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Thunder Thighs on Thunder Road...
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The girlie on the right looks kinda like Marvel Rea. The one on the left might be Alice Maison or maybe Betty Boop.
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They do like the dark make-up around the eyses, don't they.
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My uncle had a motorcycle like that one just after WWI. Now I know why he had such a smile on his face.
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07/28/2008 14:21 Comments ||
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dittos... she looks like Betty Boop...
;)
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My Grandpa used to raise hell on an Indian in 1919-22 days. Bought it when he returned from WW-1. After one of his biker babes took after him with a scissors in Coney Island one day (He caught her with another...) Grandpa reformed, went to church, married a nice girl... then never went to church again after the wedding day....
heh heh (oh and smoked cheap cigars from 12yrs old until he died at 89)
Al-Qaeda chemical weapons expert Midhat Mursi al-Sayid Umar was believed to have been killed Monday in a suspected US missile strike in Pakistan, security officials told AFP.
AKA Mudhat Mursi and/or Abu Kabab...
"We believe he was killed in this strike," a senior intelligence official based in the northwestern city of Peshawar told AFP on condition of anonymity. "It was his hide-out and information that has been shared with us says he was targeted in this strike," the official said.
The Egyptian, 54, also known as Abu Khabab al-Masri, had a five-million-US-dollar bounty on his head and allegedly ran terrorist training camps in Afghanistan.
Officials earlier said that three Arab militants and three of their Pakistani lovers boys were killed when missiles fired by a suspected US drone hit a house attached to a mosque in the South Waziristan tribal district bordering Afghanistan.
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Better dead-ing through chemistry--in this case, the chemistry of high explosives and solid-fuel rocketry.
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2008-2012 > APPEARANCE OF ISLAMIST HIDDEN IMAM-MAHDI? > Nothing says IMAM-MAHDI or GOD-HEAVEN than a DEAD GUY RISING FROM THE DEAD, perhaps even a bunch of 'em.
RADICAL BELIEVERS > "FOUR LEOPARDS/HORSEMEN" > argue should be interpreted as either PHASED GROWTH MANIFESTATIONS OF ANTICHRIST; OR IN THE ALTERN COHORTS of SAME.
E.G. BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA > LOPAN AND HIS WARRIOR DEMONS [Elementals/"Great Storms"]???
Three foreign terrorist are among six killed in a targeted strike in Pakistan's lawless tribal agency of South Waziristan. The strike in Pakistan marks the sixth targeted attack against al Qaeda and Taliban operatives inside Pakistan this year.
"Six people are dead and three others injured after three missile hit a house in Azam Warsak," an unnamed Pakistani intelligence official told AFP. "The dead included three suspected foreign militants and three young boys." Sons or lovers?
The identity of the foreign fighters has not been released.
The strike occurred in the village of Zeralita in the Azam Warsak region of South Waziristan, according to Geo TV. Initial reports indicate that either a madrassa, or religious school, or a home adjacent to a mosque was targeted.
This article starring:
Azam Warsak
Zeralita
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Sounds like a whack on suicide training brainwashing school
You say that like the categories are mutually exclusive. We are talking about South Wazooistan.
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The strike in Pakistan marks the sixth targeted attack against al Qaeda and Taliban operatives inside Pakistan this year.
Always look for the big turbin...
Tis a biggie turban there:
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) - Al-Qaeda chemical weapons expert Midhat Mursi al-Sayid Umar was believed to have been killed Monday in a suspected US missile strike in Pakistan, security officials told AFP.
"We believe he was killed in this strike,"a senior intelligence official based in the northwestern city of Peshawar told AFP on condition of anonymity.
"It was his hide-out and information that has been shared with us says he was targeted in this strike," the official said.
The Egyptian, 54, also known as Abu Khabab al-Masri, had a five-million-US-dollar bounty on his head and allegedly ran terrorist training camps in Afghanistan.
Officials earlier said that three Arab militants and three Pakistani boys were killed when missiles fired by a suspected US drone hit a house attached to a mosque in the South Waziristan tribal district bordering Afghanistan.
NATO killed dozens of Taliban insurgents in an airstrike in Afghanistan's southeastern province of Khost on Sunday, the provincial governor said. The pre-dawn raid was summoned to fend off an attack by the insurgents in Spera district, Arsala Jamal said.
NATO said it had used helicopters in its attack against the almost 100 insurgents. "Initial reports indicate that a small number of Afghan National Police (ANP) officers have been killed and wounded and the number of insurgents killed is in double-digit figures," it said in a statement, AFP reported. "ANP and ISAF continued to engage the insurgents in a firefight from the ground and air until the early morning hours," it said.
"They had killed one policeman in the initial attack and had captured another officer who was later beheaded," Jamal told AFP. "As they retreated, international military air forces came in and bombed them," Jamal said.
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Fred, that bowling graphic is perfect for saying goodby to some talibastards. AMF!
(Xinhua) -- A local aid worker for the United Nations health agency was severely wounded Sunday in the southern town of Dinsor by unknown gunmen, witnesses said. Ismael Moalin Ahmed, head of the World Health Organization's Polio Vaccination Campaign in Dinsor town, was kidnapped before being shot seven times and left for dead.
"They stopped his car on the way between Dinsor and Baidoa, where he was to report to his senior, asking him to turn from the road into the jungle where they shot him seven times and left him, thinking he was dead," an aid worker in Dinsor who sought for anonymity told Xinhua.
He is now in a very critical condition in hospital in Dinsor town in Bay region, 250 km southwest of the capital Mogadishu.
Just being in a hospital in Somalia doesn't carry a good prognosis, let alone being shot seven times ...
Ahmed is the last of dozens of local and international aid workers targeted in Somalia this year. Nearly local and foreign aid workers are being held hostage by a militia group in south Somalia where most of the violence against aid workers occurs.
Last month, the head of UN Development Program Somalia office was shot dead by unknown gunmen as he left a mosque in south Mogadishu. All the major insurgent groups denied responsibility for the killing and kidnapping of aid workers in Somalia but a relatively unknown group said it targeted aid workers who they accuse of aiding Somali government troops and Ethiopian forces.
Most of international aid agencies have scaled down their activities in Somalia and withdrawn all foreign aid workers since the increase in the violence against them. Local and international aid agencies provide assistance to nearly a million internally displaced people encamped on the outskirts of the restive Somali capital Mogadishu. They fled the ongoing violence between insurgent groups and Somali government forces backed by Ethiopian troops.
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The title is a bit misleading. To me an injury is usually something like dropping a car jack on your foot. I think of the term "wounding" when someone is shot 7 times.
Thirteen people died and up to 100 were wounded on Sunday when two bombs exploded in a busy shopping district in Istanbul, officials said. "It is certain that this is a terror attack," city governor Muammer Guler told reporters at the scene.
TV showed ambulances carrying badly wounded people to hospital after the explosions at two different sites in the Gungoren district of Turkey's biggest city. The victims were killed by the second explosion after a small blast in a telephone kiosk brought people out onto the street, NTV television news said. "First a percussion bomb exploded and then a bomb in a garbage container exploded. Thirteen were killed and more than 100 people were wounded," Deputy Prime Minister Hayati Yazici told reporters.
Governor Guler said the "heinous attack" was not a suicide bombing. "The blasts occurred in a very busy district and this raised the casualties," he said. One witness said: "Tens of people were scattered around. People's heads, arms, were flying in the air."
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The last place in the world you want Islamic terrorism to take root like in Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan or Pakistan. But also inevitable unless the military says enough is enough and brings back a secular stranglehold. Europe must be nervous.
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These are warning shots across the bows of the constitutional court of what to expect if they give an unfavorable ruling.
Nayyar Zaidi, the well-known US-based Pakistani-American journalist, who has been a citizen of the United States for more than 30 years has been in US custody for the last four months on what are said to be terrorism-related charges.
According to one report, Zaidi is being held on the charge of "obstruction of justice", a very serious offence. He is also said to be awaiting a trial. The Homeland Security Department or the FBI have made no announcement about his arrest or incarceration. His family, when asked for his whereabouts, has continued to claim that "he is in Pakistan". The Pakistan embassy, like Zaidi's journalist colleagues, who have repeatedly phoned the family, has also been given the same answer. When asked why he is in Pakistan and what has taken him there or how long he is to be away, the callers have been told, "We cannot say" or "We do not know." The news of Zaidi's arrest -- he is believed to be in an Ohio prison -- was broken by the New Jersey-based website Des Prades at the weekend.
However, there is a history to this story. On Feb. 20, 2003, Zaidi was visited by three FBI agents at his residence in Prince County, Virginia, while he was away from home. The three agents tried to interrogate Zaidi's 15-year old son Zain Zaidi, who immediately phoned his father but by the time he got home, the agents were gone, leaving a phone number that they said he should reach them at. When Zaidi called that number, he was asked to come over to the FBI's Washington field office and asked several questions about his personal, social and religious activities. The agent questioning him, also asked him to bring his phone notebook with him because of an FBI claim that Zaidi's home phone had been used for making calls to 10 numbers in Pakistan, China, India, the Netherlands and Thailand. Those numbers, an agent by the name of Chris MdKinney, added, were under investigation for links to the events of Sept. 11, 2001. The Pakistan number, Zaidi told the FBI, bore similarity to a fax number that he often called in Karachi to file his news and other reports.
Zaidi has filed for the Jang Group of Newspapers for more than 25 years. The Pakistan phone number was officially investigated by Pakistani authorities, which found it to be the disconnected number of a textile company that had gone bankrupt. When Zaidi asked to be given other numbers that had allegedly been called from his phone, the request was refused. Zaidi offered to cooperate with the FBI but refused to hand over his phone notebook or any records unless the agents came up with legal grounds to make such a demand. He was left alone until August 8, 2003 when two different FBI agents came to his home while he was away. When he called them on August 11, leaving three messages, his calls were not returned. The embassy also took up the issue of this FBI intrusion with the State Department, which promised to look into the matter. Nothing more was heard of it till Zaidi's mysterious disappearnce in late March this year.
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the New Jersey-based website Des Prades
Must be a pretty obscure site.
There is a London-based weekly called Des Prades; it's published in Pashtun.
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Prince County? Prince William, perhaps, though it could be Edward or George.
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Zaidi is being held on the charge of "obstruction of justice", a very serious offence.
You might not want to burn this guy at the stake quite yet. This is what they charge people with when the don't have anything to charge them for. The FBI sounds like it is getting a little ways off their leash on this one. You cant charge a guy with obstruction of justice for not giving evidence against himself. That is what the 5th Amendment is for.
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However, there is a history to this story. On Feb. 20, 2003, Zaidi was visited by three FBI agents at his residence in Prince County, Virginia, while he was away from home.
Appears to be a.... typical FBI, well planned and thoughtout visit.
"Mr. Zaidi called me up today from the Northeast Correctional Center in Youngstown, Ohio.
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Mr Zaidi said he had gone to Ohio to pursue his journalistic "obstruction of justice" research against those individuals who are being detained there from "all over the world". Unfortunately, he ended up being detained himself in the same facility, he said. "
Comments section of the article:
"Nayyar's weekly column is being published regularly in Jang Group's magazine, "Akhbar-i-Jahan." How come he could not inform the magazine about his arrest while sending his columns? "
An Indian soldier was killed in an altercation with Pakistani soldiers who crossed into Indian territory in north Kashmir this afternoon carrying a white flag.
A senior officer at army headquarters, who confirmed the incident, said the ceasefire along the contested border, the Line of Control, was under severe stress.
This afternoons shooting across the LoC in Kupwaras Nowgam sub-sector is the sixth such instance in Kashmir in two months and threatens to unravel the ceasefire that has held for the better part of five years.
The frequency of ceasefire violations has risen since May this year. Todays incident adds to the tension between New Delhi and Islamabad that began building after the attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul earlier this month.
Asked if the ceasefire on the LoC would hold with the number of disputes increasing, the officer said: It is under severe stress, whether by design or by accident, and we do not want the tension to escalate.
Defence spokesman A.K. Mathur said in Srinagar: A soldier in a track suit with a white flag in his hand was leading them and they were around 200 metres inside our territory. When our patrol saw them we did not open fire because they were carrying that flag.
The soldier who was leading the Indian patrol tried to move close to find out why the Pakistanis had crossed the LoC but was greeted with fire that killed him on the spot, he said.
Till late this evening, the two sides were still firing at each other and the body had not been recovered. The officer said though the body was on the Indian side, an attempt to recover it would expose more soldiers to Pakistani firing.
There were unconfirmed reports that four Pakistani soldiers had died.
Even yesterday, the two sides had exchanged fire in the Mendhar sector. Till the truce was agreed upon by New Delhi and Islamabad in October 2003, such firing and killing were almost a routine.
So far the firing today has been restricted to small-calibre weapons that are a step below the heavier artillery fire which was a regular feature along the LoC before the ceasefire.
The Indian Army has asked for a flag meeting and expects that the dispute will be localised and not escalate into a conflict along the border.
Political and diplomatic tension often manifested itself in the firing across the LoC before the ceasefire was agreed upon. After the blasts in Bangalore and Ahmedabad on consecutive days, the tension is mounting.
About 15 soldiers of a Pakistani army unit identified by the Indian Army as 21 PoK crossed into Indian territory around 1530 hours today and asked the Indian Army to vacate a post near the Neelum Valley where the LoC is poorly demarcated, the officer said. The Indian soldiers of a platoon of the 22 Rajput regiment refused, claiming that the post was theirs.
The army headquarters officer said the Indian Army bunker near which the altercation took place was a forward observation post but it was not occupied at all times.
It is one of the hotly contested spots along the disputed LoC. On the Indian side, the fence the army has erected runs behind the post inside Indian territory. The altercation and the firing were across the Neelum Valley, the officer said, from soldiers at heights of about 9,000 feet.
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WAFF.com/TOPIX > exchanges of gunfire bwtn Paki and Indian troops are reportedly still on-going???
With the communists off its back, the Indian government is fast-tracking three key military pacts with the US, including one under which their armies can refuel ships and aircraft in cashless transactions that are balanced at the end of the year.
Apart from the Logistics Support Agreement (LSA), the other pacts pending are the Communication Interoperability and Security Memorandum of Agreement (CISMOA) that will enable the two armies communicate on a common platform, and an end-user agreement governing the sale of US military hardware to India. These pacts have been in the limbo for long due to the objections of the Left parties over the warming India-US military ties. With the communists having withdrawn their outside support to the government, which subsequently won a trust vote in Parliament, the way is now clear for inking the agreements, a defence ministry official said.
"The LSA would require both countries to provide their bases, fuel and other kind of logistics support to each others' fighter jets and naval warships," the official told IANS, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Explaining the advantages of the agreement, the official said: "India will have to spend close to Rs 100 crore for participating in the Red Flag exercise (with the US Air Force next month). "Had an LSA been in place, India would not have had to physically pay the money but would have provided reciprocal facilities in this country whenever the US defence forces required them," the official added. India's ambassador to the US Ronen Sen had met defence minister A.K. Antony here on July 24 to discuss various India-US pacts that were in cold storage.
The US has agreements similar to the LSA in place with some 65 countries.
In most cases, it is called the Acquisition and Cross Servicing Agreement (ACSA) that was formerly known as the NATO Mutual Support Act. It was enacted to simplify exchanges of logistic support, supplies, and services between the US and NATO forces. It was amended in 1986, 1992 and 1994 to permit ACSAs with non-NATO countries.
With the Indian and US armies increasing their engagement in war games on land, in the air and at sea, CISMOA has become a necessity to ensure there are no communication glitches. "With the increasing number of military exercises between the countries, the pact is set to be given the green light soon," the official said.
As for the end-user agreement, India has so far refused to sign it in its present form and has asked for modifications. "It's like this: we purchase, say, night vision goggles from the US and deploy these on the LoC (Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir). Obviously, we cannot allow US inspectors to physically verify this," the official said. "Therefore, we'll work out a system where we will certify where the equipment is located and the US will take our word for it," the official added
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This is where we should be allied. Pakistan was an alliance of convenience from the cold war.
Were it not for logistical considerations, we woudl probably be well into the process of a "divorce" from Pkistan - or at least able to pressure them a lot harder in cracking down on the Talib and ISI activities.
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Alliance of convenience? The Indians were virtual allies of the Ruskies. It's not like they left us a lot of choice. And there are still a lot of wackos in power there. This could all fall apart. So it pays to keep a foot in each camp till India has really proven itself as an ally.
A CRISIS meeting of Pakistan's new coalition Government has been warned that it could lose control of the North West Frontier Province, which is believed to hold most of its nuclear arsenal.
Not like they'll put the nukes anywhere close to India, or where those crazy Bugtis might blow them up. Put them amongst your most faithful friends ...
The warning came yesterday from the coalition leader, who, although he is part of the new Government, is regarded as having the closest links to al-Qa'ida and Taliban militants sweeping through the region. Maulana Fazlur Rehman bluntly told his colleagues: "The North West Frontier province is breaking away from Pakistan. That is what is happening. That is the reality."
This came just days before new Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's scheduled meeting with US President George W. Bush to discuss al-Qa'ida and Taliban sanctuaries in Pakistan.
Reports last night said Maulana Fazlur Rehman, regarded as having unparalleled insight into the mood of the three million tribesmen in the NWFP, and leader of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, was backed in his assessment by members of the coalition Government from the Awami National Party, which rules in the province's capital, Peshawar. They, too, told the meeting of jihadi militant advances throughout the province, with their influence extending to most so-called "settled areas", including Peshawar.
Yesterday, the army was reported to have abruptly ended an operation in the Hangu district, close to Peshawar, after threats by militant leaders.
Maulana Fazlur Rehman and the ANP members blamed the worsening situation on "President (Pervez) Musharraf's eight-year policy to deal with the issue through the barrel of a gun, and the alliance with America".
The crisis meeting resolved to pursue dialogue with the jihadis, a policy derided by US and NATO-led forces in Afghanistan. It also declared itself to be implacably opposed to US or other forces entering Pakistani territory to deal with the growing jihadi militancy.
Analysts in Islamabad believe the warning about the situation in the NWFP will prompt renewed concern about the security of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, speaking in Australia, suggested the restive border region was the source of a surge in Taliban-related violence in Afghanistan, and said Pakistan needed to do more to prevent attacks. "We understand that it's difficult, we understand that the North West Frontier area is difficult, but militants cannot be allowed to organise there and to plan there and to engage across the border," Dr Rice said. "So, yes, more needs to be done."
Al-Qa'ida's operational commander in Afghanistan, a 53-year-old Egyptian named Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, was interviewed on Pakistani television yesterday and claimed the organisation's strength in Afghanistan was growing so rapidly it would "soon occupy the whole country".
He claimed that "the morale of our fighters in Afghanistan is very high and they are putting up a tough fight against US troops". He also claimed responsibility in the interview for a terrorist attack on the Danish embassy in Islamabad.
The fact of the interview, as much as what he said, is seen as indicating an important new stage in the crisis. "The bad guys are even popping up and giving television interviews: that's a reflection of what's happening," one foreign diplomat in Islamabad said last night.
A leading think tank warned this week about the Taliban's use of a media strategy to exaggerate their strength and undermine confidence in the Afghanistan Government. The International Crisis Group says the administration and its backers must counter this propaganda if they are to defeat an insurgency "that is driving a dangerous wedge between them and the Afghan people", in a report entitled Taliban Propaganda: Winning the War of Words?
The Taliban now publicise their messages, warnings and claims of battle successes through a website, magazines, DVDs, cassettes, pamphlets, nationalist songs, poems and mobile telephones.
Audacious tactics such as the Kandahar jailbreak last month and the April assassination attempt on President Hamid Karzai show that the intent is to grab attention. "The result is weakening public support for nation building, even though few actively support the Taliban," the report says.
It says the international community should also examine its own actions, adding the benefits of military action are outweighed by the alienation they cause. "The Taliban is not going to be defeated militarily and is impervious to outside criticism," the ICG says. "Rather, the legitimacy of its ideas and actions must be challenged more forcefully by theAfghan government and citizens."
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"The North West Frontier province is breaking away from Pakistan. That is what is happening. That is the reality."
The NWFP is only part of Pakistan because it was part of Maharaja Ranjit Singh's Sikh kingdom. After the British defeated him, that region became part of the Raj.
Ranjit Singh BTW pacified the region and defeated the first Wahabi inspired jihad against his rule.
Afghans believe the NWFP belongs to them. The Durand line treaty has expired.
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The Taliban is not going to be defeated militarily Hummmm, is the Taliban now using the Democrats talking points?
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There are sixty thousand Pak army troops garrisoned in Peshawar. The Pak IB knows the location of every single Taliban official.
If General Kayani orders it, those Taliban are all dead in the morning. The Pak army is very good at killing. Just ask the Bangladeshis.
But a pacified NWFP is not in the interests of the Pak army. That region has been used for decades to train irregulars for use in Pakistan's proxy wars.
The Pakistan Military will not give up its jihadi foot soldiers easily.
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I hope that we have contingency plans all formulated, dusted off, and ready for action to neutralize Pakistan's nukes, because we will probably need them, and soon.
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The North West Frontier province is breaking away from Pakistan.
Nuke the site from orbit.
It is the only way to be sure.
Srinagar: An Army jawan was killed on Monday as Pakistani troops opened fire on Indian positions in Nowgam sector, Kupwara district near the Line of Control (LoC) Jammu and Kashmir, Army sources said.
Sources said Indian troops came under heavy fire from the across the LoC at around 15:30 hrs IST at Khayan in Nowgam sector. One Army jawan from 22 Rajput battalion has been killed. Sources added that Indian troops retailated with small arms fire.
According to sources, 15 Pakistani soldiers entered into the LoC in Kaiyan Bull in Nowgam. They approached the Forward Observation Post of the Indian Army and told them to vacate the post. Then they shot at one on the Indian sepoys on the post who fell down into the ravine.
India has asked for a flag meeting and ceasefire so as to recover the body of the dead sepoy.
Next time you whack the 15 Paks up front, then let the Paks ask for a flag meeting and ceasefire so that they can recover their bodies ...
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Are we seeing the start of a shooting war between two nuclear equipped countries?
India's army said it traded fire with Pakistani troops in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir. One Indian and at least three Pakistani soldiers were killed. Indian army spokesman Brig. Gopala Krishnan Murali claimed Pakistani troops crossed into occupied Kashmir in a brazen violation of cease-fire and opened fire on Monday in Kupwara sector of the region. One Indian soldier was killed and three or four Pakistani soldiers were killed in retaliatory fire.
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No, AlanC, Jimmeh Carter is the go-to guy for "solving" problems like this.
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Next time you whack the 15 Paks up front
The Paks are looking for just such an excuse to avoid a counterinsurgency campaign in the west.
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I thought that the old guy had been superceded by the new and improved version of the Kumbaya Kid.
The most regretable moment in my life was voting for Schmucker Peanut in '76. He sounded pretty good, what with 0 based budgeting etc.
Luckily I could make up for my lapse in '80 and vote for Saint Ronnie.
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But John, if it isn't this excuse it will be another. The Paks won't go to Wazoo regardless. If I were the Indian commander along the LoC, I'd be damned if I let my own people die so as not to provide an 'excuse'.
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07/28/2008 13:29 Comments ||
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Pakistan is getting closer to a failed state every month.
I'd say it waz broken completely but look at Zimbabwe, Somalia, Sudan and a few others...
>:(
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Meanwhile at the Avadi manufacturing plant, 64 Arjun MBTs await collection by the Indian army...
AHMADABAD, India - Anti-terror squads have carried out raids in the search for leads into the deadly synchronized bombings that killed at least 45 people in western India over the weekend, police said Monday.
In India's financial capital Mumbai, police raided the home of an American citizen and seized a computer from which an e-mail claiming responsibility for the attack was believed to have been sent, said Mumbai police chief Hassan Gafoor. Frank? Bob? Willie?
In Ahmadabad, an underworld figure with apparent ties to a banned Muslim group was arrested and police were trying to determine if he had any connection to the attack, said deputy police chief Ashish Bhatia.
At least 16 bombs tore through this city around dusk Saturday, killing 45 people and wounding 161 others, said state Health Minister Jaynarayan Vyas. It was the second series of blasts in India in two days. An obscure Islamic militant group, the Indian Mujahideen, claimed credit for bombings.
"In the name of Allah the Indian Mujahideen strike again! Do whatever you can, within 5 minutes from now, feel the terror of Death!" said an e-mail from the group sent to several Indian television stations minutes before the blasts began. The e-mail's subject line said "Await 5 minutes for the revenge of Gujarat," an apparent reference to 2002 riots in the western state that left 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, dead. The historic city of Ahmadabad was the scene of much of the 2002 violence. Saturday's e-mail, sent from a Yahoo account and written in English, was made available to the AP by CNN-IBN, one of the TV stations that received the warning.
Late Sunday, police raided a home in a Mumbai suburb, believing the e-mail may have been sent from a computer there. Gafoor said police had confiscated a computer and were analyzing the hard-drive. The apartment was being rented by a 48-year-old U.S. citizen, said Kirit Sonawane, a police officer involved in the raid. He provided no other details on the identity of the man. The American has not been detained and Sonawane would not say if he was a suspect. "We are talking to him," he said.
In Ahmadabad, police arrested a man identified as Abdul Haleem, believing he may be involved in the plot, Bhatia said. Haleem had ties to the banned Students' Islamic Movement of India, or SIMI, and groups involved in the 2002 riots, he said. On Monday, an Ahmadabad court ordered Haleem held for 14 days. The Indian Mujahideen was unknown before May, when it claimed it was behind a series of bombings in Jaipur, also in western India, that killed 61 people.
In the Saturday e-mail, the group did not mention the bombings that had killed two people a day earlier in Bangalore and it was not clear if the attacks were connected. Both Ahmadabad and Bangalore are in states ruled by the Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, as is Jaipur, raising suspicions that whoever was behind the attacks may have wanted to make a political statement. The Saturday bombs went off in two separate spates. The first, near a busy market, left some of the dead sprawled beside stands piled high with fruit, next to twisted bicycles. The second group of blasts went off near a hospital.
India has been hit repeatedly by bombings in recent years. Nearly all have been blamed on Islamic militants who allegedly want to provoke violence between India's Hindu majority and Muslim minority, although officials rarely offer hard evidence implicating a specific group.
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India carries out raids after bombings kill 45
inline.. Frank? Bob? Willie?
hummmm...
I'll have to go along with Frank.. tu3031...
>:)
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"Do whatever you can, within 5 minutes from now, feel the terror of Death!"
My hatred for the perpetrators of this atrocity is boundless. Not to make light of the carnage inflicted, but these guys sound like wannabe Marvel Comics villians.
(Xinhua) -- The death toll in Saturday's serial blasts in Ahmedabad city of western Indian state of Gujarat rose to 45 Sunday, according to the NDTV.
"The toll in the blasts that hit Ahmedabad has gone up to 45 with seven people dying overnight. The number of injured is 145," Gujarat's Health Minister Jainarayan Vyas said.
"As a precautionary measure Army has been called out and its personnel are conducting flag marches in sensitive areas of the city. At present the situation is under control", Additional Commissioner of Gujarat Police Mohan Jha said.
Meanwhile, another bomb was found in a garbage dump of a residential area Sunday morning. A bomb squad has defused the explosive, which was fitted with a timer device in the city. There were several homes close by, which may have been affected had the bomb gone off.
Sixteen serial blasts occurred in a span of 60 to 70 minutes on Saturday evening in crowded market areas in Ahmedabad, leaving at least 29 dead and more than 100 injured on the spot.
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In a surprise move early on Sunday morning, the government reversed its decision to place the country's premier intelligence agency -- the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) -- under the administrative, financial and operational control of the Interior Division.
That was quick.
"'Control?' I do not think that word means what you think it means!"
The Press Information Department (PID) issued a memorandum late on Saturday night stating that the country's two premier intelligence agencies -- the ISI and the Intelligence Bureau (IB) -- have been placed under the Interior Division's control. The Pakistan People's Party (PPP)-led government, however, later 'clarified' the earlier notification, saying the ISI would continue to operate at the prime minister's discretion.
In other words, they'll continue doing as they damned well please.
The government's announcement made headlines in Sunday's newspapers, while the clarification issued by the PID that "the notification regarding control of the ISI is being misinterpreted" continued to be the main topic of discussion among the military and political circles across the country. The announcement also created speculation among top intelligence circles.
Sources told Daily Times that the top military brass had not been consulted on the issue. "The military leadership stood up and managed to reverse the government's decision soon after the notification was issued," they added.
"Reverse the decision or it's curtains for the lot of youse!"
"Oh, yeah? What're youse gonna do?"
"It'll be an 'unfortunate accident.'"
"All of us?"
"All."
"Okay. It's reversed."
Under the new notification, the ISI will continue to perform its functions under the prime minister. It said: "The said notification only re-emphasises more co-ordination between the Ministry of Interior and the ISI in relation to the war on terror and internal security."
No change: However, the government stood firm on its decision to place the IB under the Interior Division.
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The Pak Army Command controls the ISI. This whole business of rogue operators is part of its plausible deniability strategy to cover itself.
The ISI was created by a British Major General R Cawthorne. The ISI, as its name suggests, is staffed by serving officers of the 3 Pak services - Army Navy, Air Force. They are on short term deputation to the ISI and then rotate back to their regular units.
The Pak military is a disciplined force and the ISI staff remain disciplined as they rotate into position. The ISI implements policy set by Pak GHQ.
The fiction that the ISI has gone off the reservation allows avoiding the difficult question of how to deal with the Pakistani military.
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The Pak military is a disciplined force and the ISI staff remain disciplined as they rotate into position.
Where did you read that? They drop their guns and run whenever the Taliwhackers approach. The get caught by the busload and held hostage. The only real revenge I have heard of them exacting on the Taliwhackers is shelling a couple of villages from several miles away.
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Don't confuse the Frontier Corps with the Mighty Pak Army. The FC is the bunch that gets held hostage by the bus load. The MPA has at least the minimal competence required to clean up amateurs like the TNSM or the tribal bulk of the Taliban. Since the MPA is on the same side as the TNSM and the Talibs, however, they avoid beating them up whenever they can.
It's when they're fighting the Indian army that they lose consistently, though they're not very good at learning from the experience.
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The paramilitary forces deployed against the Taliban are not the real Pak army.
Their offensive units have never moved from the eastern borders.
Not even decades of Islamization can remove the British military traditions. They maintain unit discipline.
It is part of Pak strategy to disavow the ISI and AQ Khan when they are exposed. Suddenly they become rogue operators.
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Time for some "tough love" with the Pakistanis - in the form of large nuclear blasts on the Pak nuke industry and any possible nuke storage facility, then a complete disassembly of any organizational unit. The Pakistani military is as much a terrorist organization as Hezbollah, and needs to be eradicated in the same manner - totally.
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Time for some "tough love" with the Pakistanis - in the form of large nuclear blasts on the Pak nuke industry and any possible nuke storage facility
Did you ever consider that the winds blow from west to east?
Did you ever consider what country lies to the east of Pakistan?
I understand the sentiment, but please knock off the 'nuke' bullshit. It's become trite, it's bordering on stupid, and if it keeps up, you may find yourself sinktrapped by me.
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oh, lets not worry too much about the fallout and the wind direction... we all know there are 'cleen' and 'green' nukes we can use. some of those bombs are so efficient that our own gear cant even detect them going off. Just the occasional 'seismic irregularity' that we attribute to the haliburton earthquake generation division...
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I'm not very fired up over the subject at the moment. I figure it's only a matter of time until there's a Pak nuclear "work accident." They'll probably argue for years over whose was the "hidden hand" behind it, and never, ever admit it was the Islamic version of "Hey, y'all! Look what happens when I do this!"
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Official Pak policy is that they will retaliate against India if any nation uses nukes against Pakistan.
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Shafiq Rind, the mastermind behind the 2003 suicide bombing of an Imambargah and the 2004 suicide bombing of an Aushura procession in Quetta in which over a 100 people were killed and 180 injured, was arrested by police on Sunday.
Police said a special police party had raided New Sariab and arrested Rind, a member of the banned extremist organisation Lashkar-e-Jangavi. Rind was also wanted by police for numerous other terrorist activities and sectarian killings. Police also seized a 9mm rifle from him.
Sources said Rind had escaped from the Anti-Terrorism Force jail along with an accomplice, Saifullah, on January 19, adding that the government had announced Rs 1 million as prize money for information on Rind's whereabouts.
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Lashkar-e-Jangavi
Shafiq Rind
Lashkar-e-Jangavi
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Clashes between tribesmen of Pewar village and the Kharoti Mangal tribes have again erupted in Kurram Agency following the expiry of a 10-day ceasefire, resulting in three people being critically injured.
Political administration sources said both groups were using heavy weapons, including mortars, rockets and automatic machine guns. They said Mangal Kharoti activists had allegedly attacked the Tori tribe during a jirga before the expiry of the ceasefire deadline, triggering a gunbattle at the Pewar and Tangi areas near the Pak-Afghan border. Sources said the reason behind the conflict was a dispute over the ownership of a house and demands for the construction of a new road.
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Militants and a local parking lot owner exchanged fire at 2.30am on Sunday, injuring a local militant and the parking lot owner's son.
Local militants raided Zamoor transport parking at Sultan Khel Khyber to bomb empty tankers and trailers, Zamoor Afridi, owner of the parking lot, said. Afridi said the militants were thieves who had come to loot and then blow up his vehicles. They had weapons and took everything with them, he added
Zamoor told the police that his son, Tawab Khan, came out of his room upon hearing his (Zamoor's) screams. Tawab and the militants then exchanged fire, resulting in Tawab and a militant named Mujir Khan becoming seriously injured. The militants then fled, leaving behind a wounded Mujir Khan who was apprehended, Zamoor added.
Neighbours rushed to the scene upon hearing the firing. Tawab was taken to a local hospital and later to Peshawar as he was in critical condition.
Similarly, Mujir Khan's condition worsened, prompting tribal elders led by Malik Abdul Haleem Khan to transfer his custody to the political administration. Locals accused the Landikotal assistant political agent for intentionally ignoring the situation to promote militancy. Khasadar Force Line Officer Akhtar Mir said that the Mujir Khan was in their custody and was under treatment.
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That's what you're gonna have to do to get rid of your Taliwhacker infestation. Quit being p*ssies and shoot at them. This guy gets it, how come the rest of them don't?
Police have raided a house near India's financial capital Mumbai as part of a probe into a series of bomb attacks in the western city of Ahmedabad that killed 45 people, reports said Sunday. The police seized a computer they say was the source of an email claiming responsibility for Saturday's attacks on behalf of a little-known group calling itself the "Indian Mujahedeen," the reports said. A similar email was sent to news channels by the same group after a series of blasts in May in the western Indian city of Jaipur that killed more than 60 people. The NDTV news channel said the property raided was rented to a US national. No arrests or detentions were made but authorities confiscated the computer's hard drive, the Times Now channel reported.
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I hope this guy isn't the guy that's working on my tech support ticket.
Investigators scoured Ahmedabad on Sunday, detaining 30 people for questioning in the city that saw 16 bombs blasts around dusk on Saturday, the city's police commissioner OP Mathur said.
Little-known Islamic militant group the Indian Mujahideen claimed responsibility in an e-mail to a television channel, warning of "the terror of death" and taking credit for the synchronised bombings that killed at least 45 people in a second series of blasts in India in two days. The group claimed the attacks were in retaliation for rioting in 2002.
Police also found and defused an unexploded bomb. Investigators in Surat, a city about 160 miles south of Ahmedabad, found a car carrying detonators and liquid police suspect may be ammonium nitrate, a chemical often used in explosive devices, city police Chief RMS. Brar told reporters.
Narendra Modi, the chief minister of Gujarat state where Ahmedabad is located, said the bombings appeared to have been masterminded by a group or groups who "are using a similar modus operandi all over the country". India has been hit repeatedly by bombings in recent years. Nearly all have been blamed on militants who allegedly want to provoke violence between India's Hindu majority and Muslim minority, although officials rarely offer hard evidence implicating a specific group.
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Oh my! How could Nick Burns and his handlers at AP have gotten it so wrong for so long? A real reporter would be embarrassed and would apologize profusely. You'd think. Hopefully, BO's 300 advisers will hold him firm on the road to defeat.
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Me thinks the MSM wants to decalre victory in Iraq and take it off the tabel for the upcoming election. Then they can focus on the economy to get the Obamessiah elect.
Gunmen hiding in reeds in a Sunni town south of Baghdad killed seven Shiite pilgrims Sunday as they were marching to a shrine in the capital for a major holiday, officials said.
The young men were ambushed when the attackers opened fire in Madain, about 14 miles southeast of Baghdad, as they were on their way to the shrine in the Baghdad neighborhood of Kazimiyah, a police officer said.
The slain men had begun their trek farther south in the Shiite town of Suwayrah, according to the officer, who is based in Baghdad and read the report about the attack. An official at the Baghdad hospital where the bodies were taken confirmed the killings, but both spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information.
The area where the attack occurred is a former al-Qaeda in Iraq stronghold that has seen a steep drop in violence after local Sunnis joined forces with the Americans against the terror network. Members of so-called awakening councils now patrol the streets of Madain and other cities in Baghdad's southern belts.
Authorities also have tightened security measures as tens of thousands of people are expected to converge on Kazimiyah to mark the death of an 8th century Shiite saint buried in the golden domed shrine there.
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Hi Bobby, I'd a gone with "Sunni Sunday:Seven Surayrah Shiites Shot" I just love a good alliteration.
Scores of people have been killed and more than 200 injured after a series of suicide bombings in Kirkuk and Baghdad created havoc in Iraq Monday.
In Baghdad it was the second straight day that attackers targeted Shiite pilgrims taking part in an annual march to one of the holiest shrines of Shia Islam.
Three female suicide bombers killed at least 29 people and wounded 85 others in central Baghdad, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said. Most were Shiite pilgrims. The attacks in three locations happened within 30 minutes.
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Might not hurt to start releasing addresses of some of the known AQI sympathizers.
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But the AP said that we're winning? How can this be? I bet they really regret saying that, seeing as this story could be siezed upon to cast the opposite impression. But if they did that, they'd lose all their credibility.
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Yesterday's report of seven deaths was to good to be left alone. May those who trained and sent the women burn in the deepest level of hell with the most devoted devils to torment them.
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Again, 2008-2012 [2016?] Post-Dubya POTUS Period + NO US-IRAN WAR [Dubya = "Lame Duck"? 2008-Jan 2009] AS PER OSAMIAN-MOUDIAN AOCALYPSE + SAVING THE JIHAD + NUCLEARIZING IRAN/ISLAMISM > IRAQ per se for the time being is a "quiet" or defensive front.
However, "Quiet" does not mean that Terror attacks or Insurgent actions inside Iraq will absolut or completely end. PAN-ISLAMIST NUCLEARIZATION + WEAPNZ = RADICAL ISLAM IS PRAGMATICALLY "HEDGING" OR "EXPANDING THE ODDS/PROBS" OF SUCCESSFULLY GOING NUKIES EVEN IFF IRAN GETS INVADED AND OCCUPIED.
MEMRI > AL QAEDA COMMANDER [Abu al-Yazid]: ISLAM MAKES NO DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE AMER PEOPLE AND THE AMER GOVERNMENT...BOTH ARE INFIDELS AND ARE AT WAR WITH ISLAM.
USA is:
* "Head" [Leader] of [World] Infidels and Non-Believers.
* The Hated/Despicable Infidel All-Conquering "PHAROAH" of contempor modern times-world.
* "Flag-Bearer" of the New Western/Christian Crusade agz God, Islam, + Muslims.
FALLUJAH, Iraq The five-man reconnaissance team with 3rd Reconnaissance Battalions Company A was on a foot patrol in a remote area in the northern part of Anbar province one night this month when disaster struck.
"Boom!"
"An explosion goes off and I can see a cloud of white smoke" and shrapnel flying everywhere, recalled Cpl. Tyler Van Hook, 20, an assistant team leader from Nokesville, Va.
That boom was a land mine.
Van Hook, the farthest from the explosion, was uninjured except for a ringing in his ears. He immediately dropped to a prone position and looked for additional hazards.
Then he heard someone screaming. It was Cpl. John Rice, 24, the teams reconnaissance scout.
Van Hook said that is when the units predeployment training paid off.
About a year ago, the recon Marines began learning tactical combat casualty care. The battalion received training with drills on how to assess battlefield injuries, treat broken bones and blunt trauma, apply tourniquets and pressure dressings and other self-aid, buddy-aid and corpsman-aid techniques.
Van Hook said that at the time, he thought the training was excessive. But now, in a situation where medical help was at least a half-hour away, he acted almost without thinking about what needed to be done.
"When everything happened, everything went into slow motion for me," he said. "Everyone else was going slow, and I was going fast."
As he crawled to Rice, Van Hook yelled to team leader Sgt. Darren Dugan, 24, to call for medical evacuation.
Then he began tending Rices wounds: an exposed-bone leg fracture, shrapnel wounds on both legs and one ankle and a concussion.
He remembers running his hands up Rices left leg and "my hands were full of blood."
He put a tourniquet as high on Rices leg as he could. Next, he cut Rices pants leg off and used a second tourniquet to further restrict blood flow to the wounds.
A sweep of Rices right leg also left Van Hooks hands bloody. He cut the pants leg off and applied a tourniquet.
Sgt. Scott Redman, 22, the teams point man, had shrapnel wounds in one leg and a concussion. He was "pretty shaken up" as he had been so near the blast, Van Hook recalled.
Despite his disorientation, Redman applied tourniquets to his own wounds and began helping Dugan and Cpl. Justin Hullett, 20, the radio operator. Both had concussions. Dugan had an entrance and exit wound through his upper thigh and on one heel. Hullett had several entrance and exit wounds on both legs and shrapnel in his hip.
Van Hook and Redman also had to get the team to a better location for medical evacuation.
Taking Rice, Van Hook said he "bear-crawled with him hugging me about 20 feet." After making sure the move caused no additional bleeding, Van Hook went to help the rest of the team.
Redman was trying to carry the more severely injured Hullett.
"Both were pretty much dragging" each other so Van Hook hurried to lend both additional support.
About that time, Sgt. Kenneth Safely, 25, another Alpha Company team leader arrived with a quick reaction force, Safely said. They provided security and helped move the injured.
Hullett wouldnt lie down and complained of pain. With a small chuckle, Van Hook recalled sweeping Hulletts backside and finding "a shrapnel wound like Forrest Gumps on his butt."
By this time, "we were pretty much out of medical supplies," he said. So he balled up his "boonie cover" and wrapped it with one of the few remaining pressure dressing so that he could better direct pressure to Hulletts wound, he said.
About 40 minutes after the explosion, Petty Officer 2nd Class Toran Jacobson, 26, a corpsman from Pocatello, Idaho, arrived.
"Doc really brightened up the situation by showing up," Van Hook said of Jacobson, who taught some of the casualty care classes.
"I was just overwhelmed at how much the guys had done by the time I got there," Jacobson said. "The blood loss was minimal."
Van Hook and Redman already had the others on stretchers and hooked up to intravenous lines, Jacobson said, as he turned to Van Hook and said, "I guess you were paying attention after all.
Redman was so busy caring for the others that Jacobson wasnt even aware that he had been injured until the helicopter had arrived to evacuate them, Jacobson said.
Van Hook says that all the credit for what was done that July night goes to the corpsmen who taught his team what to do in that kind of situation.
But Jacobson was just as quick to credit Van Hook and Redman with saving their teammates lives.
The four injured have been evacuated to the States for further treatment.
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My Nephew's unit returned from Anbar last year with no casualties, thank God. This weekend they get to bury one of their own who was killed in a stupid motorcycle crash a couple days ago. Life can be so short, and death so sudden. It's not just combat either.
And on topic: My prayers to these Marines and their families. Give to the Fisherhouse foundation.
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Anymouse's son is on the way home! He is looking forward to his first beer in 7 months.
.. and they call him, "Warrior-Scholar"
Petraeus won't join bandwagon for Iraq withdrawal timetable. The top U.S. military commander in Iraq isn't buying the increasingly popular idea of a publicly stated timetable for American troop withdrawal.
Gen. David Petraeus, the Iraq commander, said in an interview with McClatchy that the situation in Iraq is too volatile to "project out, and to then try to plant a flag on a particular date."
With violence at its lowest levels of the war, politicians in both the United States and Iraq are getting behind the idea of a departure timetable. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was first, suggesting he would have combat troops home within 16 months of Inauguration Day. The idea got a big boost during his overseas trip last week, when Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki indicated support for that general timeline.
During a Friday interview on CNN's "The Situation Room," Republican candidate John McCain, who had opposed setting a timeline, appeared to shift ground. McCain said that 16 months "is a pretty good timetable" but must be based on conditions on the ground. Meanwhile, the Bush administration has embraced "time horizons" as it negotiates with the Iraqi government a status of forces agreement over the future role of U.S. troops. Petraeus said any timetable must have "a heck of a lot more granularity than the kind of very short-hand statements that have been put out."
"We occasionally have commanders who have so many good weeks, (they think) it's won. We've got this thing. Well we don't. We've had so many good weeks. Right now, for example we've had two-and-a-half months of levels of violence not since March 2004," he said from his office at Camp Victory.
"Well that's encouraging. It's heartening. It's very welcome. But let's keep our powder dry. . . .Let's not let our guard down."
Petraeus is pushing for what he says as a more nuanced debate as both U.S. and Iraqi political leaders are in campaign seasons, with many voters in both countries wanting to hear there is an end. Maliki is trying to sway voters in time for this fall's scheduled provincial elections by winning support from his political rival, firebrand cleric Muqtada al Sadr, who has called for a U.S. withdrawal date since 2004.
Throughout his tenure, Petraeus has argued for a drawdown based on conditions, saying that the last of the five surge brigades could leave earlier this month because Iraqi forces are increasingly capable of securing Iraq. Petraeus said that while both Sunni and Shiite extremists groups are weaker, Iraqi security forces still face threats as the groups try to reconstitute themselves throughout Iraq. And because of that, U.S. and Iraqi forces must not assume that the battle here is won, he said.
Maliki's surprise spring offensive in the southern port city of Basra was a turning point in the security situation. It rid Iraq's second-largest city of militia control and bolstered the confidence of both the Iraqi people and military. But the Iraqi security forces turned to U.S. troops to help them win, leading some to call for a more cautious withdrawal plan.
Petraeus has said he believes there will be a "long-term partnership" in which the U.S. acts primarily in an advisory role to Iraqi forces, but with enough combat power to step in and help if major battles erupt. But he said that that like most things in Iraq, plans could change.
"We know where we are trying to go. We know how we think we need to try to get there with our Iraqi partners and increasingly with them in the lead and shouldering more of the burden as they are," Petraeus said.
"But there are a lot of storm clouds out there, there are lots of these possible lightning bolts. You just don't know what it could be. You try to anticipate them and you try to react very quickly. . . .It's all there, but it's not something you want to lay out publicly."
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Petraeus won't join bandwagon for Iraq withdrawal timetable. The top U.S. military commander in Iraq isn't buying the increasingly popular idea of a publicly stated timetable for American troop withdrawal.
I'm with the General. Keep your mitts up and your eye on your opponent, not the boxing ring clock.
Ah, a "plot thickener"...
Ramallah - Ma'an - Fatah spokesperson Fahmi Za'arir, claimed on Monday that the explosions on Friday in the Gaza Strip were carried out by Hamas operatives as the result of an internal feud, but that the incident has been used as a pretext for the arrest of Fatah leaders. Maybe some of their toys just blew up?
Za'arir claimed that the perpetrator was Jihad Hejeila, an activist with Al-Qassam Brigades, Hama's military wing, who is believed to have been killed in one of the explosions. Ah...suicide. Heck of a way for Hamas to start a fight, whacking one of their own fearless leaders. Didn't they have a security guard in a red shirt that could get blown up?
He added: "we have information about internal problems in Hamas, there is infighting around the issue of leadership and decisions related to truce and dialogue with Fatah." Maybe it was the Rosato brothers...
Za'arir claims that Friday's explosion in front of Al-Hilal café was meant to target the commander of Al-Qassam Brigades in Gaza, Ahmad Al-Ja'bari, who was expected to arrive in the area. Ahmad must be psychic...
According to the spokesperson Hamas have detained a number of Al-Qassam leaders but haven't announced the fact. He went on to say that this is not the first case of such an incident; previous explosions have occurred but were labeled as "mysterious." Lotta that going around in Gaza...
Za'arir again rejected any suggestion that Fatah had anything to do with the explosions and called for the formation of an impartial investigative committee to get to the bottom of the episode and stated that Fatah would cooperate fully with such an organisation. We wuz just mindin our own bizness...
Israeli forces killed a top Hamas operative in an early morning gunfight in the southern Occupied West Bank city of Hebron, according to Palestinian security officials who said another three people were arrested in the raid. Hamas' armed wing vowed to take revenge for the killing of Shihab al-Natshe, who Israeli media reported was behind a suicide bombing in February that killed an Israeli woman and wounded 11 other people.
The Israeli military confirmed killing an armed Palestinian in an exchange of fire in Hebron but would not elaborate on the incident.
In Sunday's operation in Hebron, Israeli soldiers fired at the house of Natshe, 25, after he refused to surrender and shot at troops, local residents said. An army bulldozer later razed the dwelling. The militant's mangled body was seen being removed from the rubble.
Hamas' armed wing, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigade, vowed to avenge the resistance fighter's killing. "Our response will be swift and painful," it said in a statement. The statement, which said Natshe was a group member who fought troops for 12 hours before he was killed, added that retaliation would take place "at the time and place we choose."
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An army bulldozer later razed the dwelling. The militant's mangled body was seen being removed from the rubble.
Say hello to St. Pancake for us, asshole.
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"Our response will be swift and painful! Even now our ruthless henchmen are building a powerful bomb that will [KABOOM!]..."
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Premature Explodulation
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Ah Yes!!! The Mysterious Explosion Brigade plots another exhibition of their expertise with volitile chemicals.!!!
I can't wait.
Pass the popcorn.
And where is the joystick to my Predator?
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Hamas vows Dire Revenge after Israel kills top operative
No problem-O we'll send flocks of Anti HamASS QT-57 Chupracabras to "help" them!
~;)
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155s wheel hub to wheel hub, north to south, pointed straight at Gaza. The first rocket, mortar bomb, or intrusion, and they begin firing. Decide in a week or two if you've done enough.
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July 28 (Bloomberg) -- Sri Lankan troops captured a Tamil Tiger satellite base in the country's north and seriously wounded a rebel commander in separate fighting, the Defense Ministry said. Soldiers secured the Sugandan base north of Kiriibbanwewa in the jungles of Mullaittiuvu yesterday following days of ``heavy confrontations'' with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eeelam, the ministry said on its Web site.
An LTTE area leader, identified as Veandan, was wounded during a failed rebel offensive north of Janakapura, according to the statement. The LTTE didn't immediately comment on the incidents on its Web site.
Sri Lanka's army is driving LTTE forces from camps in the north after capturing the eastern region a year ago in the worst defeat for the rebels in their 25-year fight for a separate homeland. The LTTE, which is designated a terrorist organization by India, the U.S. and the European Union, has declared a 10-day cease-fire to coincide with a summit meeting of South Asian leaders in Colombo later this week.
And because they're getting their butts kicked by the Lankan Army ...
President Mahinda Rajapaksa said July 13 his government is ready for talks with the LTTE if the rebels disarm.
Posted by: Steve White ||
07/28/2008 00:00 ||
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Ha ha ha, all your satellite base are belong to us! Now, if we can only reach the Tiger Death Star...
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