At least two people died and more than 20 were hurt when a man threw a hand grenade at a group of university students in Sana'a on Saturday, police said. According to dpa, police sources conveyed the attacker threw the grenade at a group of students gathered at a bus stop just outside the university's main gate. They said the attacker had been arrested on the spot, and initial investigations had shown a "personal motive." One student died at the scene while the other died of his wounds in hospital, medical sources said. Three of the injured students were in critical condition, they added.
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Prolly just some Intrafraternal hijinx. I know my fraternity (SAE) used to set fire to the TKE house next door as a "housewarming" during rush....of course, we didn't have grenades...but if we did?...
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Two people have been charged in Britain with distributing a publication that encourages acts of terrorism, police said Sunday. Amjad Mahmood, 29, and Shella Roma, 27, both of Manchester, northern England, were arrested on Thursday and released on bail. They will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court in London on Feb. 12.
Neither named 'Nigel' or 'Clive', huh?
Mahmood and Roma were charged under Britain's Terrorism Act with distributing or circulating a terrorist publication that directly or indirectly encourages acts of terrorism. Further details of the allegations against them were not immediately available.
THE RAF is being forced to borrow American spy planes and paint roundels on them to replace its fleet of Nimrod R1 signals intelligence aircraft. The crews of the US Rivet Joint spy planes masquerading as RAF aircraft will not even be totally British with US personnel expected to take control on some missions. The move, forced by a Ministry of Defence (MoD) cash crisis that rules out the money for a replacement aircraft for the Nimrod R1, has provoked outrage among RAF air crew who say it will mean a major loss of capability.
The MoD said last week a final decision had not yet been taken. But Air Marshal Sir Glenn Torpy, chief of the air staff, briefed air crew during a visit to the Middle-East just before Christmas. He told the R1 crew that he had brought them an early Christmas present, one source said. But when he described the plan to use the RC135 Rivet Joint spy planes the response was blunt. It was so unenthusiastic and blunt that several RAF officers were subsequently hauled up before their commander for a dressing-down, the source said.
I am incandescent with rage that we are even considering ditching what is a world-class, gold standard, war-winning capability in the name of economy and the dubious claimed benefits of greater interoperability with the USAF, one insider said.
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Maybe the Brits should consider outsourcing the defense of their nation to private contractors. Outsourcing is a common business solution when you do not have the expertise (or motivation) to do it in-house. /me sees this as the wave of the future for small countries. Hell, we are already doing with Blackwater and such.
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The Nimrod has to be the ugliest-looking aircraft flying today. Most of it's because the airframe has had bits and pieces added on to make it useful for its current role. That's also one of the major headaches with operating these aircraft - they're a beast to work on. There is usually one at every British airshow in the UK, and frequently at American ones. Like most British warfighting equipment, however, comfort for those that have to operate them is not even a secondary consideration. I think they'll be quite surprised at the COMFORT aboard Rivet Joint aircraft.
As for capability, Rivet Joint is just one of more than a dozen different aircraft and configurations the US uses for intelligence purposes. The British have "put all their eggs in one basket" because they refuse to pay for multiple aircraft for multiple missions. When socialism gobbles up the majority of your tax income, you take shortcuts elsewhere - something we in this country need to seriously remember.
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That's not an ELINT, that's an ICBM hauler. No "Flying Saucer" on top. Bulbous fuselage.
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Nope RJ, the weird lowered nose bulb just makes the fuselage look particularly large. Trompe l'eoil.
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IRANIAN.WS > GORBACHEV: USA IS TARGETING RUSSIA, NOT IRAN, via US GMD in Czech-Poland; + RIAN > RICE: US MISSLE DEFENSE WILL NOT AFFECT RUSSIA'S MISSLE CAPABILITY.
See RIAN, RENSE, etc for the continuing BOMBER FLIGHT escapades of the RUSSIAN AIR FORCE.
(Itar-Tass) - A vehicle with policemen came under fire in a pursuit operation in Chechnya. There were no losses among the policemen, a Chechen interior ministry source told Itar-Tass. The incident occurred near the residential site of Rubezhnoye late on Friday.
The policemen pursued gunmen who were in a VAZ car, and the bandits opened fire on the police vehicle. In the exchange of fire, one gunman, Movsar Akhmadov, was killed. He had a Makarov pistol and two magazines for a Kalashnikov submachine gun.
Three Koran books, three sets of winter police uniform and about 300 grammes of brown-colour explosive substance, supposedly trinitrotoluene, were also found in the bandits' car when it was examined. Search was launched to detain the remaining gunmen.
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Very politically correct article from the Indian press. Not one mention of the word 'Muslim'
New Delhi, Feb. 2: The home ministry has asked all security establishments to watch out for possible infiltration of their ranks by terrorists or their sympathisers.
The warning has come after investigators and intelligence agencies confirmed that the New Year-eve attack on the CRPF camp in Rampur that killed seven jawans and a civilian was an inside job.
The Intelligence Bureau suspects this may not be an isolated case of infiltration.
But the Indian PM has a 'Muslims first' policy. His Sachar Committee report demands that the Indian Army and Police drastically increase the numbers of Muslims in their ranks. Affirmative Action and all that.
Based on IB inputs, the home ministry has written to the defence ministry asking it to warn the three armed forces that they may have been compromised. Minister of state for home Sriprakash Jaiswal confirmed this.
All security establishments, including the central paramilitary forces, have been asked to do a sabotage check on their personnel. Although there is a drill at the entry level where all recruits are verified thoroughly and their backgrounds checked, there is always the possibility that a few of them, seen as amenable targets, are approached to help the terrorists later. So we can never let our guard down and need to keep checking regularly, an intelligence official said.
Here is a bit of advice: when a guy is a member of a jihadi organization waging war on the Indian state and he 'surrenders', it is not a good idea to then recruit him into the security forces.
The CRPF camp attack is worrying because this is the first instance of successful infiltration. There are reports of infiltration from various paramilitary forces and even the army several times. But most are detected and taken care of without making them public. However, this is one case where it went undetected and the personnel managed to help the terrorists, the official said.
"Undetected"? He was a known 'surrendered militant'.
Officials from IB and the Research and Analysis Wing will help the paramilitary forces screen new recruits as well as personnel who might have spent over five or 10 years in service.
The security agencies have been asked to keep a tab on soldiers bank accounts as well as property acquisition or change in behaviour and lifestyle.
Although there are several in-built checks and balances in the form of the hierarchical control system, one can never be too sure about these things. Even if a single person in an organisation is subverted, it can be potentially extremely dangerous. There are opportunities galore for security personnel to indulge in acts threatening national security or life of a VVIP or a sensitive structure like the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, the official said.
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Indian army soldiers search the debris of a house after a gunbattle with suspected militants in Batpora, 60 km (36 miles) south of Srinagar, January 30, 2008. Four militants including a commander of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, Kashmir's frontline militant organisation were killed in a gunbattle with security forces in the village of Batpora, police said.
Kashmiri Muslims perform the funeral prayers next to the body of Ruhul Bhat, a militant commander, in Frisal, 65 km (40 miles) south of Srinagar, February 2, 2008. Thousands of Kashmiri Muslims on Saturday attended the funeral of Bhat who police said was a "Battalion Commander" of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, Kashmir's front line militant organisation and was killed in a gun battle with security forces in the area of Frisal late on Friday. Three residential houses were also destroyed during the gun battle police added.
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The warning has come after investigators and intelligence agencies confirmed that the New Year-eve attack on the CRPF camp in Rampur that killed seven jawans and a civilian was an inside job.
Wait! Obi Wan said the blasts were too precise, that it HAD to be work of storm troopers!
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Current: Sabotage alert for forces
Alert Status at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, just outside Bombay at Trombay.
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Between 2 and 3 AM on January 1, 2008, when a group of four Lashkar-e-Tayiba terrorists, armed with AK-47 rifles and hand-grenades, attacked a camp of the CRPF at Rampur in Uttar Pradesh killing seven jawans and a civilian.
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RBees does the following have a familiar feel to it?
India is no longer battling a foreign monster, trained and armed by Pakistan. We are now confronted by enemies within who are no less diabolical than those from whom they draw inspiration The Pioneer, New Delhi.
"Thanks to the Islam-embracing, Islam-promoting, Islam-sponsoring, Islam-projecting, Hindu-hating and Hindu-baiting UPA Government in New Delhi under an imperiously impotent and invertebrate surrogate Prime Minister, Islamic terrorists are having a field day in several parts of India and more particularly in Uttar Pradesh."
John check this source out, at first glance the ideas and spirit seem just about right.
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At least six people including two policemen and two suspected militants were killed in a gun battle in Mardan after police raided a suspected militant hideout at 5am on Saturday, police and sources said.
Mardan police official Shakirullah told Daily Times that police raided Afsar Alis house in Palodehri area in the Morah Killi in Choora police precincts, 15 kilometres southeast of Mardan, following a tip off that terrorists involved in attacks on music shops were hiding in the house.
The militants fired at the police, he said, killing two policemen (Choora Station House Officer Ishfaq and Fazlullah) and wounding another two (City ASP Pervez Imrani and Hoti station house officer Inspector Salim Dad). AFP said they hurled grenades and fired rockets at the police.
Sources said a woman passing by was killed in the crossfire and a civilian Azam Khan was killed as militants entered his house. Police seized three Kalashnikovs, eight hand grenades and two suicide vests from the house, Shakirullah said. Policemen from Peshawar, Swabi, Charsadda and Nowshera also took part in the operation.
Sources said Afsar Ali, the owner of the house, was wanted by police for attacks on music shops. They said the dead include Adnan, whose brother Kamran was an aide of Baitullah Mehsud in the district. They said that the police had raided the area a week ago but the militants, 25 to 40 in number, managed to flee. Four days ago, a jirga in the area assured the government that it would inform police of militant activities in the area. Local sources said many Pakistani, Uzbek and Afghani Taliban operated in the Jamra, Palodehri, Jhengra, Spinkai Ghar and Bashkhali areas of Mardan.
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Sources said Afsar Ali, the owner of the house, was wanted by police for attacks on music shops.
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The Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) No 1 on Saturday extended for 10 more days the physical remand of two men suspected to be members of a squad of suicide bombers that killed former premier Benazir Bhutto.
The two men 15-year-old Aitzaz Shah and Sher Zaman were produced in court under tight security. Both were taken to court in an armoured personnel carrier and had their faces covered by police. Shah had earlier told investigators that he was next in line to target Benazir, who was assassinated in a suicide attack in Rawalpindi on December 27. Shah was recently brought to Rawalpindi for questioning and an anti-terrorism court had remanded him to police custody for 10 days.
City Police had booked the two under sections 302/24, 435/36, 120-B, 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act and 4/5 of the Explosive Act. According to Online, the officers of the team investigating Benazir Bhuttos assassination presented the remand paper in the court. They said important information had been obtained from the accused on suicide attacks and terror related incidents during the investigation. They requested more time with the accused to confirm the information learnt.
ATC No 1 Judge Chaudhry Habibullah accepted the request of the police and ordered them to produce the accused in court on February 12, at the end of the 10-day remand. The ATC also adjourned hearing into the Maulana Azam Tariq murder case till March 3. Azam Tariq, chief of banned Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan, was gunned down in October 2003 on the outskirts of Islamabad.
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At the end of the ten days, they'll be given lollipops, cookies and ice cream and sent home with coupons for complimentary subscriptions to Highlights for Children magazine...
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Highlights for Children magazine... wow that takes me back... with the weird stock and weirder picture puzzle Oddly they have a website which isn't HTML 1 gray. BTW they are looking for crafts for boys, 5 steps or less with easy to obtain materials. $150 and up! Ima send direckshuns for makin gun cotton.
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Imagine Goofus and Gallant updated for WOT topics...
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Paper bag
1 C flour
sparkler
M-80
track shoes
Put the M-80 in the bottom of the paper bag, with the fuse through a hole to outside. Pour the flour into the bag. Put the sparkler, head up, in the exact center of the paper bag, poking through the bottom into the ground. Put on track shoes. Light sparkler, THEN light M-80, and RUN!!!!! Makes a nice, loud BANG (most of the time).
How's that? If done right, nobody even gets hurt.
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FREEREPUBLIC > Seems like OSAMA' 16-yo son HAMZA was implicated by Benazir Bhutto in leading one of the death squads' attacks upon her.
Security forces arrested five suspected militants from Swat on Saturday. Officials told Daily Times by telephone that a man named Habibul Haq was apprehended on a checkpost in Khwazakhela. Haq is said to be a close aide of rebel cleric Fazlullah. Four more suspected militants were held on a checkpost in Fizza Ghat area. Contacted for comments, Media Information Centre in Mingora confirmed arrest of the four people but would not divulge their names. An official said all the five men arrested had been detained for suspected links to the militants. He said they would be subjected to interrogation and would be freed if found innocent.
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From a State of the Union that won't be much quoted, a line for the military that can't be repeated enough: "In the past year, you have done everything we've asked of you, and more. Our nation is grateful for your courage. We are proud of your accomplishments."
Take the case of one Marine, Sean A. Stokes of California. On Wednesday, his 25th birthday, he will be awarded the Silver Star for courage demonstrated during the hand-to-hand, street-fighting nightmare that was the Battle of Fallujah in November 2004.
The honor will be presented posthumously.
Stokes was killed by an IED blast on July 30, 2007, while on security detail during his third deployment to Iraq. His longtime friend Brad Adams also was injured, but survived. Stokes died in the arms of the battalion commander whose life he had saved.
Stokes' heroics on the battlefield were amply recorded in Patrick O'Donnell's book We Were One and the History Channel documentary Shootout: Fallujah. Equally impressive was his struggle to remain in uniform, to stay and fight beside his fellow Marines.
Being a Marine was a longtime dream of Stokes', and he enlisted after high school, in the wake of 9/11. But early on, he screwed up. A family emergency arose, and he went home to help - without permission. When he returned, a drug test detected marijuana in his system. He was busted from corporal to private, threatened with an early discharge, and attached to the Third Battalion, First Marine Regiment, which was headed for Iraq. It was a chance to prove himself. He did.
During 12 days of urban combat in Fallujah, Lima Company's First Platoon fought house by house. Stokes was on point, kicking in the doors, never knowing whether an ambush awaited.
He described the job in Shootout: "At each house I said a prayer, 'Please, God, get me out of this one.' When I come out of the house, I thank him, light up a cigarette and move on to the next one."
He was wounded twice. The first time was in an alley when his platoon was driven back by a grenade assault. Stokes took some shrapnel - again, with Brad Adams - but he kept up return fire, allowing his buddies to pull back safely. Stokes hid his wounds, fearing a mandatory evacuation. He wouldn't abandon his platoon.
Days later, First Platoon was entering yet another house. Lance Cpl. Philip Peterson later told O'Donnell: "There were four open doors, a stairwell, and one closed door. It was a black door on a black wall. It was the creepiest looking thing I've ever seen. Stokes and I looked at this door, and we both said: 'We'll save that one for last.' "
But the door opened and an AK47 poked out, firing at knee level. The Marines returned fire, and as the door was shut, a grenade rolled out. The blast sent the 6-foot Stokes flying. "It was like being hit with a bowling ball," he said later. There was more enemy fire, more grenades. The Marines scrambled to get out, but another blast knocked Stokes down again. Once outside, the platoon noticed he wasn't with them.
He was on the floor of the house, firing back at an enemy that was closing in. He ran out of ammo. The enemy was still firing, still lobbing grenades his way. Lance Cpl. Heath Kramer finally crashed through a door behind Stokes, who was woozy and disoriented from the succession of blasts, and dragged him outside.
Earning two Purple Hearts and the admiration of his peers wasn't enough to clear Stokes' record. A second tour of Iraq brought a promotion, but the threat of discharge remained. He was offered a seven-month extension, with a third deployment, but after that he would be out.
Gary Stokes advised his son to turn down the extension. "You done your part, buddy," he told Sean. "You don't need to do any more."
He was taken aback by Sean's angry, vehement response. "I have to support all those guys," Sean told his dad. "We have to support them all. I have to make sure I hold up my end of the bargain as long as I can."
Stokes didn't want his family to worry, so he misled them about the deployment. He said he would be aboard ship, probably in the Mediterranean. Gary Stokes didn't learn that Sean was actually in Iraq until the knock on the door at 6:30 a.m. on July 30.
"Following your dreams shouldn't kill you, but it killed Sean. It's really just tragic," says O'Donnell, who befriended Stokes and helped draft the Silver Star recommendation.
Neither a medal, nor a nation's thanks, can compensate for such a loss or fully honor such devotion and self-sacrifice. At best, we can promise to never forget, and determine to support all those guys, to hold up our end of the bargain as long as we can.
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While surely deserving of a Silver Star, it again makes me sad that the preponderance of such citations are posthumous. Why is there such hesitation to having living heroes recognized for their valor as well?
In our society, there are two groups opposed to living heroes. The first are the bitterly envious and neurotic, who despise heroes precisely because heroes were and are undeniably better than they.
These people are obsessed with being given honors themselves, though undeserved, and create endless empty honorariums to award each other. Be it a dozen Oscars or Grammys or such effluvia, it cannot hold a candle to even a Purple Heart.
As such, they live to tear down those who are cited for their *actions*, not just their neurosis and ability to pretend to be someone else.
The other, and far larger group are those who fear the wrath of such neurotics. They are loathe to cite heroics for fear that those who are cited will be torn down and despised, somehow lowering the honor of the citation itself.
And these are the more tragic of the two. Who love and respect the citation so much that there is no living person they will dare cite.
Sergeant York, and those who followed in his footsteps, no longer are perfect enough, while alive. Even saving the world itself may not be enough for this second group.
They fail to realize that if anything becomes priceless, it is very close to being worthless. A treasure locked away from all, never exhibited, unknown to all except its keeper, is meaningless.
Already the Medal of Honor is forgotten by many Americans. Joe Foss was despised because no one knew what his Medal of Honor was, so to them it was just a potentially dangerous piece of metal.
Only one recipient of the MoH is still in the Army. Of the two cited in Somalia, two in Iraq, and one in Afghanistan, all were posthumous. As were the great majority of Silver and Bronze Star citations.
This does not mean America has no heroes, just that it refuses to admire them while alive.
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The citations for all of the CMOH are hair raising.
Just reading them sends chills up your back.
This kid personifies the type of men and women we have in the military. We should be very proud of these kids. Being in the military should be promoted to being considered an honor to serve instead of the last resort of the uneducated or unemployed as the F###ing democrats are want to portray these fine young kids.
I have to say the young men I met in Iraq and the young men I saw in Iraq all looked like recruiting posters....good looking, fit, articulate, courteous and most of all bristling with confidence and the eyes of eagles.
God Bless Sean Stokes and God's Blessings on his family in their time of grief.
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I read O'Donnell's book awhile back and I thought these Marines were up to their asses in hand-to-hand and door to door fighting. They were in the finest tradition of the Marine Corp. Part of today's greatest generation-uncommon bravery was commonplace.
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Amen JASPOD. Your impressions of our fighting men dovetails exactly with mine. I was trying to explain, in vain (I live in Marin Co, CA), to a dinner guest last night how each of our guys is an ambassador and an absolute contrast to the savages of Al Q. Each of these guys makes an impression on the Iraqi people. I'm sure many Iraqis won't get the message, but a whole lot will. Men, real men, like Sean, will leave that as their legacy.
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Ladies and Gents,
I would like to see some numbers, please, before we use terms like "preponderance" and "most". Where I'm at, I see many citations for living heroes, mostly Marine Corps and Navy. I am not as close to the Army and have no interaction with the USAF, so I don't know about them. Sorry about the nitpicking, but the accuracy thing is important to me.
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someone said these men are The Best of Us.. Sean A. Stokes died with the men he loved and fought with.. he has my families gratutude and respect.
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remoteman 1/2 of my family lives in Moron County! Sis has a home in Mill Valley.
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This brave young man was going to be thrown out of the Corps for smoking a little reefer, give me a freaking break. How many of us in Nam chiefed daily. Goddamn near all of us. Ridiculous.The world should be getting simpler, but it just gets more complicated every day. Lies, bullshit, politics, all bullshit. We'll say a prayer for your family tonight son. Hoorah!
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We have zero tolerance on drugs in the Corps - and for good reason. Stokes was a real man- true...but an exception to the rule as far as drug waivers go. Every recruit or officer candidate that starts day one gets that beaten into their head. Civilians may be able to smoke weed but Marines are held to the highest standards.
Most of the guys that do weed (which is what they get caught for and never usually the first time) and get a second chance end up screwing up again....I've seen that happen in just about every drug case and NJP I either sat in on or presided over.
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"House to House" is a good read but my favorite book on the battle of Fallujah is Bing West's "No true Glory". He really captures the unbelievable heroism of these fine young warriors.
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The world never gets simpler. It just gets... different.
I went to see a performance at one of the nearby high schools Thursday night, an affluent one where many company directors and vice presidents live. I noticed that right near the entrance there were two large glass cases with the pictures of graduates who'd gone into the military. Most of the pictures were Class of 2002 and beyond, and all but one of those were tip of the spear units. Everyone who's joined (or re-joined) the military since 9/11 has known exactly what they were getting into.
Based on the stories I've read here and elsewhere, these young men and women keeping the bargain they made to the nation and each other. I'm quite certain the numbers that deserve Stars would be staggering if known... and their peers do know who they are.
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GolfBravoUSMC, couldn't be because of the pro-Army bias, huh? LOL, just teasing...House to House had a definite "lean" - I'll make it a point to check your recommendation out
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Remoteman,
Trust me, From my conversations with the Iraqis when I was there and the email and IM's I get from them regularly, the Iraqis "get it" about our kids.
Dang, I have to say that after two weeks in Baghdad, I would have given my left one to have had a company of these guys to command when I was a rifle company commander in Nam.
BAGHDAD - Sources in the interior and defence ministries said that at least 98 people were killed and 208 wounded in the two explosions in the pet markets of Al-Ghazl and Baghdad al-Jadida. A breakdown of the tolls for each attack was not given by the ministry sources on Saturday. Officials on Friday said 64 people had been killed and 107 wounded in the market bombings -- 46 dead at Al-Ghazl and 18 killed at Baghdad al-Jadida.
The explosives were strapped to two mentally impaired women and then triggered by remote control in co-ordinated blasts, a top Iraqi security official said on Friday. Both women were mentally impaired. They were wearing belts containing 15 kilogrammes (33 pounds) of explosives, Major General Qasim Ata, spokesman for the Baghdad security plan, told AFP on Friday. The explosives were detonated by remote control, he said of the blasts which occurred within 20 minutes of each other.
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MHW wins today's prize for seeing the hidden message. Yep, not a friggin word. Anyone who talks about the "mainstream muslim" is a fool. The mainstream muslim is either complicit or irrelevant by their silence. The radicals are in charge and are setting the agenda. We fight or get overrun.
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I posted an article I received from a friend of mine on my weblog. that covers the "silence" of "mainstream" muslims quite well. It's chilling, not only because of what it says about muslims, but also because much of the same thing is happening today in the US. As usual, we (the free world) will do nothing until it's almost too late, and retaining our freedom will be three times as expensive then as it would be now - IF we succeed.
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Ma'an Five Palestinians were injured by Israeli army gunfire in the West Bank town of Beit Ummar on Friday during clashes at the funeral procession of two Palestinians killed last week in the Israeli settlement of Kfar Etzion, south of Bethlehem. Medical sources said the injured, one of whom is in a serious condition, were taken to Hebron Government Hospital.
The clashes occurred during the funeral of twenty-one-year-old Muhammad Fathi Sabarna and twenty-year-old Mahmoud Khaled Sabarna from Beit Ummar, who were shot dead after allegedly entering the Kfar Etzion settlement carrying knives and stabbing three Israeli settlers.
At least 20 Israeli military vehicles were present, as the funeral procession began at the town's mosque and attempted to proceed to the nearby cemetery along the main street. Eye witnesses said the clashes started after Israeli forces prevented the funeral procession from reaching the cemetery through the main Bethlehem-Hebron road, trying to force the mourners to take a different route.
During the ensuing fighting, twenty-year-old Ibrahim Hasan Al Alam was shot in the thigh, suffering broken bones and severe bleeding. He is in a critical condition. Forty-two-year-old Hisham Khalil Abu Mariya was hit in the head by a rubber bullet. Thirty-seven-year-old Saqar Sader Abu Mariya was shot in the foot. Twenty-seven-year-old Ahmad Ali Akil Khalil was hit in the hand by a rubber bullet. Twenty-year-old Anwar Ahmad Khamees was hit with a gas grenade in the head.
Although Israeli forces had handed over the deceased's bodies to their relatives on Wednesday evening, their burial was not possible until Friday due to the bad weather conditions over the past few days. Both men had recently been released from an Israeli prison. They had each served a year after being found guilty of beating up an Israeli settler and taking his gun.
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AHMED ALI AKIL KHALIL
Fatah
ANWAR AHMED KHAMIS
Fatah
HISHAM KHALIL ABU MARIYA
Fatah
IBRAHIM HASAN AL ALAM
Hamas
MAHMUD KHALED SABARNA
Hamas
MUHAMAD FATHI SABARNA
Hamas
SAQAR SADER ABU MARIYA
Fatah
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my heart bleeds...*urp*... nevermind, I'm fine
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Too bad, so sad.
tu3031, does the PCHR have an incident report for this?
Ma'an The Al-Mujahidin Brigades said that they clashed with an Israeli force in Hojr Ad Dik in the eastern Gaza Strip for more than 40 minutes on Friday evening. They said the operation was filmed. The brigades said the attack was a response to "the military crimes against Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza."
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We're the Judean People's Front crack suicide squad !
*GLOBAL RESEARCH > ISRAEL IS PREPARING FOR WAR...
Israeli Govt advising citizenry to prepare war/ready rooms for likely possible rain of ballistic missles on entire country by enemies.
JPOST > Shin Bet:ADVANCED WEAPONRY SMUGGLED INTO GAZA.
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Israel won't go to war until her people have at least minimum protection, if at all possible, JosephM. Or rather, Israel wants to make the home front safer so the war can be prepared for.
Ma'an Two children were injured in an ambiguous explosion in the As-Salaam neighbourhood of Rafah on Friday evening, medical sources said. Mu'awiyah Hassanein, the head of ambulance and emergency services in the Palestinian ministry of health, said that the injured children had been taken to Abu Yousif An-Najar Hospital in Rafah.
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Hamas said that the Palestinian security services arrested four of their supporters in the West Bank on Friday. In Salfit, Husam Abdullah and Raed Yousef Mesh'al and Ayub Abdel Gawad from Deir Ballut were arrested during a raid on their homes. In Tulkarem security authorities arrested Abdul Fattah Bedier, whose father, Omar Bedier, was one of the leaders of Islamic Jihad who was killed in Jenin. Moreover, the security services in Jenin are continuing the detention of lawyer Fadel Bushnaq for the second month in a row.
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Compare wid TOPIX > ALL POWER TO HAMAS.
D *** NG IT, ITS FOR THE HAMAS POLITBURO - more indicia that 2008 is a DECISIVE YEAR NOT JUST FOR THE US GOP-DEMS.
*DEFENSE NEWS > SPECIAL FORCES COMMAND, MORE MILITARY AID TO BERIUT.
An Al-Aqsa Brigades leader surivived an assassination attempt in the West Bank town of Jenin on Friday. The Al-Aqsa Brigades announced that General Abu Uday Al-Mansour had surivived the Israeli army attempt on his life.
Brigades media spokesman, Abu Alyasser, said in a statement that "Abu Uday Al-Mansour was present in a building located in the city of Jenin when the occupation forces tried to assassinate him, but he managed to escape safely."
Abu Alyasser said that the commander was in the building for a meeting with a number of Brigades members. He realized the existence of military jeeps surrounding the area and so managed to escape. "Even if they were able to assassinate him we have hundreds of people whom are ready to continue our path and our way of resistance," Abu Alyasser added.
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"all the fodder martyrs died, but I bravely escaped"
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02/03/2008 0:30 Comments ||
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Next time the Jinn gun!
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02/03/2008 7:08 Comments ||
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Two elderly Muslims were shot dead by terrorists suspected rebels in separate attacks in Thailand's violence-torn southern region. Police said a 56-year-old man was gunned down while driving a motorcycle in Narathiwat, one of three restive provinces bordering Malaysia, and that another 60-year-old man was killed in a drive-by shooting in the province.
An Indonesian court jailed an Islamic militant for 10 years Friday for committing acts of terror and acting in a leadership role in the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) network. Prosecutors had urged a sentence of 15 years for Maulana Yusuf Wibisono, alias Kholis, 36, for participating in militant activities on the main island of Java and in the restive Poso region on Sulawesi island. "The defendant was proven convincingly to have carried out acts of terror and has been sentenced to ten years imprisonment," Judge Lexy Mamoto said in reading out the verdict. Mamoto said Wibisono "created social and political disturbance and damaged the country's image," but had shown remorse and been cooperative during his trial.
He said Wibisono had been the branch leader of a military wing within JI that was lead by Abu Dujana, who is currently also on trial.
Mamoto said Wibisono had arranged the transfer of 100 kilograms of TNT to Poso and had undergone military training in different locations on Java with several other men. Poso has seen sporadic unrest since unrest between Muslims and Christians flared in 2000 and 2001, killing around 1,000 people. Five other men are currently waiting to be sentenced in separate terrorism trials.
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A Lebanese judge ordered on Saturday the arrest of three army officers and eight troops over the shooting deaths of seven opposition protesters in Beirut a week ago. According to Reuters, Judge Jean Fahd also ordered the arrest of six civilians over the protests.
Lebanese troops opened fire to break up an opposition demonstrations over power cuts in a Beirut suburb on January 27. Some 30 protesters were also wounded in the incident. The leading opposition faction Hizbullah had earlier said the army mishandled the protest and demanded that those responsible for the deaths be punished as soon as possible. Raising the tension, two Lebanese troops were hurt in a shooting attack in the same area late on Friday, the army said earlier on Saturday.
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Judge Fahd should be point man on the next anti-riot squad
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02/03/2008 6:45 Comments ||
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Call it a hunch, but I would hazard to guess that the judge is a Shiite, and far more loyal to Hezbollah than to Lebanon.
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But your wife is the sexier of the two, right, JASPo'D?
Especially if she reads Rantburg.... ;-p
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02/03/2008 10:11 Comments ||
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My wife NEVER looked like that. She was a redhead.
(We'll celebrate #42 in two weeks, and I've NEVER regretted a minute of it. She doesn't read Rantburg, either.)
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02/03/2008 13:01 Comments ||
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She looks like no one I've ever dated. Maybe if you mix and match pieces, but that's kinda sick.
Posted by: Rob Crawford ||
02/03/2008 15:59 Comments ||
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Top half fits my wife, (Bottom half doesn't)
That's OK, "Half a loaf" (Etc)
Posted by: Redneck Jim ||
02/03/2008 16:32 Comments ||
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Yes, I'm a boob man, how'd you guess.
Posted by: Redneck Jim ||
02/03/2008 16:33 Comments ||
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#10 Yes, I'm a boob man, how'd you guess.
Posted by: Redneck Jim
Cuz you're a guy?
;-)
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02/03/2008 17:07 Comments ||
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Cuz you're a guy?
;-)
It's cultural. In a certain other culture you'd have been titillated by seeing just the bridge of her nose and one eye. "What we're fighting for," as the girly posters used to say, is the literal truth -- our freedom to see and be seen, full members of the world. Fred's little daily reminder that this, too, would be taken from us by those who seek to conquer.
RD dear, I'm quite, quite sure you'll be able to handle that on your own.
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TW, I always appreciate your "in-spades" wisdom.
Even if someone may see your contribution to a betterment of mankind as not spectacular, let it be known that you are leaving a shiny trail.
... sounds like an obit.... ;-)
I mean, hope that you'd continue, unimpemded.
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twobyfour, I'd honoured to have that as my obituary. The odds are high, however, that I'm going to live to 120 or so, at the rate I'm going, so I'd appreciate if you'd keep the thought safe until then. Apparently not dying is a developed habit as well as a genetic likelihood, so my odds are much increased beyond likely, which I find a comfort, as I haven't died even once, yet. Nonetheless, I just asked trailing daughter #1, who promises to let Rantburg know if I should experience low-probability statistics. So you needn't worry, 'k?
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Oh Absolutely, My spirited long legged gorgeous wife is the sexiest woman in the world.
Joi Lansing and her could be twins.
How do I tell her that without the "How do you know what Joi Lansing looks like?" and getting her to believe I saw her picture on a politics and world affairs website.......
I guess there are somethings that have to be kept close to the heart.
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Show Mrs. JASPoD the Defender-Scimitar& Times-Picayune, dear Junior Assistant Sock Puppet of Doom. Fred's article sub-headlines are a stitch, and being compared to what nowadays is a relatively innocent picture of a lovely olden days movie starlet certainly wouldn't ruffle my feathers. Besides, your original comment was utterly charming, I thought... and wouldn't you rather the stunningly beautiful Mrs. JASPoD knows you're hanging out at a world affairs blog owned by a retired military intelligence analyst, or that she thought you were going to girly sites of the kind the trailing daughters won't explain to me?
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Oh, and I just showed the DS&TP to Mr. Wife, and he says to show/send her the link, too. Of course, he'll be fifty in a few years, and a corporate middle-manager who's spent entirely too many years of our marriage in various somewhat exotic parts of the world without me, so his advice may not apply to your situation.
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.
At least two people died and more than 20 were hurt when a man threw a hand grenade at a group of university students in Sana'a on Saturday, police said. According to dpa, police sources conveyed the attacker threw the grenade at a group of students gathered at a bus stop just outside the university's main gate. They said the attacker had been arrested on the spot, and initial investigations had shown a "personal motive." One student died at the scene while the other died of his wounds in hospital, medical sources said. Three of the injured students were in critical condition, they added.
THE RAF is being forced to borrow American spy planes and paint roundels on them to replace its fleet of 
(Itar-Tass) - A vehicle with policemen came under fire in a pursuit operation in Chechnya. There were no losses among the policemen, a Chechen interior ministry source told Itar-Tass. The incident occurred near the residential site of Rubezhnoye late on Friday. 
At least six people including two policemen and two suspected militants were killed in a gun battle in Mardan after police raided a suspected militant hideout at 5am on Saturday, police and sources said. 
Security forces arrested five suspected militants from Swat on Saturday. Officials told Daily Times by telephone that a man named Habibul Haq was apprehended on a checkpost in Khwazakhela. Haq is said to be a close aide of rebel cleric Fazlullah. Four more suspected militants were held on a checkpost in Fizza Ghat area. Contacted for comments, Media Information Centre in Mingora confirmed arrest of the four people but would not divulge their names. An official said all the five men arrested had been detained for suspected links to the militants. He said they would be subjected to interrogation and would be freed if found innocent.
Take the case of one Marine, Sean A. Stokes of California. On Wednesday, his 25th birthday, he will be awarded the Silver Star for courage demonstrated during the hand-to-hand, street-fighting nightmare that was the Battle of Fallujah in November 2004.
Ma'an Five Palestinians were injured by Israeli army gunfire in the West Bank town of Beit Ummar on Friday during clashes at the funeral procession of two Palestinians killed last week in the Israeli settlement of Kfar Etzion, south of Bethlehem. Medical sources said the injured, one of whom is in a serious condition, were taken to Hebron Government Hospital. 
An Al-Aqsa Brigades leader surivived an assassination attempt in the West Bank town of Jenin on Friday. The Al-Aqsa Brigades announced that General Abu Uday Al-Mansour had surivived the Israeli army attempt on his life. 
An Indonesian court jailed an Islamic militant for 10 years Friday for committing acts of terror and acting in a leadership role in the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) network. Prosecutors had urged a sentence of 15 years for Maulana Yusuf Wibisono, alias Kholis, 36, for participating in militant activities on the main island of Java and in the restive Poso region on Sulawesi island. "The defendant was proven convincingly to have carried out acts of terror and has been sentenced to ten years imprisonment," Judge Lexy Mamoto said in reading out the verdict. Mamoto said Wibisono "created social and political disturbance and damaged the country's image," but had shown remorse and been cooperative during his trial. 
