An unconventional Belgian assault rifle is emerging as the favorite of U.S. special operations forces looking for more firepower to turn the tide in Afghanistan.
The Special Operations Forces Combat Assault Rifle - also known as SCAR - is intended redress the shortcomings of the M-4, an updated version of the M-16 which has been in service since the mid-1960s.
The U.S. military's workhorse rifle did well in Iraq, where much of the fighting was in urban settings. But its light rounds have underperformed in Afghanistan, where the Taliban tend to rely on deadly long-range fire.
An Army study found that the M-4s 5.56mm bullets don't retain enough velocity beyond 1,000 feet (300 meters) to kill an adversary. NATO commanders say U.S. firepower cannot always respond adequately to Taliban sharpshooters firing from 2,000 to 2,500 feet (600-800 meters).
The SCAR, manufactured by Belgian gunmaker FN Herstal, fulfills a specific special operations forces requirement for an easily modifiable rifle that to be used for both urban combat and for extended-distance shooting.
This called for a unique modular system accommodating not just the two main Western rifle calibers - the L-model for the light 5.56mm rounds and H-model for the heavier-hitting 7.62mm rounds - but also barrels of lengths in both calibers.
Many of the components can be interchanged between the two models. Both versions also allow soldiers to quickly replace their barrels to deal with a changing tactical situation.
Martin Fackler, a U.S. ballistics expert, said the SCAR-H round enjoys a clear advantage at long distances because the lighter 5.56mm bullets slow down significantly after about 400 meters (yards), sharply reducing their ability to inflict serious damage to the target.
"(In contrast) at 1,000 yards the 7.62 bullet is still traveling at over the speed of sound," Fackler said.
The U.S. Special Operations Command based in Tampa, Florida, first tested the SCAR in Afghanistan in 2009.
Last April, FN was awarded an initial contract for both versions of the SCAR and a separate grenade launcher. On Wednesday, FN announced that its U.S. plant in Colombia, South Carolina, has been authorized to start full-rate production.
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The FN SCAR-H is 7.62x51, standard NATO medium caliber. Same caliber as M14. Same as M240 (another FN weapon) and the M60. The 5.56x45 in the M-4 and M-16 (and M249) is very accurate but has little energy compared to the 7.62x51. You don't want to be hit by either, but the 7.62 has more energy. And weighs more. And is larger. etc etc.
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OK, jingoists, wanna start fussing because the weapon is Belgian instead of US, even though much of it will be manufactured here in SC? (c.f. EADs vs Boeing)
Get the troops the best weapon we can afford to buy and maintain.
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? I read last month, Straegy Page, I think. that SOCOM had cancelled the contract - the reason given was that it was good weapon but not that much better than M16/M4 to justify the cost of replacement
[The Nation (Nairobi)] A Libyan official said convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al Megrahi was "in good condition" for a cancer patient but depressed by reports he should have died by now, an Arab daily reported on Saturday.
Wait til he finds out that we at Rantburg think he should have bought the needle years ago. Maybe he'll be so depressed he'll off himself ...
Megrahi was thought to have had only three months to live when Scotland's incompetent devolved government released him to Libya in exchange for an oil deal on compassionate grounds a year ago, in a move which has incensed victims' families and stirred pro forma US criticism.
Bambi didn't really object, he went through the motions ...
The senior official said Megrahi was "in good condition considering his situation as a cancer patient," the London-based Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper reported.
But Megrahi, who has secluded himself in a Tripoli villa and only emerges to undergo hospital treatment for his prostate cancer, is "experiencing a very hard mental condition," said the unnamed official.
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"His miraculous survival is prrof of his innocence and Allan's love." or
"His miraculous survival is proof of his guilt and Allan's love." But can't be both.
PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > INDIAN JIHADIS IN AL QAEDA'S SOMALIA ARM [Al-Shabaab]?
ARTIC = INDIA is shaking at the prospect of Indians being involved in Regional, International Terror + potens bringing same back to India. AL-SBABAAB VIEWED AS A "HYBRID" OF THE AFGHAN TALIBAN + AL QAEDA - IFF THE LATTER IS DEEMED AS [future]"HEIR APPARENT" TO AQ, THEN Al-SHABAAB IS LIKLEY RISING TO PROMINENCE = HIGH INFLUENCE IN THE TERROR HEIARCHY???
Read, AL-Shabaab to become future #2 to [post-AQ] #1 Taliban, which IMO is the same as saying the Talibs MULLAH OMAR may takeover OSAMA'S ROLE-POSITION???
[Bangla Daily Star] Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has claimed that the previous BNP-Jamaat coalition government had direct links with the August 21 grenade attack on an Awami League rally in 2004.
No matter how powerful the culprits might be, they would be brought to justice, Hasina said at a rally on the Bangabandhu Avenue commemorating the sixth anniversary of the grenade attack.
"Certain activities of the then BNP-Jamaat coalition government point to the fact that they had direct links with the attack and there is no doubt about it," claimed Hasina.
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[Bangla Daily Star] A news report says a former North Korean premier who was apparently sacked for proposing a wage system deemed too similar to US-style capitalism has returned to power after being demoted to being manager of a chemical plant.
Yonhap news agency said Saturday that a North Korean radio report introduced Pak Pong Ju as the first deputy director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party.
Yonhap reported Pak had been chief administrative manager of the Sunchon Vinalon Complex after being fired as premier in April 2007.
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North Korea has agreed in principle to the resumption of six-nation talks on dismantling its nuclear programme, Japanese media reported on Saturday, quoting a senior Chinese diplomat. Kimmy's meds kicked in again? It's the back step on the minuet ...
Wu Dawei, China's special envoy on Korean affairs, said Pyongyang was committed to a step-by-step process towards returning to full disarmament talks, the daily Yomiuri Shimbun said. North Korea was aiming to return to the talks after holding bilateral consultations with the US and an informal preparatory meeting with dialogue partners, Wu was quoted as saying.
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Why are we talking with these people? What are these talks supposed to accomplish? Does anybody honestly think that the Nork's promises are worth the rice paper they are printed on?
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ION TOPIX > VARIOUS > SAY SORRY, SOUTH KOREA TELLS NORTH; + SEOUL DEMANDS CHEONAN APOLOGY FROM NORTH BEFORE NUKE TALKS.
Methinks we all know what KIMMIE'S = NORTH KOREA'S RESPONSE will be on that.
On Aug. 30, Pete Seda, labeled by one witness as "the smiling salesman for radical Islam", will go on trial for money laundering and tax fraud in Eugene, OR. He's charged with making clandestine efforts to funnel cash illegally through his Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation charity to terrorists in Chechnya.
Seda, 52, was indicted on the federal charges more than five years ago while he was hiding out in Syria and other countries with whom we have no extradition treaty. He returned as a fugitive in 2007 to fight the charges.
Seda's been free under federal supervision ever since, recently living in Portland, as prosecutors and defense lawyers fought for years over what jurors could hear.
The accusations against Seda were published in an affidavit written by a IRS Special Agent used to obtain a warrant to search Seda's residence in February 2004. It reads like a somewhat routine money-laundering case.
Nothing's routine about money-laundering when it involves an Islamic charity ...
Accoding to the affidavit, an Egyptian doctor in England wired $150,000 to Seda's foundation's bank account in Ashland in February 2000. In March, Al-Buthi flew from Saudi Arabia to Ashland, where the pair transferred the money into a $21,000 cashier's check and 130 $1,000 traveler's checks that Al-Buthi carried back to Saudi Arabia in violation of financial-reporting laws. Seda failed to report the donation properly on the foundation's 2000 tax return.
Buying that number of travelers checks is in and of itself suspicious, as it is done precisely to circumvent the reporting laws on money transfers.
Seda's defunct charity and Al-Buthi, who remains in Saudi Arabia and is not extraditable for trial, have been designated supporters of terrorism by the government. Seda hasn't.
In an Aug. 10 evidentiary ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Michael Hogan outlined what evidence will enter into the trial and how prosecutors will use it. Hogan hinted that prosecutors likely will assert that the pair intentionally smuggled money to aid Chechen rebels and that the false tax statement was done to hide the money flow and was not an accounting mistake.
Hogan wrote that Seda's defense will attempt to rebuff this theory of nefarious intent by arguing that Seda's motives were peaceful and the financial irregularities not willful.
And that his trip to Syria was to help out fluffy kittens who've been tortured by Zionists.
Hogan also hinted at a possible defense theory that Seda's sympathy for Chechen terrorists rebels was fueled not by Islamism but by Russian brutality against Chechens.
Can't the latter fuel the former?
Jurors will hear that Seda believed he was under surveillance after 9/11 and that he initiated contact with local FBI agents, condemning the attacks and Osama bin Laden during the same time frame his false tax return was allegedly being prepared.
Coincidentally.
Jurors might also hear some evidence that Al-Buthi was under watch through the government's Terrorist Surveillance Program, which was part of a recent federal ruling rendering warrantless wiretaps involving this case illegal.
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"Al-Buthi, who remains in Saudi Arabia and is not extraditable for trial..."
And why isn't Al-Buthi extraditable?
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Activist is what the media is calling this sorts. That sounds awfully benign. The feds ought to be charging him with being a child-molesting pedophile bomb-making terrorist.
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"The feds ought to be charging him with being a child-molesting pedophile bomb-making terrorist."
And what makes you think that would make a difference in what the terrorist-asskissing-media calls him?
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Maybe the statement is a little over the top. I'd settle for an unbiased, non-agenda pushing, non-partisan, truthful media but then maybe that's asking too much. I realize that most articles, when written put forth some bias. I get tired of the MSM pushing things under the carpet, looking the other way, in some instances simply making up a story, and unabashedly pushing a particular candidate. It is the difference between news and propaganda such as Joseph Goebbels advanced.
The military will henceforth become more vigilant with the identification of terrorists and other dangerous individuals who may be working within the military community, as shared in a feature on the Navy Times. Methods through which such people may be identified are included in a 23-page report that was released on Friday by the Defense Department.
This is being done as part of the Pentagon's response to the shootings that occurred at Fort Hood, Texas, last year, which resulted in the death of 13 people; 43 people also suffered injuries due to the incident.
Mental health screening tests, according to the report, will be revised to include factors related to violence, such as "work, home, financial, legal and interpersonal stressors." Improved instructions will also be provided to commanders to assist them in differentiating "appropriate religious practices from those that might indicate a potential for violence or self-radicalization."
This is the first response issued by the military since the completion of an independent review of the Fort Hood incident that was commissioned by Defense Secretary Robert Gates. The review, which was completed in January, provided a series of recommendations.
Since the alleged perpetrator of the Fort Hood shootings, Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, served as a psychiatrist, one of the things that the military would like to do is to launch a new effort towards ensuring the mental health of those who provide mental health care. The report mentioned plans to hire additional health care providers, and close monitoring of their deployment lengths.
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So, now a belief in the narrative of radicalized religious groups is now going to be classified as a mental health issue? Talk about dancing around the problem. Echos of Soviet Psychology. YJCMTSU
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Improved instructions will also be provided to commanders to assist them in differentiating "appropriate religious practices from those that might indicate a potential for violence or self-radicalization."
Advanced degrees in cultural studies not needed. See "Improved Instructions" below:
Amish NA
Baptist Low threat
Catholic Low threat
Methodist Low threat
Jew Low threat
Islam Career ending! Extremely high threat!
A passenger from Mumbai, India seemed very jittery as he stood in line at the airport security checkpoint in Houston. When 40-year-old Vijay Kumar was pulled aside, after raising suspicion with 'behavioral detection officers,' they became even more alarmed.
He had many books, including jihadist books and publications written in Arabic. He had books about espionage and diagrams that seemed to explain how certain US military weapons can be taken apart in the field. One book was called "Spycraft", another "New Voices of Islam" and police noticed the word "infidels" in some of the writings.
Officers also found a pair of brass-knuckles in the luggage he had checked with his airline. Brass-knuckles are prohibited by law in Texas,so he was booked on a felony charge. In addition to the brass knuckles and the jihadist publications, police confiscated more than $10,000 in undeclared cash.
When a TSA officer pulled out a swab and swiped it on Kumar's bags to test for explosives, the alarm sounded on the testing machine. A secondary test came up negative, which would likely mean the first machine wasn't calibrated properly.
Kumar told police he was in Houston attending an "Islamic seminar."
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"Kumar told police he was in Houston attending an 'Islamic seminar.'"
What kind of "Islamic seminar," considering the brass knuckles, jihadist books, and large amount of cash, is pretty obvious. Ask him the location and time of the "seminar."
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"I am traveling to visit White Castle"
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[Bangla Daily Star] There is "no credible evidence" Canadian-born Omar Khadr was tortured or even threatened after he was arrested in Afghanistan in 2002, wrote the military judge presiding his trial at the US Naval Base at Guantanamo, Cuba. Code Pink and the Center for Constitutional Rights will never believe you, judge ...
In a court document The Miami Herald posted online Friday, judge Patrick Parrish said "there is no credible evidence the accused was ever tortured as that term is defined... even using a liberal interpretation considering the accused's age."
Kadhr, the last Westerner held at the US prison facility, was 15 when he was arrested for lobbing a hand grenade that killed a US sergeant during a 2002 attack in Afghanistan.
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Just a bit of the article. Headline rewritten for accuracy. Imam Behind New York Project Starts Mideast Tour
CAIRO -- Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the organizer of the planned Muslim community center in Lower Manhattan, arrived in Bahrain on Thursday to begin a three-country tour of the Persian Gulf sponsored by the United States State Department.
But the United States government refused to divulge details of his schedule of speeches and meetings, which are part of a program to promote interfaith tolerance. Local journalists have been invited to meet with Imam Feisal but were told the State Department wanted to keep the international news media at bay, said the editor of a Bahraini newspaper.
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He's raising money, obviously. An imam oing to the Persian Gulf to "promote interfaith tolerance" is like Bernie Madoff going to Switzerland to promote paying taxes.
This story has passed beyond the appalling stage into the absurd stage. It's as if Obama and Bloomberg are TRYING to hand the November elections to the GOP.
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Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the organizer of the planned Muslim community center in Lower Manhattan, arrived in Bahrain on Thursday to begin a three-country tour of the Persian Gulf sponsored by the United States State Department
Care to explain that Hillary? Yeah, didn't think so.
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I can explain it DMFD. Government mandated and controlled health care has been Hillary's wet dream for ages. Bill couldn't get it done for her. Hussein did. Any thing Hussein wants now from Hildebeast, he gets. Neither the mandated health care program or the Mosque is what the American people want. But these demons don't barter with the people. They barter with each other. It is the dance of the devils.
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"But these demons don't barter with the people. They barter with each other. It is the dance of the devils."
And they can both go to hell, CS.
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They barter with each other. It is the dance of the devils. Posted by Clusogum Squank3815
He has the Hildebeast right where he wants her. He's told her he's moving over and she and Slick can once again take the reigns in 2012. All she has to do is play along and make sure he doesn't change his mind.
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And all the willfully blind people will pretend she wasn't OK with everything the Zero was doing during his term. Including funding this little junket.
QUETTA: Two people were killed and four sustained injures in a clash between two rival groups in Pishin district on Saturday. The riot occurred over the nomination of a prayer leader.
According to official sources, the reported clash was for the vacant post of a prayer leader in Pishin district. The issue took an ugly turn when both the groups opened fire on each other within the premises of the mosque.
The local elders intervened and managed to bring the situation under control taking the injured and deceased to the nearby hospital. The police arrived an hour late.
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[The] Government on Saturday said it has issued a notice to Internet search giant Google for depicting Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir as part of Pakistan. "Any wrongful depiction of Indian map and its boundaries is liable for action under the India Information Technology Act. Google has been asked to
immediately correct this inaccuracy," Minister of State for Telecom and IT Sachin Pilot said. In a lot of places Google Maps is the best resource out there. They are going to step into these kerfluffles every now and then.
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How many years has Pakistan controlled that part of Kashmir? (I could look it up, but it's a lot.) I'd say it's part of Pakistan now until somebody takes it from them. I'd say the Golan Heights are likewise part of Israel. And Arizona is part of the US.
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newc - what 'should be' is not always what 'is', and most of the people who participated in that original Kashmir election have moved on to where they only vote in Chicago. Don't get me wrong - I'd prefer to see it as part of India, but unless India takes it over, it is de facto part of Pakistan.
Do we have a quote policy for VoA? Same as for the AP ...
The United States and the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society have designated Pakistain's Harakat-ul Jihad Islami, or HUJI, as a foreign terrorist organization. Moreover, HUJI leader Mohammad Ilyas Kashmiri was named a "specially designated global terrorist." These actions require all U.N. member states to implement an asset freeze, travel ban, and arms embargo against this group and individual. If I recall correctly we had this story at least a week ago. VOA is just now picking it up?
According to Ambassador Daniel Benjamin, U.S. State Department Coordinator for Counterterrorism, "the linkages between HUJI and al-Qaida are clear, and [these] designations convey the operational relationship between these organizations."
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Palestinian leaders on Friday accepted a U.S. invitation for face-to-face peace talks with Israel but said they would withdraw if it resumed Jewish settlement building on occupied land.
The chief Palestinian negotiator said the Palestinians would pull out of the talks, due to start on Sept. 2, if the Israeli government announced any new settlement building on land where the Palestinians aim to found their state.
Like they aim their rockets - all over Israel.
"If the Israeli government decides to announce new tenders on Sept. 26, then we won't be able to continue with the talks," Saeb Erekat said after a meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organization's (PLO) executive committee in Ramallah.
"And if they don't, well, we'll find another demand reason."
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[Ma'an] Two leftist Paleostinian factions rejected Saturday calls by the Quartet and US to relaunch direct talks with Israel, a day after the PLO endorsed the resumption of negotiations.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine and the Paleostinian Peoples' Party released separate communiques slamming the Quartet's statement, which called for Paleostinian and Israeli leaders to resume talks.
"The Quartet's statement means implicit legalization of settlements, the blockade and temporary Paleostinian state, which contradicts last March's statement which confirmed that settlement was illegal," the PFLP wrote.
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[Ma'an] The Gaza government announced Saturday that security forces will begin confiscating all unlicensed weapons in the Strip in a bid to maintain public security, a spokesman said.
In a statement, Gaza police spokesman Major Ayman Al-Batneeji called for compliance with the law, urging residents to refrain from opening fire at concerts or during family disagreements, which have seen several killed.
"All illegal weapons or those used illegally will be taken without being returned to owners," Major Al-Batneeji said.
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That's a LOT of weapons.
I wonder if they've heard of the tunnels?
[Ma'an] Hamas-leaning splinter group Al-Ahrar issued a statement Saturday calling the decision to return to talks a "subjugation to American decisions."
The group said it would not be "committed to any of the outcomes" of the talks, and called for "Palestinian organizations to announce their rejection of these talks," adding that they believed the process would "bring more settlements and the judization of Palestinain lands."
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A redshirt protester arrested for violating the Thai emergency decree might be the same man wanted for a Narathiwat mosque massacre, according to investigators. Tharit Pengdit, Director General of the Department of Special Investigation said "Judging from the information we have received, he is most likely the very same person. We are looking into the suspect's history."
Tharit was referring to Jakchalat Kongsuwan, a close aide to Army specialist Maj. General Khattiya Sawasdiphol, who oversaw the red shirts' security measures before his death in May.
The latest information suggests that Jakchalat might have previously been known as Suttirak Kongswan and reported himself to the Crime Suppression Bureau in January to face charges related to the fatal attack on al Furqon Mosque last year. Ten people were killed in the attack.
Suttirak, a former Army ranger, was then released on bail. "But two months ago, his guarantor withdrew the bond," Tharit said.
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I can imagine the meeting at Iran Aerospace Industries.
"The Zionists have a long range UAV bomber and the Mullahs say we have to have one too."
"That will take years of R&D and with the sanctions ..."
"How about we take one of the old Nork rockets, bolt a dumb bomb to it and call it a long range bombing drone. Have a glitzy launch and press conference. Paint a few words from the Koran on the side. The Mullahs will be impressed. They don't know shit about technology."
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v=1 or v-2 they're 70 years behind. looks like they could have gotten the plans from a nazi along time ago since they where such bedroom buddies.
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The claim the drone is a sort of "mother ship" that carries 4 cruise missiles and then returns to its base. Sounds like a great way for Israel to attack Iran using the same sort of technology. No pilots to worry about.
Controlling the virtual world is one of the priorities of Irans pro-government Basij force and members are receiving necessary training in that area, according to an official with the militia.
Abbas Mahmudian, an official in charge of media and public relations of Khorasans Imam Reza Basij force, said that through policies and planning the Basij organization has set the conquering of the virtual world as one of its priorities.
Mahmudian said in this regard over 100 members of the Basij went recently through training in Mashad:
In this three-day course, 120 Basij sisters and brothers learned about blogging, social networking sites, psychological operations, online spying security, and acquaintance with Basij cyber centers, mobile phones and their capabilities, and computer games with the aim of targeted entry of the virtual world.
Iranian officials have warned about the dangers of the Internet, which they see as a fertile ground for the enemys soft war against Iran and emphasized the need to bring it under control.
Last January, the cultural deputy of the Basij organization Mohammad Ali Nayini said that the militia is taking action for the hardliners to conquer the virtual world within a year.
Yet despite the government's massive online censorship -- and other measures it has taken including the launching of pro-government blogs and social networking sites -- it hasnt so far been successful in fully controlling the web and preventing activists and other citizens from using it for their own purposes.
The Internet remains an empowering tool for the opposition, which uses websites and social-networking sites to spread news and information.
Earlier this week opposition leader Mehdi Karrubi spoke to his supporters online and answered their questions about a number of issues including the future of the opposition Green Movement, the support of the clergy, and the role of Iranian expats and social networking.
During his online chat, Karrubi said that he is involved in talks for participating in Qods Day demonstrations that are taking place in Iran on the last Friday of the month of Ramadan.
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In this three-day course, 120 Basij sisters and brothers learned about blogging, social networking sites, psychological operations, online spying security, and acquaintance with Basij cyber centers, mobile phones and their capabilities, and computer games with the aim of targeted entry of the virtual world.
The plan was thorough in nature. What could go wrong? The plan was faultless except for one thing. These repressed buggers are suckers for internet P0RN!
The United States sees no "proliferation risk" from Iran's Russian-built first nuclear power plant at Bushehr that was loaded with fuel Saturday, the State Department said.
...with their eyes screwed shut, and wearing a blindfold. This has gone well beyond the point of an ill-conceived faith in the ability of President Obama or Secretary of State Clinton to persuade through intelligent argument and sheer force of personality, arriving with a thump at deliberate evil.
Perhaps it's the same people who wrote the 2007 NIE.
But the reactor, intended for civilian purposes, "underscores that Iran does not need an indigenous enrichment capability if its intentions are purely peaceful," State Department spokesman Darby Holladay told AFP. "We recognize that the Bushehr reactor is designed to provide civilian nuclear power and do not view it as a proliferation risk."
What does the CIA say about this in private? After all, they're the ones who issued that NIA in 2007 that said Iran had given up the pursuit of nuclear weapons.
After more than three decades of delay, engineers on Saturday finally began loading the Russia-supplied atomic fuel in the nuclear power plant in the presence of UN inspectors. Western nations led by Washington suspect that Iran's nuclear program masks a weapons drive, a charge strongly denied by Tehran.
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Rewriting the lead.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned today his nation's response would be "hard and painful" in the event of an attack by Israel. The rest of the article is so good, we won't quote any of it here. Continued on Page 49
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Meanwhile, BATMAN + SPIDEY fans, back in SUDAN...
ISRAEL NN > SUDAN MOVES FORWARD WID "PEACEFUL" NUCLEAR REACTOR.
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