[Tolo News] The Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) Monday said names of those involved in fraud in parliamentary elections will be disclosed
The ECC has received nearly, 4000 complaints about malpractices and frauds in the elections, and after investigations are completed, votes from a number of other polling centres will be declared invalid.
Some 200 of about 3854 complaints, that the ECC has received, have been decided upon, said the front man for ECC, Ahmad Zia Rafat.
"In order to bring an end to the investigations, names of candidates involved in electoral fraud will be declared and will also be introduced to judiciary organisations," Mr Rafat said.
The ECC said 25 elections candidates are fined 50,000 Afs ($1000) for a late submission of their financial reports to the Independent Election Commission.
"Around 3516 of all the received complaints have been categorised," he said.
Following strict filtrations to avoid forged ballots to be counted, votes in around ten polling stations in Uruzgan province and ten other stations in Kabul, the Afghan Capital, have been declared invalid, said ECC.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... an Afghan security official insisting on anonymity said in Khost province that the provincial head of IEC was detained by security forces for alleged involvement in electoral fraud.
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[Iran Press TV] Kenya has canceled an agreement with the European Union to host trials for suspected Somali pirates, the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs says.
Got too expensive, did it? And the world wasn't willing to pay the real cost of the service Kenya was providing?
In a Friday statement, the ministry said it wished to "acknowledge that the MoUs (Memoranda of Understanding) will effectively terminate on 30th September, 2010," Press TV reported.
The decision to stop handing over piracy suspects to the local authorities in Kenya was reportedly reached after it emerged that the country is already overwhelmed with ongoing cases against such suspects detained in its jails.
The western powers have been accused of reneging on promises to help the east African state deal with the buccaneers from war-torn Somalia.
So the answers are yes, and yes. Guys, this is very poor business relationship management. Once you anger the supplier, you lose access to the supply... at any price below outrageous, and not necessarily even then. And it's not like the Puntland courts can cover the shortfall.
Efforts by some western diplomats to save the accords have been futile, with the Kenyan government refusing to back down on the termination, according to a Ministry of Foreign Affairs official, who asked to remain anonymous.
Kenya has signed deals with several major naval powers, including the US and European Union, in order to take on the cases of suspected pirates intercepted by multinational warships in the waters off the Horn of Africa.
More than a hundred suspected Somali pirates are currently languishing in Kenyan jails where some have been sentenced to long jail terms, while others await trials.
The Indian Ocean island of Seychelles recently signed a similar agreement with the European Union to hold suspected pirates, but lamented its lack of capacity to prosecute them.
The terminations comes as a court in the Kenyan port town of Mombasa Thursday sentenced 11 Somalis to five years apiece for attempting to hijack a Liberian-flagged ship last year.
The suspects were charged with attacking the MV Safmarine Asia in April 2009. An EU Navfor patrol ship thwarted the attack and seized the men, who were then handed over to Kenya.
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Need the Kenyan equivalent of Judge Roy Bean.
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See also WORLD NEWS > SOMALIA: PUNTLAND'S WAR AGZ AL-QAEDA IN THE GULF OF ADEN [AQGA].
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And the world wasn't willing to pay the real cost of the service Kenya was providing?
The bean counters must have been using the Medicare formula in making a determination of what they'll pay versus real costs. The bean counters didn't factor in what the long term cost will be with having to maintain a large navy deployment to keep playing the 'catch and release' program since there is no will to go to the ports and burn them out.
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The bean counters didn't factor in what the long term cost will be with having to maintain a large navy deployment
Different accounts, Procopius2k. The ships have running costs anyway, and the sailors need to be trained ongoing. It wouldn't surprise me if that's how the project was originally sold.
[Ennahar] At about sixty miles from Timbuktu (north-western Mali), a dozen pickups vehicles lined. On board, soldiers, weapons in hand. These are Mauritanian soldiers who, in the Malian desert, hunt the members of Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb.
"We have given the green light to our Mauritanian neighbors so they can come to our territory, fight the common enemy, AQIM", told AFP a local official of the Malian army.
September 17 - the day after the abduction by AQIM of seven people including five French, in Niger - Mauritanian army launched an offensive against a unit of AQIM led by Yahya Abu Hamam, in the region of Timbuktu (900 km north-east of Bamako). Deadly fightings had opposed them for a few days.
Since then, several dozen Mauritanian soldiers took up their quarters in the area.
"We have no right to speak to the press," joked one of them, at gun in hand, to the AFP correspondent. Then he gave the order to his elements to continue their journey. And the column starts moving slowly, towards the far north.
Machine guns are mounted on several vehicles. Tail of the convoy, a soldier keeps his finger on the trigger.
The elements of AQIM - whose number is estimated at several hundred in the Sahel - are reputed to be strategists. "Therefore, we and the Mauritanians, we are on our guard," said a Malian military.
They were able to "lay mines," he said. "This is one of their techniques. They even hide the mines on the corpses of slain enemies to those who seek the bodies explode".
According to the overlap of the AFP, the Mauritanian army is present on at least two sites in the region. The instructions given to soldiers are firm: ban on driving alone in the desert. These are units that move.
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(Xinhua) -- A High Court Division bench of Bangladesh on Monday ruled that no women within the country should be compelled to wear burqa, an outerwear that covers the entire body except the eyes and hands, against their wishes.
The High Court (HC) bench also ruled that women could not be barred from taking part in cultural activities or sports.
Earlier on Aug. 22, the same HC bench ruled that female students and working women in the country cannot be forced to wear veil in educational institutions and work places.
Wearing of veil in educational institutions and offices is not mandatory in Bangladesh, the third largest Muslim country with 162 million people. But girls of most of the religious schools in the country wear veil.
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Yes, of course. They should choose freely to wear it. It's part of their freedom to choose. It's very liberating to make that choice.
In all seriousness, I hope this is a step in the right direction. Sounds like Britain could use a ruling like this.
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Chihuahua governor Cesar Duarte promised in his inauguration today new laws to deal with crime in the state including life sentences for criminal convicted of crimes such as kidnapping extortion and serial killers.
Duarte was sworn in as governor of Mexico's most violence riddled state this morning as tens of thousands witnessed and others protested.
Mexican news reports say Duarte wants to be remembered as the governor who finally put order to the state.
"I call to rescue with firmness that which we inherited from our grandfathers and grandparents," Duarte is reported saying.
"With work, effort and commitment, we will save the pride of the greatness of Chihuahua."
"Power is to be used with great responsibility," he said.
One of the first acts Duarte has done is to begin with Unified Police, a security concept that is currently being debated nationwide in Mexico which will further centralize security functions from the state police down to the municipal police.
This newest reorganization of the police is intended to improve and training and pay for officers.
Calling the criminal justice system a failure, Duarte promised in his speech unification of the police will be complete within a year.
Duarte said that starting this week he will submit proposals to increase penalties for crimes such as crimes such as kidnapping extortion to reduce recidivism. He also said he will work to stop weapons trafficking and auto theft.
Cars and trucks operating without tags is widespread in Juarez,so much so, even government agents do it.
Duarte also announced the formation of 100 million peso fund( USD $7,926,760.00 ) to be allocated to children who have lost parents to drug and gang violence.
U.S. authorities plan a law enforcement surge on Friday along Amtrak routes, an exercise called RailSafe, in which uniformed officers will be a visible presence on national transit routes. RailSafe will include all the local police agencies along the Amtrak routes involved in the exercise.
The stepped-up security comes as the French arrested 12 terror suspects in Bordeaux and Marseilles, and as the U.S. used CIA drones to attack a suspected center of the plot in Pakistan. The target hit Monday was one of the terror training camps
Hurrah -- finally we're going after the training camps, not just personal compounds. The ISI are no doubt seriously displeased; if they're smart they're becoming nervous, too, because this is a sign that President Obama is no longer framing his thoughts about Pakistan in the rosy memory of that quail-hunting Christmas holiday with his college roommate's family.
in the Waziristan region where U.S. officials say a contingent of German citizens of Afghan and Turkish descent have been preparing for jihad against Europe. U.S. officials say some have already been dispatched, likely those with their faces obscured in a recently released propaganda tape.
U.S. authorities say they have tracked one of the suspected German terror cells to the German city of Hamburg. Some of the suspects worked as cleaners at the Hamburg airport,
Goody.
and many also attended the same mosque in Hamburg where the 9/11 hijackers gathered.
To the amazement of US officials, it turns out the imam of the mosque is the same man accused by the U.S. nine years ago of helping finance the 9/11 plot, Mamoun Darkazanli. "The mosque went back to being a very radical place where people are recruited for attacks where attacks are discussed," said former White House national security official Richard Clarke, now an ABC News consultant, "and German intelligence apparently stopped looking closely at the mosque where a lot of 9/11 was planned."
Or not. Were I a German intelligence official, Mr. Clarke is the person I'd be least likely to share work secrets with.
Darkazanli, who was never charged by the Germans, declined to comment about the latest plot when approached by ABC News.
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IIRC the German courts essentially refused to convict many of those associated with the 9/11 planning, and prosecutors in many cases didn't even press charges. Small wonder if German intel services didn't bother watching thereafter.
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Why is it that Obama is allowing these drone attack, with such fervor? After all his campaign rhetoric about huggin the muzzies and his understanding them and all. Now his daily sitreps must be scaring the crap out of him. I am thankful he has allowed the attacks to continue, be it out of fear of being the last president or whatever, I'm still thankful.
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Petraeus may have pics of Obama and Vera
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Faisal Shazad was sentenced to life in prison today by U.S. District Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum, the mandatory sentence with no possibility of parole. He had previously pled guilty to the charges around building and setting off a VBIED in New York City's Times Square on May 1st. He claimed that the bomb was sanctioned by the Koran-given right of defence.
He also told the judge in response to her question that when he swore the oath of allegiance to the U.S. as a newly minted American citizen, the clever lad didn't mean it. "So you took a false oath," was the judge's reply.
Neatly establishing grounds for revoking his citizenship, should that be wanted.
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At another point, he said, "The defeat of the U.S. is imminent."
Not if you're the best they've got, dickhead.
Hope you enjoyed making your Brave Jihadi speech in court. Hope you memorized it so you can make it to the four concrete walls you'll be staring at for the rest of your life in Florence.
Clearly it's not only Americans who don't know history, Anguper Hupomosing9418. This particular round of the war with Muslims began on 9/11/2001... or with the first attempt to destroy the Twin Towers... or attack on the Marine barracks in Lebanon when Ronald Reagan was president...
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How's that for a message to your buddies? Such a message would have no effect on Faisal's would-be imitators. It would just stink up Times Square. Faisal's message to the court, however, needs to be conveyed to every American voter. It won't be, however.
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So we are not at war with Islam. It is too bad, because Islam is at war with us.
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VARIOUS MSM-NET > FAISAL SHAHZAD quotes rehashed:
* "Brace yourselves, because the WAR WITH MUSLIMS HAS JUST BEGUN...[He FAISAL is only the] FIRST DROPLET IN THE BLOOD TO FOLLOW".
* "We are Proud Terrorists, WE WILL KEEP ON TERRORIZING YOU".
* "The DEFEAT OF THE US IS IMMINENT, + WILL HAPPEN IN THE NEAR FUTURE".
* OSAMA BIN LADEN is the new "SALADIN OF THE 21ST CENTURY CRUSADE".
Among other, IIUC FAISAL SHAHZAD HAS JUST AFFIRMED THAT THE VARIOUS LOCAL, REGIONAL ISLAMIST JIHADS = INSURGENCIES IS IN REALITY OF SCHEMA OF "ISLAMIC/MOHAMEDDAN CONQUEST" THAT IS GLOBAL IN SCOPE, + that ONCE AMERICA GOES DOWN, i.e. IS DEFEATED OR DESTROYED, THE REST OF WORLD + JUDEOCHRISTIANITY, ETAL. NON-ISLAM WILL FOLLOW.
"SALADIN" = OSAMA = ISLAM DEFEATED THE MEDIEVAL CRUSADER ARMIES [Western Staees, Religious Power + Mongol China/Empires], HENCE CAN DEFEAT THE WEST + ASIA = DA WORLD???
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We need to build a new maximum security prison east of Silverton, CO. Build it with nice thick walls, but with a tiny window that can be opened electronically from the Warden's office. During good behavior, the window stays closed. Act up, and the window is open slightly. Act up more, and it's wide open. In winter that can let in temps in the low 30's below zero, even during the day. Even in summer the nighttime temp can drop into the 40's. Besides, the air's a tiny bit thin at 11,000 feet above sea level.
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Much of America continues to sleep FBI, DHS, New Orleans police ignore citizen bomb warning Reached by phone, Cheryl Finlay, an administrator in the [NOLA] police superintendents office, remembered the call and said she had indeed referred him to another number -- for the Eighth District commander -- the one that never answered, according to Wilkins.
That would be the best I could do, Finlay said. I have no way to dispatch anyone to that location. Im not a dispatcher.
A NOPD public relations official soon came on the line and, after several questions, generally confirmed that Finlay had used standard operating procedure.
The retired judge, meanwhile, shudders at the thought of the casualties that could have ensued if the suitcase had really held a bomb. Only an alert citizen's call in Times Square on May 1, after all, averted such a tragedy.
Neither the FBI nor DHS immediately responded to a request for comment.
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Mass Transit Nodes + Hubs.
* ION FREEREPUBLIC > IRAN ADMIST IT COULD PULL NUCLEAR TRIGGER ON US, ISRAEL [Iran dev WARPLANS both for Deterrence + Mil Counterresponse to attack from same],
ARTIC = IRAN PLANS TO MIL RESPOND ON "WORLD STAGE" [read, MILTERR STRIKES], CONUS WILL BE STRUCK.
A document obtained and witnesses interviewed by Fox News raise new questions over whether there was an effort by the Defense Department to cover up a pre-9/11 military intelligence program known as "Able Danger."
At least five witnesses questioned by the Defense Department's Inspector General told Fox News that their statements were distorted by investigators in the final IG's report -- or it left out key information, backing up assertions that lead hijacker Mohammed Atta was identified a year before 9/11.
Atta is believed to have been the ringleader of the Sept. 11 hijackers who piloted American Airlines Flight 11 into the World Trade Center. Claims about how early Atta first tripped the radar of the Department of Defense date back to 2005, but those claims never made it into the Inspector General's report. The report was completed in 2006 and, until now, has been available only in a version with the names of virtually all of the witnesses blacked out. Don't pay any attention to the terrorist behind the turban.
This game has been played before, reference "FRUPAC, JN-25, pearl harbor" and has the same outcome--
Intel is worthless without leadership that is able and willing to act on it. See clinton, william jefferson, 42nd president, and gorelic, jamie for why this info was not acted upon.
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The DOD just purchased the entire first printing of the book which detailed this data mining program... and destroyed it. And now comes a Fox News report that the IG investigation was perverted. Alarm bells are ringing.
The non-military nature of the 9-11 attack makes Pearl Harbor analogies problematic, IMO. The argument could cut both ways -- it's both more and less understandable that a disciplined military organization could send a task force across half an ocean to successfully launch an aerial assault. The Japanese gave unmistakable signs of activity in the days leading up to Pearl Harbor. But these were misinterpreted. Many Naval Intelligence officers were of the opinion that the Japanese were about to attack British and Dutch possessions in the Far East -- which they did. Only Nippon's target set included US territories as well.
What unmistakable signs of activity did Atta and his bunch produce? It seems that there were some. But it is not for us to know. Perhaps if our government invents a high enough security clearance the minds of the citizenry will compartment. The very memory of that day will be unavailable to those without the code word.
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Conspiracy theory or not, at a time when our industry has been destroyed and the US treasury is totally broke, why does our government and INS continue to provide sancturary, meal tickets, education, and medical care (anchor birthing) to hundreds of thousands of muslims and others arriving at our shores or crossing our borders each year? Why is Judeo-Christian culture be abandoned?
No. The question surrounding Able Danger is not an inside job theory its a personal incompetence theory. (Though some have tried to say its proof of the former.) Remember the old Failure of imagination and Smokestack conclusions? And remember how far Sandy Berger was willing to go in order to perpetuate the systemic failure narrative. With that example alone, it shouldn't be all that surprising how aggressivly the investigation into AD was shut down.
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Given the wall built by President Clinton between the FBI and the CIA -- and who knows who else -- the surprise is that they were permitted to recognize that 9/11 happened at all. Thank God George W. Bush was in the White House, to not only recognize the need to tear down that wall, but the gumption to do so.
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Clinton certainly added spot tuckpointing and a few new bricks to the wall. These law enforcement and intelligence agencies have enjoyed intercene rivalries and backbiting from near inception. It continues today inspite of the creation of a Director of National Intelligence. Knowing well where it's bread is buttered, the bureau clings to Sir Eric Holder, and it's DoJ legal masters for survival. Both the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation need to be cast into the nearest rubbish bin. A British intelligence, LE construct and partnership is very sadly needed here.
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When you go back through the reams of information gathered every day it is not hard to find the "who done it" of an attack after the fact. So to say we knew about Atta, is probably factual. A testament to our gathering abilities. Deciding which slice of intel is real before an attack is much more complicated, hard to push up, and even harder to act on. Say they did know about Atta. The way he had it set up the attack could have still gone off, minus one aircraft. I'm not trying to say we get a pass on this one, or that our agencies are not filled with politicians, but I still hold that this attack in one form or another would have still gotten through. It was planned and executed very well.
While most of America still points fingers at who failed here, we still need to move forward as to how to organize our community as to better prevent this type of attack and still defend against our other threats, China, Iran, etc...
As far as Able Danger goes. There seems to be a level of hypocrisy going on. First our congress-critters went mad in the press when Able Danger was outed, now they are wanting that info and screaming as to why it was not acted on. Just hen-house crap and we are stuck in the internal squabble and rendered incapable of properly defending ourselves as a nation.
Last thought on this, and thanks for the bandwidth to get this out. I am still of the belief that OBL and his few men could not have planned and executed this on their own. I believe it was too complicated, too many ways to draw attention, and too hard to execute on the timeline like it did for a bunch of ragheads to perform. As time passed we will discover that either a major nation, a large corporation or both played a role in this. I still hold that the Bin Laden company in association with the soddies performed all the logistics, detailed planning, and CI to make this attack come off.
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Most, if not all terrorism is indeed "state funded." Excellent analysis Pan.
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The DOD just purchased the entire first printing of the book which detailed this data mining program... and destroyed it.
Not true. The DOD did not get the entire first printing, since some copies were given or sold to private parties. I don't know what they hoped to accomplish by that. As long as a single copy exists somewhere, the information can be discovered.
[Dawn] Nato chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen urged Pakistan on Monday to reopen a key Afghanistan supply route "as soon as possible" and expressed regret for the deaths of Pakistani troops in a Nato strike.
Pakistan has blocked a land route for Nato convoys carrying supplies to neighbouring Afghanistan since Thursday after officials blamed a cross-border Nato helicopter attack for the deaths of three Pakistani soldiers.
Rasmussen said he had a "good and open discussion" with Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi at Nato headquarters.
"I expressed my regrets for the incident last week in which Pakistani soldiers lost their lives," Rasmussen told reporters after the meeting.
"I expressed condolences to the families. Obviously this incident was unintended," he added.
Rasmussen said Nato and Pakistan needed to "improve" and "step up" cooperation on the Afghan-Pakistani border region to prevent Taliban insurgents
from crossing the frontier to attack foreign troops fighting in Afghanistan.
"I expressed hope the border will be open for supplies as soon as possible," he said. "The foreign minister committed himself to work on this."
The Pakistani foreign minister did not hold a press conference after the meeting.
Nato has said its aircraft had entered Pakistani airspace Thursday in self-defence and killed "several armed individuals" after the air crews believed they had been fired upon from Pakistani territory.
Rasmussen noted that a joint investigation has been launched.
"We will discuss what happened and draw the right lessons," the Nato chief said.
While the key supply route remains closed, Nato supply convoys have come under attacks in Pakistan in the past three days. Pakistani Taliban militants claimed on Monday two fiery raids in which nearly 60 trucks have been torched.
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ION BHARAT RAKSHAK > US MAY ABANDON PAKISTAN-AGHANISTAN SUPPLY ROUTE.
ARTIC > IMO read, ECON-TROUBLED US MAY HAVE TO DE FACTO ATTACK IRAN JUST TO MAINTAIN STEADY RATE OF SUPPLIES TO AFPAK, espec iff its unhappy wid MORE $$$ EXPENSIVE/COSTLY ALTERNATIVE LAND, AIR, SEA ROUTES???
Northrop Grumman has unveiled its answer to the much-vaunted "swarm" tactics of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard naval forces, which might see squadrons of "stealth" flying boats and attack craft attempting to overwhelm the defenses of US warships in the Persian Gulf.
The US Navy will deal with this, apparently, using rapid-firing laser cannons to sweep their swarming enemies from the seas and skies around them.
Northrop Grumman says that shore based testing of its Maritime Laser Demonstration (MLD) blaster cannon have been successful, and the firm is confident that seagoing trials later this year will be a triumph.
The high-power lasers used in the MLD are the same units developed under the earlier Joint High Power Solid State Laser program, which were the first solid-state, electrically powered kit to deliver a combat-strength 100 kilowatt war ray.
"Unlike commercial lasers that form the core of some laser systems intended for use at sea," says Northrop spokesman Dan Wildt, "MLD's power levels can be scaled to 100 kilowatts and beyond."
In a statement just released, the company goes on to add:
Northrop Grumman is developing MLD for the Office of Naval Research with a goal of demonstrating the readiness of solid-state laser weapon systems to begin transition to the fleet to engage targets that challenge current defensive systems such as swarms of enemy fast patrol boats.
One issue with swarm tactics is that US warships and aircraft might simply run out of missiles and gun ammunition before Iran ran out of attackers: but electric ray-cannons developed from the MLD, powered by the carrying vessel's generators, could potentially keep on blasting as long as the ship had fuel left.
According to Northrop, the MLD "burned through small boat sections" in tests conducted last month at the Potomac River Test Range, indicating that its performance over water is up to the job.
"This successful test series gives us confidence that we will be successful at the at sea demonstrator scheduled later this year," says Northrop executive Steve Hixson.
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I can't help it, Star Wars Laser Cannons flash through my mind.
Especially the shot of the star cruisers under attack by swarms if flying small spaceships.
Deja Vu all over again.(Thanks Durante)
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According to Northrop, the MLD "burned through small boat sections" in tests conducted last month at the Potomac River Test Range, indicating that its performance over water is up to the job.
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These are electric powered rather than chem - faster, if you can draw on a warship's generators. You deploy up to 100KW to burn through fog etc. And the higher power means faster burnthrough in small boats closing in fast.
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So everything will OK as long as the Iranians only send wooden boats.
Not really. Lasers will punch through anything, including metal or fiberglass. How else would the lasers work on missiles? Just need enough energy focused in one place.
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Mirrors will work, but they will basically announce themselves to radar. Radar is designed to pick up scatter waves and mirrors would be like strapping 100ft neon red arrows to your boat.
Foil wouldn't protect much against lasers of that strength. Some, but not much.
Water mist at that strength would be worthless. Smoke would work, if it was thick enough, but at that point you can't see where you are going and it defeats the purpose of the swarm boats.
Remember the tactic of the swarm boats, 'burgers. A lot of boats for a small number of targets. If 300 boats swarmed a task force of 15 ships, and 100 of the boats have missiles, it really doesn't matter what the US does currently. Damage and casualties will be taken. While Iran will lose a lot of boats and men, if they take out a cruiser or aircraft carrier, then the propaganda alone is worth the expense. What do you think Bambi would do if the Iranians took out the USS Ronald Regan? (Not sink, but render inoperable) He would run faster than Bill did in Somalia and Iran would be the new Muslim power house in the region. With the RFLC, it reduces the chances of a American ship being taken out.
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I was (proudly) the source of the "skeet" comment. If not R2D2, then laser. Only the best to send our Islamofascts to their burning painful deaths. We owe them that
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[An Nahar] Police chief Maj. Gen. Ashraf Rifi on Monday said Interpol would not execute arrest warrants ordered by Syria against 33 people, including Lebanese individuals, because they are politically motivated.
He pointed out that in the past, Syria had issued an arrest warrant against Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat that Interpol had ignored to because it had political aims.
The warrants, issued on Sunday, were over false testimony given in the U.N.-backed probe into the assassination of ex-PM Rafik Hariri.
Maj. Gen. Jamil Sayyed, former head of Leb's General Security Department, said the top investigating judge in Damascus had issued arrest warrants "against judges, security officers, politicians, journalists and other Lebanese, Arab and foreign officials and individuals."
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Interpol. The Mall Cops of International Law Enforcement.
[An Nahar] Jamaa Islamiya political chief Bassam Hammoud on Monday stressed the Islamic and national fundamental principles of his group and said "dialogue" is the only solution to the ongoing International Tribunal crisis. Hammoud, during a consultative meeting in Dar el-Fatwa Honest to Gawd, that's the name of the place. That is not snark...
with Sidon's Mufti, also stressed the need to resort to "rational language all the way to ease tension in the streets in order to spare the country and the people any security shake-ups." He said Sidon cannot be against the Resistance because it is "the maker of the Resistance."
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[An Nahar] The General Maronite Council on Monday met with a Hizbullah delegation and warned Lebanese against slipping into the "abyss" of sectarian fighting that could torpedo internal stability. For his part, Hizbullah Political Council member Ghaleb Abu Zainab said after the talks that leaks regarding the International Tribunal indictment are portraying Hizbullah and Iran "as if we are the monsters, not Israel."
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[Iran Press TV] Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki expresses Tehran's readiness to provide "unlimited" economic and military support for Leb.
"Stability and peace in Leb is a gift that benefits all countries," Mottaki said on Monday.
"Iran is ready to provide unlimited economic and even military support for the Lebanese government and people," IRNA quoted Mottaki as telling the Syrian daily Al-Watan.
The Iranian foreign minister's comments come as Israel has so far launched two wars on Leb in 2000 and 2006 -- the second of which left almost 1,200 Lebanese dead.
On both occasions Tel Aviv fell short of achieving any of its objectives and the Lebanese Hezbullies Resistance Movement forced the Israeli military into retreating.
In July, Iran's diminutive PresidentMahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad warned that Israeli officials "have decided to attack two of the regional Arab states, which are our allies."
Although the Iranian president did not name the two states, political analysts believe Syria and Leb are the likely targets.
"Leb is not the source of disagreement and confrontation between Iran and Saudi Arabia," Mottaki said.
The Iranian foreign minister explained that rumors circulating about the danger of Iran's nuclear program for Arab countries are all US propaganda.
The US and its allies accuse Iran of pursuing a military nuclear program. Tehran rejects Western accusations of pursuing a military nuclear program, arguing that as a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty the country has the right to peaceful nuclear energy.
The ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency has, in its many reports, verified the non-diversion of nuclear material toward military objectives.
"The Middle East has reached political maturity... and American mischief to create discord in the region remains futile," Mottaki concluded.
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VERSUS
* TOPIX > TEL AVIV IN MISSLE RANGE: IDF GENERAL WARNS, on three fronts vee IRAN + SYRIA + HEZBOLLAH.
and
* NEWS KERALA > OBAMA ACTUALLY MONITORING AL -QAEDA'S TERROR ATTACK PLOT AGZ EUROPE.
but
* PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > STUXNET SUPERBUG THAT ATTACKED 6.0MILYUHN COMPUTERS IN CHINA [industrial control CPUS] TRACED BACK TO US.
[Iran Press TV] The Iranian president says national spirit and self-reliance are rising in the country while on the other hand hegemonic powers' strength and political makeup are falling into disarray.
The stance adopted by US President Barack B.O. Obama in recent days was a 'very low-level' one, and showed Washington has "lost its nerve," IRNA quoted Mahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad as saying late Sunday.
Talking to a host of MPs, the president also touched upon his address at the UN General Assembly, saying Western statesmen are unable to respond to the questions he raised over the 9/11 incident.
The Iranian chief executive reiterated that the sanctions slapped on the Islamic Theocratic Republic by hegemonic powers are a nonstarter.
President Ahmadinejad underscored the 'oppressors' were of the conviction that they would be able to leave Iran on shaky ground by imposing sanctions, but Iranians have rendered sanctions ineffective with self-reliance.
He further pointed out that those who are corrupt and seek power will finally be pit against justice seekers and the faithful.
President Ahmadinejad also added that the stronger the justice-seekers get, the weaker the oppressors become.
He called for further unity and rapport between the government and parliament, urging politicians to delve deeply into the bills and motions they are going to vote on, so that 'more constructive legislations' would be passed.
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* CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > IS OBAMA READY FOR A STAREDOWN WITH CHINA?
ARTIC > POTUS BAMMER relatively UN-TESTED as a MIL COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF wid NO MAJOR INTERNAT MIL CRISIS on his POTUS Resume, e.g. KENNEDY + CUBAN MISSLE CRISIS; CHINA THINKS POTUS BAMMER IS WEAK.
CHina sees itself as a DE FACTO REGIONAL, GLOBAL? POWERBROKER + HEGEMON, not just a Regional Benefactor, etc. of the US.
AND
* WAFF > [smh.com.au] FUTILE US CRUSADE FOR DEMOCRACY [in Aghanistan = AFPAK].
ARTIC > US should not think that a WESTERN-STYLE MODERN DEMOCRACY which took the West oer 1000 Years to develop will be quickly or easily set up in Muslim AFPAK Region.
AND
* TOPIX > [Taiwan] MA'S GOVT REVIVES ROC CLAIMS TO CHINA [sovereignty oer mainland China].
* TOPIX > SCO MEMBER RUSSIA HAS THE RIGHT TO [militarily]INTERVENE IN NAGORNO-KARABAKH IN CASE OF CONFLICT.
* SAME TOPIX > WIDOUT ARMENIA, RUSSIA COULD LOSE SOUTH CAUCASUS: ANALYST [Armenian XPert] + ARMENIA, RUSSIA MUST HAVE A COMMON BORDER + ARMENIA, RUSSIA SHOULD CREATE A NEW BLOC: EXPERT SAYS.
ARTICS > Widout RUSSIA's Presence + influence, THE US COULD HAD SEIZED THE BLACK SEA/CASPIAN REGIONS LONG AGO + RUSSIA WOULD HAD LOST MILPOL ACCESS, INFLUENCE AS VEE IRAN + TURKEY.
Also from CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > SEAS FILLED IWD TENSIONS OVER CHINA MOVES.
* SAME CMF > CHINA ACQUIRED TU-22M3 "BACKFIRE" ASSEMBLY PRODUCTION LINE.
[An Nahar] Former head of General Security Maj. Gen. Jamil Sayyed has been informed by his lawyer in Syria that "the first investigating judge in Damascus has issued 33 arrest warrants in absentia in the false witnesses case for judges, officers, politicians, journalists and individuals of Lebanese, Arab and foreign nationalities," Sayyed's press office announced Sunday.
Detlev Mehlis, former head of the U.N. commission investigating ex-PM Rafik Hariri's murder, and his aide Gerhard Lehmann are among the 33 people named by the Syrian warrants, Sayyed's press office noted.
Leb's state-run National News Agency reported that the individuals whom arrest warrants have been issued for are: MP Marwan Hamade, ex-minister Charles Rizk; ex-MPs Bassem Sabaa and Elias Atallah; State Prosecutor Saeed Mirza; Judges Elias Eid and Saqr Saqr; Internal Security Forces chief Maj. Gen. Ashraf Rifi; Head of ISF's Intelligence Bureau Col. Wissam al-Hasan; Premier Saad Hariri's advisor Hani Hammoud; Col. Hussam al-Tannoukhi; Lt. Col. Samir Shehadeh; ambassador Johnny Abdou; former Syrian vice president Abdul Halim Khaddam; retired Col. Mohammed Farshoukh; Adnan al-Baba; Khaled Hammoud; journalists Hasan Sabra, Fares Khashan, Nuhad al-Ghaderi (Syrian), Abdul Salam Moussa, Ayman Sharrouf, Omar Harqous, Ahmed Jarallah (Kuwaiti), Zahra Badran, Nadim al-Munla, Hamid al-Gheriafi; former head of the U.N. commission investigating ex-PM Rafik Hariri's murder, Detlev Mehlis, and his aide Gerhard Lehmann; and witnesses Ibrahim Michel Jarjoura, Akram Shakib Murad, Mohammed Zuheir Siddiq and Abdul Baset Bani Audeh.
On September 25, the Lebanese daily Ad Diyar reported that the Syrian judiciary was waiting for the appropriate time to send the warrants to its Lebanese counterpart.
"If the Lebanese judiciary does not comply with the Syrian demand, then Syria will take the appropriate measures to have Interpol issue arrest warrants for those individuals," the newspaper added.
Sayyed has accused international powers of standing behind claims that Hizbullah murdered ex-PM Rafik Hariri.
"The game is bigger than (Premier) Saad Hariri. It is related to international schemes, starting from the new Middle East, which used Rafik Hariri's blood to strike Syria," Sayyed said in remarks published Sunday by the Syrian daily al-Watan.
"But today, after failure of the plot, they moved to accuse the Resistance That'd be the Hezbullies, natch... seeking a new scheme based on creating a Sunni-Shiite strife to divert attention from the struggle against the Israeli enemy and transfer this conflict to one between Arabs and Mohammedans themselves instead of having Israel as their common enemy. "
Sayyed said "some" surrounding Hariri from Leb and "a large portion" from outside the country convinced the prime minister that Syria and its allies in Leb are the ones who killed his father.
"This is why he (Hariri) allowed, contributed to, turned a blind eye and supported a political, media, judicial and security structure of his advisers who chose Syrian false witnesses picked from Lebanese prisons, and provided them with temptations, particularly Zuhair Siddiq, Hussam Hussam and others, to accuse Syria and the four Lebanese officers (Sayyed one of them)," said the former detainee who was jailed for nearly four years in Leb for alleged involvement in Hariri's killing.
"But soon after our release and the fall of the hypothesis that Syria is behind the killing, they shifted their accusation within a month from Syria to Hizbullah, and this is no coincidence, of course, where police intelligence under Col. Wissam al-Hasan began arresting Israeli spy networks immediately after the release of the four generals in April 2009."
Sayyed said the Government of national unity agreed to finance the Special Tribunal for Leb "because we thought we were paying for justice and truth, not for an international tribunal looking for politics."
"But we found out four years later that the international law used the money to hit Syria and a portion of Lebanese through the false witnesses," he said.
Describing Druze leader Walid Jumblat as "unstable," Sayyed said he has no faith in the Progressive Socialist Party chief.
"I don't believe everything Walid Jumblat says, whether he is with us or against us, because he changes his positions from one moment to another," Sayyed said.
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[Dawn] Nato chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen urged Pakistan on Monday to reopen a key Afghanistan supply route "as soon as possible" and expressed regret for the deaths of Pakistani troops in a Nato strike.
[An Nahar] Police chief Maj. Gen. Ashraf Rifi on Monday said Interpol would not execute arrest warrants ordered by Syria against 33 people, including Lebanese individuals, because they are politically motivated.
[An Nahar] Former head of General Security Maj. Gen. Jamil Sayyed has been informed by his lawyer in Syria that "the first investigating judge in Damascus has issued 33 arrest warrants in absentia in the false witnesses case for judges, officers, politicians, journalists and individuals of Lebanese, Arab and foreign nationalities," Sayyed's press office announced Sunday.
