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Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Linda Darnell aka Amber St. Clair in "Forever Amber" aka Cecil Carver in "Everybody Does It" aka Daphne de Carter in "Unfaithfully Yours" aka Chihuahua in "My Darling Clementine"(Died in 1965 at age 41)
'E's not pinin'! 'E's passed on! This Taliban is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the ditch 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!! THIS IS AN EX-TALIBAN!!
The Army is set to field the first prototype of a new weapon that could deny the protection of buildings and canals to an enemy in Afghanistan that frequently uses the cover of local villages to fire on American troops.
The XM-25 Counter Defilade Target Engagement System is a new shoulder-fired gun that shoots a fist-sized round packed with an explosive warhead that detonates over the heads of enemy forces at pre-determined ranges.
Call it a cross between an M203 grenade launcher and a 60mm mortar.
Though the weapon was originally set to go to an Army Special Forces detachment in Afghanistan this summer, senior Army officials received an urgent request from a battalion with the 101st Airborne in Afghanistan for a more effective weapon to beat back their wily Taliban foe. As a result, the Army's top gear buyer, Brig. Gen. Peter Fuller, orchestrated the moves to get the Screaming Eagles the XM-25 first.
Army officials would not disclose which specific 101st battalion would receive the XM-25, citing security concerns.
"The field wanted that capability and the leadership supports us providing that capability," Fuller said during an Oct. 14 media roundtable at the Pentagon. "They actually wanted a large number [of XM-25s] and we just can't build them that fast."
The Army agreed to set aside $10 million to purchase 36 of the airburst weapons. PEO Soldier Weapons has five XM-25s on hand and will send those, along with two civilians who will help maintain the weapons and teach Soldiers how to operate the gun.
Though the XM-25 emerged from the ashes of the ill-fated Objective Individual Combat Weapon, which was canceled early this decade, the technology has quietly progressed while Army engineers refined the fire control system and ammo and reduced the gun's weight.
Made by Heckler and Koch and firing Alliant Techsystems-made high explosive air bursting 25mm rounds, the XM-25 is a semi-auto bullpup design weighing about 12 pounds. It uses an L3 Communications-made laser targeting optic to determine a target's range and compensate for altitude and other environmental conditions to dial in precisely where the round is going to impact or explode.
Officials say the new weapon will address the range and firepower problems Soldiers face with an Afghan enemy that often fires from long distances behind tough cover.
"A squad's pinned down and they're getting fire from 600 meters away," explained the Army's top weapons buyer, Col. Doug Tamilio. "That [XM-25] gunner's going to come out and go 'boom, boom, boom,' fire five rounds, and there isn't going to be anybody shooting back at them."
"They're going to go 'oh my God, I want more!' "
Tamilio said that the deployment to a line infantry unit as opposed to a special ops team will help developers refine the weapon design and its use.
"The accuracy and the range of this thing are going to open up whole new ideas on how to use it," he said. "As we find lessons learned here, we'll make a better weapon system so when we finally produce this weapon on the production line, we'll have a lot of good Soldier feedback."
The Army plans to buy thousands of the XM-25 in the future, placing one airburst weapon in each infantry squad.
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Of course, since this is an area weapon, and the Taliban usually hide among women and children, the usual suspects will argue that this is a terror weapon and should be banned.
The usual suspects weapon of choice for our troops would be a rubber band gun.
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Is this going to be a game-changer in the art of land warfare, or just yet another arrow in the quiver of small arms?
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I suspect these could be a game changer. Until now taking cover meant you were safe unless someone had mortar, artillery or a really skilled grenadier. Guided munitions have recently come into play but most are REALLY expensive. This is a definite advance over a grenade launcher and much cheaper than guided munitions. Being hit with an airburst grenade would ruin your day.
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I haven't had any luck finding data about the 25mm round, specifically its hazard area. A 40mm grenade has a kill radius of only 16 feet. This may matter, for an odd reason.
Afghanistan has lots of sheep, and those hardy breeds have very tough wool. Woven into a blanket, they might prove fragmentary resistant. Sleep in it at night, then cover themselves with it when attacking forces with this type grenade launcher.
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If I remember correctly, it's about 2m. The demo firing video's I've seen show it sending fragments through plywood, not sure how tough the wool is compared to 3/8" plywood but I'm sure they'll see.
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This thing will make a big difference in a few situations, but it will be heavy all the time. Hopefully, just the possibility that the US troops might have this thing will cause the enemy to stay away.
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Why are we using this little shit, send in the Buffs and level the place 1 square mile at a time.You could rotate them much like a Gatling. one dropping another in flight a third Loading and a fourth returning.
Hell we've got iron bombs a plenty.
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What I find really stupid is the lack of napalm. It's what you use for these sorts of things, it goes over barriers, around corners and down in holes or sucks the O2 right out of them.
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Oh my. Pappy dear, come over here and sit beside me on the fainting couch, and have a cup or several of this nice chamomile tea. I've dipped my handkerchief in a bit of cologne to sooth your fevered brow, and you'll feel better directly, I promise.
The secretary for stalling tactics for the smokin' hole known as Darfur-based Liberation and Justice Movement (LJM) said his group will be negotiating with Sudans government on how to disburse the $2 billion boodle extorted from Qatars government.
Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani donated the dough to set up a Darfur Development Bank after everyone is dead in the smokin' hole known as Darfur.
Tadjadine Beshir Niam told VOA his group is a unionist movement that is not interested in secession of the smokin' hole known as Darfur region from Sudan, despite what he calls Khartoums often broken promises.
The Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has headed for the smokin' hole known as Darfur region in Sudan, amid calls for their arrest on charges of having too much fun, an archbishop says.
They should fit in well there ...
The Catholic Archbishop Juan José Aguirre Munos of Bangassou city in southeast of Central African Republic announced that the LRA have recently toured and sampled the local cuisine of the town of Birao in the northeast --which borders Darfur -- of the country
Two Somalis have been charged with "planning terrorist crimes" in Somalia.
They were charged on Friday at the Gothenburg District Court for plotting to commit suicide attacks with the aim of "murder" or "maiming" a large number of people and causing "massive damage to property".
Court documents said that there was a significant likelihood that the crimes would have been carried out had they not been intercepted.
Investigators said the men, Fred Mertz, 22, and Ricky Ricardo, 26, are fans of Kanye West's posse, which is fighting the as good as non-existent Somali government and controls most of Somalia.
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Of course al-JerkWeAre has the headline with the deceiving headline "Swedes charged..." However, The New York Slime could learn a bit from this article that cites in the first sentence, "Two Swedish citizens of Somali origin...." versus buried in the last paragraph.
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Somalias central Adado town which was under the control of the local Somali version of anarchists has on Friday fallen into the hands of Ahlusuna National Salvation forces, the Islamic Sufi group, witnesses told Sunatimes - as the group announced last month that it had welshed on the agreement reached with the as good as non-existent Somali government.
The government accused the Ahlu-Suna group of spreading its power in central Somalia. They welshed on an agreement. What did you think they were gonna do?
The seizure of Adado came after hours of festivities between Ahlusuna forces and fighters on the payroll of Hebin and Heeb regional administration.
China has mounted a public relations campaign to spike the publication of a U.N. report claiming that Chinese supplied ammunition made its way into smokin' hole known as Darfur, Sudan since January, 2010 which is an apparent violation of an arms embargo, four unidentified guys at a local watering hole told Turtle Bay.
The fun part of the report by a U.N. Security Council-mandated Panel of Restaurant Goers provides the strongest evidence so far that the Sudanese government in Khartoum imported arms and ammunition in violation of an arms embargo and routinely channeled them into smokin' hole known as Darfur, where it is engaged in a shooting match against armed Islamics.
The panel, which monitors a laughable U.N. arms embargo in Sudan, presented its report in a wine and cheese tasting and televised soccer match party to the U.N. Security Council on October 4. The panel claimed that Sudanese forces had used more than a dozen types of Chinese ammunition in festivities with Darfurian rebels in north and west Darfur over the past two years.
[Arab News] A wanted Saudi terror suspect has been brought back to the Kingdom with the help of Yemeni authorities after he expressed his desire to return to the Kingdom and surrender.
Y'all might want to keep him in isolation until you're certain he won't spontaneously explode. It has happened before, and it took a while to clean the mess off the ceiling, as I recall. Ceilings are so much harder to clean than floors, gravity being a bit more of a problem in that direction.
"Officials at the Prince Muhammad bin Naif Center for Counseling and Care received a call from the wanted man, Jabir bin Jobran bin Ali Al-Faifi, who was enrolled in the rehabilitation program after his return from Guantanamo Bay but later joined a foreign-based deviant group," said an Interior Ministry front man in a statement to the Saudi Press Agency.
Al-Faifi figures in the list of 85 wanted terror suspects issued in February 2009.
In his call to Saudi officials before his surrender, the man spoke about Saudi citizens who were misled by those who support deviant ideologies, the front man said.
"They found themselves to be tools in the hands of the enemies of the homeland which is following the right path derived from the Book of Allah, and the Sunnah of the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) and his exemplary Companions. They are being used as tools to fuel sedition.
"They are not given any control over their deeds and put in situations that only serve the schemes of the enemies of the nation who seek to spread chaos and unrest legitimizing murders, rapes and stealing the money of civilians in neighborhoods they reside. The advocates of deviant thought has made them a means of propaganda and money-making," the statement said.
The statement added that Al-Faifi expressed remorse at his behavior. "Al-Faifi has shown a strong desire to return to the Kingdom and surrender to security agencies as the return to the right path is better than persisting in falsehood," the statement said.
The man was also allowed to meet with his family on arrival.
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A Mexican army infantry captain and three riflemen were charged with intentional homicide stemming from a shooting September 5th near Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, say Mexican news accounts.
Originally, reports by the military were that soldiers aboard an army patrol were threatened with aggression and that was the reason why they fired on the car and its occupants.
However, a report release by the Scretaria de al Defence Nacional (SEDENA) now says that there was nothing in the actions of the civilians in the car that would warrant the army opening fire on them.
Army Captain of infantry Cruz Núñez Valdez and three other riflemen who fired on the car that night were charged: Private Antonio Ramirez Perez, Private José Antonio Rosado and Corporal Lucas Hernandez Valerio. All soldiers were with the Mexican 16th Infantry Regiment under the command of General Guillermo Galvan Galvan, and were temporarily quartered in Monterrey.
As a background, there were no reports of unusually large number of gang incidents in or around Monterrey prior or during the events of September 5th, save for a single firefight between a detachment of the Mexican Army on Thursday September 2nd on the Reynosa-Monterrey highway which killed five armed suspects, and wounded a few civilians.
It is unknown if Captain Nunez's detail was involved in the September 2nd firefight.
According to the report, the army unit was returning from patrol for the night southbound on the Nuevo Laredo-Monterrey highway at about 2100 hrs when they were passed by a packed Chevrolet Malibu, which the detail commander, Captain Nunez, observed the driver "had a different attitude to the rest of those who traveled."
Originally, the military reported that the Chevrolet Malibu with dark tinted windows had "run a checkpoint" manned by the army unit, which precipitated the pursuit. Later reports said there was no checkpoint and that the military convoy was moving when the shooting took place.
Apparently at 2101 hrs Captain Nunez then ordered his driver, Lt. Santos Zavala César Ivan, to fall in behind the driver and flash the vehicle's headlamps at the Malibu in a effort to get the driver to slow down and pull over, which instead caused the driver of the car to accelerate and start weaving in and out of traffic.
The action by the driver precipitated a pursuit by the convoy. Three minutes later the driver overtook the Malibu, then Nunez opened fire on the vehicle attempting to shoot out the tires firing two rounds, which was followed by rifle fire from his other three charges: Perez and Hernandez each fired five rounds while Rosado fired ten rounds.
The publicly available versions of the shooting fail to explain what transpired between the time the car crashed at about 2105 hrs and the arrival of the first ambulance at 2132 hrs, except to note that the minor child in the group, Alejandro Gabriel de Leon Castellanos, 15, was out of the vehicle and was apparently bleeding out on the ground before medical aid arrived.
Castellanos' time of death was recorded as 2128 hrs. Castellanos' father died the following day.
All four soldiers were charged with murder because despite making ballistics tests, SEDENA could not assess any differing levels of culpability from the testimony and the evidence at hand, or who fired the shots that killed the two civilians.
The decision is considered unprecedented in Mexico's ongoing war on drugs. A previous similar incident involving the army in Tamaulipas last April in which the military denied culpability in the death of another minor child may have been the motivation for quickly investigating and charging the soldiers responsible in the September 5th incident.
SEDENA's public conflict with the Mexican Human Right Commission is considered in a few circles a public relations disaster for SEDENA.
The Mexican Human Rights Commission report on the incident in Tamaulipas in April, 2010 can be found here (PDF in Spanish).
(KUNA) -- At least three people were killed and two were wounded in a firing incident at a Jirga on Friday in Pakistani northern city of Peshawar, said police.
Two rival business groups, belonging to the tribal region, were holding talks to resolve their differences when one of the members of a group opened fire, police sources told KUNA. They said the Jirga was also being attended by senior tribal elders.
Sources said that the incident left three persons killed and two wounded. Police cordoned off the area and was conducting investigations.
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[Pak Daily Times] Daily Times has learnt from credible sources that Mullah Ghani Baradar, who was jugged earlier this year from Karachi, had been "freed" due to mediation with the Taliban leadership. Mulla Baradar was caught by a special team of the ISI and the CIA hit squad in Karachi in an action, which resembled any Hollywood flick.
Earlier, it was Daily Times which broke the news about certain Arab envoys, who were active in the back-channel diplomacy with the consent of Pak and American leadership to solve the Afghan crisis.
Talking to Daily Times, a Taliban leader did not confirm or denied the reports about Mullah Baradar, but commented "Baradar was never jugged in the first place". It is to be noted that Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai was extremely angry at the arrest of Mullah Baradar, who saw it as a dent to the on-going peace talks between Kabul and Taliban. Initially, the arrest was taken as a sign of anger by the ISI which wanted to micro-manage the talks, and would want Islamabad's active role in the move.
The Federal Interior Ministry had failed to comment on the story, while the Americans also did not confirm the story but as per sources "the folks in Washington DC had given a nod for the release of Baradar", and that the Americans and the British were aware of the situation. A western diplomat commented, "This could be the biggest risk we are taking to seal a deal in Afghanistan but I am not too optimistic about it."
"That's about as far as I can go on that at this point," he said. US and NATO leaders said on Thursday they were ready to help the Afghan president to pursue reconciliation efforts with the Taliban.
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hopefully those weekly intel reports he provides will keep the dronezaps productive, but sssshhhh don't tell anyone. Oh....wait..
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[Pak Daily Times] An office bearer of Punjabi Students Association (PSA) was bumped off in an incident of assassination on Friday.
Model Colony SHO Chauhadry Ilyas said that PSA deputy secretary general Sultan, 28, son of Sirajuddin, was rubbed out near the Allama Iqbal College in Model Colony when he was returning home with his friend after attending classes. Unidentified gunnies on a motorcycle opened fire on him, killing him on the spot, and beat feet from the scene, he said.
College boys will be boys, unchanged since they rampaged through Paris during the Middle Ages.
Tension engulfed the area after the incident and markets were closed. A man was rubbed out near the Fatima Arcade in Federal 'B' Area within the limits of Jauharabad cop shoppe.
SHO Rizwan Patel said 43-year-old Mohammad Ehsan, son of Rehmatullah, was sitting outside a building with his friends when two men on a motorcycle opened fire on him. He sustained two bullets and was taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital (ASH) where he succumbed to his injuries, he added. Suspecting personal enmity behind the incident, police have registered FIR No 561/10 against unidentified culprits on the complaint of victim's father.
A man was bumped off near a service station in Garam Chashma. Manghopir police said the victim identified as Dost Mohammad, 28, son of Ghulam, a resident of Sultanabad, was working at the service station when an unidentified armed man on a motorcycle opened fire on him and killed him on the spot.
Police said the unmarried victim, hailing from Mohmand Agency, might have been killed over a personal enmity. Another man was rubbed out by faceless myrmidons near Medina Photoshop in Nayaabad, Lyari. A tandoor owner was killed and two others maimed in another assassination incident.
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[Pak Daily Times] Four members of a tribal lashkar and three Taliban Islamic fascistiwere killed as clashes broke out in the Orakzai agency near the Afghan border on Friday.
The Islamic fascististaged an attack in the Kasha area of Orakzai Agency near the Afghan border and in the ensuing battle four tribal volunteers and three Islamic fascistiwere killed. Six tribal razakars were injured in the shootout.
Anti-Taliban tribal lashkars are operating in the tribal regions, bordering Afghanistan. The tribal army has proved to be an effective tool against the Islamic fascistiin the troubled regions as they are living among them and have full information about the Islamic fascistiand their activities.
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[Pak Daily Times] Three people were killed in attacks on NATO containers in Takhta Bag Jamrud and Kalat. The driver of a NATO container was rubbed out by faceless myrmidons near Mangochar in Kalat district. The helper was injured in the attack. The attackers managed to escape. Separately, security forces stopped NATO supply trucks' movement from Takhta Bag to the Torkham border on Friday following an attack on a NATO container in Takhta Bag Jamrud the previous night. The driver and conductor of the vehicle had been killed in the attack.
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[Dawn] Five Pak soldiers were killed in a Taliban attack on a check post in a remote tribal area near the Afghan border, security officials said Friday.
The cut-throats launched their attack overnight on Talab check post in mountainous Sararogha district of South Wazoo region, they said.
"Five soldiers were killed and one is missing," a security official said, requesting anonymity.
Another security official confirmed the attack, saying information came late as the check post is in a remote mountainous area some 50 kilometres (30 miles) northeast of the region's capital, Wana.
Pakistain last year sent 30,000 troops into South Wazoo to destroy Taliban strongholds in the lawless region.
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[Dawn] Pakistain will only re-open a supply route for coalition troops in Afghanistan once public anger over Nato incursions eases and security improves, the foreign ministry front man said on Sunday.
Oddly enough, ever more of our supplies are going elsewhere than via Pakistan, and our money is following. Do enjoy the result, Pakistan, just as your economy is suffering from those little floods.
Militants on Saturday threatened more attacks on tankers carrying fuel to Afghanistan through routes in Pakistain to avenge the incursions.
"Unless the reaction cools down and we make sure that the supply line is secured, we cannot reopen it," Foreign Ministry front man Abdul Basit told Rooters.
Angered by repeated incursions by Nato helicopters over the past week, Pakistain blocked a supply route for Nato troops in Afghanistan after one such strike killed three Pak soldiers on Thursday in the northwestern Kurram region.
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[Dawn] Nine cut-throats were killed in North Wazoo in two attacks carried out by US drones on Friday.
In the first attack, a US drone fired missiles at a car in Machikhel area of Mirali tehsil in North Wazoo, killing five thugs, sources said.
They said that the drone fired two missiles when the car was about to leave a residential compound, killing five Afghan cut-throats belonging to the Haqqani network.
AFP adds: Another dronezap, this time on a thug compound in Azizkhel town in Mirali district, killed another four thugs.
"A US drone fired four missiles at a compound killing four thugs," a security official said.
"The compound was destroyed and cut-throats have cordoned off the area," he added.
Two other intelligence officials confirmed the attack and casualty figures.
The Mirali area is considered a stronghold of the Pak Taliban, the warlord Hafiz Gul Bahadur group and the Haqqani network.
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We hear about these hundreds and hundreds of Taliban training camps, but never any details. Are these 'residential compounds' the same thing as training camps?
[Geo TV] Qari Hussain, most wanted man associated with banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistain, has been killed in a US dronezap in North Wazoo, intelligence sources confirmed on Friday.
Qari Hussain was one of the main TTP operatives who was an expert in preparing explosives-filled suicide jackets besides training men and children to execute suicide kabooms.
According to intelligence sources, a US drone fired two missiles on a house in Dattakhel area of North Wazoo on October 2. Initially it had been reported that the attack killed German nationals but now the same sources have confirmed that Qari Hussain, a TTP criminal mastermind of suicide kabooms, was taken out along with his five Turk companions.
Qari Hussain was said to have been involved in 95 per cent terrorist activities inside Pakistain.
In 2009 a head money of Rs50 million was put on Qari Hussain whose trained Orcs and similar vermin carried out dozens of Orcs and similar vermin acts, unleashing great devastation in Pakistain.
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95 per cent... really?
absolutely sure?
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Qari Hussain, most wanted man associated with banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, has been killed by a US drone strike in North Waziristan, sources confirmed on Friday.
And there was much rejoicing. Well, not by the TTP, but nearly everyone else.
So who's the new number three?
Patience, my dears. They have to find someone not quite qualified, and then persuade him to accept the promotion, knowing what that entails. This takes more than a few minutes pondering.
Qari Hussain, who carried a "head money" of Rs50 million, was the main TTP operative who trained children to execute suicide attacks.
[Qari Hussein] Mehsud has a reputation for being a particularly ruthless terrorist. He cemented this reputation training children as young as 7 years old as suicide bombers.
He ran terror training camps at Spinkai in South Waziristan until they were overrun in Pakistani army operations. He is since believed to have moved his operations to North Waziristan.
Mehsud has been reported to be killed on at least two previous occasions.
He was believed killed in January of 2008 until he appeared at a press conference in the tribal belt along the Pakistan-Afghan border a few weeks later.
The terrorist leader taunted Pakistani officials who had claimed he was dead saying, "I am alive, don't you see me?"
ANBAR / Aswat al-Iraq: A force from al-Anbar's 8th Emergency Contingent arrested seven suspected of involvement in recruiting and training gunmen and seized an arms cache in southern al-Falluja city on Friday, a security source said.
Double-plus good!
There's an awful lot of that going on over there these days. It makes me proud, every time I read about it.
"Seven suspected of recruiting and training gunmen and selecting suicide bombers to carry out operations targeting civilians and security forces were arrested by forces from al-Anbar's 8th Emergency Contingent during a wide-scale search campaign that started on Friday morning in the areas of al-Bu Hawa and Hassi, southern Falluja," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
"The forces also seized a cache containing 22 RPG-7 warheads, improvised explosive devices and CDs containing explanatory instructions on how to plant explosive charges, make explosive belts and use light and medium weapons," he added.
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[Iran Press TV] Four Israeli warplanes have penetrated Lebanese airspace and flown over parts of the country in flagrant violation of a UN Security Council resolution.
The Lebanese military issued a statement through the National News Agency saying four Israeli jets entered Lebanese airspace over the southern border village of Rmeish at 10:30 a.m. local time (0730 GMT) on Friday and conducted several aerobatic stunts that thrilled Lebanaese kids above southern Lebanon as well as the capital Beirut.
The Israeli aircraft left Lebanese airspace at 11:05 a.m. local time (0805 GMT) while flying over Alma al-Shaab -- a town in southern Lebanon.
In 2009, Beirut complained to the United Nations about Israeli aircraft violating the airspace over the south of the country.
UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which brokered a ceasefire in the war of aggression Israel launched against Lebanon in 2006, calls on Israel to respect Lebanon's sovereignty and territorial integrity.
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Get used to it Camel Republic.
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Probably taking the 'before' pictures for the coming conflict certain parties seem so eager for.
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How cool would it have been for one of their F-15 to have broken the sound barrier right on top of their little celebration?! For those out there who have never witnessed the sound barrier being broken with in close proximity, there is nothing like it. It makes my hair on the back of my neck stand up just thinking about it.
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[Arab News] A wanted Saudi terror suspect has been brought back to the Kingdom with the help of Yemeni authorities after he expressed his desire to return to the Kingdom and surrender.
[Dawn] Nine 
[Geo TV] Qari Hussain, most wanted man associated with banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistain, has been killed in a 
[Qari Hussein] Mehsud has a reputation for being a particularly ruthless terrorist. He cemented this reputation training children as young as 7 years old as suicide bombers.
