[Khaama (Afghanistan)] For all the conflicts in the world in which Washington is at odds with Moscow, the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan has been one area where the B.O. regime's interests and Russia's concerns coincide, The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reports. Perhaps the Russians are reacting to failing quarterly financial reports and trailing dividend stream reductions.
Disputes over the wars in Ukraine and Syria had not stopped the governments from cooperating on counter-narcotics and securing military supply lines.
But after initial success on those fronts, Russia now seems to be disengaging with both the United States and the American-backed Afghan government.
On an old Cold War battlefield where Russia fought a nearly decade-long war against United States-supplied fighters, Moscow has a new strategy: the cold shoulder.
"We won't join the useless events, and we've already told the Americans," President Vladimir V. Putin's envoy to Afghanistan, Zamir N. Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... ov, told Russian state news media this month. Russia, he said, would sit out any talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government in Kabul, backed by the United States, Pakistain and China.
"Honestly speaking, we're already tired of joining anything Washington starts," Mr. Kabulov said. The Kremlin, he added, "has no desire to participate in what the Americans organize 'on the fly' just for their own pre-election interests and where they give us the role of extras on the set."
The government of Mr. Putin has instead decided to address on its own what it sees as the immediate security threat from the chaos in Afghanistan and the emergence there of murderous Moslems other than the Taliban, especially those from the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... Russia has reinforced its largest foreign military base in Tajikistan, along the border with Afghanistan, and the Russian military has held regular exercises with Tajik soldiers. The Kremlin has committed $1.2 billion to train and equip the Tajik Army, forming a new bulwark in Central Asia north of Afghanistan.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] 70 tons of expired medicines and food items were set on fire in eastern 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 on Saturday.
Doctor Najibullah Kamawal, Public Health Director of Nangarhar told news hounds that these items were collected by a commission from different drug stores and shops in Jalalabad city.
He said the commission had gathered the 50 tons of food and 20 tons of drugs in last four months based on the instructions of Governor Saleem Khan Kundozi.
The Public Health Director further said that the commission would continue its efforts to block the sale and purchase of expired or low quality drugs and food in Nangarhar.
Kamawal urged locals to check the expiry date of a medicine before buying it.
Most of the low quality drugs are coming to Nangarhar from Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. through Torkham Border.
There are factories functioning secretly in Peshawar to produce fake medicines.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] An influential political and religious figure Pir Syed Ahmad Gilani has been appointed as the new Chief of the Afghan High Peace Council.
The former Afghan Vice President Karim Khalili has been appointed as the Deputy Chief of the High Peace Council along with Mawlavi Ata-ur-Rehman, Mawlavi Khaibar and Habiba Surabi.
The new appointments comes days after the major international donors suspended aid to the council due to the lack of the leadership.
The council officials said earlier this month that the major donors that have suspended financial aid included the United States Agency for International Development and the government of the United Kingdom.
A senior member of the council, Mohammad Ismail Qasimyar, confirmed that the donors have suspended financial support to the High Peace Council since the beginning of the year, citing lack of chairman for almost a year and issues within the secretariat of the council.
The current Minister of Foreign Affairs Salahuddin Rabbani was previously serving as the chairman of the council while the acting Minister of Defense Masoom Stanikzai was the secretariat chief.
The Afghanistan High Peace Council was formed by the former President 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... in mid 2010 to provide a platform for reconciliation talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban group.
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The African Union Mission in Somalia may have to concentrate more on air strikes than ground attacks in its war against Al-Shabaab militants to minimise expenses after one of its main donors reduced funding. The European Union said it reduced the budget to the mission because of financial constraints.
On Thursday, AU officials met with Amisom partners in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to see how to avoid “duplication and waste” of functions in Somalia. When the question of financing came up, the EU said its budget drop had been forced by realities. The partners included representatives from the EU, the UK, France, the US, China and the United Nations.
The EU has problems closer to home...
But even with this challenge, AU Commissioner for Peace and Security Smail Chergui said Kenya and Ethiopia accepted to use their aircraft to increase attacks against the terrorists.
“Helicopters offered by Ethiopia and Kenya to Amisom will the be game-changer; details are currently being finalised with the UN,” the Algerian diplomat said on Thursday.
Under the 2012 UN Security Council Resolution 2036, Amisom can have up to three attack helicopters, usually from troop-contributing countries like Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda or Burundi. The UN then recompenses every country based on equipment used.
At U.N. rates, a sweet deal...
However, EU ambassador to the AU Gary Quince told the Nation that he did not expect the budget cut to affect Amisom operations even as he added that the union recommended alternative financing for the mission.
“We encourage the AU to identify other sources of funding to fill the gap. These are other international partners and AU member states,” Quince said on Friday. As has been a tradition since 2007, EU supports Amisom — to which KDF belongs — through the African Peace Facility.
The Somalia mission meant to stabilise the government in Mogadishu and fight extremists has received €1.1 billion covering allowances for the 22,000 troops, pay for the police component, international and local civilian staff as well as operational costs of the mission’s civilian office in Nairobi.
But APF, established in 2003 to respond to an African request to support its peace and security agenda, has also been involved in security missions in other parts of the continent such as the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Somalia and the Comoros.
“It (reduction in funding) is caused by the financial constraints on the EU African Peace Facility which funds Amisom and reflects the huge demands placed upon it to support African peace and security efforts,” the EU diplomat said. “For example, since 2007 to the end 2015, EU provided €1.1 billion (Sh123.2 billion) to Amisom and this has depleted funding.”
From January 2016, the EU reduced financial contribution to Amisom by 20 per cent. It means that the EU will give €20 million (Sh224 million) every month up to June. Amisom requires about $300 million (Sh30 billion) a month.
Its soldiers are paid a mission allowance of $1,028 (Sh103,828) a month with no other allowances. For a KDF soldier, the government deducts an administration fee of $200 (Sh20,200), meaning every serviceman gets $828 (Sh83,628).
And the government leaders get a sweet pot of cash with virtually no controls...
Last year, EU signed a deal with AU worth €165 million for July to December 2015 to cover troop allowances, death and disability compensation for military and police personnel, international and local civilian staff salaries, operational costs of Amisom, maintenance, running costs and equipment for the Al-Jazeera Training camp in Mogadishu and Quick Impact Projects.
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Contract stability and peace making forces in Africa, same predictable 'Outcomes' as the last 60 years I'd reckon. Buttering the ant hill, not really necessary. They'll do quite well if simply left alone.
The Sunni Arab (and Egyptian) force prepares to battle the perfidious Persian Shiites.
[AlAhram] Military units from over 20 Arab and Islamic countries are participating in the exercises with the aim of increasing cooperation between members of the Arab Coalition
Egypt's army spokesperson said in a Facebook statement on Satuday that "Thunder of the North," the "largest military exercise witnessed in the region" has started in 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... The exercises include Egyptian and Saudi ground and air forces along with military units from over 20 Arab and Islamic countries.
There's a cute photo of the Egyptian forces lined up in their spiffy new camouflage uniforms with matching gear bags at their feet. I'm taking the high road and saying nothing about being unable to see either troops or gear once they land.
The exercise is meant to increase coordination between Egyptian and Saudi Armed Forces and Arab Coalition countries by exchanging expertise and improving skills in order to achieve the highest level of combat efficiency.
The statement says that the exercise aims to "formulate the main characteristics of building joint Arab defensive security for coalition members by uniting visions of the region's security questions."
Egypt is the second largest contributor to Thunder of the North after Saudi Arabia in terms of forces and "participating specialisations," Brigadier General Mohammed Samir said.
Since the troops arrived, they have attended "theoretical and practical lectures on topics and exercises" that will be covered in Thunder of the North.
Egyptian Armed Forces were deployed in March 2015 to the Gulf, the Red Sea, and Bab Al-Mandab strait as part of their participation in the Saudi-led coalition targeting Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... rebels in Yemen.
Egypt's deployment was extended in January one more year or until the end of their mission.
[Al Arabiya] The Specialized Criminal Court of Riyadh on Sunday presented a list of accusations prepared by the Bureau of Investigation and Public Prosecution (BIP) against 32 people accused of spying for Iranian Intelligence.
The accused were Saudis from al-Qatif Region in Eastern Saudi Arabia along with two others, an Iranian and an Afghan.
The prosecution has already completed the list of charges against the accused.
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FYI GROONG > [Fars News Agency] SOURCES: US [+ ME or Regional Allies] PLOTTING TO TAKE CONTROL OF BARB AL-MANDEB [Waterway], UAE TO TAKE CONTROL OF SOCOTRA ISLANDS.
Via deposed Yemeni President Hadi alleged secret agreement wid UAE, the KSA to to allegedly take control of Northern Yemen, UAE to get control of Eastern Yemen.
[ALMANAR.LB] Russia's Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu arrived on Sunday in Tehran for a surprise visit, Iran's state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
reported.
Shoigu is expected to meet President Sheikh Hassan Rouhani and his counterpart Hussein Dehghan during his trip to discuss the "situation in the region", it said.
The trip comes days after Dehghan visited Moscow on Tuesday, during which Shoigu said Russia and Iran were ready to step up their military cooperation.
Russia has authorized the delivery of S-300 anti-aircraft batteries to Iran.
According to Russian and Iranian media, Iran also wants to buy Sukhoi 30 fighter jets from Russia.
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Police in Hungary say increasing numbers of migrants are breaching a razor wire fence built to stop them crossing the border from Serbia.
Not enough alligators with lasers on their frickin' foreheads...
In January, 550 people were caught getting through - up from 270 in December. More than 1,200 were caught in the first 20 days of February.
Hungary caused controversy with the 4m (13ft) barrier, completed in September. However, several other countries have since introduced tough border controls to stop the influx of migrants.
The number of people crossing from Serbia dropped after Hungary built the fence along the 175km (110-mile) border with its neighbour last year.
But police say migrants are now increasingly getting through, mostly by cutting through or climbing over the barrier. Most are from Pakistan, Iran and Morocco, who are no longer admitted through other routes.
It follows moves by Austria, Slovenia, and Balkan countries to limit the nationalities and the numbers of those being allowed through.
The majority of migrants and refugees have headed for countries like Germany and Sweden via Hungary and Austria after crossing from Turkey to Greece. Many are fleeing the conflict in Syria.
Far fewer migrants are entering Hungary than Austria but the sharply increasing trend of people breaching the border fence is alarming the authorities. More people crossed from Serbia into Hungary in the first 20 days of February than in the same period in 2015, before a fence was even contemplated, our correspondent adds.
Once in Hungary, they face criminal charges or deportation.
Meanwhile Interior Minister Sandor Pinter has renewed the closure of three railway crossings to Croatia, for fear that migrants and refugees will again start walking down the tracks into Hungary.
On Friday Austria introduced a daily cap on the number of migrants and refugees allowed into the country. Just 80 asylum applications will be accepted each day at the country's southern border, in a move condemned by critics as incompatible with European law.
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Mines. Need more mines.
Wooden stakes with former intruders on them would help too.
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You use wire and mines to channel invasions into free fire zones collection points which should resemble the very place they're trying to leave in the first place. Anyone who objects should subsequently be tagged to house and feed such 'migrants' (in US lingo - illegals).
A fire which broke out at a building planned to house migrants in eastern Germany was greeted with cheers from some onlookers, police say.
The fire in the town of Bautzen in the early hours of Sunday morning destroyed the roof of a former hotel, which was being converted into a migrant shelter. Police said some of the crowd tried to prevent firefighters from extinguishing the blaze, which destroyed the roof.
The premier of Saxony, Stanislaw Tillich, described them as "criminals".
Police suspect arson. The investigation includes detectives who normally deal with extremist crimes. No-one was hurt.
Only a few days ago, protesters in another Saxon town, Clausnitz, blocked the arrival of a bus taking migrants to accommodation. They shouted, "We are the people", the slogan of the 1989 peaceful uprising which led to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany.
Police in Bautzen said many in the crowd watched the fire and commented with "unashamed delight". Two drunken men were arrested after they refused to leave the scene.
The converted hotel was supposed to house 300 migrants.
In a further sign of anti-migrant sentiment, police in the Brandenburg region are investigating the distribution of leaflets urging "absolute resistance" against "foreigner invasion".
The leaflets, put through letterboxes in the town of Nauen, are the suspected work of neo-Nazis. They also give instructions on making firebombs and using explosives.
On Saturday, police defended their response to events in Clausnitz after two videos surfaced online. The first video showed 100 hostile demonstrators preventing a bus from off-loading migrants into their accommodation on Thursday. A second appeared to show police roughly manhandling a boy from the bus into the building.
The regional police chief said there were too few police to keep the protesters away, and three of those inside the bus had provoked the crowd.
Police chief Uwe Reissmann sparked further outrage when he gave the migrants themselves partial blame for the fraught scene, noting that some had filmed the mob with their mobile phones and made obscene gestures at them.
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Some can't use toilets...some build cooking fires inside.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Scores of Afghan refugees have been stranded along the Macedonia and Greece border after Macedonia closed its southern border with Greece to Afghan migrants on Sunday, it has been reported.
According to the reports, the Macedonian authorities are only allowing the Iraqi and Syrian migrants to cross the border.
Macedonian police spokeswoman Natalija Spirova Kordikj told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named, "The Serbian side has stopped the entrance for Afghan refugees."
Kordikj further added that there is no official explanation from the Serbian side for the move.
Hundreds of Afghans are leaving the country and are mainly heading towards Europe amid deteriorating security situation in the country, often risking their lives by passing through dangerous routes, specifically the Iranian territory and the Turkish coast.
Several Afghans have bit the dust while crossing the border through Iran and their boats capsized in the Turksih waters.
An Afghan photo journalist died along with his family members after his boat capsized in the Turkish coast recently.
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The Bursa Governor's Office has ordered that the only church in the city be vacated by Feb. 26, the Radikal daily reported.
Bursa is a large city in northwestern Anatolia, within the Marmara Region. It is the fourth most populous city in Turkey, about 1.8 million, and one of the most industrialized metropolitan centers in the country. So we're not talking about a country bumpkin town and governor...
According to the report, four Christian communities restored the church between 2002 and 2004, and it was opened for worship after a protocol with the municipality was signed. The pastor of the Protestant community, İsmail Kulaçoğlu, told Radikal that the protocol expired in 2015 and that the municipality had asked the communities to re-apply. Kulaçoğlu said they received an order to vacate the premises on Feb. 18 after they had re-applied.
The General Directorate for Foundations did not warn the communities beforehand and gave them eight days to leave the church, according to Kulaçoğlu.
The church serves as the only Christian house of worship in the city.
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Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu on Saturday called on the United States to give unconditional support in the fight against Syrian Kurdish militants, illustrating growing tension between Ankara and Washington over policy in northern Syria.
Davutoğlu also said Turkey would tighten security across the country, especially the capital, after a car laden with explosives was detonated near military buses in Ankara last Wednesday, killing 28 people. Turkey says the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), which the United States is backing in the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Syria, was involved in the bombing, in league with the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
Washington, which does not consider the YPG a terrorist organization, has said it is not in a position to confirm or deny Ankara's charge the militia was behind the bombing.
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Turkey s ego sure has gotten large here lately. Who the hell are they to demand anything. I think the kurds deserve more respect than any other group in the middle east, besides the Israelis.
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[Breitbart] During a radio interview on Sunday, Col. Michael Bumgarner, formerly the commander of the guard force at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, slammed President Obama for "throwing national security out the window" by continuing to release Gitmo detainees.
Bumgarner said he was particularly dumbfounded by the release of Ibrahim al-Qosi, who went on to become one of the top leaders of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). Al-Qosi last December starred in an audio message urging deadly attacks on New York and Paris.
The ex-warden also dished on al-Qaida expert bomb maker Tariq Mahmoud Ahmed Al Sawah, who reportedly became an important source to the U.S. and was released to the Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina last month.
Bumgarner revealed that Sawah had his own private cottage inside Gitmo replete with a private garden. Sawah, described as becoming morbidly obese while in detention, was plied with "nonstop food," including his favored McDonalds Filet-O-Fish sandwiches. He was also rewarded with videos of Bond, an Australian/British string quartet consisting of scantily clad women, Bumgarner divulged.
Bumgarner was speaking on "Aaron Klein Investigative Radio," broadcast on New York's AM 970 The Answer and Philadelphia's NewsTalk 990 AM. Klein serves as Breitbart's Jerusalem bureau chief and senior investigative reporter.
He served from April 2005 through June 2006 as commander of the Joint Detention Group, the guard force component of the Joint Task Force at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo.
Bumgarner says he believes Obama will try to achieve his long-stated goal of closing Gitmo before he leaves office but is the former guard leader is not sure whether the president will find countries willing to host the most dangerous of the detainees.
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“By incorporating an absurd act into the realm of the Kashmiri quotidian, and subsequently normalizing that act,” he says, “I am trying to expose something that is far more absurd to the point of perversion.”
[DAWN] Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Pervaiz Rasheed has said that the government has lodged the FIR in the Pathankot airbase attack after a committee comprising representatives of national security institutions recommended to do so.
On Friday, the Counter-Terrorism Department of Punjab police lodged an FIR against four alleged attackers with a police station in Gujranwala under various sections of the Pakistan Penal Code and Anti-Terrorism Act.
Senator Rasheed said the committee that made the recommendation for the FIR had been constituted soon after the attack on the Indian Air Force base. He was speaking at a condolence reference for Dr Ahsan Akhtar Naz before talking to journalists at the Punjabi Institute of Language and Culture on Saturday.
“Islamabad acted upon the committee’s recommendation to ensure that the world does not point a finger at Pakistan and instead understand that it’s fighting against all kinds of terrorism within and outside the country,” he said. That's some pretty good motions they're going through.
The minister said the accountability process must continue but it must not hinder the development taking place in the country.
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Iraqi Kurdish troops have been working with American ground and air force personnel since the early 1990s and have developed a close and often innovative battlefield relationship. To the Americans the Kurds are the most trusted Iraqi troops they work with but because of Iraqi government pressure the U.S. cannot supply the Kurds with the special radios and other equipment needed to enable qualified Kurds to call in American air strikes. This is because the Iraqi government is dominated by Iraqi Shia Arabs who are, in turn, heavily influenced by Shia Iran. Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria do not want their Kurdish minorities to get too strong and then unite to form an independent Kurdish state.
To the Arabs the Kurds display many annoying characteristics. For one thing the Kurds are far less corrupt, especially when it comes to military matters and particularly when it involves the Americans and other Western nations that provide training and aid.
As a result of all this the Kurds and Americans have developed informal but highly effective methods to provide U.S. air support to more Kurdish units. This is done by identifying those Kurdish troops (usually veteran officers and NCOs) who know how to identify and describe (to trained air controllers) targets for an air strike. These improvised air controllers use their cell phones and an improvised security system to contact a local joint (U.S.-Kurdish) headquarters where Kurdish speaking American (sometimes Kurdish-Americans) air controllers handle contact with the bombers overhead and pass on the target coordinates.
Both the American and Kurdish troops recognize that Kurdish ground troops with prompt American air support are one of the most effective weapons available against ISIL (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) in Iraq. The Iraqi government tolerates this arrangement because Kurdish forces are vital for pushing ISIL out of Mosul and the Kurds have promised that their troops will be withdrawn once the Iraqi army and militia forces are in control of the city. The offensive is supposed to take place by mid-2016, a year later than originally planned. Everyone understands that the offensive will not work without the help of the Kurds.
Follow-up to Fred's post of 2/20.
"Radioactive material that went missing in Iraq has been found dumped near a petrol station in the southern town of Zubair, officials said on Sunday, ending speculation it could be acquired by Islamic State and used as a weapon.
The officials told Reuters the material, stored in a protective case the size of a laptop computer, was undamaged and there were no concerns about radiation.
Reuters reported last week that Iraq had been searching for the material since it was stolen in November from a storage facility belonging to U.S. oilfield services company Weatherford near the southern city of Basra."
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I once knew a guy who worked for DoE (energy). He was the guy that would get the call when some nutcase would phone the FBI claiming that they built a nuclear bomb.
He said that any such bomb builder would die from radiation sickness as the necessary handling equipment was not easily obtainable.
So please, steal the nuclear material.~
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[IsraelTimes] Unmanned aerial vehicles were hidden in vehicle carrying toys, were intended for spying, Defense Ministry says
Israeli security guards at the Kerem Shalom border crossing into the southern Gazoo Strip and Shin Bet operatives recently foiled an attempt to smuggle drones into the Paleostinian enclave, the Defense Ministry announced Sunday.
During a search of an Israeli vehicle carrying toys, security guards found several drones of different sizes and types, all of which were equipped with quality cameras. Additional smuggling attempts of drones have been foiled by the Shin Bet in recent weeks.
The drones were apparently set to be used for spying on Israeli targets, the Defense Ministry said.
Israeli authorities launched an investigation into the smuggling attempts.
In March, Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, drones reportedly flew out of the Gazoo Strip and into Egyptian airspace above the Sinai Peninsula several times as the Egyptian army stood by helpless to prevent the incursions. Egyptian radar picked up three drones flying out of the southern Gazoo Strip on numerous occasions, the Egyptian Al Osboa newspaper reported. The unmanned aerial vehicles penetrated as far as El Arish and Sheikh Zuweid, some 50 kilometers from the Egypt-Gazoo border.
Border forces opened fire on the drones but couldn't hit them because they were flying at an altitude of 750 meters (2,250 feet), the report said. Under the terms of the 1979 peace deal with Israel, Egypt is not allowed to station any anti-aircraft weapons in the Sinai region.
In December 2014, Hamas's military wing launched a locally manufactured drone during a Gazoo City march in honor of the founding of the group, prompting the Israel Air Force to summon jets to the area, but no shots were fired at the unmanned aircraft.
During the 2014 war in Gazoo, as IDF forces battled Hamas in the Strip, Hamas launched two drones that were both blasted out of the sky by IAF-launched Patriot missiles soon after they crossed into Israel.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] An influential political and religious figure Pir Syed Ahmad Gilani has been appointed as the new Chief of the Afghan High Peace Council.
The Bursa Governor's Office has ordered that the only church in the city be vacated by Feb. 26, the Radikal daily reported.
