[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The defense ministry of Afghanistan says four Afghan National Army soldiers embraced martyrdom in an kaboom.
A statement issued this morning by the ministry's front man General Zahir Azimi would not provide further details but only states that the incident took place in past 48 hours.
The statement further states that 35 Lions of Islam were also killed in military operations conducted in this period of time in four provinces.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] An Afghan woman has killed at least 25 Talibs to avenge the murder of her son who was a police officer in western Farah province.
According to reports, Reza Gul was forced to pick up arms after her son was rubbed out by Talibs in front of her eyes.
Her son was leading a small group of police forces in a check post located in a village of Farah province.
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No virgins for these 25 Taliban. As they say, "revenge is best served cold." Maybe a better paraphrasing in this case would be "revenge is best served with hot lead."
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Think of it: Not a single virgin, doe-eyed or not. Eternity spent on a well-chilled morgue slab watching all the other Islamic kids cavort nekkid, singing and dancing and drinking beer like they weren't supposed to while they were still breathing.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Security sources say to have killed nine Taliban forces of Evil in southern Kapisa province in clearance operations last night.
Police chief of Kapisa says the ones killed included a so-called district governor of Ala Sai and another hard boy commander who was managing terrorist attacks in the district.
Khwaja Faqir Ahmad Sediqi, Kapisa's police chief says killing of these key hard boy commanders is a setback to the Taliban in the district of Ala Sai.
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Take one out, the next one simply pops right up. Celebrating the "eaches" is a doomed strategy. The problem must be solved at the macro level.
[Libya Herald] Sirte has seen over a week of sporadic Arclight airstrikes that have hit the port and the local airbase, as it becomes the latest town to be targeted by the Libyan National Army (LNA) as part of its offensive against Libya Dawn ...aka Fajr Libya, the Islamist operation launched to counter that of General Khalifa Haftar (Operation Dignity). It is made up of the Libya Shield militia (Misrata and Moslem Brotherhood), Libya Revolutionaries Operations Room (Moslem Brotherhood), and Tripoli Brigade (close to Abdul Hakim Belhaj, head of Al-Watan party). Financing and moral support come from Turkey and Qatar... The Gurda Ben Airbase on the outskirts of the town was targeted and its runway hit earlier this week, a Local Council Spokesman told the Libya Herald. The port and a power station have also both been struck, causing some damage to buildings, as well as a farm.
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[Libya Herald] A boom-mobilewent kaboom! in the very early hours of this morning outside the diplomatic police headquarters in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... 's Sidi Masri area. No one was hurt but there was damage to the building. Responsibility has since been claimed by the "Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Tripoli" which is supposedly the local presence of the Islamic State, otherwise known as Daesh.
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[Libya Herald] Omar Al-Sinki, the Minister of the Interior, has called for international help to extinguish the fire at the Sidra Oil Terminal which is spreading. Five tanks are now said to be ablaze.
Sinki is said to have specifically asked for Italian and American help; the terminal is operated by Waha Oil, a joint venture between the National Oil Corporation and a number of US oil companies. However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... they are reported to be reluctant to intervene at present because of fears of further attacks.
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[Libya Herald] There are conflicting claims about the outcome of an Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libyaand Yemen, with the Libyan versions currently most active. Tunisia's Shabaab al-Tawhid started out an Ansar al-Sharia and changed its name in early 2014. It still uses the old name now and then, probably because the stationery's not all used up and the web site hasn't expired yet... attack this morning on the headquarters of the army's 204 Brigade in Hawari. The army claims the attackers were beaten off with heavy casualties while the Shura Council of Benghazi is claiming that it seized two tanks .
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[Libya Herald] There are unconfirmed reports that two people have been killed in fighting at a Misrata hospital between guards and relatives of injured fighters who have been brought from the front line near the Es Sidra oil terminal .
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[Libya Herald] At least one Libyan airline is set to defy an order from the government in Beida that no carriers, including those from Libya can use Misrata and Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... 's Mitiga airports, which provide the sole international air links within territory controlled by Libya Dawn ...aka Fajr Libya, the Islamist operation launched to counter that of General Khalifa Haftar (Operation Dignity). It is made up of the Libya Shield militia (Misrata and Moslem Brotherhood), Libya Revolutionaries Operations Room (Moslem Brotherhood), and Tripoli Brigade (close to Abdul Hakim Belhaj, head of Al-Watan party). Financing and moral support come from Turkey and Qatar... . . .
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A boom-mobilewent kaboom! Saturday outside the diplomatic security building in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... but caused no casualties, a Libyan official said, with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group claiming responsibility.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Gunmen on a cycle of violence killed a policeman and maimed another in a drive-by shooting in the Egyptian capital on Saturday, the interior ministry said.
"Armed men on a cycle of violence opened fire on the police before fleeing," ministry front man Hani Abdel Latif told AFP. Sounds like Karachi...
No one has grabbed credit, but the Sinai-based Ansar Beit al-Maqdis murderous Moslem group - which has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said on Saturday that immigration is good for the country and politicians must explain better that everyone stands to gain from it, in response to the rise of a new movement opposing an influx of Muslim immigrants. Germany, nor France nor Hungary nor any other country in Europe needs to be colonized by an inimical foreign culture. If they can't drink beer and eat Schweinehachsen and do the Chicken Dance, how "German" can they get? Maybe Alle Menschen würden Brüder but they don't all live in the same house.
The number of asylum seekers in Germany, many from Syria, has more than doubled this year to around 200,000, and net immigration is at its highest level in two decades. Many Germans are concerned about the related costs and worry about refugees taking jobs.
The sudden emergence of grass-roots movement PEGIDA, or Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West, which last week held a 17,500-strong anti-immigrant rally in the eastern city of Dresden, has forced lawmakers to respond.
The world is more open and immigration helps everyone. Just as we used millions of refugees and expellees after World War Two to rebuild .. so we need immigration today, Schaeuble told Bild Online when asked about the popularity of PEGIDA.
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Translation: Germany needs immigrants in order to keep wages down and profits up.
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Part 1: Stop hating yourselves for things that happened before you were born and convince your people to have enough children to more than replace themselves.
Part 2: Set up bonded workers program and import Mexicans or other hard workers with no claims (real or imagined) on your territory. Bring them in to do all the work at reasonable wages and with no promise of citizenship.
Part 3: Exporting undesirable non-citizens.
Not rocket science if you believe a culture is worth preserving. If not (as most politicians in the West seem to believe) you bring in immigrants willy-nilly as a worker underclass to solve today's problems and discover that they hate you tomorrow.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Two were killed and three injured Saturday in festivities between Kurdish rebels and a Sunni Islamist group in southeast Turkey near the Syrian border, a local governor's office said.
Tensions have escalated in the town of Cizre since Friday night when the Sunni Moslem Huda-Par group attacked tents belonging to rebels of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a security source told Agence-La Belle France Presse.
The two deaths were attributed by Dogan news agency to be the father of a leader of the Islamist party and a 19-year old Kurdish youth.
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[DAWN] Fearing a possible jail break, the provincial government of Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... has shifted 24 high-profile prisoners from District Jail Quetta.
The decision to shift the high profile prisoners was made at a meeting held at the Home and Tribal Affairs Department of Balochistan. Senior officers from Home and Prison departments participated in the meeting, which discussed possible attacks on prisons in the province.
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[DAWN] A man was sentenced to 26 years in jail for making two hoax calls to police claiming he had planted bombs in crowded public places, prosecutors said on Saturday.
Mohammad Yousuf, who is in his 30s, made the calls in July in Multan, telling police that he had placed bombs in a market and a busy children's park.
Police, bomb disposal experts and rescue workers were forced to rush to the scene at the time but found nothing.
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Real bombers are of course sheltered in Pakistani Army accommodations.
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[DAWN] One Frontier Corps (FC) personnel was killed and seven others were maimed when armed murderous Moslems opened fire on their vehicle in Dera Bugti, Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... 's troubled district on Saturday.
Eight murderous Moslems were also killed when security forces retaliated the attack, FC sources told Dawn.com
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[DAWN] The security forces have formally cleared most of Bara tehsil of faceless myrmidons setting the stage for the repatriation of around 100,000 displaced families next week, say official sources. How's Mangal Bagh doing? Is he dead yet?
The sources told Dawn on Friday that last week, the Civil Secretariat Fata withdrew the notification, which was issued some years ago to declare most parts of Khyber Agency's Bara tehsil conflict zone, after the security forces restored peace there by eliminating hard boys.
They said the Fata Disaster Management Authority had sought Rs3.5 billion from the federal government for the repatriation of internally displaced persons to Khyber Agency.
The repatriation programme was to begin last week of the current month but it was deferred due to financial constraints
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[DAWN] The Levies force foiled a sabotage attempt by defusing a bomb near a mosque on the Pak-Afghan border in Mamond tehsil of Bajaur Agency, aka Turban Central ...Smallest of the agencies in FATA. The Agency administration is located in Khar. Bajaur is inhabited almost exclusively by Tarkani Pashtuns, which are divided into multiple bickering subtribes. Its 52 km border border with Afghanistan's Kunar Province makes it of strategic importance to Pakistain's strategic depth... on Thursday night.
A local administration official said on Friday that the Levies personnel had received a tip about the presence of a remotely controlled bomb planted by unknown persons near a mosque in Zareai area. He said that a Levies team arrived at the scene and recovered the bomb planted near the mosque's boundary wall.
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[DAWN] At least 23 suspected krazed killers, including some key Taliban 'commanders', were killed as military planes pounded their hideouts in the Dattakhel area ... which is owned and operated by Hafiz Gul Behadur... of North Wazoo Agency on Friday, according to the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR).
And in the agency's Shawal Valley, nine suspected forces of Evil were killed in two US drone strikes.
The air strikes by PAF jets targeted krazed killer positions in Madakhel, Lataka and Basikel areas of Dattakhel tehsil. Six hideouts were destroyed, an ISPR blurb said.
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[DAWN] Gunmen in a Punjab village rubbed out a member of the Ahmadi religious minority on Saturday, five days after a Moslem leader denounced Ahmadis on a popular television show. Honest to goodness.
Luqman Ahad Shehzad was shot in the back of the head near Bhiri Shah Rehman village, a small community of Ahmadis in the Gujranwala district, said Saleemud Din, a front man of the community. He is the eleventh person killed for being Ahmadi in Pakistain this year.
In 1974, a Pak law declared them non-Moslems and made it possible to jail Ahmadis for "posing as a Moslem" or "offending a Moslem's feelings".
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[Iraq News] The Iraqi Security Forces supported by rustics foiled an attack for the turbans of the ISIL eastern Ramadi city on Saturday.
Security official told IraqiNews.com "The turbans of the ISIL attacked Abu Flus area of eastern Ramadi city but the security elements and rustics confronted the attack and killed many of the turbans and burnt their vehicles."
"Meanwhile, ...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio had his hands full of angry bleached blonde... a boom-mobilewent kaboom! inside Hit district while the turbans of the ISIL were trying to improvise it inside their shelter, killing many of them," the source added.
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Hey a twofer, they get flogged by a bunch of ragtag civvies with muskets and rocks and then they have to recess class because of a training accident.
I'll take that as a birthday present.
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[Iraq News] Baghdad Operations Command confirmed killing two Lions of Islam of the ISIL and dismantling two bombs in different areas of Baghdad.
Statement by the BOC received by IraqiNews.com cited "A force from BOC killed a terrorist northern Baghdad while another force from Brigade 23rd killed another terrorist and dismantle a bomb in Tel al-Thahab area of southern Baghdad."
"Another force from Iraqi Army/ Ninth Division dismantled another bomb in Baghdad and seized different weapons and ammunition and locked away Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! wanted individuals in different areas of Baghdad during the last 24 hours," the statement added.
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[Iraq News] The security forces arrested 16 wanted individuals in Basra province. Security source stated to Iraqi News “The security forces conducted a security operation where they arrested 16 wanted individuals accused of different charges.”
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[Iraq News] The security forces imposed curfew in Ramadi city central Anbar. Security source stated to IraqiNews.com "The curfew was imposed due to receiving information over the penetration of the ISIL Death Eaters to the city where the security forces and the rustics started to search for them."
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[Iraq News] MP Hussein al-Maliki of the Iraqi National Alliance assured that "Joint Iraqi Security Forces fight fiercely against the turbans of the ISIL near Dholuiya Military Base of eastern Tigris River in Salah-il-Din province."
MP Maliki stated to IraqiNews.com "The victorious battles conducted by the heroes of the ISF continue near Dholuiya base that resulted till now in liberating many area such as Yathrib, Albo Nasir, al-Buhishma, Shihabi and Tel al-Thahab of south-eastern Tigris River."
"The progress of the ISF continues from different axes to liberate the area completely from the criminals of the ISIL," he added.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET]A 14-year-old Syrian boy, clad in a vest lined with explosives, turned himself in to Iraqi authorities as he defected from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria militant group, the New York Times reported.
Usaid Barbo walked up to a Shiite mosque in Baghdad’s neighborhood of Baiya that he had been ordered to target in a suicide attack.
“I opened up my jacket and said, ‘I have a suicide vest, but I don’t want to blow myself up,’” he said in an interview with the New York Times conducted in a secret Iraqi intelligence site where he is currently held.
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The Kurdish Peshmerga forces foiled a terrorist attack for the ISIL in Sinjar of northwestern Nineveh.
Member of the Democratic Kurdistani Party, Saeed Mamouzini, stated to IraqiNews.com "The ISIL terrorists were trying to smuggle an improvised explosive tank into Sinjar district from Talafar district but the Kurdish forces confronted the smugglers near Hardan area, killing the driver and detonating the tank."
"The operation did not cause any casualties," Mamouzini added.
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A statement by the US Embassy received by IraqiNews.com cited “On the evening of December 22nd, airstrikes conducted by Coalition partners destroyed a large ISIL weapons factory complex in Fallujah. Multiple aircraft bombed the compound, leveling two buildings and severely damaging a third. This factory was manufacturing improvised explosive devices (IED) used by ISIL against Iraqi military and civilian targets. This is the fifth such factory ISF and Coalition forces have destroyed.”
The statement added “The destruction of the weapons factory in Fallujah eliminates yet another supply source for ISIL, and reinforces the Coalition’s support of operations led by Iraqi forces.”
“Other ISF operations such as this, conducted with airstrike support from the Coalition, have led to the discovery and disarmament of several hundred IEDs and vehicle-borne IEDs,” according to the statement.
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Baghdad: Volunteer forces in Iraq fighting against the ISIS terrorists said US military aircraft dropped weapons in areas held by the terrorist group, Press TV reported on Saturday. According to the fighters, American helicopters dropped boxes of weapons in Yathrib and Balad districts in Iraq's Salahuddin Province on Friday.
The report comes as the Iraqi army and volunteer fighters appear to be gaining the upper hand and making significant gains against ISIS.
The US Central Command said the airdrops -- including weapons, ammunition and medical supplies -- were "intended to enable continued resistance against ISIS' attempts to take Kobani."
The US and its allies have been conducting airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq and Syria. They said they were carrying out the airstrikes against the ISIS in both countries in order to curb their advance in the region. However, the air raids have so far failed to check the insurgents' military gains.
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Two Palestinians suspected of throwing a firebomb that wounded an 11-year-old Israeli girl and her father have been arrested in the West Bank, the Shin Bet security service said on Saturday. The two, including a 16-year-old, were detained overnight Thursday-Friday, hours after the incident at Azzoun village in the north of the occupied territory, a Shin Bet statement said.
It said the two Palestinians hid in ambush above the road separating the Maale Shomron settlement from Azzoun before throwing the petrol bomb at a car carrying the Israelis. The vehicle caught fire and the girl was gravely injured. She was still being treated in hospital late on Saturday, Israeli media reported.
Her father suffered light injuries in the attack.
Firebomb attacks by Palestinians in the West Bank against Israeli civilians and military targets are not rare. According to the military, in the first nine days of December Palestinians carried out 24 Molotov cocktail attacks, five of them targeting civilian Israeli cars.
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AirAsia Indonesia regrets to confirm that flight QZ8501 from Surabaya to Singapore has lost contact with air traffic control at 07:24 (Surabaya LT) this morning. The flight took off from Juanda International Airport in Surabaya at 0535hours.
The aircraft was an Airbus A320-200 with the registration number PK-AXC. There were two pilots, four flight attendants and one engineer on board.
The captain in command had a total of 6,100 flying hours and the first officer a total of 2,275 flying hours
There were 155 passengers on board, with 138 adults, 16 children and 1 infant. Also on board were 2 pilots and 5 cabin crew.
Nationalities of passengers and crew onboard are as below:
1 Singapore
1 Malaysia
3 South Korean
157 Indonesia
At this time, search and rescue operations are being conducted under the guidance of The Indonesia of Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). AirAsia Indonesia is cooperating fully and assisting the investigation in every possible way.
The aircraft was on the submitted flight plan route and was requesting deviation due to enroute weather before communication with the aircraft was lost while it was still under the control of the Indonesian Air Traffic Control (ATC).
The aircraft had undergone its last scheduled maintenance on 16 November 2014.
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CNN stock rebounds
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"I'm not saying it was a black hole, but it could have been a black hole"
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The Malacca Triangle?
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Or interdimensional forceps?
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How about airspeed system failure like Air France 445 a couple years ago: Airbus aircraft, bad weather, complete fly-by-wire system ( no pilot override ability).
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3rd world countries are marginal at training and maintenance. With that it used to be they could only afford smaller planes. Thus after an accident the loss would be smaller. Now they have the ability to get older large aircraft and Airbus is making deals to these nations for the 300 series. They still don't train or maintain properly. Lufthansa has contracted with a number of Asian countries to get their aircraft up to par, aiding a number of carriers. EASA and the FAA turn a blind eye to them, unless the aircraft is flying to our or their countries, then they have to meet our standards. For example the runway at Manila has been condemned a number of times for a very bad dip 1/4 way down that will blow tires and ruin gear. Most US pilots land long to avoid it. If EASA or the FAA try to hold them to a standard it becomes very political very fast. While I used to fly a lot, I am very careful about what airline I fly outside US carriers.
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While I used to fly a lot, I am very careful about what airline I fly outside US carriers. Posted by 49 Pan
Time is now on my side. I fly F-150. If you plan to interrupt or delay my flight, please have your affairs in order.
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USN, ret---you may be on to something. I read somewhere that the pilot was cleared to 38,000 ft. FL 380. Indonesian t'storms go up to 60,000 ft. I wonder if the plane was getting to "coffin corner" where to you go too fast and you get Mach buffet. Go too slow and you go into a stall. Not a good place to be if you are an Airbus control system.
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Here we go again . . . . :-(
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F-150. Drink UP!
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I fly AirAsia regularly.
The food is good, and while the Indonesian pilots don't fill me with confidence, neither do the unionized Australian maintenance workers.
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The two previous Malaysian events were suicide by pilot and being shot down by the Russians. Hard to see how this could be due to poor maintenance.
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AP; Your scenario is scary; the pilot may have been trying to overfly the weather and ran out of lift, entered a stall/spin and was unable to recover.
Never have liked the Airbus complete trust in the computer; airlines demand the folks that they put in the left seat have oodles of hours and to relinquish all that experience to HAL is something I do not like. I try not to fly AB on long haul flights just for that reason.
Having said that, I think the AB product is excellent, except for that one little thing....
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jpal, I also doubt this was due to maintenance. I was pointing out that these airlines have both a training and maintenance issue. This one sounds more like what AP has said. The pilot flew into a massive up or down draft while flying manually. Again failed in training if this was the issue. A320's have great weather radar, ya have to fly around the red zones.
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Fox kept running a chart this morning showing the plane diverting northeast of the route, whereas the crew apparently requested a southwest clearance. NE was right into the weather, what's that all about?
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I bet if you go to ufo.com you will get some very entertaining reading as the tin hat crowd grinds out some real doozies for theories on what happened.
Me thinks it is the old Airbus fly by wire system getting into a familial spat with the pilot and the passengers lost. Airbus doesn't want to admit how many of those technical monstrosities have flown themselves into the ground, gone into computer initiated spins or have just gone straight down into the ground for no reason..
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I've got to go across the Pond this summer. I go with Iceland Air. They fly Boeing jets, have excellent pilots, cabin crew and maintenance. We go ANC direct to Keflavik, then for us this trip the choice is: Glasgow, Manchester, heathrow or Paris. We will take Paris and take some pics of muzzies taking over the sidewalk before the city falls. Then on to edenburgh. Will miss Detroit though.
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Iran's army said Saturday it has deployed a suicide drone for the first time in massive ongoing military drills near the strategic Strait of Hormuz at the entrance to the Arabian Gulf.
Gen. Ahmad Reza Pourdastan, the army's chief commander of ground forces, described the unmanned aircraft as a "mobile bomb," according to state media, which said the aerial device is designed to strike air, ground and naval targets.
He did not provide the name of the drone. The conservative Kayhan daily referred to it as the Yasir, while an online news website called it the Raad. Officials could not be reached for comment.
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"Despite the lack of sophistication, this drone could cause serious damage to oil tankers and other civilian targets because it carries a large amount of explosives. That said, the American carriers have warning and offensive capabilities and could blow such a drone out of the sky."
no, reeeeally?
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] IS Death Eater group has lost ground in the Syrian border town of Kobane, where Kurdish fighters now control more than 60 percent of territory, a monitoring group said Saturday.
The strategically located town on the border with Turkey has become a major symbol of resistance against ISIS, which has seized large parts of Syria and Iraq, committing widespread atrocities.
The jihadists launched a major offensive in mid-September to try to capture Kobane, and at one point controlled more than half of the town, known in Arabic as Ain al-Arab.
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If I were Israel I'd be talking to Jordan about now for some close air support. Hey I'd even paint the Jordanian flag on the planes if that's what it takes.
Get ISIS moving out in the open and repeat the highway of Death maneuver the US used in Gulf War 1.
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.
Take one out, the next one simply pops right up. Celebrating the "eaches" is a doomed strategy. The problem must be solved at the macro level. 
...Smallest of the agencies in FATA. The Agency administration is located in Khar. Bajaur is inhabited almost exclusively by Tarkani Pashtuns, which are divided into multiple bickering subtribes. Its 52 km border border with Afghanistan's Kunar Province makes it of strategic importance to Pakistain's strategic depth....png)
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