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GolfBravoUSMC, I've had a few quiet comments in my email -- it seems some of your recent pictures have been not safe for youngsters looking over parental shoulders. If you would be kind enough to make them links instead? My in-box would thank you.
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Programmer to programmer heads up, fred. I only punched the "submit" button once, and got two duplicate posts. Response time was excellent, with no delays. Can't imagine how that happened.
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Highlander, it's the ones that are images rather than click-through links that I was talking about. A person who chooses to take offense at something they have made an effort to see deserves to be offended. As it happens, dear GolfBravo has put up nothing that I've found offensive -- it's just male silliness as far as I'm concerned, differing from female silliness only in that it's not the kind in which I partake. But others have written to me, and I passed on their concerns.
To those of you using Fred's really, really cool nym generator:
Please stick to one nym per day for the next little while.
Rantburg is being hit extremely hard by spam right now. Fred and badanov have been working madly under the hood to control it, including banning entire IP thingies that appear to be connected to bot thingies (you technical people already know what I mean, and the rest of you care as little as I about the actual details, so hush about the non-technical language).
Unfortunately, constant nym changing looks like spamming at first glance, and so needs to be checked out. When it's only you making use of the facilities Fred so nicely provided, that takes time away from checking out the bad guys. Someone who appeared to be Black Bart -- but wasn't, apologies to you both -- was banned yesterday because he refused to heed the message. And as Black Bart posted very nicely this morning, we have solid proof that it wasn't him, and that he wasn't the one banned. As for the nym jumper, he's going to have to email Fred to request being unbanned, and promise to be more controlled in the future (see link in the right margin of the front page).
Please don't be the next to be banned during this challenging situation.
Thank you,
trailing wife for the moderators
P.S. Check out our Terms of Use, which I just learned we had filed somewhere obvious that I didn't notice.
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The spam/hack/dos attacks are a backhanded compliment to Fred and the mods for providing the truth to all of us about terrorism in the world today, and other important things. It shouldn't happen, and if we could ever find out who is behind it, I'll gladly authorize the use of deadly force against them. I'm ashamed I'm not a good enough programmer to build a counter-bot that would toast someone's attack computer. I'm glad that Fred and Badanov stand between us and this sewage. Thank you, all, for all you do.
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trailing wife,
just wondering if you've looked at this free spam blocker?
I've heard good reports about it.
#6
Halliburton is still ok -- him we know and love. :-)
No, of course I didn't know about that spam blocker, tipper, I'm the one who refers to bot thingies. Is that for the little laptop my family got me, or for Fred? I'm not aware that I had a spam problem, which does not mean that I don't... What say you knowledgeable Rantburgers?
#7
In TW's defense, the TOS page was written more than a year ago, but was just never linked to in the front page.
Fred has developed his own antispam solution which is unique and is a journey, not a destination.
My theory about this last attack is that we got hit by two large spam networks consecutively judging by the server/client signatures, as well as the message signatures.
Spammers act like locusts. They attack and overwhelm and when they are done there is little to do but move on. My own limited experience is that these spammers won't give up until they are given good reason to move on, and we haven't done that yet.
Make no mistake about spam. It is online crime; a criminal act whether it supports Russian criminal activity, Barak McDreamy and his Dreamettes or terrorism, it is still a crime to steal eyes and bandwidth for advertising.
I'm sure these complaints are grounded in something very real, as these kinds of details are not something that someone in their right mind would just make up for fun. It would seem to me that anyone receiving these complaints should at least recognize the urgency and work to get around the problem and then install a fix.
Perhaps there ought to be some "bureaucratic secret-shoppers" to identify pinheads and have a little come-to-Jesus session with them.
#2
One of the comments in Yon's thread says the LTC who made the original allegations has something of a reputation as a glory hound who likes to be in the limelight. If so, he will shortly be receiving - if he hasn't already - a posterior mastication from that O6 or someone higher in the chain.
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If one has 18 years of service in, law protects you less separation by courts martial from being fired without reaching retirement eligibility. The Career Nuke Option, aka I'm taking you with me, for senior officers is -
Art. 138. Complaints of wrongs
Any member of the armed forces who believes himself wronged by his commanding officer, and who, upon due application to that commanding officer, is refused redress, may complain to any superior commissioned officer, who shall forward the complaint to the officer exercising general court-martial jurisdiction over the officer against whom it is made. The officer exercising general court-martial jurisdiction shall examine into the complaint and take proper measures for redressing the wrong complained of; and he shall, as soon as possible, send to the Secretary concerned a true statement of that complaint, with the proceedings had thereon.
Unless one is dealing with nukes or crypto such an investigation would be subject to FOIA.
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Yon Says: "Risking liberties to read between the lines, the letter might translate: âSituation rectified. Moving to tamp down the controversy. Letâs move on.â
Clearly itâs social grease, designed to spackle over rough spots. Spots that could have gotten our troops killed. Iâll ask some of our people in the next week or so if the situation has improved. Youâll be the first to know."
I'm not going to wait. This has sucessfully been swept under the rug, where it will stay.
#5
When I was a headstrong and rather angry young troop, I as near as dammit came to filing an Art. 138 against my (geographically removed) squadron commander. I actually did have quite good grounds for doing it and witnesses who would speak for me. Fortunately, the legal officer who was advising me had a better grasp of exactly how nuclear such a charge would be, and he pointed out how a through investigation of the circumstances of my complaint would rebound against officers and NCOs at the base where I was stationed, who had gone well over the line to assist me in ameliorating the situation. So I decided not to go ahead with it, after all. I still would have liked to see that commander's head on a platter, though - but as I got older, I figured that I would settle his hash in another way. Maybe, I'll put him into one of my books, as a craven hypocrite and villain.
The sun never sets on the wrath of Sgt. Mom...
#6
First thing, an LTC from the 82nd is not somebody to mess with, and I would take their word for it a lot faster than I would trust a Don, who is backed by a modestly anti-US socialist government.
The Dons are also likely to be very lightly provisioned, so are not thrilled with the idea of sharing much of anything.
That being said, if the LTC has a problem, he also has a chain of command. So only if he is repeatedly frustrated from them would he ever go out of house, and then, only very, very discreetly. Certainly not leaving a paper trail.
Add to that some of his problems he could solve himself. Even very tired soldiers have an acute sense of self preservation, and sandbags are readily available just about anywhere.
While you're at it, rig up some wire boxes to put the dirt through while filling the sand bags, and you'll have a substantial amount of gravel in no time.
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The 82d cares for its own. If an officer feels troops are being poorly treated he is obligated to report it, no matter the fallout. If the detached troops fall under a seperate command as this looks to be, then he must report it up the 82d chain. Otherwise, the 82d would run him out of Bragg. Now I'm not sure how this email got out, so I won't comment, but if there is a lick of truth here we need to pull them from that base or replace the Spanish leadership. I really could care less how the Spanish treat their own, we have standards, even in combat and if the Spanish leadership can not power through the bureaucracy then they need to step aside and let a trooper, probably a PFC, take control and get it done!
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A powerful blast has left a Pakistani construction worker killed and six of his compatriots wounded in Afghanistan's southern city of Kandahar.
The bomb hit a vehicle carrying CITA group, a Pakistani construction firm, on a road close to Pakistan's consulate in a district in the eastern part of the city early Sunday, a Press TV correspondent reported.
Last week, five other employees of the same firm were killed by militants in Kandahar.
The news comes a few hours after seven coordinated explosions, four bomber attacks and three improvised bomb blasts, in Kandahar left 35 people killed and 100 others injured in the largest city of the southern Taliban heartland.
The governor of Kandahar province, Tooryalai Wesa, told reporters at a press conference that seven Afghan policemen were killed and eight others injured in the attacks.
Ahmed Wali Karzai, Afghan President Hamid Karzai's half-brother and a member of the Kandahar provincial council, said the prison was the main target of the Saturday blast, but no prisoners escaped.
Taliban's spokesman, known as Yousof Ahmadi, said in a phone call the attacks were a response to the commanders of foreign forces who said Kandahar would be the next target in US-led operations.
"We are absolutely going to secure Kandahar," McChrystal, the head of US and international forces in Afghanistan said earlier. The US commander noted "we are already doing a lot of operations in Kandahar but it is our intent under (Afghan) President (Hamid) Karzai's direction to make an even greater effort there."
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PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM/OTHER > TALIBAN MEANT KANDAHAR BOMBINGS AS A WARNING TO NATO, + TALIBAN: WE ARE READY FOR ANY NEW OFFENSIVE.
* TOPIX > TALIBAN, LeT EYEING INDIA FOR TERROR STRIKES.
* Also, NEWS KERALA > LeT, INDIAN MUJAHIDEEN MAY ATTACK KOCHI.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Two French aid workers were freed in Darfur on Sunday after being held hostage for nearly four months, France's government said.
Ransom, temporary conversion, or both?
The two were working for a French charity, Triangle Generation Humanitaire, when they were kidnapped in November 2009 in the Central African Republic, across the border from Sudan's war-torn Darfur region.
Two French aid workers were freed in Darfur on Sunday after being held hostage for nearly four months, France's government said.
The two were working for a French charity, Triangle Generation Humanitaire, when they were kidnapped in November 2009 in the Central African Republic, across the border from Sudan's war-torn Darfur region.
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A senior Yemeni official says his nation's air force launched a second day of strikes against al-Qaida hideouts. Saleh al-Shamsi, deputy governor of the southern province Abyan, said three air strikes were launched Monday. He had no information on the targets but said an earlier strike on Sunday killed two al-Qaida members and injured others.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Rapid Action Battalion yesterday arrested three suspected Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (Huji) members in connection with the bomb blasts that killed five people during a Communist Party of Bangladesh rally in 2001.
Those arrested are Moulana Idris Ali, Moulana Abdul Latif and Sakhawat Hossain alias Dulal.
Inspector Mrinal Kanti of the Criminal Investigation Department confirmed that Idris and Latif are suspects in the case.
He said that Sakhawat will be questioned further to determine whether he is also an accused.
Sakhawat and 11 other accused were previously cleared of involvement in the blasts when the former investigation officer submitted his final report.
However Rab claims that the three men are Huji operatives and that they were accused in the case filed for the blasts went off on January 20, 2001 at Paltan Maidan in Dhaka that also wounded around 50 others.
Sarwar Hossain, Sakhawat's brother-in-law, however claimed that Shakhawat was never involved with Huji. He also said his relative is the general secretary of Dhaka City CNG-Auto-rickshaw and Mishuk Sramik Union as well as publicity secretary of Bhashantek Punarbashan Prokalpa Sangram Parishad (BPPSP).
Sakhawat was also the former secretary of Dhaka city's central committee of Jatiya Party (Manju's) labour front, the Jatiya Sramajibi Party.
Mishuk Sramik Union President FA Khan Firoz, also adviser of Dhaka City CNG-Auto-rickshaw Union, said that a Rab team picked Sakhawat up on February 16 from Bhashantek.
Firoz alleges that a developer of 'Bhashantek Rehabilitation Project' might influence Rab to arrest Shakhawat as he, under the banner of BPPSP, organised slum dwellers protesting their eviction from the project area by the developer.
BPPSP leaders also brought the same allegation against the developer at a press conference in the city on March 3.
The government awarded a work to the developer to construct flats for middle and lower income people after its decision in September 2003.
A team from the Rab intelligence wing captured the three men during a five-hour raid from 12:30 am yesterday at Krishimarket, Town Hall and Dhaka Uddyan in Mohammadpur.
Sources in Huji said that Idris was a member of Huji and Latif was a trainer of explosives of the banned militant organisation.
The two men were previously arrested for their involvement in various deadly attacks.
When they were released on bail they both absconded.
Commander Sohail, legal and media wing director of Rab, told a press conference at its headquarters in Uttara that the three arrestees are number 2, 20 and 22 accused in the case, which has 24 suspects.
Asked about Shakhawat, the Rab director said in primary interrogation Shakhawat admitted that he is a member of Huji.
He also that now only Moulana Monir remains at large.
Law enforcers started a fresh move to arrest all suspects accused of politically-motivated violence following instructions to do so from the home ministry.
Detained Idris is a relative of detained Huji Dhaka City unit president Moulana Abu Taher and Moulana Tajuddin, who supplied grenades that were used in the attack on an Awami League rally on 21 August 2004.
Idris is the brother-in-law of Arif Hasan Sumon, who is also an accused in the CPB blasts case.
Following the bomb attack, CPB President Manjurul Ahsan Khan filed a case with Motijheel police station.
A top Huji leader, Mufti Abdul Hannan, as well as several other members have been arrested for their involvement in the bomb blasts.
Two Indian nationals and Lasker-e-Taiba members have also been arrested and are currently on remand for interrogation.
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North Korea has reportedly increased the deployment of counter-intelligence officials to China in light of the reclusive country's mounting social tensions over its recent currency reform.
Radio Free Asia says the number of North Korean counter-intelligence officials stationed at China's Yanji city in Jilin Province rose from six to more than 10 in February. The men are said to be in charge of exposing contacts leaking inside information outside the border and also collecting data on North Korean human rights groups based in Seoul.
Quoting an unnamed Chinese official, RFA also said the counter-intelligence officials were working to find the names of those who help sources within the North contact people in South Korea.
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WMF > "FORBES" AMERICAN MEDIA: US WILL NO LONGER BE ABLE TO USE WAR [ + Economy/Economics] TO DEFEAT CHINA???
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BHARAT RALSHAK > [Mil, Econ stronger] CHINA HAS NO PLAN FOR OVERSEAS BASES.
versus
WMF > [2010-2030/2050]EUROPE, NOT THE US, IS CHINA'S MAIN ECONOMIC, GEOPOL OPPONENT.
* TOPIX > EUROZONE FACES BIG DANGER OF DECOUPLING. Curr GREECE + related EMF, IMF Crises shows PAN-EUROPEAN CONVERGENCE is still largely incomplete, wid potent fears of individual or groups of EU States following divergent paths.
Looky looks like the Euros are re-learning the OLD ADAGE > ALL POLITICS/ECONOMICS IS LOCAL???
#3
This would be an excellent opportunity to smudge the Norks by using a disinformation program to make it look like they were spying on the Chinese military, with an eye to doing something incredibly stupid.
South Korea recently started constructing a test facility for a sodium-cooled fast reactor capable of reprocessing spent nuclear fuel without generating weapons-grade plutonium, an official at the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute said Sunday. The move seeks to get around a clause in the Korea-U.S. Atomic Energy Agreement that bans Seoul from reprocessing its own nuclear fuel. The agreement expires in 2014.
KAERI said it started constructing the W30 billion (US$1=W1,129) experimental facility last month at a science research and development center in Daedeok, Daejeon, and plans to complete construction in 2014. The facility contains a 1:125 scale reactor enabling researchers to conduct tests under identical pressure or temperature conditions as a real reactor. KAERI plans to use the research data to build a full-scale facility by 2028.
The country's capacity to store spent nuclear fuel is reaching its limit. As of the end of last year, South Korea had over 10,000 tons of spent nuclear fuel, and the amount is increasing some 700 tons every year. "We've been storing spent nuclear fuel at Gori and Wolseong nuclear power plants, but the facilities will be completely full by 2016," a government official said. "We can't build more storage facilities since residents oppose them, so the sodium-cooled fast reactor is the best way to deal with this problem." China, France, Japan, the U.S. and other advanced countries plan to put similar reactors into operation around 2030.
It remains to be seen how the U.S. will react, since Washington is against South Korea's move to develop the technology, citing the impact it may have on efforts to scrap North Korea's nuclear weapons program. A senior South Korean official said the process will be entirely transparent "to gain the understanding and support of the international community."
No big surprise here. The ROK has been dealing with their crazy cousins to the north long enough to understand that nothing other than the brute threat of massive retaliation is going to work. They tried negotiating, bribing and feeding their cousins, but the Norks insist in continuing the threats, the flight tests of missiles and the continued construction of uranium and plutonium processing plants. The ROK also has seen several feckless American administrations in a row fail to come to terms with the problem, and they see the current administration as being even more feckless and unwilling to stand with its allies than usual.
Under those circumstances, the most logical thing to do is man up, arm up and start building a deterrent of one's own. The reprocessing plant is a key step in that. The ROK has smart engineers and plenty of money. They'll build a plutonium bomb inside a year if they judge that to be what they need.
Enjoy, China.
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This article is confusing. I think the SKs plan on fast breeder reactors that use reprocessed plutonium for fuel (and makes a lot more plutonium in the process). I guess they plan to minimize plutonium production by not surrounding the reactor with U-238.
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Another possiblity is to take care of the long-lived radio-isotopes that are the main source of the radioactivity of spent fuel: pure plutonium or uranium is very mildly radioactive, but the byproducts of their fission are highly so.
One of the suppressed facts of nuclear power is that the radioactivity of spent fuel is proportional, not to how long you burn it, but its power level. Its not like gasoline or fossil fuels whose waste is proportional to BOTH power level and length of time. One proposal for taking care of nuclear waste is to reprocess the fuel, concentrate the waste of 10 power plants into a few bundles, then burn those bundles, with a load of fresh fuel, in a regular reactor. You produce power, albeit initially a little inefficiently, and at the end of the fuel cycle, you end up with only the waste from 1: the 10 units from the other reactors were destroyed by the excess neutrons.
This is the suppressed secret of "nuclear incineration", and I think the SORKs may be looking at a double benefit of getting paid for incinerating other people's high level nuclear waste while producing power for their own needs.
#5
Japan has the skill, the fuel, and the industrial capability to start producing plutonium-based thermonuclear warheads in 6 weeks if they choose to. The South Koreans are about a year out from the same capability if they so choose.
Congratulations China on the unintended consequences of NOT leashing your lapdog, North Korea.
#6
Also, remember that the Japanese Space Program has been successfully delivering satellites to stable orbits for years : IRBMs are prebuilt, just need some aiming data.
Fourteen people, including two soldiers and two policemen, were killed and 53 others sustained injuries in a suicide attack targeting a security checkpoint near the Circuit House in Saidu Sharif on Saturday.
The suicide blast was the second in 2010 in Swat, a district regained from the Maulana Fazlullah-led militants in a military operation launched in May 2009. The blast occurred at a time when the militants have stepped up their attacks in the country, particularly in Lahore.
Spokesman for the Army-run Swat Media Centre (SMC) Maj Mushtaq said the bomber came in a tri-wheeler to a checkpost near the Circuit House. The bomber, he added, started walking towards the checkpost. The soldiers and police officials manning the barrier challenged the young boy but he did not stop. "As the soldiers opened fire at him, he detonated his explosives," Maj Mushtaq said.
He said the blast killed 14 people, including two soldiers and as many cops. An Edhi Ambulance driver, Khurshid, who evacuated the injured to the nearby Saidu Sharif Hospital, put the death toll at 16. He said four Edhi ambulances and hospital vehicles shifted the injured to the hospital.
General Officer Commanding in Swat Maj-Gen Ashfaq Nadeem confirmed Maj Mushtaq's statement. "The bomber came in a rickshaw from Saidu Sharif side and disembarked near the checkpost. He blew himself up when fired upon," he said.
The checkpost, where the bomber blew himself up, provides access to important places such as the district courts, district coordination officer's office, district police officer's office and the Circuit House.
The blast, in which 14 kilograms of explosives were used, damaged several cars besides smashing windowpanes of the nearby buildings, including a recently-inaugurated library.
Eyewitnesses said the cars caught fire after the blast and thick smoke enveloped the area. Five cars were destroyed in the incident.
"I was working in my cafe when the bomb went off. I found myself wounded and saw human bodies lying around me," said Muhammad Anwar. He said all of his employees had been injured in the blast.
Another eyewitness, who was going to appear in a court for his case, was also injured. "I heard a bang and then fell unconscious," he said.
Security forces cordoned off the area after the blast and imposed curfew for several hours on the Mingora-Saidu Sharif Road. However, no search operation was carried out till the filing of this report.
Those killed on the spot included two cops identified as Hazratullah and Jehanzeb, student of a private public school Safdar, 16-year-old Qari Yusuf, Wahid Gul, Bakht Jamal and Nadir Shah.
The deceased also included three workers of a local NGO identified as Aimal Khan, Akbar Khan and their driver, Umar Zarin.
Two sub-inspectors -- Sher Muhammad Khan and Beldar Khan -- and three policemen also sustained serious injuries in the blast.
NWFP Chief Minister Ameer Haider Hoti condemned the suicide bombing and announced compensation of Rs 300,000 each for those killed and Rs 100,000 for the injured.
Agencies add: The local Taliban quickly claimed responsibility for the attack.
A spokesman for the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed his organisation was responsible for the attack, saying that more would follow as long as Army operations continued in Pakistan's tribal belt.
"These people are fighting against us to please America. As long as they do not stop the military operation, we will carry out more such attacks," spokesman Azam Tariq told AFP by telephone from an undisclosed location.
Meanwhile, President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani and Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar have strongly condemned the suicide attack in Saidu Sharif.
In their separate statements, they expressed their deep shock and grief over the sad incident in which the security personnel and civilians lost their lives.
They said such acts of cowardice would not deter the resolve of the government to eliminate the menace of terrorism from the country.
They prayed to Almighty Allah to rest the departed souls in eternal peace and grant courage to the bereaved families to bear the loss with equanimity.
The US embassy also condemned the suicide attack.
"We extend our condolences to the families and friends of those who lost their lives, and to the people of Mingora," said a statement of the US embassy.
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In order to kill two U.S. soldiers, the Taliban had to blow up 51 Afghans, including 49 civilians.
Yet when we drop smart bombs and kill about 18 Taliban, and one or two civilians are also killed, we're the evil, wicked, Great Satan.
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Other than "two soldiers" (Pakistanis) are we reading the same article?
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[Dawn] Ahl-i-Sunnat leader Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Nadeem, who was attacked by unidentified gunmen on Thursday, succumbed to his injuries in a local hospital Sunday.
Maulana Ghafoor was on his way along with his two sons to the city courts Thursday morning, when four unknown assailants opened fire on his vehicle in Karachi's Nazimabad area.
Following the attack, Maulana Ghafoor's son, Muawaiya, was killed on the spot while the Ahl-i-Sunnat leader and his other son, Rashid Nadeem, were admitted to hospitals in critical conditions.
Police claimed that at least five suspects were taken into custody for interrogation and a case had been registered against unidentified men.
Maulana Ghafoor has been affiliated with the banned sectarian organisation Sipah-i-Sahaba and was also nominated as Secretary Information for Ahl-i-Sunnat.
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Residents recovered the bullet-riddled bodies of six militants in a tribal area of northwest Pakistan, an official said on Saturday.
The bodies were recovered in the Kurram tribal region near the Afghan border.
"There was infighting among two militants groups. One group killed six of the rival group and fled.... Residents discovered these corpses today," Mumtaz Khan, a local administrative official in the area, told AFP.
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Fighter planes bombed Taliban positions in the northwest on Sunday, killing 18 militants and destroying three hideouts, a government official said.
Militants have gone on the offensive again after a recent lull in violence, challenging government assertions that an assault in the militant stronghold of South Waziristan had dealt a major blow to Pakistan's al Qaeda-backed Taliban.
The airstrikes came after a week of bombings which killed 81 people, including soldiers, policemen and aid workers in the northwest and eastern regions of Pakistan.
Khaista Akbar, a government official, told Reuters the fighter jets carried out the strikes in the Ghund Mela village of Orakzai, an ethnic Pashtun tribal region.
"They carried out intense bombings and precisely targeted militant hideouts," he said.
The bombing killed 18 militants and completely destroyed three hideouts, he said.
The Pakistani Taliban have attacked many targets, including a volleyball match and army headquarters in the town of Rawalpindi, close to the capital, Islamabad.
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A double-blast suicide bomber targeting a military checkpoint and labourers killed eight people on Monday in the former Sunni rebel bastion of Fallujah, Iraqi police and medics said.
Twenty-eight other civilians were wounded in the blasts, which occurred within minutes of each other at around 9:00 am (0600 GMT) in the centre of Fallujah, 50 kilometres (30 miles) west of Baghdad, officials said.
Captain Bashar Mohammed, a police station chief in Fallujah, said the bomber parked his explosives-packed vehicle near a military checkpoint in the centre of the city.
The assailant then walked into a group of labourers and detonated his explosives vest. The car bomb exploded shortly afterwards, again without causing any military casualties.
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"...in the former Sunni rebel bastion of Fallujah."
Sunni's were the sect in power under Saddam, so what field (other than left) does this come from.
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Israel says they captured the last senior official of Hamas' armed wing still at large in the Ramallah area. Maher Udda was arrested at his home in an operation conducted jointly by the Israel Defense Forces, the Shin Bet security service and the Israel Police capping a decade of efforts by security forces to apprehend him.
Udda, 47, from the village of Ein Yabrud, north of Ramallah, joined Hamas in the early 1990s and headed a Hamas cell in his village that was involved primarily in the capture and interrogation of Palestinian civilians suspected of collaboration with Israel.
The group also amassed weapons to be used against Israeli targets. Udda was arrested in 1998 by security forces belonging to the Palestinian Authority but was released after a few months.
During the second intifada, Udda assumed a leadership role in Hamas' armed wing in Ramallah. He has been wanted by Israel since 2000. During the subsequent several years, Udda worked primarily in financing and directing attacks against Israeli targets and was thought at some point to have served as a deputy to the head of the armed wing of Hamas in Ramallah, Ibrahim Hamed.
Hamed was arrested by Israeli forces four years ago and is considered one of the most prominent prisoners that Israel is refusing to free in connection with a deal for the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
The Ramallah Hamas group committed a series of terrorist attacks, in which more than 70 Israelis were killed, during the second intifada. The Shin Bet has accused Udda of direct involvement in planning and directing two major suicide bombings in 2003: an attack on Cafe Hillel in Jerusalem's German Colony, in which seven Israelis were killed, and an attack at a crowded hitchhiking station at the entrance to the Tzrifin army base near Rishon Letzion, where eight soldiers were killed.
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He will be water-boarded, and no one will complain, And no one will hear about it in the first place. He will sing like the proverbial canary.
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PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > CAPTURED TALIBAN #2 "SINGING LIKE A CANARY".
* SAME > CAUCASUS EXPERTS: MEDVEDEV WANTS TO CLEAN UP THE CAUCASUS FROM MUSLIM CHECHENS, i.e. ANNIHILATE/GENOCIDE any and all Muslim Caucasians under the PCorrect Cover Banner of fighting Bandits + Terrorists.
* TOPIX > ISRAELI UN ENVOY: US-ISRAELI ATTACK AGZ IRAN IS NOW IMMINENT.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Israeli authorities ordered the demolition of an under-construction mosque in the northern West Bank village of Burin on Sunday, head of the Palestinian Authority's settlement portfolio said.
Ghassan Daghlas explained that the Israeli Civil Administration ordered a stop on construction work at the Salman Al-Farisi Mosque, demanding the demolition of the three-story mosque's already built structures.
The order was issued under the pretext that the mosque's renovations were done without the proper licensing, Daghlas said.
The PA official believes that given the current circumstances, Israel's decision was a "dangerous procedure."
Tawfiq Jabarin, a Palestinian lawyer, who has taken over the case, said that the Israeli Construction and Structure department in Beit El had issued the demolition order.
The order gave the Palestinians seven days to dismantle the mosque building, Jabarin said.
The mosque -- surrounded by Palestinian homes built since 1967-- was being funded by local residents and is the second-largest mosque in the village.
Burin's mayor, Ali Eid said Israeli authorities claimed the mosque was in area C, thereby falling under Israel's full purview.
Jabarin said Israeli courts dismiss "verbal agreements," adding that a stop-order must be officially issued by the Civil Administration detailing the demolition's suspension.
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Well, if some Jihadi Imams are inside when it is razed, it could be a win-win situation.
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We HAVE the capability to remove about 48 million Moslems from existence in about 24 hours if we want to do it and have the Will.
Its in the Will. When the Threat matches the Will we...will. The whole Nation can go homicidal in a day IF we get another 911.
Its always out there. Even small amounts of force can pull a trigger ...you just have to point and aim..and pull. the. trigger.
Its the Will. We can Choose to kill all of them.
We Do have the capability. They dont have the capability, they do have the Will. Essentially that is the difference between us...Will...not capability.
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I thought that it had an odd point of view.
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Oooh, BUT Egyptians doing the same to Copts who build unauthorized churches is peaaaaachy keen!
The hypocrisy embedded in Islam's treatment of non-muslims, along with their outrage when they receive measure for measure, is proof positive that Islam is NOT the logical descentant and ultimate development of either Judaism or Christianity, who imposed a much higher and more demanding standard for judging and treating others.
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The order was issued under the pretext that the mosque's renovations were done without the proper licensing,
Interesting that Iran PressTV felt the need to mention that the mosque builders were breaking the law, and that the PA believes that enforcing the law is a dangerous procedure. And that the village already has an approved mosque, a bigger one.
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Mods, I have to disagree with you on sink-trapping Black Bart's comment - it didn't seem he was calling for genocide but stating the fact that it could (i.e. we have the means to make it) happen if actions transpired to generate the WILL to do it. More a warning than a threat.
Seven Thai army soldiers were injured in a bombing in jihad-plagued insurgency-affected Pattani late Saturday's night, according to local police and a bomb disposal unit investigating the crime scene on Sunday.
Investigators led by Pol Lt-Col Nukul Taneerat at Khok Pho police station found that a military response team by pickup truck Saturday night rushed to an abandoned rubber factory after being informed that the factory was set ablaze by arsonists. While the military pickup passed the scene, one kilometre far from the factory, unidentified assailants presumed to be terrorists insurgents detonated a homemade bomb placed underground. The bombing caused the driver to lose control of the vehicle and to plunge off the roadside. The investigators believe that the terrorists insurgents lured the soldiers to the scene and intentionally triggered the bombs.
The attack injured seven security personnel and caused major damage to the vehicle. All were sent to hospital Saturday night. Five were treated and released, and are convalescing at home, while two others remain hospitalised in stable condition.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[Dawn] Ahl-i-Sunnat leader Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Nadeem, who was attacked by unidentified gunmen on Thursday, succumbed to his injuries in a local hospital Sunday.
Israel says they captured the last senior official of Hamas' armed wing still at large in the Ramallah area. 
