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Posted by: Fred || 03/17/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Happy Birthday


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If the sight of scantily clad women accenting their God given and/or surgically enhanced assets offends you, proceed to the next section.

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Gone to the Big Gam Locker in the Sky

Brigitte Eva Gisela Schittenhelm aka Brigitte Helm aka Maria in "Metropolis"

Dana Reeve aka Elise in "Steel Magnolias" (She stood by her man, Christopher Reeve)

Lois Collier aka Helen Hall in "Flying Disc Man from Mars"

Nina Quartero aka Conchita in early John Wayne movie "Arizona"

Sari Maritza aka Queen Yola in "Monte Carlo Madness"

Tamara Geva aka Maria Ivar in "The Gay Intruders"


Living Gams


Lesley-Anne Down aka Georgina Worsley in "Upstairs, Downstairs" (56)





Clare Grogan aka Kristine Kochanski " Red Dwarf" (48)




Marisa Coughlan aka Officer Ursula Hanson in "Super Troopers" (36)



Natalie Zea aka Karen Darlingon "Dirty Sexy Money" (35)





Gina Holden aka Dale Arden on "Flash Gordon " (35)




Brittany Daniel aka Kelly Pitts on "The Game" (34)




Cynthia Daniel aka Elizabeth Wakefield in "Sweet Valley High" (35)




Stormy Daniels, may run against Republican Senator David Vitter in Louisiana? (31)

Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 03/17/2010 0:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Stormy Daniels, may run against Republican Senator David Vitter in Louisiana

We'll have to stay abreast of that race.
Posted by: gorb || 03/17/2010 1:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Josephine Baker costume:

A beautiful bunch a'ripe banana
(Daylight come and he wan' go home)
Hide thee deadly black tarantula
(Daylight come and he wan' go home)

It's six foot, seven foot, eight foot, BUNCH!
(Daylight come and he wan' go home)
Six foot, seven foot, eight foot, BUNCH!
(Daylight come and he wan' go home)

Day, he say day-ay-ay-o
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 03/17/2010 4:20 Comments || Top||

#4  I read a very good bio of Josephine Baker. Quite a fun gal and really a feather up the nose of the Nazis who completely misread the USA by misinterpreting our culture.
Posted by: JDB || 03/17/2010 16:19 Comments || Top||

#5  I read #5 then was half-way through #6 before I realized,"Hey! This isn't Mr. Mendiola!" Sheesh, am I embarrassed!
Posted by: Almost Anonymous 5839 || 03/17/2010 17:32 Comments || Top||

#6  It seems a good day for blondes.

With a side order of awesome sauce.
Posted by: Mizzou Mafia || 03/17/2010 19:38 Comments || Top||


--Tech & Moderator Notes
The spam collection...
If you're curious, I've added a link to our daily crop of comments spam in our Burg links list. If you dump it you might have to wait a few minutes for it to start refilling again, though not that many.
Posted by: Fred || 03/17/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  OMFG, this is awesome. Die spam, die!
Posted by: rammer || 03/17/2010 0:15 Comments || Top||

#2  226 in a couple of hours. That's impressive.
Posted by: Grunter || 03/17/2010 12:57 Comments || Top||

#3  May I have a working copy, to stop the same sh$$ on my email? Most email spam filters still let some of this crap through.

Excellent work, Fred and Badanov. I LOVE this site...
Posted by: Old Patriot || 03/17/2010 13:34 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Spec Ops: Soldier and Dog Drop In... From 10,000 Ft!
Dropping from 10,000ft, they glide in order to land unnoticed. The dogs often carry cameras and are trained to attack anyone carrying a weapon.

"Dogs don't perceive height difference, so that doesn't worry them. They're more likely to be bothered by the roar of the engines, but once we're on the way down, that doesn't matter and they just enjoy the view," said the dog handler. "It's something he does a lot. He has a much cooler head than most recruits."
Go see the article, one of the coolest pics you'll see today - Fred, the pic is poach-worthy (in a fair use kind of way of course).
Great photo! Headline changed - this is an Austrian team, not from our friends Down Under.
Posted by: OldSpook || 03/17/2010 10:48 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Im hotlinking the photo (unsure if it will work, poreview button not working). Yeah I know its bad form but this is such a great shot.

Posted by: OldSpook || 03/17/2010 10:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Few human beings will EVER do anything this cool.

(ht Redstate)
Posted by: OldSpook || 03/17/2010 10:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Damnit.... now I'm outdone by someone doing something cooler than I did.

Must... skydive...with... dog... into... hotzone.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/17/2010 11:12 Comments || Top||

#4  Poor pooch, can't tuck that tail any farther.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge || 03/17/2010 18:32 Comments || Top||

#5  I've jumped out of airplanes, crawled through jungle, and fought the mobs at the free 4th of July Beach Boys concert on the Mall in DC. This, however, is something I don't think I'd be willing to do, especially as cold as it looks in that photo. The man and dog both have my respect.

I'll go quietly to my corner now and play with my stamps and toy soldiers...
Posted by: Old Patriot || 03/17/2010 22:49 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Algeria dismantles El Ansar terror brigade support network
[Maghrebia] Algerian security forces dismantled a terror-support group in Bordj Menaïel, L'Expression reported on Tuesday (March 16th). Six suspects, aged between 20 and 30, are accused of providing logistical support to al-Qaeda's El Ansar brigade and informing terrorists about the movements of security services in the region.

In related news, El Ansar brigade ex-emir Ali Touati and nine other al-Qaeda terrorists were sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment by a Boumerdes court, El Watan reported on Tuesday (March 16th). Five other defendants, including two custom officers, were acquitted at the week-end hearing.
Posted by: Fred || 03/17/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in North Africa


Mauritania charges 7 with kidnapping Spanish trio
[Maghrebia] Mauritania on Monday (March 15th) indicted six men and one woman for involvement in the al-Qaeda abduction of three Spanish humanitarian aid workers, ANI reported. Alleged ringleader Amar Ould Sid 'Ahmed, aka Amar Sahraoui, age 52, was arrested last month in Mali on suspicion of having kidnapped the three Spaniards last November and delivering then to AQIM camps in northern Mali, AFP reported. It is unclear whether he is an al-Qaeda member or merely a sub-contractor who "sold" the hostages to the terrorist organisation.

Al-Qaeda freed Spanish hostage Alicia Gamez last week. Two other Spaniards and an Italian couple remain captive in Mali.
Posted by: Fred || 03/17/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in North Africa


Caribbean-Latin America
FBI joins hunt for killers of US consular staff in Mexico
[Iran Press TV Latest] Following the violent killing of three individuals linked to a US Consulate in Mexico over the weekend, the US Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) joins the Mexican police in the hunt for the perpetrators.

Sitting on the border across the US city of El Paso, the City of Ciudad Juarez, were the murders took place, has been wrecked by a rising wave of violence, mostly associated with Mexico's drugs cartels, embroiled in bloody turf wars among themselves while simultaneously fighting the country's law enforcement bodies.

According to the Ciudad Juarez police department, there were 2,650 murders in the city of some 1.5 million inhabitants in 2009. Most remain unsolved. The city has the dubious distinctions of having Mexico's highest murder rate and being judged the most dangerous place on earth outside a war-zone.

Two of the murdered Americans were gunned down while travelling in their car apparently on their way back from a children's birthday party.

Their baby, who was travelling in the back seat of same vehicle, was unharmed in the attack.

The third victim was a Mexican citizen who worked for the US consulate.

While the US authorities were keeping an open mind on the motives of the attacks, an analyst with a Texas-based intelligence analysis firm Stratfor suggests that the murders may have been related to recent plans for closer cooperation between US and Mexican law enforcement agencies.

"We believe that it is likely related to a decision last month to start working more closely with the Mexican government by the Americans," said Stratfor's VP Scott Stewart, quoted by the Wall Street Journal on March 16. "They were going to put some personnel into a joint fusion center in Juarez."

The US State Department has urged its diplomatic staff in Mexican border cities to send home their families until further notice, in view of the surge in violence.

Meanwhile Mexico's President Felipe Calderon visited the troubled city today to boost the economic and social regeneration programs he had announced last month in order to fight the spiraling crime rate.
Posted by: Fred || 03/17/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I sincerely hope the FBI gets these narco-terrorist murderers. They are polluting America with drugs.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/17/2010 9:04 Comments || Top||

#2  The FBI is going to screw this all up. They will find the driver of the shooters, they will read him his miranda rights, then they will hand him over the the Mexicans who will torture him to get bogus information and kill him. Then the Mexicans will parade some group of guys that had nothing to do with it around and execute them, case closed. Solved the Mexican way.

They need to let some of the OGA's handle this, spend a yer to find everyone involved and execute them on the 1 year mark of the murders, case close perminantly!
Posted by: 49 Pan || 03/17/2010 12:40 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
ACLU sues gov't over drones
Enjoy your meal, folks...
The American Civil Liberties Union sued the federal government Tuesday to learn the use of unmanned drones for targeted killings by the military and CIA.

"In particular, the lawsuit asks for information on when, where and against whom drone strikes can be authorized, the number and rate of civilian casualties and other basic information essential for assessing the wisdom and legality of using armed drones to conduct targeted killings," the ACLU said in a statement, announcing its action.
I wonder if the ACLU sued in May, 1942 to find out FDR's preparations for the battle of Midway, so that the public could have an informed discussion about the wisdom and legality of bushwhacking the Japanese Navy ...
The nonprofit civil liberties group filed initial Freedom of Information Act requests with the Defense, Justice and State departments and with the Central Intelligence Agency on Jan. 13. Only the CIA responded, and the ACLU is pursuing that request with an appeal to the agency.

The military and intelligence communities have increasingly relied on Predator and Reaper unmanned drones to capture video imagery and launch deadly missile strikes, particularly lately in Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan. The Pentagon, especially, continues to purchase more and more drones each year.

A New American Foundation study, cited in Jane Mayer's October 2009 New Yorker piece that drew attention to the CIA's use of killer drones, found the number of attacks has continued to grow under the Obama administration -- from 34 in 2008 to 43 by October of 2009.

"The government's use of drones to conduct targeted killings raises complicated questions -- not only legal questions, but policy and moral questions as well," said Jameel Jaffer, director of the ACLU National Security Project. "These kinds of questions ought to be discussed and debated publicly, not resolved secretly behind closed doors. While the Obama administration may legitimately withhold intelligence information as well as sensitive information about military strategy, it should disclose basic information about the scope of the drone program, the legal basis for the program and the civilian casualties that have resulted from the program."

Charles Miller, a spokesman for the Justice Department, which is a defendant in the suit filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, said he had not yet seen the complaint. "The bottom line is that we will review the compliant once we receive it and make a determination as to how we'll respond in court," he said. The Defense Department, another defendant, had no immediate comment.
Posted by: tu3031 || 03/17/2010 12:11 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Where was the ACLU during WWII ? [sarc]

we are at war

our freedom is at stake
Posted by: Mike Hunt || 03/17/2010 12:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Unless someone badly misinterprets the rules on FOIA, this is just for the headlines. None of what they asked for is releasable.
Posted by: rwv || 03/17/2010 12:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Jameel Jaffer seems to be one of them, not us. Of course, the ACLU is going along with it . . . .

Kinda makes me wish we could push all those on the wrong side of this equation into a parallel universe so they can enjoy the consequences of their clulessness.
Posted by: gorb || 03/17/2010 13:01 Comments || Top||

#4  I think the ACLU is worried that one day, maybe the US will wake up and realize that it is also one of its enemies and we'll send a hellfire up their bollocks. They want the target list first so they can change location before the strike.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/17/2010 13:07 Comments || Top||

#5  Since they live in caves, I thought they were on the list for the flamethrower squad?
Posted by: Silentbrick || 03/17/2010 13:13 Comments || Top||

#6  The ACLU is not pro-peace, it is pro-terrorist.
Posted by: Steve White || 03/17/2010 13:28 Comments || Top||

#7  Someone needs to sue the ACLU for their desires to put our troops in danger.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 03/17/2010 13:33 Comments || Top||

#8  When they start hitting targets in Boise or Boca Raton...come and see me.
Posted by: tu3031 || 03/17/2010 13:40 Comments || Top||

#9  ALL members of Al Qaeda and the Taliban are aware that they are engaged in violent acts against the United States and are subject to detention and arrest if apprehended. Applicable common law and various statutes endorse the doctrine that force may be used against such persons without further warning if apprehension is impossible or if such warning would present an unreasonable danger of evasion or violent resistance.

Just to make sure, I hereby place all members of Al Qaeda and the Taliban currently resident in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia under citizen’s arrest for murder and sabotage, and for aiding and abetting murder and sabotage, acts I have actually witnessed or of which I have direct knowledge as prescribed by the common law and the statutes of the State of Texas, of which I am a legal resident.

Come out with your hands up or we’ll shoot.

Now, bugger off, ACLU.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy || 03/17/2010 13:45 Comments || Top||

#10  This is obviously based on the common belief among lefties that we need a legally correct law enforcement approach rather than military force for the struggle against terrorism.
Unfortunately, Osama bin Laden is still at large, but could the ACLU’s non-military, due-process approach really work? Perhaps they would like to show up the Pentagon by trying it themselves:

ACLU Babe (peering into cave): “Come out, Mr. Bin Laden, I have a suitcase full of arrest warrants for you.”

Osama: “Be gone, impudent strumpet of the Great Satan!”

ACLU Babe : “Well! There’s no reason to talk like a Republican. It’s to your advantage to stand trial, you know. You could explain how your impoverished childhood and Bush’s Imperialist Foreign Policy caused the revolt on September 11th. Our top historian, Oliver Stone, says so.“

Osama: (Mumbling) “Impoverished? Revolt? Buwaaahaahaa!” (shouting again) “Silence, brazen female without veil. You should be stoned.”

ACLU Babe: “Stoned? Thanks, but this is no time for an office party, and your chauvinism is Republica—, er, repugnant. Please, we can help! Media interns, er, peace activists, have ordered a million ‘Free Osama’ tee shirts. Saddam Hussein’s personal lawyer, Ramsey Clark, might help with your defense.”

Osama: ”Clark? Phooey! His clients keep getting bombed or hanged. Not want Saddam’s lawyer anyway! Saddam was blasphemer and communist!”

ACLU Babe: “Commu-—? Accchhh! That’s McCarthyism! First sexism, and now this! The horror! You belong in prison after all! Come out now, you red-baiting sexist beast!”

Osama: “Enough of your insolence, hippie harridan!”

(We leave the scene as 200 armed terrorists swarm out of the cave.)
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy || 03/17/2010 14:09 Comments || Top||

#11  Maybe she could shoot him on sight? Eric Holder sez it's okay...
Posted by: tu3031 || 03/17/2010 14:46 Comments || Top||

#12  they should've renamed this article "drones going after drones."

f*ck the ACLU.
Posted by: Broadhead6 || 03/17/2010 15:12 Comments || Top||

#13  American Civil Liberties Union

-their name is one of the biggest oxymorons on the planet.
Posted by: Broadhead6 || 03/17/2010 15:18 Comments || Top||

#14  Wisdom? Policy? Moral questions? The ACLU seems to be suffering from the delusion that they're an unofficial third house of Congress, and confused FoA filings for congressional subpoenas.
Posted by: Mitch H. || 03/17/2010 15:23 Comments || Top||

#15  when is the ACLU gonna be put on the terrorist list?
Posted by: chris || 03/17/2010 16:43 Comments || Top||

#16  Let's be clear: what the ACLU wants are operational documents about the conduct of war. No court in our country can authorize the release of such documents.

Article II of the Constitution leaves war-making to the President. Article I leaves the decision to go to war, and funding for the war, to the Congress. Article III says not one word whatsoever about a role for the courts in the conduct of war. The FoIA does not give people the 'right' to demand documents concerning war-making operations.

Those documents are secret for a reason: we don't wish to tell our enemies what we're doing, or how we're doing it, or what we plan to do tomorrow.

If the ACLU can't trust the 'wisdom and legality' of how the current administration makes war, they can vote for someone else in 2012.
Posted by: Steve White || 03/17/2010 17:03 Comments || Top||

#17  This world is getting nuttier by the minute...
Posted by: abu Chuck al Ameriki || 03/17/2010 17:04 Comments || Top||

#18  Why doesn't the Amerikan Communist Liberal Union just ask Eric Holder for the docs the next time they meet for lunch?
Posted by: airandee || 03/17/2010 18:48 Comments || Top||

#19  The ACLU drones on. Definitions of a drone:

1. A male bee that is characteristically stingless, performs no work, and produces no honey. 2. An idle person who lives off others; a loafer. 3. A person who does tedious or menial work; a drudge:
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/17/2010 19:45 Comments || Top||

#20  ACLU sues gov't over drones

Is it April 1st?
Posted by: lex || 03/17/2010 21:46 Comments || Top||

#21  Ya wish it was, but it isn't. Especially when they get Barry and the boys to cave...

NEW YORK – According to news reports today, State Department official Harold Koh stated that the Obama administration has considered legal objections to its predator drone program and suggested that the administration would release a detailed legal justification for the controversial program at an undetermined date.

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit Tuesday against the State Department and other agencies demanding that the government disclose the legal basis for its use of unmanned drones to conduct targeted killings overseas. In particular, the lawsuit asks for information on when, where and against whom drone strikes can be authorized, the number and rate of civilian casualties, and other basic information essential for assessing the wisdom and legality of using armed drones to conduct targeted killings.

The following can be attributed to Jonathan Manes, legal fellow with the ACLU National Security Project:

“We welcome reports that the Obama administration is seriously considering the legality of the drone program, and are encouraged to hear that the rationale behind the program may be made public. We urge the State Department and other agencies to quickly disclose their positions, including on the program’s legal justification and the limits on where and against whom drones can be used. We also urge the administration to disclose other basic facts about the program, including information about the program’s oversight and the number of civilians that have been killed in drone strikes. The use of drones to conduct targeted killings raises complicated legal, moral and policy issues, and the public needs this kind of information in order to engage meaningfully in the debate over these questions.”
Posted by: tu3031 || 03/17/2010 22:06 Comments || Top||

#22  would the ACLU sue if I told them too suck it
Posted by: chris || 03/17/2010 23:23 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
US suspect in Mumbai siege, Danish plot to plead guilty
The charismatic Chicago man accused of scouting out the deadly 2008 Mumbai siege and a plot to kill a Danish cartoonist plans to plead guilty to terrorism charges, his lawyer said Tuesday. David Coleman Headley, 49, is accused of helping two different Pakistan-based terrorist groups and using a friend's immigration company as a cover for surveillance activities in India and Denmark.

The Washington-born son of a former Pakistani diplomat and American mother, Headley reportedly befriended Bollywood stars and even dated an actress during his lengthy surveillance trips to Mumbai.

Charging documents also indicated Headley was so eager to kill a Danish cartoonist who sparked outrage with cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed that he began working seriously on that plot two months before the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks.

Headley, who has been cooperating with prosecutors since his October arrest, is set to appear in a Chicago federal court at 1830 GMT Thursday for a change of plea hearing, court documents showed. It remained unclear whether Headley would plead guilty to all or just some of the 12 charges laid against him in Chicago, some of which carried possible death penalty.

Headley's attorney confirmed a plea deal was in the works but declined to say to which charges his client would admit. "I am really reluctant to go into the specifics of what he's pleading to," defense attorney John Theis told AFP. "I expect that there will be a plea agreement," he added. "And the details of that are what is being negotiated, so I can't comment on anything." Prosecutors declined to comment on the deal.

Headley was initially arrested on terror charges related to a plot to attack Denmark's highest circulating daily, Jyllands-Posten, which triggered a furor in the Muslim world by publishing 12 cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in 2005. Headley was later charged in the Mumbai attacks, as was his old friend from military school in Pakistan, Tahawwur Hussain Rana.

Rana, who owns the Chicago-based First World Immigration Services that Headley allegedly used as a cover, insists he is a pacifist who was "duped" by his friend. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Headley also initially pled not guilty to the charges but has long been expected to eventually reach a plea deal with prosecutors.

In an alleged plot that reads like a movie thriller, Headley is accused of spending two years casing out Mumbai, even taking boat tours around the city's harbor to scope out landing sites for the attackers, who killed 166 people, including six Americans.

Headley said he changed his name from Daood Gilani in 2006 so he could "present himself in India as an American who was neither Muslim nor Pakistani," charging documents said.

Indian media have reported that during his five lengthy trips to Mumbai Headley befriended Bollywood stars and developed a reputation as a fitness fanatic while staying in an expatriate enclave in south Mumbai near the US consulate.

Indian security analysts believe he could be the vital missing link in the bloody 60-hour siege that began on November 26, 2008.

Ever since the attacks, there has been much speculation but no answers about whether the 10 heavily-armed gunmen had specialist help to land undetected by sea and strike their targets with such precision.

India and Washington blamed the deadly rampage on Pakistan's banned militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). The attacks stalled a fragile four-year peace process between the two nuclear-armed south Asian rivals. Headley allegedly told investigators he had been working with LeT since 2002.

He began working with an Al-Qaeda-linked group in Pakistan called Harakat-ul-Jihad-Islami on the Danish plot after LeT became distracted with the final planning for the Mumbai attack, charging documents alleged.

Headley allegedly told prosecutors he pretended to be interested in buying ads in Jyllands-Posten so he could tour the newspaper's offices in Copenhagen and Arhus "in preparation for an attack," the documents said.

Prosecutors say Headley was arrested at Chicago's O'Hare airport as he was on his way to deliver 13 surveillance videos to Harakat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami in the Danish plot.
Posted by: ryuge || 03/17/2010 01:38 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  *** cough *** cough *** cough ***....
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 03/17/2010 23:48 Comments || Top||


E-mails suggested Hasan subpar for Army
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, charged in the Fort Hood shootings, was too fat and "chronically" unprofessional during his psychiatric training, according to internal e-mails exchanged by his superiors.

The communications are the latest in a series of early signs that showed officers had reason to suspend Maj. Hasan's training, and perhaps re-evaluate his suitability as a military physician, but failed to do so. Yet, his bosses at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington allowed him to complete his residency in 2007, enter an advanced fellowship program, win promotion to major and transfer to Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009.
Boggles my mind that he was allowed to graduate his residency. Set aside Army-specific requirements, he failed to meet the minimum standard required of a competent psychiatrist. He should have been remediated and then separated from the program.
The e-mails highlight another point at which the U.S. military government could have intervened to stop Maj. Hasan's career before the shooting. The FBI and other intelligence agencies learned that Maj. Hasan had sent e-mail messages to Anwar al-Awlaki, an al Qaeda-affiliated radical imam in Yemen who urged followers to join the terrorist group and kill Americans. However, the FBI said in a statement that it dismissed the e-mails as apparently part of Maj. Hasan's work as a psychiatric counselor.
What work, exactly, does one do that allows one to correspond with an al-Qaeda affiliated radical imam? I think there are a few FBI guys and supervisors who need to be called onto the carpet.
The bureau did not share the intercepted communications with the military people who could have stopped Maj. Hasan, nor did the FBI question the major.

An Army inquiry released in January recommended the service look at disciplining Maj. Hasan's medical superiors who failed to raise red flags about his conduct, and instead passed him along to the next program and command. The e-mails reviewed by The Washington Times were among the report's restricted annex material not released to the public.

The e-mails show superior officers had plenty of problems with Maj. Hasan. In May 2007, as a then-Capt. Hasan approached a June 30 date to complete his residency in psychiatry, his direct supervisor warned higher-ups he had failed a physical by being overweight.

"He is a chronically somewhat unprofessional officer with a somewhat poor work ethic," Maj. Scott Moran, residency director, wrote in e-mail to a superior. Maj. Moran said he was preparing to put Maj. Hasan on probation and extend his residency.
That was the minimum required; the probation would include a remediation plan that would be tailored to address specific concerns raised by faculty supervisors. That's not an Army requirement, it's a requirement of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), the agency that certifies residency programs.
But the superior rejected the idea, saying it would prompt a total re-evaluation of Maj. Hasan. The superior wrote back to Maj. Moran: "Please don't go forward on anything yet. If you put him on probation, even administrative, will require me to convene a relook board."
Sure would. Didn't want to do the work or didn't want to flunk out the only Army muslim psychiatrist?
A source close to the Army investigation said Maj. Hasan was counseled about his substandard high body-fat reading. The source said he thinks Maj. Hasan lost weight, but the fact an officer had to be told to slim down is not consistent with good officership.

In addition to the weight issue, another development could have slowed or stopped Maj. Hasan's advancement.

"There is another twist," Maj. Moran wrote on May 11, 2007. He told a second superior that Maj. Hasan did not have sufficient months in a psychiatric clinic to complete his residency. "I am not trying to hose this guy, but keep everything on the up and up," Maj. Moran wrote.
For any residency, there is a rather long list of requirements to meet. Miss one and you don't graduate. That Hasan didn't have enough clinic time suggests that either 1) Hasan didn't attend or 2) the faculty failed to ensure he got there and got the work done.
This superior dismissed Maj. Moran's concerns. "We discussed his situation or one like it at the time and decided that the distinction between year levels was arbitrary as long as he got the requisite number of months doing the necessary things," the superior wrote.

Then came Maj. Hasan's research project that was required for completing the residency. Walter Reed calls the practice, "Psychiatry Scholarly Activity Oral Presentation at the Psychiatry Regularly Scheduled Conference." Maj. Hasan chose not a psychiatric topic, per se, but one titled, "Koranic World View as it Relates to Muslims in the U.S. Military." The slide presentation promoted Islamic law over the U.S. Constitution.

At first, Maj. Moran was appalled. "This is not scholarly project level," he e-mailed other staff members. "[We] are going to meet with him this AM and counsel him."
It really sounds like Moran is trying to do his job as a residency director.
A Moran colleague e-mailed Maj. Hasan to say, "Can you tie this presentation more fully into the GWOT [global war on terrorism]? Your last few slides begin that process. Maybe you could rebalance this presentation with more on how the religion and sectarian violence develops."

Maj. Hasan e-mailed back, "Here are some revision [sic]." He eventually delivered the slide show June 20, and graduated 10 days later.

One staff supervisor was ecstatic. "Dr. Hasan does an excellent job speaking without 'reading' slides!" he wrote on a "resident evaluation."

"His balance of academic knowledge and personal awareness is remarkable."

But there was a dissenter among the graders.

"I must admit that I am confused as to how this is acceptable as a scholarly activity," the supervisor wrote. "While information about Islam, this seems to be a history/religious class report rather than a psychiatric scholarly activity. I would expect better academic efforts from a graduating resident."

Charles Gittins, attorney for Maj. Moran, said the e-mails show his client was trying to hold Maj. Hasan to Army standards. "He did everything he could to hold the guy to standards, and he was only with the guy for 14 weeks before Hasan graduated from the residency program," Mr. Gittins said.

The Army has yet to take any disciplinary action against Maj. Moran or other supervisors, as recommended by the inquiry.

The inquiry, led by former Army Secretary Togo West and former Chief of Naval Operations Vern Clark, concluded: "We believe that some medical officers failed to apply appropriate judgment and standards of officership with respect to the alleged perpetrator. These individuals failed to demonstrate that officership is the essence of being a member of the military profession, regardless of the officer's specialty."
Posted by: Steve White || 03/17/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "You see! I knew he was a victim of racism!"
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/17/2010 1:58 Comments || Top||

#2  This is our military? What a disgrace.
Posted by: lex || 03/17/2010 3:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Behold diversity!

One staff supervisor was ecstatic. "Dr. Hasan does an excellent job speaking without 'reading' slides!" he wrote on a "resident evaluation."

Damning with faint praise. Notice the absence of rank? My personal favorite...."This officer is in full compliance with the Army Energy Conservation Progam."
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/17/2010 3:57 Comments || Top||

#4  The guy was so mediocre he was only fit for promotion.
Posted by: kcs || 03/17/2010 4:55 Comments || Top||

#5  No kidding! What a surprise! Kills his fellow soldiers in the name of jihad and there is a question about his fitness?
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/17/2010 10:07 Comments || Top||

#6  fry him in bacon grease
Posted by: bman || 03/17/2010 11:18 Comments || Top||

#7  Thirteen people dead because no one was willing to put THEIR career on the line to stop this terrible, terrible excuse for an officer or a medical person. The people that failed also need to be quietly let go, but they won't be. The military is just far too short of medical people, especially doctors.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 03/17/2010 13:44 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Paradise lost – here lie the remains of a school for teenage Taleban
The warning on the wall was written in blood. “All who fight us shall face this same fate,' it stated in swirling, Urdu script, ochre red with the passing of sun and rain.

“We've had the stains analysed — they are human,' confirmed Lieutenant-Colonel Yusuf, whose Frontier Force troops had captured the compound, a Taleban training school just north of the insurgents' former headquarters in Makeen, South Waziristan.

Every bit as macabre as the faded threat was the strip of blue-tiled guttering that lay at the foot of the wall beneath it. Colonel Yusuf's men had found it splattered in gore. The uniforms of two missing Pakistani soldiers lay near by. “We know from our intelligence sources that this is where the Taleban kept their prisoners. And this is where they trained young boys to slaughter them.'

As the Pakistani Army consolidates its positions in South Waziristan, the Taleban heartland seized by security forces during a five-month operation that began in October last year, they have discovered a world permeated by exhortations for sacrifice, slaughter and suicide. The beheading of prisoners was not the only art taught to the Taleban pupils in the compound at Nawaz Kot — nicknamed “Paradise House' by the soldiers who stormed it in the early stages of Operation Rah-e-Nijat, or Path to Salvation.
Posted by: ed || 03/17/2010 11:22 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Everyone in America should read this.
Posted by: Mike Hunt || 03/17/2010 12:40 Comments || Top||

#2  HA! The MSM will bury this deep a bunker-buster wouldn't be able to touch it.

After all - one has to support their allies.....
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/17/2010 12:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Lest we fergit, ala DAILY TIMES + NEWS KERALA, ETC. the LeT Group has now engaged in Maha-Rushian serieuse' firefights = attacks agz the TALIBAN.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 03/17/2010 21:36 Comments || Top||


Pakistani court charges 5 Americans with terrorism
ISLAMABAD -- A Pakistani court charged five young Americans on Wednesday with planning terrorist attacks in the South Asian country and conspiring to wage war against nations allied with Pakistan, their defense lawyer said.

The men -- all Muslims from the Washington, D.C., area -- pleaded not guilty to a total of five charges, the most severe of which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison, defense lawyer Hasan Dastagir told The Associated Press. "My clients were in good shape and high spirits," Dastagir said.

The men, aged 19 to 25, were charged by an anti-terrorism court inside a prison in Sargodha, the city in Punjab province where they were arrested in December. They were reported missing by their families in November after one left behind a farewell video showing scenes of war and casualties and saying Muslims must be defended.

Their lawyer has said they were heading to Afghanistan and had no plans to stage attacks inside Pakistan.
Charity work. "Religious instruction". Checking out the school system. You know the drill...
Charity work. Delivering ammo to poor widows ...
The court also charged the men with planning attacks on Afghan and U.S. territory, said Dastagir. The charges did not specify what was meant by U.S. territory but could be a reference to American bases or diplomatic outposts in Afghanistan.

The men also were charged with contributing cash to banned organizations to be used for terrorism and with directing each other to commit terrorist acts. "This last charge carries life in prison while the rest of the charges have lesser punishments," Dastagir said. The trial will begin on March 31, and the prosecution is slated to present more than 20 witnesses, Dastagir said.

The defense plans to bring witnesses from the U.S. and provide evidence of community service carried out by the men back home, Dastagir said.

Pakistani police have publicly made several accusations against the young men, claiming the suspects contacted Pakistani-based jihadi groups. They accused the five of using the social networking site Facebook and video-sharing site YouTube while they were in the U.S. to try to connect with extremist groups in Pakistan.

During past court hearings, the men have claimed they were tortured by Pakistani police and FBI agents. Pakistan and the U.S. have denied those allegations.
I thought they were in "good shape and high spirits"?
The U.S. has pressed an often-reluctant Pakistan to crack down on militants in its territory, many of whom are believed involved in attacks on American and NATO forces across the border in Afghanistan. At the same time, several recent cases have highlighted incidences of foreigners signing up to join the insurgents on both sides of the border.

Two of the detained Americans are of Pakistani origin, while one is of Egyptian, one of Yemeni and one of Eritrean descent.
Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, and Chevrolet...
Posted by: tu3031 || 03/17/2010 10:07 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Here's "our boys"...
Posted by: tu3031 || 03/17/2010 10:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Dastagir said,"My clients were in good shape and high spirits," This is good to know.
Posted by: Dave UK || 03/17/2010 11:17 Comments || Top||

#3  Meanwhile, if these men had committed these acts in the Netherlands, it wouldn't have been considered a crime.

Thankfully, some countries have some laws that they actually enforce sometimes.
Posted by: American Delight || 03/17/2010 17:41 Comments || Top||

#4  Too bad Rantburg cannot file an amacus curiae brief with the court in Pakistan. We would have a lot to say with how they should deal with these nutters.
Posted by: Alaska Paul in Hooper Bay, Alaska || 03/17/2010 22:37 Comments || Top||


One killed, four injured in explosion in Karachi
[Dawn] One person was killed while four others were injured when an explosion took place in Karachi's Soldier Bazaar on Tuesday.

According to DawnNews, one woman was killed while another one was injured along with two children when the blast took place.

The injured have been shifted to Karachi Civil Hospital.

The blast occurred in a garbage dump located close to a police station.
Posted by: Fred || 03/17/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Security tight after shootout at Indian space facility
Paramilitary police guarding a space centre in southern India on Tuesday exchanged fire with two men who were acting suspiciously near the facility, an official said.

The shootout occurred in the early hours of Tuesday at the Deep Space Network in Byalalu, about 40 kilometres (25 miles) from Bangalore, when the guards challenged two men, one of whom began firing a handgun.

"In retaliation, our guards fired at the suspects who fled from the spot and vanished in darkness," Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) director S. Satish told AFP.

"We have registered a case with the local police who have posted extra men at the facility."

Home Minister P. Chidambaram confirmed that guards from the paramilitary Central Industrial Security Force had fired at the suspects.

"Teams there are investigating the matter. There was no danger to the establishment," he told reporters outside parliament.

India has been on high alert since a bombing in the city of Pune in February that killed 16 people, with at-risk installations under tight surveillance.

Police are investigating whether the shootout was the work of militants or common criminals. The suspect fired two shots from a revolver and the security guards returned eight rounds.

"It's too early to talk of (a) terror angle. We are investigating the shootout case from all angles," Kamal Panth, inspector general of police for the Bangalore region, told AFP.

"We are combing the entire area to nab the suspects."

The attack in Pune was India's first since an assault on Mumbai in November 2008 that left 166 dead.

The Deep Space Network was set up in 2007 by the state-run ISRO for receiving data and images from the country's first unmanned lunar exploration mission, Chandrayaan-1, which was launched in 2008.
Posted by: Fred || 03/17/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's too early to talk of (a) terror angle.

Maybe they were just duck hunters?
Posted by: gorb || 03/17/2010 10:16 Comments || Top||


Twenty killed in US drone attack in North Waziristan
A US missile strike and clashes between extremist gunmen and tribesmen killed at least 20 militants on Tuesday in northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border, officials said.

The drone attack destroyed a mountain hideout in the district of North Waziristan, killing 10 militants including Al-Qaeda-linked suspects.

North Waziristan is known as a stronghold of Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked fighters and increasingly targeted by the covert US drone war since a suicide attack killed seven CIA employees in Afghanistan.

The missiles hit a compound used by militants near Datta Khel village, 20 kilometers west of Miranshah, the main town of North Waziristan, Pakistani security officials said.

The exact identity of the militants was unclear and it was not immediately known whether there were any high-value targets.

"At least 10 militants, mostly foreigners, were killed," one Pakistani security official told AFP on condition of anonymity, adopting a term used widely in Pakistan to refer to Al-Qaeda-linked suspects.

"Five missiles were fired by US drones," he added.

Three other security officials confirmed the missile strike and gave the same death toll, while a local intelligence official described the target as a mountain hideout for militants. Arabs were said to be among the dead.

Militants cordoned off the area and were searching the rubble, where two cars were also destroyed in the strike, a local administration official said.

US drone attacks routinely target Taliban and Al-Qaeda commanders in Pakistan's semi-autonomous tribal belt, which Washington calls the global headquarters of Al-Qaeda and the most dangerous region on Earth.

The drone war has killed a number of high-profile targets, including Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud and possibly his successor Hakimullah Mehsud, but the raids fuel anti-American sentiment in Muslim Pakistan.
Posted by: Fred || 03/17/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Pakistan

#1  Militants cordoned off the area and were searching the rubble

How many militants were killed in the followup strikes?
Posted by: gorb || 03/17/2010 12:03 Comments || Top||


4.5 tons of explosives found in second raid in Lahore
[Dawn] Pakistani police seized 4.5 tonnes of explosives, rifles and suicide vests during raids in the eastern city of Lahore which has suffered a series of militant attacks, officials said.

"The police raided different shops in the city today and yesterday and seized the explosives and weapons," a senior police official in Lahore, Zulfiqar Hamed, told AFP.

The raids and seizures came days after twin suicide attacks targeting the Pakistani military killed up to 45 people in Lahore on Friday.

"The police raided a shop in Iqbal Town area on Tuesday and seized 170 bags mainly containing ammonium nitrate and weighing 3,000 kilograms, two suicide vests, four rifles, three sub-machine guns and one light machine gun," Hameed said.

He added that at least 10 suspects including the owner of the shop had been detained for interrogation.

Police also seized 1,500 kilograms of explosive material which included potassium used in manufacturing fire crackers, 600 rifle rounds and 16 hand grenades from another shop in Iqbal Town on Monday, he said.

Another senior police official, Ali Nasir Rizvi, confirmed the raids and arrests and said, "Both the shops had been rented out to one Mohammad Omar and we are trying to get hold of this person".

Lahore, a city of eight million near Pakistan's border with India, has been increasingly subject to Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked attacks in a nationwide bombing campaign that has killed more than 3,000 people in three years.

Violence in Pakistan is concentrated largely in the lawless northwest area along the border with Afghanistan, but analysts have warned that extremism is taking a hold in
Punjab, Pakistan's most populous and politically important province of which Lahore is the capital.

Eight attacks have killed more than 170 people in Lahore over the past year, a historical city which is a playground for the elite and home to many top brass in Pakistan's powerful military and intelligence establishment.

Pakistani officials say that the terrorist attacks are linked to the Taliban and Al-Qaeda stronghold of South Waziristan on the Afghan border where the military has been engaged in a punishing offensive against militants since October last year.

Washington says militants in Pakistan's semi-autonomous tribal belt are fuelling the war in Afghanistan, where more than 120,000 NATO and US troops are battling a nine-year Taliban insurgency.
Posted by: Fred || 03/17/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP

#1  Mmmm!

I must admit I'm more concerned about Pakland being infected with the modern misuse of the word historical.
Posted by: phil_b || 03/17/2010 0:11 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Palestinians clash with Israeli police in Jerusalem
[Al Arabiya Latest] Palestinians mounted violent protests in Jerusalem on Tuesday and President Barack Obama's Middle East envoy cancelled plans to return to the region as a U.S.-Israeli crisis over Jewish settlement plans simmered.

Hundreds of Palestinian demonstrators clashed with police in several locations in East Jerusalem, captured from Jordan by Israel together with the adjacent West Bank in the 1967 Middle East war. Police responded with teargas and rubber bullets.

"We have come to throw stones because that's all we have and the situation in Jerusalem is dangerous," a protester said in a confrontation at an Israeli military checkpoint, reminiscent of the early days of the Palestinian uprising that began in 2000.

Medical officials said at least 40 Palestinians were treated in hospitals in the most serious flare-up in the holy city in months. Police said 15 officers were hurt, one shot in the hand by an unidentified gunman. About 60 people were arrested.
Posted by: Fred || 03/17/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Authority

#1  Their old allies, the Apartheid regime of P.W. Botha in South Africa have departed from the scene unfortunately, and now it looks like the US is starting to wise up to the fact that our "alliance" with Israel brings us nothing but a bag full of hurt. Looks like things are about to get very lonely outside for Israel.
Posted by: hunterkiller || 03/17/2010 0:48 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, Hunteridiot, Israel still has good relations with the USA. Obama is just shooting himself in the foot with his current pressure-Israel policy. You pointedly mention Botha, who has been out of power for what? 20+ years. Very topical reference! For the record Israel still maintains excellent relations with India and China, the two biggest power-brokers in the region. In the meantime, I'm sure Israel can handle some stone-throwing savages, and the opprobrium of anti-semite pinheads like you.
Posted by: Scooter McGruder || 03/17/2010 1:48 Comments || Top||

#3  #1 Their old allies, the Apartheid regime of P.W. Botha in South Africa have departed from the scene unfortunately. hunterkiller

Unfortunate indeed. Die Oud Crocodile has been gone for quite a spell hunter. I doubt Israel would wish to have much to do with President Jacob Zuma, a tribalist, ANC rapist who failed to make it past the 3rd grade. In all fairness however, Zuma is quite famous for that catchy tribal tune "Lethu Mshini Wami" (Bring me my machine gun).
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/17/2010 4:18 Comments || Top||

#4  The lack of attention to our ally, Israel by this administration and the seemingly favortism towards muslim countries encourages jihad and ant-semitism. Israel is the only Democracy in the mid-East if you don't yet count Iraq. The sentiment from what I hear from some in Israel is that George W. Bush was a good friend to Israel--not the feeling about the current administration.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/17/2010 9:00 Comments || Top||

#5  favortism favoritism
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/17/2010 9:01 Comments || Top||

#6  Their old allies, the Apartheid regime of P.W. Botha in South Africa have departed from the scene unfortunately.

Very unfortunate indeed, seeing how "well" things are going for South Africa these days. In this case, the disease was and always will be better than the cure.
Posted by: gorb || 03/17/2010 10:21 Comments || Top||

#7  oh boy we gonna have some good pics of rushing too the scene of burning cars and plenty of gun sex from reuters
Posted by: chris || 03/17/2010 11:20 Comments || Top||

#8  I find it interesting this administration has been so openly surprised by so many events, yet so quietly ahead of this.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/17/2010 12:35 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Indonesian militants recruit fighters in video
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