From Geostrategy-Direct, subs
North Korea is shipping arms to guerrillas in Shri Lanka, according to South Korean officials.
An arms shipment of machine guns and anti-tank missiles was recently intercepted enroute from North Korea to the Sri Lankan guerrilla organization, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
The North Korean ships involved in the transfers were attacked and sunk by the Sri Lankan navy, according to sources quoted in the Sankei Shimbun. Good on the Sri Lankans!!! If more Nork ships were sunk for doing their dirty little business, they just might rethink their business plan.
The arms support undermines North Koreas claims to deserve to be removed from the State Departments list of state sponsors of terrorism, a key objectives of the Pyongyang regime as a way to open up to U.S. trade and investment. The Norks are liars and criminals, period. They do not respond to good will. The problem is not the Norks. We know who they are and what they do. Our problem is with State, who are undermining and delusional.
The LTTE is a foreign terrorist organization according to the State Department, making North Korea a key backer of terrorism. Memo to State: read your memos.
According to the Sankei report, North Korean weapons were captured in March from a ship and included antitank missiles, 120 mm machine guns. 120 mm??? Not exactly an elk hunting caliber.
The arms were aboard ships that left Chongjin and were sunk in October last year, and February and March this year.
The weapons onboard were provided by the Workers Party of Korea military industry department (Office No. 99), and included large numbers of Model 68 automatic rifles.
The Sri Lankan navy was fired on by the ships when approaching the vessels and returned fire.
According to the report, the arms were made by Chinas Norinco arms manufacturer. China and North Korea denied any involvement in the arms shipments. Lies! All lies!!! We deny everything!
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interesting...perhaps NK's ships should have accidents every trip til they learn. Think the Tamils will want to keep paying for weapons at the bottom of the Indian Ocean?
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It remains a mystery why the free world hasn't long ago set up a maritime and no-fly blockade around North Korea. All they export is nuclear technology, missile hardware, counterfeit money, narcotics and some of the most warped ideology short only of Islam itself.
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WFORUM Poster > INDIA + REGION will one day belong to CHINA - China needs to begin investing in India for goods, close military relations, and other resources vital to China.
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The Mirage 2000D is an air-to-ground fighter which has been operational with the French Air Force since 1992; it has seen active service in operations over Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan.
So who knew?
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It's a substantial political change by Paris. I think this is the first time French fighters have been deployed to Afghanistan. Sarkozy isn't just talk. Actions are following his rhetoric. Previously M2000s and Rafales were sent on a marketing mission to Tajikistan with the M2000s lasing targets and the Rafale dropping LGBs on Taliban targets..
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I think the French are looking for a way to boost arms sales. It is easier to sell battle tested equipment.
A court on Thursday ordered release of 10 prominent figures and businessmen belonging to Egypt's most influential Islamic opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood, after nearly 50 days in detention for holding secret meetings.
In some past cases, security officials have ignored similar court orders for releasing Brotherhood members and renewed their detentions, using emergency laws that give them wide powers. Among the 10 was Essam el-Erian, a leading moderate in the Brotherhood who was detained in an Aug. 17 raid on his house while he held a meeting, a judicial official said. Fifteen others were also arrested, and prosecutors later claimed the meeting aimed at "reviving the group's banned activities."
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Congratulations on your recent appointment as Joint United Nations/African Union force commander for the hybrid UN/AU Mission in Darfur, formalised by resolution 1769 as Unamid. This is a daunting mandate, and you enter into this mission facing long odds. The intentions of the regime in Khartoum toward an effective, impartial implementation of the Unamid mandate are deeply uncertain. The Sudanese government has blocked and whittled international efforts to end the killing and facilitate a durable peace. We have seen ample indications that the Sudanese government will at every turn seek to impose a minimalist reading of the Unamid mandate. The government has already signalled that it will try to restrict the non-African role in the mission as much as it can and prolong the internal divisions and growing chaos.
The challenges you will face in dealing with the rebel movements will also be substantial. In the absence of a viable political settlement process, the groups have fragmented and many elements have degenerated into criminal activity and focus on fighting each other. The same holds true of many "Arab" elements, some of which previously fought alongside government troops. The recent efforts of special envoys have given some hope that this deterioration can be reversed. But as you know, not all leaders are cooperating and conflict has certainly not diminished on the ground.
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DUBAI - Kuwait will not accept any plan to divide Iraq into federal regions and wants the United States to remain there until the country is stable, the ruler of the Gulf state said in remarks aired on Thursday.
We will not accept the partition of Iraq, we consider this to be dangerous to us. It will be dangerous for the whole region, Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah told Al Arabiya television, commenting on a US Senate resolution advocating the division of Iraq into federal regions. We are against this division and I think that even the Iraqis will not accept this.
Who asked him? I don't favor it, but no one in Iraq asked me either. It's not our call.
The non-binding Senate amendment, which was passed last week, says the United States should actively support a political settlement among Iraqis based on a federal system of government. The amendment has been widely interpreted as a proposal to divide Iraq along sectarian and ethnic lines into Sunni Arab, Shia Arab and Kurdish regions.
Sheikh Al Sabah also called on the United States to keep its troops in Iraq until stability is seen on the ground. I say it frankly, I would like the (United States) to withdraw its troops from tomorrow, but do you think that if they pull out there will be stability in Iraq? I think not, he said. We will hold the United States responsible for the fighting in Iraq, therefore, I wish that they will not leave now before they maintain a strong army in Iraq that can protect Iraq and its people.
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10/05/2007 00:00 ||
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We will hold the United States responsible for the fighting in Iraq
Another "dog bites hand" story. How quickly they have conveniently forgotten August 2nd, 1990 and the seven months of agony and nightmare as the Iraqi troops indulged in an orgy of violence, torture, looting and destruction on a mass scale. For the Kuwaitis it meant complete loss of freedom, civic and human rights. They were at the complete mercy of Saddam Hussein's occupation forces.
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He set his ex-wife all on fire
Sing rickety tickety tin
He set his ex-wife all on fire
And as the smoke and flames went higher
He danced around the funeral pyre
Playing a violin o-lin
Playing a violin
[with apologies to Tom Lehrer]
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Burning women is a Kurdish thingy. The number of women being burned under supicious circumstances in Kurdistan is way up this year. This includes "honor" killings and suicides?
"There is a legal definition of genocide and Darfur does not meet that legal standard. The atrocities were horrible but I do not think it qualifies to be called genocide," said former US President Jimmy Carter.
They also urged Khartoum to hand over war crimes suspects for trial at the International Criminal Court, notably Minister of State for Humanitarian Affairs, Ahmad Harun, and the Janjaweed militia leader Ali Kushayb.
Mr Brahimi said peace talks planned later this month had raised a glimmer of hope.
But he said the situation for people in Darfur was dire and they too needed to be represented at the talks.
"The international community has acted rather irresponsibly on all this in the past by pampering a lot of these people around - not really wondering whether they really represented anybody and whether they were acting responsibly," said Mr Brahimi.
The group has now concluded a visit that took them from Khartoum to Juba in southern Sudan to discuss the shaky peace in force there, and then to El Fasher in Darfur from where they were able to visit some of the province's estimated 2m displaced people.
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10/05/2007 00:01 ||
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This guy has been bought lock, stock and barrel. Why doesn't he just say he is no longer an American, but an Earthman (who is actually just a dangerous mischiefmaker).
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'Die Swart Gevaar'.... (The Black Danger). It's swart on swart.... how COULD it possibly qualify as genocide. Another classic example of politically correct 'Cartonian think.'
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"It's not a genocide. Just a lot of goon squads running around committing mass murder."
"Oh, what a relief!"
"Yep, nuthin' to worry about."
"Well, good. I can get back to my golf game now."
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next stop? Dieting advice for Zimbobweans~
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"There is a legal definition of genocide and Darfur does not meet that legal standard. The atrocities were horrible but I do not think it qualifies to be called genocide," said former US President Jimmy Carter.
Well, since our little man is trying to pass himself off as an international legal scholar, a little light reading for Mistah Jimmah. He could've done it himself. It took me 30 seconds on a Google search.
The international legal definition of the crime of genocide is found in Articles II and III of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide.
Article II describes two elements of the crime of genocide:
1) the mental element, meaning the "intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such", and
2) the physical element which includes five acts described in sections a, b, c, d and e. A crime must include both elements to be called "genocide."
Article III described five punishable forms of the crime of genocide: genocide; conspiracy, incitement, attempt and complicity.
Excerpt from the Convention on the Prevention and
Punishment of Genocide
"Article II: In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Article III: The following acts shall be punishable:
(a) Genocide;
(b) Conspiracy to commit genocide;
(c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide;
(d) Attempt to commit genocide;
(e) Complicity in genocide. "
It is a crime to plan or incite genocide, even before killing starts, and to aid or abet genocide: Criminal acts include conspiracy, direct and public incitement, attempts to commit genocide, and complicity in genocide.
Punishable Acts
The following are genocidal acts when committed as part of a policy to destroy a groups existence:
Killing members of the group includes direct killing and actions causing death.
Causing serious bodily or mental harm includes inflicting trauma on members of the group through widespread torture, rape, sexual violence, forced or coerced use of drugs, and mutilation.
Deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to destroy a group includes the deliberate deprivation of resources needed for the groups physical survival, such as clean water, food, clothing, shelter or medical services. Deprivation of the means to sustain life can be imposed through confiscation of harvests, blockade of foodstuffs, detention in camps, forcible relocation or expulsion into deserts.
Prevention of births includes involuntary sterilization, forced abortion, prohibition of marriage, and long-term separation of men and women intended to prevent procreation.
Forcible transfer of children may be imposed by direct force or by fear of violence, duress, detention, psychological oppression or other methods of coercion. The Convention on the Rights of the Child defines children as persons under the age of 18 years.
Genocidal acts need not kill or cause the death of members of a group. Causing serious bodily or mental harm, prevention of births and transfer of children are acts of genocide when committed as part of a policy to destroy a groups existence.
The law protects four groups - national, ethnical, racial or religious groups.
A national group means a set of individuals whose identity is defined by a common country of nationality or national origin.
An ethnical group is a set of individuals whose identity is defined by common cultural traditions, language or heritage.
A racial group means a set of individuals whose identity is defined by physical characteristics.
A religious group is a set of individuals whose identity is defined by common religious creeds, beliefs, doctrines, practices, or rituals.
Key Terms
The crime of genocide has two elements: intent and action. Intentional means purposeful. Intent can be proven directly from statements or orders. But more often, it must be inferred from a systematic pattern of coordinated acts.
Intent is different from motive. Whatever may be the motive for the crime (land expropriation, national security, territorrial integrity, etc.), if the perpetrators commit acts intended to destroy a group, even part of a group, it is genocide.
The phrase "in whole or in part" is important. Perpetrators need not intend to destroy the entire group. Destruction of only part of a group (such as its educated members, or members living in one region) is also genocide. Most authorities require intent to destroy a substantial number of group members mass murder. But an individual criminal may be guilty of genocide even if he kills only one person, so long as he knew he was participating in a larger plan to destroy the group.
Proving once again the the only thing this guy should be noted for is talking out of his ass and expecting what he says to be accepted as gospel by an adoring media and gullible public.
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It's not genocide, it's genocide -10. Luckily it stopped in time and I'm certain our good friends the Sudanese will do all they can to prevent those last 10 from being killed and thus tipping the legal scales before the end of the year (when the count starts over).
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Minor clarification to my #10: by "these definitions" I mean the ones Jimmuh's pulling out of someplace dark and smelly - not the legal defintions cited by tu3031.
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Carter's American citizenship should be revoked. This asshole rapidly is becoming complicit in crimes against humanity. He is worse than a national disgrace. He is an enemy of America and democracy.
Communists Peace activists Medea Benjamin and Ann Wright have been arrested in the U.S. while protesting the Iraq war, but they never dreamed that would prevent them from entering Canada.
The arrests landed Benjamin's and Wright's names in an FBI-run database, the National Crime Information Center, which Canada also relies on to screen visitors. When the two women visited the country in August, they were told they would have to apply for "criminal rehabilitation" and pay $200 if they wanted to visit again. Neither did.
On Wednesday, Benjamin, co-founder of the anti-war group Code Pink, and Wright, a retired Army colonel, walked into Canada at Niagara Falls to test whether they really would be denied entry because of their anti-war-related arrests. They were.
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OH MY GOD!!! CANADA IS FACIST TOO!!! WHERE WILL WE GO!!!! WHERE WILL WE GO!!!! AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH...
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I hear Antarctica is nice this time of year.....
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Medea, the lil' Stalinist bitch, should try Poland or the Czech republic. They'll LOVE her shit
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VUE MONTHLY [Edmonton] > warns = advises that ordinary Canadians must stand up for their National-World rights. BUT-T-T, ARTIIIKLE PERSONAGES ALSO CLAIM/COMMENT THAT AS AMERICA HEADS INTO DECLINE AS A GLOBAL POWER [Present], AMERS WILL ALLEGEDLY BEGIN TO [maliciously?imperialistically?]LOOK AT CANADA TO TAKE IT OVER???
VANCOUVER Russell Long, a pony-tailed, dreadlocks guy, was sitting in a park with some friends this week in beautiful downtown Nelson when the local constabulary came calling.
Nelson police chief Dan Maluta, who has agreed to an outside investigation of why the boxer-clad Mr. Snyder was arrested, denied that local police were singling out war resisters, as the deserters call themselves.
He said a police officer approached Mr. Long and his friends on suspicion that they were smoking marijuana. A check disclosed that Mr. Long was wanted on an outstanding immigration warrant, and he was taken into custody. This wasn't specific targeting. This was old-fashioned police work, Chief Maluta told reporters.
No deserters have succeeded with a refugee claim so far, although the issue has now gone to the Supreme Court of Canada for a final ruling.
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send him to Quebec or Toronto, where he'll be welcome. We don't want him back, and I suspect Vancouver doesn't want him either. Oh, and take away his passport.
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Whoa, whoa, whoa Frank! He's been a bad boy, but he hasn't done anything extreme enough to deserve Quebec. Let him off easy and send him to Gitmo.
After a stalemate of over two years, the Senate passed the 2008 Intelligence Authorization bill Wednesday, with Democrats ceding a key provision regarding pre-war Iraq intelligence that Republicans had decried.
Sources close to the Senate Intelligence Committee say one of the compromises Democrats made to ensure the bills passage was to remove language demanding the White House turn over all Presidential Daily Briefings on Iraq prior to the 2003 invasion. Democrats are said to have been hoping to establish whether President Bush mischaracterized intelligence in the lead-up to the conflict.
The provision on the PDBs was dropped because Republicans objected and were blocking consideration of the bill, a Senate source said Wednesday. . . .
Another Senate source familiar with the bill said that the Democrats felt this was the only way they could get the bill passed, and avoid yet another failure of intelligence oversight.
Democrats also dropped a demand for the Director of Central Intelligence to identify and hand over documentation related to secret prisons run by the US government around the world and operations involving extraordinary rendition. . . .
Another provision removed from the bill was a requirement for the Intelligence Community to study the effects of climate change on national security. . . .
Bet this'll go over well with the "netroots."
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10/05/2007 16:11 ||
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Even Democrats don't like to shoot themselves in the head. And that is exactly what would happen if we let out this kind of TSC G2. Now if the PDB's or McConnell had something on Rush Limbaugh that would be a different story.
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...demanding the White House turn over all Presidential Daily Briefings on Iraq prior to the 2003 invasion.
Dems not quite versed on that 'separation of powers' thingy, eh?
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I remember Rockefeller complaining that he finds more out from the news. Two reasons for that. 1.Everytime congress is given intel, they call the NY times.
2. All those briefings must be confirmed before presenting them to the House because Intel should not have the "quality" of the NYTimes.
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NEWSMAX > CONGRESS UNPREPARED FOR "DECAPITATION" [Attack]. Six years after 9-11 - Legislation now being introduced in case a large number of US Comgresscritters gets whacked.
h/t LGF. Click the link to get to Gore's 9 minute long press conference.
In the dark days before he emerged as The Goracle, he was a raving right-wing nutjob.
Here's a 1992 Al Gore speech rescued from the memory hole, in which he blasts George H. W. Bush for ignoring Saddam Hussein's connections to terrorism and his quest for weapons of mass destruction.
Undeniable proof that the current Democrat position is a cynical political stance, a grab for power and nothing more, with no concern whatsoever for the security of their own nation.
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1,200 Pounds of TNT: German police foil the most dangerous Jihadist bomb plot in Europe to date.
If successful, the Oberschledorn bombings would easily have surpassed those of Madrid and London in terms of death and destruction. The plot was uncovered due to close cooperation between U.S. and German security forces. However, the discussion on how to deal with radical Muslims in Germany continues.
The plotters lived in an idyllic setting. Evergreen pine forests, winding country roads, large fields and gently undulating hills surround the sleepy village of Oberschledorn and its 900 inhabitants. This is also the scene where, according to the federal prosecutor, Monika Harms, one of the most serious conspiracies in Germany to date was foiled.
Top police official went even further. The explosive force of this material would have been equivalent to about 1,200 lbs of TNT, said Jörg Ziercke, president of the Federal Criminal Police Office. That would be a force several times greater than the London and Madrid bombs. In other words, the deadly cocktail for what would well have been the largest Islamic extremist bomb attack in Europe was to be mixed in Oberschledorn.
It started when three young men rented a vacation home in the village: Two German Islam converts, 28-year-old Fritz Gelowicz from Ulm in southern Germany and 22-year-old Daniel Schneider from Saarland; and a 29-year-old Turk from Hesse called Adem Yilmaz. All three were arrested on Sept. 4. They had begun making bombs.
When the German elite anti-terrorist police squad, the GSG-9, raided the holiday home in Oberschledorn, investigators found military detonators from Syria, which a courier supposedly smuggled into Germany. They also found 16 gallons of hydrogen peroxide in twelve blue plastic containers, a substance used also in explosives. The ingredients were apparently intended for the manufacture of several car bombs. It remains unclear, however, what it was they were really targeting. Investigators suspect they were planning to detonate the explosives in front of U.S. Army barracks in Germany and possibly, also at the U.S. Air Force base at Ramstein.
In order to prevent the suspects from escaping with their explosives, police officers had secretly exchanged the highly concentrated hydrogen peroxide with a diluted liquid before the raid. This was possible because U.S. security officials had been keeping the men under surveillance since last year.
In fact, it was the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) that first alerted Germans to the danger. In October 2006, the NSA intercepted suspicious emails between Germany and Pakistan. The suspects were apparently receiving instructions from the Uzbek terrorist organization, the Islamic Jihad Union.
This group is thought to have a close relationship with al Qaeda and to operate in Pakistan. It is suspected that both Gelowicz and his friend, Schneider, who did his military service in a bomb disposal unit in the German army, stayed in terrorist training camps in Pakistan.
Following the arrests in Oberschledorn, there was a sigh of relief in Germany even if it didnt last long. The Oberschledorn incident immediately became caught up in the battle over tightened security laws in the governing Grand Coalition.
And another question arose: How the government should handle converts to Islam. The fact that the suspects are Germans who converted to Islam was almost as shocking as the attacks they planned. Are converts particularly drawn by the allure of terrorism, many wondered.
Some say that these two particularly favored radical views because they wanted to prove themselves to the Islamic community. Others point out that most who convert are German women married to Muslim men who do so out of love. It is generally agreed that the number of converts to Islam in Germany is on the rise. However, there are no reliable statistics since Muslim congregations do not keep records on their members.
The climax of the debate came in the form of a suggestion that calls for converts to be registered, something highly unlikely. Wolfgang Bosbach, vice chairman of the CDU parliamentary faction, was quoted as putting the initiative forward. Later, he denied it, distancing himself from the proposal which came from Bavarian Minister of the Interior, Günther Beckstein (CSU). The idea has since been dropped.
Instead, the coalition parties are currently discussing a bill by Social Democrat Minister of Justice Brigitte Zypries that would render visits to terrorist training camps punishable in the future. CDU politicians are particularly in favor of it, especially Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU). However, his party finds the proposal too lax, saying that the proposal only punishes those who attend these camps when they are actually preparing an attack.
Zypries responds that one can only punish acts and not intentions. Bosbach, however, considers this proposal impractical. The federal state of Hesse, controlled by the CDU, responded by putting forward its own, more detailed proposal.
There is concern in the SPD that the CDU is using the subject of security to score points with voters already two years before the next general election − and to drive the SPD out of security matters.
They think they have struck a rich vein with people's concerns over security, one SPD member complained. They are trying to drive us away. Another noted: It was a mistake to give the CDU the two important ministries that deal with security, namely defense and interior.
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It is important to remember that the Janissaries were Christian children that were taken from parents and converted to Islam. They were famous for their willingness to kill their (biological) parents and fight like machines.
Al
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"In the Raptor, "I can outmaneuver an F-16, F-15, F-18. It doesn't matter " [and] the F-22's radar works in a way that allows him to use it without revealing himself. Though its exact workings are classified, the F-22 is known to emit radar signals in extremely short bursts over multiple frequencies.
"Even if you detect me, you're not going to know where I am a second from now," said Joe Quimb, a spokesman for Lockheed Martin, the Raptor's principal builder.
Tolliver said that radar and other sensors, along with information fed into the Raptor's computers from ground-based radars and other planes, gives F-22 pilots an exceptional, unified view of potential threats and targets aloft and on the ground . "It's amazing the information you have at your fingertips," Tolliver said. In no-holds-barred mock battles with F-15s, F-16s and the Navy's F/A-18 Hornets, he and other Raptor pilots generally "destroy" their adversaries before those foes even realize they're around ."
That was proven in the June 2006 Northern Edge exercise, when even E-2C and E-3 AWACS aircraft reportedly weren't much help. Read this DID article for more coverage of the F-22's active & passive sensor capabilities, which functioned as the Raptor's last weapon in Northern Edge.
It won't let me put a weapons system on it, even when I can see it visually through the canopy. [Flying against the F-22] annoys the hell out of me.
Even when all of their missiles were gone, the Raptors remained in the fight, flying as stealthy forward air controllers and guiding their colleagues to enemies in the "Blue" AWACS' blind spots behind mountains and such. When the AIM-120D AMRAAM missile enters wider service, F-22s will also have the option of actively guiding missiles fired by other aircraft.
Then there's this surprising review from Red Flag "Colonial Flag" 2007, as an Australian pilot offers his impressions:
"I can't see the [expletive deleted] thing," said RAAF Squadron Leader Stephen Chappell, exchange F-15 pilot in the 65th Aggressor Squadron. "It won't let me put a weapons system on it, even when I can see it visually through the canopy. [Flying against the F-22] annoys the hell out of me."
The plane has the equivalent of 2 Cray supercomputers dedicated to sensor fusion and real time info analysis.
This sort of capability is why we need our bright kids to be majoring in math, science & engineering. Because already, a lot of new work is being done in China by graduates from our university programs.
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On the History Channel, they had a program about the F-22 where one of the pilots said that flying it against an F-15 was "like clubbing baby seals."
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"See first, understand first, act first, and finish decisively."
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"I can't see the [expletive deleted] thing," said RAAF Squadron Leader Stephen Chappell, exchange F-15 pilot in the 65th Aggressor Squadron. "It won't let me put a weapons system on it, even when I can see it visually through the canopy. [Flying against the F-22] annoys the hell out of me."
Bwahahaha!!
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When the AIM-120D AMRAAM missile enters wider service, F-22s will also have the option of actively guiding missiles fired by other aircraft.
So, is that "fired by other friendly aircraft", or have they figured out some way to hijack enemy missiles on the fly?
Cause that would be wicked cool.
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AMRAAM uses two-stage guidance when fired at long range. The aircraft passes data to the missile just before launch, giving it information about the location of the target aircraft from the launch point and its direction and speed. The missile uses this information to fly on an interception course to the target using its built in inertial navigation system (INS). This information is generally obtained using the launching aircraft's radar, although it could come from an infra-red search and tracking system (IRST), from a data link from another fighter aircraft, or from an AWACS aircraft.
If the firing aircraft or surrogate continues to track the target, periodic updates are sent to the missile telling it of any changes in the target's direction and speed, allowing it to adjust its course so that it is able to close to self-homing distance while keeping the target aircraft in the basket (the radar seeker's field of view) in which it will be able to find it.
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I would assume the rapter can guide in friendly missiles. That way you could have one act as a forward observer, in the danger zone, actively guiding in missiles from other planes that don't dare go that close, thus giving the rapter the ability to have a massive, massive, payload of missiles (that just happen to be carried by other planes on the way in).
Part of me would love to think that we used Rapters to help the Israeli's attack Syria so recently. Think about it. We want to test the thing, we want the sites destroyed, we don't really want to take the heat. Israel is willing to take the heat, wants the sites destroyed, and would love to have the Syrians confused about wtf?
Probably not what happened but I'd like to think we were that coordinated and willing to play mind-games with our enemies.
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It occurs to me that we don't know what we could have come up with if the money put into the F-22 had been put into improving the F-15 instead.
Especially since we haven't, and aren't, going to run the F-22 production line at any sort of economic rate, and nickel-and-dimed the program away from cost-effectiveness.
(Especially since the CHinese are probably going to steal the technology anyway and are more willing to mass-produce stuff... it makes more sense for us to limit ourselves to technology development we're willing to mass-produce ourselves).
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We're going to follow the path of Political Least Resistance, which also happens to be the path of maximum problems when we actually get involved in a shooting war with a peer competitor.
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I remember reading a review by new pilots on the F-22 in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (ajc.com), because it's built at Lockheed in Marietta, GA. Anyhoo, the pilot claimed that they ran a test where he went up against an un-Godly # of F-15s (I want to say somewhere around 12-15) all at once and SPLASHED them all without them even knowing he was there! It's like the blind trying to fight someone with a gun, when he's got a missile launcher hundreds of feet away.
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My brother flies F-15E's. He has been in engagements with the 22's. And yes, they got their asses whooped. The 22 is that damn good. On another note, the 15 isn't done yet. The Air Force is initiating an upgrade, the F-15 will be receiving the same radar/sensor package as the 22's. The radar itself is a huge upgrade. Not to mention the sensor/data integration upgrades. The F-15 will continue to own the skies for many more years.
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The F-15 is still one of the best planes ever built. The only problem is that it isn't very stealthy. Now with a F-22 acting as a spotter and guiding missiles into oncoming waves of russian or chinese planes...
Wow.
Any enemy planes that survived and engaged the F-15s would have a very, very short lifespan.
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Regarding stealth: for bombers, you would only need stealth for the first wave or two, during which you would take out all or most of the surface to air assets as well as the command and control sites, after which you could send in a barn door loaded with ordnance unopposed by ground assets.
fighters stealth could be limited to visual minimization techniques because due to the vast superiority in ecm, enemy radar would be hindered, if not downright blinded. look at the flat paint used by our current tacair forces; visually it absorbs reflections and the lack of garish colors (aka nose art / tail flashes) help to blend the jet with the sky. the biggest reflective ojcet on the jet is the canopy, but if you can manage the glint factor, you can pretty much depend on the ecm to manage the enemy's incoming.
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I just wonder how close we are to eliminating manned aircraft as well as our nuclear arsenal. What with "rods from god", google earth/gps, and UAVs, raptors may soon only be useful as control platforms.
Heck - a pea-sized meteorite had southern Minnesota and western Wisconsin all agog the other day - imagine the effects when we seriously test space based weaponery.
#18
When thinking about the value (or not) of the F22, don't assume that the enemy will always be as far behind as currently WRT electronics.
The F15 is a great airframe. But it simply cannot carry and utilize the incredible degree of computing resources of the F22. Those resources make possible an awe-inspiring amount of sensor fusion - possibly to include off-board sensors as DOD's global information grid evolves, and possibly even to include automated coordination with unmanned systems.
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I just wonder how close we are to eliminating manned aircraft as well as our nuclear arsenal
The acronym you want is UCAV - unmanned combat air vehicle. Envisioned, some tech developed, major issues re: doctrine, tactics and lawfare about their use at the moment. That will probably change over time.
#20
Loves me some good old incredible American technology.
but if you can manage the glint factor
I would imagine that we are using PVD (Physical Vapor Deposition) deposited silicon nitride or some other anti-reflective coating on our fighter jet canopies.
No longer occupied with vice patrols, Pakistani Taliban say they are now devoting their efforts to fighting the Pakistani military and foreign soldiers in Afghanistan, according to a Bannu-datelined report by Christian Science Monitor.
Published on Thursday, the report quotes a 26-year old Pakistani Taliban named Majnoon as saying, Now the training camps over here are shunned, and everybody is on the road to get training in suicide attacks and other tactics inside Afghanistan. Majnoon, and a few other self-declared Taliban fighters were interviewed recently in Bannu, according to correspondent Suzanna Koster. Now that the peace agreement is broken it is very difficult for us to move in groups or convoys, because now we are against the military, and police officials are everywhere, said Majnoon.
Coordination: Another Pakistani Taliban, Qari Afsar, said, We have their (Afghans) cooperation in every aspect, in bread, butter, life, weapons, everything. The Pakistani and Afghan Taliban coordinate their attacks by satellite phones, said one of the fighters. We have a special wireless system through which we communicate, clear issues with each other, and to tell whos coming and whos going. We dont feel any kind of fear that anyone will spy on us or the government will arrest us, because the other side of the border is also our land, one of their leaders said.
This article starring:
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Qari Afsar
Taliban
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Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud has threatened suicide attacks against PPP Chairwoman Benazir Bhutto, saying his bombers are waiting in the wings to welcome her when she returns, FATA Senator Saleh Shah told Daily Times on Thursday. Shah is a close friend of Mehsud and is currently trying to broker a deal between the Mehsuds and the government to secure the release of around 250 abducted soldiers.
My men will welcome Bhutto on her return. We dont accept President General Musharraf and Benazir Bhutto because they only protect the US interest and see things through its glasses. Theyre only acceptable if they wear the Pakistani glasses, Shah quoted Baitullah as saying. He said that Mehsud, who killed three soldiers out of the hostages and has threatened more executions, had a following of 35,000 highly trained and organised fighters, including a suicide squad.
Shah said he was not optimistic about succeeding in negotiations for the release of the hostage soldiers. He said Baitullah had asked the government to release 30 of his men, but that was difficult because some of them were being tried in courts. When I tell Mehsud that his men are in legal custody, he asks what bars Gen Musharraf from going above the law and releasing his men when the president can violate the law and the constitution for his re-election, Saleh said.
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#1
Mowaffak al-Rubaie can STFU and steer well clear of whatever America needs to do in the name of our national security. This ungrateful cockroach should learn how to show some true appreciation for how we've liberated his country. I hope a big fat al Qaeda car bomb or Iranian EFP finds him in the very near future.
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Iraq officials said no before the US attacked Iraq too...
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al-Rubaie and the others in Maliki's party / movement spent years in Iran, sheltered there as they attacked the Ba'athists under Saddam - including during the Iran/Iraq war.
These are some of the Shi'ites who rose up at the CIA's urging only to have the US refuse to back them. The slaughter was pretty horrid and did not advance their trust or respect for us. We're just one more regime they can try to use to gain control of the country for the majority population, as they see it.
#4
I think lotp's summary is accurate, but there's more to the story than the headline. Seems there's a point fast approaching when the arab shiites, as well as the kurds, begin to part company with the persians - particularly if minorities w/in Iranian's borders act up.
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REALCLEARPOLITICS > THE GUARD [IRGC]RUNS THE SHOW IN IRAN, from CSMonitor; + FALLOUT FROM IRAN ATTACK WOULD BE DEVASTATING [Guardian.UK]. See also LUCIANNE > Asian Limited War/Comflict [e.g. India-Pakistan, circa 100 nuke detonations] would kill 1.0Bilyuhn all across Asia via direct and indirect causes. Other severe Regional-Global consequences.
#1
Where do you stand on the American action, knowing that Kurdish sources have confirmed to Niqash that the prisoner is a member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard?
We cannot confirm the accuracy of that statement, but we know that this Iranian citizen is a trader and was representing a trade delegation from Kermanshah Province in Iran.
What is the extent of the losses suffered by the region due to the border closure with Iran?
The annual trade exchange between the region and Iran is estimated to be about 800 million dollars. This includes food, medical supplies and construction supplies that used to come in from Iran. Since the Iranians closed the border, we estimate losses of a million dollars a day, suffered both by the Kurdish regional government and local merchants, since Iran - due to its proximity to the region - was the biggest point of trade for the Sulaymaniyah region in particular, and the rest of the region in general.
If the Kurds are idiotic enough to host Iranian operatives, then they deserve what they get. The border closure may be a punitive measure by Iran but the loss of trade certainly seems to be more on the Iranian side of the equation.
I suspect the true importance of having the border open was so that Kurds could support their PJAK elements within Iran. Moreover, if Kurdistan is losing one million dollars each day, the loses on Iran's side must be far more substantial. Please remind me to feel bad about this at sometime in the distant future.
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Seems to be working fine even post Nazi.
I'm sure that providing financial management services for this world's drug barons, terrorists and dictators has something to do with it. Stealing untold hundreds of billions in assets from WWII Holocaust victims probably didn't hurt them either.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 (Reuters) Widespread corruption in Iraq stretches into the government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, an Iraqi investigating judge told United States lawmakers on Thursday, and an American official said that efforts by the United States to combat the problem were inadequate.
Judge Radhi Hamza al-Radhi, who was named by the United States in 2004 to lead the Iraqi Commission on Public Integrity, said his agency estimated that corruption had cost the Iraqi government up to $18 billion.
Mr. Maliki has shielded relatives from investigation and allowed government ministers to protect implicated employees, said the judge, who left Iraq in August after threats against him. Speaking at a hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Judge Radhi said that 31 employees of his agency had been killed.
He said that he did not have evidence against Mr. Maliki personally, but that the prime minister had protected some of his relatives that were involved in corruption.
One of these was a former minister of transportation, Judge Radhi said. The American official who testified, Stuart W. Bowen Jr., the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, said he also saw a rising tide of corruption in Iraq. He said American efforts to combat it were disappointing, lacking funding and focus.
Representative Henry A. Waxman, the California Democrat who heads the panel, questioned whether the Maliki government was too corrupt to succeed, and contended that American efforts to address the problem were in complete disarray.
He criticized what he said was State Department resistance to the panels investigation. Larry Butler, the deputy assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs, declined to answer questions publicly about whether Mr. Maliki had obstructed corruption investigations, saying he could respond only in a closed session.
Mr. Waxman called that condition absurd, but the State Department defended Mr. Butlers position. Sean McCormack, the departments spokesman, said that in corruption investigations it was best to handle matters privately at first to protect the rights of those under suspicion.
Judge Radhi said he did not return to Iraq because of threats to his security, but he also suggested that Mr. Maliki was behind efforts to prosecute him if he went back.
In his statement, he said that 31 of his co-workers and 12 of their relatives had been killed because of their work. This includes my staff member, Mohammed Abd Salif, who was gunned down with his seven-month-pregnant wife, he said.
The body of the father of another worker was found on a meat hook, he said.
Judge Radhi also said it had been impossible for the commission to investigate oil corruption adequately, contending that it was because Sunni and Shiite militias had control of the distribution of Iraqi oil.
#1
Installing a thugocracy in Iraq will prove far more damaging to America's regional legacy than simply clearing the boards and maintaining a military dictatorship until we finish mopping up Islamic terrorism in-country. Iraq's constitution needs to be rewritten anyway and seeing as how this bunch of Islamic gangsters inserted shari'a law into it, all the better reason to begin dismantling their little exercise in personal empire-building.
The United States badly needs to overcome its habit of looking the other way as corrupt and ostensibly pro-American governments set about looting their nations. All we will end up doing is creating another lingering hotbed of Islamic terrorism if we allow this pattern to continue in Iraq.
IRAQ overnight delayed the execution for genocide of "Chemical Ali" as a separate trial heard horrific testimony of the alleged effects of his brutal 1991 crackdown on a Shiite uprising.
Ali Hassan al-Majid, whose death sentence was upheld by the supreme court one month ago for presiding over the mass killings of Iraqi Kurds in the 1980s, should have been executed under Iraqi law by the end of Thursday. Asked if Majid would be executed within that timeframe, a senior government official said: "Absolutely not. The Iraqi government has not made up its mind, the prime minister has not given us the green light yet."
In the separate Shiite uprising trial, Majid and 14 co-defendants are accused of having overseen a bloodbath in which up to 100,000 people were killed by Saddam Hussein's security forces. The slaughter came in March 1991 after Iraqi occupation troops were driven out of Kuwait by a US-led alliance.
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For poetic justice, they should use the gas chamber.
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think it would be kind of fun to march him into the gas chamber, lock the door. and wait.
then open up and say 'just kidding.'
repeat as nwarranted / desired.
Palestine's chief Islamic justice has warned Israel that the excavation under the Al-Aqsa Mosque will have severe consequences.
Sheikh Tayseer Tamimi has said the Zionist regime is in the process of building apartment blocks to house Zionist occupants in an old part of Al-Quds near Al-Aqsa Mosque.
These structures will take up an area of about one square kilometer.
In a ceremony in Nables in West Bank, Tamimi said the move was part of a premeditated plan which is progressing at an alarming pace.
He stated that in view of the western world's indifference towards Al-Quds, the Palestinians have no choice but to retaliate against the Zionist Conspiracy.
Five former State Department and Pentagon officials are proposing Israeli and Palestinian capitals in Jerusalem and excluding Arab refugees from returning to Israel as part of a Middle East accord.
In a six-page policy statement submitted to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, they also suggested a series of peace conferences following the one she hopes to convene next month, probably in Annapolis, Maryland, near Washington. Hamas has not met US terms for attending. Those conditions are recognizing Israel's right to exist and abandoning violence against it. But the ex-officials suggested Hamas might be drawn to attend a second conference, which implicitly would accept the first one and Israel's existence. They called the role of Hamas the most difficult issue in peacemaking.
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fuck em. The Paleos don't deserve ANY part of Jerusalem. They need consequences for their past and current actions. NEVER give them a hope of getting Jerusalem back
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State has crossed over to the other side. Palestinians deserve only the back of this world's collective hand. They are utterly worthless scum and need the most brutal repayment imaginable for their decades of parasitic treachery.
#2
Archeological sites contain graven images, and it is forbidden to enter a place containing pictures or graven images, unless with the purpose of defacing them, as Abraham did to statues - he entered the place where they stood, and smashed them.
It's only a matter of time before the pyramids go the way of the Bamiyan statues.
#3
Which is why we have to smash islam. It is that or be the generation to annihilate 7000 years of Egyptian history. That is a crime which would echo down to the end of us as a species. Ten thousand years from now we would be remembered as the generation that allowed the crime to happen.
#4
as Abraham did to statues - he entered the place where they stood, and smashed them.
The Jewish version of the tale has the child Abram (before he modified his name) smashing the clay statuettes in his father's shop, his father being a statuette maker. Not destroying the possessions of others, or of history.
#5
Word, Excal. Anyone who doubts this needs to remember something.
Above is an image from the Masjid Grand Mosque in Mecca, home of Islam's revered Kaba. See all that beautiful interior decoration? The Wahabbis would just as soon chisel it from every wall of the mosque because such embellishment and adornment represent idolatry to them. If they are so eager to deface even their own most holy place of worship, what fate awaits Infidel temples like Notre Dame, Saint Paul's Cathedral, Angkor Wat, the Tiger's Nest or untold thousands of other world heritage sites?
We are confronted with the world's most destructive cult imaginable. Neither communism nor Nazism would have dreamt of demolishing these precious relics of civilization. Islam wouldn't even think twice.
Based solely upon shari'a law's inhumanity alone, Western civilization must regard the liberation of Muslims from their tyrannous cult as our solemn duty to mankind.
#6
It's only a matter of time before the pyramids go the way of the Bamiyan statues.
They already tried. One of the early Muslim rulers of Egypt declared the pyramids offensive, and assembled an army of slaves to demolish them. Eventually, he gave it up as too expensive.
But, still, why is it they're not allowed to enter Egyptian sites (without intent to destroy them, at least), yet can wander all around the West, with all our kuffr symbols?
Hell, you'd think New York would be completely free of Muslims, given the great big statue of a woman looming over the place.
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said the Israelis struck a construction site at Tall al-Abyad just south of the Turkish border on Sept. 6. Press reports from the region say witnesses saw the Israeli aircraft approach from the Mediterranean Sea while others found unmarked drop tanks in Turkey near the border with Syria. Israeli defense officials admitted Oct. 2 that the Israeli Air Force made the raid.
The big mystery of the strike is how did the non-stealthy F-15s and F-16s get through the Syrian air defense radars without being detected? Some U.S. officials say they have the answer.
U.S. aerospace industry and retired military officials indicated today that a technology like the U.S.-developed Suter airborne network attack system developed by BAE Systems and integrated into U.S. unmanned aircraft by L-3 Communications was used by the Israelis. The system has been used or at least tested operationally in Iraq and Afghanistan over the last year. Nice of them to share these secrets with us. Our enemies will never think of reading Aviation Week.
It isn't called "Av Leak" for nuthin - we're long time subscribers in the lotp household. Sometimes those leaks are ... strategic .... othertimes it's industry bragging / drumming up business in a a domain where the real work is classified.
The technology allows users to invade communications networks, see what enemy sensors see and even take over as systems administrator so sensors can be manipulated into positions so that approaching aircraft cant be seen, they say. The process involves locating enemy emitters with great precision and then directing data streams into them that can include false targets and misleading messages algorithms that allow a number of activities including control. "All your network belong to us!"
A Kuwaiti newspaper wrote that "Russian experts are studying why the two state-of-the art Russian-built radar systems in Syria did not detect the Israeli jets entering Syrian territory. Iran reportedly has asked the same question, since it is buying the same systems and might have paid for the Syrian acquisitions." And might not buy any more if they think it resembles Swiss cheese
The system in question is thought to be the new Tor-M1 launchers which carries eight missiles as well as two of the Pachora-2A system. Iran bought 29 of the Tor launchers from Russia for $750 million to guard its nuclear sites, and they were delivered in Jan., according to Agency France-Press and ITAR-TASS. Syrian press reports they were tested in February. They also are expected to form a formidable system when used with the longer-range S-300/SA-10 which Iran has been trying to buy from Russia. Syria has operated SA-6s for years and more recently has been negotiating with Russians for the Tor-M1. What systems were actually guarding the Syrian site are not known.
Cement factories. Now that they're blown up the Syrians will have to get all their cement from North Korea ...
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#1
Good lord. This is like the fourth different story I've heard from these bozos about this.
#5
In 1968 I pushed punch cards for a defence contractor in ECM (Electronic Counter Measures - probably has a spiffier acronym, now)and we were working on a project so secret, we didn't know which aircraft was going to carry it. The engineers said it'd do "everything except cook the pilot's breakfast".
A few years later, when a Nork missle was reported as missing a SR-71 by two miles, I remember thinking the missile thought, "Gotcha" when it exploded.
1968.
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I am in ur base,
stealin ur nukes!
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Most likely as well, it was not only this but a meshing of many technologies and tactics. I would prefer "one" for an official answer and let our enemies chase that for the rest of their days.
#9
Other possibilities:
1) Israel has some F-22 technologies (see above article)(maybe another Jonathan Pollard.)
2) We stole, swapped or otherwise obtained some F-22 technologies from Israel. (I know there have been some pretty smart Jewish physicists over the years.)
3) It was US F-22's, on shakedown flights out of Iraq.
4) We sold Israel our F-117s since we aren't using them anymore.
#11
U.S. aerospace industry and retired military officials indicated today that a technology like the U.S.-developed Suter airborne network attack system developed by BAE Systems and integrated into U.S. unmanned aircraft by L-3 Communications was used by the Israelis. The system has been used or at least tested operationally in Iraq and Afghanistan over the last year
#12
It would be easier to (a) hit the sites using commandos (b) than claim you hit it with planes and watch the fun as they try to figure out why they didnt' see nothin.
A couple of combat air probes could help by setting off false alarms in some areas. This would also take pressure off of commandoes, mission complete, heading for the Iraqi border.
#14
So, I'm wonderin here if we can fake their anti-aircraft units to shoot and launch missles that will come down in Damascus or perhaps Tehran ?
Heh, heh, heh.
Invasion by electronic signal. You don't have to feed it, you don't have to catch it, you don't have to clean it. What's not to like ?
#16
Our enemies will never think of reading Aviation Week.
According to Cold War legend, the Soviets regarded "Aviation Leak"as it has long been known in the ECM industryso highly that a dedicated jet sat on the New York tarmac awaiting its copy of the magazine for immediate transportation back to the USSR.
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The technology allows users to invade communications networks, see what enemy sensors see and even take over as systems administrator so sensors can be manipulated into positions so that approaching aircraft cant be seen
#18
"Russian experts are studying why the two state-of-the art Russian-built radar systems in Syria did not detect the Israeli jets entering Syrian territory"
I can help youse guys out with dat: Your Russian stuff SUCKS ROCKS.
You're welcome.
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The technology allows users to invade communications networks, see what enemy sensors see and even take over as systems administrator so sensors can be manipulated into positions so that approaching aircraft cant be seen
I can't see this being done from a bomber but if someone was dumb enough to connect the enemy sensors to the internet at large, or we had a connection into their blacksite this could probalby be done.
Tens of thousands of Iranians marched through Tehran Friday proclaiming solidarity with Palestinians and chanting "Death to Israel" in the country's annual protest against the occupying regime.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in his address to the protestors, vowed that Iran and other states would continue resistance until "all of Palestine is liberated" from Israel's hands.
The late founder of the Islamic Revolution, Imam Khomeini, declared the last Friday of Ramadan as "Quds Day" to call for the liberation of Al-Quds from the Israeli occupation.
After Mecca in Saudi Arabia, Al-Quds is the holiest place to Muslims.
Iranians of all ages began the march through the center of the capital to Tehran University to mark Quds Day, calling for Al-Quds and the occupied territories to be handed to the Palestinians.
Colored bibs were handed out to protestors with the slogan "Death to Israel, Death to United States" while "Palestine will only be free with fighting and faith" was the slogan on one banner.
"I come every year because the Palestinians are helpless and they cannot defend themselves. I come here to attract the world's attention to their plight," said Somayeh Salim, 27.
She was carrying an Israeli flag in her rucksack: "I am going to burn it."
The protest was due to be echoed in similar demonstrations up and down the country.
Ahmadinejad has repeatedly predicted that Israel is doomed to disappear and questioned the suffering of the Palestinians as indemnity for the European killing of Jews in World War II.
Iran does not recognize Israel and insists on a referendum to clarify the geographic and political status of the "occupied territories of Palestine" in which millions of Palestinian refugees are allowed to vote.
Ahmadinejad and other Iranian leaders have several times stressed that Iran would accept the outcome of the referendum "whatever it would be".
Ahmadinejad said Wednesday that Iran had an "international mission" to stop the Zionist regime's hegemony in the Middle East.
#1
Why, oh why couldn't we have attacked Iran today? It would be the perfect propaganda coup to make these America-hating maggots cower in abject fear as we blew their country to shit with total impunity.
#3
Nope, gg. First use of NBC (Nuclear- Biological-Chemical) weapons is still out of the question. Rest assured that my resistance to this notion is being steadily eroded by Islam's constant atrocities, but America needs to retain the moral high ground on not intiating their use. That way, if some loathsome Islamic scumbag deploys any NBC weapons against us, we will have every right to retaliate with a nuclear response and truly begin cleaning Islam's filthy house.
#5
You feel the need to establish moral superiority vis-a-vis Muzzies?
Don't be foolish. Even a cockroach is morally superior to the Muslims. I'm talking about the non-Islamic global community whose confidence, both in our intentions and the means of expressing them in an acceptable fashion, still remains of importance to America.
#7
JPOST > Moud > reportedly wants Jews to move to be given land in Europe or Alaska so to have their own land. ZIONISM = EXISTENCE OF ISRAEL is a GLOBAL ISSUE vv natural rights of Paleos to whole of Palestine and Israel's non-right to exist.
ALSO FROM JPOST > IRAN WILL NEVER NEGOTIATE OVER ITS NUCLEAR RIGHTS. Iran threatens to talk over nuke matters only via the UNIAEA-UNO - no more non-UNO inter-state diplomacy. IOW, IRAN > US-WORLD CONCEDES AND ALLOWS IRAN TO HAVE NUCTECH, OR ELSE MUST ATTACK IRAN IN ORDER TO STOP ITS NUCDEVPROGS, BECUZ IRAN WON'T. * Israel Posters > IRAN IS BASICALLY DECLARING WAR = DECLARES WAR???
#2
Prodi stated in a press conference that the Golan is an occupied Syrian territory and should be restored to Syria, saying "this is the natural thing', stressing the need to establish a just and comprehensive peace in the Middle East.
Pray tell exactly what it is that the Israelis will receive in return for this gesture? As always, Europe asks that Israel make unilateral concessions without the least reciprocal commitment by its enemies. Not that genuine Arab reciprocitya true oxymoron if ever there was onehas previously been demonstrated anyway but who's counting?
Prodi and his fellow Euroweenies need to STFU and address the far more pressing issue of Islamic radicals within their own midst. If they even try and connect the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as some sort of root cause to European Islamicization, they need a major pimpslapping.
Even more curious is how this sort of blatantly anti-Semitic unilateralism is perfectly agreeable to Europe while America's own unilateral response to Islamic terrorism is wholly unacceptable. Yet one more noxious vestige of the Eurabian pact rearing its ugly little head.
#4
It's not even 'captured' territory. It's historical Israel, and an absolutely essential buffer to prevent Syrian attack and the poisoning of Israel's water supply. An good synopsis can be found here.
By all means, rhodesiafever! I first caught the term from one of OldSpook's posts. It's a real keeper and far more polite that the more common synonym for it.
#10
It's the same old Land for Peace Promises they've been peddling for 20+ years.
Yes, Barbara, but the difference here is that Europe is pressing the Arab case while utterly ignoring the total lack of reciprocity in their suggestion. It is nothing more or less than blatant anti-Semitism to demand that Israel surrender strategically vital high-ground to their enemies with zero concessions in return. This is the same exact garbage as expecting Israel to keep the power and lights turned on in Gaza even while Hamas continues to rocket them on a daily basis. Israel has every right to simply ignore world opinion and go about exterminating the Palestinians.
#15
Hey ASShad, talk to this islamics about returning France to the French, England to the English, Detroit, parts of Minnesota, and California to The USA. The Golan Heights was captured when arab countries attacked Israel from all sides in the Six Day War. Ancient Israel consisted of part of what is now Syria and Jordan. Let's talk about return of territory, O.K.
#2
As before, SYRIA = IRAN = LEBANON TERROR GROUPS > DEMAND TO BE INVADED BY ISRAELI/US-ALLIED GROUND FORCES - D *** NG IT, its their right and its for the Children + Ozone!
Coinciding with the dissolution of Basijs leadership into the Revolutionary Guards, one of supreme leaders representatives in the Basij announced that the organization plans to establish branches outside the country. The Basij is a para-military organization based on volunteers.
Speaking to a group of Basiji activists in Mashhad, supreme leaders representative Mehdi Abedi said, Today, in response to requests by other countries, we are ready to establish Basij in their land in order to propagate the Basiji mentality and culture. Today, the enemys main tactic for overthrowing the regime is to instigate a cultural invasion, and so this is the most dangerous threat to the country. Abedi continued, Today, cultural invasion is extremely threatening to the country and most of the activities are undertaken by Americans and Wahabis, a reference to the brand of Sunni Muslims in Saudi Arabia.
Abedis comments come a day after the newly appointed head of Revolutionary Guards, Commander Mohammad Ali Jafari, announced that he would personally lead the Basij from now on. Citing direct orders from the supreme leader Ali Khamenei, Jafari elaborated that the Basij will overtake half of the Guards responsibilities.
During last weeks Friday prayers, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addressed the possibility of a U.S. military strike against Iran. According to Ayatollah Khamenei, although this possibility is weak, it must be taken seriously.
As the supreme leader was asking the public to take the possibility of a U.S. attack seriously, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other Islamic Republic officials continued to deny the possibility of such an attack.
According to sources inside Iran, the recent changes in the structure of the Basij and the Guards, and the Basijs new responsibility of maintaining internal security, reveal the Islamic Republics increasing fear of a possible U.S. strike. Thus, while the Basij organization is strengthened inside the country, branches will be established outside Iran in accordance with the theory of asymmetric warfare, which has been referenced repeatedly by the new Guards leadership.
In his latest speech, Commander Jafari identified Basij as an extremely important and effective weapon against enemy aggression. Jafari noted, The strategy of the Guards is drafted in conformity with the conditions of the time. Progress requires new outlooks, a point that is well-attended to in the Guards.
A media confrontation broke out between former General Michel Aoun's Free Patriotic Movement and police over the arrest of activists accused of receiving training on weapons. FPM MPs representing the Jbeil (Byblos) constituency issued a statement terming the police intelligence branch a "militia."
That statement makes precisely zero sense.
The statement said "This militia is raiding residences of FPM activists in Jbeil Province in violation of all laws and procedures."
That statement's nearly as senseless. What're coppers supposed to do?
It said FPM activist Dario Qdeih was rounded up from his home and taken to one of the police intelligence branch's offices "without any legal warrant his whereabouts have been unknown for 24 hours."
"And they won't give his artillery back, neither!"
Lebanese American University student Elie Abu Youness, also an FPM activist, was also rounded up from his residence Thursday, the statement added. The MPs pledged to "citizens of our constituency that we will save no effort to combat this militia."
"Or the government. Whatever."
In response to the FPM charges, police issued a statement and a series of photographs of alleged FPM activists training on the use of weapons and wearing military fatigues. The police statement said that in line with instructions from the military attorney general, two persons were arrested. The statement identified the two by their initials and stressed that they testified to investigators that they are members of the FPM and that they were undergoing military training in Jbeil area with other colleagues. The two, according to the statement, also disclosed the name of the owner of the weapons used by the squad for training. He also was identified by his initials. The military judiciary, in charge of cases related to state security, ordered the arrest of the two suspects and issued a warrant for the weapons' owner, the police statement added. It stressed that it was releasing the photographs of the suspects to inform the Lebanese people of the evidence that led the force to shoulder its responsibility in preventing any one from fiddling with the nation's security.
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