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Good morning
Posted by: Fred || 07/05/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot

Eva Green aka Isabelle in "The Dreamers" aka Serafina Pekkala in "The Golden Compass" aka Emilia/Sally in "Franklyn" aka Miss G in "Cracks" aka Rebecca in "Womb" (age 31)



In need of Global Warming
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 07/05/2011 1:48 Comments || Top||

#2  aka Vesper Lynd in C@sino Royale
Posted by: Frank G || 07/05/2011 9:06 Comments || Top||

#3  One of the more amazing things about Joan is that Blondell was her actual birth name, though few movie fans ever believed it.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy || 07/05/2011 11:33 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Fight in Afghanistan to turn east: Petraeus
The outgoing commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan says the focus of the war will shift in coming months from Taliban strongholds in the south to the eastern border with Pakistan where insurgents closest to al-Qaeda and other militants hold sway.

With a new job pending as the CIA director, General David Petraeus said on Monday that by the northern autumn, more special forces, intelligence, surveillance, air power will be concentrated in areas along Afghanistan's rugged eastern border with Pakistan.

There will be substantially more Afghan boots on the ground in the east and perhaps a small number of extra coalition forces too. "There could be some small (coalition) forces that will move, but this is about shifting helicopters - lift and attack. It's about shifting close-air support. It's about shifting, above all, intelligence, surveillance and recognisance assets," he said.

The US-led coalition has concentrated most of its troops and attention in Helmand and Kandahar provinces in southern Afghanistan. That's where the majority of the more than 30,000 US reinforcements were deployed last year.
Posted by: tipper || 07/05/2011 09:05 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "There could be some small (coalition) forces that will move, but this is about shifting helicopters - lift and attack. It's about shifting close-air support. It's about shifting, above all, intelligence, surveillance and recognisance assets," he said.

"Paging SEAL Team 6. You're wanted in the 'office'."
Posted by: BA || 07/05/2011 11:37 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm all in favor of doing this as a scheme involving "human UAVs". That is, to send special teams in "kill everyone in the building", with a lot broader net for troublemakers.

This includes radical madrassas, city, not just rural settings, and even a Phoenix program to take out traitors in the ISI and military.

If it's going to be a major hit, prearrange it so it looks like a disaster. A gas main explosion, that sort of thing.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 07/05/2011 12:47 Comments || Top||

#3  If it's going to be a major hit, prearrange it so it looks like a disaster. A gas main explosion, that sort of thing.

Don't forget to leave some 'Western P*rn®' addressed to some ISI official strewn about haphazardly. That'll keep their beards in a tizzy.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 07/05/2011 13:15 Comments || Top||

#4  Iff World Mil History is any measure, hopefully China + the Central Asian -Stans have upped their border security forces because the MilTerrs will be skeddadling towards their direction = general vicinity.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 07/05/2011 19:43 Comments || Top||


Missing UK Soldier Found Dead In Afghanistan
A British soldier who went missing from his base in southern Afghanistan has been found dead with gunshot wounds.

The serviceman's body was discovered by an Isaf patrol after a massive manhunt was launched. He was reportedly last seen at a military checkpoint in the early hours of the morning, and the Taliban had claimed responsibility for killing him.

Nato spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Tim Purbrick said: "He had suffered gunshot wounds. "His exact cause of death is still to be established and the circumstances surrounding his disappearance and death are currently under investigation.

"It would not be appropriate to comment further at this time. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends."

It has been confirmed that the soldier was based in Nahr-e Saraj district and serving with The Highlanders, 4th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland. Sky News defence correspondent Niall Paterson said the area had been the scene of struggles between Isaf and the Taliban for control. "The Taliban had only recently been pushed back from near the checkpoint he was stationed at.

"Information coming from Afghanistan indicated he left the base to go for a swim, in a village where Isaf forces have been heavily engaged in counter-insurgency operations," Paterson said.
Does that make sense?
Coalition troops had been stood down from regular operations to help look for him from the ground and air, with Nato command earlier listing him as "duty status whereabouts unknown".

British forces' emergency actions also affected Prime Minister David Cameron, who was on a secret trip to visit troops in Helmand province. Mr Cameron had been scheduled to travel to nearby Lashkar Gah but the search for the missing soldier meant plans had to be changed. The PM said: "The reason for me not going to Lashkar Gah was not about my security. It was literally, use everything you have got to try and deal with this.

"That was the right thing to do."

Mr Cameron said he was "deeply saddened" by the death of the soldier - the British armed forces' 375th fatality during the decade-long campaign in Afghanistan.

Defence Secretary Liam Fox told the House of Commons the unnamed soldier went missing "in the early hours of this morning" and that his next-of-kin had been informed. Jerome Starkey, a journalist in Kabul with The Times, told Sky News: "An eyewitness said he was last seen walking past an Afghan checkpoint.

"And it was understood the British soldier, along with two colleagues, had gone swimming in a nearby canal."

Mr Starkey also told Sky: "We understand the soldier was found around 7pm local time after being missing for about 17 hours."

The journalist added: "The suggestion that I've had... is that the soldier was last seen walking south from a checkpoint where he was based.

"He did not appear, or at least there are no reports, that he was under any duress."

Paterson said extensive MoD inquiries are now under way. "The investigation will continue for a significant amount of time and there are many questions that need to be answered."


The serviceman's disappearance came shortly after the Taliban sent a statement by text message claiming they had captured a soldier.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/05/2011 00:33 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Kandahar's Zherai District Cleared of Militants
[Tolo News] Insurgents were wiped out of Zherai district in southern Kandahar province in an ongoing joint clean-up operation, a senior military commander said on Monday.

Commander of Maiwand 404 zone in Kandahar, Salem Ehsas, said eight Taliban fighters have been killed and 22 others jugged in a joint operation launched last week in Zherai district, where top Taliban leaders were believed to live.

No civilian structure has been harmed in the operation, officials said.

Zherai district has been one of the dangerous places in southern Afghanistan with huge risks of bully boy activities and has long been the scene of some of the deadliest battles between Afghan cops and the Taliban.

The Afghan commander said the Taliban have lost momentum to engage in a face-to-face fight with Afghan forces.

Roadside mines, the deadliest tool of the Taliban that have claimed military and civilian lives, have been described the biggest threats ahead of forces and locals in Zherai district.

"Zherai district was under enemy threat, because the Taliban had their court in the district," the commander said. "The district was also home to defence and justice ministers of the Taliban. In cooperation with residents, we launched a joint operation with our foreign partners that has been successful."

Zherai located along the Pak mostly non-existent border was a hub for the Taliban Orcs and similar vermin infiltrating into Afghan soil from Pakistain's tribal belts.
Posted by: Fred || 07/05/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  Congratulations, and good luck keeping the vermin out.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/05/2011 7:08 Comments || Top||


Hundreds of Gunmen Attack Pakistani Border Post
[Tolo News] Around three hundreds forces of Evil crossed into Pakistain from Afghanistan and attacked Pak border forces, officials have said.

Pak intelligence officials said on Monday that one Pak soldier was killed and another maimed in the attack that lasted for several hours in the border region of Bajaur.

At least four assailants were reportedly killed in the fight, officials said.

Pakistain claims that it has lost 56 soldiers in a spate of cross-border attacks carried out by forces of Evil crossing over from Afghanistan.

But a Pak military front man in Rawalpindi has said no forces of Evil have crossed the border, but instead fired rockets into Pakistain, killing one Pak soldier.

The Afghan government has recently accused Pakistain of firing missiles into Afghan border regions, killing and displacing hundreds of Afghans.

Afghanistan's Caped President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai
... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use...
has said that Pakistain had fired 470 rockets over the border in June, but Pakistain denies firing any missiles.

On Monday the Afghan House of Representatives in a statement strongly condemned Pak missile attacks into Afghanistan that has continued for a couple of weeks.

Afghan politicians urged Pakistain to put an immediate end to its deadly bombardments over bordering villages of the country.

Parliamentarians warned that the attacks would have perilous consequences ahead in relations between the two nations.

Residents in the Afghan villages under Pak border shelling reported a new round of shelling from Pakistain.
Posted by: Fred || 07/05/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Pakistan

#1  Is it normal to be attacked for several hours and only shoot four of the attackers? I don't wish to judge unfairly out of ignorance.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/05/2011 7:10 Comments || Top||

#2  I blame Haji math.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/05/2011 10:19 Comments || Top||


Afghan, Nato Forces Kill 15 Taliban Militants in Nangarhar
[Tolo News] At least 15 Talibs were killed in joint Afghan and NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants...
forces operation in eastern Nangarhar
...on the main road from Lovely Peshawar. The capital is Jalalabad. The population of 1,334,000 consists mostly of Pashtuns with a few Arabs and Pashais...
province on Sunday night, local officials said on Monday.

The operation was launched last night in Khoghyani district of Nangarhar province to clear it of bad boys, Mohammad Hassan, district chief of Khoghyani told TOLOnews.

Mr Hassan said that the bully boyz killed in the operation were foreigners, but he did not provide further details.

There were no Afghan, NATO and civilian causalities in the operation, he added.

Khogyani is considered one of the insecure districts where Talibs have been active.
Posted by: Fred || 07/05/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


7 Burka-Clad Terrorists Captured in Nangarhar
[Tolo News] Afghan border police captured 7 forces of Evil who dressed up like girls, in Nangarhar
...on the main road from Lovely Peshawar. The capital is Jalalabad. The population of 1,334,000 consists mostly of Pashtuns with a few Arabs and Pashais...
province on Monday, local officials said.

Afghan border police commander in eastern Afghanistan, Aminullah Amarkhil, said that men were captured in a border police ambush in Nazyan district of Nangarhar province on Monday.

Mr Amarkhil said five of them are Pak civilians and one of them had a boom jacket.

He added that border police had received information about the forces of Evil before they crossed the border.

"Foreign Taliban, five of them Pak Taliban and two of them Afghans, came to Nangarhar and wanted to kill innocent people," Gen. Amarkhil said.

Mr Amarkhil said the border police also seized six weapons from the terrorists.

Militants often use burkas to carry out their attacks and some forces of Evil disguised in burqas have previously been captured by Afghan security organizations.
Posted by: Fred || 07/05/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  This is the time when we point and laugh.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/05/2011 7:13 Comments || Top||

#2  "Foreign Taliban, five of them Pak Taliban and two of them Afghans, came to Nangarhar and wanted to kill innocent people," Gen. Amarkhil said.

Poor sods were unable to come up with enough Ruppies for the requisite ABP release bribes.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/05/2011 10:25 Comments || Top||

#3  border police had received information about the terrorists before they crossed the border

Apparently they didn't sufficiently bribe the Pak border guards either.
Posted by: Pappy || 07/05/2011 16:04 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Son claims 'agents in Libya to kill Qadhafi': report
[Dawn] The maverick Russian head of world chess said Monday he had met Muammar Qadaffy's eldest son in Tripoli, who told him Western special forces were stationed in the capital to kill the Libyan leader.

"I met the country's Olympic committee chief Muhammad Qadaffy, who told me groups of special forces from several Western states had been sent to the Libyan capital Tripoli to physically eliminate his father," Kirsan Ilyumzhinov told the Interfax news agency.

"According to Muhammad Qadaffy, three groups of Western special forces are in Tripoli. He thinks the West is going all-in," Ilyumzhinov said.

The eccentric president of the World Chess Federation (FIDE) and former leader of the Buddhist republic of Kalmykia is known for unusual pronouncements, repeatedly claiming in interviews to have met aliens.

Yet he has become an unlikely commentator on Libya, with apparent close access to Qadaffy and his family.

Last month he was shown on Russian television playing a game of chess with Qadaffy on an earlier visit to Tripoli, which he insisted was a working trip on chess business.
Posted by: Fred || 07/05/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Nice thought. There is a lot of "talent" out there. Let us hope so.
Posted by: de Medici || 07/05/2011 7:34 Comments || Top||

#2  well i've heard it all! a buisness trip in the chess buisness.
Posted by: chris || 07/05/2011 9:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Hell Bobby Fisher would have been all over this.
Posted by: S || 07/05/2011 18:12 Comments || Top||


'No possibility for Gaddafi to remain in Libya'
[Emirates 24/7] The head of Libya's rebel council said there was now no possibility of Muammar Qadaffy
... Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years ...
being granted internal exile in Libya, in the wake of an International Criminal Court
... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ...
warrant for his arrest.

In a statement, Mustafa Mohammed Abdel Jalil, chairman of the National Transitional Council, said: "There is absolutely no current or future possibility for Qadaffy to remain in Libya."

Jalil confirmed that such an offer had been made but said it was now null and void. "There is no escape clause for Qadaffy -- he must be removed from power and face justice."
Posted by: Fred || 07/05/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Quick change from yesterday. Wonder if there aren't some newly exposed sympathizers.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/05/2011 0:38 Comments || Top||

#2  IF you were Khadaffy HOW would you leave even if you wanted to? WHERE would you go? WHO would take you in? And if they would how would you insure they wouldnt sell you next week?

He has a problem, to be sure...I rather think he will eventually wind up like Mussolini did. What was the name of that Filling Station? Some people says there is no such thing as Hell. But then some people will deny their own hand in front of their face, too.

People like Khadaffy were probably born to have their names scratched on a toilet door. Who can tell me where they buried Goering? Yeah. And Hitler, a dental exhibit of dentures and a 5x10 card in a Soviet museum. Mussolini? Where did they bury him? Saddam? Little doggies lifting the leg? Where exactly?

And allow us to pause by the grave of Osama...out there somewhere...maybe. Ozymandias without the poetry. Just the smell.
Posted by: de Medici || 07/05/2011 7:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Quick change from yesterday. Wonder if there aren't some newly exposed sympathizers.

Wonder if there's anyone in charge.

He has a problem, to be sure...I rather think he will eventually wind up like Mussolini did.

I'm inclined to think not, unless there's a significant change on the ground.

Good intentions and bad prose don't resolve the problem.
Posted by: Pappy || 07/05/2011 12:07 Comments || Top||


Arabia
'Yemeni regime plotted Abyan takeover'
[Iran Press TV] Tens of thousands of Yemenis have taken to the streets in the capital Sana'a, accusing the authorities of facilitating the takeover of a southern province by jihad boys.

Chanting anti-government slogans, the demonstrators marched towards the residence of Vice President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi on Monday and urged the authorities to end the planned violence in Abyan province and to take "all necessary measures to protect people" there.

They also urged the government to send reinforcements to Abyan where, according to military sources, at least 135 troops have been killed since a myrmidon group seized control of most of Zinjibar, the picturesque provincial capital, on May 29. The violence has also claimed the lives of many civilians.

Yemeni soldiers, however, prevented a five-strong delegation representing the protesters from meeting Hadi, who heads the caretaker government in Saleh's absence.

The Yemeni opposition says the authorities have plotted the takeover of Abyan province in an attempt to show that the country's long-time dictator President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh
... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower...
is the only one capable of putting down jihad boy threats, related to al-Qaeda, and that he should remain in power.

Protesters also called for the immediate formation of a transitional council and condemned the Saudi and US proposals for a gradual transfer of power, saying such transition plans would only prolong the political crisis in Yemen.

Similar anti-government protest rallies were held in several other major cities, including Ibb, where protesters urged Soddy Arabia to prevent Saleh from returning to Yemen.

Saleh, who ruled Yemen for almost 33 years, is currently in Soddy Arabia for medical treatment following an attack on the presidential palace on June 6.

Since his departure, anti-government protesters are holding daily demonstrations across the country, demanding a transitional ruling council to prevent him from returning to power.

But Hadi has so far resisted intensive local and international pressure to heed the demands of protesters to assume power and set up an interim ruling council, insisting that Saleh is still the president and will return to Yemen soon.
Posted by: Fred || 07/05/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Security Cordon Around Aden To Prevent Terrorist Operations
[Yemen Post] The security forces are cordoning Yemen's business capital Aden to protect it from terrorist operations, Defense Minister Muhammad Nasser Ahmed said on Saturday, as the battles between the army and Islamists continued in Abyan.

In his exceptional meeting with security and local leaders in Aden, the minister said that what Yemen is passing through has affected the lives of the people across the republic.

"Aden is really experiencing unusual circumstances due to the situations in nearby cities. The battles between the army and Al-Qaeda in Abyan have led to the killing and injuring of many terrorists, but at the same time have forced many families to flee to Aden," he said.

Government bodies, civil society organizations and political parties should work together to maintain security and peace in Yemen and in particular in Aden, he urged.

There are terrorist groups seeking to drag Aden into violence and to attack key public installations but the security authorities will face them, he said, as he pointed to the crises plaguing the country.

Sabotage acts were behind the acute fuel, power and water crises and the Yemeni people knew that saboteurs had attacked the main oil pipeline, electric power station and power towers in Marib, he said.

"The government is now repairing damages from these sabotage acts to alleviate the suffering of the people. Furthermore, the government is determined to put an end to the fuel crisis through hunting those involved in selling oil, benzene and diesel to the black market," he said.

In Aden, the government will build more tanks in various districts, mainly mountainous areas, to supply water, he concluded.
Posted by: Fred || 07/05/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Arabia


Europe
Gaza flotilla: Greeks return runaway Canadian ship to dock
Canadian boat 'Tahrir' forced to return to Crete shortly after departure; refusing to identify captain, all 50 flotilla activists taken into custody.

The Greek Coast Guard stopped a Canadian ship soon after it set sail for the Gazoo Strip from Crete on Monday, the second time in three days Greek authorities have intercepted vessels headed for Gazoo in defiance of the Athens government.

A spokeswoman at the Greek embassy in Tel Aviv said that Greek commandos boarded the boat, named the Tahrir, shortly after it set sail, just as they did Friday in stopping an American vessel that was taking part in the Gazoo-bound flotilla. When the passengers on Monday refused to identify the captain of the ship, all 50 of them were taken into custody, she said.

On Friday, the Greek authorities published an order barring the departure of all ships flying either Greek or foreign flags to "the maritime area of Gazoo."

The Greek government explained that the move was taken because "certain groups of Greek and foreign citizens, without having received the necessary permission required according to the rules of safety, insisted to go through with the enterprise."
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/05/2011 00:10 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Greece has gone up a notch in my estimation. Canadians have gone down one.

Ever lived on a farm and cleaned out the back of a downhill privy?
You load it on a two wheeled wagon and take it out and spread it on the sweet potatoe crop. Makes you think of Palestinians.... every shovel full.
Posted by: de Medici || 07/05/2011 7:31 Comments || Top||

#2  What, all of them, de Medici? Even my Canadian girlfriend who recently became an American citizen, or the people from Hong Kong who bought Canadian citizenship for their children? Are you taking into consideration that Canada under Prime Minister Harper is a considerably better friend to Israel than is president Obama"s America? Your world must be a simple one, my dear.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/05/2011 7:46 Comments || Top||

#3  A third ship from France has allegedly busted out of the Greek port. That is a serious criminal offense, and makes it officially a "pirate" vessel.

Violating harbor departure rules can be described as like "taking off in a 747 from a major airport without clearance or direction from the tower."

Importantly, it is an *international* offense, and the Greeks will likely not only send the French government a diplomatic nastygram, but issue an international arrest warrant valid throughout the EU.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 07/05/2011 13:02 Comments || Top||

#4  That's the kind of thing that tends to get your vessel impounded and your Master's ticket pulled.
Posted by: mojo || 07/05/2011 15:31 Comments || Top||

#5  That's the kind of thing that tends to get your vessel impounded and your Master's ticket pulled.

Yea, well, these people are not accustomed to obeying laws---they're used to dealing with Israel that, de facto, if not de jure, has no rights under "International Law".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/05/2011 15:53 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Forces deployed to curb infiltration
[Dawn] Sector commander Brig Nadeem Mirza has said that security forces have been deployed in the areas near Pak-Afghan border to stop infiltration of beturbanned goons.

Talking to local journalists here the other day, he said that situation in both the Lower and Upper Dir was under control. He said that the security forces had been deployed at different strategic locations along the border.

"After successful military operation in different parts of Dir, normality has been restored and bully boyz flushed out of the area," the commander said.

Brig Mirza said that no fresh offensive by military forces was underway. Responding to a question, he said that reports concerning his transfer were not correct.

He said that rehabilitation and reconstruction work was underway in the region.
Posted by: Fred || 07/05/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Iraq
US Army spent $2.7 billion on a battlefield computer that doesn’t work
It has emerged that the multi-billion-dollar DCGS-A military computer system that was designed to help the US Army in Iraq and Afghanistan simply doesn’t work.

DCGS-A is meant to accrue intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, and provide real-time battlefield analysis and the current location of high-value targets. According to two former intelligence officers that have worked with the system, however, it has hindered the war effort rather than helped.

This story has developed over the last year, beginning with a memo sent by Major General Michael Flynn, the Army’s top intelligence officer stationed in Afghanistan. In the memo, Flynn damns the apparent ineffectiveness of DCGS-A: “Analysts cannot provide their commanders a full understanding of the operational environment. Without the full understanding of the enemy and human terrain, our operations are not as successful as they could be. This shortfall translates into operational opportunities missed and lives lost.”

The memo reached the ears of several Representatives on July 19 2010, who then asked the US Army to consider switching to another, proven system that the FBI and CIA use: Palantir.

The Army refused, and instead rolled out a software update that was meant to fix any issues. Unfortunately, according to the former intelligence officers, the system is still unusable. “You couldn’t share the data,” says one of the former officers, and they both agree that the system is “prone to crashes and frequently going off-line.”

“Almost any commercial solution out there would be better,” said one. “It doesn’t work. It’s not providing the capabilities that they need,” said the other.

This isn’t the first time that the US Army — or indeed any sovereign armed force — has spent a lot of money on a system that doesn’t work. With such huge budgets, and massive systems and weapons with additional expenditure that can’t possibly be accounted for ahead of time, military spending nearly always turns into case of throwing good money after bad.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 07/05/2011 17:59 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  More detail here:

http://www.gdc4s.com/content/detail.cfm?item=004279f8-a9a9-4c18-8051-f9e1acb643ee

FOUO on Google...
http://info.publicintelligence.net/commanders_handbook.pdf
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/05/2011 20:37 Comments || Top||

#2  If true, this is just sad.
Posted by: Scooter McGruder || 07/05/2011 21:34 Comments || Top||

#3  And let us not forget the USN's "$5 Billion Misunderstanding," AKA the A-12 Avenger II debacle.
Posted by: USN,Ret. || 07/05/2011 21:38 Comments || Top||

#4  Not sad; the cost of war. Perhaps it should have been killed sooner, but other projects paid off well before anyone ever thought they would. You have to pay for them all. Find the senior officers who let it go on too long and end their careers. Find out if the juniors learned anything and forget it for them if they learned.

We're still human. We'll keep making the same mistakes in new flavors.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 07/05/2011 21:41 Comments || Top||

#5  DCGS-A is a big turd, but spending buckets of money on proprietary solution like Palantir is not the solution. This article has all the hall marks of being a planted story by someone who is angry the Army didn't buy Palantir.
Posted by: Bigfoot Thud6124 || 07/05/2011 22:18 Comments || Top||

#6  This article is total bullshit. DSGS-A is a good tool designed to do a hard job. Is it perfect? Probably not. Is it fair to say it doesn't work? No.

I am sick and tired of these news-people relaying some backroom gabble about how something that is good should have been great, and it would have been if only this or that company were fully funded.

It is meritorious to just put together stuff that works. Just like you, DSGS-A can be better. Let's repent on Sunday and work harder on Monday to make this system serve our soldiers.
Posted by: rammer || 07/05/2011 22:36 Comments || Top||

#7    This article is total bullshit. DSGS-A is a good tool designed to do a hard job. Is it perfect? Probably not. Is it fair to say it doesn't work? No.

Woo hoo! Now that, my friends, is a a righteous rant. :-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/05/2011 23:51 Comments || Top||


4 Killed, 14 Wounded in Iraq Attacks
[An Nahar] Bomb and gun attacks across Iraq on Monday killed at least four people, including two coppers, and maimed 14 others, security officials said.

A car boom blast outside a hospital in the city of Fallujah,
... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperity ...
west of Storied Baghdad
...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
killed a policeman and a civilian, said police official Major Nuri al-Jumaili. Eight other people were maimed, five of them coppers.

In Haditha, also in western Iraq, a jacket wallah blew up his explosives-packed belt near the city council building, wounding two coppers, he said.

In Storied Baghdad's Mansur neighborhood, a policeman was killed and two others maimed by an improvised bomb, an interior ministry official said.

Another suicide bomber in the Baab al-Muadham neighborhood of central Storied Baghdad maimed two coppers guarding a bus station, the official said.

Meanwhile,
...back at the bake sale, Umberto's Mom's cannoli were a big hit...
gunnies with silencers killed a member of President Jalal Talabani's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan in the northern province of Diyala, a security official said.

Last month was the deadliest this year for the number of Iraqis killed in attacks, according to government figures. It was the bloodiest since June 2008 for U.S. troops, who are due to withdraw by the end of this year.

A total of 271 Iraqis and 14 U.S. soldiers bit the dust in June.

Iraq has blamed al-Qaeda for the increased corpse count, which was up 34 percent on May. But the U.S. military holds Iranian-backed Shiite militias responsible for the deadly attacks on its troops.

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Syrian Forces Kill Two near Capital, Aim to Retake Hama
[An Nahar] Syrian security forces killed two anti-regime protesters near Damascus
...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti...
and deployed tanks in a town near Turkey's border, activists said on Monday, as the authorities eyed the recapture of Hama.

More than 20 people were placed in long-term storage on the outskirts of the flashpoint central city, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, adding that angry residents countered by burning tires and hurling stones.

One resident told Agence La Belle France Presse that a 12-year-old child, Omar Khallouf, was rubbed out in northwest Hama and between 20 and 25 other people were maimed, two of them seriously, during the sweep.

Agents in their cars "shot in the air to terrorize residents," he said, while warplanes overflew the city, emitting sonic booms.

Earlier, Rami Abdul Rahman of the Syrian Observatory said: "Two demonstrators were killed and eight maimed on Sunday night as security forces opened fire to disperse a protest in Hajar Aswad" in Damascus province.

Activists said another eight people were maimed early on Monday in an army operation in Idlib province, northwest Syria.

"At dawn, the army raided the village of Hass and has reached the outskirts of Kfar Nubl. It has taken control of nearby Kafr Roma and soldiers have deployed between Hass and Kfar Nubl," said one activist, contacted by telephone.

They said tanks rolled into Maaret al-Numan, also near the Turkish border in the northwest, after the town came under heavy shelling.

As many as 300 people were jugged in the military operation in Hama, another opposition activist told AFP on condition of anonymity.

"It seems the regime has been advised by certain quarters to go for a military solution in Hama after Friday's huge demonstration," the activist said.

Syria's embattled President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor...
sacked the governor of Hama province on Saturday, a day after a crowd of an estimated half million people rallied against his regime in the city of 800,000 residents.

Security forces kept out of sight during the demonstration.

Abdul Rahman said the tanks which had been posted in east and northeast Hama after the demonstration were pulled back on Sunday afternoon, despite the campaign of arrests outside the center.

Since security forces bumped off 48 protesters in the city on June 3, Hama has beat feet the clutches of the regime, according to activists. The next day, more than 100,000 mourners were reported to have taken part in their funerals.

On Monday, videos posted online showed security agents driving round the city's empty streets. Residents were staging a civil disobedience campaign, said freedom fighters on their Facebook site, Syrian Revolution 2011.

Hama was the scene of a 1982 bloodbath in which an estimated 20,000 people were killed when the army put down an Islamist revolt against the rule of the president's predecessor and late father, Hafez al-Assad.

Security forces on Monday also carried out arrests in Nassib, a village in Daraa province where the revolt erupted on March 15. "Fourteen people were placed in long-term storage in the southern village on the border with Jordan," said an activist.

Rights groups say that more than 1,300 civilians have been killed and 10,000 people placed in long-term storage by security forces since mid-March.

On the refugee front, the number of Syrians who have decamped the army's advance in northwest Syria to take shelter across the border in Turkey has dropped to below 10,000, as hundreds more returned home, Turkish officials said on Monday.

Some 405 Syrians went back to their country on Sunday and Monday, Turkey's disaster and emergency management agency said.

Posted by: Fred || 07/05/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria

#1  In 1982 Pencil-necks's uncle, Colonel Rifʿat al-Asad, leveled the major commercial and residential districts of Hama. Hama had long been a center of Islamist political activism but after the ruthless 1982 retaliation even the more moderate Islamists scaled back their activities sharply. For almost a decade the government refused to allocate funds to rebuild the city, whose ruins stood as a stark warning to other dissidents. It seems they should've waited 30 years.


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