Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu "is not bluffing" on his intentions to strike Iran should the Islamic Republic continue its nuclear program for much longer, a former senior Israeli military official told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday.
"Bibi's not bluffing. He thinks it's the 1930s. The Iranians are the Germans, and history has a sense of humor with six million Jews now in Israel," the retired official said.
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"He thinks it's the 1930s. The Iranians are the Germans, and history has a sense of humor with six million Jews now in Israel"
Sounds about right to me ....
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Right now Iran is on the path to becoming Obama Amerika's new BFF in Syria.
Benji has to decide what is best for Israel - attacking Iran, or seeing Shia Iran + Hezbollah help Baby Assad put down the pro-Sunni Al-Qaeda + other foreign MilTerr groups in Syria + Iraq.
Benji's decision may decide iff the UNO + US-Allies put troops on the ground in Syra or not.
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Ima thinkrn Gulf States (including Saudi) would not only allow overflight to the Joooos, but allow in-flight fueling, if they had plausible deniability
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I am looking for a surprise. They may let them keep their nuke facilities intact, and just close the front door, take out the navy, and their refinery. Or something asymmetric, but effective. I can only hope.
The front page of the WaPo said, "Senate Leaders Take Reins on Impasse Talks". Senate Leaders. Leaders! I wanted to retch.
Opening a rare Sunday session of the Senate, Majority Leader Reid said he and Minority Leader McConnell are continuing talks to raise the debt ceiling and reopen the government. Were in conversation today, Reid said on the Senate floor. Im confident the Republicans will allow the government to open and extend the ability of the country to pay its bills since the media has finished roasting them. And Im going to do everything I can throughout the day to accomplish just this.
With the two sides stuck over whether to stop the madness and leave in place deep automatic spending cuts known as sequestration, Reid stressed that Democrats have agreed to leave the reductions in place into November and suggested they would be open to allowing them to remain in place longer. He noted that was part of a continuing resolution to fund government that has been adopted on a bipartisan basis in the Senate but blocked in the House. The House, where more than half of the body has been elected to restrain spending, but the Senate didn't turn over fast enough.
But another round of cuts is set to take effect in January. Democrats have balked at a deal proposed by Senate Republicans that would have opened broader budget talks in coming months but might have allowed that hit to occur in January. Talks? We know how those will end up. "The Republicans continue to block the poor folks so the fat cats (Dem contributors) can line Obama's friends their pockets.
During the fiscal crises that have gripped Capitol Hill over the past five years, each resolution and compromise came after Senate leaders picked up the pieces of failed efforts between the White House and the House. In the morning session, Reid rejected a proposal crafted by rank-and-file Republicans with some Democratic input to raise the federal debt limit until Jan. 31 and fund federal agencies through the end of March. It also called for minor adjustments to Obamas health-care law. The Kiss of Death!
Reid said he wanted a shorter period for stopgap funding and a longer extension of the Treasurys borrowing authority. Reid particularly wants to scale back deep automatic spending cuts known as the sequester, which were passed during the 2011 debt-ceiling showdown and will take effect every January for the next decade, unless Congress amends them. Sen. Durbin (Dick - Ill.), the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate, called that issue really the single biggest sticking point.
It was a dramatic turnabout from Thursday morning, when Boehners leadership team signaled that it would support increasing the debt ceiling until almost Thanksgiving with the only demand being that Obama negotiate over a broader budget framework in the interim. With pressure on the debt issue appearing to ease, financial markets staged their biggest rally in a month.
The president, however, rejected Boehners offer because it did not address "reopening" the government. Instead, the White House grew interested in the Senate talks over Collinss plan because of its longer debt-ceiling window.
Collins, along with GOP Sens. Kelly Ayotte (N.H.) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), worked with Democrats to draw up a 23-page draft that would have ended the shutdown and funded federal agencies for six months at current spending levels. It would have left intact the sequestration cuts scheduled to hit Jan. 15 but would have given agency officials flexibility to decide where the reductions should occur. Lessee ... we'll keep the National Parks closed and work up from there.
In addition, the proposal would raise the debt limit through Jan. 31, setting up a path for the two sides to have broad budget talks to try to tackle the issues of taxes and entitlement reform. Spit.
Democrats want a shorter extension of government funding so that they can try to press the Republicans, whose partys image has been battered in recent weeks, for more savings from the sequestration cuts in negotiations that would take place in the near term rather than waiting until March, when the spending cuts will have taken effect. In DC, we have almost crushed the evil Pubs and TEA-drinkers. Whaddabout the rest of the planet?
In addition, Reid told reporters that he will make no concessions on the health care law. I rest my case.
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Want to shower just after seeing the name "Reid."
With apologies to all Reids who are not slimey Senators.
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A nice summary. BLUF - This crisis after crisis is the new normal. Too many checks have been written against too little funds to expect any other result. The consequences to Americas foreign policy, the value of the dollar and the future of the Washington elite are incalculable, but it is unavoidable.
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On Sunday, protesting the barricades placed at memorials around Washington D.C. by the vindictive Obama administration, veterans removed the barricades and proceeded to take them to the White House. Multiple people tweeted photos of the barricades being removed and taken for presidential inspection. (pics at link :-D ) Video at other links. What I like best is that the marchers stacked the barry-cades neatly at the White House -- those are government property after all, and we paid for them.
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mounted cops and riot gear - great optics, asshole.
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Notice this is breitbart.com, not Rooters or AP.
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I checked to see how HuffPo covered this. A ways Dow the page was a lead "Conservatives continue to obsess about WWII memorial. If you did follow that link they carried the story lead World War II Memorial Barriers Pushed Through By Crowd".
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Silly rabbits. The revolution will not be televised. OT, but has anyone seen cones being stencilled? Subtle, washable black or grey, 6 inches or so. Bilingual.
O jack-o-lantern face
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No you can't!
Politicized for your protection
Property of Democrat Party
No pasaran!
Public property
Like that.
Tie 'em to orange, autumn, Halloween. Great Pumpkin. Gummint cheez. Maaaaybe get "mandarin" a pencilpoint of mainstream mindspace. Let 'em eat Barack a l'orange. Canteloupe: yellow on the outside, orange on the inside. Autumn. Non-essential leaves falling: yellow, orange, red. Raking at sunset. Americana.
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I went to check it out. Unfortunately, I wandered off to the Vietnam War Memorial before I could help carry the barricades to the WH. :(
The US Park Police helicopters circling barely above the treetops was as creepy as it was unnecessary, as with the mounted police and riot gear. Universities indulge in similarly inane security overkill at conservative events on campus too. Never could figure out how a few dozen kids with crew cuts, American flag lapel pins, and smiles for the police were perceived as any kind of threat.
Now that campus leftie loonies have taken over the country, I guess paranoid projection is SOP.
Paleos gotta dig
Security forces last week discovered and rendered unusable an underground tunnel linking Gaza and Israel, likely intended to facilitate a terror attack or kidnapping attempt inside Israel, the IDF said Sunday morning.
The tunnel, which an official said was particularly wide and about 2.5 kilometers (1.5 miles) long, started in Abbasan al-Saghira, a farming village near Khan Yunis, in Gaza, and terminated inside Israel about three kilometers from Kibbutz Ein Hashlosha, in the western Negev.
It was found on October 7, military officials said.
The military said it waited a week to publicize the discovery because a search for explosives was underway. The army said an elite engineering corps was sent into the tunnel, but no explosives were found.
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[MAGHAREBIA] A 24-year-old Algerian faces charges of "contempt" and "defending terrorism" over cartoons posted on Facebook, El Watan reported on Thursday (October 10th).
Tlemcen native Abdelghani Aloui was incarcerated Please don't kill me! September 25th for allegedly ridiculing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika ... 10th president of Algeria. He was elected in 1999 and is currently on his third or fourth term, who will probably die in office of old age... and Prime Minister Abdelmalik Sellal in the Facebook posts.
The terrorism charge is related to a scarf found by the police in Aloui's home. It was inscribed with the phrase "La Illah illa Allah", his lawyer Amine Sidhoum told AFP on Wednesday.
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A former U.S. State Department official says North Korea may be willing to declare a moratorium on nuclear weapons and missile testing.
Joel Wit, a senior fellow with the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University, told Yonhap News on Wednesday that he was given the assurance by Ri Yong-ho , the North's top nuclear envoy, at a seminar last month in Berlin.
Last month? Out of date by about 29 days, Comrade Wit...
Declaring a moratorium on nuclear weapons and long-range ballistic missile testing was part of a U.S.-North Korea deal signed last year. Wit called on North Korea and the U.S. to hold face-to-face talks on ways to denuclearize the North.
Wit thus demonstrates himself to be a tool of the North Koreans...
But he added the moratorium cannot be a precondition for international talks
No, no, certainly not!
but may lick in once all sides are at the table.
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Again, iff the DPRK gets Nukes, the ROK will demand + get Nukes, + thats when TRUE INTER-KOREAN REUNIFICATION CAN FINALLY OCCUR.
Until then we're all just "going the motions", full of [diplomatic] sound-n-fury, etc. accomplishing nothing.
The alternative is that Radical Islam = Hard/Bad Boyz attacl + destabilize China + prob also Russia, diverting Beijing + PLA's attention away from the Koreas.
[Ynet] Officials in Afghanistan say a suicide boom-mobileing has killed one civilian and two coppers in the country's east.
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.. provincial front man Ahmad Zia Abdulzai said the attack took place Saturday next to the provincial police chief's office in the capital city of Jalalabad. Abdulzai says the jacket wallah blew up his car at the main entrance of the police compound, destroying the front of the facility. He said one civilian and two officers had been killed.
[CSMONITOR] Extreme, neo-fascist groups in Spain are preparing for a show of force during this weekend's nationalist holiday, and Spanish authorities are keeping a close eye on the situation.
But experts worry that the real fascist concern in Spain is not from small bad turban groups, but rather from growing public displays of fascist sympathies by a small part of the conservative government's constituency -- and even among elected officials.
"Spain has not been 'de-Francoized,' as Germany has been de-Hitlerized," explains Félix Ortega, a sociology professor and expert in public opinion in the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. "There are still Franco symbols even in my university!"
An alliance of radical right groups -- including violent neo-Nazi ones -- have mobilized to travel from around the country to Barcelona to protest Catalonian nationalism on the October 12 "Día de la Hispanidad," or "Hispanic Day," holiday. Authorities said Thursday they plan to prevent violent groups from entering Catalonia.
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Franco and the boys were far more nationalist reactionaries than socialist(national or international). The problem with the current wave of socialists in Spain is that they're having a hard time showing people things are getting better and other people remember that things did get better under Franco compared to the Reds/Left in the East.
[USATODAY] Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., says it's time for Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to resign for "gross incompetence" over the rocky start to a centerpiece of President B.O.'s health care law.
It's not unusual for a GOP senator to call on a member of a Democratic Cabinet to resign, or vice versa. But when the senator and the Cabinet secretary hail from the same state, their families have long been friends, and the senator supported the secretary's confirmation, that's noteworthy.
Sebelius and the B.O. regime are taking a lot of blows over the new online health insurance exchanges that launched Oct. 1. Roberts has long been a critic of the health care law, and the computer glitches that have marred the rollout of the online exchanges are his last straw.
"Everything we warned about has come to pass," Roberts said in a statement that was especially critical of Sebelius' much-mocked appearance on The Daily Showwith Jon Stewart. "They can see Obamacare has failed them. We need a secretary who can admit when enough is enough."
Sebelius, a former governor of Kansas, defended the administration's launch of the health insurance exchanges. People have complained about long delays to sign up or not being able to do so at all because the Healthcare.gov website crashes. "Nobody wants Americans to have to wait to sign up," she wrote in an op-ed column for USA TODAY. "Engineers are working day and night to make upgrades. We're adding more servers to enable the system to handle larger loads. And we're upgrading our software as well to make the system more efficient and enable it to handle higher volumes."
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do not collect $200.
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[Al Ahram] Court rules to deny Dominican nationality to anyone born after 1929 without one parent of Dominican blood, declaring them to be in the country illegally
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Don't worry former Dominican Republic citizens, Jerry Brown and the California Republic will take you in...
[Dawn] A local anti-terrorism court on Friday acquitted two suspected terrorists, including a would-be jacket wallah for lack of evidence.
Judge Azhar Khan observed that the evidence on record did not connect the two, Fazal Shah and Zain Shah, both residents of Mohmand Agency ... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar... , with terrorism.
Police tossed in the slammer Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! the suspected snuffies on July 24 this year in the jurisdiction of Khazana cop shoppe on the outskirts of 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. , saying the two were riding a cycle of violence.
They claimed that Fazal Shah was wearing a boom jacket, while Zain Shah had a pistol and that the former wanted to blow himself up but didn't identify target.
Police said the boom jacket was later defused by the bomb disposal unit.
The two were charged under Section 7 of the Anti Terrorism Act, Section 13 of the Arms Ordinance and sections 3 and 4 of the Explosive Substance Act.
However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... the court acquitted them under Section 265-K of the Code of Criminal Procedure, which empowers the trial court to acquit an accused at any stage of the trial when it realises keeping in view the evidence on record that there is no possibility of the conviction of the accused.
The lawyer for suspects said the statements recorded by the prosecution witnesses were full of contradictions.
He said one of the witnesses claimed that the BDU members were accompanying them; another said that they came to the spot later on, whereas another insisted they came to the cop shoppe and defused the boom jacket there.
The lawyer said even there were contradictions in statements about the time of the occurrence.
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[Al Ahram] Thousands of separatists demanding secession erupted into the streets of Aden Saturday to mark the anniversary in 1967 of the independence of former South Yemen.
The demonstrators came from across the south and gathered in Parade Square in the centre of Aden, waving flags of the former South Yemen and carrying banners with pro-independence slogans.
Security forces watched the crowds from a distance, particularly around public buildings and police and army posts.
Some protesters rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud denouncing national dialogue talks aimed at drawing up a new constitution and preparing for elections, and which have faltered partly because of the southern issue.
Secessionists at the rally chanted "No to dialogue, yes to independence and liberation," and "Our demand is independence," responding to calls from hardliners in the Southern Movement.
Majed Al-Shuwaibi, a member of the Southern Movement at the rally, said the choice of date was significant.
"The southerners are celebrating the anniversary of the October revolution ... which will continue for the re-establishment of the state," he said.
Hassan Baoum, head of the Southern Movement's Supreme Council, arrived from the neighbouring Hadramawt Province Friday evening and was due to address crowds in Aden, activists said.
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to monitor tanning salons and warn customers of the dangers of skin cancer from overexposure to UV radiation, The Post has learned. In what could be the Bloomberg's Administration's final health crusade, the anti-tanorexic plan will be submitted to the Board of Health on Tuesday,. The board -- all appointees of Mayor Bloomberg -- is expected to adopt the new rules, which would take effect in the spring following public hearings.
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Maybe these folks moved in beside 'HIS HONOR' da mayor
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Yuke, for gawds sake don't use olive oil on grilled chicken until it's done.
[Al Ahram] A French-Algerian man suspected of Al-Qaeda ties and deported from Pakistain this week has been charged with terror offences, French judicial officials said Saturday.
Intelligence officials believe Naamen Meziche was once connected to Al-Qaeda's so-called "Hamburg cell," which planned the 9/11 attacks in the United States.
Deported Tuesday, he was charged and remanded in jug in Gay Paree Friday for criminal conspiracy in relation with a terrorist enterprise, with a view to carrying out criminal acts, the source said.
Meziche had been in Pak custody since being tossed in the clink You have the right to remain silent... in May 2012 in the southwest of the country along with three other suspected French jihadis, who were sent back to La Belle France in April and charged on the same count.
Born in Gay Paree in 1970, Meziche left La Belle France in the early 1990s for Afghanistan, then Germany where he is alleged to have come into close contact with the "Hamburg Cell."
He has been known to intelligence officials for more than a decade, though he has no criminal record in Europe.
French law gives authorities broad powers to detain and prosecute a suspect for intending to carry out terrorist acts or contacting organizations suspected of terrorism.
Though Meziche is suspected of being a long-time Al-Qaeda member, no proof has yet emerged of his involvement in any specific act of terror, and security officials are divided about how big a player he is.
One French anti-terror officer told AFP this week Meziche was "a big fish -- right in the ... heart of Al-Qaeda."
But another source close to the case said it was "hard to say if he is an active player or a bit of a has-been."
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[HINDUSTANTIMES] A pickup truck packed with explosives blew up at an Iraqi vegetable market on Saturday, police said, killing 17 and wounding dozens in the latest outbreak of violence to hit the country.
They said the nighttime bombing in Samarra, 95 kilometers (60 miles) north of the capital, also maimed at least 35 people and damaged several shops.
More than 5,000 people have been killed in Iraq since attacks began accelerating in April following a deadly security crackdown against a Sunni protest camp in the northern town of Hawija.
Meanwhile in the country's north, gunnies broke into a family's house at night in the city of djinn-infested Mosul, 360 kilometers (225 miles) northwest of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... , killing a man as well as his wife and son, police said. They gave no further details. "We can say no more!" except that they were investigating the attack.
The latest surge in violence has raised fears that Iraq could be returning to widespread sectarian killings similar to those that brought country to the edge of civil war in 2006 and 2007.
Places such as markets, cafes and mosques have been favorite targets for Sunni hard boyz who aim at undermining the Shiite-led government in Storied Baghdad.
Medical officials in nearby hospital confirmed the casualty figures. All officials provided details of the violence on condition of anonymity as they were not authorised to release the information.
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Moslems just like to blow things up, especially when it kills people. They just dance around and want to go out and do it again. It "furthers their goals" and BESIDES Allah LIKES it.
It accomplishes something mystical and profoundly religious and has important implications in a deeper meaning sort of way....Allahakbar and all that. PBUH.
Plus it puts ( Moslem ) guts on the ( Moslem ) wall and you need a fire hose to clean the place up afterwards. Let's do it again, its so Dawa.
has nothing to do with american occupation,( they left long ago ) Moslems just like.... DOing it. BOOM!
SEMTEX has a steady market wherever ( some ) people put their butts in the air.
[An Nahar] 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... and U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... said Saturday that talks on the future of U.S. forces in Afghanistan were stuck on the key issue of U.S. troop immunity.
Kerry extended his stay in Kabul to try to thrash out a long-delayed security pact that would allow between 5,000 and 10,000 U.S. troops to remain in Afghanistan after 2014 to fight al-Qaeda remnants and train the national army.
But he said that a major sticking point in efforts to sign the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) was the issue of which country would try any U.S. soldiers deployed in Afghanistan.
"One issue that is outstanding (is) the issue of jurisdiction," he said, rejecting the widely-used term "immunity" because accused U.S. troops would still stand trial in America.
"We need to say that if the issue cannot be resolved, unfortunately there cannot be a bilateral security agreement."
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A possible glitch in a computer system upgrade was causing major problems nationwide with the Electronic Benefits Transfer System on Saturday, as a countless number of shoppers found themselves stranded at the register.
Reports from around the country began pouring in around 9 a.m. on Saturday that customers' EBT cards were not working in stores.
The glitch, however, did not appear to be part of the government shutdown. At 2 p.m., an EBT customer service representative told CBS Boston that the system was currently down for a computer system upgrade.
The representative said the glitch is affecting people nationwide. She could not say when officials expected the system to be restored.
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when the EBT cards start flashing "ERROR" the politicians' asreholes should pucker. They are the ONLY thing holding this country from total chaos. 50 Million hungry people, many of them "lifers" in the system and unable to feed themselves should scare the hell out of any public official.
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Another dry run for martial law? Champ will need the leech support when he enacts it. Nothing like going hungry to make you accept your Massa's bidding..
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Bread and circus's were the opiate of the roman mob. The emperors and senate learned very quickly that dependence bred very little patience in the mob. Seems our democrat self-styled overlords neglected their classics studies !
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It would seem to me that these incompetent govt systems and sites are also ripe for hacking by various nefarious folks. At least on the surface, it seems that the govt does not need help in crashing their own systems.
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Why does it seem to be a feature instead of a bug?
Al
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[An Nahar] The authorities in Iraqi Kurdistan have tossed in the calaboose Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! three men allegedly involved in an attack that killed seven people last month in the autonomous region's capital Arbil, officials said on Saturday.
"We were able to arrest... gunnies who have a direct relationship with the terrorist operation that targeted Arbil," the region's national security adviser, Masrur Barzani, told a news conference near Arbil.
On September 29, bully boyz attacked the headquarters of the Kurdish asayesh security service in Arbil with jacket wallahs, gunfire and boom-mobiles, killing seven of its members and wounding more than 60 people.
Subsequently claimed by an al-Qaeda front group, the attack was the first of its kind to hit Arbil since May 2007, when a truck bomb went kaboom! near the same headquarters, killing 14 people and wounding more than 80.
In a statement claiming the attack, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant said it was in response to Kurdish region president Massud Barzani's alleged willingness to provide support to the government in Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... and to Kurdish forces battling jihadists in Syria.
Asayesh chief Tareq Nuri told the news conference the three arrested men -- Samir Bakr Yunis, Mohammed Khalil Qaddush and Hashem Saleh Mohammed -- were all Iraqis from the northern city of djinn-infested Mosul.
While Nuri said generally that the Kurdistan region was cooperating with Iraq's federal government in fighting terrorism, he did not specify which forces made the arrests, or where they did so.
According to Nuri, the men bought two cars from Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... another northern Iraqi city, and drove them to the djinn-infested Mosul area, where they were rigged with explosives.
They also supplied three suicide bombers with weapons and explosives, and Yunis remotely detonated one of the boom-mobiles during the attack, Nuri said.
An earlier statement from the asayesh put the number of suicide bombers at six -- two who were able to detonate explosives and four who died in festivities.
The reason for the discrepancy in accounts was not immediately clear.
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MOGADISHU -- At least ten people were reportedly killed in a fierce fighting between the Somali government forces and Al Shabaab militants in Bay region of southern Somalia on Thursday morning, as the Somali Federal Government Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon welcomed a sea-launched attack that targeted Al Shabaab stronghold, Barawe coastal town in Lower Shabelle region, Garowe Online reports.
The battle erupted after the armed convoy of the Somali Federal Government thrust into Al Shabaab bases in El-Dhun Adegow area which is situated between Bay regional capital of Baidoa and Bakool regional district of Waajid, officials said.
Residents of El-Dhun Adegow, about 45 KM from Baidoa told the media that Al Shabaab still controls the area and the Federal government officials in Bay region said the Somali government forces returned to their previous positions.
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[Al Ahram] The leader of Libya's Moslem Brüderbund political party says the country's prime minister -- who was briefly kidnapped by militia members earlier this week -- has failed and needs to be replaced.
Mohammed Sawan, leader of the Justice and Development party, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named in a telephone interview Saturday from Benghazi that the parliament is "seriously searching for an alternative" to Ali Zidan. Sawan says mismanagement by Zidan's government might have led to "irresponsible actions" by individuals, referring to Zidan's kidnapping.
On Friday, Zidan blamed political rivals' militias of orchestrating his abduction, but didn't name them. Sawan says Zidan told politicians that he didn't mean Moslem Brüderbund.
The Brotherhood came in second in the country's first parliamentary elections last year. It has five ministers in Zidan's government.
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[Al Ahram] Cairo's Nasr City prosecution ordered Saturday an autopsy conducted on a engineering student killed during Friday festivities, to ascertain the reason of his death.
Nineteen-year-old Belal Ali Saber was killed as a protest in support of ousted president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... approached Rabaa Al-Adawiya, the site of a pro-Morsi sit-in that was forcibly dispersed in August leaving hundreds dead.
The prosecution also ordered that immediate investigations be carried out by the National Security apparatus and police detectives, and that a delegation from the criminal lab inspect the police vehicles which supporters of Morsi, including Saber, are accused of attacking with molotov cocktails.
Six pro-Morsi protesters are being questioned by the prosecution regarding the attack on the vehicle.
Following Belal's death, a video, purportedly of the festivities at Rabaa Al-Adawyia, circulated on social networks showing several coppers shooting firearms.
Students at Ain Shams University gathered Saturday to protest the killing of Saber.
Several protesters erupted into the streets Friday marking 100 days since Morsi's ouster. Outside Cairo, limited festivities were also reported in the coastal governorates of Alexandria and Kafr El-Sheikh.
At least 15 protesters were reportedly nabbed ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... across the governorates.
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[Ynet] Two mortar rounds slammed into the central Abu Rummaneh neighborhood of the Syrian capital Damascus on Saturday, causing casualties and damage, state news agency SANA said.
"Two mortar shells fired by gunnies landed in front of the Dar Al-Salaam school in Nejma Square in Damascus," the agency said. It reported "injuries and material damage" in the incident, but gave no further details. State media uses the term "terrorists" to refer to opposition fighters seeking to oust the government of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... .
[Dawn] Former military ruler General (retd) Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... 's bail application in a case relating to the killing of Lal Masjid holy man Ghazi Abdul Rasheed was submitted in an Islamabad sessions court on Saturday, DawnNews reported.
Ilyas Siddiqi, the counsel for Musharraf, submitted the application on the former president's behalf.
The court scheduled a hearing of the bail plea for October 18.
Earlier on Oct 10, the former army strongman was incarcerated Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! over the alleged murder of Ghazi Abdul Rasheed and his mother during the Lal Masjid operation.
The Lal Masjid operation was a 2007 government crackdown on the controversial pro-Taliban mosque in Islamabad, which ended in a bloody eight-day siege killing at least 58 Pak troops and seminary students.
The operation, ordered by Musharraf, followed a week-long standoff between the mosque's supporters and security forces.
The Oct 10 arrest came after he had been granted bail in three other cases and his lawyer said on Oct 9 that he had been cleared to leave the country.
The three other cases against Musharraf relate to the murders of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... and nationalist leader Nawab Akbar Bugti and detaining the judges of superior courts.
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[TOLONEWS] Local officials of 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.. police said two coppers and two civilian were killed by a suicide boom-mobileer who targeted the provincial police headquarters in Jalalabad city on Saturday morning.
Five other coppers and three civilians were also injured in the attack.
The incident took place about 08:00am local time, when the bomber detonated his explosives at the first gate of the police headquarters, according to Fazl Ahmad Shirzad, the Provincial Police Chief.
"A suicide kaboom occurred using a corolla vehicle and as a result four people including two civilian and two police potted and eight others injured. The victims were sent to Jalalabad hospital," said Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, the Provincial Governor Spokesman.
The incident comes as the local officials of Nangarhar have committed to providing heightened security while province residents celebrate Eid Days.
"Our intelligence forces tried to find the explosives, but unfortunately, we failed. There are some deficiencies, but we are trying to solve them and we ask people to help the security forces," said Mr. Shirzad Provincial.
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[Ynet] Syrian air force warplanes bombarded rebel-held targets close to a major chemical weapons facility on Friday, activists reported. The air raids struck the town of Safira, on the edge of a sprawling military complex believed to hold chemical weapons production facilities.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth had turned a paler shade of blue. Star-A-Star had struck again... the UN announced the team of inspectors sent to dismantle Syria's chemical weapons stockpiles has increased to 60.
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And here in the heart of America we have Barrack Hussein and a Congress full of one way or the highway twinkies.
Be sure and lock your doors and kiss your mother before you go down to the corner.
And remember if you had an education you might not have had to become a soldier to be all you could be. SO be sure and vote. Not that it matters much between Syphilis and Pelegra.
Its a beautiful Fall day... just watch the News and pop squirrels from the porch. Syria... bombs rebel targets near chemical weapons complex
2013. yeah GIT some !
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For once we can agree, a day like this was made for sitting on the back porch with a fine air-rifle, sadly I don't have a fine air-rifle, only an old Daisy pump action number with more slack than 3 DC park rangers. Still this time of year the squirrels are in their idiot stage and maybe I can whack one.
[An Nahar] A New York man was maimed when a toilet went kaboom! in his face after he pulled the handle to test the water pressure in his Brooklyn apartment.
Michel Pierre sustained shrapnel wounds from flying shards of porcelain that pierced his face, arms and legs, and required 30 stitches, his lawyer told Agence La Belle France Presse.
The 58-year-old information technology specialist is now so fearful that he uses a rope to flush the toilet from behind the bathroom door at a safe distance.
"Those fears are part of his damages," said his lawyer Sanford Rubenstein. "Clearly toilets are supposed to flush, not explode."
Three other tenants were also injured by what the Daily News website dubbed "the porcelain bomb."
The website said Pierre was briefly knocked unconscious and covered in blood by the kaboom on October 2 in Brooklyn, an increasingly well-heeled part of New York.
"It sounds silly but I'm still scared," Daily News quoted Pierre as saying. "Maybe someday it goes away but right now I'm in pain."
Rubenstein said a lawsuit would be filed against the management company of the building so that a jury could decide how much compensation Pierre should be paid.
The full cost of his medical bills and whether he needs plastic surgery are not yet known, Rubenstein said.
"Obviously there is a serious problem in the building," the lawyer told AFP.
The water had been turned off that day to allow for maintenace work in the 16-story building, which was built in 1964 and contains 275 apartments.
Theresa Racht, a lawyer for the co-op board, told AFP that it appeared to have been a freak accident.
"This is a horrific incident. Everybody feels terrible that such a thing could have happened," she said.
"It certainly makes me think twice about flushing the toilet when the water's been turned off."
She said four toilets in the building went kaboom! but that no particular evidence of wrongdoing had yet been found.
"It has never happened before and certainly nothing has happened since," she said.
"The only conclusion anybody has reached -- and they're still investigating -- is that there was a buildup of air pressure in the pipes so that when it came back on, the pressure was just pushed through the pipe and caused the kaboom."
"This could be very well what we call a true accident."
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Thats the way I flush my toilet, don't you ?
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Al
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High rise buildings do not have one connection to the water. They usually have several floors together as pressure zones. That way your pressure will vary say from 30 psi to say 50 psi. The Code limits pressure to fixtures to 80 psi.
However, if someone is working on the water pipes, and has them emptied, then if they turn on the water all at once, you have a giant air spring, that when going to a toilet water tank, can instantly pressurize it with air, causing the porcelain tank to catastrophically fail.
The same thing can happen to pvc pipes, which produce shrapnel when burst if they are overpressurized with gas.
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[Dawn] Minister for Interior Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan Saturday said the FIA has been directed to accelerate investigation into treason case against former military ruler General (retd) Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... and present the report at the earliest.
He said Musharraf's name was on Exit Control List (ECL) and it would not be removed till the court's decision.
The former president is currently seeking a bail in Lal Masjid operation case after being granted bail in three other cases and his lawyer said on Wednesday he was cleared to leave the country.
Assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... , death of Baloch nationalist leader Nawab Akbar Bugti and detention of deposed Supreme Court judges were the other three major cases registered against the former military ruler.
The statement has come on the anniversary of a Musharraf-led military coup d'état that overthrew an elected government of Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... on October 12, 1999.
The Supreme Court on July 3 had disposed of petitions calling for registration of a treason case against the former military strongman and directed the government to continue approaching the matter in light of its official statement presented to the court.
The government had in its statement said that it would proceed in accordance with the law and prosecute Musharraf for treason under Article 6 of the Constitution -- after taking the political forces into confidence.
Interior Minister Nisar was briefing news hounds after chairing a meeting, which was attended by officials of interior ministry and its attached departments.
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[FT] Greece's neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party has penetrated the country's police force, set up caches of heavy weapons in remote locations and trained its recruits to carry out brutal attacks against immigrants and political opponents, according to the country's top security official. Nikos Dendias, minister of public order and civil protection, said in an interview with the Financial Times that Golden Dawn's cult of extreme violence was "unique" among European far-right groups.
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Yawn,
They don't call themselves Neo Nazis, why do the press???
Nationalists they call them, we could do with a few here ourselves IMHO, if we had a national identity, that is.
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The Second International Socialists have been calling anything that even looks like nationalism "facism" for so long that -- having marginalized all of the legitimate alternatives -- all they are left with is real, honest-to-God, facism.
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] North Korea has issued a fresh warning of an "all-out war", urging the United States to stop military drills and what it described as "nuclear blackmail".
The country also refused to sign a non-aggression pact that John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... , the US Secretary of State, offered last week on condition of denuclearisation.
In a thinly veiled threat to strike the United States, the North's National Defence Commission (NDC), chaired by leader Kim Jong-Un, said the US government must withdraw its policy of hostility against the North if it wants peace on both the Korean peninsula and the "US mainland".
"(The United States) must bear it in mind that reckless provocative acts would meet our retaliatory strikes and lead to an all-out war of justice for a final showdown with the United States," a front man of the NDC was quoted as saying in a statement carried by Pyongyang's Korean Central News Agency.
"We emphasise again that the United States must withdraw various measures aimed to isolate and strangulate us. Dependent upon this are... peace and security, not only on the Korean peninsula but the US mainland as well."
The comments come after a two-day joint naval drill between Japan, South Korea and the US, which included an American nuclear aircraft carrier, sparked a series of angry responses and threats from Pyongyang.
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"All out war results in Al lout defeat".
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Find the threat monger, and hang him.
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So, as Kim Jong-Fudd tinkers under the hood of a nuke, Obama saunters up behind him chomping a carrot, smirks, and asks, "Aaaaan, what seems to be the trouble, doc?" Nah. I can't see it, either.
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Well, the world knows how Kimmie runs his show with his well worn playbook. Yawnsville. However, I would not be surprised if O, Kerry, and Co try some massive bit of appeasement to have the world think that there is a diplomatic breakthrough.
The real problem or danger is O, Kerry, and Co.
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[Al Ahram] Former Supreme Guide of Egypt's Moslem Brüderbund Mahdi Akef was referred to Cairo Criminal Court Saturday on charges of "insulting the judicial authority."
Judge Tharwat Hammad, delegated from the Ministry of Justice to investigate cases of insulting judicial authorities and offending its members, issued the order.
Akef said in an interview with the Kuwaiti daily Al-Jarida in April that judges in Egypt were "corrupt."
The former Islamist leader was nabbed Book 'im, Mahmoud! in July. He is currently placed in durance vile ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... and also faces charges of inciting the killing of protesters in front of the Moslem Brüderbund's headquarters in the Cairo suburb of Moqattam during the events of 30 June.
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[An Nahar] Tunisian security forces and suspected jihadists have clashed near Mount Chaambi, a stronghold near the Algerian border of forces of Evil linked to al-Qaeda, a security source said Saturday.
"The clash took place last night (Friday) as an anti-terrorist brigade moved in to arrest jihadists at Karma" in the Kasserine area, the source told Agence La Belle France Presse.
He said the hour-long firefight came as government forces assaulted a house thought to contain Mourad Gharsalli, the number two of a group in the Chaambi area that security forces have been hunting for months.
They were acting on a tip-off that Gharsalli had emerged from hiding to visit relatives, the security source added.
The house was partly destroyed in the assault but the jihadists managed to escape, leaving behind a phone and some ammunition.
Reinforcements were rushed to the area and a security sweep was under way on Saturday, the source said.
Media reports said a jihadist group had been surrounded at Jebel Semmama near Mount Chaambi.
"Army and national guard reinforcements have been sent in, which could mean a large-scale operation" against the myrmidons, Mosaique FM radio reported.
Since December last year, security forces have been tracking an gang thought to be linked to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in the Chaambi area.
The group is linked to Tunisia's main Salafist movement, Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Tunisia and Yemen, with the Tunisian version currently most active... , which has been accused of liasing with al-Qaeda and murdering politicians Chokri Belaid and Mohammed Brahmi this year.
Ansar al-Sharia's leader, Saif Allah Bin Hussein, a former al-Qaeda fighter in Afghanistan known as Abu Iyadh, is accused of orchestrating a deadly attack on the U.S. embassy in Tunis last September and has been on the run ever since.
He is thought to be holed up in the Chaambi area where some 15 soldiers have been killed in jihadist shootings or bombings in recent months.
This article starring:
ABU IYADH
Ansar al-Sharia
MURAD GHARSALLI
Ansar al-Sharia
SAIF ALLAH BIN HUSEIN
Ansar al-Sharia
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[NBC] An Orange County man who had fought with Syrian rebels against the Assad regime was enjugged Please don't kill me! Friday morning as he tried to leave the U.S. with a fake passport to fight for al Qaeda against U.S. soldiers overseas, said authorities.
Twenty-four-year-old Sinh Vinh Ngo Nguyen of Garden Grove, also known as Hasan Abu Omar Ghannoum, was stopped at a bus station in Santa Ana, Calif. at 7:30 a.m. by members of the Los Angeles Joint Terrorism Task Force and arrested on suspicion of providing material support to al Qaeda.
According to a grand jury indictment, Nguyen, a U.S. citizen, lied about his name, his date of birth, and his place of birth on a passport application in August, and also falsely answered no when asked if he'd ever applied for a passport previously.
Nguyen is charged with one count of making false statements to obtain a passport and one count of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.
According to law enforcement officials, Nguyen traveled to Syria last year to fight with rebels against the Assad regime. When he returned, he allegedly expressed a desire to go to Pakistain and join up with al Qaeda. He allegedly met someone he thought could help him, but that person turned out to be working undercover for the U.S.
Federal officials said Nguyen told the person helping him that he wanted to go overseas, fake his own death and get a new identity so he join al Qaeda and fight against U.S. soldiers. He allegedly gave the person photos, got a new fake passport, and was arrested when he tried to use that passport to leave the country.
Nguyen pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana on Friday afternoon. If convicted on both counts, he faces up to 40 years in federal prison.
At the courthouse, his mother, Hieu Nguyen, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that he had converted to Islam in the past year.
Last year, four Riverside County, Calif. men -- Sohiel Omar Kabir, Arifeen David Gojali, Ralph Kenneth Deleon and Miguel Santana Vidriales -- were charged by federal prosecutors in connection with a purported plot to join al Qaeda and the Taliban to carry out "violent jihad" against American soldiers and military bases in Afghanistan.
Full operational control of South Korean troops should not be handed over to Seoul in haste and out of political considerations, a U.S. academic says. Michael O'Hanlon, a fellow at the conservative Brookings Institution,
Conservative?
made the recommendation in an article titled "Don't Rush the U.S.-Korea Command Change" on Tuesday.
"In Korea, our preeminent concerns need to be unity of command and effectiveness of our combined deterrent against a still very potent North Korean threat," he said. "Ensuring fair burden-sharing is not the principal prism through which this issue should be viewed."
The original decision was a political one, because then-President Roh Moo-hyun was "playing the nationalism card,' O'Hanlon said, and "found a willing accomplice for the transfer plan in U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who wanted a more expeditionary American global footprint and felt that U.S. forces in Korea were too anchored to the peninsula."
As usual, Mr. Rumsfeld had a good take on the problem...
But he added the current "command arrangements are a remarkable testament to allied effort over the decades If it is to be changed, that should happen carefully and as slowly as military leaders on both sides think prudent."
I think he's arguing for a glacial time scale, or maybe even geological...
He cited the "tragic failed hostage rescue attempt in Iran in 1980" and "roughly a quarter of all American fatalities" from friendly fire in Iraq in 1991 as examples of a "failure of unified command" and poorly coordinated military operations.
"Command structures that are bifurcated or otherwise ambiguous in certain ways can raise the risk of such tragedies in the future," he added.
Easy. Put the South Koreans in charge of defending their country. We can leave air units there to help. But let the ROK bear the burden. That will unify the command in a hurry.
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OR we can buy off the little fat bastard with a boatload of expensive Whiskey and perfume.
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IMO read, POSSIBLE CHINA-VS-JAPAN/PHIL/ASEAN/
INDIA IN VERY NEAR FUTURE.
Lest we fergit, BENCHMARK YEAR 2018 ...
> 1990'S SINO-RUSSIAN "WAR AGZ THE US IS NOT ONLY POSSIBLE BUT DESIRED".
Russia = perhaps as early as 2016-2017 NLT 2022
China = perhaps as early as 2014, i.e. FYI AKA THIS YEAR???
> US GMD-TMD set up among Amer's East Asian allies, espec in NE Asia.
> US' ALLIES EXPRESS DESIRE TO DEV OR ACQUIRE THEIR OWN NUKES ["China fears"].
> POTUS OBAMA = Perts, MSM-Net-labeled "WEAKEST US PRESIDENT SINCE JIMMY CARTER", OR "WORSE THAN CARTER".
POTUS OBAMA "DOING A SYRIA" IN EAST ASIA = CHINA WINS, LIKE IRAN + SYRIA'S BABY ASSAD???
[An Nahar] A Venezuelan radio journalist was enjugged Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! by police detectives on the air just minutes after complaining to listeners that they drive around in luxury cars and wear flashy jewelry, the man's son said Friday.
Victor Hugo Donaire, 50, remained in jail Friday, a day after four officers of the national investigative police interrupted his morning show at Radio Los Morros in the Guarico state capital of San Juan.
He was being held on charges of resisting arrest and mistreating a public official, said his son, Danny Donaire, the station's vice president.
He said the officers manhandled station employees, confiscating the cellphone of its administrator so she could not take photos.
Audio of the scuffle was broadcast by various Venezuelan news media.
"We're really upset and worried," said Danny Donaire. "They didn't have a warrant." He said attorneys for his father were at the local jail on Friday trying to secure his release.
The agents who arrested Victor Hugo Donaire were from Venezuela's largest police agency, the Scientific, Penal and Criminalistic Investigations Corps.
The News Agency that Dare Not be Named called the local offices of the corps, where a detective said all inquiries were being handled by prosecutors, who could not immediately be reached.
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[MAGHAREBIA] Tunisian women's rights activists on Thursday (October 10th) staged a protest in front of the city hall in Sfax to denounce "sex jihad", Shems FM reported.
The head of the local office of the Association of Democratic Women, Najoua Baccar, said that the women involved in "jihad annikah" were victims of extremists. The women's rights advocate called on the Tunisian government to assume full responsibility for the tragedy.
For months, media reports have circulated about young women from Tunisia and other Maghreb countries that were recruited to provide companionship to jihadist fighters in Syria.
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I could sit here all day and watch Moslems whack each other with rubber bats like Punch and Judy, couldn't you?
With every steel box with a handle on it for easy carrying to the Front full of 800 rounds each we throw in for you as an added bonus..... these very fine imported French Ticklers...in a range of colors. See this one has a roosters head on it and this one looks like Hussein's nose.
[Dawn] After the expiry of immunity to former President Asif Ali Ten Percent Zardari ... husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, who has been singularly lacking in curiosity about who done her in ... , an accountability court on Friday initiated proceedings against him in six corruption references.
The court issued notices to the prosecutor general of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) as well as the former president. Mr Zardari's five-year-tenure as the president ended on September 8.
Accountability judge Mohammad Bashir summoned the NAB prosecutor on October 14. The notice will be served on Mr Zardari through the NAB prosecution.
According to a court official, the accountability court initiated the proceedings against Mr Zardari in compliance to the Supreme Court judgment passed in the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) case in December 2009.
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[An Nahar] Anti-riot police in Bahrain used buckshot, sound grenades and tear gas on Saturday to disperse hundreds of Shiite protesters trying to march on an iconic square in Manama, witnesses said.
The demonstrators were trying to reach Pearl Square, the focus of Shiite-led protests in 2011, after the funeral of a Shiite detainee who died in hospital in the capital on Friday.
The witnesses said several protesters were maimed when the security forces intervened, although they were unable to give a specific number.
Demonstrators rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud against the authorities in the Sunni-ruled kingdom, which has a Shiite majority.
Pearl Square was the epicenter of the 2011 Arab-Spring-inspired protests against the ruling Al-Khalifa dynasty.
Bahraini Shiites continue to demonstrate in villages outside the capital and frequently clash with police.
In August, King Hamad ...King of Bahrain (since 14 February 2002), having previously been its emir (from 6 March 1999). He is a Sunni, while the rest of Bahrain is predominantly Shiite... decreed stiffer penalties for "terror acts".
These include a minimum 10-year jail term for an attempted bombing. If such attacks cause casualties, the sentence can be life imprisonment or the death penalty.
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their Iranian handlers will not be pleased they dispersed
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[An Nahar] Clashes between jihadists and mainstream rebels in Syria's second city Aleppo have killed nearly 50 people in three days, a watchdog said Saturday, adding that the jihadists made several gains.
A recent surge in fighting among Syria's rebels has cast further doubt on the already slim prospects for a negotiated settlement between the rebels and Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... 's regime.
The report of battles between groups that share the aim of ousting Assad came as mortar fire in Damascus claimed the lives of four civilians.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britannia-based monitoring group that relies on a network of activists across the war-torn country, said the inter-rebel fighting in Aleppo erupted on Thursday.
It pitted snuffies of the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) against a battalion linked to the Arab- and Western-backed Free Syrian Army.
"At least 30 fighters from the (FSA's) Ababil Brigade and 14 from ISIL have been killed in combat, and that toll could rise further," the Observatory's Rami Abdel Rahman told Agence La Belle France Presse.
He said the festivities rocked several districts of Syria's former commercial hub, and that ISIL, which expounds an extreme form of Islam, made gains in three sectors.
The ISIL snuffies have now consolidated their presence in Aleppo, which has been more or less split into a rebel-held east and pro-regime west since July last year.
Although both claim the ouster of Assad as a common aim, jihadists and the mainstream rebels have come to blows many times in recent months.
Across northern and eastern Syria, ISIL has set up checkpoints on roads to border crossings and opened new fronts to try to crush other groups fighting to oust the embattled president.
The Syrian civil war has drawn in fighters from across the Arab world and beyond since it flared in response to a bloody government crackdown on democracy protests in March 2011.
The Observatory estimates that at least 115,000 people have been killed since then, mostly civilians.
The United States and Russia hope to convene a peace conference next month, but their efforts have been complicated by growing rifts within the Syrian opposition.
The intensifying festivities among rebel groups on the ground come after 13 rebel brigades last month rejected the authority of the National Coalition, the opposition's most prominent political institution.
It said at least four civilians including a child were killed on Saturday when mortar rounds slammed into central Damascus and a suburb of the capital.
At least three people died when several rounds hit Jaramana, a mainly Christian suburb that is considered pro-regime.
And an eight-year-old girl was killed and 11 others were maimed in rebel mortar fire on the Abu Rummaneh district, state news agency SANA reported.
The Observatory said the girl was in a car when she was hit.
Rebels have increasingly targeted central districts of Damascus with mortar fire from rear bases on the outskirts of the city.
On Wednesday, two mortar rounds hit the central bank in Sabaa Bahrat Square, and a week earlier a mortar round hit the Iraqi consulate, killing a woman.
Elsewhere, government forces dropped "barrel bombs" on the strategic town of Sfeireh, near Aleppo, the Observatory said.
The town is largely controlled by jihadists and is near a military site believed to hold some of the regime's arsenal of chemical weapons.
"The regime wants to retake Sfeireh because it wants to take the inspectors to the site," Abdel Rahman told AFP.
"At the moment, they can't, because the road and the area are very dangerous," he said, adding that an exodus of civilians was under way.
Two teams of inspectors are in Damascus verifying and destroying Syria's chemical weapons arsenal under the terms of a U.N. resolution, a dangerous task requiring them to operate in a war zone.
Underlining the dangers also faced by foreign journalists covering the conflict, a Russian photographer has been kidnapped by rebels who accuse him of being a spy, the Russian foreign ministry said.
Spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said Konstantin Zhuravlev, 32, was seized in Aleppo and was being held by the Islamist Liwa al-Tawhid group.
La Belle France this week identified two more journalists kidnapped in Syria, bringing to at least four the number of its nationals held in what has become the most dangerous place on the planet for media workers.
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Phil Griffin, president of MSNBC, says there's something fishy about Tuesday's ratings for the Fox News Channel, which were up significantly from a day earlier when Fox News debuted its new schedule. And he wants an investigation. Fishy? Yes! Like rotten fish you suck! He should have cheese and crackers to go with his whine...
"Monday we had a really good day with our three viewers On the night that Fox News debuted their three shows, we either tied or beat them in those hours," Griffin said at a briefing, according to TVNewser.
"Tuesday -- you guys should call the waahmbulance ; I have never seen it in all my years of cable -- same overnight, same everything. And they doubled their ratings in a day? It is impossible." Griffin continued, "I have never seen it. They did election-night numbers in the demo Tuesday." Very revealing: Election night numbers
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MSNBC has too much time on its hands, try some real investigative journalism and maybe your ratings will go up... I suggest a few like ... voter fraud, sasquatch, birth records...
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Take note, this is part of the Left's mind, a total incomprehension that somebody, anybody could have a belief system other than their own. It will never enter their minds that maybe their numbers are the artificially manipulated ones.
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IRS, Fast & Furious, IRS... lots of investigations are needed but to wonder why a hot news girl our rated Rick Maddow does not require Nancy Drew or Sherlock Holmes to solve.
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FTA: At 9 p.m. on Monday, MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show beat Fox News' new The Kelly File, hosted by Megyn Kelly, by a slim 10,000 viewers in the key demo.
So it was a pretty small value of 'beat'. How to explain the Tuesday bump in numbers? Consider:
1) Monday is sports night, which will suck viewers away.
2) The Fox shows debuted Monday, so they probably benefited on Tuesday from some water-cooler buzz.
3) No comment on the appeal Rachel Madow's boyish good looks (heh!) vs Megyn Kelly's hotness, or the actual content of either station
[Dawn] Pakistain's army chief said Saturday that although the military supports peace talks, it is capable of effectively using force against anti-state Talibs as "a last resort."
"The national leadership has decided to give dialogue a chance to deal with the issue of terrorism and Pakistain army fully supports this process," Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani ... four star general, current Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army. Kayani is the former Director General of ISI... said while addressing a passing out parade of cadets at the Pakistain Military Academy in Kakul.
"The nation and the politicianship have to determine the parameters for holding such a dialogue... this process should bring unity among the nation instead of leading to a division," he said.
For this, the army chief stressed, it was imperative that the process of negotiation is pursued under and in accordance with the Constitution of Pakistain.
"The military will be more than happy if a solution to the problem is found through dialogue," he said, adding that the use of force would be the last option.
Kayani, who is retiring from his post next month at the end of a second tenure as army chief, dismissed speculations that the failure of counter-insurgency operations forced the military to go for dialogue.
"This is far from being a truth," he said, pointing to the successful 2009 military operations in the northwestern town of Swat, which was cleansed of bully boyz within four months.
During the televised address, the general said it was essential to find a solution to terrorism which he described as negating the basic ideology of the nation and the teachings of Islam.
At an All-Parties Conference (APC) last month, Pakistain's main political parties backed a government proposal to seek negotiations with the bad boys, who have been waging a bloody insurgency against the state since 2007.
But the umbrella Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), a loose coalition of bad boy groups led by Hakimullah Mehsud since 2009, responded with a list of preconditions.
These included a government ceasefire, withdrawal of troops from the tribal areas along the Afghan border where the forces of Evil have hideouts, and an end to US drone strikes.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... Thursday said his government was sincere about holding peace talks with the Taliban, after TTP chief Mehsud complained that no serious steps had been taken to open a dialogue.
Speaking after a security meeting in the troubled northwestern city of 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. , Sharif said progress was being made on the issue of opening negotiations.
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[Dawn] The will of the people will never be overruled again in the country, said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... on Saturday.
He was referring to the October 12, 1999 coup, when the then army chief General (retd) Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... overthrew a democratically elected government.
The PM said that Pakistain's future lies in democracy, adding that an elected parliament, independent judiciary and vibrant media is there to guard the freedom and liberties of the people.
"Insha Allah (God willing) we the chosen representatives of people, will strive hard to strengthen democracy, and to establish rule of law," he added.
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This Morning Veterans Remove Barricades and Deliver Them To The White House For "Presidential Inspection".
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For the Canadian airborne battalion the objective was the downstream bridge over the Dives. By 0200 Sgt. John Kemp had his squad gathered but did not know where he was. His mission was to provide protection for a team of sappers who were to blow Robehomme Bridge.
Of all thins, in the dark of the nightm Kemp heard a bicycle bell ringing. The rider turned out to be a French girl who had probably been out cutting telephone wires, as was being done all over Normandy (the BBC had hours earlier broadcast two code phrases to the French Resistance that was a sign the invasion was beginning), adding to the German communication woes. French-speaking Canadians talked to her; she agreed to lead them to the bridge they wanted; off they set. But she led them to a German headquarters and demanded hat they assault it. Kemp refused; his job was to blow the bridge (to prevent German Panzer divisions from counter-attacking the landing), not rouse the Germans. Reluctantly she led on. When they arrived at Robehomme Bridge, Kemp checked and foudn the bridge unguarded. He posted sentries at each end and sat to wait for sappers to come up with explosives.
The girl was indignant, "Are you going to do nothing?" she asked. She had taken great risks bringing them here. "Are you going to just sit there?"
Fortunately, the sappers came up, the bridge was blown, and the girl was satisfied.
[Ynet] Turkey has imposed financial sanctions on some 350 people and dozens of organizations that have been blacklisted by the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... Security Council for alleged links to al-Qaeda or the Taliban.
The move, made public late Thursday, would freeze any assets those individuals or groups may have in Turkey.
[An Nahar] Divers on Saturday found an additional 20 bodies off the Italian island of Lampedusa, Italian media reported, bringing the still provisional corpse count from an October 3 shipwreck to 359.
Only 155 of the about 545 migrants aboard the vessel, mainly from Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... , survived the disaster, the worst immigration tragedy for Italia in more than a decade.
An Italian military ship, the Cassiopea, arrived Saturday at Lampedusa, Italia's southernmost island, to pick up 339 coffins bearing the first batch of victims, to transport them to Porto Empedocle, Sicily.
The coffins were loaded using a crane in a lengthy operation beginning in the early afternoon.
About 100 of the victims may be buried at the cemetery of the southern Sicilian city of Agrigento, and the others in nearby towns, the Italian news agency ANSA reported.
Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta said Wednesday that a state funeral would be held for the victims, but did not announce a date.
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Down in the MinTruth memory hole are the stories of Haitians experiencing the same. Was enough with the influx into Florida and the all important upcoming election cycle for Billy Clinton to invade liberate Haiti from its Detroit style cabal.
[Al Ahram] Major General Abdel Nasser El-Azb, the Third Field Army chief of staff, announced on Thursday that security forces have placed in durance vile Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! five gunnies involved in the bombing of the South Sinai Security Directorate.
On Monday, the South Sinai Security Directorate in Al-Tor was bombed by suspected Death Eaters, killing three conscripts and injuring 62 others.
Members of the Death Eater cell involved in the attack were arrested after attempting to assassinate Third Field Army commander Major General Siyad Abdel Karim on Wednesday.
On Wednesday, Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis, a Sinai-based Death Eater group, released an online statement claiming responsibility for Monday's attack against the southern Sinai security headquarters.
The group has previously grabbed credit for several Death Eater attacks, including the bomb that targeted the interior minister's motorcade on 5 September.
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[An Nahar] 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... and U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... said Saturday that talks on the future of U.S. forces in Afghanistan were stuck on the key issue of U.S. troop immunity. Coincidentally the same thing that stopped continued deployment in Iraq...
Kerry extended his stay in Kabul to try to thrash out a long-delayed security pact that would allow between 5,000 and 10,000 U.S. troops to remain in Afghanistan after 2014 to fight al-Qaeda remnants and train the national army.
But he said that a major sticking point in efforts to sign the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) was the issue of which country would try any U.S. soldiers deployed in Afghanistan.
"One issue that is outstanding (is) the issue of jurisdiction," he said, rejecting the widely-used term "immunity" because accused U.S. troops would still stand trial in America.
"We need to say that if the issue cannot be resolved, unfortunately there cannot be a bilateral security agreement."
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Yep, killed the Iraq deployment too. Notice the prosperity in Germany, Japan, and South Korea that signed such an agreement (SOFA - Status of Forces Agreement).
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I dunno about Iraq. I wonder if some of the kabooms are being over-played. It's a country over 30 million people and AQIM certainly isn't operating in the Shi'a and Kurdish areas. I don't think Iraq will fall apart, but it might still become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Iran...
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London firefighters have launched a public shaming campaign to stem the rise of locals summoning urgent help to remove foreign objects stuck on -- or inside -- their bodies, but the kinky topic is so taboo in America some top U.S. emergency workers won't discuss the behavior.
Except in Los Angeles.
L.A. Fire Department medical director Dr. Marc Eckstein acknowledges that 911 operators do receive a small number of sexually bizarre rescue pleas and do dispatch ambulances, including instances in which they must assist men with heavy steel rings lodged around their private parts.
In some of those scattered cases, Eckstein said, the firefighters, paramedics or emergency medical technicians use bolt cutters or, when necessary, the blazing torch of a plasma cutter to burn the rings off of the men's penises.
"They have to be careful because the plasma cutters cause a lot of heat and sparks," Eckstein said, adding he could not provide statistics on the number of such calls. He did emphasize, however, that the L.A. Fire Department receives high a number of other types of "inappropriate" 911 calls from local residents that tie up ambulances, fire trucks and personnel -- resources that could otherwise be used for people in actual medical trouble.
When contacted for comment, officials at other emergency agencies struggled to answer if -- as in London -- they have marked an uptick in the rate of 911 calls or ER visits from Americans with foreign objects wedged into their rectums or folks with sensitive body parts jammed into kitchen appliances or other embarrassing orifices.
"Is that a huge problem over in the U.K. with people sticking things where they don't belong?" asked Frank Dwyer, a spokesman for the New York Fire Department. "I don't have any statistics to that kind of claim or inquiry in New York City. I've got nothing to offer you, man."
A spokeswoman for the National Association of EMS Physicians simply responded to the query with: "I'm just not sure where to go with this."
But in London, fire officials aren't holding their tongues about how they must perform tasks like freeing a man's penis from a vacuum cleaner.
The London Fire Brigade has launched a public campaign dubbed "Fifty Shades of Red," theorizing that an increase in such randy rescue calls in that city is perhaps propelled by the popularity of the erotic romance novel "Fifty Shades of Grey."
The campaign simply urges people in London -- especially guys -- to exercise more common sense before inserting their manhood into gadgets made for cooking or cleaning. The brigade reports that it responded to 416 stuck-body-part calls in 2010-11, another 441 in 2011-12 and 453 in 2012-13. Among those emergency requests for assistance, 79 people were wearing handcuffs they could not remove.
To help fuel the agency's gentle request to just stop doing these things, the brigade has added a dose of public shaming, often taking to Twitter to share some of these ambulance requests from people who have become oddly entangled.
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Jeez, a woman's a freak unless she's got a shelf-foot of Betty Dodson and a "Femme Nikita" secret closet of antique eggbeaters and whatnot, but let a dude flirt with a crawfish hole or cozy up in a dark booth with a vacuum cleaner and they go all Fahrenheit 451 on him. This is equity?
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A emergency physician friend of mine tells of his 'trophy board' in the physician's lounge that proudly displays items removed from, shall we say, the more adventurous of our brothers and sisters.
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I've been hearing these stories from paramedics and emergency room workers since I was a teen. Nothing new here... just more willing to talk about it.
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This being a family site, I won't go into the details of a call (when I was in the rescue squad) involving a woman and a hand mixer ....
(Think below the belt; nothing inserted)
Eeewwwwwwwwww.
*snork* :-D
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Then there was the guy in the no-tell motel who had a running vibrator stuck in a certain oriface (if you put your ear real close - ewwwwww - you could hear it).
And no, EMTs don't remove something like that - the doctors at the ER had that "pleasure."
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[Dawn] A former union councillor associated with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... , who was wanted in more than half a dozen murder cases, was bumped off in Orangi Town on Friday, police said.
Officials added that Waqar Ahmed, 52, had just come to his shop after offering Zuhr prayers in Banaras when two gunnies riding a cycle of violence fired at him and fled.
He sustained multiple gunshot wounds and was rushed to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where doctors declared him dead. He's dead, Jim!
"The dear departed was a former union councillor and nine murder cases were lodged against him at different cop shoppes between 1987 and 2000," said Orangi SP Chaudary Asad Ali. He said the police seized four spent bullet casings fired from 9mm pistol from the crime-scene.
'Bandit' maimed in encounter
A suspected robber was maimed in an encounter with the police on Mauripur Road on Friday.
Police said some gunnies were allegedly looting people on Mauripur Road when a police patrol reached there and challenged them. In an ensuing encounter, one suspect, identified as Gulsher Ismail, 25, was placed in durance vile Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! in maimed condition while his accomplice fled.
Five mobile phones and one pistol were recovered from his possession.The maimed was shifted to the Civil Hospital 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... where doctors said his condition was serious.
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[LOMPOCRECORD] Two mortar shells hit Syria's capital Saturday near a hotel where international chemical weapons inspectors and United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... staff are staying, state media and a hotel guest said.
In the north, festivities between rival rebel factions left nearly 50 gunnies dead in three days of fighting for control of neighborhoods in the city of Aleppo, an activist group said.
An 8-year-old girl was killed and 11 people were hurt in the blasts in the upscale Abu Roumaneh area of Damascus, the SANA news agency said. One shell fell near a school and the other on the roof of a building.
The girl was in her family car near the school when she was killed, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britannia-based activist group monitoring the fighting.
The blasts damaged several cars and shattered nearby windows. One resident was seen sweeping debris on a sidewalk, near where twisted metal pieces from the wreckage had been heaped in a small pile.
The blasts struck some 300 meters (1,000 feet) away from the Four Seasons Hotel where the chemical weapons inspectors and U.N. staff are staying. A U.N. employee staying there said it did not appear that the hotel was affected by the twin kabooms. The hotel remained open after the blasts, he said, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... because he was not authorized to speak to news hounds.
He said he heard the first kaboom at about 11:15 a.m., followed by a second. Thick smoke rose from the area and ambulance sirens sounded shortly afterward.
Syrian rebels routinely fire mortar shells from the outskirts of Damascus at city neighborhoods controlled by forces loyal to Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Despoiler of Deraa... . Last week, a similar attack reportedly killed eight people.
Inspectors from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and U.N. staff have been in Syria for the past two weeks to destroy the country's chemical weapons stockpile. The watchdog agency working to eliminate chemical weapons around the world won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a powerful endorsement of its Syria mission.
The OPCW inspectors have so far visited three sites linked to Syria's chemical weapons program, though the agency has not provided details. On Saturday, before the mortar attack, a convoy of U.N. cars left the Four Seasons, but its destination was not known.
The inspectors' mission in Syria is unprecedented because of a tight timetable _ they are to get the job done by mid-2014 _ and because they are operating in the midst of a civil war.
They are to inspect more than 20 sites, some close to front lines crisscrossing the country.
Earlier this week, Syrian warplanes twice bombed the rebel-held town of Safira, just a few kilometers (miles) from a large military complex believed to house an underground chemical weapons production facility.
Another mortar attack Saturday in the regime-held Damascus suburb of Jaramana left two people dead and several others maimed, according to the Observatory.
SANA said that the Ministry of Social Affairs and the Syrian Arab Red Islamic Thingy evacuated Saturday nearly 2,000 women and kiddies from the rebel-held Damascus suburb of Moadamiyeh where people have complained about lack of food. SANA gave no further details.
The Syrian conflict erupted in March 2011 as a popular uprising against Assad that quickly escalated into civil war. More than 100,000 people have been killed since then and millions of Syrians have been displaced.
In the northern city of Aleppo, Syria's largest, 44 fighters were killed in three days of festivities between al-Qaeda's Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and a rival group formerly known as Ghurabaa al-Sham. The Observatory said 14 of the dead belonged to ISIL, which was able to control three neighborhoods in Aleppo.
Rebel groups have become increasingly fractured, with Islamic bully boys, including those linked to al-Qaeda, assuming prominent roles in battle.
In an audio message Friday, the leader of al-Qaeda urged jihadis in Syria to unite, an appeal likely aimed at rival affiliates of his terror network operating in the country.
Ayman al-Zawahri said fighters must "rise above organizational loyalties and party partisanship" and unite behind the goal of setting up an Islamic state. He suggested he will not impose unity, saying that "what you agree upon will also be our choice."
Two al-Qaeda-linked groups have emerged _ Jabhat al-Nusra and ISIL. The first is commanded by a Syrian, the second by an Iraqi, but both are believed to be loyal to al-Zawahri.
Al-Zawahri also urged Syrian regime opponents not to cut deals with Westerns and secular groups.
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[An Nahar] A few dozen Moroccans staged a symbolic "kiss-in" Saturday in support of three teenagers locked away Please don't kill me! for posting pictures on Facebook of two of them smooching.
Only around a dozen couples actually locked lips in the gathering outside parliament, but the demonstrators insisted they had defended the right to public displays of affection in Morocco's conservative society.
The kissing case has sparked uproar online, with netizens protesting against what they see as creeping conservatism in the Moslem country long known for being relatively liberal and tolerant.
More than 2,000 people had indicated they would take part in Saturday's "kiss-in" but the vast majority failed to show, indicating a gulf between online activism and actual on-the-street protests.
The demonstrators gathered outside parliament for "a symbolic kiss of love", one participant, Nizar Benamate, told Agence La Belle France Presse after the display before a group of onlookers and news hounds.
"For us, the message got through. It was a success. There were couples and single people, and the couples were not embarrassed in public," said Ibtissam Lachgar, one of the organizers.
"Our message is that they are defending love, the freedom to love and kiss freely," she said.
A small group of counter-protesters shoved some of the couples and threw chairs.
"We are an Islamic country and kissing in public is forbidden. A simple kiss can lead to other things. These are atheists who are acting against Islam," one of them said.
After the brief scuffle the two groups dispersed peacefully.
The couple at the heart of the case, a boy and a girl aged 15 and 14, and their 15-year-old male friend who took the photos outside their school in the northern town of Nador, were arrested last week, charged with "violating public decency" and held in a juvenile center.
The case lit up social media, with several young people posting similar kissing pictures on Facebook and Twitter and calling for "kiss-ins" in an online rebellion against conservatives.
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Ah the knowledge that there is progress in the Mooselim world....
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[Dawn] SHE didn't win the Nobel peace prize -- this year -- but she has won the world's admiration and respect. The gracefulness, poise and compassion of a 16-year-old girl who would rather campaign for every child's right to education than against the Taliban who shot her in the face have been something truly remarkable to behold. That Malala was never your average schoolgirl has been evident for years; what the world has discovered in recent days is that she has grown into a truly extraordinary young woman. There is much sadness and despair in the reality of the circumstances that forced Malala into campaigning for the right to education and that have carried her to global fame. But Pakistain's most famous young citizen has also demonstrated the kinder though no less resolute side of her country: Malala is focused on improving the human condition rather than lamenting its inadequacies.
To truly honour Malala and the millions of other schoolchildren she speaks for, Pakistain can attempt to translate her dream of universal education into reality. Whether it is school enrolment or the quality of education or infrastructure of the public school system, Pakistain consistently ranks near the bottom internationally -- and even by regional standards, performs poorly. Fixing the broken education system here is not just about throwing more money at the problem -- though surely the federal and provincial governments need to create the fiscal space to spend more on education and health. Every government comes in promising to improve the education sector, but none has left a significantly improved one as its legacy. The twin, and very familiar, problems of capacity and will appear to be the greatest impediments: the expertise to draft a realistic revival plan at the provincial level is missing as is the political and administrative will to stay focused on the issue of education.
Of course, there is also the very real problem of the radical mindset that opposes modernity and what the majority of the population would regard as the basic tenets of a good education. Malala's mature and convincing voice has largely drowned out the howls of anger from the Taliban fringe in recent days, but for a still-too-large number of Pak children, especially girls, extreme conservatism and violent radicalism are crucial factors in denying them an education. Malala has shown what a single -- though powerful and unique -- voice can do to help change perceptions. Many more will have to add their voices to hers if the constitutional right to education is to become meaningful for all children.
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Well....She's no Barrack Hussein, that's for damned sure.
[Dawn] A suspected terrorist, Adnan Adil, has confessed to assisting his two accomplices in murdering former minister for minorities Shahbaz Bhati in 2011, sources close to the Joint Investigation Team probing the incident told Dawn on Friday.
They said that a report, submitted to a police brass hat, stated that Adnan Adil was taken into custody by Industrial Area police on October 4 to interrogate him in connection with the killing of the minister.
During interrogation the alleged terrorist said that in late February or early March 2011, his friend Tanveer called him and asked to come to a mosque in Sector I-8.
According to the police Tanveer, a native of Mandi Bahauddin, was operating Al-Qaeda wing in Punjab.
When he reached the mosque, he found Tanveer sitting there, Adil told the JIT, adding that he (Tanveer) asked him "I have to kill Shahbaz Bhatti" because he talked against the blasphemy law, the report said.
Next day, Adil reached I-8 Markaz where Tanveer along with Mohmmad Abdullah Omer and Abdul Sattar came in a white Mehran.
"I embarked in the car and found two Kalashnikovs in a bag", the JIT quoted Tanveer as saying.
Later the minister appeared in his car without any security squad, but Tanveer postponed the liquidation plan.
They again gathered in front of Bhatti's house next day and when he came out of his house at 8:30am, Adil started driving the Mehran and later intercepted the minister's vehicle and Tanveer murdered him, the report added.
According to the JIT report the time of liquidation was 8:30am confessed by the alleged terrorist, the sources said, adding, but the time of killing mentioned in the FIR (First Information Report) was 10:55am.
On March 2 Federal Minorities' Minister Shahbaz Bhatti was assassinated in an ambush in broad day light.
Earlier, the police said that the minister in his official black Toyota Corolla driven by his private driver came out of his mother's house located in Sector I-8/3 and was heading towards his office-cum-residence, located in I-8/4.
A white Mehran intercepted the Corolla some meters away from the house near the Tipu Sultan Road in front of Public Park at around 10:55am. However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... the alleged terrorist confessed that they intercepted the minister when he came out of his house.
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[Al Ahram] A 5.1 magnitude earthquake struck southwest Pakistain Saturday, meteorological officials said, with tremors felt in some of the areas ravaged by a deadly quake last month.
The earthquake struck at a depth of 10 kilometres (six miles), and its epicentre was 80 kilometres (50 miles) southwest of Khuzdar in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... province, senior meteorologist Tauseef Alam said.
Another meteorlogist, Shahid Mehmood, said that the tremors were felt in Khuzdar, and towns in Awaran and Kharan.
No loss of life or property was immediately reported.
The 7.7 magnitude earthquake last month devastated several areas, including Awaran. It killed at least 376 people and left some 100,000 others homeless.
The population of Awaran is scattered over more than 21,000 square kilometres (8,000 square miles) of remote and rugged terrain. Infrastructure is extremely limited, with few medical facilities or even roads.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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