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Perhaps I've stumbled onto the secret corners of the Burg. I'm expecting a visit from the Men in Black Salmon at any moment.
Don't be silly, ed. Now, go answer the knock on your door
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ed??? If you're FORBIDDEN from making comments, how did you make a comment???
Enquiring minds want to know!!!
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I got a note on that last night from somebody else. I haven't been able to make it do it yet, but I've been trying...
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AA5839, we ALWAYS fill the pool. Sometimes with water, other times with beer, and even one time with pingpong balls. Sorry you jumped in the one time we filled it with hungry polar bears...
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I got a note on that last night from somebody else. I haven't been able to make it do it yet, but I've been trying...
Hum, I've been sort of waiting for someone to bring a tech fix thread, but since a few weeks, I've had a recurring problem with maxthon/IE, when I try to click on an individual article, the page half-loads, and then the browser freezes; occasion ally, this happens too after a comment, and, when I restart my browser, I often had to dump the RB thumbnail(s), or it freezes at opening.
Solely happens with RB, and just since a few weeks (maybe one month or so), have been using maxthon (severely outdated issue, but works just fine) for years now, as I believe it's only fair chinese army intelligence guys can get their fair share of pr0n at work through me, with the secret backdoor in this browser.
Not tragic, just annoying, but I thought I'd mention it as the occasion comes.
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I believe it's only fair chinese army intelligence guys can get their fair share of pr0n at work through me, with the secret backdoor in this browser.
You are truly a philanthropist, anonymous5089. ;-)
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Hi guys, just a note.
My computer died (After 9 years) and I now have a new one and am fighting my way through learning windoze 7, lotta new shit(Yep correct word) but i'm managing to make it work like I want, maybe another day and I'll get familiar enough to be comfortable, right now it's a pain to do ANYTHING, firt gotta find the command, then link it to the desktop (So I don't have to search again).
Cheers all, later.
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I didn't realize computers were permitted to last nine years, Redneck Jim. Congratulations on your new acquisition!
Afghan officials say a suicide bomber targeting an Afghan security forces convoy in the south of the country has killed 10 civilians and wounded another 13.
The deputy police chief of Uruzgan province, Gulad Khan, says the suicide bomber was on foot and blew himself up in a busy market, before reaching the convoy. Another tragic case of premature detonation. Some manual practice beforehand can dull the hair trigger come the big day.
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Just couldn't resist fiddling with his thing.
Probably twirled his M1911 in front of a mirror, also.
(Xinhua) -- Two civilians were injured by German troops in Kunduz province north of Afghanistan Wednesday.
"The troops mistakenly opened fire in Ludin area of Kunduz province this afternoon injuring two persons. One is 15 years old and the other is 25," a spokesman with German troops said.
The incident took place in an area where militants often attack the troops, he said.
Meantime, Hamayon Khamosh the director of hospital in Kunduz city the capital of Kunduz province confirmed the report and said two men injured by German soldiers' firing have been taken to hospital are in stable condition.
More than 4,000 German troops have been serving in Afghanistan under the command of the NATO-led peacekeeping forces to help stabilize peace in the post-Taliban country.
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These were the two running down the hill, firing AK's from the hip and wearing ammo belts?
Local security forces backed by NATO troops killed more than three dozen Taliban in a series of military operations across Afghanistan, Afghan authorities said on Wednesday. The raids were announced on the eve of President Hamid Karzai's inauguration for a second term as president. Karzai is under pressure from the West to curb corruption and restore legitimacy after a presidential election marred by fraud as the US considers sending thousands more troops to quell a Taliban-led insurgency. Twenty-three Taliban-linked militants were killed in an operation by Afghan and Western troops in the Paktika province late on Tuesday, Hamidullah Zhwak, a provincial spokesman, said in a statement.
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At least 47 people have been killed and about 16 others have been injured in southern Sudan as an ethnic group responds to the rival's attacks on its livestock.
The mortalities occurred during almost three days of brutal exchange of fire between the Lakes State's Mundari and Dinka Aliap ethnicities.
Launching an unsuccessful hunt for cattle on Monday, Mundari gunman raided villages resided by Dinka Aliap people, southern army spokesman Kuol Deim Kuol told Reuters on Wednesday.
"On the side of the Dinka 10 were killed and 16 [were] wounded. From the side of the Mundari 37 bodies were found on the ground," he added. "They (the Mundari) did not manage to take any cattle."
"These people are neighbors who have a tradition of cattle raiding," Kuol claimed in remarks to the AFP news agency.
The tribal violence has killed almost 2,000 people this year, threatening the realization of the 2005 north-south peace deal.
Southern politicians accuse the central government of stoking the tensions to prevent a peace process ahead of the upcoming 2010 general elections and the 2011 referendum for southerners on independence.
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The captain of a Virgin-Islands owned chemical tanker hijacked this week has died from gunshot wounds sustained when the ship was attacked, a Somali pirate said on Wednesday.
There was a pause in hijackings during monsoon rains, but Somali sea gangs have stepped up attacks in the past two months, especially off the Seychelles as the pirates extend their range to evade navies patrolling off the Horn of Africa.
"The captain of the chemical tanker died last night from gunshot wounds he got during the hijack," a pirate who gave his name as Mohamed told Reuters. "The ship is headed for Haradheere with the dead captain."
The European Union naval force EU Navfor force operating in the area said on Tuesday that pirates had seized the 22,294 DWT tanker MV Theresa VIII 180 nautical miles northwest of the Seychelles with 28 North Korean crew on board. The ship that is operated from Singapore had been sailing to the Kenyan port of Mombasa but had changed course after being seized near the Indian Ocean archipelago.
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Just as well, he would have been a dead man on arriving back in North Korea anyway.
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am i the only one not surprised at the hijacker's name?
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According to the CIA handbook, North Korea has a 1 ship registered in the (British) Virgin Islands. They also have confidential off-shore banking and tax breaks for registering ships there. Crews can be from anywhere and the ships can operate most anywhere, concealed by the flag that is flying. It makes murky maritime issues of jurisdiction.
Somali pirates say they have been paid millions of dollars to release the crew of a Spanish fishing boat taken hostage six weeks ago.
The gang said the 36 sailors from the Alakrana would be released shortly when the cash, reported to be between Ā£1.8m-Ā£2.4m, had been counted. There was no indication who paid the ransom and the Spanish government refused to comment.
The ship's captain, Ricardo Blach, told Spanish public radio RNE the crew were "all in good health". Among them are 16 Spaniards, eight Indonesians, as well as others from Ghana, the Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Senegal and the Seychelles.
The pirates had threatened to kill the crew unless the Spanish government released two pirates captured by the Spanish Navy a day after the Alakrana was seized.
The news came as another group of pirates took 28 North Korean sailors hostage - and a separate attack was repelled by a Ukrainian cargo ship. The MV Theresa VIII, a Singaporean-operated chemical tanker manned by North Koreans, was taken on Monday. A security team onboard the Ukranian-owned MV Lady Juliet repelled a pirate attack by firing rocket propelled grenades and Kalashnikovs.
And Somali pirates are still holding the British couple Paul and Rachel Chandler after raiding their 38ft boat off the Seychelles last month.
The area is patrolled by the EU's naval force Navfor.
Working well, huh ...
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ION PAYVAND > IRANIAN COMMANDOS SENT TO ARREST SOMALI PIRATES.
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Societies that become TOO "civilized" die. It takes a barbarian streak to fight back against barbarians. If I were president, there wouldn't be a port left in Somalia - nor any towns, villages, or mosques, roads or bridges, and da$$$$ few "Somalis". Unfortunately, the "West" won't do that, so the Somalis continue to hijack ships and demand huge ransoms.
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Where's the Halliburton Tsunami Division when you need them?
Saudi forces foiled on Tuesday attempts by an armed group to cross the border with the intention of targeting refugees and civilians, a military source said Tuesday evening.
According to the source, an undisclosed number of armed infiltrators captured in Ahad Al-Masareha, Al-Ain Al-Hara and Al-Daghareer, told interrogators that they had hidden arms at abandoned border villages and farmhouses months prior to the first attack on a border post on Nov. 4.
The government ordered the evacuation of villages along the border to continue as fears mounted that infiltrators planned to target civilians.
Assistant Minister of Defense and Aviation for Security Affairs Prince Khalid Bin Sultan, currently on a visit to Washington, described the evacuated areas as a "killing zone". "We have fought to save civilian lives and remove them to more secure areas so we can deal with the attackers," Prince Khalid said.
Saudi ground troops have over the past few days combed abandoned farmhouses in search of arms hidden by infiltrators believed to be destined for use in nighttime attacks after they slip back across the border.
House by house searches revealed one infiltrator had been given lodging at the home of a Saudi national who believed his guest to be a Yemeni refugee in need of shelter.
The Saudi said that the man told him he had fled from torture by the infiltrators.
A military source described the infiltrators as "leaderless" and "scattered" along deserted border valleys and mountains, a "sign of their defeat".
"Some have died of hunger and thirst since their supply lines were cut off," the source said.
The Saudi Air Force has continued to target abandoned sites believed to be serving as infiltrator hide-outs east of Mt. Dokhan and Mt. Doud, destroying a turret position reportedly used by infiltrators to give orders for attacks inside Saudi territory.
The mountains of Razeh and Shaha where infiltrators have taken refuge have also been bombed, according to military sources, and new war machinery has been employed in the fighting for the first time for "greater precision targeting".
The Saudi Navy was also reported on Tuesday as having intercepted two vessels carrying foreign fighters, arms and food.
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(Xinhua) -- Three Houthi rebel leaders have been killed in northern Yemeni regions bordering Saudi Arabia during fierce clashes Wednesday, the army spokesman Askar Ahmed Zaiel said.
"The army killed three top rebel leaders -- Abu Haidar, Abas Aithah and Yusuf Madani -- when they launched sudden small-scale attacks on the state-owned Republican Palace in Saada province at midday," Zaiel told Xinhua by phone.
"During the clashes, a dozens of armed rebels surrendered their weapons and give themselves up to the government forces," said Zaiel.
The government troops also hit numerous rebels' hideouts in the northern parts of Saada and destroyed their weaponry.
"The army continues progress in Saada areas bordering Saudi Arabia and inflicted heavy losses on the rebels in terms of equipment and casualties," he added.
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Since the beginning of November at least 30 Muslim women have been arrested in the city of Karshi in the Kashkadaria Oblast of Uzbekistan. The Initiative Group of Independent Human Rights Activists of Uzbekistan (IGIHRAU) reports that the reason of detention is not shared even with close relatives.
According to Latofat Orzikulova, the dozen of policemen and National Security officers entered the house of her mother on November 5 and conducted a search. Finding nothing suspicious, they took two DVDs and book, presented by clerical administration of Uzbekistan. Besides, the officers detained the mother on suspicion of "organization of jamoat (communities), attraction of youth and increase the number of jamoat members".
IGIHRAU says that Mehriniso Hamdamova graduated from religious school, named after Khodja Bukhoriy in the city of Kitab in 2006 while in 2007 she took special courses on Islamic studies. Later on she was appointed to Kuk Gumbaz Karshi mosque to work with women and youth thanks to the recommendations from the Chairman of Islamic administration of Uzbekistan, mufti Usmokhan Alimov and Ms. Karomova, responsible worker for the work with women in the Kashkadaria Oblast. Moreover, Mehriniso Hamdamova solved the problems in mahallah (local communities). Ms. Hamdamova is characterized as responsible worker and it is unclear what the local authorities suspected in her activity.
The human rights activists note that the houses of Hamdamova's parents and relatives also went through unsanctioned search. On November 5 sister Zulhumor, nieces Nigora Nosirova, Nodira Burieva, Rahima Burieva, daughter-in-law Hikoyat Imomova, Bahtishod Huzhaeva and Yulduz Tuhtaeva and others were arrested. Thus, at least 30 women were placed to detention center in Karshi. They are exposed to physiological torture and threats. National security officers want them to write statements against Mehriniso Hamdamova.
Close relatives of detained women already wrote appropriate letters to Uzbek President Islam Karimov, Prosecutor General, Head of National Security Committee, Chairman of Clerical Administration, Head of Women's committee and subordinate structures in the Kashkadaria Oblast. No response has followed yet.
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No one expects the Uzbekistan Inquisition ..HA HA HA...
A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a courthouse in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, killing 19 people in the latest attack in an onslaught by Islamist militants retaliating against an army offensive near the Afghan border.
The bombing was the seventh militant strike in less than two weeks in and around Peshawar, the largest city in the northwest. The attacks have killed more than 80 people.
The bomber, who arrived in a taxi, was being searched by police officers at the gate of the city's lower court when he detonated explosives on his body, government official Sahibzada Anees said.
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The Federal Investigation Authority (FIA) on Wednesday detained two men at the Quetta International Airport, one of them a suspected Al Qaeda operative, as they were boarding a Jeddah-bound flight that was carrying pilgrims for haj. FIA authorities said they detained the two men, Bashir Ahmed and Burhanuddin, whose names were on the Exit Control List (ECL). Bashir was wanted by Mustang police for attempted murder, while Burhanuddin is a suspected Al Qaeda member.
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(PTI) Three persons were killed and two injured in a bomb blast at a village in Naxal-hit Rajnandgaon district of Chhattisgarh tonight.
A group of five villagers were going to a paddy field when they found a container on the way. As they tried to open it, the explosion took place, leaving three of them dead, Rajnandgaon range DIG A D Gautam told PTI over phone.
Gautam did not rule out the possibility of Maoists behind the blast.
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The Taliban have "voluntarily withdrawn" into the mountains under a strategy that will trap the army in the area, a Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan spokesman said on Wednesday. "We have not been defeated. We have voluntarily withdrawn into the mountains under a strategy that will trap the Pakistan Army in the area," Taliban spokesman Azam Tariq told journalists taken blindfold to a mountain top, AFP reported. He said the fight against the United States would be a permanent feature of the banned organisation, and the military would not be allowed to accomplish its goals in Waziristan. The TTP also pleaded with the Mehsud tribes not to side with the army. He said the Mehsuds should "stay away from the enemy's propaganda which says they should raise militias against" the Taliban.
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A cunning plan Baldrick Azam!
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OTOH TOPIX > FRED THOMPSON: THE AFGHANISTAN WAR HAS BEEN LOST [by Prez Bammer + Admin]???
* SAME > NATO SECRETARY GENERAL: NATO MUST NOT WALK AWAY FROM AFGHANISTAN, lest REGION + CENTRAL ASIA be lost to Radical Islam.
A suspected U.S. drone aircraft fired two missiles into a northwestern Pakistani militant stronghold on Wednesday killing four people, Pakistani security officials said.
The United States has carried out more than 40 attacks with its pilotless, missile-firing aircraft in northwest Pakistan this year as it forces in neighbouring Afghanistan have faced an intensifying Taliban insurgency.
The late night attack was in the North Waziristan region on the Afghan border, 20 km (12 miles) west of the town of Miranshah, the intelligence agency and paramilitary force officials said.
The identities of the four people killed and six people wounded was not known, said the officials, who declined to be identified. North Waziristan is a stronghold of Taliban militants and their al Qaeda allies.
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heh.. I suspect that labeling the deceased as 'people' is somewhat generous.
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I read that as "drone kills 4 Pakistan-officials". A nice dream while it lasted.
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I just love drones.
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Fighter jets bombed various parts of Hangu and Orakzai Agency on Wednesday killing 24 people and injuring 20 others.
Fighter jets pounded terrorists' hideouts in Ghalju, Mushti Mela, Sheikhan areas in Orakzai, killing 16 Taliban and wounding 16 others while nine Taliban hideouts were also destroyed in the airstrike. Fighter jets also bombed Shahu Khel area in Hangu district killing eight people, including three women and two children of the same family.
Residents of the area placed the bodies outside the office of the Hangu bazaar district coordination officer to protest the killings.
They also blocked the Hangu-Kohat road.
Bajaur: Meanwhile, four Taliban were killed and two injured in airstrikes on Taliban hideouts in Bajaur Agency, officials said. Political administration officials told Daily Times that fighter jets bombed Taliban hideouts in Angah and adjacent areas in Mamoond and Charmang tehsils of Bajaur, killing the four men.
Surrender: Also on Wednesday, 23 Taliban surrendered to security forces in Salarzai tehsil. Khar Assistant Political Agent Iqbal Khattak said tribal people had rendered great sacrifices for the country and would continue to do so in the fight against militancy and terrorism. He said the government was working on a comprehensive policy to improve the socio-economic condition of the tribesmen, APP reported.
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At least six terrorists were killed and eight soldiers injured in Operation Rah-e-Nijat in South Waziristan, according to an ISPR statement on Wednesday. Terrorists fired on security forces at the Kidney Ridge near Kund Mela, and injured five soldiers. The forces killed six terrorists. On the Jandola-Sararogha axis, the forces established a link-up short of Janata and Point 1694, and carried out clearing operations in Adire Mela and Khazhankai villages. An IED blast injured three soldiers, including an officer, patrolling the Jandola-Chagmalai-Siplatoi route.
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Israeli aircraft struck a weapons-manufacturing facility and two smuggling tunnels in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday, in response to recent rocket attacks on Israel, the military said.
Palestinian security officials reported no injuries.
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"Palestinian security officials reported no injuries."
In the face of a growing anti-aircraft and ballistic missile threat against Israel, the IAF plans to conduct special seminars to prepare pilots and ground crews for future conflicts, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
...In addition, the IAF has recently started using a virtual reality system for its pilots to practice evading heat-seeking missiles.
Until now, the IAF has trained its pilots to deal with the anti-aircraft threat by activating its own air defense system, including the Hawk missile, and having it lock on to the training fighter jets. This was deemed expensive and ineffective.
In related news, in an effort to increase its intelligence-gathering capabilities, the IAF will in the coming months establish a new squadron of Heron TP Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), called the Eitan, manufactured by Israel Aerospace Industries.
A Gaza charity linked to Hamas is offering $1.4 million to anybody who captures an Israeli soldier.
The Waad group sent an e-mail on Wednesday calling on people living in Israel to try take soldiers hostage.
The organization, which supports Palestinian prisoners held by Israel, is headed by Hamas' Interior Minister Fathi Hamad. He did not return calls seeking comment.
Waad's director, Usama Kahlout, says the offer is in response to an Israeli group's offer to pay Gazans for information on the whereabouts of captured IDF soldier Gilad Schalit, held by Hamas for more than three years.
German mediators are overseeing negotiations between Israel and Hamas to exchange the soldier for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.
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I have an idea. Everyone knows what Letters of Marque were. They were issued by sovereigns to men of war at Sea to take and despoil the commerce of another sovereign...a license to rob and kill and make a profit.
Why cant the Israelis have a sort of Letters of Marque to be carried out by freelancers? Mossad makes a list of SPECIFIC Hamas and Hizbollah individuals they want to have a fatal "accidents" and depending on their importance and place on the List Mossad promises to pay a set amount of Cash under stipulated circumstances. Guaranteed.
A freelancer and his Team can then apply for these Hit Contracts and hit the individuals on their own ...as an investment. If you fail you lost your money and maybe your fanny as well...if you succeed you collect the Cash in Geneva in a Suitcase and pay the team. Happy happy.
Nasrallah...and Goombahs in Muzzy headwraps of all kinds have to beef up their Security Details. That's their problem.
If you are successful you can get added bonuses and co-operation from Mossad on data concerning Intell and movement and placement...favors for PAST work successfully completed.
Like in Combat, Aces got more of the Resources, because they demonstrated they got more kills.
Its to the benefit for Mossad to have deniability...freelancers can be Professionals or private individuals who have a genius for this kind of work. Its very evolutionary, if you live you get paid. If you die you wont be missed. You are either good or you are gone. The cream rises to the top.
And Mossad risks nothing...you only pay if the Hit is successful. And no matter how you call it, Nasrallah has to watch the door and stay away from the windows. (No down to the corner for Ice Cream for him.)
How can you lose.? Offers to "off".. 1.5$million for Nasrallah to have a fatal accident. See if you can get a momentum going on his rectum. There is a lot of "talent" out there.
No success you dont pay. Success...pay up promptly. When Nasrallah is bye bye...you will be able to verify it and the Contract is honored in full. Stainless steel briefcase full of $100 bills... on second thought...maybe you will need a Trunk.
Think of how good you will feel when Nasrallah has his fat smegma dripping off the walls.
Money has a power all its own to motivate the right talent. You dont care HOW...you just pay if it happens. And you keep your mouth shut about the faces that apply for the contract.
It can be worked out.
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Gazans claim they are starving and there is a lack of milk for babies - but there is enough money to pay $1,400,000.00 per IDF soldier kidnapped/killed. Betcha you'll never read about this in the mass media...
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well, at the going rate of 1000 generic Gazan terrorists for one IDF soldier, Israel should offer up a bounty of $1400 per dead Hamas member delivered to a check point.
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Iran's foreign minister on Wednesday said his country would not export its enriched uranium for further processing, effectively rejecting the latest U.N. plan aimed at preventing Tehran from building nuclear weapons.
Instead Manochehr Mottaki said Iran would consider a nuclear swap inside Iran as an alternative plan.
The United Nations last month offered a deal to take 70 percent of Iran's low-enriched uranium to reduce its stockpile of material that could be enriched to a higher level, and possibly be used to make nuclear weapons.
That uranium would be returned about a year later as refined fuel rods, which would solve the impasse over its nuclear program. Fuel rods cannot be readily turned into weapons-grade material.
"We will definitely not send our 3.5-percent enriched uranium out of the country," Foreign Minister Manochehr Mottaki told the semiofficial ISNA news agency. "That means a simultaneous fuel swap could be considered inside Iran."
The counterproposal was an indication of Iran's unwillingness to trust the West with its fuel for the time needed to transform it into the more harmless fuel rods.
Mottaki said that Iranian experts were looking at the modified proposal to determine what amounts of uranium should be exchanged for fuel rods.
Under the U.N. proposal, Iran exports its uranium which is enriched at less than 5 percent - enough to produce fuel to burn in plants. Enriching uranium to much higher levels can produce weapons-grade material.
In exchange, the Iranian uranium would be further enriched in Russia and then be sent to France. Once there, it would be converted into fuel rods, which would be returned to Iran.
Mottaki dismissed a comment by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that it only had the most recent U.N. plan as its choice.
"Diplomacy is not all or nothing. Mrs. Clinton's comments that Iran must accept only this proposal is not diplomatic."
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PAYVAND > OBAMA TELLS IRAN: PROVE PEACEFUL NUCLEAR AIMS OR FACE CONSEQUENCES.
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Local security forces backed by NATO troops killed more than three dozen Taliban in a series of military operations across Afghanistan, Afghan authorities said on Wednesday. The raids were announced on the eve of President Hamid Karzai's inauguration for a second term as president. Karzai is under pressure from the West to curb corruption and restore legitimacy after a presidential election marred by fraud as the US considers sending thousands more troops to quell a Taliban-led insurgency. Twenty-three Taliban-linked militants were killed in an operation by Afghan and Western troops in the Paktika province late on Tuesday, Hamidullah Zhwak, a provincial spokesman, said in a statement.
Somali pirates say they have been paid millions of dollars to release the crew of a Spanish fishing boat taken hostage six weeks ago.
A suspected U.S. drone aircraft fired two missiles into a northwestern Pakistani militant stronghold on Wednesday killing four people, Pakistani security officials said.
Fighter jets bombed various parts of Hangu and Orakzai Agency on Wednesday killing 24 people and injuring 20 others. 
At least six terrorists were killed and eight soldiers injured in Operation Rah-e-Nijat in South Waziristan, according to an ISPR statement on Wednesday. Terrorists fired on security forces at the Kidney Ridge near Kund Mela, and injured five soldiers. The forces killed six terrorists. On the Jandola-Sararogha axis, the forces established a link-up short of Janata and Point 1694, and carried out clearing operations in Adire Mela and Khazhankai villages. An IED blast injured three soldiers, including an officer, patrolling the Jandola-Chagmalai-Siplatoi route.
