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Is that a collar under the pearls, or is it the 1920's version of photoshop?
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I think that's either a shadow or the pearls are sewn to a ribbon to make a choker, which would be my choice if I wanted the necklace to remain suspended mid-neck rather than slipping down to lay on my throat.
A U.S. Marines commander said Wednesday his troops have killed 400 insurgents in southern Afghanistan since late April. Col. Peter Petronzio, the commander of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, said the figure came from the governor of the southern Helmand province, where his troops have been deployed since late April. Some 2,200 U.S. Marines moved into the town of Garmser in Helmand province to clean the area of insurgents.
After months of fighting around Garmser, Petronzio said the area is not yet secure but is more stable. 'The Taliban proved they wanted to fight for Garmser and we took the fight to them,' he told a news conference in Kabul.
Petronzio said NATO and Afghan forces are committed to completing their mission in an area that is an important gateway for insurgent fighters smuggling weapons from Pakistan. The Marines will be replaced by British troops this fall. 'If the Taliban are waiting for us to leave, they will have a very long wait,' he said.
Meanwhile, the top NATO commander here told The Associated Press in an interview this week that rockets and mortars fired from militants in Pakistan at U.S. and Afghan border outposts in Afghanistan have spiked in the last month. 'We have seen an increase in the eastern part of Afghanistan of cross-border indirect fires coming into some of our, not only our but Afghan' outposts, said McKiernan, who took command of the 40-nation International Security Assistance Force mission last month. But McKiernan said that U.S. and NATO forces have been returning fire. 'Of course our presumption is that the threat feels safer firing (from) across that border. I'm not sure that's the case, that they're any safer, because we do return those fires, coordinated with the Pak military,' McKiernan said.
U.S. troops have fired artillery and used airstrikes to hit militants inside Pakistan. The militants use that country's lawless border areas as a base for staging their attacks against Afghan and foreign troops here.
McKiernan offered no specifics on the number of attacks coming into Afghanistan from Pakistan, but said: 'There definitely has been an increase since I've been here in the last 30 days.' The four-star general said he thinks those attacks have spiked because militant groups have the freedom in Pakistan's lawless tribal areas to move across the Afghan-Pakistan border unimpeded and resupply and recruit in Pakistan.
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The militants use that country's lawless border areas as a base for staging their attacks against Afghan and foreign troops here.
Well, then, take your best Afghan troops and give the Pakies a return visit. Think Northwest Passage. Just skip the head trophies.
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Napalm and cluster munitions. Fill the passes except for a small, narrow path that leads across. Set up a kill-zone focused on that path. Have a Predator with a couple of Hellfires on call if the bad guys try to move beyond the pass and cross bare rock. Make crossing the Afghan/pak border suicide for the taliban. It can be done. It just takes a strong will and a deaf ear.
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OP, maybe they can hire some old East German border guards. They have the skills and lack of scruples will and demonstrated deaf ears. Could pretty much be assured they're not enjoying gainful employment these days anyway. Square peg, square hole type deal. Should work as well in keeping bodies out as keeping bodies in.
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I have to say that we have long needed to rethink the Afghan campaign, as it is militarily far harder than Iraq ever was. And, if there are any real Vietnam comparisons, they apply a lot more to Afghanistan.
The easiest way to imagine this is to think of Afghanistan as South Vietnam, and Pakistan as a combined, North Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
The enormous contiguous border provides numerous easy routes for infiltration, even though in either case there are major natural obstacles. But add to that a seemingly endless supply of enemy foot soldiers, and you have a problem.
Eventually, the Afghans have to take control of their own country for NATO to leave. And they will be the ones who determine who they will tolerate in their country and who they will not.
But they cannot act in a vacuum. Until Pakistan controls itself, Afghanistan will never be at peace.
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A bit of history if I may : Afghanistan has NEVER been at peace, anytime in recorded history. The best that one can hope for in that tribal mishmash is that there is an outside force attempting to control the country and that the tribes band together against the outsider. If the Afghanis are not fighting an outsider, they are fighting each other.
Fortunately for the West, Pakistan is starting to become the boogie man for the Afghan public - due in no small part to the activities of the ISI. The useful role of outside agitator being taken, the Afghanis in the main will unite in hostility to the same.
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A bit of history if I may : Afghanistan has NEVER been at peace, anytime in recorded history. The best that one can hope for in that tribal mishmash is that there is an outside force attempting to control the country and that the tribes band together against the outsider. If the Afghanis are not fighting an outsider, they are fighting each other.
Fortunately for the West, Pakistan is starting to become the boogie man for the Afghan public - due in no small part to the activities of the ISI. The useful role of outside agitator being taken, the Afghanis in the main will unite in hostility to the same.
Baby-faced Hamza Bin Laden -- just 16 but already dubbed the Crown Prince of Terror -- also ranted in his evil ode that the US and our other allies must be wiped out. The teen declared in his demented ditty to fanatics: 'Accelerate the destruction of America, Britain, France and Denmark.'
He continued: 'Oh God, reward the fighters hitting the infidels and defectors. Oh God, guide the youth of the Islamic nation and let them assist with the fighters' plans.
'God, be pleased with those who want to go for jihad -- and blind those who are watching and want to capture them.'
The vile verses, by the youngest of the al-Qaeda warlord's 18 sons, appeared on an extremist website to mark three years since the 7/7 London suicide bombings killed 52 innocents. The poem urged: 'Grant victory to the Taliban over the gangs of infidels.'
His words -- believed to be recited by the lad himself -- accompanied a short video clip featuring old footage of his dad. A short introduction announced: 'We now offer you a new poem by Sheikh Hamza Bin Laden, may God protect him.' Hamza -- thought to be hiding on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border -- is Bin Laden's only son by his Saudi wife.
Respected terrorist expert Chris Dobson said: 'Despite his youth he is emerging as Bin Laden's likely heir.' Tory MP Patrick Mercer, a member of the Home Affairs Committee, said: 'The sins of the father are being visited upon the son. We now have the Crown Prince of Terror taking up his father's mantle.'
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Hamza, with brother Saad, and most of the AQ leadership fled to Iran after the US attacked Afghanistan. He and his buddies have been put up quite comfortably in villas on the Caspain.
My take: Hamza has been for the last few years been schooled in that heretic Shiite blasphemy. For the bin Laden's to have any honor left, they must hill him immediately.
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For the bin Laden's to have any honor left, they must hill him immediately.
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HAMZA, SAAD, etal., together or singularly, won't be the first nor the last Heirs = Princes to take over the tasks of Warfare, Conquest, or Other as begun vv Big Daddy = Big-GrandDaddy, but NOT completed. TO OSAMA's, ZAWI, etc, CREDIT, THEY HAVE PUT RADICAL ISLAM ON THE PATH TO CONTROL LARGE PARTS OF CENTRAL ASIA, OTHER ENCLAVES, + GO NUCLEAR 2008-2012 {"sufficient" deterrence]. EVEN IFF OSAMA, ETC. WERE CAPTURED OR KILLED TODAY, THE THREAT OF RADICAL ISLAMIST CONQUEST IN CENTRAL-EAST ASIA WOULD EXIST FOR A LONG TIME TO COME.
As argued times before, WOT > among other premises, is "WAR OF THE MESSIAHS" AS NOT EVERY ETHNIC NATIONALIST "SAVIOR" CAN BE MUSLIM ANDOR ISLAMIST = RADICALIST???
And NOT only MALE either e.g. NOSTRADAMUS'
"JOSEPHINE BONAPARTE", SISTER OF NAPOLEON; + "CYNTHEIA", SISTER OF SUN-GOD APOLLO,......etc.
A bomb was found on a bus transporting 12 Indian workers in Afghanistan on Tuesday, a governor said, a day after a suicide attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul killed 41 people.
The workers, including engineers, had noticed a 'suspicious package' on the bus as they were travelling to work in the southwestern province of Nimroz, provincial governor Ghulam Dastagir Azad told AFP. They called the police who discovered it was a remote-controlled bomb, he said. The driver of the bus was arrested for questioning. 'The bomb could have been fixed on his bus without him knowing but all this will be made clear after the investigation is over,' he said.
Trooper dies: Meanwhile, a soldier from the NATO-led forces and four Afghan policemen were killed on Tuesday in new attacks linked to an insurgency in Afghanistan by Taliban and other Islamist extremists, officials said.
The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) trooper was killed when a roadside bomb struck a convoy in the eastern province of Kunar, NATO's ISAF said. Four other ISAF soldiers were wounded, it said. The 40-nation force did not give details, including the nationalities of the soldiers caught up in the attack. Most of the troops in Kunar are US citizens. Kunar, on the border with Pakistan, sees regular violence from militants involved in an insurgency against President Hamid Karzai's Western-backed government. The insurgents mainly rely on bombs, including suicide devices, to attack international and Afghan troops. Also on Tuesday, two policemen were killed in fighting with Taliban insurgents in the central province of Ghazni, provincial spokesman Ismail Jahangir said.
Five militants were also believed to have died in the hour-long battle but their bodies were removed from the scene, Jahngir told AFP. Two other policemen were killed in a similar incident in the neighbouring province of Paktika, another troubled region on the Pak-Afghan frontier, another government spokesman said.
US carrier: A US aircraft carrier has moved to the Arabian Sea to support military operations in Afghanistan, leaving the Gulf without a carrier, US defence officials said on Tuesday. The shift by the USS Abraham Lincoln over the weekend comes amid stepped-up insurgent violence in Afghanistan. The operations in Afghanistan and Iraq 'are extremely dynamic and sometimes we have to adjust the posture of forces so we can we can take advantage of certain opportunities that are there,' said a Navy official, who asked not to be named.
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US Carrier -
Which would leave it in a good position to evacuate diplomats from Islamabad?
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It also puts it in a place where it's hard for Iran to attack it, Pappy. Not sure that has anything to do with the move, but it's a possibility. I think the US knows the Iranians are up to something, and are moving the pieces to confuse the issue, among other things. I would double those suspicions if a second carrier showed up.
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The Lehmann Timber was seized in the Gulf of Aden on May 28. The crew taken hostage included: the Russian captain, and a crew of four Ukrainians, one Estonian and nine Myanmar nationals.
The pirates are reported to have set July 7 as the ransom deadline and promised to kill the crew if it was not paid. Although shots were heard from the vessel late on Monday, the captain, who was in touch with the Ukrainian authorities, said the pirates fired in the air probably trying to scare the crew and negotiators.
"Today, at 5 a.m., the ransom was brought to the Lehmann Timber board. The pirates counted the money for several hours and then the vessel headed to the closest port. The exact sum of money is unknown, but the hostages said that the bandits had demanded $750,000," the Segodnya newspaper said on its website.
At least six people, including three police officers, have been killed in a shootout near the U.S. consulate in Istanbul, the city's governor says.
Two other police officers were wounded in the attack Wednesday. A U.S. consulate official said no American citizens or employees were hurt.
Gunmen pulled up in a white car and opened fire at a police security checkpoint at the outer entrance of the consulate, Istanbul Gov. Muammer Guler told reporters at the scene.
Police fired back, resulting in a three- to five-minute gun battle, Ivan Watson, a journalist with National Public Radio reporting from the scene, told CNN.
Guler said the dead included three police officers and three assailants. Authorities did not immediately know whether the attackers were affiliated with any organization, he said.
People waiting to obtain visas inside the heavily fortified building were not hurt. The outer entrance is more than 30m (100ft) from the main building which sits atop a hilltop.
At least three bodies remained on the ground as ambulances pulled up and police cordoned off the area with yellow tape and waved off onlookers.
The most recent attack on a foreign mission in Turkey was in November 2003 when a string of bombings in Istanbul targeted the British consulate, along with two synagogues and a British-owned bank. The blasts killed more than 70 people, including the British consul general, and wounded hundreds.
Turkey is a secular country that is predominantly Muslim. There has been a lot of tension in the country between secularist and traditional Muslims, and the state has been battling Kurdish separatists for many years.
ISTANBUL, Turkey - Suspected al-Qaida militants armed with pistols and shotguns attacked a police guard post outside the U.S. consulate in Istanbul on Wednesday, sparking a gunbattle that left three attackers and three officers dead.
Turkish and U.S. officials publicly labeled the shooting a terrorist attack and a police official in Istanbul told The Associated Press that authorities suspected al-Qaida was behind it. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief journalists on the investigation.
Footage from a security camera at the site showed four armed and bearded men emerging from a car and killing a traffic policeman, then running toward a guard post some 50 yards away as other policemen fired back, the Dogan news agency reported.
At least two of the attackers were Turkish nationals, Guler said. Police said they were pursuing at least one attacker who escaped in a car after the attack outside the high-walled consulate compound in the residential Istinye district around 11 a.m. NTV television, citing police sources, said officials feared the car might be loaded with explosives. Police would not confirm that report.
(Xinhua) -- Four security men were killed in northwestern Pakistan's tribal area on Tuesday, local TV channels reported.
Some security men patrolling in Khyber Agency were ambushed by unknown gunmen. Resultantly four security men were killed and several others injured, said the report. The government last Friday suspended its security operation against suspected militants in Khyber Agency to allow tribal elders to meet militants and conduct peace talks. The security forces launched a major operation against local militant groups in Khyber Agency on June 28 and took control of the area.
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Three suicide bombers have entered the federal capital while security has also been beefed up in Punjab following reports of the presence of explosive-laden vehicles in the province, private television channels reported on Tuesday. ARY One quoted an intelligence agency report as saying that the suicide bombers may target important political and religious personalities, while the Interior Ministry has banned the conduct of rallies and processions near sensitive places in Islamabad.
According to the report, the would-be suicide bombers have been identified as Alam Zeb, Sajid Moawia and Mujahid Hussain and they belong to Lashkar-e-Abdullah of Parachinar in the Kurram Agency. The report says that local Taliban have formed suicide squads to be sent to Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad. The channel reported that law enforcement agencies have tightened security across the country besides deploying additional forces to sensitive places. According to Geo News, security has also been beefed up in Punjab following reports of the presence of explosive-laden vehicles in the province. The channel said police was ordered to check all suspected vehicles. Faisalabad city was sealed after reports of an explosive-packed car in the city, it said, adding that five terrorists and an explosive-laden car were reported to have entered the city from Kohat.
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Look if they know the number and the names ... admit the truth. They are ISI guys.
#3
Has Pakistan EVER been anything but a disfunctional potentate for whoever is the most powerful person in the nation? I see no reason for this experiment in human behavior to continue any longer. It's a failure. Accept that, and do what's necessary to clean up the mess and move on.
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Unidentified militants killed five security personnel and injured three others on Tuesday. The militants opened fire at a security forces' vehicle in the Khyber Agency's Bara tehsil. Mehsud Scouts personnel reached the spot and cordoned off the area.
The scouts seized a vehicle belonging to the militants. There were unconfirmed reports about the death of a militant in retaliatory fire, whose body was taken away by the militants.
Lashkar-e-Islam (LI) deputy chief Misri Khan condemned the attack, calling it an attempt to sabotage the Bara peace process. He said LI men had been told to shoot the culprits 'on the spot'.
Which spot?
Separately, LI chief Mangal Bagh told a jirga, 'I will not resist security forces and continue support to the government. The LI will not engage in any act that affects the writ of the state and will only carry out activities concerning the Afridi tribes.'
The government launched the security operation on June 28 to flush out militants endangering Peshawar. Security forces have destroyed militant headquarters and various private jails.
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Unidentified armed men gunned down a religious leader in the Charbagh tehsil of Swat on Monday night, police sources told Daily Times on Tuesday. Charbagh Darul Uloom Administrator Maulvi Masood was killed in an ambush, the officials said. Meanwhile, 18 boys, aged 12-18, have been abducted from the Charbagh during the last week, Daily Times has learnt. The families of the boys informed the media about the kidnappings. The families suspect militants are carrying out abductions to use the boys for suicide attacks.
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Local Taliban on Tuesday took possession of two girls' primary schools in Charmang area of Nawagai tehsil in the Bajaur Agency and announced the conversion of these schools into madrassas. The Taliban captured Government Girls Primary School Manugi and Government Girls Primary School Azghar Charmang.
Separately, a bomb detonated in a residential area of the agency headquarters in Bajaur, partially damaging a house. There were no reports of any casualties. Political Agent Shafeerullah Khan said it was not a missile attack. Taliban also returned 11 rifles and two vehicles to a jirga that they had snatched from Bajaur Scouts personnel two months ago in Salarzai.
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I think one reason they do this is to sniff the seats in the classrooms...
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That's disgusting, M. Murcek. But it could be the snark of the day.
The missile attack on a house in the residential area of Bajaur Agency headquarters Khar was carried out by a United States drone, TTP spokesman Maulvi Umar said on Tuesday. Umar alleged that the MQM was behind the Karachi blasts and it had specifically targeted the Pashtuns. He said the Islamabad bombing was a reaction to the Lal Masjid tragedy.
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1. Sindhis despise Pashtuns.
2. Sindhis should despise Pashtuns.
3. Everyone should despise Pashtuns.
Frankly, Pashtos - including Karzai - are the human equivalent of mosquitoes. If they are not leaching off the UN and Saudis, then its the Heroin trade.
Reminder: UN reports of opium eradication in non-Pashto parts of Afghanistan, are true. Yes, in both May and June there were more killings of US troops in Afghanistan than in Iraq. But, Pashtos - and their Arab allies - are doing all of it.
Reminder: Karzai praised Taliban "morality" last month in der Spiegel (Germany). He has to go.
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Replace Pastuns with Punjabis. Pashtuins didvide into two categories: those who are manipulated by Punjabis so they fight for Islam while Punjabis laugh their way to the bank with the money they stole from Pashtuns, Balocjs and Sindhs.
Those who are understand the trick are nationalsist. Between the nationalist you have a good number who are hostile to Islam, tell that Pashtuns descend from a Jewish tribe who went East when Cyrus liberated the Jews (this is guranteed to have local turbans spin) and ven are admirers from teh West and/or Israel. The finest eulogy about Israel I have ever heard was from a Pashtun.
Saddar police on Tuesday arrested two alleged militants involved in firing on police teams, officials said. A police patrol party led by Saddar SHO Abdul Malik was on a routine patrol in Killi Shabo when three people riding on a motorcycle opened fire on them. The police party retaliated and arrested two men and seized two pistols from their possession.
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Law-enforcement agencies on Tuesday stepped up security in Lahore following a call by an alleged would-be female suicide attacker, a satellite TV reported. The woman called 15 - Police Help Line- and threatened to carry out suicide attacks against security personnel, ARY reported. The unidentified woman said she planned to target 15 centres, and the city administration has directed authorities concerned to beef up security to prevent possible attack.
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(Xinhua) -- The law enforcement agencies of Pakistan have taken five people into custody in connection with the series of bomb blasts in the Pakistani port city of Karachi. Seven blasts occurred in different parts of Karachi Monday evening, killing one and injuring 40 others. No group has claimed responsibility of the blasts.
Syed Qaim Ali Shah, Chief Minister of Sindh province, of which Karachi is the capital, was quoted by the News Network International news agency as saying that a planned conspiracy was being hatched to destabilize the government and to terrify the people. Inspector General of Sindh Police Babar Khattak said that five people had been taken into custody in connection with the terrorist act who were questioned.
Meanwhile a team of intelligence experts have been dispatched from Islamabad to Karachi to investigate the bomb blasts and expose the groups behind the terrorist activities and their motives. The Interior Ministry directed the intelligence agencies and all law enforcement agencies to fully cooperate with the Sindh government in apprehending the mastermind of Karachi bomb blasts.
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The Shi'ite Mehdi Army militia is finished as a fighting force in Iraq's oil rich Basra province and upcoming provincial elections should pass without violence, the province's governor said on Tuesday.
Iraqi officials at the Ministry for National Security Affairs said documents uncovered in suspected al-Qaida holdouts in the Sunni areas of Baghdad 'prove these elements left Iraq for Somalia and Sudan.'
'Our intelligence information indicates the withdrawal of certain groups of al-Qaida from Iraq because of the military strikes,' Maj. Gen. Hussain Ali Kamal of the Iraqi Interior Ministry told Gulf News. 'I believe this is the beginning of the complete withdrawal of al-Qaida from Iraqi territory,' he said.
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#2
HMMMMMM > Wel-l-l, given my Afghan War cohort's OSama's recent threat agz the VATICAN and its new covert focii on CENTRAL ASIA from the ME, METHINKS THIS TITLE SHOULD BE "ATTACKING AFRICA", NOT FLEEING TO AFRICA.
PROTECTING NUCLEAR IRAN + FUTURE NUCLEAR JIHAD, etc > CONTAINING/KEEPING THE US, ISRAEL, EUROS, etc. AT THE BEACHES AMAP AFAP ALAP FROM IRAN + CENTRAL ASIA.
2008-2012 > US SLEEPS [Back in CONUS], IRAN + ISLAMISTS PEEP AND SWEEP [attack, destabilize].
Lest we fergit, SUN TZU [paraph] > THE ENEMY IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR STRENGTHS OR WEAKNESSES, OF YOUR SHIELD, ARMY, CAMP, LEADERSHIP, ....etc.
(AKI) - Two leaders allegedly from the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq have been arrested in volatile Diyala province, the Voices of Iraq news agency reported on Tuesday.
Suicide bombers have for some time been targetting the area around Baquba against local Sunni tribesmen who joined local Awakening Councils to fight al-Qaeda. Twenty suicide attacks have been carried out this year in Diyala, many of them by women.
The Islamic State of Iraq has been held responsible for many of the suicide attacks carried out in the Sunni province. It is made up of seven Salafite-inspired groups and is led by Abu Omar al-Baghdadi.
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What ever happens to all these AQI leaders who get arrested? We never hear about any trials or sentences - are they just released? Or executed? Or do they await trial for a decade or so?
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Methinks that since the Iraqis are not really that squeamish about "aggressive interrogation, that we hand them over to the locals, leave and wait for the transcripts of the interrogation.
I believe with regard to the Iraqi intel gathering techniques, it is "don't ask".
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(VOI) -- Six people, including three policemen, were wounded on Tuesday when two improvised explosive devices went off separately in Diala, a local police source said. 'An IED went off on Tuesday near a gathering of civilians in al-Katoun neighborhood, central Baaquba, wounding three civilians, including a child,' the source, who did not want his name mentioned, told Aswat al-Iraq -- Voices of Iraq -- (VOI). 'A short while later, another IED went off near an Iraqi police patrol on the main street linking the district of Baladruz, (45 km) southwest of Baaquba, to the district of Kanaan inside the city, wounding three policemen,' the source added.
On Monday, nine civilians, including women and children, were killed and 12 others wounded when a female suicide bomber blew up her explosive vest inside an outdoor souk in central Baaquba city.
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(VOI) -- An Iraqi army soldier was injured in a roadside bomb explosion near his vehicle patrol in the city of Mosul, a police source said on Tuesday. "An improvised explosive device went off targeting an Iraqi army vehicle patrol in al-Muaared region in eastern Mosul, wounding an Iraqi soldier," the source, who asked for anonymity, told Aswat al-Iraq -- Voices of Iraq -- (VOI). "He was rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment," he continued. He did not add more details.
Iraqi security forces launched a large-scale military campaign since May 10. The operation, codenamed Za'eer al-Assad (Lion's Roar), aimed at tracking down gunmen in Ninewa province. Five days later, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki announced the operation's second stage under the name Umm al-Rabiain (Mother of Two Springs).
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(VOI) -- A gunman in Kirkuk surrendered to the Iraqi army 4th contingent, exploiting the national reconciliation project's amnesty decree, said a source from the Iraqi army. Abdullah Fadhil Hindi on Tuesday afternoon surrendered to the contingent's forces deployed in al-Rashad area (southwestern Kirkuk),' Major Shawan Ghareb Samerani told Aswat al-Iraq -- Voices of Iraq -- (VOI).
'Fadhil is an element of an armed group that conducted operations against security forces in al-Rashad area,' he added. 'Fadhil surrendered, taking advantage of the national reconciliation project's amnesty decree,' he noted.
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(VOI) -- 13 of Missan's provincial council members on Tuesday suspended their membership, protesting the arrest of three of the council's members, in addition to the raid on the governor's house and the arrest of 30 of his guards, said the council's deputy head. '13 of Missan's provincial council members, who belong to Muntada al-Fikr al-Husseini (The Husseini Ideology Forum) list, suspended their membership, protesting the arrests that targeted many of their list's members,' Ali Abdul-Kadhom told Aswat al-Iraq -- Voices of Iraq -- (VOI).
The list represents the Sadr movement in Missan, and occupies 15 out of 41 seats in the province's council, and the two major positions of the council's head and governor.
Since June 19, 2008, Iraqi security forces have been conducting a wide-scale operation in Missan, called Operation Bashaer al-Salam (Promise of Peace), aiming at eliminating gunmen and imposing law throughout the province.
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(VOI) -- A U.S. force killed an officer of the former Iraqi army after raiding his house, in a village of al-Shergat suburb, a source from Salah al-Din police said on Tuesday.
He added that a policeman was killed in a roadside bombing that targeted Salah al-Din police commander's car, central Tikrit city. 'A U.S. force, yesterday after midnight, conducted a military operation in Sheikh Hamad village of al-Shergat suburb (110 km north of Tikrit), Salah al-Din province,' the source told Aswat al-Iraq -- Voices of Iraq -- (VOI) on condition of anonymity. 'The force killed a major of the former Iraqi army, after raiding his house,' he said. 'Reasons behind the operation and killing are not yet known,' he added, noting that the deceased officer 'was working as a laborer.'
There was no opportunity to contact U.S. forces to obtain more details. 'A roadside bomb on Tuesday morning detonated, targeting Salah al-Din police commander's personal car, when it passed through al-Arbaeen street, central Tikrit,' the source continued. 'One policeman who was driving the car was killed instantaneously,' he added. 'The explosion completely destroyed the car, and a number of shops nearby were also damaged,' he noted.
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"Working as a laborer" indeed. It was a labor of love for alqaeda.
The major threw his lot in with the wrong group, and it cost him his life.
(VOI) -- Police forces arrested a gunman on Tuesday after planting a bomb in southern Mosul, the chief of the Ninewa police department said.
"Policemen arrested a gunman after planting a bomb in al-Dendan intersection in southern Mosul," General Khaled al-Hamadani told Aswat al-Iraq -- Voices of Iraq -- (VOI). "Security authorities received a tip-off from a citizen indicating a person who tossed a black package on the main road in the region," al-Hamadani explained. "Police forces managed to arrest the gunman and bomb squad team rushed to the area where they managed to defuse the bomb without casualties," he also said.
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Police forces arrested a gunman on Tuesday after planting a bomb in southern Mosul, the chief of the Ninewa police department said.
I know English isn't the first language of many of these people in the Muddled East, but some editor somewhere should really, REALLY do his job. According to the way the sentence above reads, the police, not the gunman, planted the bomb. While that's possible, it's not very probable. We also have newspapers such as the "paper of rectumord, the Noo York Slimes, with sentences such as "On Saturday, two gunmen were arrested for shooting at policemen on Saturday". I am glad to be among people who at least have a halfway decent command of the English language, and don't write crap like that. No wonder "old media" is dying, and our children can't read, write, or spell. They have such "sterling" examples to follow. End Rant
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(VOI) -- Three death sentences out of 25 were approved by the Court of Appeals, and will be carried out according to their sequence, Diwaniya criminal investigations director said on Tuesday.
'The Iraqi Court of Appeals enacted death verdicts to execute three convicted people out of 25, who have been handed down death verdicts by Diwaniya's federal court,' Lieutenant Colonel Sattar Ali Mattar told Aswat al-Iraq -- Voices of Iraq -- (VOI). 'The 25 verdicts will be carried out in sequence, after the Iraqi Court of Appeals approves them,' he said. 'Carrying out these verdicts will enforce limits for criminals who violated the sanctity of Iraqi society,' he added. Diwaniya police arrested 25 out of 50 members of the special groups, during the implementation of Fardh al-Qanoon (Law Imposing) plan in Diwaniya, who were later convicted of committing killing and abduction crimes.
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(VOI) - Iraqi security forces on Tuesday arrested four wanted men in southern Mosul, the official spokesman for Ninewa operations command said. 'A force from the Special Operations brigade managed to arrest the four wanted men in Garage Baghdad region in southern Mosul after receiving intelligence tips,' Brigadier Khaled Abdul Sattar told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI). 'The detainees are registered on the list made by the Ninewa operations command,' he also said. He did not add further details.
Iraqi security forces launched a large-scale military campaign since May 10. The operation, codenamed Za'eer al-Assad (Lion's Roar), aimed at tracking down gunmen in Ninewa province. Five days later, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki announced the operation's second stage under the name Umm al-Rabiain (Mother of Two Springs).
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Every society teaches kids a friendship, honesty and love for other human beings. On the other hand hamas and alike teach more than just a courage and friendship. They are pushing "killing propaganda" and planting seeds of hate and anger with regular cartoons and kids stories. Just take a look at some of the pictures and stories they are publishing on a website for kids.
Kids usually have great imaginations and with stories like this "Children stones heroes of today and tomorrow." they will live and dream on becoming the next "beloved" martyr.
Hello. Mutual of Gaza. How may I direct your call?
Two people were killed and two were injured in an explosion at a Hamas training camp near the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis, Palestinian sources reported Tuesday morning.
'Awright, mens! Lissen up! Today we're gonna learn how to wire up explosives! This is dangerous work, so pay attention, knuckleheads! First, y'take this here red wire in yer right hand and the green wire in yer left hand...'
The circumstances of the blast were unclear,
'Sarge! Sarge! That's the red wire y'got in yer left hand! And the green's... [KABOOM!]'
but a source in the Strip said it caused a building in the training facility to collapse. The Israel Defense Forces has yet to comment on the incident,
'Har-ar-ar-ar-ar! Hyuk hyuk! [Guffaw!]... [Snicker!]... [Snif!]... [Giggle!]... We'll have to get back to you later on that!... [Wheeze!]'
which is believed to be the result of a 'work accident' during the production of weapons. Looks great, Samir. Now for the final test. Hand me that hammer.
About a month ago, a mysterious explosion in a building in the southern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya left seven people dead, including a baby and a child, and dozens injured. A day after the blast, Hamas' Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades confirmed that the operatives who died in the explosion were making last-minute preparations for a 'special mission', a Hamas codename for a 'high-quality' attack. ...at the Beit Lahiya Daycare Center and Missile Factory.
According to the statement, the dead were operatives of a special Hamas unit. The organization promised that its people will 'continue following in the path of those killed.' Let's hope so...
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No, ed, an A+! That's just the example we want them all to follow.
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the operatives who died in the explosion were making last-minute preparations for a 'special mission'
as in "Special" Olympics?
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Local package delivery guy shows up at the training camp.
"Hey, guys, sorry I'm late. I have a low current ohm meter for the Hamas' Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, addressed: attention: Samir."
"Hokay, wait a minute. Samir is in conference. He will be out in a minute."
KABOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Samir just exited the building, from all openings!!!!"
"I will just leave the meter here for somebody. Insh'Allah.... Bye."
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A Hamas cell that was plotting suicide attacks inside Israel with chemical explosives was arrested in May by the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) and the IDF, security officials announced Tuesday. The cell, the officials said, was involved in manufacturing a bomb belt that was discovered in a Tel Aviv apartment on Yom Kippur, last September, and was designated for use in a suicide attack in the city.
The IDF arrested four members of the cell, all in their 20s and residents of Nablus. One member of the cell, Ayman Awad served a prison sentence in Israel for involvement in dispatching a suicide bomber several years ago.
During their interrogation, the four cell members confessed to having built a laboratory in a Nablus apartment building where they experimented bomb building with different chemical materials, such as sulfur and nitric acid. The four said they used an instructional video that was prepared by a senior Hamas bomb maker who was killed in 2002 during clashes with IDF troops. Too bad this one didn't turn out that way...
'I'm not accusing anybody. All I know is there was an explosive device placed in my car and that it targeted me.'
The explosion damaged the car but did not cause any casualties, said police sources. Mughani told reporters he heard 'a weak explosion' in the back of his car as he drove to work in the West Bank political capital of Ramallah. 'I got out of my car and I realised there was an explosive device placed next to the fuel tank,' he said, adding, 'I'm not accusing anybody. All I know is there was an explosive device placed in my car and that it targeted me.'
'I haven't been injured and I am now in my office,' Mughani said by telephone. Mughani was briefly held by Hamas police in August 2007 after the movement seized power in the Gaza Strip and ousted forces loyal to moderate Palestinian President and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas. Mughani, who is close to the Fatah movement, later moved to Ramallah.
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Gosh! Who knew that the Paleostains had an attorney general? I didn't know they had any laws that anyone thought to follow.
(UPI) -- Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak Tuesday reopened border crossings between Israel and Gaza after earlier mortar fire prompted their closings.
The Jerusalem Post, without naming sources, reported Barak made the decision to allow the movement of goods and humanitarian aid into Gaza at the urging of Egyptian intelligence chief Omar Suleiman, who reportedly told Barak that reopening the crossings would help in negotiations with Palestinian militants Hamas, who control Gaza.
Israel and Hamas are meeting to secure the release of kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. A Hamas delegation was set to arrive in Cairo Tuesday to discuss Shalit as well as the option of reopening another crossing, the Post said. 'There are several small offshoots (of the major terror groups) in Gaza trying to disrupt the truce, but we have one address, and that is Hamas,' an unnamed Israeli security official told the newspaper. 'We know Hamas has dispatched forces to track down these renegade cells, but (the group) is not (doing) enough.'
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Ombert is dumber than Wile E.
what does 'Kick me' look like in Hebrew?
Israeli troops stormed the shopping mall in this West Bank city Tuesday and ordered it to close, saying the popular facility is linked to the militant Islamic Hamas.
The overnight move was the latest in a widening crackdown on the militant Islamic group in the West Bank, even as Israel observes a cease-fire with the Hamas regime in the Gaza Strip. Israel kept a vital Gaza cargo crossing open though Palestinians fired three mortar shells at Israel on Tuesday, violating a three-week-old truce.
Hamas condemned the Nablus operation as 'provocative.' Palestinian witnesses said the troops surrounded the Nablus Mall after midnight, sealing the building and posting closure orders in shop windows. 'There were dozens of soldiers, lots of jeeps,' said Ali Ashur, 28, who owns a cell phone shop. He said he rushed to the scene about 2 a.m. after a security guard alerted him to the raid.
The five-story mall is one of the most popular spots in Nablus, a city of 135,000 that serves as the West Bank's commercial center. It has about 70 shops, including clothing stores, wedding shops and a restaurant.
The order, signed by an Israeli general who oversees the West Bank, said the building will be closed on Aug. 15, giving shop owners more than a month to move their businesses. 'Anyone found in this center after Aug. 15, will be considered as working on behalf of Hamas and puts himself and his properties in danger,' the order said.
However, shops were closed Tuesday to protest the Israeli order. Businesses throughout the city prepared to hold a general strike on Wednesday as well.
Israeli security officials said the mall is owned by Hamas, the violent Islamic group branded a terrorist organization by Israel, the U.S. and the EU. 'Profits made by stores are used to sponsor terror,' said one official, speaking on condition of anonymity under military guidelines.
The listed owner of the mall is Beit al-Mal, a company whose partners include Nablus Mayor Adli Yaish, a Hamas politician who has been imprisoned by Israel.
Osman Muslah, a business partner of Yaish, said the company has many partners. 'This does not belong to Hamas,' he said. 'We will fight this order through the law.'
Tuesday's raid came a day after Israeli troops swooped down on other alleged Hamas targets in Nablus. They shut down a girls' school, a medical center and two other facilities of a Hamas-affiliated charity, witnesses said. Computers, documents, cash and furniture were seized, they said.
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Move the merchants out and blow it up. If Hamass invests a dime in anything, destroy it. Same goes for any other islamic jihad group. Sooner or later, they'll either get the message, or be so poor they won't be able to buy free air.
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He accepted her Honor and she accepted his offer so he was honor and offer all night.
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TEHRAN, Iran - Iran test-fired nine long- and medium-range missiles Wednesday during war games that officials said aimed to show the country can retaliate against any U.S. and Israeli attack, state television reported. Gen. Hossein Salami, the air force commander of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards, said the exercise would "demonstrate our resolve and might against enemies who in recent weeks have threatened Iran with harsh language," the TV report said.
Wednesday's war games were being conducted at the mouth of the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic waterway through which about 40 percent of the world's oil passes. Iran has threatened to shut down traffic in the strait if attacked.
The report showed footage of at least three missiles firing simultaneously, and said the barrage included a new version of the Shahab-3 missile, which officials have said has a range of 1,250 miles and is armed with a 1-ton conventional warhead. That would put Israel, Turkey, the Arabian peninsula, Afghanistan and Pakistan within striking distance."Our hands are always on the trigger and our missiles are ready for launch," the official IRNA news agency quoted Salami as saying Wednesday. So are ours...
The report comes less than a day after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dismissed fears that Israel and the United States could be preparing to attack his country, calling the possibility a "funny joke."
"I assure you that there won't be any war in the future," Ahmadinejad told a news conference Tuesday during a visit to Malaysia for a summit of developing Muslim nations.
But even as Ahmadinejad and other Iranian officials have dismissed the possibility of attack, Tehran has stepped up its warnings of retaliation if the Americans — or Israelis — do launch military action, including threats to hit Israel and U.S. Gulf bases with missiles and stop oil traffic through the vital Gulf region.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called Wednesday's tests "evidence that the missile threat is not an imaginary one. Those who say that there is no Iranian missile threat against which we should build a missile defense system perhaps ought to talk to the Iranians about their claims," Rice said while traveling in Sofia, Bulgaria.
A White House spokesman called the tests "completely inconsistent with Iran's obligations to the world. The Iranian regime only furthers the isolation of the Iranian people from the international community when it engages in this sort of activity," said Gordon Johndroe, spokesman for the National Security Council. They should also refrain from further missile tests if they truly seek to gain the trust of the world," he added, speaking from Japan where President Bush is attending the Group of Eight summit.
In late June, Vice Adm. Kevin Cosgriff, who was then the commander of the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet, said any attempt by Iran to seal off the Strait of Hormuz would be viewed as an act of war. The U.S. 5th Fleet is based in Bahrain, across the Gulf from Iran.
Israel's military sent warplanes over the eastern Mediterranean for a large military exercise in June that U.S. officials described as a possible rehearsal for a strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, which the West fears are aimed at producing atomic weapons. The Israeli exercise was widely interpreted as a show of force as well as a practice on skills needed to execute a long-range strike mission. Iran says its nuclear program is geared only toward generating electricity, not weapons.
Shaul Mofaz, an Israeli Cabinet minister, set off an international uproar last month by saying in a published interview that Israel would have "no choice" but to attack Iran if it doesn't halt its nuclear program. Mofaz is a former military chief and defense minister, and has been Israel's representative in a strategic dialogue on Iran with U.S. officials. On Wednesday, Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev said Israel "does not desire hostility and conflict with Iran. But it is clear that the Iranian nuclear program and the Iranian ballistic missile program is a matter of grave concern," Regev said.
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FYI the $10M is the complete cost averaged across a production run of 154 missiles, rolling in R&D costs as well (At least half a billion in FY05 alone for development costs, nto production costs).
Incremental cost is considerably less per unit - i.e. now that the research is done, it costs us less then $1 million (guesstimate) for each additional missile.
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The astonishing cost is one reason why I don't want the US to emplace missile defenses in Europe, especially not when the majority of the populations are against it. The complex with 10 GMD interceptors is supposed to cost around $5 billion (AFAICR). Their ass, their responsibility.
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One hopes the following:
1) missiles are backtracked to storage sites
2) all traffic into/out of storage sites for n-years is reviewed to determine placement.
3) backtracking from storage to factories.
4) repeat on the factories.
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Makes a good case for escalation. This conflict is going nuke.
Hopefully, we are not permanently sandbagged by the we-can't-do-that-because-we-can't-do-that idiocy. If that UN building was turned into Condos, nobody would believe that crap. Remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the fire bombing of Tokyo? Over 500,000 dead in minutes.
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I've looked at Iran on Google Earth. Heck, I know where their missile production plants are. I also know where they store about half their SILKWORM missiles, and where they park their launchers to fire missiles. It isn't that hard. BTW, napalm on missile storage facilities causes some HUMONGOUS secondary explosions.
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OP - take the launch parameters, radar, guidance, logistics and C3 elements into account, and you can narrow the areas you need to look.
Under a contract awarded by the Naval Sea Systems Command, Raytheon will provide 75 Standard Missile-3 Block IA missiles for the United States. The company also will provide 27 similar missiles under the Foreign Military Sales program, which funnels weapons to allied nations through the U.S. military procurement process.
The Defense Department said it will initially fund about $92.8 million under the contract, which runs to February 2012.
I guess I misread that as being the total production run award.
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Actually, Iran has been able to perfect its mobile missile systems in the 6 years since they were tagged with the "axis of evil" monicker. In fact, since 9-11 that filthy country has become richer and more fanatic. If they acquire an intercontinental ICBC threat, we will have to blame Bush's suicidal, face saving alliance with Iraq Shiites for that unnecessary threat.
What happened to Bush's "West Point" doctrine of "pre-emption"? He is becoming a sick joke.
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WAFF.com > WND.com - CONGRESS EXAMINES [Iran] EMP THREAT [to USA]IRAN PLANNING TO DEV MISSLES THAT CAN HIT THE US.
ALso from WAFF > ARGENTINA MIL THREAT RAISES NEW FEARS OVER FALKLANDS. Argentina's Madame President plans to claim a formal Argent stake in ANTARCTICA + INTENT ON USING ARGENTINE MIL TROOPS TO DEFEND ITS INTERESTS. Similar to RUSSIA's reported willingness to deploy WINTER WARFARE TROOPS to defend its new ARCTIC = NORTH POLE INTERESTS/CLAIMS. ARGENTINA IS FOLLOWING THE LEAD OF CHINA, FRANCE, NORWAY, + AUSTRALIA, etc. as per the ANTARCTIC
ANTARCTIC > HMMMMMM, well, for one its more evidencia that WOT > MACKINDER'S WAR BTWN NEW WORLD + OLD WORLD > NEW WORLD = AMERICAS IS CURR PREVAILING as per the proposed "TEXAS TRANS-CORRIDOR/SUPER-HIGHWAY", NAU + Pan Amer Union, + VARIOUS PROPOS OWG FREE TRADE ZONES [espec CONUS-NORAM].
As HORACE GREELY once did NOT say > "GO TO ZIMBABWE, YOUNG MAN, GO TO ZIMBABWE"!?
#21
The C301 copies of the CSS_N-2 are not that mobile - and that's what would close hormuz.
These missiles are nearly 6meters long with an 3 meter wingspan. THey have a large truck-mounted rada array that is needed for target acquisiton and initial guidance.
Those have to come up, emit and get the target. They do that, they are DEAD from a HARM.
C301 radars and launchpoints have a very very short life expectancy after the initial salvo.
Also, their longest range misslies are 1200miles or so in range - the Shahab3 specifically, and they have a 700-800 kg single payload, or less if using cluster munitions (mainly chemical/nerve). CEP estimates vary but are generallybetween 500m and 1 KM (lowest is 200m, highest 3km). This is a weapon that is used only for terror with HE or conventional cluster warneads, or needs an area effect WMD to be effective.
Open sources reveal about 20 launchers at best, and they are tightly controlled.
Most of the advanced capability was purchased form NKor originally (Its basically a NoDong missile) with some Chinese help later, and more sales of rocket motors form the Norks (who go themfrom the Chinese and resold them).
Basically, yes Iran can cause a lot of damage initially, but after that they are in for a world-class assbeating. C3I targets, including power generation and transmission, telecom, broadcast com, and water planst will all be disabled or destroyed. WIhtin a month they will have no power, no water no sewage and no fuel (one refinery). Cholera will run rampant in the large cities- and you'll see perhaps a million or more dead, non from firepower, but fromthe loss of clean water, electricity and modern medical care. Within 6 months starvation will set in.
(Xinhua) -- The United States announced Tuesday to impose sanctions on four Iranian individuals and four entities for their ties to Iran's nuclear and missile programs.
As a result, U.S. citizens will be prohibited from any transactions with them, and their assets under U.S. jurisdiction will be frozen. 'Iran's nuclear and missile firms hide behind an array of agents that transact business on their behalf,' said Stuart Levey, the Treasury's under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence. 'As long as Iran continues to engage in such deceptive practices, companies and banks must exercise extraordinary vigilance to avoid participating in illicit transactions,' he said.
The United States has accused Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons. Iran has denied the charges.
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Govt of Iran
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Govt of Iran
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I will be rolling over some of the posts put up after 6 pm CDT. They may or may not have comments already. So if they disappear tonight and reappear tomorrow, you'll know why.
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Yours had the sharpened scalpels at the ends, Barbara dear. That's enough glory for anyone, I think. :-) As for yours, Frank, I've found yours to be true learning experiences. So there!
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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A U.S. Marines commander said Wednesday his troops have killed 400 insurgents in southern Afghanistan since late April. 
At least six people, including three police officers, have been killed in a shootout near the U.S. consulate in Istanbul, the city's governor says.
(Xinhua) -- Four security men were killed in northwestern Pakistan's tribal area on Tuesday, local TV channels reported. 
(Xinhua) -- The law enforcement agencies of Pakistan have taken five people into custody in connection with the series of bomb blasts in the Pakistani port city of Karachi. Seven blasts occurred in different parts of Karachi Monday evening, killing one and injuring 40 others. No group has claimed responsibility of the blasts. 
Iraqi officials at the Ministry for National Security Affairs said documents uncovered in suspected al-Qaida holdouts in the Sunni areas of Baghdad 'prove these elements left Iraq for Somalia and Sudan.'
(AKI) - Two leaders allegedly from the al-Qaeda-linked 
(VOI) -- Six people, including three policemen, were wounded on Tuesday when two improvised explosive devices went off separately in Diala, a local police source said. 'An IED went off on Tuesday near a gathering of civilians in al-Katoun neighborhood, central Baaquba, wounding three civilians, including a child,' the source, who did not want his name mentioned, told Aswat al-Iraq -- Voices of Iraq -- (VOI). 'A short while later, another IED went off near an Iraqi police patrol on the main street linking the district of Baladruz, (45 km) southwest of Baaquba, to the district of Kanaan inside the city, wounding three policemen,' the source added.
(VOI) -- Three death sentences out of 25 were approved by the Court of Appeals, and will be carried out according to their sequence, Diwaniya criminal investigations director said on Tuesday. 
(UPI) -- Israeli Defense Minister 
Israeli troops stormed the shopping mall in this West Bank city Tuesday and ordered it to close, saying the popular facility is linked to the militant Islamic Hamas.
