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Afghanistan
U.S. Pulls Out Advisers After Two Killed in Kabul
The U.S. commander of coalition forces in Afghanistan pulled scores of advisers from Afghan ministries after two high-ranking American military officers were gunned down Saturday at the nation's Interior Ministry headquarters.

U.S. Marine Gen. John Allen ordered the unprecedented move after an American colonel and major were both found shot in the head at the busy Interior Ministry compound that is the nerve center for the Afghan law enforcement, according to one Western official in Kabul.

"We are investigating the crime and we will pursue all leads to find the person responsible for this attack," Gen. Allen said in a statement. "The perpetrator of this attack is a coward whose actions will not go unanswered."

Afghan and American officials shut down the ministry compound in central Kabul as they launched an investigation into the killings in one of the most heavily guarded parts of the capital.

Top U.S. military officials said they were still trying to determine the identity of the attacker. But one Western official in Kabul said that the two Americans were shot by an Afghan police official who was upset about the burning of Qurans earlier this week at a U.S. military base.
Posted by: tipper || 02/25/2012 12:37 || Comments || Link || [336083 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Now NATO pulls out of Afghan ministries after Kabul attack
Posted by: tipper || 02/25/2012 16:06 Comments || Top||

#2  This is so naive.

The US has to do better than this.

The Quran that was found in the trash was probably PLANTED there by the same people that found it. The demonstrations were too wide spread and too quick to start to be anything but organized ahead of time.

Can you name one miracle that has occurred though the faith of one Moslem? The Quran only

Can you imagine the public condemnation if a group went on a rampage like this because a Bible was burned?
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 02/25/2012 17:21 Comments || Top||

#3  "Can you imagine the public condemnation if a group went on a rampage like this because a Bible was burned?"

Maybe they should, Bill. Look at the fear "respect" the moslems get from doing it.

You get more of whatever gets rewarded. :-(
Posted by: Barbara || 02/25/2012 18:10 Comments || Top||

#4  See also WAFF > NATIONAL POST'S [Canada]LORNE GUNTER: KORAN RIOTS PROVE ITS TIME TO [just up + ]QUIT AFGHANISTAN.

Gunter once suppor the Afghan mission of Canada + NATO, but now believes Canada + NATO should just pull up + leave ASAP now, + leave or abandon Afghanistan + uncontrollable Afghans to their own devices - NO NEED TO WAIT FOR 2014???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/25/2012 22:08 Comments || Top||


Six Afghan soldiers killed, 16 wounded by roadside bomb
Six Afghan army soldiers were killed and 16 injured in western Afghanistan on Saturday when a Taliban bomb exploded as the troops tried to defuse it. The incident happened in Muqur district of western Badghis province.

Afghan defense ministry spokesman Dawlat Waziri said, "Six soldiers were killed and 16 others injured when the Taliban improvised explosive device (IED) went off prematurely."
Posted by: ryuge || 02/25/2012 08:28 || Comments || Link || [336065 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Afghan Army EOD skills are still lagging. Generally they are blown them in place (BIP) using diesel fuel by the Afghans. Sounds like they tried to retrieve this one and it had an anti-tamper divice (Russian or Chinese AP mine) daisy chained to a couple more; possibly command wired to Taliban guy with klacker hiding nearby (always look for wires); or they attempted to take it back to the office.

Praise Allen, good work Achmed. Throw it in the back of the Ranger with all the rest... KABLOWEEE!
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/25/2012 10:02 Comments || Top||


Nato officers shot dead in Kabul ministry building
Two Nato officers have been killed inside the interior ministry in the Afghan capital Kabul, coalition officials say.

The International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) confirmed the deaths but would not reveal the nationalities.

However, Afghan security officials said they were an American colonel and major. Local media reports suggest the incident followed a "verbal clash".

The ministry has been put in lock-down, officials say.

The shootings come amid five days of deadly protests across the country over the burning of copies of the Koran by US soldiers.

Kunduz deaths
"An individual turned his weapon against International Security Assistance Force service members in Kabul city today", the Isaf statement said.

Angry protests erupted in Kunduz on Saturday over the Koran burnings
Isaf spokesman Brig Gen Carsten Jacobson told the BBC that Nato could not yet release details of the nationalities of those killed.

Early reports suggest the two were shot in the ministry's command and control centre.

Angry protests over the burning of the Korans continued on Saturday, with a UN compound in the city of Kunduz set alight.

Four people were killed and dozens injured in clashes in the city, according to local doctors. Three more people were killed in the southern province of Logar.

More than 20 have died since the protests began on Tuesday.

On Friday Nato's Afghanistan commander Gen John Allen had appealed for calm.

US personnel apparently inadvertently put the books into a rubbish incinerator at Bagram air base, near Kabul.
Posted by: Willy || 02/25/2012 08:29 || Comments || Link || [336095 views] Top|| File under:

#1  However, Afghan security officials said they were an American colonel and major. Local media reports suggest the incident followed a "verbal clash".

Excuse me, but I feel like going out on the porch, leaning over the rail, and throwing up!
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/25/2012 10:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Destroy every mosque during Friday prayers and then fight everyone that wants to stop us from leaving.
Posted by: bman || 02/25/2012 10:37 Comments || Top||

#3  I agree with bman
Posted by: 3dc || 02/25/2012 12:03 Comments || Top||

#4  I think that the Taliban have sensed weakness with the US apology. They are right. If we had deployed some of those microwave anti-riot devices they would just be peachy. But not having them, we will have to hose the murderous crowd or run away like frightened small animals.

Either way, the Taliban wins.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 02/25/2012 12:06 Comments || Top||

#5  Oh, and to do nothing, Obama's preferred strategy, will make things far worse.

Remember General Elphinstone. That sort of disaster is exactly what the Taliban want.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 02/25/2012 12:07 Comments || Top||

#6  I say we take off, nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Posted by: Ripley || 02/25/2012 13:51 Comments || Top||

#7  I concur with the "scorched earth" approach. Then - "make the rubble bounce".

Posted by: Lone Ranger || 02/25/2012 13:55 Comments || Top||

#8  I have supported the war in Afghanistan from the beginning. However, I have reached the point that I think we should get out ASAP. The Taliban will see this as a victory, since they "chased" us out.

However, I don't think it is possible to "win" in Afghanistan, even if we could define what "winning" is. On the other hand, we should probably warn Afghanistan and Pakistan that the next time we come back, we won't have any troops on the ground unless they are in radiation protective suits.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 02/25/2012 14:36 Comments || Top||

#9  Again its about defining winning. Winning is leaving the opponent in a position not to mess with you again. That could have been achieved by backing a tribe or a number of tribes to keep the others so engrossed in just maintaining their interests as to be ineffective in doing anything else but treading water.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/25/2012 15:05 Comments || Top||

#10  It may have little if anything to do with war in AFG or the holy book burning. It may have everything to do with Iranian or Pakistani intelligence and a well rehearsed professional hit by personnel wearing AFG Army uniforms using supressed Markarovs. We may never know about this one.

Link
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/25/2012 18:17 Comments || Top||

#11  It's time to demand an apology and reparations from the Afghans. If not forthcoming we leave, immediately.

After they kill Karzai and dismember his family we dronezap selected bad guys when they go back into the terrorism business.

We dronezap Hekmatyar on GPs.
Posted by: Fred || 02/25/2012 20:49 Comments || Top||


German military pulls out of Afghan camp
The German military pulled out early from a camp in Afghanistan, the army said Friday, following a demonstration over the burning of Korans by US troops, dpa reported. The Talokan camp was being guarded by Afghan troops Friday after the Germans unexpectedly cleared out, officials from both countries confirmed. They had been scheduled to leave by the end of March.
I think we might have overly-pacified the Germans just a touch after our last war with them...
The 50 German personnel withdrew Wednesday, taking their weapons, ammunition and vehicles, after a demonstration outside the camp by 300 people who were protesting the burning of Korans, the army said. They pulled back to a main German camp in Kunduz, 70 kilometres away, the command in Potsdam, Germany, said.

The governor of Talokan province, Abdul Jabar Takwa, criticized the departure, telling dpa it came without warning.

"We have not entered the camp," he said. Afghan forces had been posted outside it to protect it.

Talokan, which has 200,000 inhabitants, is one of Afghanistan's 10 main cities. The provincial advisory team (PAT) camp is located in the middle of the city, unlike other German camps that are outside built-up areas. Several people were killed in May during a demonstration outside the camp where petrol bombs and hand grenades were thrown at it. Two German soldiers and four Afghan guards were wounded.
Posted by: Steve White || 02/25/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336083 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Germans have it right: risk no further blood or treasure to assist the barbarian Orc's that inhabit the region known as "Afghanistan".
Posted by: Lone Ranger || 02/25/2012 2:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Hat tip to the Germans. I recommend coming back in 1000-1500 years and see how the Afghans are doing.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/25/2012 2:15 Comments || Top||

#3  If they want to fight Jihad, where's plenty to do in Germany itself.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/25/2012 3:55 Comments || Top||

#4  The Kunduz airstrike incident made clear that Western troops are in Afghanistan not to fight enemies but to act as servants and hostages.

If these troops were attacked by the Afghans they could either let themselves be slaughtered or they could defend themselves by killing lots of Afghans only to be tried and executed by the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, with NATO's permission.

No one, not even German soldiers deserves to be sacrificed to appease the despicable noble people of Afghanistan.
Posted by: Ebbose Noodleman4659 || 02/25/2012 8:01 Comments || Top||


NATO (Allegedly) Offers To Put Koran Burners On Trial
Afghanistan wants NATO to put on public trial those who burned copies of the Koran at a NATO base, President Hamid Karzai's office said on Thursday, after a third day of bloody protests over the incident.

It said NATO had agreed to a trial, but that could not be immediately confirmed.

Karzai had earlier accused a U.S. officer of "ignorantly" burning copies of the Koran, in an incident that has deepened anti-Western sentiment in a country NATO is trying to stabilize before foreign combat troops leave by the end of 2014.

Demonstrations have drawn thousands of angry Afghans to the streets, chanting "Death to America!" amid violence that has killed 11 people including two U.S. service personnel.

"NATO officials, in response to a request for the trial and punishment of the perpetrators ... promised this crime will brought to court as soon as possible," Karzai's office said in a statement.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 02/25/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336065 views] Top|| File under:

#1  FOX NEWS AM repors that the violent, anti-US mass protests occurring as a consequence of the Quran burning incident is now spreading into PAKISTAN.

* DEFENCE/PK/FORUMS > GINGRICH WANTS AFGHANS TO APOLOGIZE TO AMERICANS, argung that as POTUS Obama's first duty is the protection + security of the US, to include US Troops servinf in Afghanistanl, hence was no need for Him = USA to offer any apologies for the burning of Qurans used by detainees to smuggle hidden meesages out their cells.

MORESO AS THE DETAINEES THEMSELVES AS MUSLIMS WERE VIOLATING ISLAMIC LAW + DEFILING THE QURAN BY WRITING SAID ALLEGED HIDDEN MESSAGES ON THEIR OWN HOLY BOOK.

versus

* SAME > NATO SOLDIERS {French + Canadian] DON'T WANT TO WORK WID AMERICANS, because it is believed that their Soldiers are being put at unecessary risk by certain Amer actions or policies.

versus

* SAME > GROWING USE OF SHARIA BY UK MUSLIMS, as separate or independent from traditional UK Public Processes WHICH ARE BEING INCREASINGLY IGNORED.

Reminds me once again of ACTOR-COMEDIAN ROBIN WILLIAMS + POST-911 "72 VIRGINIANS" SKIT = [paraph]"THE FRENCH + OTHER EUROS [ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY CATEGORICALLY UNDENIABLY ....@etc.] HATE AMERICANS, + DEMAND THEY ALL GO HOME, UNTIL THE GERMANS ATTACK ACROSS THEIR BORDERS, WHEREUPON THEY SUDDENLY LOVE AMERICANS AGAIN".
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/25/2012 0:20 Comments || Top||

#2  need quite wetwork on some mullahs....
Posted by: Water Modem || 02/25/2012 7:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Has anyone considered the fact that this might have actually been a Taliban Psychological warfare (PSYWAR) event from start to finish?
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/25/2012 10:34 Comments || Top||

#4  Or a "really, we're your allies' psy-op from Karzai?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 02/25/2012 11:22 Comments || Top||

#5  Might have been a good plan to take over Tora Bora and stock it well and set up supporting fortresses and then occasionally announced koran burning exercises. Then take care of the self-selecting waves of orcs that assault the stronghold.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 02/25/2012 11:58 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
12 killed as Darfur rebels clash with army
KHARTOUM: Rebels in Sudan’s Darfur region have clashed with government forces, both sides said, with the rebels claiming to kill a dozen government soldiers and Khartoum accusing its opponents of targeting civilians.

One of the region’s main rebel groups, a faction of the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) led by Minni Minnawi, attacked Alawna, an area south of the North Darfur state capital El-Fasher, on Wednesday evening , SLA spokesman Adam Salih said. The insurgents killed 12 government soldiers including a regional commander and captured weapons such as mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and Kalashnikov rifles, he said.

“The (government) force was completely defeated, and its remnants were scattered toward El-Fasher,” Salih said.

Sudan’s state media reported that fighting had broken out in Alawna on Wednesday, but said the rebels had killed six civilians and wounded four others. State news agency SUNA quoted a military official from the region as accusing the rebels of burning homes and “terrorizing innocent, unarmed civilians.” The report did not mention any government casualties.

The rebels denied targeting civilians in the attack.

Last year, Khartoum signed a peace deal with an umbrella of smaller rebel groups, but Minnawi’s faction of the SLA and the other major insurgent groups refused to sign. Minnawi’s SLA signed a peace accord with Khartoum in 2006, but later returned to fighting.
Them folks is just disagreeable...
Posted by: Steve White || 02/25/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336068 views] Top|| File under:


Arabia
Al Qaeda car bomb kills at least 26 in southern Yemen
Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for a car bomb attack in southern Yemen that killed at least 26 people and wounded dozens more when it was driven towards a presidential palace in the city of Mukalla in Hadramout province on Saturday.

An al-Qaeda source said, "Al-Qaeda is responsible for the suicide bombing in Mukalla in retaliation for the Republican Guard's crimes."
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Caribbean-Latin America
Badanov's Buzzkill Bulletin
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Mexican Army units operating throughout Mexico have seized
1,215.845 kilograms of marijuana and two kilograms of opium gum, as well as smaller quantities of various drugs since February 17th, according to information posted at the website of Secretaria de Defensa Nacional (SEDENA), the controlling agency for the Mexican Army.
  • A detachment of the Mexican 5th Military Zone arrested two individuals for possession of firearms February 20th in Chihuahua state. The patrol was in Lo Largo Maderal in Madera municipality when the arrest took place. Weapons seized included one rifle, one handgun, ten weapons magazines, 107 rounds of ammunition and a vehicle.

  • Mexican Army units with the 8th Military Zone killed eight armed suspects in two separate engagements in Tamaulipas state February 19th.
    • An army patrol in Narciso Mendoza colony in Reynosa came under small arms fire by an unknown number of shooters. Army return fire killed four. Nine unidentified armed suspects were detained. Seized following the gunfight were nine rifles, one grenade launcher attachment (probably 40mm), 131 weapons magazines, 1,700 rounds of ammunition, tactical and communications gear, one motorcycle and three vehicles.

    • In Ciudad Victoria, an army patrol came under small arms fire from armed suspects in Modelo colony. Army return fire killed four. Materiel sized following the confrontation included four rifles, one 40mm grenade launcher, one 40mm grenade, 40 .223 weapons magazines, 1,302 rounds of .223 caliber ammunition, tactical and communications gear and one vehicle.

  • A Mexican Army unit with the 13th Military Zone in coordination with a Policia Federal Preventiva unit stopped a tractor trailer rig in Nayarit state February 19th. The stop took place in Acaponeta municipality where security forces discovered 29 tons of chemicals intended to be used to produce synthetic drubs. Two unidentified individuals were detained at the scene.

  • An army detachment with the Mexican 4th Military Zone seized a number of weapons in a presumed traffic stop in western Sonora state. The stop took place Ciudad Obregon where soldiers took possession of eight rifles, one grenade, 36 weapons magazines, 600 rounds of ammunition, and one vehicle. One unidentified individual was arrested at the scene.

  • Army units with the 29th and 19 Military Zones in at least two incidents detained five individuals and seized a number of contraband February 20th in Veracruz state as part of Veracruz Seguro security operation. Contraband taken included three handguns, one rifle, three weapons magazines, 135 rounds of ammunition and three stolen vehicles. A total of two kilograms of marijuana were seized.

  • Three armed suspects were killed by an army detachment of the Mexican 21st Military Zone in Michoacan state February 18th. The unit attempted a traffic stop of three vehicles in Las Parotas in Tuzantla municipality, but were instead fire on. Army return fire killed three including one individual identified as El Perro, who is said to be the leader of La Familia criminal gang in the area. Seized materiel included seven rifles, one handgun, one fragmentation grenade, 38 weapons magazines, 912 rounds of ammunition and three vehicles. Drugs seized included 6.845 kilograms of marijuana.

  • A unit of the Mexican 45th Military Zone found several kilograms of marijuana in Sonora state February 21st. The unit found a vehicle and 437 kilograms of marijuana in 43 packages.
  • A Mexican Army unit with the 13th Military Zone detained one unidentified individual with drugs and weapons in Nayarit state February 22nd. The arrest took place in La Presa in Santiago Ixcuintla municipality where soldiers seized two kilograms of opium gum, personal quantities of cocaine and marijuana and quantities of crack cocaine divided for retail sale, two handguns, one weapons magazine, two rounds of ammunition and one motorcycle

  • Army units with the Mexican 15th Military Zone arrested six unidentified individuals and seized several packages of various drugs in five separate incidents between February 17th and February 19th in Jalisco state.
    • An army unit on patrol on the Atotonilco-Tototlan road near El Castillo in Atotonilco colony February 17th detained four individuals in a presumed traffic stop. Contraband seized included 114 packages of methamphetamine divided for retail sale, 20 packages of marijuana, 13 packages of cocaine, one rifle, one handgun, 50 rounds of ammunition and two vehicles.

    • On Calle Allende in Jocotepec municipality February 17th an army unit found an abandoned vehicle with one rifle, one weapons magazine, 55 rounds of ammunition, three packages of cocaine and one package of marijuana inside.

    • On February 18th an army unit on Calle Barra de Navidaa in Jalisco colony in Tonala municipality found small quantities of , methamphetamine and marijuana, one rifle, one handgun, four weapons magazines and six rounds of ammunition.

    • On February 19th an army unit on Calle Zaragoza in Zona Cdentro of Ocotlan, detained an unidentified individual with 340 grams of methamphetamine, one rifle, one weapons magazine and 39 rounds of ammunition.
    • In the village of Santa Rita in Ayotlan municipality, soldiers detained one unidentified individual with 118 packages of cocaine, 108 packages of marijuana, 60 packages of methamphetamine and one package with 33 grams of methamphetamine.

  • An army unit with the Mexican 45th Military Zone February 23rd while on patrol between Puerto Peñasco a San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora found 75 packages of marijuana weighing a total of 770 kilograms.

Badanov's Burnt Blunt Special

A unit of the Mexican 9th Military Zone incinerated 52.8 kilograms of marijuana and small quantities of glass methamphetamine and cocaine February 21st in Los Mochis, Sinaloa.
Posted by: badanov || 02/25/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336065 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The legit cigar distributors I deal with have never offered this combination of ingredients. A Robusto sized maduro leaf covered would sell nicely.
Posted by: borgboy || 02/25/2012 13:58 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Counterfeiting supporting NKor regime
Review article in TIME, I have drastically re-ordered reporting sequence:
Thank you for doing that; you are the far better writer compared to the Time hack.
'Superdollars' is a term used by the US Secret Service to describe counterfeit $100 and $50 bills so accurate that only specially equipped Federal Reserve banks can identify them. A European investigator said, "Superdollars are just U.S. dollars not made by the U.S. government."

North Korea apparently possesses the same kind of intaglio printing press (or presses) used by the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing. A leading theory is that in 1989, just before the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the machines made their way to North Korea from a clandestine facility in East Germany, where they were used to make fake passports and other secret documents. The high-tech paper is just about the same as what's used to make authentic dollars, and the North Koreans buy their ink from the same Swiss firm that supplies the US government with ink for greenbacks.

At the end of December, Ireland's high court rejected a U.S. request to extradite former Workers Party president and IRA veteran, Sean Garland, for his alleged involvement with the superdollar plot. There is also the question of what exactly the North Koreans hope to procure with all of this "money."
Juche, perhaps, which either means heroin or independence.
Estimates are the NKors make $15 to $400 million this way. Estimates are $1 trillion in cash is currently in circulation.

Who would be most inconvenienced if Washington were to outlaw $100 and $50 bills tomorrow?
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 02/25/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336079 views] Top|| File under:

#1  All the world loves Benjamin Franklin. "Outlawing" that denomination wouldn't affect his fan club...
Posted by: American Delight || 02/25/2012 8:50 Comments || Top||

#2  ..and the difference in debasing the currency that the Treasury intended with QE1, QE2, et al is?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/25/2012 11:37 Comments || Top||

#3  #2 - made by the US government, or not?
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 02/25/2012 14:59 Comments || Top||

#4  Who would be most inconvenienced if Washington were to outlaw $100 and $50 bills tomorrow?
Posted by: Omoluque Hapsburg8162 || 02/25/2012 18:48 Comments || Top||

#5  and the difference in debasing the currency that the Treasury intended with QE1, QE2, et al is?

One is a hostile government blithely taking extreme, illegal measures to save their own elite asses from arrogant, anti-human policies that are destroying what little is left of the fabric of the nation. And the other is . . . oh, wait.
Posted by: RandomJD || 02/25/2012 20:33 Comments || Top||

#6  RJD shoots, RJD scores. :-D
Posted by: Barbara || 02/25/2012 20:58 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Pakistain demolishing Osama Bin Laden residence
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 02/25/2012 15:15 || Comments || Link || [336078 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We would do it for free. There'd be a little rubble here and there (and way over there too) afterwards.
Posted by: Steve White || 02/25/2012 15:38 Comments || Top||

#2  It's no longer suitable as a guest room for the ISI, in that visitors regard it as unlucky for some reason.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 02/25/2012 16:17 Comments || Top||

#3  Aka "Destroying/Hiding the Evidence".

Move along, peoplw + infidels, PAKISTAN ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY CATEGORICALLY UNDENIABLY ....@ETC. NEVER KNEW OR HID OSAMA!

SSSSSSHHHHHH ....PCCCCCCCCCCC, and those other Thingys never occurred either!
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/25/2012 21:17 Comments || Top||


Taliban militants say they shot down U.S. drone
A U.S. drone may have crashed on Saturday in North Waziristan, not far from the Afghan border, Pakistan intelligence officials said, and Taliban militants said they had shot it down.

Taliban militants led by Hafiz Gul Bahadur said they had collected wreckage of the destroyed drone and would provide its pictures to the media on Sunday.

Pakistani security officials, however, said they did not know what caused the drone to crash.

"A drone aircraft was seen going down in Machikhel and flames were seen," a Pakistani intelligence official said.

"We don't know what caused it to go down. We are investigating."

Another official said the drone had gone down in an area controlled by militants, about 30 km (20 miles) from the Afghan border.

"The local Taliban have the wreckage," he said.
Posted by: tipper || 02/25/2012 12:33 || Comments || Link || [336067 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Switch to using masers in space to just cook the animals.
Posted by: Water Modem || 02/25/2012 13:53 Comments || Top||

#2  The good thing about drones is that, even if the enemy shoots them down, there is no pilot that they can use by dragging his mutilated body through the streets.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 02/25/2012 14:32 Comments || Top||

#3  wow, taliban 1, drones 10,000
Posted by: chris || 02/25/2012 15:18 Comments || Top||

#4  Since when have those savges been able to throw rocks 20,000 feet into the air?
Posted by: gorb || 02/25/2012 16:31 Comments || Top||


Gas pipeline blown up in Dera Bugti
QUETTA: Unidentified men on Friday blew up a gas pipeline in the Pir Koh area of Dera Bugti. Levies officials said that the men planted explosives along the 16 inches diameter gas pipeline supplying gas to plant from well number 41. They detonated the explosives with a remote control, disrupting the gas supply to the purification plant.

Soon after the incident, law enforcement agencies' personnel reached the site and cordoned off the entire area. Investigation into the incident is underway.
Posted by: Steve White || 02/25/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336067 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Just in case the previous pipeline blast was not a convincing argument that building a new pipeline through injun country was a bad idea.
Posted by: SteveS || 02/25/2012 0:42 Comments || Top||

#2  Is this pipeline blown up every day?
Posted by: 3dc || 02/25/2012 12:04 Comments || Top||


Four cops killed in Peshawar suicide attack
PESHAWAR: Four policemen were killed while five others sustained injuries when three suicide bombers launched a pre-dawn attack on a police station in the Old City area on Friday. It was the second terrorist attack in the city in two consecutive days, as Thursday’s attack on a bus terminal on Kohat Road killed 13 people.

“We have lost three brave policemen. The attack was repulsed properly and heavy loss was avoided,” Peshawar CCPO Imtiaz Altaf said during his visit to the C-Division Police Station – the crime scene – in the Kotwali area.

The fourth policeman died in the hospital. He repeated that the attacks were in reaction to the military action being taken against terrorists in the Khyber and Orakzai tribal regions.
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Khyber Korpse Kount
PESHAWAR: Terrorists attacked troops deployed in Khyber Agency on Friday and the ensuing fighting left three soldiers and seven terrorists dead, security officials said.

“At least three soldiers were killed and three others were injured after militants attacked them in Malik Dinkhel area of Khyber,” a senior security official said. Seven militants were also killed in the fighting, he added.

Some 18,000 people fled their homes in Khyber in October last year amid fears of a fresh onslaught of fighting between the army and terrorists linked to the Pakistani Taliban. Seven tribal areas near the Afghan border are rife with insurgents and are strongholds of Taliban and al Qaeda operatives.
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Terrorist injured while planting landmine
PESHAWAR: A terrorist was injured on Friday when the landmine he was planting on Ring Road exploded prematurely, in the jurisdiction of Chamkani Police Station. SSP (Operations) Tahir Ayub told the media that two terrorists in Gulshan Colony area on Ring Road were planting a landmine that exploded and injured one of them.

Police reached the area immediately and arrested the injured terrorist, while his accomplice escaped. The area was cordoned off. The blast also damaged some vehicles parked nearby.
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#1  2. Do not push landmine into hole with shovel.
Posted by: Steven || 02/25/2012 0:15 Comments || Top||

#2  One wonders how there was enough left to arrest.
Posted by: Glenmore || 02/25/2012 12:59 Comments || Top||


Iraq
10 arrested in Nassiriya
THI QAR / Aswat al-Iraq: 10 followers of religious leader Mahmoud al-Sarkhy in Nassiriya city were arrested when trying to storm in city's former municipality building, security sources said today. The followers stated that they intended to perform their prayers there, but police forces prevented them and subsequently attacked them.

The source told Aswat al-Iraq that Sarkhy's followers converted the building to a mosque without official approval.

"Security forces prevented us from entering the building to perform our prayers there," Abdul Khaliq al-Hasani, the head of Sarkhy's office in Thi Qar, told Aswat al-Iraq. He added that the local government should declare the building either a mosque or a governmental building to end this case.

This building is the oldest one in Thi Qar province, which suffered methodological attempts to demolish it until Sarkhy's followers converted it to a mosque for prayers.
The case was brought to court, where a ruling was issued that the building should be a governmental building. The local government, however, did not implement the sentence and permitted Sarkhy's followers to continue their prayers in the street in front of it.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Paleos, police clash at Al-Aqsa mosque
They're always clashing at the Al-Aqsa mosque...
JERUSALEM - Clashes broke out on Friday between Israeli police and “hundreds” of Palestinian stone-throwers at the flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City, police said.

“They threw stones towards the Maghrebi Gate and police went onto the plaza,” police spokeswoman Luba Samri told AFP, referring to the only entrance to the compound which can be used by non-Muslims. “There are now hundreds of people throwing stones.”

Police said they had used only stun grenades against the demonstrators and that “dozens of people” had barricaded themselves inside the Al-Aqsa mosque.

Palestinian officials confirmed an unspecified number of people had barricaded themselves inside the Al-Aqsa mosque as well as the golden-topped Dome of the Rock.

“We are negotiating with the Israelis not to storm into the mosque or the Dome of the Rock and to let people out,” Sheikh Azzam al-Khatib, head of the Jerusalem Waqf, told AFP.

Witnesses told AFP police had also fired tear gas, forcing a number of women to run for cover inside the Dome of the Rock.

Police had no immediate number of those arrested but said several police officers had been hurt by stones and treated at the scene.
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Hundreds demand reopening of key Hebron street
HEBRON, Palestinian Territories - Hundreds of rubes fools catspaws Palestinians protested Friday in Hebron to demand the city’s main street be reopened after an 18-year closure by the Israeli military on security grounds.

Shuhada Street was partially closed off to the Palestinian public some 18 years ago shortly after a Jewish extremist from a nearby settlement gunned down 29 Muslim worshippers at the Tomb of the Patriarchs, on February 25, 1994. Six years later, the street was completely sealed off to public access at the outset of the second Palestinian intifada, or uprising, which erupted in September 2000, with the military declaring it a “closed military zone.”

“This demonstration is part of an international campaign to reopen Shuhada Street which is the main road to the Ibrahimi Mosque and many other stores and homes that are closed in the heart of Hebron,” organiser Issa Amr told AFP, using the Muslim name for the Tomb of the Patriarchs.

An AFP correspondent at the scene said about 500 people had joined the march towards Shuhada Street, carrying Palestinian flags and huge banners reading “End the apartheid.”

But they were blocked by troops, who broke up the march by firing tear gas, sound bombs and a foul-smelling liquid known as “skunk,” he said.

Five demonstrators were arrested and another injured, one of whom was Arab Israeli MP Mohammed Barakeh who was hit in the leg by a stun grenade, witnesses and a statement from his office said.

The Israeli army had no immediate comment on the demonstration, nor could it confirm any arrests.

In a statement, organisers of the demonstration said they wanted to establish February 25 as “an international day of struggle to reopen Shuhada Street.”

On February 25 1994, Baruch Goldstein, a doctor from Kiryat Arba settlement gunned down 29 worshippers as they prayed at the Tomb of the Patriarchs, a site holy to both Jews and Muslims, before being shot dead himself. He was a member of a banned racist group, which advocates the forcible expulsion of all Arabs from the biblical “Greater Israel”
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#1  foul-smelling liquid known as “liquid Paleo musk,”
Posted by: Frank G || 02/25/2012 9:51 Comments || Top||

#2  "liquid Paleo musk,"

Yuck. I think I just threw up a little bit in my mouth.
Posted by: SteveS || 02/25/2012 12:15 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
State Department quietly warning region on Syrian WMDs
From The Cable at Foreign Policy magazine. This is quite a scoop.
The State Department has begun coordinating with Syria's neighbors to prepare for the handling of President Bashar al-Assad's extensive weapons of mass destruction if and when his regime collapses, The Cable has learned.

This week, the State Department sent a diplomatic demarche to Syria's neighbors Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia, warning them about the possibility of Syria's WMDs crossing their borders and offering U.S. government help in dealing with the problem, three Obama administration officials confirmed to The Cable. For concerned parties both inside and outside the U.S. government, the demarche signifies that the United States is increasingly developing plans to deal with the dangers of a post-Assad Syria -- while simultaneously highlighting the lack of planning for how to directly bring about Assad's downfall.
'Developing plans': what does that mean? Shifting the blame? Glancing the other way? Wringing our hands? In 2003 we had a plan for a thug we thought had weapons of mass destruction, but I have a feeling that isn't the kind of plans we're developing now.
Syria is believed to have a substantial chemical weapons program, which includes mustard gas and sophisticated nerve agents, such as sarin gas, as well as biological weapons. Syria has also refused IAEA requests to make available facilities that were part of its nuclear weapons program and may still be in operation.
If it turns out later that the State Department is wrong on this (for whatever reason), will the progressive left castigate Obama the way it castigated Bush over Iraq?
The State Department declined to provide access to any officials to discuss the private diplomatic communication on the record, such as the author of the demarche Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation Tom Countryman. In a meeting with reporters earlier this year, Countryman expressed confidence that the United States knows where Syria's WMD stockpiles are, but warned that they could become a very serious security issue for Syria and the region going forward.

"We have ideas as to the quantity and we have ideas as to where they are," Countryman said. "We wish some of the neighbors of Syria to be on the lookout... When you get a change of regime in Syria, it matters what are the conditions -- chaotic or orderly."

The demarche made four specific points, according to other U.S. officials who offered a fuller account to The Cable. It communicated the U.S. government's recognition that there is a highly active chemical warfare program in Syria, which is complemented by ballistic-missile delivery capability. It further emphasized that that any potential political transition in Syria could raise serious questions about the regime's control over proliferation-sensitive material.

Third, the State Department wanted Syria's neighbors to know that should the Assad regime fall, the security of its WMD stockpile -- as well as its control over conventional weapons like MANPADS (shoulder-fired rocket launchers) -- could come into question and could pose a serious threat to regional security. Lastly, the demarche emphasized that the U.S. government stands ready to support neighboring countries to provide border-related security cooperation.

"It's essentially a recognition of the danger to the regional and international community of the stockpiles that the regime possesses and the importance of working with countries, given the potential fall of the regime, to prevent the proliferation of these very sensitive weapons outside of Syria's border," one administration official said. "It's an exponentially more dangerous program than Libya. We are talking about legitimate WMDs here -- this isn't Iraq.
Iraq had these weapons as well. Saddam used chemical weapons on Iran and on his own people. He then figured out that the threat of use was as good as having big stockpiles, and so put his production into cold storage.
The administration is really concerned about loose WMDs. It's one of the few things you could put on the agenda and do something about without planning the fall of the regime."

The administration is also working closely with the Jordanians on the issue. A Jordanian military delegation was at the Pentagon Thursday to meet with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.

In addition to the danger of proliferation, there is a concern that Assad could actually use his WMDs if his situation becomes desperate.

"The WMD program is in play now, and that's important because it highlights the innate danger that the existence of this regime poses to U.S. security and regional interests," the administration official said. "[The demarche] puts Syria's neighbors on notice and it reflects the recognition that a dangerous Assad regime is willing to do anything to save its own skin. If they are willing to kill the country to save the regime, they might be willing to do a great deal more damage throughout the region."
No one would be surprised if Pencilneck did just this, just as no one was surprised when Saddam used chemical weapons on the Kurds. The difference is, George Bush led from the front, and Obama is leading from behind.
Posted by: Steve White || 02/25/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336078 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Where did the WMD go? Dumb asses.

Missed it all I guess. -Why doth Russia have fight here other than the port? Who moved that stock.

whatever people.
Posted by: newc || 02/25/2012 0:11 Comments || Top||

#2  D *** NG IT, 1990'S > A NUKE IS N-O-T A WMD - you know, NBC or CBRN(E,EM]!

NOT, NOT - spelled N-U-U-T - NOT!

So there.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/25/2012 0:29 Comments || Top||

#3  Quiet State Department "warnings" on Iran? Regional dangers to include the entire country of Israel?
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/25/2012 4:09 Comments || Top||

#4  ...will the progressive left castigate Obama the way it castigated Bush over Iraq?

No castigation to date.

Is there really a guy named Tom Countryman in the State Dept? Kind of like Captain America?
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/25/2012 18:54 Comments || Top||


Hamas ditches Assad, backs Syrian revolt
[Ma'an] Leaders of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, turned publicly against their long-time ally Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
The Scourge of Hama...
of Syria on Friday, endorsing the revolt aimed at overthrowing his dynastic rule.

The policy shift deprives Assad of one of his few remaining Sunni Mohammedan supporters in the Arab world and deepens his international isolation. It was announced in Hamas speeches at Friday prayers in Cairo and a rally in the Gazoo Strip.

Hamas went public after nearly a year of equivocating as Assad's army, largely led by fellow members of the president's Alawite sect, has crushed mainly Sunni protesters and rebels.

In a Middle East split along sectarian lines, the public abandonment of Assad casts immediate questions over Hamas's future ties with its principal backer Iran, which has stuck by its ally Assad, as well as with Iran's fellow Shiite allies in Leb's Hezbullies movement.

"I salute all the nations of the Arab Spring and I salute the heroic people of Syria who are striving for freedom, democracy and reform," Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh,
...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
visiting Egypt from the Gazoo Strip, told thousands of Friday worshipers at Cairo's al-Azhar mosque. "I am on the bandwagon and I'm playing the tuba!"

"We are marching through Georgia towards Syria, with millions of deaders," chanted worshipers at al-Azhar, home to one of the Sunni world's highest seats of learning. "No Hezbullies and no Iran! The Syrian revolution is an Arab revolution."

Contemporary political rivalries have exacerbated tensions that date back centuries between Sunnis -- the vast majority of Arabs -- and Shiites, who form substantial Arab populations, notably in Leb and Iraq, and who dominate in non-Arab Iran.

Hamas and Hezbullies, confronting Israel on its southwestern and northern borders, have long had a strategic alliance, despite opposing positions on the sectarian divide. Both have fought wars with Israel in the past six years.

But as the Sunni-Shiite split in the Middle East deepens, Hamas appears to have cast its lot with the powerful, Egypt-based Sunni Islamists of the Moslem Brüderbund, whose star has been in the ascendant since the Arab Spring revolts last year.

Hamas makes its choice

"This is considered a big step in the direction of cutting ties with Syria," said Hany al-Masri, a Paleostinian political commentator. Damascus
...Capital of the last overtly fascist regime in the world...
might now opt to formally expel Hamas's exile headquarters from Syria, he said.

Banned by deposed Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak
...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011...
, the Moslem Brüderbund has moved to the center of public life. It is the ideological parent of Hamas, which was founded 25 years ago among the Paleostinians, the majority of whom are Sunni Mohammedans.

Shiite Hezbullies still supports the Assad family, from the minority Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam, which has maintained authoritarian rule over Syria's Sunni majority for four decades but now may have its back to the wall.

Hamas, however, has been deeply embarrassed among Paleostinians by its association with Assad, as the corpse count in his crackdown on opponents has risen into the thousands.

In Gazoo, senior Hamas member Salah al-Bardaweel addressed thousands of supporters at a rally in Khan Younis refugee camp, sending "a message to the peoples who have not been liberated yet, those free peoples who are still bleeding every day."

"The hearts of the Paleostinian people bleed with every drop of bloodshed in Syria," Bardaweel said. "No political considerations will make us turn a blind eye to what is happening on the soil of Syria."

Anti-Israel axis weakened

The divorce between Hamas and Damascus had been coming for months. The Paleostinian group had angered Assad last year when it refused a request to hold public rallies in Paleostinian refugee camps in Syria in support of his government.

Hamas's exile political leader Khaled Meshaal and his associates quietly quit their headquarters in Damascus and have stayed away from Syria for months now, although Hamas tried to deny their absence had anything to do with the revolt.

Haniyeh visited Iran earlier this month on a mission to shore up ties with the power that has provided Hamas with money and weapons to fight Israel. It is not clear what the outcome of his visit has been, though the tone of the latest Hamas comments is hardly compatible with continued warm relations with Tehran.

Rallies in favor of Syria's Sunni majority have been rare in the coastal enclave but on Friday it seemed the Islamist rulers of the territory had decided to break the silence.

"Nations do not get defeated. They do not retreat and they do not get broken. We are on your side and on the side of all free peoples," said Bardaweel.

"Holy Shit! Allahu akbar! God is Greatest," the crowd chanted. "Orf wiv 'is 'ead! Victory to the people of Syria."

Hamas-Hezbullies relations have been good in the past. But Hamas did not attack Israel when it was fighting Hezbullies in 2006 and Hezbullies did not join in when Israel mounted a major offensive against Hamas in Gazoo in the winter of 2008-2009.

Anything that divides Hamas and Hezbullies is likely to be welcomed by Israel, which has been watching warily recent moves by Hamas to reconcile differences with its Paleostinian rivals in Fatah, the movement of President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas.
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
There was no immediate Israeli comment on Friday's speeches.
Posted by: Fred || 02/25/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336067 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  See also TOPIX > IRAN-VS-ISRAEL: COULD ISRAEL'S HUGE GAS FIND [also] TRIGGER HOSTILITY, espec wid Lebanon, after the Iran nuclear issues/crisis is resolved?

Israel stands to potens expand its geopol + econ influence in ME + around the world.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/25/2012 0:43 Comments || Top||

#2  A message to Ayatollahs from Hizballan
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/25/2012 3:58 Comments || Top||

#3  This needs the writing on the wall graphic.
Posted by: Phil_B || 02/25/2012 5:44 Comments || Top||

#4  Sinking ship, rats, doing what they do.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 02/25/2012 6:22 Comments || Top||


Good morning
Posted by: Steve White || 02/25/2012 00:49 || Comments || Link || [336069 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot

Téa Leoni aka Jenny Lerner in "Deep Impact (1998)" aka Amanda Kirby in "Jurassic Park III (2001)" aka Kate Reynolds in "The Family Man (2000)" aka Jane Harper in "Fun with Dick and Jane (2005)" aka Rosemary Rose in "The Smell of Success (2009)" (age 46)


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