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Good morning
Posted by: Fred || 09/27/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot

Sofia Milos aka Cheryl in "The Ladies Man" aka Julia Mazzone Karinsky in "Caroline in the City" (age 41)



Cold Snap
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 09/27/2010 5:24 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
British woman, three Afghan colleagues kidnapped
[Pak Daily Times] A British woman, along with three of her Afghan colleagues, was kidnapped by gunnies in a remote part of Afghanistan, Afghan police chief Khalilullah Ziayee said on Sunday. The police chief for Kunar province, a rugged region bordering Pakistain, said they were kidnapped while visiting an unspecified project in the area. Khalilullah Ziayee described the abductors as gunnies and said a search was launched to find the group. The motive behind the kidnapping was not immediately clear. A front man for the Taliban earlier said he was unaware of the incident. In a brief statement, Britain's Foreign Office confirmed it was urgently investigating reports that a British citizen had gone missing in the country. Kunar is an area held by the Taliban and is known for a series of foreign kidnappings in recent years. The gunnies are also holding two French journalists they seized last December to the north-east of Kabul.
Posted by: Fred || 09/27/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


42 Taliban Killed in Southern Afghanistan
[Tolo News] At least 42 Taliban faceless myrmidons were killed on Saturday afternoon when they were trying to cross the border from Pakistain, said a NATO front man

The provincial police chief of Khost, Gen. Abdul Hakim Ishaqzai, put the cut-thoat corpse count higher, with at least 82 killed in a NATO airstrike.

NATO military officials did not confirm any airstrikes by the NATO-led ISAF forces in that area and say they do not have information about who has carried out such an strike.

Afghan and coalition forces have escalated their counter-insurgency operations in the country's volatile regions to wipe out Taliban, in which Afghan civilians are also often among the victims.

Taliban faceless myrmidons have also boosted their attacks on foreign forces in an effort to draw these forces out of the country and establish their own Islamic fundamentalist rule.
Posted by: Fred || 09/27/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  Do that once a day and it will be a good start.
Posted by: gorb || 09/27/2010 0:06 Comments || Top||

#2  ahhhh the Dreaded Afghan Fall when leaves and flying jihadi bits are in the air
Posted by: Frank G || 09/27/2010 3:24 Comments || Top||

#3  The only good Indian Pashtun Taliban is a dead Indian Pashtun Taliban .
Posted by: phil_b || 09/27/2010 5:24 Comments || Top||

#4  At least 42 Taliban faceless myrmidons were killed on Saturday afternoon when they were trying to cross the border from Pakistain, said a NATO front man

Anyone coming over from our ally? should be targeted from now on!
Posted by: Paul2 || 09/27/2010 7:20 Comments || Top||

#5  The notorious Fall Taliban dying off is underway.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 09/27/2010 23:14 Comments || Top||


British woman kidnapped in Afghanistan
LONDON - A British woman and three of her Afghan colleagues have been kidnapped by armed men in a remote part of Afghanistan, an Afghan police chief said on Sunday.

The police chief for Kunar province, a rugged region bordering Pakistan, said they were seized while visiting an unspecified project in the area. Khalilullah Ziayee described the abductors as armed men, saying a search was launched to find the group. The motive behind the kidnapping was not immediately clear, he said.

A spokesman for the Taleban earlier said he was unaware of the incident. In a brief statement Britain’s Foreign Office confirmed it was urgently investigating reports a British citizen had gone missing in the country.

Kunar is an area held by the Taleban known for a series of foreign kidnappings in recent years.
Posted by: Steve White || 09/27/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  oh no... gutsy woman being there. Probably a journo. I understand the temptation.

she over-reached her abilities though... it is possible to go quite far sometimes.

I wonder if she was looking for OBL
Posted by: anon1 || 09/27/2010 8:42 Comments || Top||


US troops begin combat for Kandahar
[Pak Daily Times] The active combat phase of a US operation designed to drive Taliban out of districts around Kandahar has begun, The New York Times reported on Sunday, citing American military officials.

Code named Operation Dragon Strike, the push is focusing on clearing the Taliban from three districts to the west and south of the city, the newspaper quoted Brig Gen Josef Blotz, a NATO front man for the International Security Assistance Force in Kabul, as having said.
While the beaters move forward in full view, the Special Forces will be able to pick off Number Threes and cannon fodder flushed out from the underbrush. They got something like 3,000 in the last three months, including killed, wounded, and cannon fodder, and that was when things were relatively calm.
"We expect hard fighting. The aim, he said, would be destroying Taliban fighting positions so they will not have anywhere to hide. The operation, backed by Afghan troops, is the first large-scale combat involving multiple objectives in Kandahar province, where a military offensive was originally expected to begin in June," it said.

The offensive was downgraded to more of a joint civil-military effort after the military encountered problems in trying to pacify the much smaller city of Marja and because of resistance from Afghan leaders concerned about the possibility of high civilian casualties.

"Winning over Kandahar, the birthplace of the Taliban, is considered crucial to President B.O.'s efforts to shift the balance of power in Afghanistan after the cut-throats staged a comeback in recent years," the newspaper pointed out. General Blotz said the combat phase of Dragon Strike began five or six days ago in Arghandab, Zhari and Panjwye districts, with shaping operations preceding that for several weeks.

He declined to release further details on the new operation, other than to say it involved a large number of troops with air support, and that for the first time in a major operation, more Afghan forces were deployed than the coalition ones. Bismillah Khan, the police chief in Zhari district, said the combat operation began there on Saturday, but he declined to give further details. Afghan and coalition forces are repeatedly hitting the faceless myrmidons in their backyard, allowing them no time to regroup, the general said.

No sooner had the first battalion of the US Army arrived here, five of its soldiers were killed in a roadside kaboom directed at their convoy. The dead included the first army chaplain to be killed on active duty during the Afghan conflict.
Posted by: Fred || 09/27/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  Sounds like a big-time operation. Heavy kills and safe ops for our troops, I pray. Is that wrong? Then I don't wanna be right
Posted by: Frank G || 09/27/2010 20:06 Comments || Top||


Afghan election body orders vote recount
[Pak Daily Times] Afghanistan's election commission has ordered a recount of votes in some areas for recent parliamentary elections, a senior official said Sunday, raising further concerns of misconduct and fraud during the polls.

Election commission Chairman Fazel Ahmad Manawi said recounts have been ordered in parts of at least seven provinces. He said the number of places subject to recounts was expected to increase because not all results have been fully examined. He said the votes under question would be recounted under the supervision of his commission and the electoral complaint commission, along with national and international observers. "We want to be very clear on the counting of these ballots," he said.

The Sept. 18 elections were seen as a test of the Afghan government's commitment to rooting out corruption. The vote was the first since a presidential election last year that was nearly derailed by widespread ballot-box stuffing and tally manipulation. That poll led many Western powers to question whether they should be supporting the administration of President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai with military forces and funds. About 2,500 candidates are vying for 249 parliamentary seats.

Final results are not expected until late next month. Election day was marred by rocket attacks and bombings at polling stations. At least 21 civilians and nine police officers were killed during the voting, according to the election commission and the Interior Ministry.

Observers said some people were able to wash off supposedly indelible ink used to mark fingers to prevent multiple voting. In some areas, poll workers let people use fake registration cards and allowed children to vote, according to the Free and Fair Election Foundation of Afghanistan, the main independent Afghan observer group.

NATO front man Rear Admiral Greg Smith said violence this time was higher than in the previous poll, with 396 incidents compared to 281 before. He said part of the reason for the increased number of reported incidents was that NATO forces are more numerous in the country now and are in a better position to monitor the situation. Also Sunday, two NATO service members were killed in a kaboom in southern Afghanistan, the military alliance said.

NATO said the troops were killed by a homemade bomb, but provided no further details. The nationalities of NATO deaths are not generally released until after the next of kin have been contacted. This year is already the deadliest of the war, with more than 530 international forces killed. There are about 140,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan, including about 30,000 additional troops brought in under President Barack B.O. Obama's surge strategy.

The coalition also said it killed at least five faceless myrmidons during a clearing operation in Kandahar, the Taliban heartland in the south that remains particularly volatile.

The multi-day operation was intended to impede the Taliban's ability to move freely in the area and to disrupt its attempts to stage attacks. According to a NATO statement Sunday, the gun-hung tough guys fought back with rocket-propelled grenades, machine-gun and small-arms fire. It said no Afghan or coalition troops were killed.

NATO also said Sunday that two Afghan civilians riding a motorcycle were killed Saturday after failing to stop while approaching a security perimeter in Helmand province in the south. It said the motorcycle driver briefly stopped but then ignored warnings and accelerated toward the security forces.
Posted by: Fred || 09/27/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Africa Horn
Enemy spots US marines by talking
Interesting interview from a great Reuters correspondent who toughs it out in Somalia instead of running away like so many of his countrymen.This is instructive.

Learn from it.

lesson 1) the somalis fought because they *thought* you were trying to colonise them.

lesson 2) don't chit chat.

5 Questions for a Somali Veteran of the 'Black Hawk Down' Battle
By Abdinasir Mohamed Guled


Abdinasir Mohamed Guled spends five minutes asking a veteran of the 'Black Hawk Down' battle in Mogadishu five questions.

What is your name and where are you from?


My name is Mohamed Ghelle, I come from the Mudug region in central Somalia

What did you do during the battle against the Americans?

I was one of the fighters who defeated the Americans, I was a commander for one of the units who firmly fought the Americans. It was a great experience for me to fight them because I understand how their tactics and soldiers are. I was wounded by an aircraft one day when they fired a missile near our trench but some of our soldiers who were in a nearby trench shot down the aircraft and burnt it. They were fighting hard like Ethiopians in 1977, but Americans get thirsty sooner and suffer more then the tough Ethiopians. Also, Americans can be heard by their enemies when they are chatting. They always shout when one is injured and that informs their enemies where they are.

Why did you fight?

Why I fought was because Americans wanted to colonize and bully us, so as a freedom fighter I could not tolerate that since no one wants colonization for his country.

Are your children soldiers? How does this make you feel?

No, my children are not soldiers, they are students and I don't want them to be soldiers now, but yes if colonization comes.

If you could talk to an American veteran who fought against you what would you say?

If I would speak to an American veteran who fought against us I would say to him, what is the experience you have gotten from war in Somalia? Would you like to come again to Somalia? What was your worst day of fighting? What was the best custom you have learned in Somalia? What was your plan to colonize Somalia after we defeated the British colonial forces? Are you ready for a friendship and a way to return to Somalia without using a gun and misguided politics? I would say to you, Americans are good people and compassionate people but the cheating politics of your government leads to the targeting of your citizens. So stop that crazy idea.
Posted by: anon1 || 09/27/2010 08:13 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What a waste of a country.

Makes Yemen and Pakistan look half decent.
Posted by: Paul2 || 09/27/2010 9:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, it worked. Instead of a recipient of American aid, your country has been the world's worst shithole for decades now.
Posted by: gromky || 09/27/2010 10:37 Comments || Top||

#3  ...as opposed to the 'colonies' of Germany, Japan, South Korea, etc. The Philippines may be iffy, but it would still beat being a 'independent' Somalia, except in the south with the usual [gee, just like Somalia] muzzies.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/27/2010 10:46 Comments || Top||

#4  The only Somali colonisation is being done by the losers who turn up in the West claiming asylum and often end up making headlines for all the wrong reasons.
Posted by: Bulldog || 09/27/2010 12:57 Comments || Top||

#5  So we can send all the "refugees" back now?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 09/27/2010 15:08 Comments || Top||

#6  This obsession with colonialism shows that this guy does not understand his enemy. The US is not a colonial power and, even if it were, his country would be better off within a colonial system vs. warlordism.

His brilliant analysis is that our soldiers might make too much noise calling for help. Sounds like an understandable facet of coming from a society that values the lives of fellow citizens and comrades in arms. He also seems to think that a battle in which his side suffered casualties at nearly a 100:1 ratio to our own was a victory. And, it would have been a higher ratio had we not been relying on UN forces for support.

Suffice to say that, in addition to our technical and societal advantages, we understand our enemies far better than this individual does.
Posted by: JAB || 09/27/2010 20:24 Comments || Top||

#7  Geez, Mo. Too bad you didn't get to see this show...

Oakley was careful to say, ``This is not a threat,'' but then he laid out a chilling scenario. He offered it as friendly advice.

``I have no plan for this, and I'll do everything I can to prevent it, but what will happen if a few weeks go by and Mr. Durant is not released? Not only will you lose any credit you may get now, but we will decide that we have to rescue him. I guarantee you we are not going to pay or trade for him in any way, shape or form. . . .

``So what we'll decide is we have to rescue him, and whether we have the right place or the wrong place, there's going to be a fight with your people. The minute the guns start again, all restraint on the U.S. side goes. Just look at the stuff coming in here now. An aircraft carrier, tanks, gunships . . . the works. Once the fighting starts, all this pent-up anger is going to be released. This whole part of the city will be destroyed, men, women, children, camels, cats, dogs, goats, donkeys, everything. . . . That would really be tragic for all of us, but that's what will happen.''

The Somalis delivered his message and ``friendly advice'' to Aidid, in hiding, who offered to hand the pilot right over. Oakley asked them to delay for a few hours to give him time to leave the country. He told them to turn Durant over to Howe, and he flew back to Washington.


Come to think about it, too bad we didn't either.
Posted by: tu3031 || 09/27/2010 20:35 Comments || Top||


Somali pirates seize Greek freighter
[Iran Press TV] Somali pirates have attacked and seized a Greek freighter in the Indian Ocean 900 km (560 miles) off the Somali coast, the EU anti-piracy mission says.

The latest's vessel seized by pirates, the MS Lugela, has 12 Ukrainian crewmembers onboard and was carrying a cargo of steel when it came under attack after leaving the dangerous waters of the Gulf of Aden.

A front man for the European Union's anti-piracy mission Atalanta said the Panama-registered freighter had sent a distress signal to its Greek operator on Saturday. Shortly afterwards, all contact with the ship was lost, and the ship changed course in the direction of the Somali coast, where most likely it was anchored near the pirate hub of Harardhere.

With the monsoon season drawing to a close in one of the world's most dangerous and busiest maritime trade routes, the number of hijacking is expected to rise.

Tens of thousands of merchant vessels annually transit through the precarious Gulf of Aden waters to reach the Suez Canal.

Despite the presence of international anti-piracy forces, the number of attacks has continued to surge since 2007. The pirates, who usually demand millions of dollars in ransoms for hijacked vessel, are now holding 20 ships.
Posted by: Fred || 09/27/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Pirates


Bangladesh
7 Hizbut Tawhid men held in Rajshahi
[Bangla Daily Star] Police yesterday jugged seven muscle, four of them women, of Islamist outfit Hizbut Tawhid with around 200 books, CDs and leaflets from the city's Budhpara area under Rajpara cop shoppe.

Locals caught them and informed police that the bad turban suspects were distributing books, CDs and leaflets on jihad, said Shakhawat Hossain, an assistant commissioner of Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP).

Shakhawat quoting locals said, the arrestees were asking people to join their outfit to wage jihad against 'Dazzal' that has descended on earth to destroy Islam.

The arrestees include Mina Begum, 45, her daughter-in-law Nasima Begum, 21, Shikha Parveen, 22, and Doly Khatun, 22, of Baje Kajla area, Muhamamd Islam, 19, of Kajla in the city and Muhammad Shafik, 20, of Jahazghat and Shahabul Islam, 30, of Jhikra of Charghat upazila.

The title of books and CDs were 'Dazzal' while inscriptions on some CDs describe, why one should join Hizbut Tawhid, police said.

The arrestees admitted that they are muscle of Hizbut Tawhid led by Bayazid Khan Panni of Tangail.

Shahabul, a vegetable-seller by profession told police that they were caught while selling the books and CDs and distributing leaflets to locals in Budhpara and Choddopai areas.

Shafik told news hounds that the shop of Renaissance Thai Aluminum at Shaheb Bazar was being used as their meeting place in the city for last several months.

The arrestees claimed that their outfit is not banned. Police were just interrogating them at the cop shoppe, they said.

Sources said, the outfit is operating freely across the country, although it has records of militancy, clashes with locals and police at different places since 2003.

According to our Satkhira correspondent, an accused jugged on September 14 in Faridpur for distributing leaflets urging people to join 'jihad' against those who reject Islamic rule in the country was placed on a five-day remand yesterday.

However,
The infamous However...
the court ordered the investigation officer (IO) of the case to interrogate accused Satkhira Law College vice-principal Rabiul Islam Khan at Satkhira jail gate.

Earlier, Sadar PS officer-in-charge (OC) Shah Jahan Khan, the investigation officer (IO) of the case, produced him before the Chief Judicial Magistrate's Court with a prayer for seven-day remand on September 16.

The court fixed on September 26 for hearing of the prayer, court sources said.

Judge AHM Samsul Arefin of the Chief Judicial Magistrate's Court yesterday passed the order after a long hearing.
Posted by: Fred || 09/27/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Caribbean-Latin America
Mexico Asks U.S. To Stop Deporting Serious Criminals
A coalition of Mexican lawmakers has asked the United States to stop deporting illegal immigrants who have been convicted of serious crimes in American courts.

The demand was made at a recent southern California conference in which the mayors of four Mexican cities that border the U.S. gathered to discuss cross-border issues. The only American mayor who attended the biannual event was San Diego’s Jerry Sanders, evidently because his city hosted it this year at a fancy downtown hotel.

Among the cross-border topics that were addressed at the conference was the deportation of Mexican citizens who have committed violent crimes in the U.S. The felons are persona non grata in their communities, say the mayors of Tijuana, Ciudad Juarez, Nogales and Nuevo Laredo. They want U.S. officials to stem the deportation of such convicts to their cities, according to a local newspaper report that covered the conference.

To support the request, the mayor (Jose Reyes Ferriz) of Mexico’s most violent city, Ciudad Juarez, pointed out that of 80,000 people deported to his community in the past three years nearly 30,000 had committed serious crimes in the U.S. Around 7,000 had served sentences for rape and 2,000 for murder. The criminal deportees have contributed to the escalating drug-cartel violence in his city, Mayor Ferriz said, so he wants the U.S. to make other arrangements when prison sentences are completed.
Alternatively, Mexico could reenact the death penalty, and start hanging bad boys to who laid the chunk.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 09/27/2010 15:49 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  How about we deport them from the back of a C-130 over Mexican territory from 10,000ft?

Good compromise?

Otherwise shut your fucking oxygen wasters.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/27/2010 18:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Or we could just execute them ourselves, if they don't want them. Not sure why this is our problem.
Posted by: bill || 09/27/2010 18:41 Comments || Top||

#3  So let me get this straight. Mexico "demands" that the US not return Mexican citizens to Mexico who have committed crimes in the US while residing here illegally to begin with?

Mexico has a lot of gall. If I had been the mayor of San Diego, I would have squirted my martini out of my nose with laughter when that was said.

Hey, Mexico, stop exporting your violent criminals to the US instead of whining about us sending them back.

Posted by: crosspatch || 09/27/2010 18:47 Comments || Top||

#4  The Mayor of Tijuana had a speech in our local San Diego rag the other day, saying Americans were exaggerating the violence in Mexico for economic(?) reasons - I guess so tourists stay home or at local hotels...whatever. Apparently he doesn't read Bad's More Mexican Mayhem dailies
Posted by: Frank G || 09/27/2010 19:02 Comments || Top||

#5  Yeah, 28,000 dead just from drug related violence, since Dec. 2006.

What's to exaggerate?

Posted by: bigjim-CA || 09/27/2010 19:12 Comments || Top||

#6  "Mexico Asks U.S. To Stop Deporting Serious Criminals"

Well, quit sending your "serious criminals" north and we won't have to send them back.

Of course, I'd prefer to send them back airmail. From 30,000 feet. But maybe that's just me....
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 09/27/2010 20:41 Comments || Top||

#7  It sounds like we are dumping the deportees in the border towns and this is what they are objecting to. I agree with the mayors that we should not do this. deportees should be sent by C-130 to Mexico City. Or perhaps Cancun. Let's dump the trash as far from here as possible.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 09/27/2010 20:51 Comments || Top||

#8  My solution. Without the net, of course...
Posted by: tu3031 || 09/27/2010 21:04 Comments || Top||


Suspected Mexican drug lord arrested
[Iran Press TV] Mexican security forces have jugged suspected drug lord Soto Reyes near the western city of Guadalajara, the Ministry of Public Security says.

Reyes, known as "The Tiger," was believed to be the leading member of the infamous Sinaloa gang -- one of the most powerful and violent drug trafficking cartels in the country.

The Ministry of Public Security said that "The Tiger" was detained along with eight accomplices on Saturday, the state-run BBC reported.

Investigations by US and Mexican security forces showed that the 44-year-old was the replacement of Ignacio Coronel, a top member of the cartel killed by Mexican soldiers in July.

The Sinaloa group is believed to be responsible for smuggling nearly half-a-ton of synthetic drugs into the US each month.
Posted by: Fred || 09/27/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Narcos


More Mexican Mayhem
10 Die in Northern Mexico

Ten individuals were killed in northern Mexican violence which included an individuals shot to death in downtown Torreon, Coahuila.
For a map, click here
  • Three unidentified individuals were shot to death at an exclusive neighborhood in Juarez late Saturday night, according to Mexican news accounts. Two women were found near a residence near the intersection of calles Quintas San Antonio and Jupiter in the Quintas del Valle district. At the entrance to the gated community, a security guard was also found shot to death.

  • An unidentified mutilated individual was found hanged in Chihuahua, Chihuahua late Saturday night, say Mexican news reports. The find was made near the Smart Mall Los Nogales on Avenida Las Industrias where the victim was bound by his hands and hanged on a pole.

  • A man was shot to death in Juarez early Sunday morning according to Mexican news reports. Alberto Miranda Miranda, 38 was found near the intersection of calles Juan Felipe Rico and Carlota Santini in the Juarez Nuevo district shot with an AK-47 assault rifle.

  • Two men were found shot to death on a remote road in Chihuahua, say Mexican news reports. Manuel Madrid, 46, and Eden Arellanes Lugo, 32, were found on the Riva Palacios-Bustillos road shot numerous times.

  • An unidentified man was shot to death in his car and his passenger was founded in an attack in Tijuana, Baja, California Friday night, say Mexican news reports. The attack took place on calle Hortencia in the Jardin Dorado district where, according to the shooting survivor, armed suspects riding aboard a Nissan pickup truck shot the driver of the Chevrolet vehicle.

  • An unidentified man was found shot to death in Torreon, Coahuila, according to Mexican news accounts. The victim was found near the intersection of Bulevar Independencia and Calle Ramos Arizpo in the downtown area shot six times.

  • A Guadalupe, Nuevo Leon teenager was found murdered after being abducted Thursday night, say Mexican news accounts. Antonio Lopez Flores, 18, was found near the intersection of Camino Real and Antiguo Camino Saturday. The victim has been kidnapped in La Estancia district.
Posted by: badanov || 09/27/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
More details on NATO helicopter strikes on mutants in Pakistan
Seems as though a police chief on the Pakistain side called for the strikes . . . and is quite pleased by the results.

RTWT for that warm fuzzy feeling you get as you learn the additional details of the demise of many bad guys.
Posted by: gorb || 09/27/2010 10:39 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Whoops, Khost is in Afghanistan. Well, he was close to the Pakistain side . . . . :-)
Posted by: gorb || 09/27/2010 10:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Bad guys attack Afghan border post, run across border & stick tongues out at choppers. Choppers shoot tongues off. Lots of tongues...
Posted by: tipover || 09/27/2010 11:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Pakistian is pissy about attacks on its territory

Maybe if they got serious about attacks from their territory...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/27/2010 11:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Talibunnies getting whacked, especially in areas they thought were safe, always gives me the warm and fuzzies.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/27/2010 14:05 Comments || Top||

#5  Lots of that kind of thing happening lately. Someday, long after this is over, I hope to learn of the adventures of that Afghan Special Forces unit whose existence Mr. Woodward was pleased to reveal.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/27/2010 21:32 Comments || Top||

#6  PAKISTAN = ISLAMABAD is complaining that their national sovereignty has been breahced or vilated due to alleged US-NATO use of MANNED STRIKE AIRCRAFT, as opposed to UNMANNED DRONES???

* PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > [Bob Woodward] BOOK:US WARNED PAKISTAN AFTER FAILED TIMES SQUARE ATTACK. US-PAK War = unilateral US mil intervention in PAK agz Militants' safe havens narrowly averted due to new PAK Govt. concessions in favor of US. US LIKELY WOULD HAD ATTACKED/INVADED PAKISTAN IFF TIMES SQUARE PLOT HAD SUCCEEDED.

* SAME > Also in BOB WOODWARD'S NEW BOOK = ISI LINKED TO 26/11 [Mumbai], CHIEF PASHA TOLD CIA SHORTLY AFTER ATTACK.

ARTIC = PAK ISI "rogue elements" involved or indir linked to MUMBAI Terrop agz India, US CIA finds no evidence directly linking CURRENT PAK. GOVT wid Mumbai terror conpiracy.

* NEWS KERALA > UN WARNS OF RISING [Al- Qaeda linked] TERRORISM IN CENTRAL ASIA.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 09/27/2010 22:46 Comments || Top||


PIA flight arrives safely after bomb hoax
[Pak Daily Times] A Pakistain International Airlines (PIA) flight PK-782, which was forced to make an emergency landing in Sweden on Saturday due to a bomb hoax, arrived safely at the Jinnah International Airport on Sunday with all 254 passengers on board. The Airbus, flying from Canada, was cordoned off at the Stockholm airport and allowed to depart for Karachi after a 16-hour delay following security clearance. A PIA front man said the passengers were received by Passenger Handling Services General Manager Aijaz Mazhar and other bigshots of the PIA. In Sweden, the aircraft had remained on ground for about nine and a half hours, while the passengers remained in the international transit lounge for six hours as Swedish authorities searched the plane.
Posted by: Fred || 09/27/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


3 children among 4 injured in Quetta grenade attack
[Pak Daily Times] At least four people, including three children, were injured in a hand grenade attack in Chaki Shawani on Sunday.

According to official sources, some person or persons unknown riding a cycle of violence hurled a hand grenade and fired at some children who were playing in Sardarabad colony. It landed in the street and exploded, injuring three minors identified as three-year-old Waseem, Mohammad Ismail, 4, Khutab Khan, 4, and 50-year old Din Mohammad. The assailants managed to escape from the scene after committing the crime.

According to sources, the assailants meant to attack on a policeman's residence which is situated in the street where the incident took place.

The police and security forces rushed to the spot and cordoned off the area. The injured were taken to Provincial Sandeman Hospital for treatment.

No group has claimed the responsibility of attack so far, however a case has been registered and investigations are underway. Hand grenade attacks on residences of police personnel and settlers take place every passing day in Quetta and in other parts of province.
Posted by: Fred || 09/27/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Pakistan


NATO choppers entered Pakistan to kill insurgents
[Pak Daily Times] Two NATO helicopters had killed 30 forces of Evil on Pak soil on Friday after a rare manned pursuit across the border from Afghanistan, NATO forces said on Sunday.

Two Apache attack helicopters from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) crossed the border from eastern Afghanistan on Friday after the forces of Evil attacked a remote Afghan security outpost in Khost province.
You see, o forces of evil, we look after our friends ...
ISAF front man Sergeant Matt Summers confirmed that the helicopters had attacked after crossing into Pakistain. He did not comment on which countries' forces were involved, but the US is the only coalition member that uses Apaches.

The US regularly uses pilot-less drone aircraft for missile strikes in Pakistain's borderlands, known to be a haven for terrorist groups, including the Afghan Taliban, who launch cross-border attacks from Pakistain's northwest. However,
The infamous However...
manned military flights across the border are extremely rare.

ISAF said in a statement issued late on Sunday that the helicopters were following its rules of engagement when they crossed into Pakistain. Two Kiowa helicopters returned to the area on Saturday and killed at least four more jihad boys, the statement said.

ISAF was not immediately able to confirm whether the Kiowa helicopters had also crossed the border. US forces make up the majority of ISAF troops in Afghanistan's east.

The drone flights have caused resentment in Pakistain, where anti-American feeling runs high. US officials say the pilot-less drones are one of the most effective weapons against terrorists. The strikes have killed senior Taliban and al Qaeda figures.

A new book by veteran US journalist Bob Woodward claims that the Central Intelligence Agency also has a 3,000-man "covert army" of elite, well-trained Afghans, who conduct secret operations in Pakistain, according to the Washington Post. The newspaper obtained an advance copy of the book, which is due for release today (Monday). Despite the presence of almost 150,000 foreign troops, violence is at its worst across Afghanistan since 2001.
Posted by: Fred || 09/27/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Pakistan

#1  "Your pilots violated our airspace in their Apache helicopeters!"

"No, the pilots were doing everything they could to stop at the border. The problem is that Apache helicopters want to kill Taliban."
Posted by: gorb || 09/27/2010 0:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Well you know how Apache's are - always crossing the border. If its into Mexico (in the 1800's) or PakiWakiLand (now) doesn't seem to make much difference. They just love to cross borders - its a cultural thing so you should respect it.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/27/2010 0:21 Comments || Top||

#3  If PakArmy refuse to clear/round up their dirty mess/proxys you leave us with with no choice ie Predators,Special Ops re the Pak badlands.
Posted by: Paul2 || 09/27/2010 5:43 Comments || Top||

#4  Oakistain needs too STFU . they sure don't have any problems taking our money for AID (bullshit). If you cash the check pick and choose your battles a little more carefully.
Posted by: chris || 09/27/2010 7:38 Comments || Top||

#5  > He did not comment on which countries' forces were involved, but the US is the only coalition member that uses Apaches.

I must have imagined seeing British Apache's over London, before they went east...
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/27/2010 8:19 Comments || Top||

#6  Who y'gonna believe? The Pak Daily Times or your own lying eyes?
Posted by: Fred || 09/27/2010 9:34 Comments || Top||

#7  Can we stop running now, Mahmoud?
Yeah, we're in Pakistan. They can't come over he...
Mahmoud! You've turned to pink mist!
Posted by: tu3031 || 09/27/2010 20:12 Comments || Top||


Iraq
“Terrorist” network dismantled in Baghdad
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Security forces of the Baghdad Operations Command dismantled a “terrorist” network in the eastern Baghdad area of Zayouneh on Sunday, according to a statement published on the BOC web site.

“A force from the federal police 1st Division dismantled a terrorist network of the self-styled Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) in Zayouneh, where it seized a large weapons cache inside a house,” read the BOC statement.

“The cache contained 10 Kalashnikov assault rifles, 10 improvised explosive devices (IEDs), a mortar shell of 82 mm. caliber, a bag of iron balls, two bags of TNT, two plastic charges, eight thermal bombs, one bag of BKC, 200 kilograms of ammonia nitrates and two flags of the so-called ISI,” it added.

“It also contained 20 hand-grenades, 50 nine-volt batteries, a pair of scales, two guns of 9 mm. caliber, and 25 timers,” the statement read.

The BOC had revealed that security agencies seized a large weapons cache in Zayouneh in addition to several explosive belts ready for detonation.
Posted by: Steve White || 09/27/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Finish the job on national TV by throwing them feet-first into a wood chipper and you may have something the rest of them will understand.
Posted by: gorb || 09/27/2010 0:11 Comments || Top||

#2  It says they dismantled a terrorist network but as far as the article reports, it just captured a weapons cache - which can be easily replaced.
Re. gorb's comment - no wood chippers. But speedy and public trials, sentencing, and execution (literal or figurative) would be in order, and I have not seen much of it.
Posted by: Glenmore || 09/27/2010 8:32 Comments || Top||

#3  JAMESTOWN.ORG > IRAQI OIL FIELDS THREATENED AS ISI {Islamic-State-of-Iraq] INTENSIFIES ITS CAMPAIGN AGZ THE STATE.

* Also from SAME > [Russia]SEPARATISM SPREADS IN THE NORTH CAUCASUS WHILE MOSCOW BLAMES OUTSIDERS.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 09/27/2010 23:00 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
PFLP quits PLO over talks
[Iran Press TV] A key branch of the Paleostine Liberation Organization has temporarily suspended its membership to protest the ongoing talks between Israel and the Paleostinian Authority.

On Sunday, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine (PFLP) suspended its membership with the umbrella group, saying it would not be "a cover for policies that would devastate the national cause," the News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported.

Acting Paleostinian Authority Chief the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas, who is also the head of PLO, resumed direct talks with Tel Aviv in early September.

Many Paleostinian groups have already abandoned hope in the US-brokered talks citing the White House's partiality in favor of the Israelis and arguing that Abbas -- whose term ended on January 9, 2009 -- does not represent most Paleostinians.

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said earlier in the month that the talks had to be based on the expulsion of the Paleostinians from their Israeli-occupied lands.

For the negotiations to survive, the PA has made it imperative that Israel stop building illegal Jewish settlements in the occupied Paleostinian lands. Tel Aviv has withheld any such guarantees.
Posted by: Fred || 09/27/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: PFLP

#1  But what about PFLP-GC and DFLP? Are they throwing a tantrum too?
Posted by: Scooter McGruder || 09/27/2010 0:56 Comments || Top||

#2  But what about PFLP-GC and DFLP?

Those splitters?

Actually, this points up one (hah!) of the problems of dealing with "The Palestinians" which is there is no one group that speaks for them as a whole - you know, what we might call a government.
Posted by: SteveS || 09/27/2010 23:55 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Leb arrests PKK 'spies'
[Iran Press TV] The Lebanese forces have jugged three members of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) for allegedly spying for Israel.

The Lebanese military intelligence service launched crackdown on foreign informants in the coastal city of Jounieh, north of the capital Beirut last week, Journal of Turkish Weekly reported on Saturday.

The ongoing operation has so far resulted in the arrest of three PKK forces of Evil among other suspected Tel Aviv-commissioned spies.

Since last year, Leb has jugged dozens of people, including security officials and telecom employees, on suspicion of spying for Israel.

The PKK, listed as a terrorist group by much of the international community, took up arms in 1984 in quest for an independent state in southeastern Turkey. The conflict has so far claimed some 45,000 lives.

The PKK forces of Evil launch their attacks from the Qandil Mountains where Israel and Israeli firms reportedly operate.

Earlier in June, Sedat Laciner, the head of Turkish think tank International Strategic Research Organization, said Israeli intelligence agents and military retirees had been sighted providing training to PKK forces of Evil in Iraqi Kurdistan.

On Tuesday, the PKK acting chief declared allegiance to Tel Aviv -- amid reports that Israel had been supporting the forces of Evil in their armed campaign against Turkey.

Murat Karayilan urged Israel to sever its military ties with Turkey, which he described as a common enemy.

"Our enemies are also the enemies of Israel," Karayilan told Israeli Channel 2 television, speaking from the group's strongholds in the northern Iraq mountains, Rooters reported.

"Our problem lies in the military ties between Israel and Turkey. Those ties harm us," he said.

The developments come as Ankara's relations with Tel Aviv remain at their worst following the May 31 Israeli attack on Freedom Flotilla, a Turkish-backed aid convoy, which was sailing for the Gazoo Strip. The assault in international waters killed nine Turkish human rights muscle.
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#1  Remember, boys, they're everywhere. Everywhere!
Posted by: tu3031 || 09/27/2010 20:15 Comments || Top||


Bombers of Iran military parade killed
TEHERAN — The ‘main elements’ behind the bombing at a military parade in Iran which killed 12 people were themselves killed by the elite Revolutionary Guards on Saturday, a senior commander said on Sunday.

Mohammad Pakpour, head of the Guards’ ground forces, also accused Israel and the United States of supporting Wednesday’s attack in the ethnically Kurdish northwestern town of Mahabad in West Ajarbaijan province, ILNA news agency reported.

‘Upon the arrival of terrorists at the location of a meeting with other counter-revolutionaries in a border area, the siege and confrontation operation was put in motion,’ Pakpour was quoted as saying.

‘Several mercenaries and agents of global arrogance, including the main elements behind the terrorist crime at Mahabad, were killed,’ he said.

Pakpour did not elaborate on the location of the operation or the number of casualties.

Wednesday’s bombing targeted a military parade in Mahabad, killing 12 people and wounding at least 81 others. Most of the victims were reported to be women and children. The attack came as Iran showcased military hardware at anniversary parades across the country commemorating the 1980-88 war with Iraq, in which an estimated one million people died on both sides.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemned the Mahabad attack, saying it ‘underscores the international community’s need to work together to combat terrorism.’

But Pakpour said Iran believed the United States and Israel were behind the bombing. ‘Investigations indicate the driving engine behind the Mahabad terrorist attack was the Zionist regime’s spy agency (Mossad), with the cooperation of the Americans as well as some elements of the Baath party in Iraq,’ he was quoted as saying without providing further details.

He did not make any reference to suspected involvement by any regional groups.

Western Iran, which has a sizeable Kurdish population, has seen deadly clashes in recent years between the Iranian security forces and Kurdish rebel groups, mainly the Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK) operating from bases in neighbouring Iraq.
Posted by: Steve White || 09/27/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Nuclear plant computers not hit by worm: Iran
[Pak Daily Times] The malicious Stuxnet computer worm has hit 30,000 industrial computers in Iran, officials said on Sunday, but denied the Islamic republic's first nuclear plant at Bushehr was among those infected.
It wasn't 'Made with a Mac', so ...
So far, Stuxnet has infected about 30,000 IP addresses in Iran, Mahmoud Liayi, head of the information technology council at the ministry of industries, was quoted as saying by the government-run newspaper Iran Daily. Stuxnet, which was publicly identified in June, was tailored for Siemens supervisory control and data acquisition, or SCADA, systems commonly used to manage water supplies, oil rigs, power plants and other industrial facilities.

The worm is able to recognise a specific facility's control network and then destroy it, according to German computer security researcher Ralph Langner, who has been analysing the malicious software.
Shoulda used Ubuntu, guys ...
Langner suspected Stuxnet was targeting Bushehr nuclear power plant, where unspecified problems have been blamed for delays in getting the facility fully operational. Siemens said its software has not been installed at the plant, and an Iranian official denied the malware may have infected nuclear facilities.
This is what happens when you ignore that little balloon at the bottom-right that tells you that you don't have any anti-virus software installed ...
"This virus has not caused any damage to the main systems of the Bushehr power plant," Bushehr project manager Mahmoud Jafari said on Iran's Arabic-language Al-Alam television network.
I thought you said there wasn't one ...
"All computer programmes in the plant are working normally and have not crashed due to Stuxnet," said Jafari, adding there was no problem with the plant's fuel loading process.
As I understand it (which of course is not very well) nobody knows exactly what Stuxnet is supposed to do. I keep reading that all the hacker experts have figured out is that it establishes itself in the computers of factory-type systems and, perhaps, sends information out to somewhere, and, perhaps at some point will take over the computer and have it make its machine go damagingly faster or slower... perhaps. So not crashing isn't anything to crow about in this context.
The official IRNA news agency meanwhile quoted him as saying that some "personal computers of the plant's personnel" were infected by the worm.
Oh, really? Fascinating. Do tell us more.
And he told Fars news agency that so far, five versions of the malware had been detected in the country. The self-replicating worm has been found lurking on Siemens systems mostly in India, Indonesia, Pakistain, but the heaviest infiltration appears to be in Iran, according to software security researchers.

Telecommunications minister Reza Taqipour said "the worm has not been able to penetrate or cause serious damage to government systems."

"No serious damage to industrial systems (by Stuxnet) have been reported in the country," he said. According to Iran Daily, telecommunications official Saeed Mahdiyoun said "teams of experts had begun to systematically eliminate the virus."

Meanwhile Liayi said without giving details that Stuxnet was "likely a (foreign) government project," given its complexity. The newspaper cited various experts who suggested the United States and Israel were behind the malware, evoking the "West's electronic warfare against Iran."

Liayi said industries were currently receiving systems to combat Stuxnet, while stressing Iran had decided not to use anti-virus software developed by Siemens because "they could be carrying a new version of the malware."

"When Stuxnet is activated, the industrial automation systems start transmitting data about production lines to a main designated destination by the virus," Liayi said.

"There, the data is processed by the worm's architects and then engineer plots to attack the country." Iran's nuclear ambitions are at the heart of a conflict between Tehran and the West, which suspects the Islamic republic is seeking to develop atomic weapons under the cover of a civilian drive.
Posted by: Fred || 09/27/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  The official IRNA news agency meanwhile quoted him as saying that some "personal computers of the plant's personnel" were infected by the worm.

I'm thinking..."goat porn" as an entry point.
Posted by: tu3031 || 09/27/2010 20:19 Comments || Top||

#2  DAILY TIMES.PK > [Global] IMPLICATIONS OF "STUXNET" [CP Worm] IRAN CYBER-ATTACK. Not good for US-World Govts as per implications for damage to cyber-control of national infrastructure.

ARTIC > STUXNET WORM = may had been implanted by a MAJOR WORLD INTEL-GOVT AGENCY, or by ROGUE PERSONAGE(S) = EX-OPERATIVE(S) TRAINED BY SAME???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 09/27/2010 22:52 Comments || Top||


IRGC kills Mahabad attack perpetrators
[Iran Press TV] Iran's elite Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has killed the main elements behind the kaboom in the bustling northwestern Iranian city of Mahabad.

A bomb kaboom in West Azarbaijan Province on Wednesday left 12 people titzup and at least 80 others maimed. The kaboom took place when people were watching a military parade.

"The soldiers of Hamzeh Seyyed al-Shohada base have bumped off the main perpetrators of the recent terrorist attack in Mahabad," the commander of the IRGC Ground Forces Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpour said on Sunday.

Iranian police jugged two people in connection with the terrorist attack on Wednesday.

Earlier on Thursday, Iran's Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi had said that the group behind the terrorist attack had been identified.

"Investigations show that the Israeli spy agency [Mossad] was the criminal mastermind of the Mahabad terrorist attack," Fars News Agency quoted Pakpour as saying.

The Iranian commander added that Mossad dispatched the terrorist team to Iran with the cooperation of Americans and some members of Iraq's Baath party.
Ahah. That's a likely combination, isn't it? I knew it all along...
The enemies should know that old scenarios against the Islamic theocracy such as creating terror can never affect the Iranian nation's resolve to defend the establishment of the Islamic Theocratic Republic, Pakpour concluded.
Posted by: Fred || 09/27/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran



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