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I like her. I think she is cute. And trouble, looking at that smile. Cute trouble, with the sun shining out her arse. I can think of MUCH worse things.
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[OneIndia] The agencies in Afghanistan have busted a major Chinese spying racket and have arrested 10 spies.
It has also been found that both China and Pakistain have been working closely to undertake espionage activities in Kabul.
The Afghan National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... recently discovered a dense network of Chinese spies, who were trying to influence the geopolitical dynamics in the region. The NDS had on December 10 cracked down on the network and arrested a Chinese intelligence operative Li Yangyang. He had been operating in the country since July. He was arrested from his Kabul residence and the NDS recovered arms, ammunition and explosives including Ketamine powder.
On the same day, the NDS arrested another Chinese spy Sha Hung from her Shirpur residence in Kabul.
The NDS recovered explosives and highly objectionable material from here residence.
Both were kingpins of the espionage network and they were meeting with members of the Haqqani Network that is backed by the ISI. Officials tell OneIndia that both China and Pakistain are working to disrupt the Afghan peace talks. Both are trying to establish themselves as dominant forces in the region and influence the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... and al-Qaeda once the US security forces withdraw.
The two arrested spies were also in touch with some Taliban leaders and were also tracking the moment of the Uighur activists who had fled to Afghanistan. They were focusing on the patches of Badakhshan and Kumar provinces. It was also found that they were in touch with the Haqqani Network and al-Qaeda commanders.
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Both were kingpins of the espionage network and they were meeting with members of the Haqqani Network that is backed by the ISI.
I can remember when the USG reluctantly declared the Haqqani Network a terrorist organization. A rather difficult thing to figure out from a "in the suck" point of view. About a thousand WTF's per day I'd reckon.
Perhaps we are now gaining visibility with regard to the reluctance.
[IsraelTimes] An explosion at a key natural gas pipeline in Egypt’s restive northern Sinai Peninsula caused a fire but no human casualties, a bigwig said.
North Sinai Governor Mohammed Abdel Fadil Shousha said the earth-shattering kaboom took place late Thursday in el-Arish, the bustling provincial capital. In a statement, he said the earth-shattering kaboom will not affect the pipeline’s supply to el-Arish’s residential areas or an industrial zone in central Sinai.
An investigation was underway to determine the cause of the blast, Shousha said.
However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... other security officials and eyewitnesses said Lions of Islam planted explosives on the pipeline before fleeing the scene. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media, and the eyewitnesses asked not to be named for fear of reprisal.
No group immediately grabbed credit for the blast.
A similar explosion hit a gas pipeline in northern Sinai last month and was claimed by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group affiliate.
IS said Lions of Islam detonated several bombs to damage a pipeline that carries natural gas from Egypt to Israel. The group offered no proof for its claim.
Egypt has for years been battling an insurgency in northern Sinai that’s now led by the IS affiliate. Fighting intensified in 2013, after the military overthrew the country’s elected but divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... Islamist president, Mohammed Morsi.
Authorities heavily restrict access to northern Sinai, making it difficult to verify claims related to the fighting.
IS has carried out a number of large-scale attacks in Egypt in recent years, mainly targeting members of the security forces and Egypt’s Christian minority.
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The pipeline has been attacked numerous times over the last twenty years. Egyptian gas supplies to Jordan and Israel were often interrupted. The fact that Egypt could not be counted on for a continuous and dependable source of power led to the exploration and discovery of gas fields in the Med. Israel is now self sufficient.
Yesterday in Niger, today in Nigeria. But in both cases eleven is the magic number, for some reason.
[AlAhram] Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... jihadists killed at least 11 people, burnt a church and seized a priest on Christmas Eve in Nigeria's restive northeast, local sources said
Security agencies had in recent days warned of an increased risk of attack during the holiday season.
Fighters in trucks and cycle of violences stormed Pemi, a predominantly Christian village in Borno state Thursday, shooting "indiscriminately" and setting buildings on fire, said Abwaku Kabu, a militia leader.
In many parts of Nigeria, communities have resorted to armed vigilantes or militias, who work alongside the army, for self-defence.
"The turbans killed seven people, burnt 10 homes and looted food supplies that were meant to be distributed to residents to celebrate Christmas," Kabu said.
"Four more dead bodies have been found in the nearby bushes by search and rescue volunteers," local community leader Ayuba Alamson said Friday. "This has moved the corpse count to 11."
The number of dead could rise as villagers fled to the bush and some people are still unaccounted for.
The assailants, who drove from the group's nearby Sambisa forest enclave, looted medical supplies from a hospital before setting it ablaze, the militia leader said, adding they also burnt a church and kidnapped a priest.
The village is located only 20 kilometres (12 miles) from Chibok, where Boko Haram kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls six years ago.
In a separate raid on Thursday, button men attacked another Christian community in Garkida in the neighbouring Adamawa state, looting drug stores and food supplies before torching homes, residents told AFP.
The local Moslems want their share of Christmas fun...
There were no reports of casualties.
Nigeria's security agency had earlier this week asked Nigerians "to be extra vigilant and report strange movements."
President Muhammadu Buhari in a statement Thursday "reiterated the promise of his administration to remain unyielding in confronting the Boko Haram insurgency as well as other forms of criminality."
The 78-year-old urged citizens to volunteer "intelligence/information on activities of armed bandidos, holy warriors and other criminal elements within their communities in order to put an end to this blight."
The decade-long conflict in Nigeria's northeast has killed 36,000 people and displaced around two million from their homes, according to the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... Violence has spread to neighbouring Niger, Chad and Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... , prompting regional countries to form a military coalition to fight the jihadist groups.
Yemeni activists and several rights groups are holding Shaker al-Shabibi, a #Houthi supervisor and security director of the al-Odain district in Ibb province, responsible for the death of a young mother who was brutally beaten to death.https://t.co/4wSvS713za
Yesterday’s report can be seen here. Scroll down through the comments to see how information developed over the course of the day.
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Update: Police arrest between three and five people in connection with the #Nashville car bombing, according to an Al Arabiya correspondent. Police say the FBI is currently taking the lead in the investigation.https://t.co/ZAHREyH1DTpic.twitter.com/pwuEHjutxv
Nashville RV Kaboom Link could reveal same or similar model type and year of manufacture. (Camper shell window configuration is different from media/police foto)
An interesting Twitter thread from a gentleman who describes himself as Lawyer. Former federal prosecutor. Legal analyst. Partner @BurrForman. asking what was the real goal of a terror attack in front of the AT&T building that carefully harmed as few people as possible:
The Nashville Christmas Bombing is incredibly unusual for a few reasons. The facts we think we know so far — and things may change as new information emerges — paint a picture that is different than any other attack on U.S. soil.
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Mr Little's theory pointing to a state sponsored attack on US infrastructure is clever but omits some logic. If you want to take down infrastructure without killing people while maximizing publicity, then a car bomb is about as crude and wasteful and ineffective a method as any.
For starters, no one's paying attention. American Big Media and Big Tech show zero interest because there's no racial angle. AT&T as ogre (or victim) doesn't fit anyone's narrative (except maybe Sprint/T-Mobile's but I don't think Legere is partial to RVs).
The bigger reason is that, if tit-for-tat & sending a signal is the goal, then more cyber attacks are far more effective than the kind of crude and weird gesture we just saw.
This most definitely has zero to do with sophisticated Russian or Chinese actors. It's almost certainly a home-grown weirdo. Unabomber stuff.
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Feels more like an OK City bombing, only this time avoiding casualties to avoid the massive bad publicity blowback..... of course, that's what I'm supposed to think..
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well if nothing else, it shows that AT&T has a massive problem with a single point of failure in a large part of their network.
We have been down since yesterday morning, network & cellular, meaning no internet, no cellular phone calls, etc. and we are 50 miles SE of Nashville.
That's something I would expect if Nashville itself was turned into a smoking crater. Not a relatively contained explosion in front of a switching office. I would expect AT&T to have redundant backups.
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Stepson lives near Nashville. He is freaked out, no cellphone, no regular messages. He does have some internet and can get but not send Imessages.
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Re: #6. The entire point of the ARPANet project was a network resilient enough to survive a nuclear war. But once the bean counters and grasping contractors get involved...
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I'll go with disgruntled employee. Final answer.
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What destroyed AT&T building? Is that from another incident? In this case the outages didn't start until hours later; my understanding is the bomb did cause a power cut, but the generators started and everything was fine until there was worry about a gas leak and the natural gas was shut off hours later.
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Definitely looking like a thermobaric fuel air type explosive. Just watched two videos of the incident from different angles and approximately 2 seconds prior to the blast a gas is ejected from the top of the RV perhaps through a vent. The gas pushes quickly up at least two stories before ignition. From a distance the gas appeared brown in color.
Excerpt: Cerberus owns, or had a major interest in, a string of now-bankrupt companies that had contracts with U.S. defense and intelligence agencies that were found to have a common pattern of large-scale fraud, security problems, and financial scandals involving GOP lawmakers and lobbyists.
Will we soon learn that a significant loss of critical election data has occurred in Dominion voting backup systems ?
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#6 well if nothing else, it shows that AT&T has a massive problem with a single point of failure in a large part of their network.
Today, Verizon is also having outages about like AT&T. Is it possible that Verizon was routed through the Nashville AT&T center? Just asking. 911 and EMS was knocked out in Nashville. Definitely a single-point failure with widespread effects. No one has yet come forward to claim responsibility.
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#17 - JQC - just noticed that on my Verizon phone. Restarted and it has bars now
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If the bomber was not found dead at the scene then we need to concern ourselves with what comes next. What critical infrastructure (power, comms...) is most vulnerable and needs to be protected.
For situational awareness - negative effects on first responder capabilities (comms, 911 and related systems) has now spread state-wide. For the time being it is not getting better it is getting worse.
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#13 above
The sophistication described for the thermobaric explosion and the needed technical modifications to the vehicle, plus the location, casualty adverse time and choices of a pre-alert and verbal warning all speak of a kind of expertise and meticulous planning that fits a very specific kind of milspec skills. This is homegrown and the Dominion linkage seems telling if accurate. Is this a Lexington and Comcord moment?
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What expertise? It doesn't strike me as particularly sophisticated, especially if it was a suicide bomb. The loudspeaker is odd, but doesn't take much effort these days.
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expertise and meticulous planning that fits a very specific kind of milspec skills.
What we are seeing is that the tactical/operational planning was/is as sophisticated as the device. Intended effects were gained.
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Dry run?
Next such attack to be followed by a series of coordinated, dispersed attacks that exploit inability of LEO and first responders to use the network?
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#21 What expertise? It doesn't strike me as particularly sophisticated, especially if it was a suicide bomb. The loudspeaker is odd, but doesn't take much effort these days.
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Within CONUS - how many other effective thermobaric devices have been successfully deployed? And the bomber will AAR and improve the device used yesterday. And will learn from the post attack assessment on whether their intended effect was fully achieved. I concur with No More BS...a very specific skill set was employed...whether military/agency trained or self taught...also remember many Antifa types deployed to Syria to fight with the the YPG against ISIS...skills and planning were learned there as well.
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I saw the info about the guy but I'm a bit irritated the news is too freaking lazy to drive to his house and look and see if his RV is still there. If so, it probably wasn't him
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The explosion being described by another as thermobaric seemed reasonable based on the blast color, and the apparent damage, which is far more extensive than the Olympic/Jewell bombing, the damage analysis from on-scene video supports the blast size, the cellular/911/internet damage reported seems to suggest it did have an impact on ATT ops, the nature of the casualty avoidance and warnings give a clear suggestion of careful and thoughtful planning, if you reexamine my use of conditional [phrasing regarding Lexington and Concord to see it was merely a thought question, and as for evidence, when you get to trial the evidentiary rules are more apt. You may draw a different conclusion but being dismissive and suggesting the blast was minor seems uninformed.
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Enough of this "voting machine" bullshit. All elections in this country - no exceptions - from now on should be done in-person, photo ID and signature verification required, with private booths and paper ballots handed in, counted by hand and witnessed by representatives of both candidates. Fingerprinting of voters and inking of each voter's finger upon submission of the paper ballot.
And we need a do-over, following the above bulletproof and technology-free practices, of the Nov. 3 elections.
Here is a streetview image of the RV in the rear yard at 115 Bakertown Road, Antioch TN, the address attributed to Anthony Quinn Warner, 63, the person of interest.
RV striping doesn't match.
Could the missing striping have been taped over? Sure, but evidence would be needed.
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The reason I lean towards Suicide Bombing is just a couple of seconds before the RV went up someone fired a rocket up into the sky from the RV then the RV went up per video.
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So her Verizon account has cellular access while all our AT&T related services are dead in the water.
Thank you for sharing that information, Bob Grorong1136. Mr. Wife informs me that we have one company for our cell phones and a different one for internet and television, so we’re already where we need to be for this kind of thing.
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#28 What is the evidence the bomb was thermostatic? Your interpretation of a couple videos?
Sorry, but that's not evidence.
I think a lot of people are extrapolating small details to fit their preferred theories. We have next to zero data, but you're making conclusions?
It wasn't a powerful bomb. It didn't destroy or even take offline the AT&T facilities. I'll be a little surprised if any buildings are condemned.
This is more an event on scale with the Olympic Park bomb than 9/11 or Lexington-Concord.
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Tracking on the thermostatic vice thermobaric. Fairly confident on my assessment that the explosive device was thermobaric...and if so yesterdays bomb was a complex two stage device. What folks are calling a firework or rocket going into the sky would be the gas under pressure shooting straight up from the roof of the RV just prior to ignition. And yes videos are evidence.
The explosion did take AT&T offline along with 911 lines, LE comms, phone service and other systems. Not sure how long they were down.
I make no conclusions nor have theories. I only state what I see and what I know the effects of the blast are. I think most are very curious on what happens next since we aren't really sure on the motive of the attack...just the effects...but we do have indicators that the attackers have a plan and this appears to be just phase 1.
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#28
I think a lot of people are extrapolating small details to fit their preferred theories. We have next to zero data, but you're making conclusions?
This is more an event on scale with the Olympic Park bomb than 9/11 or Lexington-Concord.
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FWIW - 9/11 or Lexington Concord...the only theory that I am entertained by is actually akin to the last Christmastime RV related thermobaric explosion that occurred in the Chicago area in 1989...which was yesterday's blast was caused by Clark Griswold's Cousin Eddie dumping his RV toilet in the sewer in downtown Nashville...you have to admit there are some similarities.
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Al Arabiya posts--Update: Police arrest between three and five people in connection.
Thought there would be more detail on this. I asked myself, if this were true why wouldn't our MSM report this. I reflected on this thought for a minute and told myself, "Never mind."
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The simplest explanation: suicide, a female who is a disgruntled fired/former employee.
SUICIDE: this remains to be seen, but if the video evidence shows nobody leaving the vehicle after it was parked, and the remains turn out to be human remains, then it is very likely a suicide.
FEMALE: mostly psychologically congruent with female suicide patterns: female more typical than male to be non-violent, males more violent, think pills vs gun. Males more likely to murder-suicide. However: violent female suicides tend to be planned to avoid others. This fits that pattern. The extended warning message (possibly female voice). the timing: early AM few people out and about plus even fewer due to Christmas. Favors a female suspect in the search.
DISGRUNTLED: revenge at AT&T since the positioning appears to be deliberate: ATT took the biggest part of the blast. Supports ATT being apparently targeted. Damage ATT for revenge. "see what you did to me? See what you made me do!" congruent with both suicide and revenge, but did not wish to take others or harm others (congruent with female).
Terror: scrupulously timing and isolation of the target to prevent casualties, and by doing so reducing the damage done, no targeting of governmental, military, police, or authority facilities. No manifesto, no taking credit. All of these mitigate against terrorism.
Blowing up an AT&T switching center in this particular manner is atypical of any terrorist group - and at its worst would be a military act, possibly a warning shot (literally). So intel must eliminate international or national actors: Iran, China, Russia, NKorea, in that order. Highly unlikely compared to a disgruntled depressed former employee who is getting revenge.
The other most reasonable alternative is simply a paranoid mentally ill person who believes ATT is evil and must be stopped, so in their own mind made a heroic attempt to do so. This can be from the right (ATT helps NSA deep state), the left (anti-corporate), or the just plain looney "they're controlling my mind and giving me cancer with 5g"
The typical extreme right conspiracy idiocy is that it is the deep state covering up Dominion or other stupidity for which there is ZERO evidence that anything at all with Dominion was present or associated with this ATT center.
The typical extreme left conspiracy is that this was a test run for repetition of the attack in key areas of the "cheater" states, as a pretext for President Trump to declare martial law.
Or the right side flip of this: it was a Deep State test run to prep for Deep State Controlled Biden administration to bomb key locations in red states/areas as a pretext to declare martial law in Red state areas.
The conspiracy theories are "thriller" spy-book material, and appeal to conspiracy nuts and Alex Jones, but are far less likely.
Notably, you have to be paranoid and/or schizophrenic with a below average IQ to uncritcally accept the the conspiracy angles as "truth" without considerably more physical evidence, especially in light of the much higher likelihood of the targeted attack due to revenge or psychiatric reasons.
My bet is on the simplest: revenge suicide by a female who was a disgruntled fired/former employee, followed by the psychiatric attack against a perceived evil.
There's the summary. Let's revisit once this thing gets solved.
Female suicide attempts outnumber male suicide attempts, however, actual female suicides are far less common than male suicides.
Female suicides are also less likely to be violent than male suicides.
Suicide by blowing yourself up in a car/truck/van is so uncommon it isn't even tracked.
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and if so yesterdays bomb was a complex two stage device.
No need for 2 stage explsives. Blow up the propane tanks and the propane slow burns until it has enough oxygen. The high pressure propane escapes first through the path of least resistance, the roof vents. Only when there is enough oxygen does an explosion occur. That is why you see a 2 stage detonation.
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the only theory that I am entertained by is actually akin to the last Christmastime RV related thermobaric explosion that occurred in the Chicago area in 1989...which was yesterday's blast was caused by Clark Griswold's Cousin Eddie dumping his RV toilet in the sewer in downtown Nashville...you have to admit there are some similarities.
My first comment on Insty about this was "Anyone seen the Griswolds?"
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The extended warning message (possibly female voice)
From the video I've seen, the voice sounds synthesized.
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Blow up the propane tanks...
Is there any evidence of propane tanks?
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My bet is on the simplest: revenge suicide by a female who was a disgruntled fired/former employee, followed by the psychiatric attack against a perceived evil.
I'm leaning towards borderline personality trying to "send a message". :)
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#61 Blow up the propane tanks...
Is there any evidence of propane tanks?
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No need for 2 stage explsives. Blow up the propane tanks and the propane slow burns until it has enough oxygen. The high pressure propane escapes first through the path of least resistance, the roof vents. Only when there is enough oxygen does an explosion occur. That is why you see a 2 stage detonation.
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[OneIndia] A drone was detected by the troops of the Border Security Force in the Chandu Wadala area of Gurdaspur in Punjab.
When the drone was fired upon it returned to the Pakistain side, officials said. This comes close on the heels of the security forces seizing 11 hand grenades suspected to have been deployed by a drone flying in from Pakistain into Gurdaspur.
The ordinance factory-made drones from Pakistain were used to send in the grenades. The consignment of Arges Type HG-84 series grenades were packed in a plastic box. This is the 8th instance of ammunition being smuggled from across the border.
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No Dron drone comments?
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There were two. The BSF is a paramilitary police force under the home ministry. They shot at the first one, it buzzed off. The other, flown by another operator probably, came in after an hour or so I think. Armed with their old Denels and SSG 69s, these boys have only three months of marksman training and sometimes a single long shooter in a platoon.
These are not military UAVs by the way, just commercial drones repurposed for making drops and picking up stuff.
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We're both paper tigers, Wren. The west has a valuable lesson to learn from our eternal standoff.
Militarily indecisive States only prolong their own suffering.
The only reason China is in no hurry to escalate is because a) we will give them the first real fight in decades. And b) because they are not good on the food output right now and need more trade than bad blood.
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The real intrigue, cloak and crooked dagger is going on in Nepal right now. China has been insistent on expanding their brand of commie hive-mind industrialism across Asia, one poor country at a time. Srilanka cottoned on to this early but Nepal sold out. Efforts are under way to redeem those fools out of what they've gotten themselves into. The efforts look ugly, yes. But to preserve the un-Chinese character of the Himalayas, it is vert necessary.
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They're excited whenever New Delhi is flummoxed. And it doesn't take much in these overdemocratic times to flummox any government.
Their doctrine envisions a vicious civil disturbance accompanied by military action on the borders and they think the Capital can be taken... Yaay hoo Akbar!
Idiots. They don't take into account that loss of civ control will only free us to finally do what needs to be done.
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Thank you for weighing in, Dron66046. I wasn’t sure if it was important, so I posted in hope of clarification from someone who actually knows.
Question: If India and China are paper tigers, does that make Pakistan a paper jackal?
Finally, I’m glad you’re feeling better. Chocolates plus brandy suggests it was not Covid that laid you low. How is the pandemic going over there? I seem to recall y’all crossed the 1 million infections mark, but I saw no reports of bodies piled up in the streets or hospitals overwhelmed.
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Thanks, swksvolFF. Yupp, it's the attitude that is key. The good Book does that for me. Take it from your friendly whiskey priest.☺
Maybe I'm a bit harsh on my own guys, TW. I wish we weren't ruled by the Indian equivalent of the US GOP, pompous ethics ridden fools. Unleashed, we are of course rather formidable, but the civ leaders with their 5 year shelf lives fear the military and the window of clarity that war brings to a people. They serve status quo as if their lives depend on it; keeping the citizen dumb and docile, the exchequer bailing out their half-baked ideas. While a few pogs decide national security policies and some uniformed tent pegs march around on TV twirling a baton every year or so. It's why I keep telling western conservatives to look at India, it is what your liberals want to 'achieve'.
There's a joke we have. The only reason the sunnis and commies of India haven't taken over the country yet is because they're also incompetent. You see, unlike you we experimented with things like Affirmative Action and minority appeasement just a couple of years into our independence and have been paying the price. It makes the machine sluggish, confused and too uncertain of its priorities in a time when quick responses and dynamic adaptation to flexible ethics has become necessary.
Pakistain is a real predator, with tentacles growing even through the US as we discuss this. Strong influences which no amount of defense from either red or blue will be able to hold against. The biggest irony is, it's fed only on the largesse of nations with more money than they know what to do with. We see Pakistain as a construct of historic folly, much like Palestine. With Kashmir properly resolved, we hope to move on to liberating parts of PoK even as we try to free Balochistan. In the near future there may even be a deal with Sikhs militants to wrest control of the Punjab in Pakistan. The best thing to do to it would be internal dissolution, civil strife and then you moving in to dismantle the nuke potential 'lest it fall into newly independent sasquatch hands'.
[OneIndia] Mumbai terror attack criminal mastermind and Jamat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed ...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat. He is periodically placed under house arrest so it looks like the govt is doing something. Once the heat is off they let him go.... was on December 24 sentenced to 15 years in jail by an anti-terrorism court in Pakistain in one more terror financing case. Til a Sindh High Court releases him and refunds his losses
Mumbai terror attack criminal mastermind and Jamat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed was on December 24 sentenced to 15 years in jail by an anti-terrorism court in Pakistain in one more terror financing case.
The court also imposed 200,000 Pak rupees fine on him. Saeed, 70, has already been convicted for 21 years imprisonment in four terror financing cases of late.
Now, Saeed will have to undergo collective imprisonment of over 36 years in five terror financing cases at the Kot Lakhpat Jail Lahore.
His punishment will run concurrently in these cases.
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Dude has a fully loaded apartment for a cell. And as many virgins as he can... cough cough... use. Besides, he's an 'austere' f#cker. It's like saying;
"You are sentenced to a stay at the 4 Seasons indefinitely."
[PERSECUTION.ORG] Last week, security forces in Pakistain reportedly stopped a major terror attack planned to take place on Christmas Day in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire... . In a raid on a house in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s Khyber district, four terrorists, including the leader of a banned murderous Moslem outfit, were arrested.The arrests took place last Thursday, December 17, after a raid on a house in Sipah. Security forces arrested four terrorists, including Zakir Afridi, the commander of Lashkar-e-Islam ...a group of Islamic bandidos infesting Khyber Agency. It was headed by a former bus driver and eventually folded into the TTP... Along with the terrorists, security forces seized three suicide jackets and six improvised bombs.
Pakistain’s Christian community is often targeted by bandidosbandidos murderous Moslems and bully boys. Terrorists view Christians and their places of worship as representations of the West and target them to make political statements.
In September 2013, two jacket wallahs from the Pak Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... attacked All Saints Church in Peshawar. Over 100 Christians were killed when the bombers blew themselves up in the courtyard of the church following a Sunday worship service. In claiming responsibility for the bombing, the Pakistain Taliban stated it targeted All Saints Church as a statement against US dronezaps in Pakistain.
Observers: The #IMIS militias (Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq) are preparing to attack the #Iraqi Intelligence Service to free the commander of the missile battalion that targeted the #US embassy in #Baghdad, who was arrested two days ago.#BaghdadPostpic.twitter.com/QdIJic3MQ5
#Iraq's Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi inspects the security forces at Baghdad's streets after receiving threats from the Iran-backed Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq terrorist militia#BaghdadPostpic.twitter.com/BRPsU3HGol
[Jpost] The IDF struck targets belonging to Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,gunnies in the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip late Friday night in response to rockets fired from Gaza into Israeli territory earlier in the night.
During the IDF operation, a rocket weapon production site was targeted in addition to underground infrastructure and a Hamas military post. Earlier Friday night sirens sounded in the Gaza border communities of Ashkelon, Mavki'im, Karmiya, Zikim and Nativ Ha'asara.
The IDF confirmed soon after that its Iron Dome missile defense system intercepted two missiles above the city of Ashkelon.
Magen David Adom reported that no one was injured, except for one woman was taken to Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon to be treated for anxiety following the sirens.
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Hamas: Such attacks only strengthen the resolve of the Palestinian people. Two Palestinians were reportedly lightly injured as a result of the attack. According to Ynet, a source in Gaza said that shrapnel caused by the bombing hit a hospital for children and a center for disabled persons situated in Gaza.
"Attacks by the IDF won't break the will of the Palestinian people, but strengthen their resolve to insist on their rights," a Hamas statement released after the attacks read.
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Why not a retaliatory attack on the financiers of Hamas? Say on a Qatar oil depot?
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shrapnel caused by the bombing hit a hospital for children and a center for disabled persons situated in Gaza.
Golly — shrapnel. And of course, given it’s Gaza, one has to wonder what dreadful things are stored among and in tunnels below the children and the disabled.
Side by side before and after photos can be seen at the link
[IsraelTimes] Private intelligence firm releases photographs of aftermath of Friday pre-dawn attacks attributed to Israel against missile production complex near Masyaf. Continued on Page 49
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