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Gaza Militant Killed, 6 Hurt in 'Bomb-Making Exercise'
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Good morning
Posted by: Fred || 03/09/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Birthday Gam Shot

Maite Perroni [Mexico][Discography](age 31)



Peek-a-Boo Design

Double Vision a Hazard to Safe Navigation of Motorboats, Port or Starboard?

Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 03/09/2014 3:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Birthday Gam Shot 03/08

Andrea Parker[Filmography](age 44)



Design on the Edge

Motor with Displacement Best Suited for Trolling


Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 03/09/2014 3:37 Comments || Top||

#3  Birthday Gam Shot 03/07

Rica Peralejo [Pinoy][Filmography](age 33)



Leyte Design

“Prepare to come about!”


Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 03/09/2014 3:38 Comments || Top||

#4  Ah, Ms. Perroni - enough to make me change my position on illegal immigration, at least on a limited basis.
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/09/2014 9:15 Comments || Top||

#5  GB's on a roll this morning.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/09/2014 14:29 Comments || Top||

#6  Didn't Andrea Parker play Miss Parker on the TV series "The Pretender?"
Posted by: Glert Johnson5763 || 03/09/2014 21:28 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
4 ANA, 2 ANP Killed in Laghman Blast
[Tolo News] Four Afghan soldiers and two coppers were killed in a landmine blast in eastern Lghman province early Saturday, local officials said.

Two other soldiers were maimed in the blast.

The blast took place in Mehterlam the capital of Laghman, when the soldierswere were trying to defused a roadside mine placed by turbans recently, said Sarhadi Zwak Provincial Governor Spokesman.

The victims have been taken to a nearby hospital.
Posted by: Fred || 03/09/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


19 Taliban Insurgents Killed in Afghan Raids
[Tolo News] At least 19 insurgents were killed and seven others were injured during a series of security operations conducted by the joint Afghan forces operations in the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Interior Affairs (MoIA) said on Saturday in a statement.

Six others were arrested in the operations.

"Afghan National Police (ANP), Afghan National Army and the National Directorate for Security (NDS) or intelligence service conducted several anti-terrorism joint operations in, Nangarhar, Baghlan, Faryab, Kandahar, Heart and Farah provinces," the statement said.

The MoIA did not provide details about Afghan forces casualties during the raids.

The Taliban has not yet commented on the casualties.
Posted by: Fred || 03/09/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Magnetic bomb kills district governor in eastern Afghanistan
[Pak Daily Times] JALALABAD: A magnetic bomb attached to a district governor's vehicle went kaboom! in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing the governor and his bodyguard, provincial authorities said.

The attack in Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
province highlights the security threat surrounding presidential elections in a month's time, when voters will choose a successor to Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai
... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use...
.

"Today 9:00am, a mine attached to the vehicle of Nazyan district governor, Noor Agha Kamran, exploded in the city of Jalalabad," Nangarhar police front man, Hazrat Hussain Mashriqiwal told AFP. "Unfortunately, district governor, Noor Agha Kamran was martyred along with his one bodyguard, and several passersby were maimed in the attack," he added.

Nangarhar governor front man Ahmad Zia Abdulzai said five bystanders were slightly maimed. They were discharged from the hospital after treatment. No one immediately grabbed credit for the attack but Taliban snuffies regularly use such tactics as part of its fight against Karzai's US-backed government.
Posted by: Fred || 03/09/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa Horn
3 dead in 'battle' in Lower Shabelle
At least 3 men died involved in the fighting died and dozens others were injured after fierce confrontations erupted in the Janaale area of the Lower Shabelle region.

This battle broke out after military bases for the Government‘s forces and AMISOM in Janaale were attacked by Al-Shabaab fighters. During the intense clashes, it was reported that heavy and light ammunition was used and that Al-Shabaab quickly fled the scene almost immediately after the fighting ended.

The environment this morning is serene as it was confirmed by the locals and the Government troops as well as the AMISOM.
Posted by: Steve White || 03/09/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab


Mutual Mortaring in Baladweyne
As it is reported from Baladweyne, the provincial capital city of the Hiiraan region; heavy mortar shells were used to attack the Janta Kundisho territory on the outskirts of Baladweyne.

The mortar shells were exchanged between Al-Shabaab and Ethiopian troops and the casualties caused last night are still unknown.

Due to the inclusion of the Ethiopian troops under the AMISOM mandate, they have already began launching their offensives in some areas of the Hiiraan region against Al-Shabaab.
Posted by: Steve White || 03/09/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab

#1  Fans of mutual mortaring swear
That it's gun sex most extraordinaire.
When both shoot in the air,
It's the climax of their
Horny African fighting affair.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 03/09/2014 3:24 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Morocco dismantles criminal network with al-Qaeda ties
[MAGHAREBIA] Morocco dismantled a criminal network led by an al-Qaeda recruiter, MAP reported on Thursday (March 6th).

The group is accused of committing financial crimes in Fez and Sefrou. According to the interior ministry, the gang included two known terrorists. The leader of the group helped finance jihadists to join al-Qaeda in Syria, the ministry said.

The suspects face arraignment on multiple charges.
Posted by: Fred || 03/09/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in North Africa


Cairo Tram Station Bomb Hurts One Person
[An Nahar] The kaboom of a suspected homemade bomb targeting a tram station in eastern Cairo maimed at least one person on Saturday, Egyptian security officials said.

Since the military ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi
...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator...
in July, turbans have stepped up attacks against the security forces in Egypt, killing many soldiers and coppers.

However,
women are made to be loved, not understood...
attacks on civilian targets have been rare.

Another homemade bomb was defused at the same station, the security officials said.

In February, a bomb that struck a bus carrying tourists near the Taba border crossing in South Sinai killed three people, including three South Koreans.

The Al-Qaeda-inspired Ansar Beit al-Maqdis claimed the attack.

It has also grabbed credit for high-profile attacks including a boom-mobileing at a police headquarters in Cairo and the shooting down of a military helicopter in the Sinai Peninsula.

The Sinai-based group said the attacks were in Dire Revenge™ for a deadly crackdown by the security forces on Morsi supporters.
Posted by: Fred || 03/09/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis


Suspected murder squad arrested in Sirte
[Libya Herald] Five members of a group suspected of being behind a number of liquidations in Sirte have been tossed in the clink
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
, according to sources in the town.

They are alleged to have been involved in the killing a week ago of Makhlouf Ben Nasser Al-Ferjani who headed Sirte Military Council who was killed a week ago as well as of the Deputy Minister of Industry, Hassan Al-Daroue, murdered in January, and Colonel Ramadan Al-Tarooq, who worked at the local passports office. He was killed in December.

The five were caught by members of the army's infantry battalion No. 136 on Thursday but it was only yesterday that the news was announced.

They are alleged to be Qadaffy supporters, four of them allegedly being members of the Qadhadhfa tribe and the fifth a Tawerghan who had been living in Sirte since its population was forced to flee at the end of the revolution.

It is claimed that found with them was an execution list of 40 supporters of the revolution in Sirte.

When Al-Daroue, himself from Sirte, was rubbed out in January, it was claimed that former regime sympathisers were involved but no evidence was produced at the time.

The five are said to have confessed to the killings during interrogation by the local Criminal Investigation Department. It intends to hand them over to the Public prosecutor.

Sirte is reckoned to be the third most dangerous place in the country, after Benghazi and Derna.
Posted by: Fred || 03/09/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Arabia
2 Yemeni soldiers, four militants killed in south
[Pak Daily Times] At least two Yemeni soldiers and four turbans were killed in a clash on Saturday when al Qaeda gunnies tried to attack a military compound in southern Yemen, the defence ministry said. The clash occurred when al Qaeda turbans approached the compound in Lawdar town with suicide belts, hand grenades and bombs, the ministry said on its website. Soldiers and members of neighbourhood patrols confronted them. The website earlier put the toll at one dead myrmidon and two Yemeni soldiers. It later quoted a military source as saying four "terrorists" had been killed, one of whom had Saudi nationality and went by the name "Abu Musab". A third soldier was maimed in the attack in southern Abyan
...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues...
province. Yemen is home to one of al Qaeda's most lethal franchises, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. The group has focused much of its attacks in Yemen on security forces. Stabilising Yemen is an international priority given its proximity to top oil exporter Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
.
Posted by: Fred || 03/09/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Arabia


India-Pakistan
Judge killed by his own guard, report reveals
[Pak Daily Times] Investigation into the tragic incident of F8 district courts has revealed that the dear departed additional sessions judge, Rafaqat Ahmad Khan Awan, received bullets from the official revolver issued to his gunman Constable Babar Hussain of the Security Division, Islamabad. According to initial reports, Rafaqat Awan was killed inside the chamber behind his courtroom, with no signs of his blood anywhere else. "There is no evidence of any distant gunshot of Kalashnikov rifle -- 7.62mm -- (used by terrorists) in the courtroom, on the door of the chamber or anyplace/wall inside the chamber," the report said. It further said there was evidence of contact shot (with gunpowder blackening) on the door of the chamber, which suggested a small entry and not a 7.62mm bullet. "There is also evidence of another shot of a revolver on the wooden wall of the chamber fired from the inside." The investigation by different teams of police and the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) continues.
Posted by: Fred || 03/09/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  Perhaps Constable Babar Hussein
Was feeling some on-the-job strain,
And his trigger was jarred
When he Allah' ackbarred...
But such details are hardly germane.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 03/09/2014 4:22 Comments || Top||


Lyari gangster, four others killed
[Pak Daily Times] Violence in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
claimed four more lives whereas a criminal involved in Lyari
...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot....
Gang War was bumped off in an encounter in the jurisdiction of Kalakot Police Station.

Police stated that a person was killed by unknown persons in Lyari due to firing.

Another person was bumped off due to firing at a hotel in the area of Gulistan-e-Jauhar.

One person was rubbed out in Baldia Town area.

A person departed this vale of tears sustained during a firing incident at Model Colony.

Police killed Zahid Dashti, an important member of Lyari Gang War, in an encounter in the jurisdiction of Kalakot Police Station.

Meanwhile several suspected persons involved in the Lyari Gang Warfare were tossed in the calaboose
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
by the Police during a search operation in Lyari.

Eight persons were nabbed by Law Enforcing Agencies (LEAs) at Farid Colony in Orangi Town. A spokesperson of Rangers stated that two hit mans were also arrested from the area of Gulistan-e-Jauhar area.

Wanted: Meanwhile,
...back at the desert island, Bert was realizing to his horror that he'd had only one bottle for one message, and he'd forgotten to include a return address...
authorities have finalised list of 365 'hardened criminals', wanted in Karachi operation.

According to the list, obtained by private TV, the 'hardened criminals' have been divided in three categories, according to the nature of charges levelled against them. Some 39 'hardened criminals' belong to banned outfits, 178 belong to political parties, 48 gang war members and 13 belong to religious parties. These culprits are carrying head money ranging from Rs. 500,000 to Rs. 2 million. online

Bomb defused: Also on Friday, a bomb was defused by the Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) in the Orangi Town area. According to BDS, a call was received from the MPR Colony informing about the presence of a bomb in a packet.

The bomb contained two kilograms of kaboom and ball bearings.

Moreover, the BDS after a struggle of an hour defused the bomb and cleared the area.
Posted by: Fred || 03/09/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Iraq
28 killed in violent attacks across Iraq
A total of 28 people were killed and 38 others wounded in separate violent attacks, mainly targeting security forces, across Iraq on Saturday, police said, Xinhua reported.

The deadliest attacks occurred in Iraq's western province of Anbar, leaving a total of 18 security members dead and 25 others wounded, including three gunmen.

In one of the attacks, a booby-trapped car was detonated near an Iraqi army force south of the provincial capital city Ramadi, some 110 km west of Baghdad. Nine soldiers were killed and ten others wounded.

In a separate incident, a suicide bomber drove his explosive- laden car into a joint army and police checkpoint and blew it up in north Ramadi, killing four policemen and wounding four others.

Also in the battlefield city of Ramadi, two police commandos were killed and four others wounded in a roadside bomb explosion near their patrol in the city's northern suburb of Albu-Dhiyab.

Separately, gunmen attacked an army checkpoint in Haswa area, just east of the militant-seized city of Fallujah, some 50 km west of Baghdad. They killed three soldiers, including an officer, and wounded four others. Three gunmen were also wounded in the clash.

Earlier in the day, a commander of an army brigade and two of his bodyguards were killed and six others wounded when two roadside bombs struck their convoy. They were conducting an operation against al-Qaida militants at Wadi Argoub area, some 35 km north of Diyala's provincial capital city of Baquba.

In Salahudin province, a policeman was killed and three others wounded when gunmen attacked their checkpoint in the city of Samarra, some 120 km north of Baghdad. Two gunmen as well as two children were also killed in the crossfire at the scene.

Elsewhere, two more children were killed when a roadside bomb was detonated near the car of a member of a government-backed Sahwa paramilitary group in the city of Shirqat, some 280 km north of Baghdad. The blast also wounded the Sahwa member.

Also in the province, gunmen blew up bombs in 14 houses belonging to policemen in different parts of Salahudin's provincial capital city of Tikrit, some 170 km north of Baghdad, causing damages to the houses and leaving three people wounded.
Posted by: Steve White || 03/09/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IDF chief to returning navy commandos after ship seizure: 'There will be many more missions'
[Jerusalem Post] IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz met Saturday with the navy commandos who took part in the interdiction of a ship found to be carrying a weapons shipment from Iran bound for Gaza, and told them that there would be many more missions to come.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/09/2014 04:02 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Fatah Says Hamas Arrested Gaza Members
[An Nahar] Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, police in the Islamist-ruled Gazoo Strip have rounded up dozens of members of Paleostinian president the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
's secular Fatah movement, Fatah said on Saturday.

Spokesman Hassan Ahmad told Agence La Belle France Presse the arrests on Friday took place at a ceremony in Khan Yunis in the south of the coastal enclave.

"Hamas police intervened during a ceremony to honor deaders" killed by Israel, Ahmad said.

"They incarcerated
You have the right to remain silent...
dozens of people for no reason."

Islam Shahwan, a front man for the Hamas interior ministry, said police acted because the meeting organizers had not sought permission.

"Around 20 people were detained and later released after signing a document not to take part in unauthorized meetings," Shahwan said.

Fatah and Hamas, which rule in the West Bank and Gazoo respectfully, signed a reconciliation agreement in Cairo in 2011 aimed at ending their political differences.
Posted by: Fred || 03/09/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Gaza Militant Killed, 6 Hurt in 'Bomb-Making Exercise'
[An Nahar] A member of a Gazoo bully boy organization was killed Saturday and six more maimed in an kaboom as they were learning to make bombs, the group said.

"The kaboom occurred during a training session in bomb-making," said a statement from the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamist Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, movement that controls Gazoo.

The blast took place at a house in the southern town of Rafah, on the Egyptian border.

Earlier, witnesses had said that most of the injured, including two seriously hurt, were "activists".
Posted by: Fred || 03/09/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  They need to use bigger bombs in their classes; only one killed and six wounded - surely they can do better than that.
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/09/2014 9:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Agree Glenmore, but it's still good news.
Posted by: AlanC || 03/09/2014 10:42 Comments || Top||

#3  The information provided in this exercise is TESTABLE. When I stomp my foot, please initiate note taking.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/09/2014 10:58 Comments || Top||

#4  The Djinn of Electro-static Discharge being mischievous? Or yet another case of congenital red-green color blindness from too much inbreeding?

"Fear not the Djinn of ESD, for no man knows the time and the place, and only Allan himself can tell the red from the green."
-- the Bombmaking Sutra
Posted by: SteveS || 03/09/2014 12:29 Comments || Top||

#5  Class dismissed.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/09/2014 14:46 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syria troops take back village; FSA appoints new chief
All right: who here truly expected the Syrian situation would make the citizenry grateful to be overrun by the ancien regime?
[The Peninsula] Syrian government forces seized a village in the central Homs province yesterday, state media and a monitoring group said, as part of a push for control of areas along the Lebanese border.

Meanwhile,
...back at the palazzo, Don Smilzo looked for an avenue of escape. The only window opened a hundred feet above the moat. The nearest of the hired assassins hold a bloody axe.
The window was looking better all the time....

the rebel Free Syrian Army
... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund...
has confirmed the appointment of its new chief, Brigadier General Abdel Ilah

Al Bashir, after former head General Selim Idriss had initially refused to step down
...Hell no! The money's too good!...
.

The village of Al Zara, west of the city of Homs, fell after "heavy festivities" between government and rebel forces, the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, although the number of casualties was not immediately clear.

Al Zara is inhabited mostly by Sunni Mohammedans from the ethnic Turkmen minority, it added.

In a statement on state news agency SANA, Syria's armed forces said they had established complete control over the village and killed and captured a "large number of terrorists", using state media's customary term for rebels fighting to overthrow President Bashar Al Assad.

The victory gave government forces control over a route connecting central Syria to the Mediterranean coast and which had been used as "a primary route for terrorist groups coming from Lebanese territory to neighbouring areas to carry out criminal operations", it said.

Syria's civil war has killed over 140,000 people since it started three years ago as a peaceful protest movement against four decades of Assad family rule.

The conflict has become increasingly tangled as rebel groups -- including many hardline Islamist factions -- have turned on one another, leading to festivities that have killed thousands of people this year alone.

Separately, a video was published online by activists purportedly showing members of the Al Qaeda splinter group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original...
(ISIL) executing eight prisoners.

In the video, fighters in fatigues line up the prisoners inside a building and force them to kneel before shooting them from behind.

Some of the men in the video speak Russian with marked Caucasian accents and speech patterns.
Posted by: Fred || 03/09/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


Wanted Suspects Exchange Fire with ISF in Sidon
[An Nahar] An Internal Security Forces Unit exchanged fir on Tuesday with suspects during a raid in the Taamir Ein el-Hellhole area in the southern city of Sidon.

The state-run National News Agency reported that the raided the area in search for wanted suspects.

Future television reported that a unit comprised of ISF members and the Intelligence Bureau came under fire while carrying out a raid in Sidon to apprehend suspects affiliated in the Hizbullah
...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
Resistance Brigades.

Media reports had said that Hizbullah decided to dissolve its affiliated Resistance Brigades to lift the cover off any member that breaches security.

Salafist holy man Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir
...Leb Salafist holy man with the usual grouch against Shiites. Currently on the run, he seems intent on reigniting the Leb civil war...
accused in June 2013 Hizbullah of using several apartments in Abra in Sidon to stockpile weapons and house fighters.

Al-Asir supporters clashed several times with the members of the Hizbullah's Resistance Brigades in Abra.

The Salafist holy man, a 45-year-old holy man who supports the overwhelmingly Sunni rebels fighting to topple Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs...
, is no where to be found after his supporters clashed in June with the army.

Officials in Sidon have been demanding Hizbullah, after al-Asir's battle with the army, to withdraw its resistance brigades members from the city.
Posted by: Fred || 03/09/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


Terror Networks
Missing airliner appears to have crashed
The link in the title is to a Daily Mirror live blog posting of the latest news. If you have a twitter account, you can follow the news on hashtag #MH370. A lot of crap, but also a lot of info. As it stands now four passengers were using false passports on the flight. The latest is a debris field has been spotted on the South China Sea.

From Time. Inc:

Malaysia Airlines said Sunday that search and rescue teams still cannot find Flight MH370, which vanished Saturday morning and carried 239 people. Meanwhile, the United States has sent a destroyer to aid the international hunt.
Posted by: badanov || 03/09/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  since no terrorist group has claimed responsibility yet, it really doesn't seem like terrorism was the most likely cause
Posted by: lord garth || 03/09/2014 0:24 Comments || Top||

#2  IS News Network: Stolen passport travel prevention.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/09/2014 4:44 Comments || Top||

#3  I can think of many reasons why a group would not be so quick to claim credit. I think the four UNSUBs were connected to the crash.
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 03/09/2014 6:58 Comments || Top||

#4  Were the Unknown Subjects of Investigation photographed whilst boarding? Have one-way ticket? Employment? Pay cash for ticket? Credit card info? Baggage? Family on arrival end?

A Biometrics Automated Toolset (BAT) and Handheld Interagency Identity Detection Equipment (HIDES) system is desperately needed for air travel and immigration. Technology exists to stop this bullshi*.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/09/2014 9:06 Comments || Top||

#5  ..actually, the old Mongol approach seemed to solve such problems. A lot of collateral damage, but a resolution was achieved. People also figured out not to mess with the Mongols for a couple hundred years (which time span probably reduces to decades in modern calculations).
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/09/2014 9:12 Comments || Top||

#6  My spidey sense tell me the investigators know a lot more about them than they are letting on.

Re; the biometrics - while the tech exists, it is scale issue. How do you enroll billions of people?
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 03/09/2014 9:13 Comments || Top||

#7  Ok, 'go Mongol' and use BATS/HIDES as a backup. I'm good with that.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/09/2014 9:13 Comments || Top||

#8  How do you enroll billions of people? Posted by Bangkok Billy


Start with the obvious shi* disturbers, then gradually integrate the Mennonites, Moravians, Swedes, Danes, Fijians, etc.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/09/2014 9:21 Comments || Top||

#9  Maybe somebody has it in for Freescale Semiconductor?
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/09/2014 9:22 Comments || Top||

#10  Reuters had this to say about one of the false passports:
If there were passengers on board with stolen passports, it was not clear how they passed through security checks.

International police body Interpol maintains a database of more than 39 million travel documents reported lost or stolen by 166 countries, and says on its website that this enables police, immigration or border control officers to check the validity of a suspect document within seconds. No comment was immediately available from the organization.

Italian police said the passport of Luigi Maraldi was reported stolen on August 1, 2013 and was inserted in the Interpol database
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 03/09/2014 11:39 Comments || Top||

#11  AP had this to say about the sudden loss of communication:
Capt. John M. Cox, who spent 25 years flying for US Airways and is now CEO of Safety Operating Systems, said that whatever happened to the Malaysia Airlines jet, it occurred quickly. The problem had to be big enough, he said, to stop the plane’s transponder from broadcasting its location, although the transponder can be purposely shut off from the cockpit.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 03/09/2014 11:42 Comments || Top||

#12  Oceanic Flight 815 situation.
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/09/2014 11:56 Comments || Top||

#13  The names of the two pilots:

Ahmad Shah, 53, Abdul Hamid, 27

Any Questions?
Posted by: Goober Snesing9683 || 03/09/2014 12:02 Comments || Top||

#14  goober,

you may be thinking of the 1999 crash of Egyptian Air flight 990; it was crashed by Gameel Al-Batouti who was the first officer of the relief crew; al batouti's motivation(s) are, of course, unknowable; he had been recently reprimanded by his chain of supervisors (and one of them was aboard) and one theory is that he was depressed or trying to kill a hated supervisor; in addition, there were several dozen high level military officers aboard and one theory is that al batouti was trying to kill those people;

the other 3 egyptian flight officers tried to avert the crash
Posted by: lord garth || 03/09/2014 12:26 Comments || Top||

#15  "How do you enroll billions of people?"

When they want to fly, they get their first time check at the Airport before bording?

Ahh, big brother stuff. Skerry
Posted by: newc || 03/09/2014 14:28 Comments || Top||

#16  The 2 stolen passports were used to buy tickets in Thailand to board at KL. That says to me drug mules.

But possible terrorists using drug mule MO.
Posted by: phil_b || 03/09/2014 16:18 Comments || Top||

#17  There is already a system to real time check for stolen/dodgy passports, but only USA, Aus and NZ use it.
Posted by: phil_b || 03/09/2014 16:20 Comments || Top||

#18  From THE AMERICAN THINKER Blog:

Los Angeles Times reported “Mikael Robertsson, cofounder of FlightRadar24, which tracks about 120,000 flights per day with 3,000 receivers around the world, said the last transmission it recorded from the flight was at 35,000 feet.” FlightRadar believes MH 370“lost radar contact about 40 minutes into the flight, not two hours as the airline said.” He added, “I don’t want to speculate, but something very sudden happened.”

Thai Meteorological Department reported the cool and sunny weather with Southerly winds 10-20 km/hr. Malaysian Flight 370 transponder pings indicate the plane was cruising level at 35,000 feet, with no adverse weather, and no crew reports of mechanical issues. The aircraft was an 11-year-old Boeing 777-200 carrying 225 passengers, two infants, and 12 crew members. The only fatal accident of any Boeing 777 after 18 years of revenue service was Asiana Airlines Flight 214, where pilot error caused the plane to miss the runway in San Francisco. About 150 of Flight 370’s passengers, or 67%, were Chinese citizens on a regularly scheduled 5 hour and 55 minute flight. After flying level for an extended period, the plane abruptly veered 200 meters off course and then vanished, seeming to indicate the plane imploded into pieces after a catastrophic event. Given that two passengers were reported to be flying on a stolen Austrian and a stolen Italian passport, the most likely scenario is the plane imploded into pieces shortly after an onboard explosion from a large bomb in a luggage compartment.


There is a lot of typical speculation to the cause, but the transponder and weather information is a start.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 03/09/2014 22:17 Comments || Top||

#19  More information from WRECHARD at the Belmont Club.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 03/09/2014 22:24 Comments || Top||



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