DOVER (AP) — Military officials says the bodies of the Fort Hood shooting victims will be flown to the Dover Air Force Base military mortuary tonight.
Officials said an Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft carrying the remains of 12 Army soldiers and one Army civilian employee was scheduled to bring the victims to Dover, home to the nation's largest military mortuary.
The families of the Fort Hood victims have not authorized media coverage of the plane's arrival at Dover.
Officials say the result of autopsies on the victims will be made available to the appropriate federal and military agencies that are investigating Thursday's shooting.
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Officials say the result of autopsies on the victims will be made available to the appropriate federal and military agencies that are investigating Thursday's shooting.
A bit more if you will about the phueching federal and military agencies that were investigating the shooter PRIOR TO THE TERRORIST ATTACK!
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Chris Matthews: "We may never know if religion was a factor at Fort Hood."
Terminal stupidity, unfortunately, can get us all killed.
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reference saluting rather than hand over the heart -
Veterans and active-duty military not in uniform can now render the military-style hand salute during the playing of the national anthem, thanks to changes in FY09 National Defense Authorization Act.
This provision adds to a change in the FY08 NDAA that authorized veterans and military members not in uniform to render the military-style hand salute during the raising, lowering or passing of the flag. Last yearâs provision also applied to members of the armed forces while not in uniform.
"The military salute is a unique gesture of respect that marks those who have served in our nationâs armed forces,â said then Secretary of Veterans Affairs Dr. James B. Peake. âThis provision allows the application of that honor in all events involving our nationâs flag." - source
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Veterans and active-duty military not in uniform can now render the military-style hand salute during the playing of the national anthem, thanks to changes in FY09 National Defense Authorization Act.
Not authorized for Navy personnel (we also don't salute indoors, nor while 'uncovered' (hatless))
[Dawn] Seven members of the Afghan security forces were killed in a Nato air strike in remote western Afghanistan, the defence ministry said on Saturday.
'Due to a Nato forces air strike on November 6 in Badghis province seven Afghan security personnel (both Afghan army and national police) were martyred and also some were wounded,' the ministry said in a statement.
'The commando brigade informs us that foreign forces also sustained some casualties,' it said, adding 'The issue is under investigation by Afghan and Nato forces and the results will be announced soon.'
The statement comes as Nato's International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) said it was investigating a Friday incident in Badghis in which more than 25 members of international and Afghan forces were wounded.
Earlier, an Isaf spokesman said that five US soldiers were wounded during a search operation for two American troops who went missing in western Afghanistan this week.
The five are believed to have been among more than 25 Isaf and Afghan troops injured by what a military official said anonymously was friendly fire.
However, Isaf spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Todd Vician, of the US Air Force, told AFP: 'We have nothing to confirm friendly fire.'
'No Isaf members were killed,' he said, when confirming that the five injured Isaf soldiers were Americans.
Investigations into Friday's incident, believed to have happened in Badghis province, were ongoing and no further details were available, he said.
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slightly off topic rant re: GPS for Nimble Spemble:
GPS has been known to steer people onto railroad tracks and into ponds; and many European towns have signs on the outskirts: "Lorry drivers: no matter what GPS says, your truck won't fit through here." Or words to that effect.
More than one demolition firm has demolished the wrong building because they used GPS instead of looking at the blessed address!
GPS doesn't know where the detours are, and it certainly doesn't know where the bad guys are.
(end rant)
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Mom,
Spemble was alluding to the possibility that that the Afghan security forces may have given their own GPS location to the attacking aircraft for servicing with a GPS guided bomb, instead of giving the targets' GPS location.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Heavy fighting between Somali government forces and Al Shabaab militants have left at least six people dead and another 12 injured in Mogadishu.
The clashes broke out late on Saturday in the districts of Bondhere and Abdiaziz, with the two sides exchanging heavy mortar fire.
Eyewitnesses told a Press TV correspondent that heavily armed militants had carried out attacks on government bases in the districts.
The wounded civilians were admitted to various hospitals in Mogadishu.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] A Tunisian court has sentenced eight men to up to 12 years in jail on charges of belonging to a terrorist cell, a defense lawyer said on Saturday.
Three received 12-year terms and five were imprisoned for between three and six years, Anouar Kousri told Reuters.
Kousri said the defendants were convicted of belonging to a terrorist group and helping to provide it with weapons. He did not name the group.
Government officials were not immediately available to comment.
Lawyers say about 2,000 people have been arrested since 2003 on terrorism charges, including recruiting fighters for the Iraqi insurgency. The Justice Ministry says the number does not exceed 400.
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Saudi Arabian forces have taken control of a mountain straddling the border with Yemen and cleared it of Shiite rebels, in five days of fighting that saw three soldiers killed and 15 wounded, the assistant defense minister said on Sunday.
Prince Khaled bin Sultan said another four soldiers were missing and that Saudi troops were still dealing with rebel infiltrators in other spots along the frontier. Bin Sultan said Saudi forces had not entered northern Yemen nor commented on rebel casualties.
"We are dealing with infiltrators and gangs. All that they seized, including Dokhan mountain, are now under our control, although there is infiltration in some locations," bin Sultan was quoted as telling reporters after visiting the region.
Saudi warplanes and artillery last week bombarded a Shiite rebel stronghold in northern Yemen for three straight days, according to the rebel fighters.
The sporadic five-year conflict between Yemen's weak central government and rebels in the north of the impoverished country escalated dramatically last week when Saudi military forces began shelling and bombing rebel positions.
"All the mountain slopes inside the Saudi border have been cleared," bin Sultan was quoted as saying by the official Saudi Press Agency. "We deal only with those inside our land and we did not and will not intervene inside Yemen." Sounds like they fear Iran.
The two nations are cooperating and sharing intelligence in the fight. Officials in Saudi Arabia have been increasingly worried that extremism and instability in Yemen could spill over to their country, the world's largest oil exporter.
Thus changing the nature of the native Saudi extremism and instability.
Publicly, Saudi officials say their military action has been limited to areas inside its own borders, targeting fighters who have crossed into its territory. But Yemeni rebels, military officials and Arab diplomats say the Saudi air and artillery strikes began to hit deep inside northern Yemen on Thursday.
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh on Saturday vowed to quash the northern rebels, known as Hawthis.
The rebels claim the needs of their communities are ignored by a Yemeni government that is increasingly allied with hard-line Sunni fundamentalists, who consider Shiites heretics.
Besides the northern rebels, Yemen's government is also confronting a separatist movement in the south and a lingering threat from al-Qaida militants.
Yemen, the ancestral homeland of Osama bin Laden, has cooperated with the U.S. in fighting terrorism but has struggled to confront Islamic extremists.
While Houthi fighters say they have captured Saudi troops inside Yemeni territory, Riyadh vows to continue pounding the fighters' positions and border villages in northern Yemen.
Saudi Arabia's airstrikes in the border region of Jabal al-Dukhan has so far killed dozens of Yemeni civilians. The kingdom has also deployed armed forces along its border and has threatened a ground incursion into northern Yemen.
Riyadh claims that the aerial attacks targeted Houthi positions on "Saudi territory" and has vowed to continue with the offensive until it clears its territory of Shia fighters.
This is while, the Houthis say they have captured Saudi troops "inside Yemeni territory," describing the move as a "response to Saudi attacks" on their positions and villages in northern Yemen.
According to a statement by the fighters on Saturday, the Saudi military pounded their positions in northern Yemen with airstrikes and mortar fire overnight, killing a number of Shia fighters.
Media outlets have quoted the Saudi military saying that it has killed about 40 Houthi fighters.
The Saudi air force launched its deadly offensive against Houthis on Wednesday after accusing the resistance fighters of killing two Saudi soldiers on the border.
The Houthis accuse Riyadh of using phosphorous bombs and killing Yemeni civilians. The fighters have long accused Riyadh of supporting the Yemeni government in attacks against them.
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AL-KHUBAH, Saudi-controlled Arabia Saudi forces pounded Yemeni rebels on Saturday for a fifth straight day as Yemeni President Ali Abdallah Saleh ruled out a truce in his war on the Shiite insurgents.
Huge smoke plumes could be seen rising above Jebel al-Dukhan, a 2,000-metre (6,600-foot) peak on the border near the town of Al-Khubah, a sign of continued bombing by Saudi fighter jets, residents said. Saudi artillery shelled apparent rebel positions to the south, the residents said as medics reported seven Saudis and an unknown number of rebels had been killed since Tuesday.
"We're coming to grips with these traitors, these renegades, and daily we are losing scores of martyrs from our best officers and soldiers and citizens," Saleh said during a speech at Balhaf in the Gulf of Aden.
"But their blood is not being shed in vain and there will be no reconciliation, no truce nor stoppage to the war until we see the end of this small group of deviants," he said without mentioning a Saudi incursion into Yemen on Wednesday.
Meanwhile there was no confirmation of rebel claims they had seized a number of Saudi soldiers.
"With Allah's help, the Saudi tyrannical advance into Yemen's territory has been defeated," said a statement on the rebels' website. "A number of its troops have been captured and several military vehicles and supplies been seized."
Signs of the continuing fight were present along the highway to Khuba, about 60 kilometres (35 miles) inland from the Red Sea coast. Saudi medium- and long-range artillery pieces were in position, and soldiers patrolled the road and fields amid makeshift army camps.
Trucks laden with mattresses, chairs and other household goods plodded down the road away from the border, from where most of the population had been evacuated to tent camps earlier in the week.
But hospital staff in the nearby town of Samtah said they had not received any new casualties, after several dozen wounded soldiers were brought in the day before, most with gunshot or shrapnel wounds. Altogether 126 wounded had been delivered to the hospital since Tuesday, when a band of Shiite Zaidi rebels, under siege from the government since August, crossed into Saudi Arabia and shot up a border post, killing one border guard and injuring 11 others.
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While we're at it I think Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan also went to Virgina Tech where Seung-Hui Cho slaughtered 32 people... ??
Surprising another case where people didn't report the problem ..??
Of course deliberately targeting and murdering U.S. Soldiers in the United States is perfectly ok right?
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates The U.S. Homeland Security secretary says she is working to prevent a possible wave of anti-Muslim sentiment after the shootings at Fort Hood in Texas. As opposed to protecting Americans against anti-american sentiments....
Janet Napolitano says her agency is working with groups across the United States to try to deflect any backlash against American Muslims following Thursday's rampage by Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a Muslim who reportedly expressed growing dismay over the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Which her department may have failed to act upon. Probably so as to not offend the sensitivies of Muslims...
The shootings left 13 people dead and 29 wounded.
Napolitano was in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday for talks with security officials and a meeting with women university students in Abu Dhabi.
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Meanwhile, DHS funnels millions of taxpayer dollars to CAIR, known to have terrorist ties to the enemies of this country.
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An interesting feature about this administration -- and one for which I think the nation will pay a dreadful price -- is that they have a consistent, passionate intensity for the wrong things. In the international arena we confront aggression, and rumors of aggression, with apologies. We bully our friends, ignore or slight our allies; yet, we bow and scrape before rogue regimes. The list could go on and touch the realms of energy, economy, etc. And now after a terrorist attack or, in the parlance of this odd administration, "after a man made disaster" and our focus is on a feared anti-Muslim backlash. Heaven help us.
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Anybody notice that the FBI released an assessment of no terrorism nexus WHILE THE FIRST AGENTS WERE STILL DRIVING TO THE SCENE? No, this administration has no inherent bias to squelch any association of islam and terrorism.
Anyone who reads the content of the Koran, and the Hadiths, must be struck by content that is utterly inconsistent with peaceful behavior with non-believers. I know of no other religion so violent in it's holy books or their subsequent interpretation. For those who think that this is a religion equal to Christianity or Buddhism or Judiasm, please find any parallels to the doctrine of taqiyya and kitman. This is NOT a religion, it is a political movement dressed up as one. Everywhere it has nested, has seen decay, decline and ruin.
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I'm not sure what she means by anti-Muslim 'sentiment'. Is she afraid of physical violence directed at Muslims? Many share ideological opinions of the religion Muslims adhere to, and IMO, that's expression of free speech. (For instance, I think it's a whacko death cult, given the teachings of the Koran, hatred towards Jews and non-believers and intolerance in general).
But, on a personal note (and I'd guess many here feel the same) I could never bring myself to disparage another's religion, unwarranted, for the sake of 'lashing out'. To be honest (and I'm sure someone will be along to correct me if I'm wrong), I don't recall much of any 'backlash' immediately following the events of 9/11/01.
Cold-blooded murder of unarmed individuals to 'do
God's work', on the other hand, would seem to be deserving of at least some discussion. If Janet wants to believe that's 'backlash', too bad.
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Talk with Iran, Hug Chavez and have a book exchange, ignore the obvious Muslim hatred for America... but in the end it is Fox News that is the real enemy of the Obama administration. Go figure.
Fort Hood, Texas - Lessons learned from the horrific Virginia Tech shootings in 2007 are credited with averting an even bigger massacre at Fort Hood, Texas, Thursday afternoon when police officer Kimberly Munley confronted the gunman without waiting for backup and took him down with four shots.
Reviews in the aftermath of the shootings at Virginia Tech, where 32 died, found that first responders' decision to be careful and wait for backup probably cost lives as that gunman moved unchecked from classroom to classroom as law enforcement massed outside.
Those findings had found their way to Fort Hood's Special Reaction Team, which had practiced an entirely new protocol for at least a year before Thursday afternoon's rampage here, in which 13 were killed and at least 28 wounded.
"The lesson from Virginia Tech was, don't wait for backup but move to the target and eliminate the shooter," says Chuck Medley, chief of Fort Hood's emergency services. "It requires courage and it requires skill."
The task on Thursday fell to the petite Ms. Munley, a civilian police officer employed by the Army at Fort Hood. Munley had taken part in intensive active-shooter training during the past year.
One of the first responders, she exited her car and entered the building as shots rang out. She rounded a corner, identified the shooter, and fired four times. He returned fire and hit her at least twice in the legs and once in the arm. She underwent surgery Friday but is said to be in good condition. It's unclear how many other responders were present and firing, but Munley's shots are believed to be the ones that stopped the alleged gunman, Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan.
"She walked up and engaged him," said Fort Hood commander Lt. Gen. Bob Cone, according to an Associated Press report. Her training taught her that "if you act aggressively to take out a shooter, you will have less fatalities," he said.
Munley is in stable condition and "very upbeat," says Medley. "I've never seen a person with that kind of injury so upbeat, in fact."
"It was an amazing and aggressive performance by this police officer," said Cone.
Munley, who comes from North Carolina and worked as a police officer there, is known to be a tough cop. She often patrolled her neighborhood and once stopped burglars at her house, according to CNN.
It may have been the first, small clue that an apparently ordinary week at the world's largest army base was about to become something horrifically different, when neighbours saw Major Nidal Hasan escorting a visitor into his flat.
Other residents at the Casa del Norte apartment complex were surprised to see the mild-mannered army officer accompanied by another man in Islamic dress.
Alice Thompson, 53, who manages the two storey block of simple dwellings with her husband John, told The Sunday Telegraph: "It was very unusual because he had never had anyone round before. His visitor had long black hair and a moustache and a dark complexion. He stayed about five minutes and then left. We'd never seen him before."
Hasan had paid six months money upfront for the flat after being transferred to Fort Hood in July, and insisted to the Thompsons that nobody could enter his apartment, even to do repairs, when he was out.
What his neighbours could not know is that within less than 48 hours, Hasan was to shatter the peace and security of the Fort Hood base by slaughtering 13 people - all but one of them soldiers - and force America to confront some of its deepest fears.
Now investigators are trying frantically to identify Hasan's visitor, as they seek to unravel the hours that led up to his deadly attack.
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OK FBI, Here is an engraved invite from ME! 911 was planned there and now this. Please for the love of God and Country go shut this terrorist camp down! I will even pay the cab fare from DC, JUST GET OFF YOU FAT LAZY ASSES AND GO TO WORK! The place is called: dar al-hirja mosque VA. They have a web site, here it is: http://www.hijrah.org/
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Pakistani Taliban have claimed responsibility for the suicide attack in the northwestern city of Peshawar where 12 people including a local mayor were killed on Sunday.
Omar, who claimed to be Taliban spokesman in the area, said the militants carried out the attack. He said that Mayor Abdul Malik had formed a "Lashkar", or militia against Taliban and that is why he was targeted.
A bomber blew himself up near the car of Mayor Abdul Malik at Mattani, a small town 25 kilometers from Peshawar, the capital of the North West Frontier Province, police said.
Malik was critically injured and died later in hospital of wounds. His nephew was also killed in the attack, police officer Riaz Khan said.
Police said that up to 30 persons were also injured in the attack in a crowded area.
Police said that Malik had supported government's campaign against the militants. According to police, Abdul Malik escaped unhurt in three attacks in the past.
Witnesses said that the bomber came in a car with five other people. One man came out of the car, approached the mayor and exploded bomb strapped to his body, they said.
A video clip of a Maldivian man, who went to Pakistan for jihad and was reportedly killed in a suicide attack in Lahore, has surfaced on the internet. In the clip, Ali Jaleel (Musab Sayyid), 30, from Moscowge in the capital Male said he wanted to wage Jihad and die a martyr.
I want my blood to be the bit of carpet which the Mujahideen are taking from their blood. The red carpet which would take the Ummah to its glory...So I want to be among that caravan so that I can be a brick upon which Islam will stand,
The clip carries the symbol of as-Sahab, the media production house of al-Qaeda, which relays the organisations views to the world.
The narrator in the clip describes a number of attacks that have taken place against various institutions in Pakistan since 2007, including the American consulate in Karachi and the Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) headquarters in Lahore. He describes this last attack as a crucial blow to this infidelic system; the eyes and ears of America in this crusader war. The narrator adds that the mission involved numerous stages of training, noting that while martryrdom was certain, getting out alive [was] impossible.
Elsewhere in the clip, Jaleel said it was futile for Western powers to attempt to end the war as it had Gods support. So what I would say to you is that you still have time. Repent before its too late, he said. The clip then shows footage of shootings and bomb explosions followed by images of destruction and those injured while pro-Jihadi music plays in the background.
Jaleel reportedly died on 27 May in a sucide attack on the ISI headquarters in Lahore. He is survived by three children all under the age of nine.
The video was uploaded onto YouTube on Friday afternoon but was removed from the site by the evening for violating companys terms and conditions. It was later uploaded onto LiveLeak.
Speaking to Minivan News today, Mohamed Zuhair, presidents office press secretary, said Jaleel case was typical of the governments concerns about extremism. Last month in an interview with CNN-IBN, President Mohamed Nasheed said hundreds of Maldivian students were being recruited by the Taliban to fight in Pakistan. Not long after his announcement, the president called on Maldivian students in the country to return.
Maldivian students in Pakistan responded by calling the president irresponsible, arguing the announcement would endanger them at a time when the Pakistani government was waging war against insurgents. Zuhair said many Maldivians were attracted to the prospect of a free education at one of Pakistans free madrassas, especially as the Maldives has no university.
In October 2006, Jaleel was accused of encouraging Maldivians to wage jihad abroad but was sentenced to two years house arrest for the lesser charge of teaching Islam without the permission of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs. The government accused him of holding classes for ten students during which he spread themes and ideas not approved by the council, in particular on the concept of jihad.
Jaleel was arrested in Colombo in April 2006 with six others while attempting to board a flight to Qatar. Police accused the group of intending to join militant groups in the Middle East.
[Dawn] Sixteen people were injured, two female teachers among them, in two grenade attacks in the city on Saturday.
Some people hurled a hand-grenade into the premises of Government Girls' High School on Manojan Road, a suburb of the city. Two teachers, Shamim Nazar and Rubina Mengal, were injured when splinters hit them. They were taken to a hospital and discharged after treatment.
The explosion damaged the roof of a classroom and smashed windowpanes. According to police, 26 suspects were taken into custody.
Hours later, unidentified people lobbed a hand-grenade on Frontier Corps check-post in a busy area of the city and fled.
Doctors at civil hospital said that 14 people injured in the blast had been admitted for treatment.
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[Dawn] Four militants and three security personnel were killed in an exchange of fire in Tora Warai area of Hangu district late on Friday night.
Official sources said that militants attacked a check-post near the Tora Warai Fort in Hangu district on Friday night for a second time in the last few days in which three security personnel were killed.
Troops returned fire with artillery. The exchange of fire continued for several hours before militants fled, leaving behind four bodies of their accomplices. The bodies were found by troops on Saturday.
Militants had attacked the same check-post a few days ago and four of them were killed by troops in retaliatory fire.
Crackdown
Over a dozen militants were arrested in a crackdown launched by security forces in the Ahmadi Shama area of Lower Kurram on Saturday.
Officials said that security personnel carried out a house-to-house search in the area.Officials said that those arrested were being interrogated.
A drone hit a suspected compound in the same area early this year killing over 30 people.
The administration has imposed a curfew in Sadda, the tehsil headquarters of Lower Kurram, while border with Afghanistan was closed for three days on Friday.
Meanwhile, troops wrested control of two important positions from militants in Charkhel area.
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[Dawn] Eight militants were killed and four were captured during search operations in Swat district on Friday.
Malak Nasir, a nephew of former MPA Malak Dedar, was also taken into custody in Bahrain for his links with militants.
According to Swat Media Centre, security forces conducted search operation in Dakorak area of Charbagh tehsil early in the morning.
During an exchange of fire with troops, local Taliban leader Fida Hussain and his four aides, Latif, Arsal Khan, Mohammad Anwar and Roshan were killed.
Troops seized a huge cache of arms and ammunition. A military spokesman said that the Fida Hussain group was wanted in cases of looting a bank's van, killing of security guard and attacks on security forces in Charbagh, Khwazakhela and Alam Gunj.
In another exchange of fire with troops, militant leader Fazal Maabud was killed and his aide was injured.
In Kabal tehsil, troops killed alleged militants Abdul Wali and Bakht Sher in a clash.
In search operations in Shakar Dara and Bazkheal, three men and a burqa-clad woman were arrested. Two militants surrendered to security forces in Mingora.
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[The News (Pak) Top Stories] Three soldiers and five militants were killed while five security personnel sustained injuries in a clash in Bara Tehsil of Khyber Agency on Friday.
Tribal sources said security forces were on routine patrol when they were suddenly attacked by unidentified militants in in Sipah area.
Two soldiers, Syed Nabi and Amin Jan, were killed. Another soldier, identified as Habib, went missing after the exchange of fire and his body was later found from Dogra Chowk early on Saturday.
The sources said five security personnel injured in the clash were rushed to the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Peshawar.
Security forces claimed to have killed five militants in the clash while independent sources confirmed the killing of only two militants, identified as Hazrat Khan and Khan Zamin.
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[Dawn] Twelve militants were killed as troops pressed a major offensive in South Waziristan on Saturday. 'In last 24 hours, 12 terrorists have been killed, and five soldiers, including two officers, were injured,' the military said in a statement.
According to ISPR, troops have been making advance besides consolidating their regained positions on all axes.
On Jandola-Sararogha axis, troops are consolidating their positions at Sararogha and surrounding heights. The strategic town of Sararogha was the former operational base of slain Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud. During clearance of Sararogha, four terrorists hiding in a compound were killed.
On Shakai-Kaniguram axis, security forces are consolidating their positions in the areas secured so far. Extensive search operations are under way in Laddah and surrounding areas and huge quantities of arms and ammunition have been seized in different areas.
At Tiarza, a 30-feet-long tunnel along with plenty of ammunition was found and destroyed during a search operation at Topparghai, Siga.
Terrorists fired rockets at a security checkpoint at Lundai Nur, leaving two soldiers injured.
On Razmak-Makin axis, troops are clearing Makin on its eastern edge. A large quantity of arms and ammunition were recovered from several compounds in the area. A fleeing vehicle with terrorists on board was engaged and destroyed in which eight terrorists were killed. Three soldiers, including two officers, were injured in firing by terrorists.
During Operation Rah-i-Rast in Swat and Malakand, eight terrorists were captured in Batkhela, Daukadoa, Mingora and Udigram. A terrorist surrendered to security forces at Daukadoa.
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(I suspect) a commando type assault during the upcoming Climate Summit)
The FBI stopped that!! bummer
What's the definition of cognitive dissonance again?
Tuesday and Wednesday are interesting reading -- The Telegraph gives better info than our own MSM
Tuesday 4pm
It may have been the first, small clue that an apparently ordinary week at the world's largest army base was about to become something horrifically different, when neighbours saw Major Nidal Hasan escorting a visitor into his flat.
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2.37am: Hasan telephones Willie Bell, 51, who lives next door and whose laptop he sometimes borrowed, to ask him to switch on his wireless internet connection.
A Major in the US Army borrows a laptop and web access? Lives alone in an apartment? He's making nearly $7k per month in base pay and BAQ/BAS. What did this piece of fecal matter do with his money? Anyone looking?
Alright, without checking into his bank account, let me speculate. He sent his money overseas to worthy causes via a D.C. religious facility. Or could he have withdrawn large amounts of cash and give it to needy bearded men wearing man dresses. Only speculation mind you, but the trail should be very, very easily uncovered.
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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[Iran Press TV Latest] Heavy fighting between Somali government forces and Al Shabaab militants have left at least six people dead and another 12 injured in Mogadishu. 
While Houthi fighters say they have captured Saudi troops inside Yemeni territory, Riyadh vows to continue pounding the fighters' positions and border villages in northern Yemen. 
AL-KHUBAH, Saudi-controlled Arabia Saudi forces pounded Yemeni rebels on Saturday for a fifth straight day as Yemeni President Ali Abdallah Saleh ruled out a truce in his war on the Shiite insurgents.
[Dawn] Four militants and three security personnel were killed in an exchange of fire in Tora Warai area of Hangu district late on Friday night.
[Dawn] Eight militants were killed and four were captured during search operations in Swat district on Friday. 
[The News (Pak) Top Stories] Three soldiers and five militants were killed while five security personnel sustained injuries in a clash in Bara Tehsil of Khyber Agency on Friday.
[Dawn] Twelve militants were killed as troops pressed a major offensive in South Waziristan on Saturday. 'In last 24 hours, 12 terrorists have been killed, and five soldiers, including two officers, were injured,' the military said in a statement.
