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WoT Operations
Good morning 52 2 06:40  Glenmore
4 Russian Troops, 5 Islamist Rebels Killed in Dagestan 32 0 -  -
Thousands in Cairo's Tahrir to Push for Change 48 3 06:45  Glenmore
Norwegian United Nations worker held in Yemen, released unharmed 27 0 -  -
Thousands of Yemenis celebrate al-Qaeda evacuation 34 0 -  -
Protests rage in South Darfur over new governor 27 0 -  -
Clashes leave eight dead in Somaliland 26 0 -  -
Rockets Hit Pakistan Military Academy 35 0 -  -
Rebel Syrian Army Claims Capture of Iranian Officers 49 1 02:29  g(r)omgoru
Dabi: Syria Violence Increased Significantly in Past 3 Days 26 0 -  -
UN loses count on Syria killings 42 1 02:31  g(r)omgoru
Pentagon Seeks Mightier Bomb vs. Iran 63 3 05:06  gorb
57 Civilians, 12 Troops Dead as Syrians Rally for 'Right to Self-defense' 29 0 -  -
Gunmen kill 15, burn corpses in Nigeria 29 0 -  -
Saleh's kid to quit Republican Guards 45 1 01:46  tu3031
Mayhem in Monterrey 39 0 -  -
WoT Background
Pakistain doctor's help in bin Laden raid confirmed 130  -  -
Navy wants commando ‘mothership’ in Middle East 210  -  -
Minnesota man charged with threatening family over jihad 220  -  -
NYC Police Commissioner: Anti-Muslim film shouldn't have been shown 180  -  -
'US bunker-busters can't destroy some Iran nuke plants' 694  05:10  gorb
General David Richards: Afghan campaign was woeful 300  -  -
DoD Identifies Brigades Slated to Leave Germany 511  00:17  JosephMendiola
Report: Saudi to Recognize Syrian National Council 351  02:34  g(r)omgoru
JUI-F vows to make Pakistan 'Islamic welfare state' 382  03:03  g(r)omgoru
PPP will foil conspiracies against democracy: Zardari 210  -  -
Red caps ask Taliban: Shun violence in national interest 210  -  -
Yemen Minister seeks to shut down private hoosegows 230  -  -
Washington: Saleh still Yemen's President 240  -  -
Russia Won't Back Any Call for Assad to Go as New U.N. Resolution Circulated 220  -  -
'Hands off Iran & Syria': UK activists 491  01:43  tu3031
Probe on to expose instigators 210  -  -
Ishraq admits arrested men are his friends 220  -  -
Musharraf delays Pakistan return 210  -  -
Musharraf will "certainly" be arrested if he returns: Gilani 220  -  -
Non-WoT
RIP Robert Hegyes 180  -  -
Tunisia to sell Ben Ali palaces 391  00:28  Redneck Jim
Fitch downgrades five EU economies 431  02:37  g(r)omgoru
Charles Taylor doubled as a US spy? 491  00:08  JosephMendiola
BNP's 'mass procession' tomorrow 421  00:31  Redneck Jim
Two new polio cases reported in KP 230  -  -
Opinion
Thank God For Humanitarian Bombs? 402  06:21  Barbara
Faltering al-Qaeda turns to Boko Haram 300  -  -
Lawyers' killings 481  00:54  Northern Cousin
Seedy Politicians
Obama denies class war over big tax call 582  00:59  junkiron
Romney leads Gingrich by 9 points in Florida 511  02:29  junkiron
 
Good morning
Posted by: Fred ||2012-01-28 00:00 ||Comments ||Link || E-Mail|| [52 views] Top||

#1: Birthday/Daily Gam Shot

Carole Landis aka Ann Carrington in "Topper Returns (1941)" aka Loana in "One Million B.C. (1940)" aka Vicky Lynn in "I Wake Up Screaming (1941)" aka Barbara Latime in "Moon Over Miami (1941)" aka Kay Sheldon in "Brass Monkey (1948)" aka Linda Medbury in "The Silk Noose (1948)" aka Julia Andrews in "It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog (1946)" (Died in 1948 at age 29)



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Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC|| 2012-01-28 01:29 ||Comments   Top||

#2: Died at 29. Suicide. Or maybe murder, depending on who's saying.
Posted by: Glenmore|| 2012-01-28 06:40 ||Comments   Top||

Africa Horn
Protests rage in South Darfur over new governor
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Protests in Nyala, the capital of South Darfur entered second day on Thursday as 18 coppers were maimed and Nyala university was shut down.

Citizens of Nyala have expressed their refusal to accept the new governor, Mr Hamad Ismail, who was made governor after the former governor was transferred to the new state of East Darfur.

The protesters demanded the old governor, Mr Abdel Hamid Kasha, come back to power. They set the building of the ruling party, the National Congress Party (NCP) in Nyala on fire.

Gunfire was heard in Nyala and the fire caused a thick layer of smoke, an eye witness said.

Additionally, 19 individuals loyal to the National Congress Party were placed in long-term storage as police found firearms in their possession.

The new governor refused to declare a state of emergency in the state. However,
it's easy to be generous with someone else's money...
he announced the closure of Nyala University and all schools in the town.

Nyala, second largest city in Sudan was brought to a standstill by the protests; government offices were shut down as rumours of vandalism spread across the city and the power was cut during the afternoon.
Posted by: Fred ||2012-01-28 00:00 ||Comments ||Link || E-Mail|| [27 views] Top||
 File under: Govt of Sudan 

Clashes leave eight dead in Somaliland
[Iran Press TV] At least eight people have been killed after troops from the self-declared republic of Somaliland launched an attack on local snuffies in the Buhodle district, Press TV reports.

The conflict erupted on Thursday as Somaliland forces launched an attack against bases of militia fighters, who have recently formed the new regional state of Khatumo, on the outskirts of Fool-Joogto village in the Buhodle district.

Fierce skirmishes broke out in the aftermath of the assault and heavy weapons -- including artillery and machine guns -- were used in the fighting. The shootout forced local residents to flee their homes.

A total of eight people were killed and several others maimed during the festivities.

Somaliland, situated in northwestern Somalia, unilaterally declared independence from the rest of Horn Africa country in 1991.

Boilerplate follows...
Somalia has not had a functioning government
since 1991, when warlords overthrew former dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.

The Somali government has struggled for years to restore security but efforts have not yet yielded results in the African nation.
Posted by: Fred ||2012-01-28 00:00 ||Comments ||Link || E-Mail|| [26 views] Top||

Africa North
Thousands in Cairo's Tahrir to Push for Change
[An Nahar] Protesters marched to Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday to join thousands there demanding democratic change, a year after the uprising that toppled veteran president Hosni Mubarak
...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011...
.

After noon prayers, organized marches left Cairo mosques and headed for the square, the symbolic heart of the Egyptian uprising, on a day dubbed "the Friday of Pride and Dignity" by the dozens of pro-democracy groups organizing the rallies.

"Down with military rule!", shouted demonstrators who left the Istiqama mosque in Giza, echoing the growing discontent over the military junta's handling of the transition.

"Legitimacy comes from the square," they chanted, clapping and waving flags.

In Tahrir, thousands had gathered in prayer in the center of the square, among the tents that marked a sit-in launched on Wednesday, the first anniversary of the start of the uprising.

Sheikh Mazhar Shaheen, the imam leading the prayers, said that while the revolt had produced notable achievements, the journey towards democratic rule was far from over.

"People came out on January 25, 2011 to call for freedom, justice, dignity and the end of a regime that spread all forms of corruption," Shahin told the crowd.

"They managed to remove the head of the regime in just 18 days and put some of its symbols behind bars. However,
by candlelight every wench is handsome...
the revolution has not achieved all its goals and that is what brought people out on the streets again on the first anniversary," Shaheen said.
Posted by: Fred ||2012-01-28 00:00 ||Comments ||Link || E-Mail|| [48 views] Top||
 File under: Arab Spring 

#1: What are they protesting---that some Copts are still alive?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru|| 2012-01-28 02:27 ||Comments   Top||

#2: Pretty much, grom. :-(
Posted by: Barbara|| 2012-01-28 06:18 ||Comments   Top||

#3: Nobody will ever admit it, but Mubarak was probably the best case scenario for Egypt.
Posted by: Glenmore|| 2012-01-28 06:45 ||Comments   Top||

Africa Subsaharan
Gunmen kill 15, burn corpses in Nigeria
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Gunmen have killed 15 village traders returning from a market at night and set their bodies ablaze in northern Nigeria's Zamfara state, a local police chief said on Friday.

"Gunmen, suspected to be armed robbers, attacked some local traders on their way back from a market in neighbouring Katsina state late Thursday," Zamfara state police commissioner Tambrai Yabo told AFP.

"The armed robbers waylaid the traders travelling back in an open truck and opened fire on them. They then loaded the truck with 14 bodies and burnt them," said Yabo, adding that a 15th victim had died in hospital.

Villagers said around 100 robbers came out of the bush and forced the truck to stop. The attack ocurred near a village that is close to the town of Birnin Magaji in Zamfara state, which borders Niger.

Armed robberies have been on the rise in Zamfara in recent months.

In October, marauding bandidos combed a village in Lingyado and killed 19 people in response to an attack on a gang of robbers by local vigilantes, residents said.

In December, four coppers and two children from one family were killed by gunnies in Dansadau village.
Posted by: Fred ||2012-01-28 00:00 ||Comments ||Link || E-Mail|| [29 views] Top||
 File under: Boko Haram 

Arabia
Norwegian United Nations worker held in Yemen, released unharmed
[Yemen Post] The UN staff member, who has been held in Yemen since 15 January 2012, arrived today in a UN safe haven in Sana'a after he was released earlier in Ma'rib. He is in good health and is receiving standard medical examinations and psychological counselling. He has been in touch with his family and will be reunited with them in Norway soon.

"I am happy to be free again and I wish to thank all those who have worked hard for my release." commented the freed UN worker. "I am relieved that this experience is over," he added.

The UN worker was reportedly held somewhere in the governorate of Ma'rib, 173 kilometres east of the capital Sana'a, where he was taken by armed rustics involved in a tribal dispute.

"We are delighted to have our colleague back with us, unharmed, and we greatly appreciate the timely and determined efforts of Yemeni authorities in negotiating his release" said Jens-Toyberg-Frandzen, UN Resident Coordinator in Yemen. "We are also grateful for the close coordination and support we have received from the Norwegian Government throughout this ordeal."

The 34-year-old Norwegian, who has worked as a Governance Team Leader in the United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
Development Programme, will go on a short leave to recuperate in his home country before he resumes duties with UNDP.
Posted by: Fred ||2012-01-28 00:00 ||Comments ||Link || E-Mail|| [27 views] Top||

Thousands of Yemenis celebrate al-Qaeda evacuation
[Yemen Post] Thousands of residents in the Yemeni town of Rada, which was taken over last week by al-Qaeda thugs, staged a rally on Wednesday to celebrate the Islamists's evacuation of their hometown.

"No for immunity no for immunity," and "revolution, revolution until goals are achieved," The protesters chanted.

They carried banners indicating their commitment to carrying on the peaceful sit-ins until all their goals are achieved.

Al-Qaeda beturbanned goons evacuated Rada, some 170km southeast the Yemeni capital of Sana'a, late on Tuesday after the army issued an ultimatum that if they don't leave the security forces would break into the town and force them out.

Al-Qaeda beturbanned goons took control of Rada last week and declared it an Islamic emirate in comparison to what happened in the southern restive province of Abyan in May.

Yemen-based al-Qaeda branch has strengthened its foothold in the southern provinces of the country, apparently taken an advantage of a distracted and undermined government.

US and Soddy Arabia have voiced their grave concerns over the unrest in Yemen for fear that the terrorist network would exploit the power vacuum and plan more terrorist attacks on their countries' interests in the region.

US and Yemeni cooperation on the war against terrorism has been disrupted for more than 9 months due to the unrest storming the country, leading Washington to increase their drones on al-Qaeda hideouts in the trouble-torn country.

Massive popular protests calling for Saleh's departure, combined by insurgency in the far north and anarchy in the south has rocked Yemen to the bone, leaving thousands killed, pushing the economy to the brink of collapse and triggering a catastrophic humanitarian crisis.
Posted by: Fred ||2012-01-28 00:00 ||Comments ||Link || E-Mail|| [34 views] Top||
 File under: al-Qaeda in Arabia 

Saleh's kid to quit Republican Guards
[Yemen Post] There are arrangements to appoint Yemeni outgoing President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh
... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it...
's elder son, Ahmed as the commander of multi-national Counterterrorism Unit in the Middle East, which is led by USA, Saudi Al-Watan Newspaper reported citing what it has called close sources from Ahmed.

Ahmed, 40, the commander of the elite Elite Republican Guards, the best trained and equipped military troops in Yemen, has expressed his willingness to Vice President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi to quit his vital position once the Military Committee, which is tasked with restructuring the army units, asks him to, said the unidentified sources.

The appointment coincided with the Military Committee's plan to restructure the Yemeni army and make led by united leadership in line with the GCC brokered deal signed on November23.

Saleh's relatives still in control of key military institutions, including Elite Republican Guards, Special Forces, Counterterrorism Unit and National Security.

Saleh has left Yemen for USA for further medical treatment for wounds and injuries sustained in a blast at the Presidential Palace early in June.

Saleh signed a deal with the opposition in the Saudi capital of Riyadh under which he transferred all his executive powers to Hadi, the sole candidate for the upcoming Presidential elections set to be held on February 21.

Massive popular protests demanding an end to the long autocratic rule of Saleh, combined with anarchy in the south and insurgency in the far north has shaken Yemen to the bone, leaving thousands killed, pushing the economy to the brink of collapse, triggering humanitarian crisis and stoking fears among friends and neighbors of another failed state in the region.
Posted by: Fred ||2012-01-28 00:00 ||Comments ||Link || E-Mail|| [45 views] Top||
 File under: Arab Spring 

#1: Yeah, you know they're "elite" when the president's kid is running the show...
Posted by: tu3031|| 2012-01-28 01:46 ||Comments   Top||

Caribbean-Latin America
Mayhem in Monterrey
For a map, click here. For a map of Nuevo Leon state, click here. For a map of Monterrey, click here.

A total of six individuals were murdered in drug and gang related violence in Monterrey, Neuvo Leon.
  • One unidentified man in his 50s was shot to death in an area northwest of Monterrey. The victim was found near the intersection of Avenida Aztlan and Calle Augusto Gomez in Valle de Santa Lucía colony after being shot as he was sitting in his vehicle.

  • An unidentified man was shot to death in Monterrey, Wednesday afternoon. The victim had been pursued by armed suspects riding aboard a pickup truck. The victim was shot and killed near the intersection of calles Washington and Privada Colonial in Maria Luisa colony.

  • Two unidentified brothers were shot to death at their residence in San Nicholas municipality Wednesday. The victims were shot in Constituyentes de Queretaro colony by armed suspects who then fled aboard a vehicle.

  • A man was shot during an armed robbery in Monterrey Wednesday night. Wilfredo Urrutia Olmeda, 29, was a customer at the shop near the intersection of calles Las Palmas and Zapopan in Villa Dorada colony, when armed suspects committing a robbery shot and killed him.

  • An unidentified woman was found shot to death in Monterrey Thursday morning. The victim was found near the intersection of Heroes del 47 and Riva Palacio.
Posted by: badanov ||2012-01-28 00:00 ||Comments ||Link || E-Mail|| [39 views] Top||

Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
4 Russian Troops, 5 Islamist Rebels Killed in Dagestan
[An Nahar] Four Russian servicemen and five beturbanned fascisti were killed Friday in a clash in the North Caucasus region of Dagestan, one of the deadliest outbreaks of violence there in months, officials said.

"The active phase of the battle is over," a local security official told the Interfax news agency, adding that three Russian servicemen had also been injured in the fighting.

Russia has been keen to contain violence along its restless southern periphery since concluding the second of two post-Soviet wars in Dagestan's neighbor Chechnya a decade ago.

But attacks continue throughout the region, with gunnies cutting the throat of a Russian serviceman in a rare night time attack on a grammar school in the nearby region of Kabardino-Balkaria on Thursday.
Posted by: Fred ||2012-01-28 00:00 ||Comments ||Link || E-Mail|| [32 views] Top||
 File under: Islamic Emirate of Caucasus 

India-Pakistan
Rockets Hit Pakistan Military Academy
[An Nahar] Attackers on Friday fired rockets at Pakistain's top military academy, damaging its outer wall in a major security breach near the home where the late Osama bin Laden
... who is now among the dear departed, though not among the dearest...
lived for years, officials said.

No one was hurt in the pre-dawn attack and it was unclear who fired the nine rockets from behind a mosque in mountains overlooking the Kakul academy, Pakistain's equivalent of West Point 50 kilometers from the capital.

The garrison city of Abbottabad
... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden....
was considered one of the safest parts of nuclear-armed Pakistain until American Special Forces on May 2 found and killed the al-Qaeda founder in a compound where he apparently lived for five years.

The bin Laden raid humiliated Pakistain's powerful military, exposing it to charges of complicity or incompetence after it emerged that the world's most wanted man had lived on the doorstep of its premier academy for years.

Three rockets on Friday damaged the outer wall of the academy, which is jt 500 meters from the site of the U.S.. Navy SEALs raid that serioly damaged already turbulent relations between Pakistain and the United States.

"Nine rockets were fired. Three rockets hit the boundary wall of the military academy and damaged it. No one was hurt in the attack," Imtiaz Hsain Shah, a top local government official in Abbottabad told Agence La Belle France Presse.

"We have launched a search operation," Shah added.

Mohammed Karim Khan, Abbottabad police chief, confirmed the attack.

"Three rockets hit the boundary wall. Three others landed in an open area and three others landed in a field," he said.

Officials blamed gunnies for the attack.

Shah told TV channel Geo that police had recovered nine rocket-launching pads behind a mosque, about 500 meters from the academy.

"We have a security system and checkpoints on the roads, but the place they used as a launch pad is accessible from all sides and there are mountains at the back of this place," he said.

"At this stage we cannot say who was involved, but they are gunnies and we are investigating how they managed to reach this place."

Taliban and other Islamist Islamic fascisti are fighting an insurgency against the army, although there has been a marked decline in violence in recent months.

Considered one of the quietest towns in the northwest, nestled in pine-dotted hills and popular with day-trippers from the capital, Abbottabad is listed on Pakistain's official tourism website as a "popular summer resort".

But although it is mainly tranquil, it is close to more troubled areas.

A judicial commission is investigating how bin Laden managed to live undetected in Pakistain for so long, and whether there was any government or military collion.

Pak-U.S. ties have since reached a new low over U.S. air strikes that killed 24 Pak soldiers last November, leading Pakistain to shut its Afghan border to NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants...
supplies and conduct a review of its alliance with Washington.
Posted by: Fred ||2012-01-28 00:00 ||Comments ||Link || E-Mail|| [35 views] Top||
 File under: al-Qaeda in Pakistan 

Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Rebel Syrian Army Claims Capture of Iranian Officers
[An Nahar] The rebel Free Syrian Army claimed on Friday to have captured five Iranian military officers in the restive city of Homs and urged Tehran to "immediately" withdraw any additional troops it may have in Syria.

In a statement, the FSA said the Iranians captured "were working under the orders of the intelligence services of the Syrian air force" and had no valid papers to reside or work in Syria.

It did not specify when the officers were locked away and FSA officials could not be immediately reached for comment.

The statement urged Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to admit that members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, or Pasdaran, were in Syria to assist the regime of Bashir al-Assad in its bid to crush a 10-month popular revolt.

"The (Iranian) officers must immediately leave Syrian territory, more specifically by Saturday morning," the statement said.

It added that two Iranian civilians also captured by the FSA would be released as they were employed at a power plant in the central region of Homs, which has become a flashpoint of the revolt against Assad.

The FSA, which claims to have 40,000 soldiers who have deserted the regular army, posted a video along with its statement that showed several men carrying what it said were Iranian passports.
Posted by: Fred ||2012-01-28 00:00 ||Comments ||Link || E-Mail|| [49 views] Top||
 File under: Govt of Syria 

#1: The erstwhile pilgrims?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru|| 2012-01-28 02:29 ||Comments   Top||

Dabi: Syria Violence Increased Significantly in Past 3 Days
[An Nahar] The head of the Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
monitoring mission in Syria said Friday that violence there rose "in a significant way" in three days, particularly in the flashpoint cities of Homs, Hama and Idlib.

"The violence in Syria increased in a significant way between January 24 and 27, especially in Homs, Hama and Idlib," General Mohammed Ahmed Mustafa al-Dabi said in a statement.

"The situation at present, in terms of violence, does not help prepare the atmosphere ... to get all sides to sit at the negotiating table," Dabi said.

The Sudanese general called for "an immediate end to the violence to protect the Syrian people and clear the way for peaceful resolutions" to the crisis.

The statement came as Syrian forces raided Homs, where dozens have been killed, and Western and Arab nations rushed to unveil a draft U.N. resolution that would condemn the deadly crackdown that has killed more than 5,400 since March.
Posted by: Fred ||2012-01-28 00:00 ||Comments ||Link || E-Mail|| [26 views] Top||
 File under: Govt of Syria 

UN loses count on Syria killings
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] The UN said it cannot keep track of the corpse count in Syria's months-long unrest that has already cost more than 5,400 lives, as government forces targeted the protest hub of Hama with a major assault.

The admission came as European and Arab nations worked on a UN Security Council resolution condemning Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad's
Lord of the Baath...
government for its continuing deadly crackdown on pro-democracy protesters.

UN human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
chief Navi Pillay gave a toll of more than 5,000 dead when she spoke to the UN Security Council in early December, but has not updated it.

Under secretary general B. Lynn Pascoe told the council on January 10 that at least 400 people had been killed since Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
monitors arrived in Syria on December 26.

After meeting Security Council ambassadors again, Ms Pillay said the toll had risen but added: "We are experiencing difficulties because of the fragmentation on the ground.

"Some areas are totally closed such as parts of Homs, so we are unable to update that figure but in my view 5,000 and more is a huge figure and should really shock the international community into taking action," she told news hounds.

Russia said on Wednesday it would consider "constructive proposals" to end the bloodshed in Syria but opposed the use of force or sanctions. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said any UN Security Council resolution backed by Moscow "must firmly record that it cannot be used or interpreted to justify anyone's outside military intervention in the Syria crisis."
Posted by: Fred ||2012-01-28 00:00 ||Comments ||Link || E-Mail|| [42 views] Top||
 File under: Govt of Syria 

#1: So just invent something the way you usually do.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru|| 2012-01-28 02:31 ||Comments   Top||

Pentagon Seeks Mightier Bomb vs. Iran
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 ||2012-01-28 00:00 ||Comments ||Link || E-Mail|| [63 views] Top||

#1: So iff Iran doesn't start anything, nor the US, as per the Gulf Region then milaction agz Iran is unlikely unless a major event(s) occurs elsewhere in the world.

STILL COMES DOWN TO THE CLOCK GOING TICK ... TICK ...TICK IN FAVOR OF IRAN + NUCPROGS.
Posted by: JosephMendiola|| 2012-01-28 00:14 ||Comments   Top||

#2: The fins on these things are going to have to be absolutely enormous if they want to have any chance whatsoever of steering that thing. Without this, the plane will have to be fling along a near-perfect flight path, including altitude, heading, speed, and bomb-release timing. Heck, air density might even come into play. Maybe they need to drop a 5000# bomb first just to soften things up a bit.
Posted by: gorb|| 2012-01-28 05:03 ||Comments   Top||

#3: Ho ho, even better, steer it with JATOs or something. And when it gets lined up perfectly, boost its speed with the JATOs as long as you can get them to all shut off or disconnect at the same time. Game over.
Posted by: gorb|| 2012-01-28 05:06 ||Comments   Top||

57 Civilians, 12 Troops Dead as Syrians Rally for 'Right to Self-defense'
[An Nahar] Syrian forces on Friday raided the rebellious city of Homs and rubbed out at least 60 people across the country, activists said, as protesters erupted into the streets under the slogan "The Right to Self-defense," which refers to their support for the rebel Free Syrian Army.

The Local Coordination Committees, the main activist group spurring protests on the ground, said security forces rubbed out 60 people including five children, three women and three army deserters.

Separately, two attacks killed 12 members of the security forces, the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Six were killed in a car boom targeting a security checkpoint in the northwestern city of Idlib. The other six were killed and five maimed in the southern province of Daraa when army deserters ambushed two buses transporting security personnel, the Observatory's Rami Abdul Rahman told Agence La Belle France Presse.

The pre-dawn assault, and reports of similar offensives against Hama and other cities, came hours after the U.N. said it could no longer keep track of the corpse count in Syria, which it put at more than 5,400 over a month ago.

The Homs raid began in the Karm al-Zeitoun neighborhood, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

The LCC said that by Friday regime forces had pounded the Bab Seba neighborhood with heavy artillery and rocket fire. Fighting was also heard in Baba Amro district.

The activist group said three people were killed early Friday in Homs.

The Observatory said another flashpoint central city, Hama, also came under assault in the early hours of Friday, with intense firing from heavy machineguns and loud kabooms heard.

In the outskirts of Damascus
...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti...
, an 11-year-old boy was killed at a checkpoint in Hamuriyeh, the Observatory said, and in Aleppo
...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins...
, the country's second-biggest city, six non-combatants were killed when security forces "fired indiscriminately" on demonstrators in the al-Marjeh neighborhood, the first fatalities in the city since the beginning of the uprising.

The Syrian National Council, the biggest opposition umbrella group, condemned the offensives against opposition strongholds and said it was in contact with members of the U.N. Security Council to press for strong condemnation of Syria.

Meanwhile,
...back at the abandoned silver mine, the water was up to Jack's neck and still rising...
the rebel Free Syrian Army said it had captured five Iranian soldiers in Homs who it said were under orders of the Syrian intelligence service.

The Turkey-based group, formed from deserters from the Syrian army, called on Iran to admit its support for the embattled Syrian regime and demanded the officers immediately leave the Syrian territory.

Violence across Syria claimed 62 lives on Thursday, the majority of them civilians in the central city of Homs, activists said Friday.

"The number of civilians killed on Thursday, whose name and circumstances of death have been confirmed, reached 43, 33 of them in the city of Homs," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The Homs toll includes nine children, the Observatory's statement said.

Seven deserters and 12 soldiers were also killed on the same day.
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 File under: Govt of Syria 

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  • Fri 2012-01-27
       Sectarian clashes kill at least 22 in Yemen
  • Thu 2012-01-26
       Woman Dead as Bombs, Bullets Rain on Nigeria Police Station
  • Wed 2012-01-25
       SEALS Spring Two, Bag Nine
  • Tue 2012-01-24
       EU imposes sanctions on Iran oil
  • Mon 2012-01-23
       U.S. aircraft carrier goes through Strait of Hormuz without incident
  • Sun 2012-01-22
       Syrian Forces Kill More than 50 Civilian as Dissidents Clash with Troops
  • Sat 2012-01-21
       Terror attacks in Kano, Nigeria, kill at least 162
  • Fri 2012-01-20
       Aslam Awan of Abbottabad Dronezapped
  • Thu 2012-01-19
       Bangladesh army says plot to topple government foiled
  • Wed 2012-01-18
       Syria 'absolutely rejects' calls for Arab troops
  • Tue 2012-01-17
       Kenyan jets bomb Al-Shabaab bases
  • Mon 2012-01-16
       Kenya Arrests 29 Ugandans 'Headed to Somalia to Fight'
  • Sun 2012-01-15
       3 men in US terror ring get 15-45 years in prison
  • Sat 2012-01-14
       Mob Kills 2, Burns Mosques in Raid on Nigerian Village
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