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Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Hedy Lamarr aka Dolores Ramirez in "Tortilla Flat" aka co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications, a key to many forms of wireless communication. (Died in 2000 at age 86)
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OP/LP are supposed to withdraw.
The rest of the fighting, to the extent there were any useful details, went according to US doctrine, which is to bring heavy fire on the bad guys, causing them to bleed, suffer, and become ugly.
The troops didn't seem that "shaken".
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Plenty more where those came from. Pakistan is overpopulated with young men with zero chance in life.
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LOL @ the Darwinism in action comment. Pretty funny.
I should point out that some news agencies are reporting 120, not 80, fighters dead.
I expect the liberals not to pay any attention to the fact that we are NOT losing the war, in fact the enemy is more suffocated now than ever, with their leadership and rank and file fighters being bitch slapped to hell every single day.
[Emirates 24/7] Moroccan forces raided a camp housing thousands of refugees in the Western Sahara on Monday, leaving three dead and scores injured in festivities, according to sources on both sides.
Mohamed Ghalous, the government representative for the Laayoune region, said the gendarmerie and auxiliary forces had moved in "to end a situation which had exhausted all means of dialogue," by dismantling the camp.
Moroccan security forces moved in early Monday to dismantle the camp housing some 12,000 people set up four weeks ago outside Laayoune, the main town in the Western Sahara, which was annexed by Morocco in the mid-1970s.
A paramilitary gendarme and a fireman were killed during the raid, Ghalous said, adding that almost 70 people were maimed.
Later "a policeman was stabbed to death in central Laayoune by demonstrators who also attacked banks and cafes," said a Moroccan government official, who added that "there were no deaths among the protestors in Laayoune."
The Polisario Front guerrilla movement, which seeks independence for the Western Sahara, accused the security forces of injuring hundreds of people in the dawn raid on the camp outside Laayoune.
The foreign minister in a self-appointed government for the territory, Mohamed Salem Ould Salek, said the attack "left hundreds of maimed. I can't yet tell you the exact figure, notably if anyone was killed, but the hospitals are full."
The security forces raided the camp by ground and air, using helicopters, Salem Ould Salek told AFP in neighbouring Algeria, which is a host country for the Polisario Front and tens of thousands of Sahrawi refugees.
"Law enforcement officers arrived around dawn using high-powered water cannon to clear the camp and several ambulances were seen taking the injured to hospitals," said an AFP news hound on the scene.
"Hundreds of women and kiddies were seen outside the camp heading towards Laayoune but a certain number of Sahrawi (local) men refused to go," said a witness.
Fighting between police and protestors spread to the streets of Laayoune, said a Moroccan head of a local non-government organisation.
"The fighting started yesterday but was reignited when news of the assault on the camp was received," he said.
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Actually; this is what Morocco says. Other sources tell of 11 dead and of two hundred people missing. Don't hold your breath for the usual suspects calling to a boycott of the state who stole Sahrauis' land and is murdering their refugees.
(KUNA) -- The French government indicated on Monday that two of its nationals were likely to have been among hostages taken by gunnies from an oil rig off the coast of Nigeria earlier in the day.
The Foreign Ministry said that it was working with the Bourbon offshore services company to secure the release of the Frenchies. Three other Western hostages are also believed to have been taken captive by suspected anti-government bully boyz who frequently employ kidnapping as a tactic to get funding.
The French officials said that they were not in a position to confirm the location of the kidnapping and called for "discretion" while efforts are underway to resolve the problem and get the men released.
Despite the initial indications here, French officials said they were nonetheless still waiting for confirmation of the nationalities of those kidnapped.
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DUBAI -- The Yemeni foreign minister has denied any US military role in his country's fight against Al-Qaeda in comments published on Monday after a report Washington had deployed drones to hunt down jihadists.
"No, no, certainly not!"
"The United States cooperates with Yemen in intelligence, but the operations are conducted by the Yemeni security forces," Abu Bakr al-Kurbi told Abu Dhabi daily The National.
"Ixnay on the onedrays!"
"Yemen has combat aircraft."
I'm not sure but I think he means that in the plural ...
The Washington Post reported on Sunday that the US administration had deployed unmanned Predator aircraft to Yemen to hunt for Al-Qaeda militants who have become increasingly active in the impoverished Arab country.
So far the drones have not fired any missiles as US military and intelligence operatives have failed to establish firm information about the whereabouts of wanted militants, the US daily said, citing senior US officials it did not identify.
That's because we don't have the local intel we need.
In Washington on Monday, the Pentagon declined comment on any US drone activity in Yemen.
"We will say no more!"
Kurbi said his government in Sanaa was also cooperating with neighbouring Saudi Arabia to address the Al-Qaeda threat.
"There is intelligence cooperation between Yemen and all the Arab countries, with Saudi Arabia more than other countries because of our relationship and the movement of terrorists between Yemen and the kingdom," he told The National.
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ION YEMEN, PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > [Radic Cleric Anwar aL-Awlaki/Vlqy] AQAP LEADER: MUSLIMS URGED TO ATTACK IRAN???
Besides the NET, RB Artics from yesterday, IIUC ANWAR = arguing that Iran's anti-Sunni Regime + Mullahs must be overthrowm or defeated becuz AMBITIOUS SHIA IRAN IS SUPPORTING A "PERSIAN + SHIA AGENDA", NOT ISLAM = PEACE BETWEEN SHIA, SUNNI ISLAM AGZ COMMON ENEMIES???
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Three Nuevo Leon police stations were attacked by armed suspects using grenades Sunday, according to Mexican news reports.
Four individuals total were wounded in the attacks including a woman and her seven year old daughter.
Sunday evening in the Sur de Monterrey delegation, armed suspects shot a 40mm grenade at a police station, the grenade detonating in the courtyard and wounding a police officer and another individual.
In Apodaca in the La Noria colony, armed suspects aboard three vehicles threw two grenades at a police station on avenida Hector Caballero.
One hit a planter in front of the station. The grenade damaged two patrol vehicles and a private vehicle, as well as damaged the facade of the building.
The second grenade detonated outside a judge's office wounding a mother and her seven year old daughter.
Following the attack the suspects who allegedly threw the grenades were arrested.
In the Santa Catarina municipality armed suspects threw a hand grenade at a Nuevo Leon Secretaria de Seguridad Publica y Vialidad facility (SSP) in the Infonavit La Huasteca colony.
The grenade rolled under a patrol car before it detonated. The resulting fire was put out quickly. A security guard was wounded in the attack.
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Matamoros, Tamaulipas city officials receive phoned in bomb threats targeting five schools late Sunday night and a sixth campus Monday morning, according to Mexican press reports.
Bomb threats phoned in Sunday night include the campuses of La Secundaria Tecnica 76, la Secundaria Tecnica 64, Colegio La Salle, El Colegio Don Bosco and Preparatoria Salazar Cevallos. An early morning threat phoned in around 0830 hrs targeted the campus of Secundaria General Numero 7 in the San Francisco colony of Matamoros.
The threats are reportedly tied to Friday's gun battle between elements of the Mexican military which led to the death of Matamoros Gulf Cartel commander Anontion Eziquel Guillen. Several blankets hung at various locations since Saturday morning in Matamoros, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon and Torreon, Coahuila said to be from the Gulf Cartel have threatened civilians for Guillen's death.
Security authorities in Matamoros dispatched two patrol units at each targeted campus Monday morning. Just prior to classes beginning and following searches, officials determined the threats not credible and allow classes to convene.
Reports say, however, several parents withdrew their children from school despite reassurances.
Of 563 school campuses in Matamoros, 55 will be patrolled, although reports do not say for how long.
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Likely enough Moose, and is the bureaucracy set up for Pentagon deniability - i.e. not us, but we don't know what NSA/CIA/super-secret-moose-n-squirrel-division is up to?
Also, I haven't looked at all, but has anyone asked about tracking sea, and undersea, traffic in the area? It's one thing to miss a zodiac offshore Bombay, but another to miss a large submarine off LA - or is it?
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At this point, the military is working only with video taken from the local news camera
, and NORAD and Northcom apparently were not able to detect the contrail on their own.
I can remember during Y2K that they could detect Scud launches from some Russian unit on manuevers in Russia. Tough to see how they could miss this.
If they did though, someone's ass is toast. Probably many asses...
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The US has multiple systems to track missile launches. NORAD and Northcom aren't the only eggs in the basket and all of the resources talk to each other. If NORAD didn't pick it up (and it picked up the oil well fires in the gulf) most likely it wasn't a missile.
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Check out the comments at the original article--everything from standard policy for a 'Broken Arrow' to a towed NK sub while Obama is away. Someone clearly knows the truth and the silence is getting me very nervous.
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The light just dawned. On Nov 6, there was an odd report of a rocket being launched at Luke AFB, on the West side of Phoenix. With pictures taken by a licensed pilot.
"The object portrayed characteristics of a missile launch with slightly arcing trajectory, lingering plume, and rapid ascent."
But Luke AFB is flat as a pancake. Any gantry erected there would have been as obvious as all heck.
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I concur wid #3 - IMO its either some kind of USN Boomer Test, IMPROV TRIDENT or POST-TRIDENT? FBMS [SLCM?]; or perhaps even SUB-BASED SPACE-BMD???
USDOD Helos as Observation, + theres no way a contemporary foreign Sub can get pass HI + that close to CA-liforney widout being detected by Navy UW monitors, + its a known = historical USN Test Area.
AFAIK the econ-trubled Russians have not yet converted any of their large Subs into FIRE-N-FORGET or FIRE-N-GUIDE, Nuke-WMDS Armed USV Submarine "Mother-ships", nor any of their surface Merchant ships for simil purpose [FIRE/ARSENAL SHIPS].
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Its about time the WEST coast got a little shaken up. Lala land and alls well in paradise is just so last decade, but I don't think its caught up with the libs yet.
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the contrails from Vandenberg launches are usually visible from San Diego, and with the sun hitting them, they show spectacular colors. This is going in the wrong direction(?) and doesn't show the colors.
I suspect it was a jet contrail. Easy enough to research flights in/time and position.
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Sub launched missile from the location and path. So whose boat? If it was a complete surprise, the Navy would be out churning up the water looking for it, so we knew it was there. Can't see the Russians doing something so provocative. That leaves the ChiComs taking one of their new Jin class boats out for an in-your-face drive or an American test. Lack of a NOTAM warning is curious.
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I fly LA to Australia and back a lot, and we come in over the the Catalina Islands all the time. I think that area is the flight path for traffic to and from Asia as well- in other words a very busy spot for civil aviation. Very unlikely that anyone would send up a missile right thru it, IMO.
Supposedly, NOTAM issued alert
"KZLA LOS ANGELES
A2832/10 - THE FOLLOWING RESTRICTIONS ARE REQUIRED DUE TO NAVAL AIR
WARFARE CENTER WEAPONS DIVISION ACTIVATION OF W537.
IN THE INTEREST OF SAFETY, ALL NON-PARTICIPATING PILOTS
ARE ADVISED TO AVOID W537. IFR TRAFFIC UNDER ATC JURISDICTION
SHOULD ANTICIPATE CLEARANCE AROUND W537 AND CAE 1176.
CAE 1155 WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE FOR OCEANIC TRANSITION.
CAE 1316 & CAE 1318 WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE FOR OCEANIC TRANSITION.
CAE 1177 WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR OCEANIC TRANSITION.
W537 ACTIVE, CAE 1176 CLOSED. SURFACE - FL390, 09 NOV 20:00 2010 UNTIL 10
NOV 01:00 2010. CREATED: 08 NOV 20:52 2010"
Thats a one day no-fly order by DINS according to Slenke.
The time is off, but 8 oclock is 8 oclock in zulu world.
It's ours.
[Al Arabiya] The United States expanded its ban on cargo shipments from Somalia in the wake of the package bomb plot originating from Yemen, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on Monday.
Additionally, toner and ink cartridges that are over 16 ounces will be banned from all U.S. passenger flights and planes heading to the United States, she said. That ban will also apply to some air cargo shipments, she said.
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They'll just switch to exploding coconuts next.
...or, make variations upon guncotton in the form of money. Nicely stacked wad of bills or credit cards designed to explode. Then we can watch Czar Napolitano ban money from flights.
[Way back there were cancer scares every day as another substance was found to induce cancer in lab rats that had forced exposure levels hundreds if not thousands of time higher than normal. The FDA was banning stuff day in and day out till come researchers in Colorado achieved the same induced response by putting little bits of money, paper and metal, under the skins of lad rats. When it was pointed out that the predetermined results meant the protocol required all money to be recalled, the silliness ended.]
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Always behind the power curve, HS. The only thing that saves us now is that we have multiple layers of bureaucrats and security guards, forming a human wall.
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Laptop computers next? Ms. Incompetano the Clueless may ban passengers and cargo next to put an end to this unseemly man caused disaster stuff...
[Emirates 24/7] Tribal separatists in northeast India rubbed out at least 14 people in three attacks on Monday, police said, adding that the targets were Hindi-speakers.
The outlawed National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) fired at a passenger bus in Sonitpur district, about 250km north of Assam's main city Guwahati, killing eight passengers.
"All those killed were Hindi-speaking people hailing from eastern state of Bihar and working as government employees," said Assam's police chief Shankar Baruah.
In another incident five people, including a woman, were killed after NDFB gunnies opened fire near Belseri village, also in Sonitpur district.
In the third attack a Hindi-speaker was killed in Nalbari district in western Assam.
Tension has simmered for years in Assam, with rebels and local leaders complaining that Hindi-speaking migrants from the northern Ganges plain are changing the demographics of the state and taking local jobs.
In 2000 several separatist groups carried out a campaign against Hindi-speaking people, killing 150 of them.
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ION BHARAT RAKSHAK > J & K SEPARATISTS NOT BETTING ON OBAMA [BO's visit to India].
* ADKRONOS [old] > PAKISTAN: KASHMIR STUDENTS [being]TRAINED TO WAGE JIHAD IN INDIA, in POK = PAK-OCCUPIED KASHMIR.
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The NDFB is one of the few terrorist orgs in the world that is mostly Christian. The issue however is ethnicity/language, not religion. The NDFB wants people to speak Bodo in their State.
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BASRA / Aswat al-Iraq: The death toll from the car bomb explosion in western Basra on Monday rose to 10, while 43 others were wounded, medical sources.
The death toll from the explosion by a car bomb on al-Maared road in al-Qebla region, western Basra, rose to 10, a medical source from the al-Teb al-Adli hospital in Basra told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
The number of wounded people went up to 43, a medic from the al-Sadr hospital said.
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[Emirates 24/7] A car boom aimed at Iranian pilgrims killed seven people in Iraq's holy Shi'ite city of Kerbala on Monday, an official said, shortly before a meeting that could break an eight-month deadlock over a new government.
Thirty-four people were maimed by the blast at one of the entrances to Kerbala, site of two of the holiest shrines in Shi'ite Islam, said Mohammed al-Moussawi, head of the Kerbala provincial council. Four of the dead were Iranians, he said.
"It was a car boom. There were Iranian pilgrims in the area. They were targeted," said Moussawi.
Hundreds of thousands of Iranian religious tourists have visited Shi'ite holy sites in neighbouring Iraq since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion toppled Sunni dictator Saddam Hussein.
Saddam crushed insurrections by Iraq's Shi'ite majority, banned Shi'ite religious festivals and fought an eight-year war with Shi'ite power Iran.
The pilgrims are often targeted by Sunni Islamist groups like al Qaeda in Iraq, which view Shi'ite Mohammedans as apostates.
Iraq's political factions are preparing to meet in the capital of the Kurdish region to try to forge a deal on a new government eight months after an inconclusive election that produced no outright winner.
Incumbent Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, a Shi'ite, is close to securing a second term but is still trying to win over leaders of a Sunni-backed cross-sectarian alliance.
Tension has risen during the eight-month impasse as Maliki and the head of the Sunni-backed bloc, former premier Iyad Allawi, jostle over power, while gunnies launch a stream of often devastating attacks.
U.S. troops meanwhile are scaling back their presence in Iraq ahead of a full withdrawal next year.
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Muslim terrorists insurgents shot and burned a man in this Yala province late on Sunday night. The man was attacked while driving his motorcycle on a local road at 11:50 PM. His body and motorcycle were burnt and police have yet to identify him.
A local administrator was shot and wounded in Narathiwat province on Friday. Sakulsak Mada-oh, 35, was shot by a gunman on a pick-up truck at 9 AM.
Sakulsak was taking his truck to work when another pick-up truck chased him, overtook him and then the gunman opened fire at him. Sakulsak then slammed his truck against the other prompting the gunman and the truck driver to flee on foot.
[Al Jazeera] Fighting between Myanmar government troops and ethnic rebels has sent at least 10,000 people fleeing into Thailand a day after the military-led nation held a much-criticised election.
Clashes were reported on Monday at key points on the border with Thailand, leaving at least three people dead and 10 others maimed on both sides of the frontier. In the heaviest festivities, Karen rebels reportedly seized a cop shoppe and post office on Sunday in the Myanmar border town of Myawaddy. Sporadic gun and mortar fire continued into Monday afternoon.
Al Jizz's Marga Ortigas, reporting from the Thai border town of Mae Sot, said that a stray rocket propelled grenade crossed into Thailand, injuring five people.
Refugees' fears
"The festivities appear to be between a faction linked to the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) and government-backed troops," Ortigas said.
"This faction has said it did not support the ceasefire the DKBA signed with the Myanmar government, and have reiterated that they want their own autonomy."
Our correspondent also said refugees from Myanmar who crossed the border into Thailand feared government troops would shoot them for failing to vote on Sunday.
Zipporah Sein, the general secretary of the Karen National Union (KNU), said fighting broke out between up to 300 DKBA soldiers and government forces.
"We don't know definitely but I think last night the army sent over more troops, they negotiated and the DKBA retreated but this morning they were blocked by army trucks and then it started," she said.
Myanmar, also known as Burma, held its first election in 20 years on Sunday, backed by parties that looked set to win a vote marred by fraud and denounced by Barack B.O. Obama, the US president, as stolen.
"It is unacceptable to steal elections, as the regime in Burma has done again for all the world to see," Obama, currently on a tour of four Asian nations, said in a speech to India's parliament in New Delhi. And who would know more about stealing elections than a Chicago pol?
Europe and Japan also condemned the conduct of the poll as state TV reported that voters "freely and happily" cast their ballots.
Witness accounts suggested low turn-out and irregularities in the former British colony, which appears to have organised the election in part to help improve its image.
Abhisit Vejjajiva, the Thai prime minister, has said that ethnic minority areas in eastern Myanmar could continue for months. He also said that the country was ready to provide humanitarian assistance as refugee numbers continue to rise.
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[Al Arabiya] As part of its campaign against reformists, the Iranian government blocked on Friday access to the website of former president and leading opposition figure Mohamed Khatami. ... Think of him as Aleksandr Karensky with a turban, only he hasn't had to leave the country ...
Representatives of the ministries of education, culture and Islamic guidance, justice, and telecommunications met with media experts and members of parliament under the chairmanship of Iran's general prosecutor and decided to block the website of Mohamed Khatami, seen by the regime as one of the main causes of political instability in the country.
The decision, which means the website cannot be accessed from inside Iran, is based on article 23 of the electronic publishing penal code, according to a note on the website.
The government did not issue a prior warning to the website's administrators whether verbal or written and did not provide an explanation for blocking the website, according to the report.
Mohamed Khatami has been considered an 'enemy of the state' and accused of inciting political unrest since he supported reformist Mir-Hossein Mousavi in the 2009 presidential elections, which earned, under strong controversy, the incumbent Mahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad another term in office.
The decision to block the website is part of a series of actions by the government to tighten the noose around Khatami in order to weaken the opposition that has been gaining momentum since accusing the government of rigging presidential election.
Jaras News website, the semi-official mouthpiece of the opposition Green Movement, reported in March that the government had withdrawn Khatami's passport then returned it later. He was also banned from travelling to Japan to attend a conference.
Khatami started gaining international recognition for his proposal Dialogue Among Civilizations during his presidency (1997-2005). Based on this proposal, the UN made year 2001 the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society' Year of Dialogue Among Civilizations. That worked well...
Khatami had intended to run in the 2009 presidential elections then withdrew to make way for his friend former prime minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi.
Since the political unrest that swept the country in the aftermath of the 2009 elections, Iranian authorities have blocked access to several opposition websites, all of which can only be accessed from outside the country.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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BASRA / Aswat al-Iraq: The death toll from the car bomb explosion in western Basra on Monday rose to 10, while 43 others were wounded, medical sources.
