United States Military Academy graduate 2nd Lt. Emily Perez (`05), who made the ultimate sacrifice when she was killed in action Sept. 12, 2006, was honored by the National Collegiate Athletic Association when she posthumously received the Award of Valor during the NCAA Annual Convention.
Perez was much more than a standout on the track and field team at Army. She was a Brigade Command Sergeant Major, the second highest rank in her senior class, was active in the schools gospel choir, helped her fellow students as a tutor, set track records and was the driving force behind a dance squad for football and basketball games.
During the Honors Celebration portion of the Convention Sunday afternoon, the family of Perez was presented with the Award of Valor. The NCAA Award of Valor may be presented to a coach or administrator currently associated with intercollegiate athletics, or to a current or former varsity letter-winner at an NCAA institution who, when confronted with a situation involving personal danger, averted or minimized potential disaster by courageous action or noteworthy bravery. For a member of the armed forces confronted with a duty-connected situation to be eligible for the Award of Valor, the action must be clearly above and beyond the call of duty and so recognized by the appropriate military command.
Perez, who branched Medical Services Corps, was killed during Operation Iraqi Freedom when a makeshift bomb exploded near her Humvee during combat operations as she led her platoon in a convoy. She was serving with the 204th Support Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 4th Infantry Division out of Fort Hood, Texas, and was laid to rest at West Point Cemetery.
"People often say only good things about someone after they've died, but none of this is hyperbole," Morten Ender, her faculty advisor in the Sociology Program at West Point told Time magazine. "Emily was amazing."
Perez had her sights on attending the U.S. Military Academy, according to Army track and field coach Jerry Quiller.
She called us and might have been our easiest recruit, said Quiller. She was coming to West Point and wanted to meet the coaches and see about competing for the team. We looked up some of her records and talked to her coaches and were quite impressed.
Perez was named to the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll her first year, the first of many academic honors. She was also won the 200-meter dash at the Post Penn Relays in her first season running collegiate track. She finished fourth at the Patriot League Championships in the 60-meter dash as a junior.
She was a gung-ho leader who was very excited about the opportunity to serve her country, Quiller said. She worked her way up the ladder through the Cadet Change of Command and loved it. When she was chosen as Brigade Command Sergeant Major, we worried she might not be so interested in track. She looked at it as another challenge and something else to challenge herself with and was very successful in both roles.
Quiller knew he had a strong team Perezs senior year but he needed another athlete to compete in the triple jump. It was no surprise to Quiller that Perez volunteered for the new event and succeeded. Despite her limited experience in the event, she finished second at the league championships with a leap of 38-feet, Πinches. She also ran on the winning 4x100 relay team, earned a bronze in the 100-meter dash and was sixth in the 200 meters.
A one-hour broadcast of the Honors Celebration is scheduled to air February 2 at noon on ESPN.
At least three gunmen launched a brazen attack on the main luxury hotel in Kabul, leaving a hotel guard and one of the rebels dead, the NATO force in Afghanistan said Monday. The hardline Taliban movement said its men, including a suicide bomber, carried out the attack on the Kabul Serena, a five-star hotel frequented by foreigners.
Norwegian media reporting from Kabul said Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere was in the hotel at the time of the attack but was safe and sheltering in the basement. "Three people attacked the hotel. They were apparently on foot," said a spokesman for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, Captain Mario Renna. "One has been killed by guards of the hotel but two others managed to get inside and they managed to kill one guard and wound two others, one of them seriously."
He did not say what had caused the blast or who may have carried out the attack. He also had no details on the fate of the other two attackers.
"I can say no more!"
A loud explosion was heard across the city and a Kabul Serena employee said there had been a bomb blast in the parking lot. However, Afghan officials could not immediately give details.
A spokesman for the Taliban, Zabihullah Mujahed, said the insurgent group was responsible. "Four members of the Taliban, one of them wearing a suicide vest and all armed with Kalashnikovs, entered the Serena hotel and opened fire on foreigners," Mujahed told AFP. "One of them boomed exploded himself," he said.
The Afghan interior ministry confirmed there had been an explosion. "We don't know what it was at this stage," spokesman Zemarai Bashary told AFP.
Hotel management contacted by AFP would not immediately comment.
The main road running outside the five-star establishment, which is opposite the presidential palace, was sealed off and police and international military vehicles arrived at the scene, an AFP reporter said. Two ambulances were allowed through the hotel gate but pushynosy reporters were kept away.
The Serena, opened in November 2005, is the main venue for top-level functions of the government, foreign embassies and businesses in the capital. It is heavily barricaded and reinforced because of the security threats, with a Taliban-led insurgency at its peak. "Quagmire!"
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Militants with suicide vests, grenades and AK-47 rifles attacked a luxury hotel on Monday, killing at least six people in the most brazen attack yet on Western civilians in Kabul, witnesses and a Taliban spokesman said.AP
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what is a 5 star hotel in afghanistan? rooms come with toilet
Saifur Rahman Mansour, the Taliban commander at the first battle of Tora Bora in 2002, was killed in the Taliban-controlled tribal agency
The Pakistani military has killed a senior Afghan Taliban commander during a clash in the tribal agency of South Wazoo. Saifur Rahman Mansour, the Taliban commander at the first battle of Tora Bora in 2002, was killed in the Taliban-controlled tribal agency, Iranian Press TV reported.
"Mansour was a big time Taliban commander in 2001-2002 and led the battle at Tora Bora," said Matt Dupee, a contributor to The Long War Journal and Afgha.com. "He was allegedly paid not to interfere with the voting process in 2004 (his base is in the east, Paktia (Zurmat district)) and ceased his activities in 2005. The Taliban subsequently removed him from the Rahbari Shura following rumors of his split. In 2006 he restarted his militant activities and became a part of the Peshawar Shura (really based out of Waziristan) once again and launched an offensive in the eastern areas alongside the Haqqani network. His main skill was commanding men on the battlefield and his in-depth knowledge of military tactics and guerilla warfare."
Mansour's father was governor of Paktia province before being murdered by a rival warlord. He commanded Taliban troops against the Northern Alliance during the Taliban rule of Afghanistan. He "was wounded three times in three wars against the Soviets in the 1980s, in the fighting among warlords of the early 1990s, and on behalf of the Taliban and has a maimed hand as a result," the Los Angeles Times reported in 2002.
It is unclear when Mansour was killed. There were a series of battles in South Waziristan over the past week. A Pakistani security source told Daily Times the military killed over 50 Taliban fighters during a major assault on the Ladha Fort in South Waziristan during Wednesday and Thursday. Upwards of 300 Taliban fighters are believed to have attacked the base. The Pakistani military did not confirm the casualties, but said the Taliban suffered "heavy casualties in the encounter."
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Taleban guerrillas killed 10 policemen on Sunday in a raid in southern Afghanistan, provincial officials said. The pre-dawn attack on the police post took place in a village in Maiwand district of Kandahar province, a stronghold of Taleban insurgents.
Hours after the attack, a policeman was killed in a suicide raid aimed at a police officer in neighbouring Helmand province, a provincial official said. The officer survived the attack, but eight other people, including policemen and civilians, were wounded, witnesses said.
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(SomaliNet) Fighting has renewed in the disputed region of Sool in northern Somalia between troops loyal to the rival authorities of Somaliland and Puntland on Sunday.
The clashes happened in Dhamasa village, 80km north of Laasanood city, the provincial capital of Sool when the Puntland forces attacked positions of the Somaliland troops, sources say. There is no immediate casualty resulted from the latest gun battle.
As usual when Muslims shoot at each other.
The authorities in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland accused the break away republic of Somaliland of starting the fighting. The Puntland officials said its government would not tolerate the offensive from the Somaliland troops. "We have killed several soldiers and captured number battle-wagons from Somaliland in the Laasanood fighting," the adviser of the information minister of Puntland Bile Qabowsade said.
While, the Somaliland authorities in Laasanood said their forces killed and wounded several soldiers and also captured war vehicles in the fighting.
But no independent reports confirming the claims of both rival sides.
There never is.
On October, 2006, forces loyal to Somaliland authority took control of Laasaanood city from the Puntland troops.
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MOGADISHU - A bomb blast killed three children in southern Somalia and wounded four others on Sunday, witnesses and doctors said. Locals said the children had been playing with the device, which they found in the Yunbis village, 65 km (40 miles) south of the capital Mogadishu.
Dr. Nur Abdi Abdule, the head of the hospital, said a third child later died on the operating table. The condition of two of the others is very serious, he said.
In a separate incident late on Saturday, officials said unidentified gunmen had killed a prominent Islamic religious leader and a night watchman working for the Somali Red Crescent in the southcentral town of Baidoa, where parliament sits. They were leaving a mosque when they were shot dead by three men armed with pistols, said lawmaker Ibrahim Isaq Yarow.
They have lawmakers in Somalia? Who knew?
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Turkish security forces arrested 46 immigrants who entered the country illegally to use the Turkish lands as transit point to reach Greece, news reports said Saturday. Hurriyet newspaper, in its website, quoted security sources as saying the illegal immigrants were arrested near the town of Apsala in Edirena near the Turkish-Greek borders.
It said the arrestees carried Afghan, Iraqi, Palestinian and Somali nationalities.
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wow... arested 46 of them. that is more than the US is willig to do. i bet they dont get the catch and release with a promise to show up for thier deportation hearing treatment either
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In the first major encounter of 2008, three terrorists, including two Pakistanis, were killed in a joint operation by the security forces in south Kashmir early Monday morning, a police spokesman said.
Troops of the 9 Rashtriya Rifles (RR), 162 Territorial Army (TA) and Special Operation Group of Jammu and Kashmir Police launched a joint operation at Manzgam village following a tip-off.
The spokesman said at 0830 hours, an encounter ensued after terrorists fired at the search party.
During the three-hour encounter, three terrorists were killed, he said.
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So the Territorial Army is backing up the RR and the SOG.. should provide a large reserve of manpower for COIN ops
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At least 11 people were killed and scores injured in a bomb blast in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi on Monday night, hospital sources and eyewitness said.
They said that the bomb was planted on a motorcycle and was apparently triggered by a timing device or remote control.
The area in which explosion took place is dominated by migrant workers for other Pakistani cities and coincided with the arrival of President Pervez Musharraf into the port city on a two-day visit.
Sources said that seven bodies had been brought to the Jinnah Hospital while four bodies had reached the Social Security Hospital near the site of the blast.
The blast occurred on the fourth day of the Islamic month of Moharram which is sacred for Shiite Muslims who constitute 10-15 percent of Pakistan's population of 160 million people.
A bomb exploded Monday near a venue where Nepal's seven major political parties launched a joint campaign for a constituent assembly election, injuring two people.
Senior Superintendent of Police Bhisma Prasain told Kyodo News that the explosion occurred in Bhotahity, some 100 meters from the open air theater where the mass meeting was held.
The explosion occurred minutes after political leaders had left the venue after delivering their speeches, Prasain said.
"Thousands of people were leaving the venue at the time of the explosion. Two were injured," he said. The extent of their injuries is yet to be ascertained. No individual or group has claimed responsibility for the blast.
Earlier in the day, tens of thousands of members of the seven parties, including the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), marched jointly from dozens of locations in Kathmandu and later converged at the theater for a mass meeting.
Addressing the meeting, Maoist chairman Prachanda said the joint campaign is a strong answer to all those who doubt that the key election will really be held.
"This joint meeting is a vow to build a new Nepal, a federal democratic republican Nepal," Prachanda said.
Leaders of all the seven political parties addressed the meeting.
Election to the assembly is a key part of Nepal's peace process with the former Maoist rebels, who ended their 10-year insurgency in November 2006. The insurgency cost the country over 13,000 lives.
At least seven Pakistani soldiers have been killed in a clash with pro-Taleban militants in a tribal area near the Afghan border, the military says. Twenty-three tribal militants were also killed in the fighting in Mohmand agency, the army said.
Fighting broke out after militants ambushed the troops, it said.
Sounds like the home team didn't fare well in their first match with the furriners visitors.
Attacks by pro-Taleban militants in Pakistan's north-west have soared in the past year, but Mohmand agency has seen relatively little of the violence.
"The militants attacked a security forces convoy and the forces responded with the help of local people, killing 23 of the attackers," military spokesman Maj Gen Waheed Arshad told the AFP news agency.
Reports said the army convoy was travelling to Mohmand's main town of Ghalanai when it came under attack. Residents said the security forces responded with artillery fire and helicopter gunships were called in, Rooters news agency reports.
Gunships and artillery are nice as long as you know how to use them. And where to point them. Doesn't sound like that happened, unless the Talibunnies dragged their bleeding buddies off the game field.
Security forces said on Sunday that they had arrested four most-wanted militant commanders at Sindh Pura checkpost in Matta tehsil of Swat district, Dawn News reported. Also on Sunday, security forces pounded militant hideouts in the Totanoo Bandai and Manja areas, but no casualties were reported. Late on Saturday, unidentified militants had blown up a union council office in the Totanoo Bandai area of Swats Kabal tehsil, Totanoo Bandai union council Nazim Saifullah told Daily Times. The Swat administration relaxed the curfew from 6am to 6pm. Residents of Kalam protested against the closure of the Mingora-Kalam road for the past 10 days.
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Two Uzbek militants were killed on Sunday when a group of them attacked the house of a pro-government tribal elder in South Waziristan, officials said. The pre-dawn clash erupted when dozens of miscreants launched an attack on the house of Khan Khannan in South Waziristan district, local administration official Ayaz Mandokhel told AFP.
Bodies: Khannans men who were guarding the house, retaliated and killed two Uzbek militants, he said, adding that their bodies were still lying in the area. Other militants fled after the clash, he said.
Khannan is a pro-government elder in Shakai where gunmen earlier this week shot dead six members of a tribal peace committee. The tribesmen blame the killings on leading Taliban warlord Baitullah Mehsud, who has also been accused by the government of masterminding the assassination of former premier Benazir Bhutto last month.
Also in South Waziristan, security officials said on Saturday that troops had killed more than 50 Taliban militants on Wednesday after fighting off an attack on a military fort.
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Militants fired missiles at the Mana army camp in North Waziristan on Sunday, leaving a security forces personnel injured, sources said. They added the militants attacked the camp around 3:30pm, which is located in the Shawaal area, about 75 kilometers in west of agency headquarters Miranshah. Security forces returned the fire and the crossfire was continuing with no casualties till the last reports came in. Militants had earlier attacked the same camp at 3:00am and fired three missiles. However, there was no loss of life. The Mana army camp came under attack again at 12:00 midday when an army convoy was going from the camp to Gurbuz camp, causing injuries to Riaz Khan, a security forces jawan.
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The Islamabad Capital Territory Administration has banned the entry of eight clerics in the capital during Muharramul Harram. The entry of four clerics of Tehreek Ahlesunnat Jamaat sect and four clerics of Tehreek Nafaz Fiqa Jafria, including Moulana Sher Haidri, has been banned to avoid any untoward situation.
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BAGHDAD (Rooters) - The U.S. military said on Monday it had killed 60 militants during a week-long, U.S.-led offensive in northern Iraq against al Qaeda, a resilient foe that has resisted previous attempts to drive it from the region.
The U.S. military, which has declared al Qaeda the single greatest threat to Iraq's security and blamed it for an upsurge in suicide bombings, launched the offensive on January 8, focusing on four northern provinces and Baghdad's southern suburbs.
In Baghdad, gunmen killed appeals court judge Amir Jawdat al-Naeib as he drove to work on Monday. Naeib's driver was also killed. Militants have frequently targeted judges, academics, other professionals and their families.
The new offensive is seen as part of the U.S. strategy of reducing violence to give Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's government time to cement the security gains with political progress towards national reconciliation.
But progress has been slow and many Iraqis complain that while security has improved, the government is still failing to provide basic services such as water and electricity.
The military said in a statement that U.S. and Iraqi forces had killed 60 militants, detained 193 and found 79 weapons caches containing thousands of rounds of ammunition, explosives and home-made bombs during the offensive in northern Iraq.
Troops had found one cache in an underground bunker complex with several rooms during operations in Diyala, a volatile, religiously mixed province north of Baghdad.
But the fighting has not been one-sided. Police said seven policemen were killed when the house they were searching blew up in the town of Buhriz just south of Baquba, Diyalas' capital.
Six U.S. soldiers were killed in Diyala last week when a house booby-trapped with explosives collapsed on top of them. It was the single greatest loss of life by U.S. troops so far during the operation.
A similar offensive targeting al Qaeda in Diyala last summer failed to drive out the Sunni Islamist group because many militants escaped before the well-flagged operation.
A series of U.S. and Iraqi operations against al Qaeda in the second half of 2007 largely drove the group from the capital and western Anbar province, and they are now regrouping in the north, U.S. officials say. Followed by bad news about power cuts. Quagmire!
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THIS ARTICLE FEATURING:
"60 militants"
"resilient foe"
"resistance"
"upsurge in suicide bombings"
"gunmen/militants targeting judges"
"militants targeting academics"
militants targeting professionals"
"militants targeting families of prosfessionals"
"gov't still failing to provide elctricity"
"gov't still failing to provide water"
"fighting not one-sided: 7 good cops killed"
"similar fighting by US failed last year, too"
"six US servicemen killed last week, too"
"larget loss of life to US since ops began"
"AQI now regrouping"
sigh...
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What do you expect, Mark? It IS Rooters, after all - almost as bad as the NY Slimes.
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bravo Mark Z. Too bad all articles could not have such an index.
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We don't seem to be taking as many prisoners these days. It would make me worry about getting involved in platoon size formations or larger, if I were a terr. Must be a feature of the Surge.
THE HEAD of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps slipped into the green zone of Baghdad last month to press Tehrans hardline position over the terms of the current talks with American officials, it was claimed last week.
Iraqi government sources say that Major-General Mohammed Ali Jafari, 50, travelled secretly from Tehran. Jafari appears to have passed through checkpoints on his way into the fortified enclave that contains the American embassy and Iraqi ministries, even though he is on Washingtons most wanted list.
Last year Washington declared the guard a foreign terrorist organisation and imposed sanctions on it.
One of the accusations that led to the designation was the charge that the Quds Force, a branch of the guard, was supplying rockets, mortars and roadside bombs known as explosively formed projectiles (EFPs) to Shiite militias in Iraq.
In recent days there has been a sharp increase in the use of such bombs against American troops, and last weekend five Iranian speedboats were said to have harassed three American Navy ships, radioing a threat to blow them up.
On his tour of the Middle East yesterday President George W Bush put Tehran on notice over its support for the insurgency in Iraq. Irans role in fomenting violence has been exposed, he said in Kuwait.
Iran and the United States have held three rounds of talks over security in Iraq. They have made little progress so far but are considered a breakthrough because they are the first face-to-face encounters since 1980.
At the insistence of the Americans, the talks between Ryan Crocker, the American ambassador to Iraq, and Hassan Kazemi Qomi, his Iranian counterpart, have been kept to the issue of security in Iraq. But Tehran wants them broadened to include the release of Iranian diplomats being held in Baghdad by the Americans. It is understood Jafari was sent to Baghdad to ensure that this happened.
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The Bush administration has been taken over by the permanent Washington bureaucracy of the CIA and PDoS. The only way to change this is to elect a real Republican. Thank goodness he does not have a sitting Vice President to dominate the trunk nominating process.
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I see two reasonable possibilities (1) The story is a lie meant to sew confusion in Iran (2) the story is true and the administration hopes to work with some members of the Revolutionary guard to change the regime in Iran.
All other options, well i don't want to think about them.
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Throw in prisoner exchange. We probably are holding some of their 'brothers'. Important enough that they want to talk. Unfortunately, their snatch squads have found out that because of prior treatment of prisoners, our guys not going to be taken alive. Makes exchange really difficult and the conversations really short.
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Compare wid DEBKA > IRANIAN REVOL GUARDS' HARASSMENT OF US SHIPS IN STRAITS OF HORMUZ CARRIED FIVE TOUGH MESSAGES MEANT FOR BUSH.
"The Finger/Bird" to "We control the Straits" to "Anti-Iran Gulf Nations Watch your Six-Arse".
Hertling: Report that Iraqi forces cant be trusted is logic leap
ARLINGTON, Va. Standard operational security concerns, not a lack of trust, prompted U.S. military planners to keep recent offensive operations secret from many Iraqi troops ahead of the operations, said the commander of U.S. troops in northern Iraq.
This month, U.S. and Iraqi forces launched Operation Phantom Phoenix against insurgents south of Baghdad and in northern Iraq. The New York Times reported Wednesday that the offensive was kept secret from most of the Iraqi units taking part for as long as possible to prevent insurgents from leaving the region ahead of time.
That's called 'operational security'. I'm sure you don't know what that means.
The story says the move suggests that U.S. military planners cannot fully trust the allies who are supposed to pick up more of the fighting as American troops scale back their presence this year.
On Friday, Maj. Gen. Mark Hertling said the reporter who wrote the story took a logic leap.
Nothing could be further from the truth, said Hertling, head of Multi-National Division-North. Hertling noted the operation was kept secret from both U.S. and Iraqi troops to prevent the operation from becoming public, either through the media or from troops talking to their families.
Again, operational security. Interesting concept if you're conducting a sweep as opposed to say, a tribal lashkar.
We are trying to keep it as close-hold as possible to trap as many of the enemy as possible in the area where we wanted to trap them, he said.
He also said Iraqi army commanders were involved with the planning of the operation. I trust my Iraqi counterparts with my life because I go out with them on daily basis and, my subordinates feel the same way, Hertling said.
New York Times foreign news editor Susan Chira said the paper stood by its story.
Of course they did, there's no penalty for them doing anything else, no matter how wrong they are.
We did not attribute that statement to General Hertling, only saying that one could deduce from these maneuvers that there was distrust of some of the allies not a blanket distrust of every Iraqi army counterpart or of Iraqi senior leadership, Chira said in a Friday e-mail.
Not that you made that clear in the article. Certainly not.
But Hertling disagreed. Thats not a deduction, its an implication, and its not true, he said.
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You'll know that the day has come at the NYT when you see the advertisers sue over or just receive big hunking discounts for fraudulent circulation numbers of 'real' readers. Their 'numbers' are about as solid as the number of good loan holders of subprime mortgages.
Most U.S. Army generals wear pistols on the battlefield. Lt. Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III, a decorated paratrooper who next month takes over as the No. 2 U.S. commander in Iraq, packs an M4 rifle.
A physically imposing but modest man who is little known outside Army circles, Austin's hands-on style reflects a connection with front-line troops and a breadth of combat leadership that senior officers say make him ideal for his new job: running the day-to-day operations of the Iraq war.
Whereas the top U.S. commander, Gen. David H. Petraeus, must serve as much as a diplomat and public face of the war as a military leader, Austin must master the gritty details of Iraq's battlefield geometry -- constantly prioritizing the use of dozens of U.S. and Iraqi combat units as well as aircraft, unmanned drones and other military forces to carry out the U.S. strategy.
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Thanks in large part to Wm T. Sherman, the US produces a large number of very dangerous generals. And yet, most of them never get the chance to prove themselves in battle.
And irony of ironies, even the greatest of them, if they do get the chance to prove themselves and do prove themselves, must still pass on the role to a subordinate in a terribly short time.
Someone once remarked that a general is like a gymnast, except the career of the general is far shorter, and their chance for greatness less.
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W.T. Sherman founded the Command School, now known as the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth. Modeled in some ways after the German General Staff school, it is one of the primary intellectual assets of the United States for maintaining and improving the quality of its military commanders.
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Thanks. I'd forgotten that. With his founding of LSU, Uncle Billy turned out to be quite the educator. Sort of Milton and Dwight Eisenhower all rolled into one with out the politician.
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Lt. Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III, a decorated paratrooper who next month takes over as the No. 2 U.S. commander in Iraq, packs an M4 rifle.
Smart man, they've learned to target anyone wearing only a pistol as an Officer.
Look like a grunt, shoots easier and better than a pistol anyway. (Pistols are for backup)
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W.T. Sherman founded the Command School, now known as the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth. Modeled in some ways after the German General Staff school, it is one of the primary intellectual assets of the United States for maintaining and improving the quality of its military commanders.
Radio stations in Gaza reported on Sunday night that Israeli military aircraft fired a missile towards a group of bunny hutcheskitten condosflower bulb pushcarts citizens west of the city.
Helizap!
The radio stations said that the shelling targeted a jeep vehicle that was standing in the vicinity of the house of Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya killing scores of citizens on board and destroying the vehicle.
Car swarm!
Ambulances carrying ammunition rushed to the scene and citizens were urged by the radio to exercise caution in fear of other possible raids.
The radio stations said that one person was killed in the raid and four others were wounded. They were guarding the house of Haniya.
GAZA CITY (AFP) - Three Palestinian militants, including the local head of an armed group, were killed in an Israeli air strike on a refugee camp of Gaza City late Sunday, medics and security sources said.
They said an air-to-ground missile struck their car in Shati camp, killing Nidal al-Amudi, a head of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, which is loosely linked to the Fatah group of moderate Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas. Maher al-Mabhuh, belonging to another group, was also killed along with a third militant who died of his injuries.
An Israeli military spokesman confirmed the raid, without specifying what type of aircraft was used, and said it targeted militants involved in rocket or other attacks on Israel.
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a score is 20
scores would be 40 or more in increments of 20
you can't fit 20 people alive in one of their little cars.
then it turns out 1 killed and 4 wounded.
Sounds like some pals missed math class from pre-kindergarten on.
Southern terrorists militants ambushed a teachers' protection team in Narathiwat province on Monday morning, killing eight soldiers in a fierce firefight and beheading one. The squad was surprised by an unknown number of terrorists insurgents in Chanae district of Narathiwat, spokesman Col Akara Thiprote said.
The army gave few details in its first announcement. Spokesmen said there was an intense, 30-minute exchange of gunfire with militants, who were positioned to cause the maximum casualties in the ambush.
The ambush of the teachers' protection squad resulted in the highest military casualties in a single attack this year - and was one of the worst ever. It was the 37th recorded beheading by southern terrorists militants since the resurgence of the separatist movement four years ago. "This is a big loss for the army," Col Akara said. "It is one of our worst days. We will do our utmost to hunt down the killers."
The terrorists fighters who ambushed the patrol were likely to be living locally in the tight-knit Muslim communities in the area, making it tricky for security forces to identify them, he added. "We really need some good intelligence to guide us," the spokesman said. "These people will bury their guns and turn into ordinary villagers before we reach them. It is not easy."
The patrol had been returning to base after escorting teachers to a government school. Teachers have been frequently targeted because the terrorists separatists consider them to be agents of a central government dominated by the country's Buddhist majority.
Elsewhere on Monday, in Sungai Kolok district, suspected insurgents torched GSM mobile phone signal facilities at several locations, disrupting mobile phone services. Fresh produce bound for Malaysia had to be left at the border because food exporters could not contact their customers. In Pattani province, two mobile phone towers and three public telephone booths were burned.
At the same time, police in the area said they believed six suspected militants who escaped from a jail cell over the weekend used small fishing boats in their getaway. The six are believed to be members of Runda Kumpalan Kecil, one of several separatist groups operating in the mostly Muslim southernmost provinces of Thailand. Narathiwat's police chief, Major General Pongsak Nakvichit, said he hoped they would be recaptured soon but said there would be a thorough investigation as to how the six escaped, reported the TNA.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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At least three gunmen launched a brazen attack on the main luxury hotel in Kabul, leaving a hotel guard and one of the rebels dead, the NATO force in Afghanistan said Monday. The hardline Taliban movement said its men, including a suicide bomber, carried out the attack on the Kabul Serena, a five-star hotel frequented by foreigners. 
"Mansour was a big time Taliban commander in 2001-2002 and led the battle at Tora Bora," said Matt Dupee, a contributor to The Long War Journal and Afgha.com. "He was allegedly paid not to interfere with the voting process in 2004 (his base is in the east, Paktia (Zurmat district)) and ceased his activities in 2005. The Taliban subsequently removed him from the Rahbari Shura following rumors of his split. In 2006 he restarted his militant activities and became a part of the Peshawar Shura (really based out of Waziristan) once again and launched an offensive in the eastern areas alongside the Haqqani network. His main skill was commanding men on the battlefield and his in-depth knowledge of military tactics and guerilla warfare."
(SomaliNet) Fighting has renewed in the disputed region of Sool in northern Somalia between troops loyal to the rival authorities of Somaliland and Puntland on Sunday. 
MOGADISHU - A bomb blast killed three children in southern Somalia and wounded four others on Sunday, witnesses and doctors said. Locals said the children had been playing with the device, which they found in the Yunbis village, 65 km (40 miles) south of the capital Mogadishu.
At least 11 people were killed and scores injured in a bomb blast in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi on Monday night, hospital sources and eyewitness said. 
A bomb exploded Monday near a venue where Nepal's seven major political parties launched a joint campaign for a constituent assembly election, injuring two people. 
At least seven Pakistani soldiers have been killed in a clash with pro-Taleban militants in a tribal area near the Afghan border, the military says. Twenty-three tribal militants were also killed in the fighting in Mohmand agency, the army said. 
Security forces said on Sunday that they had arrested four most-wanted militant commanders at Sindh Pura checkpost in Matta tehsil of Swat district, Dawn News reported. Also on Sunday, security forces pounded militant hideouts in the Totanoo Bandai and Manja areas, but no casualties were reported. Late on Saturday, unidentified militants had blown up a union council office in the Totanoo Bandai area of Swats Kabal tehsil, Totanoo Bandai union council Nazim Saifullah told Daily Times. The Swat administration relaxed the curfew from 6am to 6pm. Residents of Kalam protested against the closure of the Mingora-Kalam road for the past 10 days.
Two Uzbek militants were killed on Sunday when a group of them attacked the house of a pro-government tribal elder in South Waziristan, officials said. The pre-dawn clash erupted when dozens of miscreants launched an attack on the house of Khan Khannan in South Waziristan district, local administration official Ayaz Mandokhel told AFP.
Militants fired missiles at the Mana army camp in North Waziristan on Sunday, leaving a security forces personnel injured, sources said. They added the militants attacked the camp around 3:30pm, which is located in the Shawaal area, about 75 kilometers in west of agency headquarters Miranshah. Security forces returned the fire and the crossfire was continuing with no casualties till the last reports came in. Militants had earlier attacked the same camp at 3:00am and fired three missiles. However, there was no loss of life. The Mana army camp came under attack again at 12:00 midday when an army convoy was going from the camp to Gurbuz camp, causing injuries to Riaz Khan, a security forces jawan.
By Ross Colvin
On Friday, Maj. Gen. Mark Hertling said the reporter who wrote the story took a logic leap.
Radio stations in Gaza reported on Sunday night that Israeli military aircraft fired a missile towards a group of 
