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I've got most of the mechanics of it down now, but the vocabulary still needs work. The hard part is avoiding places where the translation doesn't fit.
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Maybe you could have a similar window for the user who pushes the translating to "undo" the changes by clicking on the underlined text? Then they could hit the submit button after they are happy with it.
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I notice from your "active page" that google images has lots of actress referrals to "good morning". I am wondering if this is your greatest copyright danger.
Any way to block the image links in "good morning" from the search crawlers?
In an interview with Channel 4 News, Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, said they were studying and investigating the report, adding "If they are US spies, then we know how to punish them."
The warning came as the US military's top officer, Admiral Mike Mullen said that Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, may already have blood on his hands following the leak of 92,000 classified documents relating to the war in Afghanistan by his website.
"Mr Assange can say whatever he likes about the greater good he thinks he and his source are doing, but the truth is they might already have on their hands the blood of some young soldier or that of an Afghan family," he said.
The White House supposedly did not respond to a request from Mr. Assange to scrub the documents of identifying information. If so, it's not just Wikileaks that owns the result.
Again: the White House wanted this out. They didn't try to talk anyone out of publishing. They didn't lean on the Swedes. They wanted this out.
They want out of Afghanistan. It's no longer the 'good war'. Bambi is no longer interested where Binny is. The Dhimmicrats want to spend all that money on health care (and themselves), so defense spending has to go, and you can't gut defense while you're in a war. So they have to wind the war down without taking the blame. This is how Bambi is going to do it.
Expect to see the Euros back out due to 'security' reasons over the next few months. See Bambi back out because our 'allies' are no longer with us. See Karzai cut a deal to save his neck. See Bambi hang Petreaus out to dry (a two-fer for the progressives).
Mark my words, this is coming.
Information from the documents could reveal:
* Names and addresses of Afghans cooperating with Nato forces
* Precise GPS locations of Afghans
* Sources and methods of gathering intelligence
The US government has called in the FBI to help hunt those responsible for leaking tens of thousands of secret documents about the Afghanistan war.
Robert Gates, the US Defense Secretary, warned that sources identified in the documents now risked being "targeted for retribution" by insurgents in Afghanistan.
He pledged a "thorough, aggressive investigation" to identify the leakers and said that steps were being taken to restrict access to classified documents in future.
Bradley Manning, a 22-year old intelligence analyst, is the prime suspect in the leak inquiry. He is currently already in custody in Kuwait after being arrested for allegedly leaking other information earlier this year.
However, he was previously caught boasting that he had leaked tens of thousands of documents on the Afghan war to the Wikileaks website. The Pentagon suspects that Manning may have accomplices within the military.
Earlier this week, Wikileaks published 90,000 documents -- mostly reports detailing operations by American and other allied forces in Afghanistan between 2004 and 2009. The website is threatening to publish thousands more documents.
In his first comments on the massive leak, Mr Gates said that "the battlefield consequences of the release of these documents are potentially severe and dangerous for our troops, our allies and Afghan partners, and may well damage our relationships and reputation in that key part of the world." "Intelligence sources and methods, as well as military tactics, techniques and procedures will become known to our adversaries," he added.
The defense secretary promised "a thorough, aggressive investigation to determine how this leak occurred, to identify the person or persons responsible, and to assess the content of the information compromised."
Mr Gates promised to take steps to protect the lives of US service members as well as Afghans possibly exposed by the leaks.
The massive leak jeopardised the trust vital to gathering intelligence in the "field", said Mr Gates, a former CIA director.
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I think the proper payback would be to start the rumor on jihadi websites that Wikileaks regularly published how to defile and destroy Korans, makes fun of Mohammed, calls Islam a dying, pagan religion, and calls Muslims cannibal homosexuals and eaters of pork, illustrated with nude pictures of their moms.
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Thats just great. THIS administration and that asshat little girl Assange think it is cool to reveal this information because they want to meddle in the affairs of MEN.
The US government has the ability to control what is released.
The information is not a problem, but the names inside of it are - thats a count of involuntary manslaughter for everyone killed in this release.
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Firing Squad. During a time of war, the logical solution. Accountability from the oval office as well.
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They told the White House they had Classified information. The White House ignored that.
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I hope this little $hit is happy with his celebrity. f*ckwit. He wants his 15 minutes of fame and doesn't give a $hit that people might get killed because of his fun and games.
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The White House supposedly did not respond to a request from Mr. Assange to scrub the documents of identifying information.
I hadn't heard that one. Anybody got a link? If so, the WH has blood on its hands and contributed to revealing sources and methods, too. One more brick in the wall of making this an unwinnable war. Afghans aren't going to trust us again. I just cannot for the life of me not imagine why this administration hasn't formally and publicly sicced the FBI on these a-holes in order to shut them up. Thorough and Aggressive Investigation, indeed. Ooh, scary! This is special-ops material if I've ever seen any. Would this be grounds for impeachment?
Assange will not lose two seconds of sleep over this.
Is he still going to release that second round of documents?
thats a count of involuntary manslaughter for everyone killed in this release
I'd call it accessory to murder. And if this administration sat on this information, they should be charged, too.
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Were the Vlad's docs, ASSange would already be slowly digesting a nice dose of Polonium. Were they Israeli, he would have had a coronary incident in his hotel room.
Personally, I think we should tell the ISI they have a green light to save face on this turd.
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We can use all the words uttered by a man suffering from copropraxia to describe Assange, it won't change anything.
Looking for "alleged" leakers of over 90.000 classified documents might prove just as useless.
What about thorough, aggressive steps to stop the leaks?
Interviewed today on NBC's "Today" show, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said the release of another 15,000 documents reportedly still held by WikiLeaks would do more damage. Gibbs says the White House "can do nothing but implore the person who has the documents not to post any more."
Gibbs' statement is utter BS and nonsense. 'can do nothing' = 'doesn't want to do anything' The Wikileakers are engaged in acts of war against NATO & the legitimate government of Afghanistan. Termination with extreme prejudice is one of several options.
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The Democrats want to spend all that money on health care (and themselves), so defense spending has to go, and you can't gut defense while you're in a war. So they have to wind the war down without taking the blame
Bingo. The conservative approach to budget priorities was "starve the beast": slash taxes, and non-defense discretionary spending will have to be cut.
Barry's approach to budget priorities is also "starve the beast": raise the debt and the level of debt service to the max, and defense spending will have to be cut if the country's to avoid default.
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Barry thinks his budget and spending priorities will move this country down the north European social-democratic path-- make us into a big version of Denmark or Sweden. In reality, he's making this country resemble Mexico or Greece.
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The WSJ article about Manning said he was demoted to PFC for an unrelated incident. So this might be a straight out command failure. Possibly as bad as Major Hasan.
If Manning did something bad enough to get demoted, they should have pulled his TS/SCI clearance. It's a pain in the ass, but as military leaders you are expected to do the right thing.
And what the fuck is he listening to Lady Gaga on duty?
In this war, the Army has had three major failures due to poor company level supervision. Abu Ghraib, Major Hasan, and PFC Manning. None occurred in combat with combat soldiers. Yet all three incidents were as bad as losing a battle in this war.
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Would it be possible to treat those named as bait? When the Taliban come for them they should be met by Marines, Delta Force, Seals, SAS etc?
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Someone needs to hang. Start in the Oval Orifice.
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I remember the "Hollow Army". Anyone does that to the troops again, they deserve to be hunted down and strung up (lookin at you Jimmuh, and now you Obumble).
KABUL, Afghanistan Three U.S. service members were killed in blasts in Afghanistan, bringing the toll for July to at least 63 and making it the deadliest month for American forces in the nearly 9-year-war.
A NATO statement Friday said the three died in two separate blasts in southern Afghanistan the day before. The statement gave no nationalities, but U.S. officials say all three were Americans. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity pending notification of kin.
U.S. and NATO commanders had warned that casualties would rise as the international military force ramps up the war against the Taliban, especially in their southern strongholds in Helmand and Kandahar provinces. President Barack Obama ordered 30,000 reinforcements to Afghanistan last December in a bid to turn back a resurgent Taliban."
The tally of 63 American service member deaths in July is based on military reports compiled by The Associated Press. June had been the deadliest month for both the U.S. and the overall NATO-led force. A total of 104 international service members died last month, including 60 Americans.
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[Tolo News] At least nine guards of private security companies were killed and another two got wounded in two separate incidents in the southern Ghazni province
Six guards of a security company were killed when their car was hit by a road-side mine in the province's Landi Kota area, the Police Chief of Ghazni, Nawroz Ali Mahmoud Zada told TOLOnews.
Meanwhile three guards of a private security company were killed, and another two were maimed in clashes with Taliban hard boys in the southern Ghazni province on Thursday morning.
The incident occurred at 8am on Thursday in Arzu village of Ghazni city, the provincial capital of Ghazni, when Taliban thugs attacked a convoy of a private security company passing by the area, Mahmoud Zada said.
The Taliban often attack private security companies to take money as bribe.
Insurgents had also attacked a private road-construction company on Sunday, in which five Taliban jihad boys were killed.
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[Maghrebia] Two guards were injured in an assault on a prisoner transport convoy in Tizi-Ouzou, local media reported on Wednesday (July 28th). The ambush occurred on the route between Ait Yahia Moussa and the Draâ El Mizan prison. An armed group opened fire on the convoy but did not succeed in halting it. The incident followed an attack on an army patrol in the region just a day earlier, and a suicide kaboom on Sunday that killed a municipal guard and injured several members of the police force.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] A Japanese supertanker, which triggered fears of an attack in the sensitive Strait of Hormuz oil shipping route, collided with something, possibly a submarine or mine, UAE port officials inspecting the ship said on Thursday.
Damage to the massive crude carrier's hull suggested a collision, although the nature of the incident was under investigation.
"What we know is some collision happened. We don't know what it was," said Captain Mousa Mourad, a general manager at the UAE port of Fujairah.
"It's possible that it could be a submarine collision, or that it could be a sea mine," he said, adding the investigation was ongoing.
Photographs released by the UAE's WAM news agency also showed a lifeboat missing and smashed windows and doors.
The incident took place near the Strait of Hormuz, gateway to the oil-producing Gulf, bordered by Iran and several hundred kilometers north of where Somali pirates have hijacked supertankers over the last two years, including a South Korean tanker bound for the United States in April.
No oil leaked from the supertanker and the Strait remains open, with normal traffic flows, port officials said.
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd, owner of the world's second largest oil tanker fleet, said on Thursday it had hired a Dubai-based specialist on military attacks to help investigate damage to the 333-metre supertanker laden with oil for Japan.
US warships
Warships from the U.S. Navy and other nations patrol the region, but were not near the supertanker at the time of the incident early on Wednesday, a spokesman for the U.S. Fifth Fleet based in Bahrain told Reuters.
U.S. nuclear submarines have been in two collisions in the busy Strait of Hormuz since 2007, one involving a Japanese supertanker and the other a U.S. warship.
Mitsui O.S.K.'s general manager of tanker safety, Masahiko Hibino, said the crew reported hearing an "explosion" but the company could not definitively say there had been an attack on the ship. Nor could it rule out the possibility of an internal explosion.
A company spokesman said Mitsui was aware of a Lloyd's List report speculating the damage may have been caused by a grenade attack, but was unable to say whether this was true.
Mitsui also refuted suggestions from officials in the UAE, Oman and Iran on Wednesday the ship may have hit a rogue wave.
The 31-strong crew, including one man injured in the incident, remain on board and are expected to set course for Japan once inspections and repairs are completed in about a week.
The tanker, bound for Chiba, near Tokyo, is carrying around 2.3 million barrels of Qatar Land and Abu Dhabi Lower Zakum crudes, industry sources say.
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crap.....Hidden
*pimf*
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Wildly disparate causes of an event are less likely to be honest speculation instead of disinformation. Therefore, highest likelihood is a submarine collision.
It is alleged that submarines like to tag along with tankers, so as to be less observable, especially in the Gulf. But unless what they were doing was conflict mission critical, the skipper would want to head to a safe port quickly, to assess damage.
Being a Japanese ship, all its navigational equipment would be functional, as likely would be a US or other western submarine. So my guess is an Iranian boat.
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I would lean more towards a Chinese sub at this point : the Chinese are trying to do much more power projection, and a Sneaky Pete behind/beneath/beside a tanker is good practice for sneaking up on a CBG for a snap shot. Of course, you have to make sure that you are matching exactly the tanker if you are doing some of the more involved moves or you get smacked.
[Bangla Daily Star] The International Crimes Tribunal yesterday directed the prison authorities to produce the four detained top Jamaat-e-Islami leaders before it on August 2.
This is the first ever step made by a tribunal in the history of Bangladesh in connection with war crimes during the 1971 Liberation War.
The tribunal on July 26 issued arrest warrants against them following a petition filed by the prosecution for their alleged involvement in genocide and crimes against humanity and peace during the Liberation War.
Yesterday's directive came after the Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner sent a report to the tribunal saying the Jamaat leaders have already been sent to jail in different other cases, so the law enforcers could not execute the arrest warrants of the tribunal, said Shahinur Islam, registrar of the tribunal.
The tribunal issued the ruling asking the authorities to show the leaders arrested in connection with the alleged offences under the International Crimes Tribunal Act 1973 and produce them at 10:00am on the day before it.
The administration of the tribunal has taken necessary measures to strengthen security on the premises of the tribunal on August 2.
This article starring:
ABDUL QUADER MOLLA
Jamaat-e-Islami
ALI AHSAN MUHAMAD MOJAHID
Jamaat-e-Islami
MOTIUR RAHMAN NIZAMI
Jamaat-e-Islami
MUHAMAD KAMARUZZAMAN
Jamaat-e-Islami
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[Bangla Daily Star] Deputy Assistant Director Abdur Rahim of Bangladesh Rifles, a key accused of criminal offences during BDR mutiny, died last night at Dhaka Medical College Hospital. He was 54.
Tawhidul Islam, senior superintendent of Dhaka Central Jail, told The Daily Star that Abdur Rahim died of heart attack around 9:30pm.
Not acute, sudden cirrhosis?
Abdur Rahim was first admitted to jail hospital and around 8:40pm he was shifted to DMCH, said the jail super.
Rahim was arrested on March 2, 2009 at a residentialarea near Methorpotti under Hazaribagh Police Station for his involvement in the February 25-26 mutiny.
DAD Rahim, of Nabinagar in Brahmanbaria, was posted at BDR signal sector.
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Google Translate from a variety of web news sources. For a map, click here.
More details tomorrow.
As many as 400 armed effectives from different drug gangs fought each other Thursday night near the town of Saric, Sonora, killing at least 20, say Mexican news accounts.
Saric is only ten kilometers north of the site of another similar intergang firefight which left 21 dead early in July.
Initial reports say members of the Sinaloa drug cartel and the Baltran-Leyva cartel may be involved.
#3
Wehell, iff the USA, aka the OWG Mighty USSA = OWG Weak USRoAmerika SSR, does indeed collapse come Year 2017 [INFOWARS.com], NET POSTERS > say MEXICO [Cartels?] WILL RULE OR CONTROL THE FORMER US of A + NORAM???
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WAFF > {GlobalResearch.ca] US + COLUMBIA PLAN TO ATTACK VENEZUELA. The US Govt Budget $$$ + Organz, etc. signs are there, + also COSTA RICA for the USN???
Whoa, IIUC HUGO + L'BERET ROUGE, Milwaukee's favor-i-i-ite INTERNATIONAL MILITARY KAY-Y-Y-DET wins the GWOT???
The body dump near Ciudad Vitoria, Tamaulipas is included in today's More Mexican Mayhem death count. For a map, click here. 31 Die in Northern Mexico
Drug and gang violence claimed at least 31 lives in northern Mexico, including a gunfight at the Nogales, Sonora, airport and a kidnap hostage rescue in Tamaulipas.
Four unidentified men were shot to death in Juarez Thursday, say Mexican press reports. The attack took place near the intersection of Independencia and Juärez-Porvenir road. Reports say a single armed suspect shot the two inside their Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck. Stray rounds struck and killed two more people nearby.
Two people were shot to death and two people were wounded in an attack near a commercial center in Juarez, according to Mexicn news accounts. Fernando Garcia Urrutia and Roberto Urrea Caraveo were shot in the Plaza Portales shopping center in the Campestre district. Two more unidentified victims were also shot and are hospitalized.
A man was shot to death in Juarez, say Mexican press accounts. David Orozco, 50, was shot at his residence near the intersection of calles Esther Gómez and Elisa Griensen in the Independencia II district. Orozco is the final survivor of his family the remainder of which were murdered last April.
Two unidentified men were shot to death in two separate crimes in Juarez Thursday, accordng to the Mexican daily La Polaka. The first attack took place near the intersection of calles Puerto Argentino and Mar del Sur in the Paraje de Oriente district. Two men were hit by armed suspects firing rifles. One man died and another was wounded and hospitalized.
In the second attack, which took place near the intersection of calles Tercera and Durango in the Infonavit Ampliacion Aeropuerto district, where a man was shot seven times and died at the scene
An unidentified man was shot to death and two more wounded following a confrontation with security elements in Nogales, Sonora, say Mexican press reports. As of the moment it is unclear who the responding authorities were, except the battle took place at the airport in Nogales. Reports say AK-47 assault rifles were used in the gunfight.
Six people were killed in intergang battles in Tamaulipas, according to Mexican press reports. Four men were shot to death in Nuevo Laredo and two victims were found burned inside of an abandoned car in Diaz Ordaz.
The Mexican Army based in Reynosa, Tamaulipas reported the rescue of an unidentified kidnap victim in the town of La Providencia, Tamaulipas July 25th. The rescue took place when a Mexican Army convoy was fired on while on patrol. Following then end of the firefight, the Army seized 14 rifles, 178 weapons magazines and about 4,000 cartridges.
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Is it my imagination, or does the violence in Northern Mexico seem to be spreading?
The violence used to be concentrated in Juarez. Now it seems to be all along the border (and all the way south to Monterey).
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The violence is spreading as far north as Phoenix, my friend. Kidnap and Home Invasion capital of the U.S.A. I live in Tucson where home invasions are rampant, also. Dealers are naturally a wee bit hesitant to call the police when their stash, cash, and weaponry is stolen. The local constabulatory finds out via the ubiquitous gunshots involved in these cases. Things are messy here in Tucson, helicopter/searchlight overflights in my neighborhood most every night. No cops though, unless there is blood in the streets...
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Is it my imagination, or does the violence in Northern Mexico seem to be spreading?
The violence used to be concentrated in Juarez. Now it seems to be all along the border (and all the way south to Monterey).
I haven't been reading and writing Mexican drug crime news long enough to answer your question cogently. Ask it again in a year and I may be able to provide an answer.
But what I do know is that the intergang violence is concentrated in four main areas: Juarez, Chihuahua; Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas; Monterrey, Nuevo Leon; and the Mexican Federal highway system that runs from Guerrero through Jalisco, Nayarit and Sinaloa. Battle areas shift all the time according to what the Mexican Army does and what other gangs do.
For example, the intergang fight in Tubutama, Sonora earlier this July we later found out wasn't an intergang fight, but an ambush involving at least 150 gang members from Command X, a sub group of the Sinaloa cartel, and Los Zetas operating on behalf of the Beltran-Leyva Cartel.
What the hell Sinaloa Cartel was doing in central Sonora is anyone's guess, but they paid for their stupidity with at least 15 dead.
Now we find another intergang fight has taken place again near Saric ( roughly 10 kilometers north of Tubutama ) today. Details to follow later.
The upshot is that the battleground are shifting all the time with differing factors such as Mexican Federal intervention, such as Mexican Federal agents and the Mexican Army, drug operations and counter gang operations affecting where the next fight will be.
Google Translate with a hat tip to Nota Roja for additional information. For a map, click here.
Fifteen unidentified men and women were found bound, gagged, tortured and shot to death on a road near Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas Thursday, according to Mexican press reports.
The find was made on the Ciudad Victoria-Matamoros road about 100 km. south of the border city of Matamoros near the village of San German. The bodies were said to be stacked atop one another and some had the letter Z placed in them.
Thirteen men and two women were found.
The area around Ciudad Victoria is a known area where the criminal gang Los Zetas operates. Los Zetas are said to be the shooters in the murder Tamaulipas gubernatorial candidate Rodolfo Torre Cantu and three others last month, which took also place near Ciudad Victoria.
The area is also contested between Los Zetas and their former parent organization, the Gulf Cartel.
Google Translate and a hat tip to Blog del Narco for additional details. For a map, click here.
A Mexican Army operation in Jalisco killed the leader of the Pacific Cartel, Ignacio "Nacho" Coronel Villarreal and captured his lieutenant,, Francisco Quiñones Gatelum near a farm near Zapopan, Jalisco, say Mexican press reports.
About 150 effectives supported by two helicopters conducted searches in the Colinas de San Javier district west of Zapopan.
In a press conference in Mexico city, SecretarÃa de la Defensa Nacional (SEDENA) spokesman Brigadier General Edgar Ruiz Villegas said that it was a precision intelligence operation that aided the search and encounter with Villareal and his security detail.
Early reports say one Mexican soldier was killed and one was wounded in the firefight. SEDENA officials say Villareal fought attempts to capture him.
Reports say that elements of the Mexican Army has cordoned off five streets in the area prior to deployment. Residents reported gunfire and explosions, probably hand grenades during the combat phase of the operation.
Villareal was a major criminal in the crystal meth trade in the US. He was dubbed the "King of Crystal" by the FBI. The Mexican government had a reward of $1.2 million pesos ( $181,230.80 USD ) for his capture. The Federal Bureau of Investigation had a $5 million rewards for information leading to his arrest.
Russian security forces on Thursday, foiled an apparent bid to hijack a passenger airliner at Moscow's Domodedovo airport and arrested a man for his suspected involvement, reports said.
An airport spokeswoman told local media that the Russian Interior Ministry's department for security on transport had detained the hijacker in the course of a special operation. The suspect informed the aircraft's pilot that he had "information valuable for the interior agencies."
"After the information was received, a decision was taken to taxi the plane... to an emergency apron of the airport," she added.
Russian authorities found that the hijacker aged 40 has permanent residence in the city of Mineralnye Vody in Northern Caucasus and for a brief while he actually hijacked the aircraft at around 3:45 pm Moscow Daylight Saving Time. Even as the aircraft was all set to land, the hijacker is said to have repeatedly requested the crew for a meeting with law enforcement officials and media persons.
Security men disguised as doctors entered the aircraft on the pretext of providing medical aid to one of the passengers who had fallen sick and secured the aircraft's release after overpowering the hijacker.
The flight had originated in Russia's troubled North Caucasus which has become a breeding ground for Islamist Insurgency and is blamed for the recent deadly bombings on the Moscow Metro.
Russias Dagestan region has overtaken its neighbours as the epicentre of violence in the North Caucasus, where the Kremlin is struggling to contain an Islamist insurgency. Analysts say the regions proximity to Sochi, site of the 2014 Winter Olympics, poses a major headache for the Kremlin.
In January-June, Dagestan saw 79 attacks by Islamist terrorists insurgents, compared to 61 in the same period of 2009, according to a report on Wednesday by terrorism experts at the US Monterey Institute for International Studies. This years attacks killed 52 members of the security forces. At least 172 rebels were killed across the North Caucasus as a whole and scores of civilians and state agents.
Nadira Isaeva, editor of Dagestani paper Chernovik, said official corruption drove youths to extremism. When everything is being sold and bought the state no longer exists as an operator. People look for an alternative fate, she said in an interview.
The tiny impoverished region of Ingushetia had the most bloodshed last year, with suicide bombs aimed at police and an attack on the Kremlin-backed leader Yunus-Bek Yevkurov that left him fighting for his life.
The Dagestani branch of the insurgency said last month it was gaining ground because of the sympathies of the general population. With the active support of locals, the power is transferring (to us), it said in a statement on its site.
Another Dagestani paper, popular weekly Novoe Delo, has started a section to keep track of the death count in what it calls the undeclared war.
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I hadn't realized Russia is having a hard time with Islamic terrorists inside its own borders.
Chechnya, the siege of the theater in Moscow, the Breslan school siege, young women systematically raped until they choose to become suicide bombers...
Russia's Muslim citizens have been causing problems at home as well as abroad for a long time, miscellaneous. Rantburg's archives contain quite an education on the region.
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The cruelest beheading videos I have seen was from Dagestan with moslems cutting the necks off of Russian soldiers. It is not the only place in the Caucacus they have problems. Ingushetia is also a sore place.
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See also DER SPIEGEL > ISLAMISTS GAIN UPPER HAND IN RUSSIAN REPUBLIC.
ARTIC = Govt-Public Oficials claim it will take MANY YEARS to defeat the Islamist Extremists = Struggle, IFF THEY CAN EVER BE DEFEATED AT ALL.
RUSSIAN GENERAL > opined that iff RADICAL ISLAM DO EFFEC TAKE OVER RUSSIA + EUROPE, THE LATTER WILL FIND OR DISCOVER RADIC ISLAM IS "FASCISM CLOAKED IN RELIGION"???
North Korea has not demonstrated that it is able to use its nuclear weapons, despite two underground tests in 2006 and 2009, an expert report says. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a magazine specializing in nuclear issues, made the claim in a "World Nuclear Stockpile Report" published Wednesday.
The Bulletin doesn't have to be responsible if it's wrong ...
It said North Korea has conducted the two tests and produced enough plutonium to make eight to 12 nuclear bombs, but U.S. intelligence agencies believe the North has no missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads.
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U.S. Intelligence agencies also believed they had a rat in the Iranian nuclear program.
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but U.S. intelligence agencies believe the North has no missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads.
Well, they are working on one. That'll change real quick one of these days. How about next year some time? Or maybe Iran will hand them something since they seem to be working together on this. Sorta like the moles in "Mole Basher".
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but U.S. intelligence agencies believe the North has no missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads.
The IC "didn't believe" or had never calculated that radical muslims would use US Airliners as giant suicide bombs either. Hand me the next report please, and take this one to the shredder if you will.
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With Seoul in heavy artillery range, they've never needed nukes to hold the south hostage. And a sub suicide-run into a South Korean port with a big, bulky POS atomic bomb will work as well as a SCUD.
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I call shenanigans! Didn't Pakistan get NK missile designs for their nukes? IIRC the bombs R us design is supposed to be one metric ton. Now didn't they have a missile test that staged over Japan? Did the upper stage weigh less than a ton? Get your broom!
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Bullshit.
The Chinese weapon design that Pakistan provided North Korea with was a 500kg missile deliverable warhead.
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Hasn't NK tested missile systems? I know their big missiles haven't done well in testing, but don't they have plenty of medium and smaller rockets? It's not like they have to be dead on with a Nuke. A mile or 2 off is still fine. It's all good in horse shoes, hand grendaes, and nuclear weapons.
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The problem with small missiles is small payload. It's not easy to make small nukes. That's the reason the Soviet rockets were so big. Their nukes weighed a LOT.
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"The North has no Missles capable of carrying NUclear Warheads" > Among other, THATS WHAT SUICIDE BOMBERS = MILITANTS + "BLACK/COVERT GROUPS" are for.
As per the WORLD SOCIALIST MOVEMENT(S), the NORCOMS/NKOMS > have histically publicly supported LOCAL, STATE, CULTURAL + ETHNIC NATIONALISM + UNITY, + got into Political Power promsing same.
However, the NORCOMS ideo credibility is specifically challenged by,
To wit,
* CHINA sees the DPRK as a VASSAL STATE = "UN-ANNEXED CHIN TERRITORY", + will NOT tolerate a STRONG NUCLEAR NORTH KOREA, nor ditto SOUTH KOREA. The YELLOW SEA is deemed by Chin as one its MOST RISQUE' STRATEGIC AVENUES FOR INVASION BY FOREIGN INTERESTS [Armies].
* COMMIE NORTH KOREA = DEMOCR SOUTH KOREA > NEITHER CAMP, GOVT OR MAINSTREAM, WANT TO LOSE ANY MORE OF THEIR ANCESTRAL HOMELAND THAN THEY ALREADY HAVE.
* DPRK suffers from seemingly NEVER-ENDING, WORSENING FOOD [famine] + NATIONAL ECON PROBS.
* By most Pert accounts, Pyongyang's new FTA wid Beijing is perceived as only INTENSIFYING/
EXPANDING CHIN INFLUENCE + CONTROL IN LT OER NORTH KOREA, NOT REDUC IT.
* SEOUL per se may be the ROK's ANCIENT + CULTURAL CAPITAL, but it cannot be held hostage by the DPRK as the ROK + US have been quietly expanding their alternative Mil HQS down south.
IOW, WORSE CASE > SOUTH KOREA WILL GIVE UP SEOUL, IFF NEED BE, IN ANY SECOND OR NEW KOREAN WAR BECUZ ITS ONLY A CITY [Flexibility/Fluidity of Command]. Both the ROK + USFK-USDOD recognize that, despite any Diplomatic, Activist rhetoric to the contrary, the DPRK will unilaterally destroy Seoul regardless of its ancient links iff it means militarily destroying the bulk of ROK andor USFK Milfors in one shot. SO WILL CHINA + PLA DESTROY SEOUL FOR SAME. CHINA WILL DESTROY SEOUL + TWO KOREAS TO SAVE CHINA.
Again, IRONY > IMO it may be in THE US + ROK's interests for the NOKORS to SSSSSSSSHHHHHHHH dev NUCLEAR WEAPONS. NUKE-HAPPY ISLAMIST IRAN MAY NOT BE STARVING, BUT NUKE-HAPPY NORTH KOREA DOESN'T HAVE OR CONTROL ANY VIOLENT, GLOBAL-SCOPED INTERNATIONAL TERROR = JIHADIST GROUPS.
AFAIK KIMMIE + REGIME'S ULTIMATE MOTIVES DOESN'T INCLUDE FORCIBLY IMPOSING A KOREAN GLOBAL/UNIVERSAL EMPIRE OR GLOBAL STATE.
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WMF > CHINA WILL SUPPORT NORTH KOREA AGZ NORTH KOREAN MUCLEAR WEAPONS: BEIJING NOT AGZ NORTH KOREA HAVING NUCLEAR BOMBS IFF TO "DE-NUCLEARIZE" THE ENTIRE KOREAN PENINSULA + ELIMINATE US NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN SOUTH KOREA + JAPAN + GUAM BASE, BUT NOT IFF TO BE USED BY NORTH KOREA AGZ CHINA. FINAL OUTCOME OF NORTH KOREA'S NUCLEAR DEVELOPMENT COULD CHANGE THE ENTIRE REGIONAL, GLOBAL BALANCE OF POWER.
and
* WMF > [think-tank]SOUTH KOREAN "INSTITUTE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS" PLA EXPERT: US IS NO LONGER ABLE TO MILITARILY OR ECON DOMINATE THE KOREAN PENINSULA, INCLUDING DURING ANY NEW INTER-KOREAN WAR [DPRK versus ROK].
and
* WMF > INTERNATIONAL LAW EXPERT: CHINA MAY BE ABLE TO CLAIM THE US-ROK CARRIER, NAVAL DRILLS IN THE YELLOW SEA IS ILLEGAL UNDER INTERNATIONAL "LAW OF THE SEA" PROVISIONS FOR PROTECTION AGZ DISRUPTION OF PEACEFUL MARITIME TRADE. Only MERCHANT SHIPS + COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT, NOT Military or Mil-related, are allowed in "ECONOMIC EXCLUSION ZONES" OR "FREE TRADE ZONES" AS OFFICIALLY DECLARED OR DELINEATED BY SOVEREIGN COUNTRIES which China has done.
and
WAFF > RUSSIAN INVESIGATORS HAVE FOUND NORTH KOREA DID NOT SINK THE SOUTH'S SHIP {Cheonan] | [YouTube] KOREAN CONTROVERSY: SOUTH'S SHIP SUNK BY MINE.
VERSUS
* WMF > "DAILY NORTH KOREA" MEDIA: PYONGYANG ORDERS NORTH KOREAN ARMY TO PREPARE + BE READY TO WAGE A [Sacred] WAR OF NATIONAL RE-UNIFICATION AT ANY MOMENT OR OPPORTUNITY, + DEFEND NORTH KOREA AGZ US-LED/CONTROLLED PROXY ISLAMIST, MILITANT THREATS TO KOREA. US-ORDERED PROXY "JIHAD" AGZ NORTH KOREA IS IMMINENT/JUST AROUND THE CORNER.
Three employees of the U.S. embassy in Paris were being treated for poisoning on Friday after opening mail, a police source told Rooters.
The source was not immediately able to specify the nature of the poisoning or the seriousness of their condition. A front man for the U.S. embassy was not immediately available for comment. "I can say no more!"
Paris police now say the envelope contained tear gas.
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I HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS!!!
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Aafia Siddiqui, who was convicted of trying to murder US agents and military officers in Afghanistan should be sent to prison for 12 years rather than life because she is mentally ill, her lawyers said in court papers on Wednesday. Lawyers for Siddiqui, 38, made the request in a filing in a US District Court in Manhattan, where she was convicted in February on two counts of attempted murder. The lawyers said Siddiqui was "driven" to her crime by mental illness. "While the degree and extent of Dr Siddiqui's mental illness has been the subject of much discussion in this case, one thing stands perfectly clear: the victim of Dr Siddiqui's irrational behavior is -- first and foremost -- none other than herself," the lawyers wrote. They described her behavior in Ghazni, Afghanistan, as "bizarre," saying Siddiqui was "cut off from any form of rational thought" by her knowledge that US authorities had engaged in the torture of detainees overseas. . Siddiqui is scheduled to be sentenced in mid-August but the date is expected to be moved to September or later.
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"My client is innocent! And anyway, she's crazy! You bastards drove the poor woman nuts!"
Ten people were killed and their houses torched in sectarian violence in Kurram Agency, home of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, not necessarily in that order on Thursday.
According to local residents, men of the Shia sect carried out the attack. The incident occurred in the Sanghbakht village inhabited by the Mengal tribe near the Afghan border, local residents told Daily Times on condition of anonymity. Mengal tribesman are predominantly Sunni and live on both sides of the Pak-Afghan border.
"They (attackers) first evicted the residents from their homes, ransacked them and killed 10 people on the spot," the residents said adding that the attack could be retaliation for the attack on a convoy of Shias a couple of days ago in which a number of people were killed.
Parachinar and other towns of Kurram had been witnessing sectarian violence since dinosaurs were a new thing and the Taliban used the tense relations between Sunnis and Shias to strengthen their presence in the area. Local residents said that four women and two children were missing in the aftermath of the attack.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] The Iraqi arm of al Qaeda has taken credit for a kaboom this week on the Baghdad office of satellite television channel Al Arabiya, and warned of further strikes on media targets.
"We take the credit for the attack on this corrupted channel," the Islamic State of Iraq, an al-Qaeda affiliate," said in a statement on an Islamist website, according to the SITE monitoring group.
"The ISI boasted that despite the enemy allegedly having advance knowledge of the operation, a boomer managed to carry out the attack anyway, inflicting heavy damage on the offices and surrounding buildings," SITE said.
The group further warned that they will not hesitate to target any media organization that opposes their radical violent activities, SITE said.
The suicide car bomber struck at around 9:30 am (0630 GMT) Monday in front of the station's bureau in the city center, leaving a massive crater and sending a plume of smoke into the air that could be seen from several kilometers (miles) away.
The blast, which killed four people, came a month after the Saudi-funded channel was warned of bad boy threats.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Sixteen people, including nine security force members, were killed and 14 wounded on Thursday in a string of attacks in the Iraqi capital's Sunni district of al-Adhamiyah, the interior ministry said.
Assailants set ablaze the bodies of three soldiers in al-Adhamiyah after shooting them dead, the ministry said.
Three homemade bomb attacks on different routes to the scene of the shooting killed 13 more people, including three soldiers and three coppers, and wounded 14, among them seven police and two civil defense members, it said.
Series of attacks
The ministry said the attacks all took place within a 15-minute timeframe.
Also on Thursday, three soldiers were killed and 12 wounded when an bad boy detonated a car bomb near an army base in al-Sharqat, 300 kilometers (190 miles) north of Baghdad in Salaheddin province, a police officer said.
In the western city of Fallujah, 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Baghdad, two roadside bombs targeting Iraqi army patrols killed two Iraqi soldiers and wounded eight others, police and hospital officials in the city said.
In the northern city of Mosul, a bomb attached to a police vehicle killed one policeman and injured two others, a police official in the city said.
Mosul has remained a hotbed of bad boy activity even as levels of violence have decreased in other areas of Iraq.
U.S. and Iraqi officials have warned of the dangers of an upsurge in violence as negotiations on forming a new governing coalition drag on, more than four months after the country held a parliamentary election.
More than seven years after the U.S.-led invasion, bad boys are increasingly targeting Iraqi security forces, as all but 50,000 U.S. troops prepare to leave the country by the end of August.
As part of a security agreement between the United States and Iraq, all American troops must leave Iraq by the end of 2011.
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I poop on Cameron, Phillips, England, Scotland, BP, Brown, the MPs, British Royalty, Prince Bozo and all the related scum who will do ANYTHING for money and to please their muslim friends and have the audacity, hypocrisy, smugness, etc to accuse Israel of anything. B**tarts.
[Ma'an] Egyptian authorities discovered three new smuggling tunnels between Egypt and the Gaza Strip on Thursday.
Security forces noticed a truck loaded with cement while they were sweeping the Al-Sarsouryeh area at the Gaza Strip border, Egyptian security sources said. They confiscated the truck that was apparently destined for Gaza via the smuggling tunnels, and the goods were seized, the sources added.
Egyptian authorities also uncovered two tunnels in the Az-Za'aribah area, but found no smugglers.
The tunnels have provided a lifeline to bring goods into Gaza since Israel imposed its blockade on the coastal enclave four years ago. Egypt began constructing a steel wall along its border last year under US and Israeli pressure to curb weapons smuggling.
An Egyptian security official recently claimed that smugglers have cut hundreds of holes into the wall, telling The Associated Press that the endeavor had been "a big failure."
Egyptian government sources rebuffed the report, saying the wall was still under construction.
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[Straits Times] AN INDONESIAN woman was sentenced to three years in jail on Thursday for sheltering and assisting terrorists involved in suicide bomb attacks on two Jakarta hotels last year.
Putri Munawaroh, 21, was the only suspect to survive a nine-hour shoot-out with police at her house in Central Java last September. Terror mastermind Noordin Mohammed Top and three other Islamist extremists including her husband were killed in the firefight.
'The defendant was proven guilty of sheltering and assisting terrorists. The defendant is sentenced to three years in prison,' Judge Ida Bagus Dwiyantara said at the South Jakarta district court.
The twin attacks at luxury hotels in Jakarta on July 17 last year killed seven victims plus two suicide bombers.
Thursday's sentence was lighter than the prosecutors' recommendation of eight years. 'She received a shorter sentence because we considered her young age and she also has a baby. She didn't provide assistance willingly,' Judge Dwiyantara said.
Munawaroh's lawyer, Achmad Michdan, said they would appeal against the decision.
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Lebanese and Israeli sources confirmed Tuesday afternoon that a series of explosions that rocked the border area earlier in the day took place at a Hizbullah terrorist weapons depot.
"Mahmoud, look at this color wheel. Do you see an '8' or a '3'?"
"I see a bunch of colored dots, Ackmed, and they all look the same."
"Fine, just connect the red wire to the pole, not the green wire."
"Hokay."
The storehouse, located near the Lebanese village of Khirbet Salim, some 20 kilometers from Israel's northern border, was filled with Katyusha rockets, automatic rifles and ammunition.
The Lebanese Army and the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) immediately closed off the area and began an investigation into the incident. Journalists were barred from the scene.
Sources said the depot contained arms that dated back to the 2006 Second Lebanon War.
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TW, the IDF Herons don't deliver weapons like the USAF Predators and Reapers, but they are excellent at pointing out targets to their more heavily armed associates.
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20 k is only about 14 miles. Does Israel have any of those new 250 lb guided glide bombs? I think they could release those from within their own borders. And they have a hardened nose.
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[Bangla Daily Star] The International Crimes Tribunal yesterday directed the prison authorities to produce the four detained top Jamaat-e-Islami leaders before it on August 2. 
[Bangla Daily Star] Deputy Assistant Director Abdur Rahim of Bangladesh Rifles, a key accused of criminal offences during BDR mutiny, died last night at Dhaka Medical College Hospital. He was 54.
Three employees of the U.S. embassy in Paris were being treated for poisoning on Friday after opening mail, a police source told 
Ten people were killed and their houses torched in sectarian violence in 
[Ma'an] Egyptian authorities discovered three new smuggling tunnels between Egypt and the Gaza Strip on Thursday. 
