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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
PIs real 'war against drugs'
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/22/2016 09:17 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Afghanistan
Yew betcha, boss: Eliminating Taliban In Kunduz Is Our Top Priority
The Deputy Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Murad Ali Murad, who is leading operations in Kunduz against the Taliban, said that eliminating and suppressing the insurgent group in the province is their top priority.

He said the operation in Kunduz has been launched on a number of fronts.

"Unfortunately, the center of Qala-e-Zal district fell to the militants last night (Saturday night), but we will soon retake the district," Murad said.

He added: "Only dead and weakened Taliban will have a place in Kunduz afterwards. Taliban will be eliminated in Kunduz."

Meanwhile, the Civil Order Police commander in Kunduz, Gen. Zemarai Paiokan, said NATO troops are assisting in this operation.

"The Resolute Support mission's air support are cooperating with the Afghan forces in this operation and we welcome this," he said.

"Our priority is to retake the areas that are under Taliban control. We want to ensure the safety of Kunduz residents," said Sher Aziz Kamawal, commander of police 808 Spinzar zone.

According to reports Taliban has blown up the 300-meter Alchin Bridge which connects Kunduz city with Imam Sahib and Dasht-e-Archi districts as well as with the Sher Khan Port.

Talking on this, Murad said: "Taliban has destroyed Alchin Bridge. We have sent our technical team to the area to address the problem and reopen the way as soon as possible."

Meanwhile, Pamir's 20 Corps said in a statement that nearly 43 Taliban militants were killed and 15 others wounded over the past 24 hours in Kunduz.

Video report at the link
Posted by: badanov || 08/22/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Britain
UK unveils plans to tackle Islamist extremism in prisons
[IsraelTimes] Following government review, justice ministry looks to track, separate out snuffies among Moslem prisoners

The UK government on Monday unveiled plans to tackle Islamist extremism in prisons, including banning offensive literature and removing inmates from worship if they promote beliefs deemed against "fundamental British values."

The justice ministry said extremism in prisons was a growing threat which needed to be treated as an "urgent priority."

"For the highest risk gunnies and radicalizers, the government will use all the measures at its disposal, including separation from the mainstream prison population, to contain their risk and prevent the spread of poisonous ideologies.

"Extremists cannot be allowed to prey on the vulnerable," the ministry said in a response accompanying the review on extremism in prisons.

New measures to be brought in include greater vetting of prison chaplains and tighter controls on worship.

"We will ensure that governors use their existing powers to remove prisoners from corporate worship where they are behaving subversively or promoting beliefs that run counter to fundamental British values.

"We do not, however, believe it is the right course of action at present to alter the provision of worship more generally or, for example, to pursue in-cell alternatives," the ministry of justice said.

A total of eight measures will be introduced, including a review of staff training and the removal of literature considered bully boy and offensive. The government said it had additionally created a new department -- the Security, Order and Counter Terrorism Directorate -- which will be in charge of developing the plan to counter Islamist extremism in prisons.

The new plans follow a review commissioned by the former justice minister, Michael Gove, which saw a team visit more than 60 prisons in the UK, La Belle France, the Netherlands and Spain. Gove’s successor, Elizabeth Truss, threw her support behind the overhaul.

"Islamist extremism is a danger to society and a threat to public safety -- it must be defeated wherever it is found.

"I am committed to confronting and countering the spread of this poisonous ideology behind bars," she said in a statement.

In their review, researchers said some prison imams faced intimidation, while inmates were confronted with "aggressive encouragement" to convert to Islam.

They also identified "charismatic IE (Islamist bully boy) prisoners acting as self-styled ’emirs’ and exerting a controlling and radicalizing influence on the wider Moslem prison population."

The review found both Moslem and non-Moslem inmates were vulnerable to radicalization and called for leadership to ensure Moslem prisoners could safely practice their faith: "Throughout the review the team emphasized the importance of faith to prisoners, and its potential to transform lives for the better.

"Its premise was that Islamism ‐- a politicized, expansionist version of Islam -- is more ideology than faith, and is driven by intolerance and anti-Western sentiment."
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/22/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  wow - it has only taken 40 years to put 2 + 2 together - way too late though. But hey sheeple, We Have A Plan!!! Ok, once the panel discusses who is gonna be on the committee, which decides the agenda, and requests any adjustments from adversarial entities, then submits it to a quango or two for vetting.....aw hell why bother, it's just not British - drop it

Me - put em all in the Bar-L with a bunch of Glescae hard men - ya want bumps on yer forehead, lemme gub ye one (insert Glasgow Kiss here)
Posted by: Bov Flimbers || 08/22/2016 2:02 Comments || Top||


Europe
Germany gets more serious about colonists new and old

Report: Germany to require citizens to stockpile supplies in case of catastrophe

[DeutscheWelle] A civil defense plan to be debated by the cabinet would require citizens to stockpile supplies in case of a catastrophe. The plan says people should prepare for an unlikely event that "could threaten our existence."

Report: Turkey's MIT agency menacing 'German Turks'

[DeutscheWelle] Germans of Turkish origin are being "menaced" in Germany by informers and officers of Turkey's MIT spy agency, according to "Die Welt" newspaper. Bundestag members want a probe into whether German agencies are complicit.

"Welt am Sonntag" quoted an unnamed "security politician" as saying that the MIT had at its disposition in Germany most of the 800 regular agents it had in Europe as well as a network of 6,000 informants across Germany - far more than previously known. That meant one MIT informant for every 500 citizens of Turkish origin, according to the unnamed politician quoted by the newspaper.

Germany toughens Swiss border against illegal migrants

[DeutscheWelle] Germany has deployed an additional 130 border staff to stop illegal immigrants at the Swiss border. As more migrants arrive in Italy, Switzerland has become a new transit route for migrants trying to reach Germany.

With the closure of the Balkan route earlier this year, Italy has become the new center of migrant arrivals in Europe. According to the EU border agency Frontex, from the beginning of the year to July some 95,000 migrants have arrived in Italy, a 12 percent increase from last year.

NZZ cited German federal police in Berlin saying 3,385 illegal immigrants from Switzerland have been caught this year, up 40 percent from the same period last year.

Switzerland used the tougher German response to justify sending back to Italy nearly 1,000 migrants a day.

Call-to-arms by German populist right AfD

[DeutscheWelle] Populist right-wing AfD party co-leader Frauke Petry has encouraged Germans to carry firearms. She claims the government has lost its state monopoly to protect the public, especially in thinly populated areas.

Petry, who caused an uproar January by suggesting German police could use firearms to deter incoming refugees, on Saturday called into question Germany's policing and stringent gun ownership law in the wake of deadly attacks last month.

There were no grounds for concern when citizens armed themselves for self-protection in areas where austerity measures by national and regional governments had "systematically ruined" police services, Petry told the Funke Media Group based in Essen.

"Every law-abiding person should be in the position to protect himself, his family and his friends," Petry said.

Greens co-leader Katrin Göring-Eckardt promptly accused Petry of negligently stoking anxiety and said trained recruits should be hired where Germany's "good" police forces were depleted. That would improve public perceptions of safety, "not weapons for all" as advocated by Petry, said Göring-Eckardt. "Weapons don't belong in the wrong hands."

The AfD co-chairperson had asserted that any further tightening of Germany's Weapons Ownership Act would disadvantage citizens.

"We all know how long it takes for police, especially in sparsely populated areas to arrive at the scene of deployments," said Petry, just days after the AfD wrangled over its leadership.

This would harm "reputable" citizens and not those who obtained weapons in the "darknet" [hidden Internet], she added. "Many people are increasingly feeling unsafe."
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/22/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


The Grand Turk
US delegation heads to Turkey for Gülen extradition talks
A delegation of four officials from the U.S. will travel to Turkey on Aug. 22 to discuss Ankara’s demand for the extradition of Fethullah Gülen, who Ankara accuses of orchestrating the July 15 coup attempt in Turkey, amid stringed ties between the two NATO allies concerning the issue.

The delegation of three U.S. Justice Ministry officials and one U.S. Department of State official will hold meetings with Turkish officials on Aug. 23 and 24 over the failed coup attempt and the issue of Gülen’s extradition.

Turkish Justice Ministry officials have concluded their preparations for the delegation’s visit, in which they say they will share with their U.S. counterparts the extradition demand documents and evidence showing Gülen’s direct involvement in the coup attempt.
Posted by: Steve White || 08/22/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  The delegation of three U.S. Justice Ministry officials and one U.S. Department of State official

So when did we get a Justice Ministry? Maybe I missed one of Obama's Executive Orders.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/22/2016 1:11 Comments || Top||

#2  The start of the roll-over.
Posted by: Shipman || 08/22/2016 18:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Before the election...
Posted by: Pappy || 08/22/2016 19:53 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Huma Abedin Denies Active Role as Editor of Radical Muslim Journal
Golly. It sure took a long time for this to work its way out into the sunlight.
Paul Sperry writes in the New York Post on the statement from Hillary Clinton's campaign regarding the work her close aide Huma Abedin did as an editor of a radical Muslim journal of which Abedin's mother is the editor-in-chief.

Top Hillary Clinton confidante Huma Abedin played no formal role in a radical Muslim journal -- even though she was listed as an editor on the hate-filled periodical's masthead for a dozen years, a campaign rep claimed Sunday.

"My understanding is that her name was simply listed on the masthead in that period," Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill said hours after The Post broke the bombshell story. "She did not play a role in editing at the publication."
My weasel-word sense is tingling . . . .
Merrill said Abedin was just a figurehead and not actually on staff at the Saudi-based and -funded Journal of Minority Muslim Affairs, which featured radically anti-feminist views and backed strict Islamic laws roundly criticized for oppressing women.
And 0bean had no idea that Reverend Wright was spewing hate speech either. Even though he had been "attending" his "church" for 20 years.
A journalism major at George Washington University, Abedin, 40, was listed as "assistant editor" of the journal from 1996 to 2008, when her name was removed from the staff box and she went to work for Clinton at the State Department.

Her brother, who was an associate editor, and a sister, also employed as an assistant editor, are listed as staff members.

Abedin's Pakistani mother, Saleha Mahmood Abedin, remains editor-in-chief.

Read the rest here. Read Sperry's original article on Abedin's work at the journal here.
Posted by: gorb || 08/22/2016 14:59 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You can bet she was regularly paid with Gulf Arab Money. A No-show job for 12 years?
Posted by: Frank G || 08/22/2016 15:15 Comments || Top||

#2  I seem to remember someone close the Hillary and Huma debating the meaning of "is".

Now who could that have been?
Posted by: AlanC || 08/22/2016 15:24 Comments || Top||

#3  Probably the salary was just a way to pay her for being agent of influence.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/22/2016 15:45 Comments || Top||

#4  So Huma was something like an agitprop secretary, serving an anti-Western totalitarian ideology?

Trump's characterization was inexact.

Hillary isn't an American Merkel.

Merkel is a German Hillary&Huma combined.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 08/22/2016 16:48 Comments || Top||

#5  So she allowed her name to be used? Or is she saying someone else wrote the articles in question?
Posted by: rjschwarz || 08/22/2016 17:09 Comments || Top||

#6  She was on the payroll. If she did not edit, then she was there for her ability to influence her Flashing pervert husband.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 08/22/2016 17:15 Comments || Top||

#7  When I was young, my father used to tell me:
" if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, swims like a duck and looks like a duck, it might be a rabbit but it's probably a duck"
At some point with Huma, Hilda, Bill and whole Clinton gaggle are grifting, dishonest, corrupt and criminals, and have played the reasonable doubt card down to tattered, laughable shreds.
They are exactly as corrupt and dishonest and craven as they appear to be!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 08/22/2016 18:32 Comments || Top||

#8  It's a rabbit, trust me.
Posted by: Shipman || 08/22/2016 18:55 Comments || Top||

#9  Thundering hooves?
Not zebras.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/22/2016 20:46 Comments || Top||

#10  Being married to these two makes the sleazy behavior of their husbands seem quite reasonable.
Posted by: Glenmore || 08/22/2016 20:48 Comments || Top||

#11  Nothing to see here!

Say, did you hear about young Trump pulling pigtails?!
Posted by: MSM || 08/22/2016 22:12 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Guess the first mental exam did not produce the desired result
A judge in Oklahoma refused to accept a guilty plea from a man accused of beheading a co-worker at a food processing plant in 2014.

Cleveland, kept in touch with the world by Obamaphone,
...was ruled by a Democrat machine from 1942 through 1971. After the river caught fire during the administration of Carl Stokes they tried a Republican, then went back to being Democrats when the party hacked up Dennis Kucinich ...
County District Judge Lori Walkley ruled Wednesday that she wouldn't accept the plea from Alton Nolen, who has said he wants the death penalty for the attack at Vaughan Foods in Moore. Walkley said Nolen was not mentally competent to make the plea and ordered another mental evaluation.

Nolen entered the guilty plea to a first-degree murder charge in the beheading of 54-year-old Colleen Hufford shortly after he was suspended from the company for making racial remarks.

District Attorney Greg Mashburn told Oklahoma City television station KFOR that he believes Nolen is mentally competent and he hopes the delay won't be lengthy.
Posted by: Bov Flimbers || 08/22/2016 01:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Is that a prayer bump?
Posted by: gorb || 08/22/2016 2:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Lets open his head and look.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/22/2016 3:26 Comments || Top||

#3  I thought it was a bullseye.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 08/22/2016 7:14 Comments || Top||

#4  Is that a prayer bump?

No. He doesn't have one.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/22/2016 7:20 Comments || Top||

#5  The insanity plea existed before 'modern' psychiatry. The juries could look and see something wasn't right. It took lawyers (and those in robes) to make stuff up to justify why families and the people couldn't seek justice.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/22/2016 9:16 Comments || Top||

#6  The guy had Islamophrenia.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/22/2016 9:26 Comments || Top||


#8  "...said comments made by Nolen are outside of the "norm for Islam."

Wahah. I guess the professor has not read the Koran and the long history of Islam.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/22/2016 20:26 Comments || Top||

#9  The reason that memorizing the Koran is a big deal is because most Muslims have not done so. And given that all it takes to convert to Islam is to repeat the key statement a few times in front of witnesses, it's not surprising that any given Muslim lacks a scholar's knowledge of the faith.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/22/2016 20:57 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Death sentences of five terrorists upheld
[DAWN] The military appellate court has upheld the death sentences of five convicts in the Safoora Goth carnage and Sabeen Mahmud murder cases.

The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on May 12 had announced the confirmation of the death sentences to the five ’hardcore terrorists’ - Tahir Minhas, Saad Aziz, Asadur Rehman, Mohammad Azhar Ishrat and Hafiz Nasir Ahmed - in nine cases of terrorism, including the Safoora Goth carnage and the Sabeen Mahmud murder cases.

The convicts had challenged the death sentences in the military appellate court in June through their counsel, Hashmat Ali Habib.

As per the prosecution, Minhas was the criminal mastermind of the Safoora Goth carnage in which 47 members of the Shia Ismaili community were killed in an attack on their bus 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...
on May 13, 2015.

The federal government in March this year transferred the cases to the military courts established under the 21st Amendment to the Constitution.

According to the investigation, Minhas killed the Ismaili community members to impress the leadership of the bad boy 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....
(IS) group and secure an important position for himself in the terrorist network.

The investigation claimed that Minhas operated his own network of local faceless myrmidons but was fed up with divisions in the Taliban groups and wanted to join the IS. For this purpose, he developed contacts with the local leadership of the IS. His brother-in-law Umer alias Jalal was also operating a group of Al Qaeda network in Karachi. Minhas advised Jalal to join the IS but he refused, saying he had sworn allegiance in the hand of the late Osama bin Laden
... who is now beyond all cares and woe...
.
Posted by: Fred || 08/22/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Pakistan


NSA used malware to spy on Pakistani civilian, military leadership
[DAWN] The United States' clandestine National Security Agency (NSA) allegedly spied on top civil-military leadership in Pakistain using malware, The Intercept reported.
I certainly hope we did...
Malware SECONDDATE allegedly built by the NSA was used by agency hackers to breach "targets in Pakistain’s National Telecommunications Corporation’s (NTC) VIP Division", which contained documents pertaining to "the backbone of Pakistain’s Green Line communications network" used by "civilian and military leadership", according to an April 2013 presentation document obtained by The Intercept.

The file appears to be a 'top secret' presentation originating from the NSA's SigDev division.

SECONDDATE is described as a tool that intercepts web requests and redirects browsers on target computers to an NSA web server. The server then infects the web requests with malware.

The malware server, also known as FOXACID, has been described in earlier leaks made by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

SECONDDATE, however, is just one method the NSA allegedly uses to redirect a target's browser to the FOXACID server. Others involve exploiting bugs in commonly used email providers by sending spam or malicious links that lead to the server, The Intercept said.

Another document obtained by The Intercept, an NSA Special Source Operations division newsletter describes how agency software other than SECONDDATE was used to repeatedly direct targets in Pakistain to the FOXACID servers to infect target computers.

The Intercept confirmed the "authenticity" of the SECONDDATE malware by means of a data leak reportedly made by Snowden.

Snowden released a classified top-secret agency draft manual for implanting malware which instructs NSA operators to track their use of a malware programme through a 16-character string ─ the same string which appears in the SECONDDATE code leaked by a group called ShadowBrokers.

Posted by: Fred || 08/22/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  Of what use was the information? The US continued to fund both corrupt civilian projects and the renegade Pak military.
Posted by: Glairong Sforza7574 || 08/22/2016 8:10 Comments || Top||

#2  ..so the Russkies and Chinese were kind enough to pass on to the Paks what the Americans already knew?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/22/2016 9:12 Comments || Top||


Pakistan using terrorism as tool against immediate neighbors: Karzai
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The former Afghanistan's Caped 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...
has said Pakistain is still using terrorism as a tool against its immediate neighbors.

In his speech at a think tank in New Delhi, Karzai said ’the war on terror has failed to discourage Pakistain from using terrorism and religious radicalism as tools against its immediate neighbors.’

The former Afghanistan's Caped President further added that 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....
murderous Moslems who have emerged as a new threat to Afghanistan were finding support from a ’sinister agency" from "across the border".

"We know that the IS in Afghanistan is made of imported muscle. We know that these fighters are being controlled by a sinister agency from across the border," Karzai was quoted as saying in a report by The Hindu newspaper.

In other parts of his speech, Karzai blamed the United States-backed radicalisation movements during the Cold War era for the troubles facing South Asia and West Asia-North Africa. The fallout of radicalisation has been long term and has surrounded the entire region and spread to Iraq and Syria, he said.

"Pakistain is paying a price of the radicalisation process that began in the anti-Soviet jihad. Just last week, some of the best educated people of Pakistain died in an attack in Quetta. We therefore are appealing to brothers in Pakistain so that we can have civilised relationship and show that religion is for good purposes," Karzai said.

Posted by: Fred || 08/22/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Southeast Asia
Senior Maoist militant nabbed in Cebu
[Tempo] The Philippine National Police arrested a senior leader of the communist New People's Army during a follow-up operation in Cebu City Friday. Amelia Pond was nabbed in Barangay Luz on the day National Democratic Front of the Philippines consultants Benito and Wilma Tiamzon were released from detention in Camp Crame, Quezon City.

Chief Supt. Roel Obusan said, "There is an existing arrest warrant for her, for cases of murder and frustrated murder, and it was the one used to arrest her."

Pond, alias Adelfa Toledo, is a member of the Executive Committee of the Southern Mindanao Regional Committee Komisyong Mindanao of the NPA. She is also the head the Regional Instructors Bureau under the Political Department and Underground Movement since 1978.
Posted by: ryuge || 08/22/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syria Regime, Kurds Agree on Truce after Russia Mediation
[AnNahar] Regime forces and Kurdish fighters agreed to a truce in the flashpoint Syrian city of Hasakeh on Sunday after two days of Russian mediation efforts, a military source told AFP.

The northeastern city has been rocked by deadly festivities between U.S.-backed Kurdish forces and fighters loyal to Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Horror of Homs...
since Wednesday.

In a bid to calm tensions, a delegation of Russian officials from the coastal Hmeimim military airport arrived in the nearby city of Qamishli on Saturday for talks with the two sides.

By Sunday, the Russian-mediated negotiations reached an agreement, a Syrian military source told AFP.

It included a "halt to all hostilities and the return to regime forces of any positions seized by Kurdish fighters" since Wednesday, the source said.

Casualties would also be transferred north to Qamishli, and additional negotiations would take place on Monday.

"A delegation of Russian officials and members of the (pro-regime militia) National Defense Forces (NDF) have arrived at Qamishli airport for a meeting tomorrow (Monday)," a source from the Hasakeh governorate said.

A local journalist working with AFP toured seven army checkpoints that had been seized by Kurdish fighters and confirmed that regime forces were back in control.

But Kurdish fighters still held three positions previously controlled by the NDF in al-Nashwa, a southern district of Hasakeh, the journalist said.

The regime and Kurdish forces share a common enemy in 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....
(IS) jihadist group, but there have been growing tensions between them in Hasakeh.

Clashes broke out last week after Kurds demanded the NDF be dismantled in Hasakeh, and violence escalated Thursday when regime warplanes began bombarding Kurdish-held positions in the city for the first time.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/22/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria

#1  I love the smell of Greater Kurdistan in the morning.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/22/2016 2:56 Comments || Top||

#2  To last for 14 s?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/22/2016 3:29 Comments || Top||


Iran releases images of new missile defense system
The real thing? Traditional Mad Mullah vaporware? Enquiring minds can click on the headline to examine photos at the link.
[IsraelTimes] Unveiling Bavar 373, President Rouhani says Tehran’s military budget has more than doubled since last year

Iran released images of its first domestically built long-range missile defense system on Sunday, a project started when the country was under international sanctions.

Images released on multiple state news agencies showed President Hassan Rouhani and Minister of Defense Hossein Dehghan standing in front of the new Bavar 373 missile defense system. The system was designed to intercept cruise missiles, drones, combat aircraft and ballistic missiles, according to earlier statements by Dehghan.

It was intended to match the Russian S-300 system, the delivery of which was suspended in 2010 due to sanctions imposed over Iran’s nuclear program.

"We did not intend to make an Iranian version of the S-300 -- we wanted to build an Iranian system, and we built it," Dehghan told the IRNA news agency on Saturday.

Rouhani said in a televised speech that Iran’s military budget had more than doubled compared with last year.
"Don't be so modest, President Obama," he added. "Take a well-deserved bow for your part in making our dream a reality."
"If we are able to discuss with world powers around the negotiating table, it is because of our national strength, because of our national unity," he said.

In 2015, shortly before the conclusion of an international agreement on the nuclear program, Moscow re-authorized the delivery of the S-300 system in a move criticized by the United States and Israel. Iran’s army said in May that it was now equipped with the S-300 system, though further parts are due over the coming months.

Rouhani also unveiled the first Iranian-made fighter jet engine on Sunday, saying it was capable of flight at 50,000 feet.

"The Islamic Theocratic Republic is one of eight countries in the world who have mastered the technology to build these engines," the president said.

A day earlier, Iran vowed to continue its efforts to advance its missile technology, and expressed its unceasing support for those who form the "anti-Zionism front" as well as for fighters in other "proxy and terrorist wars in the region."

The pledge came as part of a statement from the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces to mark the country’s National Defense Industry Day, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.

Iran’s army and defense experts "will continue the trend of increasing the power and enhancing the precision striking and the destructive power of our missiles," the statement said.

Last month, FOX News reported that Iran conducted its fourth ballistic missile test since it signed a deal with world powers last year to curb its nuclear activity. Tehran’s new ballistic missile, made using North Korean technology, went kaboom! shortly after launch outside the city of Isfahan, intelligence officials told the media outlet.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/22/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Tehran’s military budget has more than doubled since last year

Obama-manna?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/22/2016 3:29 Comments || Top||

#2 
Rouhani also unveiled the first Iranian-made fighter jet engine on Sunday, saying it was capable of flight at 50,000 feet

this is the Saeqeh (aka thunderbolt) which is essentially a backward engineered F-5
Posted by: lord garth || 08/22/2016 9:25 Comments || Top||



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