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Bumfu(k the middle of nowhere. Where I'm gonna be attacked tonight. Hahaha!
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Disgust, anger, straight talk, no mincing of words, just get'n er done! I'd believe this young man long before anyone in Washington. My prayer is he makes it home alright.
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These guys have my total sympathies. Likely they are going to spend five days freezing their butts off in that hole, waiting for the bad guyz to show up in that trailer park below them. Then they'll move on to the next hill hole.
If there are bad guyz there already, the only way positions like that can be attacked is to set mortars during the day, then pop a few rounds at night, hoping for a lucky hit.
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ION BHRARAT RAKSHAK > 3D MAPPING GROUND DRONE CAN FIRE LASERS FROM ONE MILE AWAY + IMPROVED PROTECTION FOR STRYKERS FIGHTING IN AFGHANISTAN.
HMMMMM, HMMMM, the USDOD-DARPA, etc. marries the "SCI-FI/G4 CHANNEL" anime on TV, or least "HALO" futurist PC game.
PROPOSED STRYKER IMPROVEMENTS > makes the Stryker look like your Great-Great-Grandpa's WW1 Tank = British motorized "water carrier" agz the Huns on the Western front, SAVE SOON TO BE LASER-ARMED???
* Year 1914-1917 = WW2 = Vietnam = Desert Storm = AFPAK > VERY NICE, BUT D *** NG IT, CAN YOU SHAVE OR COOK EGGS/STEWS ETC. WITH IT!
At least seven people have been killed and three children injured when a car hit an improvised explosive device (IED) in southern Afghanistan.
According to Afghan officials, the incident happened in the southern province of Kandahar on Thursday.
"Seven civilians -- five women and two men -- were killed and three children aged from two to eight were wounded," AFP quoted Zalmai Ayoubi, a spokesman for the provincial administration, as saying.
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.
IEDs are widely used by militants in their campaign against US-led troops across Afghanistan.
The International Committee of the Red Cross says the number of civilian deaths in southern Afghanistan has increased by about 20 percent this year.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] More than 1,100 soldiers including 800 French legionnaires, as well as US and Afghan forces have launched a major operation east of Kabul.
Military officials declared on Thursday that five US special forces were wounded due to the operation in the Uzbeen Valley. Uzbeen Valley is a Taliban stronghold where 10 French soldiers were killed in an ambush in August 2008.
Colonel Benoit Durieux of the French Foreign Legion said the operation, codenamed "Septentrion," was aimed at "reaffirming the sovereignty of Afghan security forces in the north of the Uzbeen Valley," AFP reported.
Happy hunting, legionnaires! And to all your little friends, too!
Messing with Legionnaires is a real bad idea, right up there with messing with US Marines, and almost as bad as messing with Ghurkas.
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Trust me guys but the Legionaires are really really bad dudes, they are all trained more as special ops guys than regular elite forces. A lot of the special intelligence the Frogs get on terrorists comes from these guys.
If I were a turban I would stay very far away from them. Not only are they ruthless, well trained and relentless but they are also vendictive. Kill a Legionaire and they will hunt you down like an animal and treat you like one...me thinks have the Legion accompany us on ops and having them "take" all of the enemy combatants gives them the opportunity to use their very special skills of interrogation and persuasion...heh heh heh
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[Asharq al-Aswat] A Somalia Islamist militant group says it is banning the U.N. mine agency from its territory. Al-Shabab accuses U.N. Mine Action of paying police salaries for Somalia's weak, transitional government. The group said Thursday that the U.N. agency has been surveying vital and sensitive areas under al-Shabab control.
Earlier this week an old mine killed six children from the same family. Mines riddle the Somali countryside and were first laid in 1964 and during subsequent wars with neighboring Ethiopia. The U.N. agency could not be reached for comment.
Al-Shabab has already banned several U.N. agencies and aid groups. The group is part of an Islamic insurgency trying to topple the government. Somalia has not had an effective government for 18 years.
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UN claim jumping on Al Shabab's explosive's mine?
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"Somalia has not had an effective government for 18 years."
Don't feel bad, Somalia. The U.N. itself has had an even less effective government for longer than that.
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It's not like it was all that effective before that.
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[Ma'an] Government workers constructing a massive metal barrier along the Egypt-Gaza border came under fire from Palestinian gunmen on Thursday, Egyptian security sources said.
The gunfire came from the Palestinian side of the border, damaging some construction equipment but causing no injuries, the sources said. The incident took place north of the Rafah border crossing, they said.
It was revealed last week that Egypt is constructing a steel wall along the border that will extend underground in an attempt to cut off a network of smuggling tunnels. The tunnels are a lifeline for Palestinians living under an Israeli-led blockade.
Hamas-allied security forces on the Palestinian side declared a state of emergency, sources reported. On the Egyptian side, a large number of security officers and armored vehicles were reportedly dispatched to the area where the shooting took place.
In a separate incident on Thursday, an Egyptian soldier was killed on the border with Israel in a shootout with smugglers, Egyptian security sources said.
The smugglers were spotted attempting to bring drugs and African migrants into Israel across a barbed wire fence one kilometer south of the Kerem Shalom crossing point, on the Gaza border, the sources said.
The dead soldier was identified as Muhammad Adel Ahmad, 22, from Cairo. The alleged smugglers escaped.
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The U.S. has launched two missile strikes against Al Qaeda targets in Yemen, two U.S. officials told Fox News, signaling an escalation of the Obama administration's fight against the terrorist organization. and avoiding the Pak indignation
The politically sensitive strikes Thursday, first reported by ABC News, supplement efforts already under way by the government of Yemen to go after Al Qaeda in the country, the officials told Fox News, speaking on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the operation.
Such an operation is particularly sensitive in Yemen. "It's very difficult for Yemen to ask the U.S. for help given the nature of their population and its views about the West," one official said. "And the U.S. doesn't want to compromise their ability to ask for help." "we know nottthhiinng"
The United States has faced similar concerns in Pakistan, where reports of U.S. drone attacks on militants are common -- but never acknowledged publicly by the U.S. or by Pakistan.
In the new attacks, cruise missiles on Obama's orders hit a suspected Al Qaeda training camp north of Sanaa, the capital, and another site, where terrorists were thought to be plotting an attack on the U.S., ABC News reported, citing unnamed administration officials.
A Yemeni official contacted by ABC News insisted that the attacks were carried out by Yemen, not the United States. Yemeni forces also reportedly have targeted Al Qaeda in raids conducted at three locations.
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A Yemeni official contacted by ABC News insisted that the attacks were carried out by Yemen, not the United States.
So, this means there's a Yemeni Sgt. in a cubicle at the base in the Nevada desert, and when the man (or woman!) in blue says, "push this button", that's Yemen carrying out the attack?
[Al Arabiya Latest] Yemeni security forces have killed 34 al-Qaeda militants and arrested 17 others in foiling a planned series of suicide bomb attacks, a security source said on Thursday.
The incidents took place in Abyan province in the south and in Arhab directorate, north of the capital Sanaa. "The operation led to the foiling of an al-Qaeda plan aiming to hit foreign and local interests and schools, including eight suicide bombers who were preparing explosive belts to carry out the plan," the source told Reuters.
As well as fighting al-Qaeda militants, Yemen is battling a Shiite rebellion in the north and separatist unrest in the south, which is a worry for its Gulf Arab neighbors, including Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter, which fears the conflict could weaken its own stability. The rebels, also known as Houthis, have been fighting the Yemeni government on and off since 2004. In August, government forces launched an all-out offensive codenamed "Operation Scorched Earth" aimed at wiping out the revolt.
Saudi Arabia joined the fray on Nov. 4, a day after the Houthi rebels killed a Saudi border guard and infiltrated into the Gulf state's territory.
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2:1? try harder, Yemen! We're rooting for ya!
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South Korea's military said Friday it was investigating a hacking attack that netted secret defense plans with the United States and may have been carried out by North Korea.
The suspected hacking occurred late last month when a South Korean officer failed to remove a USB device when he switched a military computer from a restricted-access intranet to the Internet, Defense Ministry spokesman Won Tae-jae said.
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DAILY TIMES.PK > OBAMA OFFERS NEW LIASON [Diplomatic]TO NORTH KOREA.
* ION WMF > FRENCH SCHOLAR ROBERT DUJARRIC: US, JAPAN SHOULD STRENGTHEN STARTEGIC ALLIANCE AGZ CHINA AND PLAN IN CASE OF ASIA-PACIFIC WAR. US NEEDS "UNSINKABLE AIRCRAFT CARRIER" JAPAN AS FORWARD BASE.
* SAME > CHINA WILL NOT BE A TRUE SUPERPOWER UNLESS ITS SUBMARINES, AIRCRAFT CARRIERS, PLANES AND MISSLES CAN HIT THE USA. IFF JAPAN AND VIETNAM WON'T LEASE BASES TO CHINA THEN CHINA WILL HAVE NO OPTION IN WAR BUT TO MILITARILY DESTROY JAPAN AND VIETNAM IN PREEMPTIVE FIRST STRIKE.
MUMBAI, India -- The accused gunman in last year's bloody siege of Mumbai retracted his detailed confession Friday, saying police tortured him into admitting his role in the attacks that left 166 people dead.
Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, 21, who is being tried in a special court -- and was photographed carrying an assault rifle during the attack on Mumbai's main train station -- told the judge he came to Mumbai as a tourist and was arrested 20 days before the siege began.
On the day the attacks started, Kasab said, police took him from his cell because he resembled one of the gunmen, shot him to make it look like he had been involved in the violence and re-arrested him.
Friday's statement was not the first reversal from Kasab.
In February, he told a judge he wanted to attack India in order to free the divided region of Kashmir where Muslim militants are fighting for independence. He later recanted that statement, saying it was obtained under duress.
It was unclear what impact Kasab's statement would have on the case, and the prosecution brushed it off.
"All the while, I expected that Kasab was about to take a U-turn in the case," said Ujjwal Nikam, the prosecutor. "He is a military-trained commando. It's not going to affect our case."
In July, Kasab, who could face the death penalty if convicted, surprised the court when he suddenly confessed, saying he would rather be hanged in this world than face "God's punishment" in the next.
In his confession, he spoke of spraying gunfire into the crowd at the train station and described in detail a network of training camps and safe houses across Pakistan, revealing the names of four men he said were his handlers.
The photo of Kasab casually walking through the station with his rifle has become the enduring image of the attacks.
But Kasab said police tortured him into falsely confessing.
The assault 13 months ago lasted nearly three days and paralyzed India's commercial hub. During the attacks, 10 young men armed with assault rifles stormed two luxury hotels, a Jewish center and the train station. Nine of the gunmen were killed, leaving only Kasab, who was wounded in a shootout with police, authorities said.
He told the court Friday he was initially arrested last year after wandering around Mumbai late at night looking for a place to stay, and his Pakistani citizenship aroused suspicion.
After he was re-arrested for the Mumbai attack, he said, four white men came to visit him in jail, including David Coleman Headley, who is jailed in Chicago on charges he conspired in the siege. The judge then told Kasab not to reveal any more details on Headley.
Headley, the 49-year-old son of an American mother and Pakistani father, is also charged with planning to attack a Danish newspaper. Never happen with KSM and his pals of course right?
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Typical A-Q/Muzzie training: If caught, claim torture and deny, deny, deny. I do believe the Indian government should torture him. Slap him in the mouth with a hickory axehandle, tie a ten-foot rope around his neck, and kick him off a 12-foot tower. The recidivism rate of terrorists so treated is virtually nil - something the US should have learned the third or fourth time a Gitmo detainee surfaced on the battlefield after release.
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[Dawn] At least two security officials have been killed and several injured in a remote-controlled explosion, targeting a security forces convoy in Bara Tehsil on Thursday. According to FC sources, security forces also retaliated after the attack and killed three militants during an exchange of fire. Official sources said that the security forces convoy was doing a search operation in the area when the incident happened.
Meanwhile, security forces have surrounded the whole area and have shifted the injured to Combined Military Hospital in Peshawar.
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[Dawn] Frontier Police on Thursday arrested two militants from Mathra area after an exchange of fire with militants, according to a DawnNews report.
Police said one of the arrested militant got injured during shooting and was taken to Lady Reading Hospital for treatment while the other is in their custody. According to details, Mathra police was on routine movement in the area when some militants opened fire at them. In retaliation, the police also opened fire and two of the militants were arrested while three others ran away.
Police have started initial investigation and a search operation has been launched in the area.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] The mayor of Pakistan's Lakki Marwat district and a number of people present with him have escaped a suicide attack.
Lakki Marwat is one of the southern districts of the North-West Frontier Province in Pakistan.
Mayor Qudratullah Khan was in his office, along with his family members and a number of people who had come to greet him for his hajj pilgrimage, when the bomber tried to approach him. But his foot slipped and he fell down. The explosives hidden under his jacket exploded prematurely, killing no one but himself, Pakistan's Dawn reported late on Thursday.
"It was a suicide attack," District Police Chief Mohammad Ayub said adding that only a part of the suicide jacket exploded, while explosive wires, a packet of knives and hand grenade were recovered from the killed attacker.
He further said that if the suicide vest had exploded completely, there would have been huge losses of lives as more than 60 people were present at the time of the explosion.
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New in the 2010 edition of the Suicide Bomber's Manual: Tie your shoe laces.
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[Dawn] Ten suspected militants were killed Thursday in the second US missile strike in a day targeting insurgents in Pakistan's tribal North Waziristan district, security officials said. 'Five US drones fired at least seven missiles, targeting several houses in the Ambarshaga area in North Waziristan and killing more than 10 militants,' a senior security official in the area told AFP. Another security official confirmed the strike and said the death toll may rise.
Earlier Thursday two militants were killed in a similar strike on a house near Miranshah, the main town in the North Waziristan.
More, from Pak Daily Times A key Al Qaeda operative and seven other foreigners were among at least 15 people killed in two separate drone strikes in North Waziristan Agency on Thursday, a private television channel reported.
According to the channel, Zohaib Al-Zahidi was an important Al Qaeda member involved in planning and executing several terrorist attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
In the first attack, five US drones fired at least 10 missiles at two houses in the Ambarshaga area killing at least 15 people, according to AP.
Another US drone killed at least two Taliban as it fired two missiles at their vehicle around 4am in Godi Wala village in Datta Khel tehsil, 40 kilometres west of Miranshah, Haji Mujtaba reported. Official sources said the first missile missed the target due to which several terrorists escaped, while two of them were killed by the second missile.
The drones struck around 6pm the same day. Two vehicles were also destroyed in the attack.
Meanwhile, the agency political agent imposed a curfew for an indefinite period in Miranshah and various areas of Mir Ali sub-division and Dosali tehsil. Five suspects were also arrested for violating the curfew.
This article starring:
ZOHAIB AL ZAHIDI
al-Qaeda in Pakistan
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Apparently being able to watch the video feeds has not done the "suspected militants" any good.
"This is great, Achmed, are you sure that is the video from the Great Satan's drone?
"Of course I'm sure, Abdullah. Those IT guys came through for once."
"What is the satanic engine of the American infidels doing now?"
"Following a car down some back road in this accursed country."
"Inshallah, we shall soon be back in Arabia where we belong."
"I hope you are right. The car is pulling into a driveway outside some mud-brick dump."
"YOU FOOL! THAT'S OUR HOU---"
[Iran Press TV Latest] Iraqi officials say a booby-trapped car has exploded in a central Baghdad area containing several restaurants, killing three civilians and wounding 16 others.
A parked vehicle exploded as a convoy of a parliament member from Fadhila, Nadim al-Jabari, was passing by. Al-Jabari was not in any of the vehicles, but the victims were mostly passersby.
The vehicle had been parked in a street containing several restaurants popular among Baghdad residents.
This is while a few hours prior to the Baghdad explosion, a Christian worker was shot dead by unknown gunmen in Mosul. The incident occurred two days after bombings targeted churches in the country's main northern city.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] Israeli police arrest nine Palestinians during a march in Jerusalem Al-Quds marking the end of the city's tenure as the Capital of Arab culture.
Israeli police on Thursday, Dec. 17 blocked protesters and arrested nine Palestinians during a rally in East Jerusalem Al-Quds' old city marking the year 2009 as the end of Jerusalem Al-Quds' tenure as the Arab League's Capital of Arab Culture.
Fatah Secretary General in Jerusalem Al-Quds, Omar al-Shalabi, was also among those arrested by policemen, Reuters reported. Israeli officials said the march was considered illegal.
In the past year, Israeli police have shut down several events related to the Arab Cultural Capital festival in Jerusalem Al-Quds.
A Palestinian woman participant said that Israel wants to make Jerusalem Al-Quds Jewish. "They want to empty it of its sons, of its people, of its families and of its population so they can build illegal settlements," she said.
Meanwhile, in the West Bank city of Nablus, acting Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas addressed a similar rally. He said that Jerusalem Al-Quds "will remain ours" and will always be the capital of the Arab and the Islamic world.
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Meanwhile, in the West Bank city of Nablus, acting Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas addressed a similar rally. He said that Jerusalem Al-Quds "will remain ours" and will always be the capital of the Arab and the Islamic world.
Jerusalem has been the capital of the Hebrews for over 3,000 years. It has never been the "capital of the Arab and the Islamic world." Those capitals have been, alternatively, Mecca, el Medinah, Damascus, and Baghdad.
The myth that in the 7th century Mohammud flew to the "furthest Mosque" on a flying jackass, while in a dream in Mecca, and from thence to the seven levels of heaven (disputed by Aisha, bless her devilish little soul), began in the mid 1800's (C.E.).
In Mohammad's time the furthest Mosque was probably in Ethiopia. Nowadays it's in Stockholm, Sweden.
The money shot:
"So the same security breach that allowed insurgent to use satellite dishes and $26 software to intercept drone feeds can be used the tap into the video transmissions of any plane."
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See the comment I passed along above. Encryption techology is easy -- it's the conops associated with keeping the encryption keys & receivers physically secure and synchronized that's the hard part.
HACKERS have broken in to social networking website Twitter leaving it disabled for hours.
The site popular with celebrities and used by millions around the world was taken over by a group calling themselves the Iranian Cyber Army early this morning. They defaced the site with their own logos and images and even posted a message boasting about the attack.
Users hoping to find their latest Tweets were instead greeted by a black screen with a green flag. Above the flag, a message in Arabic read: "Hezbollah is victorious." On the flag, red Arabic writing said: "Yassin" (an Arabic name written in bold) then in smaller Arabic print "the feast of peace". Below the flag there was more Farsi writing.
The hackers also wrote in English: "This site has been hacked by Iranian Cyber Army. U.S.A think they controlling and managing internet by their access, but they don't, we control and manage internet by our power..."
Tens of thousands of baffled Twitter users spotted the message before it was removed.
Twitter bosses later posted a message on the site which read: "Twitter's DNS records were temporarily compromised but have now been fixed. We are looking into the underlying cause and will update with more information soon."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Dawn] At least two security officials have been killed and several injured in a remote-controlled explosion, targeting a security forces convoy in Bara Tehsil on Thursday. According to FC sources, security forces also retaliated after the attack and killed three militants during an exchange of fire. Official sources said that the security forces convoy was doing a search operation in the area when the incident happened.
[Dawn] Frontier Police on Thursday arrested two militants from Mathra area after an exchange of fire with militants, according to a DawnNews report.
[Iran Press TV Latest] The mayor of Pakistan's Lakki Marwat district and a number of people present with him have escaped a suicide attack. 
[Dawn] Ten suspected militants were killed Thursday in the second US missile strike in a day targeting insurgents in Pakistan's tribal North Waziristan district, security officials said. 'Five US drones fired at least seven missiles, targeting several houses in the Ambarshaga area in North Waziristan and killing more than 10 militants,' a senior security official in the area told AFP. Another security official confirmed the strike and said the death toll may rise.
A key Al Qaeda operative and seven other foreigners were among at least 15 people killed in two separate drone strikes in North Waziristan Agency on Thursday, a private television channel reported.
