Dana Delany - 53 "Katherine Mayfair on Desperate Housewives" (Now)
This Day in History:
1639 - Harvard College is named for clergyman John Harvard.
1884 - The siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins.
1925 - Scopes Trial: A law in Tennessee prohibits the teaching of evolution.
1954 - Battle of Ðiện Biên Phủ: Viet Minh forces attack the French.
1986 - Microsoft has its initial public offering.
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*ahem*
contrary to the standard "Green Book Public Works Specifications", 90% compaction IS NOT REQUIRED for temporary fill over a non-contracted IED.
thank you, The Editors
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Were these Ali Babas or Sons of Iraq?
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Penguin.
I also enjoy re-runs of Gunsmoke. I hope that doesn't make me even more of an idiot.
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"This is why I think most bloggers are idiots."
Then why are you here hanging around with idiots?
What does that make you?
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They post things without even researching the context of the video.
Penguin dear, how does one do that? I've impressed the trailing daughters with my internet savvy 'cause I know about Fail Blog and Icanhazcheeseburger, but this is beyond me.
Marines of the 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment -- the ground combat element of Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force Afghanistan -- now have a special group of people to help them complete their mission in Afghanistan.
The task forces all-female Marine team is interacting with the Afghan female population in southern Afghanistan -- a task considered culturally unacceptable for the male Marines operating there.
A similar program has been used in combat operations in Iraq, but this is the first time Marine forces in Afghanistan have employed the concept, officials said.
Marine Corps Capt. Mike Hoffman, commanding officer of 3/8s Company I, said the all-female team is an important asset for his Marines.
[The team] provides us access to half of the population that we normally do not have access to, Hoffman said. They did extremely well interacting with the female villagers.
Marine Corps 2nd Lt. Johanna Shaffer, the team leader, said their first mission, a cordon-and-search operation in support of Operation Pathfinder, was very successful.
We were accepted by both the men and women villagers and were able to obtain valuable information about the way they lived and what they thought about the Marine Corps operating in the area, Shaffer said.
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A jihadi's worst nightmare. What did the missiles shot off by that all-female air crew have written on them? Something like, "Ha ha! Killed by a girl!"?
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rtwt, tw. This is the jihadi's worst nightmare for a lot of other reasons. I doubt these Marines are meant to see combat up close and personal in the shot by a girl sense as much as to do the community building, intelligence gathering activity. Much better for the Reaper to reach out an touch someone out of the blue because of intel from a fed up mother.
Note how afraid the Taliban are of the Afghan women becoming educated. Educated women change a culture a lot. These Marines are a real threat to radical Islamic culture in a way that male Marines are not. Just seeing a woman leading other women and a woman officer being treated like an officer by subordinate males sends a real impression to every woman who sees it. I had to post this on the run, and I sort of hoped it wouldn't hit till tomorrow, but one part I didn't include that really made me think was
Although Afghan women tend to be more reserved than Afghan men, they still have a large influence on their children, Shaffer said, so engaging with them is important. If the women know we are here to help them, they will likely pass that on to their children, she said. "If the children have a positive perspective of alliance forces, they will be less likely to join insurgent groups or participate in insurgent activities.
We remain the most radical, revolutionary country in the world, a threat to every other culture. And it's weapons like this that are the most effective.
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we called it the lioness program when I was in iraq. Anectdotally it seemed to me that the iraqi women thought the female Marines w/their weapons were pretty cool.
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We remain the most radical, revolutionary country in the world, a threat to every other culture. And it's weapons like this that are the most effective.
Indeed, Nimble Spemble. A very good and useful article, across several metrics. And I did read the whole thing before I posted, 'cause it was worth it. :-)
we called it the lioness program when I was in iraq
(AKI) - International aid group Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is to suspend all its activities in the troubled Darfur region in western Sudan after three of its aid workers were abducted. The organisation said on Thursday it would withdraw from the region and return to the country's capital Khartoum. "As a result of the abduction of its staff, all sections of MSF are withdrawing almost all international staff from projects in Darfur," MSF said in a statement on its website. "Only an essential skeleton team will remain to follow the case of the abducted MSF colleagues. A number of Sudanese staff will also be relocated for now."
An Italian doctor, a Canadian nurse and a French co-ordinator were kidnapped in the area of Serif Umra, located in North Darfur late Wednesday. Two Sudanese staff members were also abducted but were later released. The kidnappings follow Sudan's expulsion of 13 aid groups, including the French and Dutch chapters of MSF. The expulsion did not affect the other MSF bodies in Darfur, the Belgian, Swiss and Spanish chapters.
"The people behind the kidnapping are nothing more than armed bandits and it has nothing to do with the issue of the International Criminal Court and Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir."
This evacuation will mean an interruption to many of MSF's essential medical services in Darfur, the organisation said. "MSF is extremely worried both for our abducted colleagues and for the populations the MSF teams had been providing medical aid."
A Sudanese government source rejected claims that the abductions were linked to the arrest warrant issued for Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir's in early March for alleged war crimes in Darfur by the International Criminal Court. "The people behind the kidnapping are nothing more than armed bandits and it has nothing to do with the issue of the International Criminal Court and Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir," said a Sudanese government source, quoted by Arab TV network Al-Jazeera.
The United Nations estimates at least 300,000 people have been killed and 2.7 million others displaced from their homes in fighting across Darfur over the past six years between rebels, government forces and allied militiamen known as the Janjaweed.
Since 2003, MSF has provided aid to 500,000 people in the war-ravaged country.
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ION AFRICA, TOPIX > THE NEXT PAKISTAN? SOMALIA'S FAILED STATE AND WHY THE WEST CAN'T AFFORD TO IGNORE IT.
Also, SAME > MADAGASCAR AT THREAT OF CIVIL WAR.
What is with THE BAM-MAN = POTUS OBAMA, + TWO-FERS???
A former Somali government official has reportedly died after a powerful bomb explosion ripped through his vehicle in northern Mogadishu.
Ubeyd Mohamud Mohamed, the security head of former Somali prime minister Ali Mohamed Gedi, was killed after a roadside bomb targeted his vehicle at Shibbis district in north Mogadishu. His three security guards as well as four other police officers were killed in the incident.
Witnesses said the car was completely destroyed by the bomb. Hassan Rageh Olow, a local official said he and his aides have gone to the scene of the incident to oversee the attack.
No group has claimed responsibility for the bomb attack and the motive behind it remains obscure.
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Now his wife qualifies for welfare in Brooklyn!!!
Seven people have been arrested in the Netherlands on suspicion of planning a terror attack on an Ikea furniture store and a number of shops near the Ajax stadium in the capital Amsterdam.
The arrests follow a telephone warning to Amsterdam police late on Wednesday evening, police chief Bernard Welten said on Thursday evening. The caller from Brussels said three people were planning an attack using explosive devices in or near a major department store in the southeast of Amsterdam. The aim was to cause as many casualties as possible, the caller said.
Public prosecutor Herman Bolhaar told the press that one of the names mentioned by the caller was a relative of a person involved in the train bombings in Madrid, five years ago. The six men and one woman who were arrested are between 19 and 64 years of age; all of them are Dutch citizens of Moroccan origin. All of them are charged with preparing an act of terrorism. After these arrests, police say the threat has been eliminated, but the prosecutor added that more people may be arrested.
In addition to the arrests and a number of house searches in the Dutch capital, police in Belgium carried out house seaches in Brussels.
In the course of Thursday morning, the Ikea store and a number of other shops in the area were evacuated. The shops are on Arena Boulevard, named after Ajax's Arena football stadium which is nearby. The shops and the Heineken Music Hall remained closed all day on Thursday, but they've opened again as usual on Friday morning, as there is no further threat to public safety.
Dutch police say they have made several arrests following a bomb threat apparently targeting a major shopping street in Amsterdam. Police have also said that they are conducting house searches. No further details have been released.
Early Thursday, police ordered the closure of Arenaboulevard -- a shopping street in the southeast of the city that leads from Ajax Football club's Arena soccer stadium toward a large Ikea store.
In 2002, Ikea's Dutch branch received a threat that later was found to have been part of an extortion attempt.
Local television station AT5 reported that Ikea and other stores in the area had received the threat before they opened on Thursday.
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Update: BBC reports the arrested were Dutch citizens of Moroccan descent.
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The dutch problem is of Morrocan descent.We have it worse of Pakistan descent in the UK!!!
How can we expel them if they are born here is the dilema for European countries to fac in the future!!!!
A French court sentenced Algerian Djamel Lounici in absentia to 5 years in prison and a 10-year ban from entering French territory, local and international press reported on Tuesday (March 10th). In 1997, the same court convicted Lounici and 20 other defendants on terror charges related to the 1994 Marrakesh attack. Lounici is currently detained in Algeria.
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THE death toll in a suspected US missile strike in northwest Pakistan rose to 18, with 50 others wounded, according to local officials. Two missiles fired by an unmanned drone destroyed a Taliban training camp in Kurram, officials said, one of seven semi-autonomous regions near Pakistan's porous border with Afghanistan, where US troops are battling Taliban fighters. "The death toll has risen to 18 as three more bodies were found and they (militants) are are still sifting the rubble for more bodies," a local administration official told AFP. Time for another flight.
A senior security official told AFP on condition of anonymity that 50 others, mostly militants, were injured and the dead included "foreigners" -- a reference to Al-Qaeda. No high-value targets were believed to have died, the official added.
Another security official said most of the dead were Afghan Taliban. "The training centre was run by local Taliban commander Fazal Saeed and training was underway at the time of the strike," the official added.
Jumping through flaming hoops?
Taliban militants sealed off the area after the strike late yesterday.
More than 30 such strikes have killed over 330 people since August 2008, shortly before key Washington ally President Asif Ali Zardari was elected.
The US military as a rule does not confirm drone attacks but the armed forces and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operating in Afghanistan are the only forces that deploy drones in the region. Yesterday's attack was the fifth missile strike blamed on unmanned US aircraft since President Barack Obama came to power, dashing Pakistani hopes that the new administration would abandon the policy.
Aswat al-Iraq: A former member of the Karbala provincial council turned himself in to authorities on Thursday to complete procedures of a complaint lodged against him over an editorial he published in a local newspaper. "I have turned myself in to the authorities after some organizations lodged a complaint against me over an editorial I had published in the newspaper Karbala Today, of which I was editor-in-chief," Ghaleb al-Daami told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
"According to this complaint, I was accused of having supported the Karbala Crime Department, which two years ago was suspected of involvement in outlawed practices," Daami added. "The security authorities to which I have turned myself in referred me to the prosecutor, who released me for lack of sufficient evidence," he said, denying reports by the mass media that he was arrested at his house in the town of al-Hindiya, (20 km) east of Karbala, on charges of "financing terrorist groups".
Daami was one of three members of the former provincial council in Karbala who had been wanted after the incidents of al-Ziyara al-Shaabaniya, or the mid-Shaaban visit, which marks the birth anniversary of Imam al-Mahdi, the Messiah-like 12th holy figure for Shiite Muslims, on August 28, 2007, which resulted in armed confrontations between security forces and armed groups, leaving hundreds of local residents killed or wounded.
Apart from Daami, arrest warrants had been issued against Ahmed al-Husseini, the chief of the council's awqaf (endowments) committee, and Jawad al-Hassanawi, the deputy governor, both are candidates from the Sadrist Movement, or Iraqis loyal to Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr.
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When in hell are we gonna drop a MOAB on Sadr??? Does anybody have any connections??? He is the problem in Iraq where Iam at!!!
Aswat al-Iraq: Unknown gunmen assassinated Sheikh Abdullah Adnan al-Neimi, head of the tribal office of Iraq's Scholars and Intellectuals Group, at an area in southern Basra city, a source from the Group said on Thursday. "The incident took place at Mhejran area, southern Basra," Mohammed al-Dosari told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. "Neimi died instantly when the gunmen opened fire at him today (March 12) afternoon," he said. The Group, formed in 2007, calls for employing a moderate religious approach to reinforce national unity.
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(AKI) - Suspected Iranian artillery killed a two-year-old child and injured his parents in the northern Iraqi village of Zarawa close to the Iranian border, Iraqi radio reported on Wednesday.
Iranian forces fired artillery rounds for two hours into the village late on Tuesday, a police official told the Voices of Iraq news agency.
The child's mother is in a stable condition, but the father's health is critical, the police official added.
Northern Kurdish villages in Iraq are regularly exposed to Turkish air bombings and Iranian artillery targeting the separatist Kurdistan Worker's Party and the Party For a Free Life in Kurdistan, which oppose the Turkish and Iranian governments.
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(AKI) - The Israeli airforce on Thursday said it bombed two suspected weapons-smuggling tunnels in the southern Gaza Strip, with no casualties being reported. Witnesses quoted by Palestinian news agency Maan said that the bombing took place in the Rafah refugee camp, along the border with Egypt.
The Israeli military said the strike was in response to several Qassam rockets and one mortar shell fired into southern Israel on Wednesday. No damage or injuries resulted from those attacks, Maan reported
Four Qassam rockets fired from Gaza on Wednesday landed in open fields causing no injuries of damage. A mortar shell reportedly landed close to a factory at a kibbutz, causing slight damage but no injuries.
IAF planes bombed two suspected arms smuggling tunnels along the Gaza-Egypt border, just hours after another airstrike wounded three members of a Palestinian rocket-launching squad.
Following Israel's Operation Cast Lead offensive against the coastal sliver in December 2008 and January 2009, Israel and Palestinian factions declared a unilateral ceasefire on 18 and 19 January respectively.
Israeli armed forces and Palestinian militants have repeatedly broken the ceasefires since.
Over 1,330 Palestinians were killed in the operation and over 5,400 were injured. Thirteen Israelis died during the conflict.
The tunnels in southern Gaza are used to import goods made scarce by Israel's crippling economic blockade of the aid- dependent coastal strip, and allegedly to smuggle in arms.
The Israeli blockade has been in place since the Islamist Hamas seized control of Gaza from the more moderate Palestinian group Fatah.
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Each week in Thailands deep south, new blood is spilled in the name of a forgotten Muslim sultanate. This guerilla war seems worlds away from Bangkok and Thailands neon-soaked coastal playgrounds. But it has ground Thailands military to a halt.
The campaign, little known outside the region, is being waged to restore Pattani, a small Islamic kingdom absorbed by Thais in 1908. So entrenched is Thailands southern violence that, when decapitated heads tumble across public streets, the killings are reported in passing. Four such attacks in February nudged the movement toward its 50th recorded beheading. Since 2004 when the separatist campaign sparked anew more than 3,300 have died.
Now, as Thailands new ruling party plans a hearts-and-minds campaign, the military appears to be digging in. With southern violence in mind, the Royal Thai Armed Forces is quietly amassing equipment and gear: Russian attack choppers, sleek Israeli assault rifles, armored Ukrainian and South African personnel carriers, and more. Amidst one of Thailands worst-ever economic slumps, the military has set aside $214.6 million for the insurgency this year. It will also maintain a $557.9 million, six-year budget to set up a special infantry division devoted entirely to southern unrest.
The new arms deals signal only a slight step in the right direction, said Zachary Abuza, professor at Bostons Simmons College and expert on Thailands southern violence. What the soldiers really need, he said, is more training and more guts. They need troops willing to take the chase to the insurgents, said Abuza, who characterized the Thai armys strategy as a passive defense.
You need rolling checkpoints penetrating the interior. For a while, theyve had a fair number of troops down there, but you never see them. They never leave the barracks. The ability to infiltrate the interior, where the insurgents hang out, is nil, he said.
Anonymity defines the separatists, who remain mostly unknown to military leaders. Men sometimes emerge from rubber tree plantations, halt passing motorists, kill them and disappear. Or they ignite remote bombs, wait for police or soldiers to respond and set off secondary bombs hidden nearby.
The heavy Thai security presence prevents the insurgents (from) massing and going toe-to-toe with the government, wrote U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Nicholas Vavich of the Naval War College in a briefing on the insurgency. They prefer hit-and-run operations specifically aimed at a target audience: the population.
Separatists have attacked schools and Buddhist temples and have beheaded monks. Twice, in 2005 and 2006, they laced an entire commercial strip in the southern trading hub Hat Yai with explosives. But, typically, they get away and they seldom attribute their attacks to specific networks. A March 7 attack was typical of the tactics. Separatists killed two brothers and left behind a note reading This is a revenge on state officials." So were two late February attacks, in which suspected separatists beheaded a married couple and two soldiers, and simply left authorities to assume their motives.
The military still has a difficult time protecting itself, said Srisompob Jitpiromsri, director of Deep South Watch in Pattani province. Time after time, theyre attacked, but the troops dont tend to push forwards, or even counterattack. They just try to protect themselves.
Even as Thailands military stockpiles weapons, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, appointed in mid-December, is promising a more sensitive approach. So far, his remedies have been mostly bureaucratic. Abhisit is establishing a southern affairs cabinet, which he will chair. He also promises to review the deep souths three-month emergency decrees extended 14 times already that offer police and soldiers special powers to wiretap, detain suspects and impose curfews. Military round-ups of young, Muslim men, who typically speak a northern Malay dialect instead of Thai, draw routine censure from groups such as the Asian Human Rights Commission.
The separatists, Prime Minister Abhisit admits, will likely persist unless the government acknowledges southern poverty and southern Muslims Malay-centric culture. There are so many military and police in the three (southernmost) provinces that it cant be a sustainable or long-term solution, Abhisit told foreign reporters in January. The only long-term solution must be done through a comprehensive package that covers well beyond the security dimensions.
But as Thailands government promises sensitivity, and the military cuts arms deals across the globe, the violence roils. Since Abhisits Dec. 15 appointment, Abuza has counted more than 80 killings, 34 bombings and five beheadings. The soldiers cant protect the people or themselves, Srisompob said. Its like theyre just concerned with their own survival.
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The really sad thing is the long-term strategy of the separatists. Years ago, a copy of their written strategy document was captured - I believe in Northern Malaysia. It was very simple:
1. We want to have a pure Islamic state. We want to expel all Buddhists.
2. We will accomplish this task by making it impossible for Bhuddhist parents to send their children to school. We will do this by destroying schools, and by murdering teachers, school administrators, and students. Since we know that Buddhist parents will not allow their children to go uneducated, they will be forced to uproot their families and relocate outside of our area.
3. We will not bother Buddhists who have no children - because when they die, our task is accomplished - no more Buddhists.
And - the insurgents carried out that plan. Countless educators were murdered - in at least one case, insurgents entered a classroom and executed the teacher, in front of the horrified students. A favorite target was pick-up trucks or motorcycles bringing students or teachers to school. A score of school principals were executed.
This was - and still is - an outright attempt at genocide - ethnic cleaning of the most direct nature.
And - it is slowly working. Sending children to non-Islamic schools - or teaching in such a school - is to place yourself in continuing mortal peril.
It is horrible - and the silence of the "uninvolved" Muslin majority in the south is damning.
It is strange - because in the small business that I run in Bangkok, I employ both a Thai Muslim (from Surat Thani) and a Thai Budhhist (from Pattani) - who work (literally) side-by-side, and both are tremendous employees who get along well.
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I have a better idea: Thailand should expel all the Muslims. If they want to live in a "pure Islamic state" they can do it by moving south to Malaysia.
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#3 even better, let them keep fighting, then if we can have China and India get at it, maybe the world would get rid of most of global warming problem. Isn't that briiliant!!!
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This was - and still is - an outright attempt at genocide - ethnic cleaning of the most direct nature.
Ethnic cleansing isn't genocide, Lone Ranger. Otherwise, a very useful and informative post -- yet another variation on the theme of expanding Dar al Islam by terrorizing the kaffir. The question is, should the Thai army use tested American "hearts and minds" tactics, or simply give each village the choice of turning in the bad guys or moving to Malaysia themselves? Of course, the Thais will have to change their attitude for either to be effective.
A bomb exploded in a mosque in the south-eastern Iranian city of Zahedan on Tuesday, in the second such attack on the place of worship in a month, the Fars news agency reported.
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based on the name of the mosque (al-Gadhir) which is an important place to Shia (the confirmation of Ali by Mo as successor), I think this is a Shia mosque. Thus the bomber(s) are presumably Sunni.
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(AKI) - International aid group Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is to suspend all its activities in the troubled Darfur region in western Sudan after three of its aid workers were abducted. The organisation said on Thursday it would withdraw from the region and return to the country's capital Khartoum. "As a result of the abduction of its staff, all sections of MSF are withdrawing almost all international staff from projects in Darfur," MSF said in a statement on its website. "Only an essential skeleton team will remain to follow the case of the abducted MSF colleagues. A number of Sudanese staff will also be relocated for now."
A former Somali government official has reportedly died after a powerful bomb explosion ripped through his vehicle in northern Mogadishu. 
THE death toll in a suspected US missile strike in northwest Pakistan rose to 18, with 50 others wounded, according to local officials. Two missiles fired by an unmanned drone destroyed a Taliban training camp in Kurram, officials said, one of seven semi-autonomous regions near Pakistan's porous border with Afghanistan, where US troops are battling Taliban fighters. "The death toll has risen to 18 as three more bodies were found and they (militants) are are still sifting the rubble for more bodies," a local administration official told AFP.
Aswat al-Iraq: Unknown gunmen assassinated Sheikh Abdullah Adnan al-Neimi, head of the tribal office of Iraq's Scholars and Intellectuals Group, at an area in southern Basra city, a source from the Group said on Thursday. "The incident took place at Mhejran area, southern Basra," Mohammed al-Dosari told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. "Neimi died instantly when the gunmen opened fire at him today (March 12) afternoon," he said. The Group, formed in 2007, calls for employing a moderate religious approach to reinforce national unity.
(AKI) - The Israeli airforce on Thursday said it bombed two suspected weapons-smuggling tunnels in the southern Gaza Strip, with no casualties being reported. Witnesses quoted by Palestinian news agency Maan said that the bombing took place in the Rafah refugee camp, along the border with Egypt.
Each week in Thailands deep south, new blood is spilled in the name of a forgotten Muslim sultanate. This guerilla war seems worlds away from Bangkok and Thailands neon-soaked coastal playgrounds. But it has ground Thailands military to a halt.
