Born in 1973, Mangal Bagh is also known as Mangal Bagh Afridi. He is the leader (and according to some reports, founder) of Lashkar-e-Islam, a paramilitary organisation operating in Khyber Agency. Several newspapers have referred to him by title as Haji Amir Mangal Bagh. He is from Bara tehsil, and belongs to the Sipah Afridi tribe. A former bus driver, he is at the forefront of the increasing Talibanisation of the tribal areas of the country's northwest. His forces have mounted increasing attacks on Peshawar and, in broad daylight, abducted residents for high sums of ransom. Recent cases in other major centres around the country indicate that he may be expanding his operations to areas such as Lahore.
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ION WORLD NEWS > [India]MAOISTS TO FAVOR FOURTEEN AUTONOMOUS STATES; + [Bangladesh]STATES TO CREATE SPECIAL FORCE TO FIGHT MAOISTS, as drawn and suppor from eight internal Maoist-dominated Bangla States.
* SAME > [Philippines]"ROGUE" MILF SECESSIONIST REBELS LAUNCH HOLDAY ATTACKS + GOVT. VOWS TO CAPTURE ROGUE MILF BAND [estimated 300-strong].
New scientific evidence and political realities demand rethinking California's plan to impose economy-stifling rules and congressional and Obama administration plans for even more potentially devastating interventions to curb manmade greenhouse gases.
Clearly, the science is not settled, as claimed, and the politics even less so. If the global warming case is solid, scientists who advocate it should be willing to permit extensive review, something they resisted for years.
"Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try and find something wrong with it," Phil Jones, director of the Climate Research Unit at the U.K.'s East Anglia University, complained in 2005 when a fellow scientist inquired.
We may now understand his resistance. Questionable global warming claims increasingly are being challenged, as is their advocates' credibility. Documents leaked in December from Mr. Jones' center suggest data was manipulated, perhaps purposely distorted and definitely withheld from critics to prevent challenges.
A Russian think tank last month said the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change cherry-picked data, dramatically inflating Russian temperature readings. The think tank called for the IPCC's entire temperature database to be reevaluated.
Critics have long challenged computer models using that data to predict increased warming. They can't even replicate historic temperatures, let alone forecast a century into the future. Others insist the globe is entering a prolonged cooling period because of a particularly calm solar cycle.
Meanwhile, Qing-Biln Lu, a physics and astronomy professor at the University of Waterloo in Canada, reported in a peer-reviewed paper that satellite, ground-based and balloon measurements show chlorofluorocarbons and cosmic rays rather than greenhouse gases cause global climate changes. Moreover, CFCs decreased around the year 2000, corresponding almost perfectly to a decline in temperatures since. Lu also noted that CO2 emissions, which global warming zealots claim cause rising temperatures, have increased dramatically during that period.
A University of Bristol, England, study last week concluded that, contrary to IPCC assumptions, the proportion of manmade CO2 retained in the atmosphere hasn't risen the past 150 years or even most recent five decades, directly contradicting the basic assumption of global warming zealots.
Last month's touted 193-nation Copenhagen climate summit failed to reach binding agreements to curb greenhouse gases, and on how much money developed nations should pay developing nations to battle the presumed threat. The rush to impose regulations and wealth-redistribution schemes has more to do with money and control than climate.
In the Senate, economy-damaging cap-and-trade regulations are unlikely to pass in an election year with the nation still reeling from recession. A ballot measure is proposed to suspend California's Global Warming Solution Act, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce demands the U.S. EPA hold hearings on the scientific basis behind for its proposed regulations. The Competitive Enterprise Institute plans to sue to pry loose information from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies after two years of refusals. It's time to reassess the science of global warming and its implications.
I was reading the following at the WSJ and had an interesting thought:
Iranian media on Sunday reported Tehran will conduct a large-scale defensive military exercise next month, coinciding with what government officials now say is a deadline for the West to respond to its counteroffer to a nuclear-fuel deal.
What, all of us? I strongly suspect not. Europe's intellectuals and politicians spoke up for Salman Rushdie following the Iranian death fatwa. Many of the same intellectuals and politicians spoke up against the Danish cartoonists... or said nothing at all.
FREEREPUBLIC > MACEDONIAN FM LIEBERMAN: BALKANS THE BEXT TARGET FOR WORLD WIDE JIHAD.
POSTER > believes no, ,its the USA that will be the JIhad's PRIMARY TARGET OER NEXT THREE YEARS [2010-2013]???
* SAME > FORMER HIGH-RANKING SOVIET SPY [Lt. Gen. ION PACEPA]WARNS OF DEMOCRATS' MARXIST RE-SHAPING OF AMERICA [ believes USA will be SOCIALIST "IN ALL BUT NAME""].
* SAME > [ABC News]THE NEXT SIX BAILOUTS.
FREEP POSTER > adds EIGHT ADDITIONAL PROB UNFUNDED BAILOUTS to ABC's list of six, + then opines that that "We", i.e. USA + AMER PEOPLE, IS "FLAT BROKE, AND THEN SOME".
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
New scientific evidence and political realities demand rethinking California's plan to impose economy-stifling rules and congressional and Obama administration plans for even more potentially devastating interventions to curb manmade greenhouse gases.
