har! Or here, a tour of St. Peter's Basilica filmed by a wall-climbing robot! Amazing!
It's nice to have a vaguely related link once in a while, but a steady diet of WoT is absolutely required. Go elsewhere to post your junk links, God knows the internet has enough places.
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So? Won't do you any good? This non-public, very publicly exposed ip address is here when the same blog would get you and any other AoS 19 years in prison in many other places. It is ironic and etraordfinarily short sighted as to how such common threats are considered even realavent. The approach has NOT led to the capture of Bin Laden, has not stopped the ever increasing influ of Islam in the US, did not prevent the massacre of over a dozen unarmed troops at a military base only a few miles from my home, but one thing you sure can do is BAN the ip address of your fellow Patriots. Go for it!
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So? Won't do you any good? This non-public, very publicly exposed ip address is here when the same blog would get you and any other AoS 19 years in prison in many other places.
I'm very confused, wr/etc. Is it your position that you can say whatever the fuck you want because of freedom of speech and, because you choose to use an IP masking thingy, you are willing to get many other Rantburgers inadvertently banned to maintain that right?
Or are you saying something else in a way that I am completely unable to parse from the your statement #12? If so, what? Please state in succinct and blunt sentences.
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My clue bat is decorated with lovely periwinkle ribbons. It is nonetheless useful when needed.
HAHAHA! Now that is the snark of the day! I did not read the article, so I don't get a vote here. But I do believe that other than war related issues, Religion needs to be kept off the burg. Last thing we need is all the crazies talking god and abortion, going to hell, and on and on. Its bad enough with the uber libs and their name calling.
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Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, etc. apparently are, though. LOL.
Because it's commentary on the fascination by the media with cultural vapidness and stupidity, to the (deliberate, IMNSHO) exclusion of serious journalism?
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got to the party late tonight guys, but I just want to say I find you guys quite intelligent and witty, compared to other sites.
gracious even in defeat. or even in de' feet
Some actual adult discourse (well, mostly)
carry on.
periwinkle ribbon decorated clue bat indeed
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I've never been to any blog that didn't basically have a "management reserves the right to deny service (throw you out, have your post or comment scrubbed, etc.) for any reason or no reason at all" policy. Most all bars and many other public accommodations operate this way. As long as it isn't racial / gender discrimination, there's no law against operating that way. I really hate the faulty thinking that equates religious discrimination with racism, because you can, nominally (in theory) choose your religion. You cannot choose your race (though that doesn't stop some from trying). That some "races" (I'm of the opinion there's only ONE human race) seem ineluctably wedded to certain religions doesn't make religious discrimination the same as racism. It just doesn't...
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Shows you how dumb I am - I thought the teaser line meant Hal Lindsey the actor.
Clicked through, saw a bunch of loony ravings, thought WTH?, and went on about my monkey business.
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[Iran Press TV] A pirate ringleader is to be executed after his death sentence was passed down by a court in the breakaway Somali state of Puntland.
Salah Mohamed Gelle has received the execution sentence for murdering Sayid Jacfar, the Pak skipper of hijacked fat merchantman the MV QSM Dubai, in early June.
He along with seven other pirates took part in the assault but is the only one facing a death sentence, while the others face jail terms of between 10 and 17 years.
Some of the jailed pirates were also ordered to pay minor fines of roughly $2,000 (£1,260) by the Bossasso court in Puntland.
The presiding judge, Mohamed Yusuf, told AFP that "Salah Mohamed Gelle, the first defendant was found guilty of killing the captain Sayid Jacfar and therefore was sentenced to execution."
The ship, a 15,000-tonne Panama-flagged vessel, was captured in the Gulf of Aden on June 2.
Puntland an autonomous state within Somalia since 1998 has in recent times become a notorious base used by local pirates from which their operations are launched.
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See, Puntland will deal with pirates.
There would be NO more piracy in the Indian Ocean/Gulf of Aden if the UN funded Dr Farole's administration in Puntland instead of the Transitional Federal Government in Nairobi.
the TFG sip lattes all day at Java House while african union troops try to defend the couple of blocks they "control" in MOgadishu.
There are more than 500 UN welfare sucking members of the TFG. Most are in Kenya.
[Bangla Daily Star] A member of dread Gono Mukti Fouz (GMF) was killed in a 'shootout' with coppers in sadar upazila of Kushtia early yesterday.
The dear departed was identified as Sahidul Islam, 30, of Bhadalia village of Kushtia sadar.
Kushtia police said a team led by Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Chokdar Abdul Halim raided Swastipur village on information that Sahidul and his aides were holding a meeting there around 12:15am. Early meeting. The ringleader Tivoed a soccer match and wanted to watch it before the missus recorded her shows. Sensing their presence, My spider sense! It's tingling again! To arms! Aux barricades! the festivities commenced in earnest, said the ASP.
Sahidul was deader than Tut after the shootout though his accomplices managed to evaporate, he claimed.
Police recovered one LG, 12 bullets and five bombs from the spot.
According to Kushtia Sadar Police Station records, Sahidul was accused of six cases including two for murders.
With this, a total of 11 'crossfire' incidents took place in Kushtia since January 1 this year killing 12 alleged criminals.
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Police recovered one LG, 12 bullets and five bombs from the spot.
The shutter gun being unavailable for loan from the RAB.
Google Translate. For a map, click here. This roundup is from two firefights Mexican Marines had with the bad guys three days ago.
Mexican Marines rounded up a total of 30 suspected members of the Gulf Cartel, including a woman, in operations spanning two days, according to Mexican press reports.
Seized in operations, including the haul two days ago, were 43 rifles, 10 pistols, two rocket launchers, a rocket, 21 hand grenades, 318 magazines, 24 hand grenades, 9,881 rounds of ammunition, 10 bullet-proof helmets, six tactical vests, communication equipment, military-style uniforms, more than MP $3,588.00 and USD $343.00 and two kilograms of suspected cocaine, and two vehicles.
In a press release SEMAR claims it executed a series of operations probably meaning a number of Gulf Cartel safe houses were raided for contraband and suspects.
A total of eight armed suspects died in firefights with Mexican Marines since Monday. One marine was killed in action.
Quite a haul compared to the shutter gun and 3 round of bullet from a typical RAB op.
The Mexican Marines seem quite busy these days. What's the scoop on these guys? The Mexican federal police are more famed for their corruption than their competence, if you get my drift and I like to know who I am cheering for.
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I was sunbathing on a Guaymas beach, and several Marine squads walked orderly by with uzis at the ready. They LOOKED like the real thing, not to be messed with. But in Mexico, who knows? My hunch is that the navy is less corruptible...
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The Mexican military of all institutions involved in the war on drugs in Mexico, including the government, the state, local and federal police, the lawyers, and the press, are the most honored and trusted institutions.
The lawyers at the PGR may not properly prosecute offenders, or the police may be taking payoffs, but when the military guns down bad guys, Mexicans appreciate the effort,and usually openly express their love for their soldiers.
You can't go wrong rooting for the Mexican military against the bad guys.
Mexican Marines, much like our beloved USMC, are hard chargers, and like the USMC often bring their own air support (they like to mount snipers aboard helos)
The Mexican military overall usually has a large kill ratio versus the spray and pray crowd, so they usually win firefights pretty handily.
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An explosive device thought to be a hand grenade was detonated at the city hall building of Matamoros, Tamaulipas Wednesday, according to Mexican news accounts.
The attack took place at about 1015 hrs today in front of the building. Two unidentified female passers-by were wounded in the explosion.
The mayor of Matamoros, Erick Silva Santos, was not in the building at the time of the attack.
The last hand grenade attack in Matamoros preceded a major intergang and gang versus military confrontation last September 15, when a grenade was thrown into the offices of the Procuraduria General de la Republica (PGR), the Mexican national attorney generals office.
Ten individuals were shot to death in drug and gang related violence in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, including two Mexican Federal agents shot to death at a hotel in Juarez Wednesday. For a map, click here
An unidentified wounded man fleeing his attackers arrived at a hospital only to be finished off in Juarez Tuesday night, according to Mexican news sources. The victim arrived at the Hospital del Sol on Calle Tomas Alba Edison in the Cordova Americas district aboard his Ford Expedition, only to be intercepted by several armed suspects and shot to death.
Two unidentified men were shot to death in the same crime in Juarez late Tuesday night, say Mexican news reports. The first victim was dumped out of a sedan handcuffed, and then shot to death near the intersection of calles Luis Pasteur and Niños Heroes in the Futuro district. A man working in a garden nearby was also shot by the same armed suspects presumably because he was a witness to the murder.
A brawl in juvenile court in Juarez Wednesday leaves one juvenile wounded, say Mexican news reports. Reports fail to make clear the nature of the fight, except to note one male young man was wounded by a knife and by a gunshot hit.
Two unidentified Mexican Federal intelligence agents were shot to death in Juarez Wednesday afternoon, according to Mexican press accounts. The shooting took place at the Hotel Verde near the intersection of calles Samaniego and Altamirano. in the Bellavista district where two men said to be plainclothes Mexican Federal police were shot by unknown assailants.
A young man in his 20s was shot to death in Juarez Wednesday afternoon, say Mexican news accounts. Alejandro Hernandez Moreno, 22, was shot by armed suspects as he attempted to flee an attack by armed suspects near the intersection of calles Artemio de Valles Arizpe and Mariano Cuevas in the Infonavit Casas Grandes district, where he was in a park with his girlfriend. The unidentified teenage female was also wounded in the attack and was transported by family to receive medical attention.
An unidentified street newspaper vendor was shot to death Wednesday afternoon, according to Mexican press accounts. The man was a vendor for the PM periodical. He approached a car to sell a newspaper, but was shot instead. Several 9mm spent shell casing were found at the scene.
Two men were found shot to death late Tuesday night in a township near Parral, Chihuahua, say Mexican press reports. Javalera Urtuzuastegui, 35, and Saul Diaz Javalera, 35, were found shot to death aboard an Ford Lobo pickup truck in the Ballaza township. Inside the vehicle were found .223 caliber and .38 Super spent shell casings.
An unidentified man in his 30s was found shot to death in Meoqui, Chihuahua, say Mexican press accounts. The victim was found on a vacant lot between calles Manuel Chao and Toribio Ortega dead fro a single gunshot wound to the head.
(Itar-Tass) - A total of 14 beturbanned goons were destroyed on Wednesday in two special operations conducted in Dagestan, the information centre of the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) told Itar-Tass. "Security and interior forces under command of the operational headquarters in the Republic of Dagestan are conducting two counterterrorism operations during which, according to data as of 13:40, Moscow time, 14 bandidos were neutralised - 9 in Kaspiisk and 5 - in Makhachkala," the NAC said.
It particularly stressed that "the operational headquarters involved in negotiations with the gunnies their close relatives, in order to persuade them to surrender to the authorities and minimise casualties, however, the bandidos opened intensive fire on the places where the negotiators were staying."
The gunnies's resistance was suppressed. "Measures are being taken to find the remaining members of bandit groups," the NAC said. At present special task force units are penetrating the blocked premises and starting to examine them.
"There are no casualties among the police and security officers at the moment," the NAC information centre reported. "The area of the operation is still condoned off. The legal regime of the counterterrorism operation is still in effect," it added.
Two special operations against members of sabotage-terrorist groups acting in the republic's territory were launched by the operation headquarters in Dagestan at 06:30, Moscow time. They were started based on information of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB).
"Groups of gunnies were blocked in the Semender settlement on the outskirts of Makhachkala and in Kaspiisk near the Khazar health centre in private houses by forces of the FSB antiterrorist special centre, FSB department for Dagestan and the republic's Interior Ministry, as well as units of Russian Interior Ministry Troops. They offered armed resistance when urged to surrender," the NAC said.
It is the biggest success of active counterterrorism actions in the North Caucasus over the past month.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] The youngest son of ailing leader Kim Dear Leader Jong-Il has taken over powerful posts in North Korea's ruling party, state media said today, confirming his status as heir apparent in the nuclear-armed nation.
Kim Jong-Un was named one of two vice-chairmen of the central military commission of the Workers' Party of Korea and a member of its central committee, a day after his father appointed him a four-star general.
"Now the crown prince has all he needs to become the next leader," said Choi Jin-Wook, senior analyst with the South's Korea Institute for National Unification.
Jong-Un's high position on the military commission chaired by his father gives him considerable authority over one of the world's largest armed forces, numbering almost 1.2 million.
The speed of his ascent may indicate the 68-year-old father's health is worse than believed, some analysts said.
Kim Jong-Il, who took over from his own father and national founder Kim Il-Sung, suffered a stroke in 2008 and is also thought to have kidney problems.
The Swiss-educated son, believed aged about 27, had never been named in state media before this week. No adult photograph has been seen outside the secretive communist nation.
The United States is "watching and looking for details (on the son) just about like everyone else," said Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell, adding he would visit Japan and South Korea next week to discuss the changes.
The appointments were announced after a one-day conference of the communist party, its highest-level gathering for 30 years.
"Kim Jong-Il is giving his son Jong-Un an incubating period by surrounding him with those he trusts," Park Myung-Lim of Seoul's Yonsei University told Yonhap news agency. The Kim dynasty has ruled with an iron fist since the country was founded in 1948.
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SO, either daddy Kim is Dead, or Dying, dictators NEVER give up power voluntarily.
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"It is reported that he attended the English-language International School of Berne in Berne, Switzerland, until 1998 under a pseudonym, although this is disputed. He speaks his native Korean, and is fluent in English and knows some German, Bernese German, and French. He enjoys skiing and basketball and is a fan of Michael Jordan and Jean-Claude Van Damme."
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I guess the old man threw my resume in the round filekeeper. Additionally, Angelina Jolie has never asked me out for a date. These people don't realize the quality they are ignoring!
ISLAMABAD -- An employee at Pakistan's state-run Islamic advisory body has been detained for allegedly playing an important role in assisting the failed New York Times Square car bomber, an intelligence officer said Thursday.
And who would know better about the movements of Paks than an ISI intelligence officer?
The suspect accompanied Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistan-American bomber, to Pakistan's northwest to meet militant leaders, said the officer.
"And this is Muhammed, and this is Mohammid, and this is Mohammad, and this guy, we just call him Mo."
"Pleased to meet all of yas!"
The suspect, identified as Faisal Abbasi, was with Shahzad throughout his time in Pakistan, the officer said. He said Abbasi worked for the government's Council of Islamic Ideology, which advises on Islamic affairs.
And also ensures that the various cut-throats in Wazoo and the Northwest Frontier have the proper ideology, and that the cut-throats sent on missions abroad are properly hopped up with religion ...
The secretary general of the council confirmed Abbasi had worked there but had been on "vacation" for the last three months.
"Vacation, huh? Where you been?"
"Manhattan."
"Why'd you go there?"
"I wanted to see the Twin Towers."
Pakistan has already charged three men with assisting Shahzad while in Pakistan and sending him money in America. Shahzad, who lived in Connecticut, is due to be sentenced in the United States on Oct. 5. He has pleaded guilty to the May 1 failed bombing in New York.
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we need too cut off the Paks supply too oxygen. Nuke afghan and pakistan and good fucking riddance.Sena all gas station owners back first though
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Chris,
Nuking Afghan is a waste of a bomb.
However Pakistan and Somalia on the other hand.....?
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I am all for it.
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we have plenty of nukes too spare , besides 1 or 2 nukes prob wouldn't cost as much as all the other munitions already fired there and what is too come.
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Don't we have neutron bombs, which, IIUC, are supposed to kill the people but leave the buildings intact?
We need to drop a few of those in "interesting" places (Somalia, etc.). Then watch the people who move in and take over the buildings. If they're as murderous as the former residents, rinse and repeat until half-way decent people take over.
(By half-way decent, I mean people whose reason for living isn't to either suck us dry moneywise or kill us.)
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A NATO helicopter attacked a Pakistani border post near Afghanistan on Thursday, killing three troops, security officials in Pakistan said.
Later, government officials said they were ordered to stop trucks carrying supplies for international forces from entering Afghanistan at a major border crossing.
NATO said it was investigating the allegations and whether they were linked to an operation against insurgents in a nearby Afghan province.
The accusations and the fallout were likely to exacerbate tensions between Islamabad and Washington, which is struggling to beat back a resurgent Taliban movement in the nine-year-old Afghan war. Over the weekend, NATO choppers fired on targets in Pakistan, killing several alleged insurgents they had pursued over the border from Afghanistan.
Islamabad protested the intrusion into its territory that has inflamed already pervasive anti-American sentiments among Pakistanis.
On Thursday, two government officials told The Associated Press they were ordered to stop NATO supply trucks from crossing into Afghanistan at the Torkham border post, a major entryway for NATO materials at the edge of the Khyber tribal region. No reason was given for the blockage, but earlier this week Pakistan threatened to stop providing protection to NATO convoys if the military alliance's choppers attacked targets inside Pakistan again.
Pakistani security officials differed on the exact location of the deadly airstrike, saying it took place either in Upper Kurram or Upper Orakzai. The remote, mountainous tribal regions neighbour each other. The border between them, as well as the one with Afghanistan, is poorly marked.
Many of the border troops wear uniforms that resemble the traditional Pakistani dress of a long shirt and baggy trousers - which could make it hard to distinguish them from ordinary citizens or insurgents.
The dead men were from a paramilitary force tasked with safeguarding the border, the Pakistani security officials said. Their bodies were taken to the region's largest town of Parachinar, one official said. Three troops also were wounded.
The Pakistani officials all spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation and because in some cases they were not authorised to release the information to the media.
Lieutenant Colonel John Dorrian, a spokesman for intelligence and special operations at NATO headquarters in Kabul, said coalition forces observed early on Thursday what they believed were insurgents firing mortars at a coalition base in Dand Wa Patan district of Paktia province in eastern Afghanistan.
"A coalition air weapons team called for fire support and engaged the insurgents," he said. "The air weapons team reported that it did not cross into Pakistani air space and believed the insurgents were located on the Afghan side of the border."
Dorrian said NATO was reviewing the reports to see if the operation in Paktia was related to Pakistan's reports its forces were hit by NATO aircraft.
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Those troops ('troops'?) would probably be fine if they were not shooting at us, and really were on the Pakistan side of the border. Timing is too convenient - Talibunnies have been getting whacked hard & needed a break like this will give them - I smell a rat.
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Incoming mortar rounds coming from a Point of Origin (POO) co-located with a border checkpoint? The perfect example of both lazy and stupid. Nice shooting NATO. Make sure this new TTP is widely disseminated to all the crews.
"When I am president, we will wage the war that has to be won. The first step must be to get off the wrong battlefield in Iraq and take the fight to the terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan."
[Iran Press TV] Washington has reportedly conveyed the message that the B.O. regime will no longer tolerate safe havens for bully boyz in Pakistain to President Asif Ali (Ten Percent) Zardari.
Senior US officials have told Zardari during a series of secret meetings that President Barack B.O. Obama claims the cancer of terrorism exists in Pakistain, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
The meetings took place in Islamabad after US officials blamed the failed Time Square attempt in New York a US citizen of Pak descent.
In other words, to the Iran PressTV reporter, the events of early May are breaking news. In fairness, he is following the excitement of the Washington Post about Mr. Woodward's new book on the Obama presidency, but even so.
The report comes as Western media reports said that the Pakistain-based gunnies were planning simultaneous strikes in major European cities.
However, The infamous However... Pak military front man Major General Athar Abbas has dismissed the reports as speculative.
And so he must. After all, the ISI's various pet jihadi groups ultimately answer to the Pakistani army's policy goals.
"We don't have any credible information from sources that any such planning is taking place or bully boyz are planning anything in North Wazoo."
"We don't discuss such things when we get together for the weekly poker game. Simply to mention it would be too gauche for words."
North Wazoo, one of the most volatile regions in Pakistain, has been targeted more than 65 times this year alone by unmanned US drones, with September seeing more attacks than any other month since the unauthorized strikes began.
Americans: doing jobs Pakistanis won't.
These non-UN-sanctioned attacks by US troops, which were initiated by former US president George W. Bush and have continued under President B.O., have drastically increased in recent weeks at a time when devastating floods have taken their toll on the South Asian country.
The non-UN sanctioned thingy is as much a blatant lie as the one that Israel behaved illegally when her troops stopped the Gaza flotilla. Oddly enough, both lies come from the same mouths.
The developments also come days after two helicopters operated by the US-led forces in Afghanistan crossed into Pakistain's volatile tribal areas, killing at least 50 people.
Experts believe that Obama's harsh tone suggests that the US and its Western allies are expanding their military agenda and occupation policy in the name of war on terror across the volatile region.
It would be wise if Pakistan's real rulers listened to the experts, for once.
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The report comes as Western media reports said that the Pakistan-based militants were planning simultaneous strikes in major European cities.
Another leaked report? Gee what a cowinkeedink? And the gullible MSM is so ignorant they try to insinuate that the recent targets of opportunity in Wazoo were meant to disrupt an elaborate attack in Western Europe.
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Why does Bambi acting tough remind me of a boy yelling, "Yeah, take that!" at someone from behind his mother's skirts, then squeaks and ducks back behind them when the bully gives him a mean look?
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Administration frustration and desperation could possibly be responsible for public statements such as this. A 2011 troop pull-out of any magnitude or 2012 political consequence cannot be realized during a broadening or expansion of the conflict. Things here at home and abroad are going entirely in the wrong direction for Obama, hence the desperate blatherings.
BAGHDAD The top U.S. commander for Baghdad warned Wednesday that Iraqs prolonged political crisis has encouraged militants to step up attacks and left civilians so frustrated they could be holding back crucial tips on suspected insurgent cells.
The assessment by U.S. Brig. Gen. Rob Baker is the most direct link by American military brass between Iraqs nearly seven-month impasse on forming a government and a recent spike in violence that has included rocket strikes blamed on Shiite militias and targeted killings by suspected Sunni hit squads against security officials and government workers.
Bakers comments also boost U.S. pressure on Iraqi political leaders to finally pull together after March elections, which were narrowly won by a Sunni-backed coalition but without enough parliament seats to push aside the Shiite-led government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki who seeks to hold on to power.
Baker said he believes Sunni insurgents interpret the political vacuum as a prime chance to undermine the credibility of Iraqs leadership and security forces and accelerate the discontent among Iraqis hoping for a resolution.
What they will do is try to accelerate that by intimidating the citizens by attacks and by trying to discredit that organization that is trying to protect the citizens, which is the security forces, he told reporters. So that is one reason weve seen an uptick in the attacks against security forces.
He also said Shiite militias some with suspected ties to Iran or loose links to various Iraqi political factions have recently boosted attacks on U.S. forces and rocket barrages on Baghdads protected Green Zone. He attributed it internal Shiite rivalries for bragging rights to claim that U.S. forces are departing Iraq under fire. About 50,000 U.S. soldiers remain in Iraq and full withdrawal is planned by the end of next year.
Theres an intra-Shiite struggle for power ... and that manifests itself in violence, Baker said.
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It could be a LOT more violent (think Lebanon a few years ago and maybe again soon.) They seem to have found the political center so well that they have gridlock (not always a bad thing.) The fighting seems to be mainly by small fringe elements, so far. And all with our troops 'officially' standing down.
SALAH AL-DIN / Aswat al-Iraq: Four policemen were seriously wounded in two thermal bombs explosions in central Samarra, a source from the Samarra Operations Command said on Wednesday.
Gunmen threw 2 thermal hand grenades on police forces in al-Shurta neighborhood in central Samarra, injuring four policemen, the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
Samarra, the largest city in the province of Salah al-Din, lies 120 km north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
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[Arab News] The Paleostinian negotiator Nabil Sha'ath ... who has been "negotiating" since about the late Pleistocene...
on Tuesday said that the there will be no new rounds of direct peace talks with Israel unless a solution on Jewish settlement building is reached. Whoa! Nobody saw this one coming, did they?... Oh. Never mind. Perennial US envoy George Mitchell arrived in the Middle East on Tuesday to try the same old tiresome routine all over again, as Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbassulked and complained and demanded the renewal of a moratorium on Israeli settlements without offering anything in return.
Abbas said he will not respond to the move until he hears the Last Trumpet meets with the Paleostinian leadership this week and Arab foreign ministers on Monday, but that settlements should be halted for the duration of the peace talks.
"We demand a moratorium for as long as there are negotiations, because for as long as there are negotiations there is hope," he told a French radio station on Tuesday during a visit to Paris. There have been "negotiations" since approximately 1948 1/2. We're all just oozing hope, by Gum.
"We don't want to stop these negotiations, but if settlement building continues, we will be obliged to stop," Abbas said. They didn't want to start the negotiations with the Hated Zionists™ and they're not offering anything of value to put a hold on construction.
Sha'ath, also member of Fatah's Central Committee, said in a statement that the direct peace talks, which the US relaunched on Sept. 2, will remain suspended "as long as the Israeli government doesn't stop settlement construction." On Sunday, Israel ended a 10-month partial moratorium on building in the West Bank settlements, provoking the Paleostinian Authority (PA), which had threatened to pull out of the talks with Israel if the moratorium would not be extended. The United States and the European Union have also called on Israel to renew the building freeze.
Sha'ath said that the Paleostinian leadership was hoping to hear an Israeli decision extending the moratorium by Oct. 4, when the Arab foreign ministers will meet in Cairo to assess the negotiations and decide on their future. The Paleostinian negotiator stressed that the Paleostinians will not accept any middle-ground compromise to the settlement.
"There is no alternative to one formula ending this crisis: the full stopping of the settlement building, even for a specific time."
The development came as Mitchell was expected to meet Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Wednesday and Abbas in the West Bank on Thursday but, as on previous visits, he was unlikely to comment publicly on the content of the talks.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Paleostinian negotiators had "wasted time" during the moratorium but added that it was important to "keep the political process alive."
For "nine months the Paleostinians wasted time and completely refused to accept this gesture and accused Israel that it's a fraud, it's not serious," Lieberman said after meeting with UN Secretary General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... the founder of Israel Land Fund Aryeh King on Tuesday announced that building of dozens of housing units for Jewish occupier in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah will begin soon.
King said that the decision of Israeli High Court of Justice has "prevented the owners from using land they owned for almost 10 years. Now that things have changed, we'll be able to begin building."
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Israel always does badly in "Peace" negotiations. Maybe we should hire a negotiator.
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the boxed DVD set is out and around for some time now :-)
and Serenity, the movie
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A definite thumbs-up on Firefly.
As for the failed 'peace negotiations', I blame the Juice. (yeah, me and the rest of the world!) If they would just throw themselves into the sea, the Arabs could get back to fighting amongst themselves as God intended.
A WOULD-be terrorist died after the homemade bomb attached to his bicycle handlebars exploded on Jakarta's outskirts.
Darwin always wins, sometimes sooner rather than later.
The device, packed with nails and ball bearings, exploded near a police post and a market on Thursday morning in the satellite city of Bekasi.
The unidentified 38-year-old was rushed to hospital with face, neck and torso injuries but died within hours. No one else was hurt.
Let us hope it was excruciatingly painful, even if there was no time for sepsis.
The man was carrying a suicide note saying he was seeking revenge against the enemies of Islam.
"This is revenge against you, the allies of Satan, who have killed, executed and detained mujahidin (holy warriors)," read the note, shown on Indonesian television.
"We are ready to die for this noble religion.
"This martyr's bomb is for all you infidels.
"We will chase you, even if you run to heaven.
"Your death is certain.
"Mujahidin still lives in Indonesia."
Police sources told local media they believe the man had been targeting a traffic police post but had botched the attack.
Islamic militants killed three Indonesian police officers in North Sumatra last week in apparent retaliation for an earlier police raid that killed three militants.
Police have killed or arrested scores of suspected terrorists since discovering a Jemaah Islamiah-linked terrorist training camp in Aceh in February.
Found the mailing list, did they?
Indonesia's last major terrorist attack occurred in July 2009, when suicide bombers targeted two luxury hotels in downtown Jakarta, killing seven.
[An Nahar] The opposition will try to block further Lebanese financing of the U.N.-backed court probing the murder of ex-premier Rafik Hariri, a Hizbullah top official said Wednesday amid a deepening political crisis over the issue.
"Hizbullah and its allies have decided to oppose any financing of the tribunal," Ghaleb Abu Zeinab, a member of Hizbullah's political bureau, said in an interview with Agence France Presse.
"How can we finance a tribunal that has turned into an Israeli-American tool attempting to sow discord in the country," he asked. "We do not want Leb to fall victim to U.S. interests in the region."
His comments came as Prime Minister Saad Hariri -- son of the slain premier -- ruled out any compromise on the Special Tribunal for Leb (STL) which was set up in the wake of Hariri's 2005 assassination in a massive bomb attack.
Ammar Moussawi, in charge of international relations for Hizbullah, said Wednesday the tribunal represented a ticking "time bomb."
Leb provides 49 percent of the funding for the tribunal while other countries provide the remainder.
However, The infamous However... should Leb fail to honor its share of the funding, donor countries must cover the cost, according to the U.N. resolution that set up the court in 2007.
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[An Nahar] AMAL Movement official in Beirut's Borj al-Barajneh neighborhood Abbas al-Mustrah was killed as he tried to resolve a dispute between four men, state-run National News Agency reported Wednesday. It said a quarrel between four men near al-Arab mosque in Borj al-Barajneh shortly after midnight quickly developed into a shootout. Mustrah was shot three times in the chest, NNA said, after he stepped in to prevent the situation from escalating any further.
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WASHINGTON The United States stepped up pressure against Irans government on Wednesday, slapping financial and travel sanctions on eight Iranian officials and accusing them of taking part in rampant human rights abuses. Under an executive order signed this week by President Barack Obama, the State and Treasury departments jointly announced the sanctions that target Iranians who share responsibility for the sustained and severe violation of human rights in Iran, notably after last years disputed presidential elections.
What took so long?
At a State Department news conference, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said it was the first time the United States has imposed sanctions on Iranians for violating human rights. The step adds another layer to already heavy U.S. sanctions on Iran, which in the past have been imposed over the countrys nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
None of which seems to have stopped Short Round and the Mad Mullahs.
The move bars the eight Iranians from entering the United States, blocks any of their U.S. assets and prohibits Americans from doing business with them.
Which we weren't supposed to be doing anyways ...
Although none of the eight is believed to have substantial assets in U.S. jurisdictions, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said he expects foreign financial institutions to stop doing business with them.
We have found that then we single out individuals and expose their conduct, banks, businesses and governments around the world respond by cutting off their economic and financial dealings with these individuals, these institutions, these businesses, Geithner said.
Among the eight Iranians targeted Wednesday is Mohammad Ali Jafari, commander of Irans powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and one his top deputies, Hossein Taeb. Jafari is already subject to U.S. sanctions related to Irans nuclear program.
Now he's under double-secret probation ...
The administration said that forces under the command of Jafari and Taeb participated in beatings, murder and arbitrary arrests of peaceful protesters in the aftermath of the June 2009 Iranian election.
Also named were Iranian Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi, four current and former police chiefs and prosecutors, and Sadeq Mahsouli, currently Irans minister of welfare and social security. Mahsouli was minister of the interior at the time of the June 2009 election, and in that role had authority over all police forces and Interior Ministry security agents, the administrations announcement said.
His forces were responsible for attacks on the dormitories of Tehran University on June 15, 2009, during which students were severely beaten and detained, the joint Treasury and State statement said.
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Irans first nuclear power plant will begin supplying energy in early 2011, a senior official said, signalling a delay of several months.
Boy howdy that's a shame ...
The delay was caused by the spread of a global computer virus believed to have affected mainly Iran.
Operation Lemony Snickett lives!
Iranian officials said on Sunday the Stuxnet virus had hit staff computers at the Bushehr plant, a symbol of Irans growing geopolitical sway and rejection of international efforts to curb its nuclear activity, but not affected major systems there.
When Iran began loading fuel into Bushehr in August, officials said it would take two to three months for the plant to start producing electricity and that it would generate 1,000 megawatts, about 2.5 percent of the countrys power usage.
We hope that the fuel will be transferred to the core of the Bushehr nuclear power plant next week and before the second half of the Iranian month of Mehr (Oct. 7), Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Irans Atomic Energy Organisation, was quoted on Wednesday as saying by the semi-official news agency ISNA.
The ground is being prepared in this regard and, God willing, the fuel will be loaded to the core of the reactor completely by early November and the heart of Bushehr power plant will start beating by then.
It's that 'God willing' part that gives all technically-minded people the heebee-jeebies ...
Salehi added: Two to three months after that electricity will be added to the networks.This would mean Bushehr generating electricity from January or February.
Security experts say the Stuxnet computer worm may have been a state-sponsored attack on Irans nuclear programme and have originated in the United States or Israel, the Islamic Republics arch-adversaries. Little information is available on how much damage, if any, Irans nuclear and wider infrastructure has suffered from Stuxnet and Tehran will probably never disclose full details.
Some analysts believe Iran may be suffering wider sabotage aimed at slowing its nuclear advances, pointing to a series of unexplained technical glitches that have cut the number of working centrifuge machines at the Natanz enrichment plant.
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So... any action on Iran takes place after the election.... hmm....
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Speaking of the heebee-jeebies...once side effect of Stuxnet will be the uncertainty. Anytime in the future when an industrial controller spazzes out or system spontaneously reboots the fear will start again. Bad capacitor, fluctuatings mains or Son of Stuxnet all over again?
And as a side note, if I was planning to bomb the crap out of somewhere, the ability to shut down the water, electricity and telecoms wouldn't be a bad thing, just for the distraction of it all.
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Good Lord, it's NOT THAT HARD. Shutdown a machine, restore it from original media (then check to make sure the infection didn't come in on the original media). THEN ISOLATE THE MACHINE SO IT DOESN'T GET INFECTED AGAIN.
All it takes is a little discipline and planning...
Oh, yeah. Third-world. No wonder they're having such a hard time.
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Actually, it *is* that hard. I know a bit professionally about vulnerabilities in networks. We would be very hard put to defend against this attack ourselves.
Shutting down an entire nation-wide infrastructure makes it difficult to wipe and reboot anything. Keep in mind that stuxnet infects the control systems for the power grid, the nuclear plants and a lot of other nationwide infrastructure systems as well. In addition it morphs and counters attempts to remove it from the machines (command PCs) that transmsitted it into the industrial equipment.
Moreover, Iran may or may not have the 'original media' for programmable logic controllers embedded in the Siemens equipment. Siemens has facilitated a good deal of proliferation, Iran being an especially good customer, but is undoubtably under very strong German and international pressure not to aid Iran this time around.
But there is another theory that fits the available date much better: stuxnet may have been targeted at the centrifuges at the uranium enrichment plant in Natanz.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[Iran Press TV] A pirate ringleader is to be executed after his death sentence was passed down by a court in the breakaway Somali state of Puntland.
A member of 
