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Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Julie Ege (Norway) aka The Scandinavian Girl in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" aka Mrs. Vanessa Buren in "The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires" aka Nala in "Creatures the World Forgot" aka Diana in "The Amorous Milkman" aka April in "Double Take" aka Janie McMichael in "Not Now Darling" aka Miss Dazzle in "The Last Days of Man on Earth" aka Helena in "Craze" aka Miss Hanson in "It's Not the Size That Counts" aka Hedi in "The Mutations" (Died in 2008 at age 64)
Demi Moore aka Jordan O'Neill in "G.I. Jane" aka Molly Jensen in "Ghost" aka Lt. Cdr. JoAnne Galloway in "A Few Good Men" aka Det. Tracy Atwood in "Mr. Brooks" aka Nicole 'Nikki' Hollis in "Blame It on Rio" aka Erin Grant in "Stripteese" aka Diana Murphy in "Indecent Proposal" aka Jules in "St. Elmo's Fire" aka Debbie in "About Last Night..." aka Abby Quinn in "The Seventh Sign" aka Marina Lemke in "The Butcher's Wife" (age 50)
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My youngest daughter bunked with Ms. Moore's oldest daughter a few years back (post-Willis and pre-Kutcher) at a summer camp in upstate New York. I became smoking buddies with her since out of the 100 or so family present on visiting day we were the only smokers. I was shocked that she is a tiny thing, thin as a rail, shy and very sweet. Goes to show the magic of photography and cinemantography.
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There is something about those type of stockings (Bottoms up!) with the thin black strip running down the back of the leg that just looks so...so...I dunno, '50's maybe? Or even '40's? That and the leopard skin, the black panties and too much eye makeup...not a nice look, Demi, not what you'd call respectable anyway, I'm trying to avoid a certain word here, but certainly some would find it intriguing.
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That black strip is called a seam. It looks so '50s because the lack of seam line on a leg was associated with bare legs and bare legs in the 40s and 50s were considered undignified and common. Maybe those were the words you were searching for. Interesting how the impression has changed with time.
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Ahem! I assume you are referring to limbs, sir.
Indeed. Dear Jane Austin's last writings were about the change in the concept of refinement among the gentry and petit bourgeoisie in the early 19th century, a false refinement of which she did not approve. Thank goodness she didn't live to see the explosion of tableware toward the end of the Victorian age -- she would have laughed herself silly, which would not have helped the sales of the novels upon which she depended.
(AP) -- A police official says more than 30 young men living in Kenya who belong to a Somalia-based al-Qaeda-linked beturbanned goon group have accepted an amnesty.
Police front man Eric Kiraithe said Saturday that the recruits from the Somali beturbanned goon group al-Shabaab ... Harakat ash-Shabaab al-Mujahidin aka the Mujahideen Youth Movement. It was originally the youth movement of the Islamic Courts, now pretty much all of what's left of it. They are aligned with al-Qaeda but operate more like the Afghan or Pakistani Taliban. The organization's current leader is Ibrahim Haji Jama Mee'aad, also known as Ibrahim al-Afghani. Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, a Kenyan al-Qaeda member, is considered the group's military leader... are providing information on the group.
Kenyan troops entered southern Somalia last month in pursuit of al-Shabaab Islamic fascistiwho the government blames for a string of kidnappings and attacks on European tourists. Al-Shabaab has threatened to retaliate with large-scale terror attacks in Kenya's capital.
Police blame the group for several attacks in recent weeks in which seven people were killed, some by grenades. A non-Somali Kenyan national was convicted to life in prison for one of the grenade attacks.
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[An Nahar] The U.N. human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... chief on Friday condemned a deadly air strike on a refugee camp in South Sudan, saying the attack could amount to an international crime.
"We condemn the bombing. It's an extremely serious matter and could amount to an international crime," front man Rupert Colville told journalists.
"We need more information about exactly what happened and who carried out the bombing," he added.
South Sudan has accused Khartoum of carrying out the strike on a refugee camp in Yida town in Unity State on Thursday, which a local official said killed 12 people and injured more than 20.
Just hours before the reported raids, South Sudan's President Salva Kiir accused his northern counterpart Omar al-Bashir Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it. of trying to drag the new country back to war and seize its oil fields.
The U.N. refugee agency said Friday that several bombs dropped by an aircraft hit the camp sheltering more than 20,000 refugees who decamped violence in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan's Southern Kordofan state.
Condemning the attack, UNHCR front man Adrian Edwards said: "Two of the bombs fell within the Yida camp, including one close to the school.
"Fortunately there were no casualties in the camp and we are verifying the situation of surrounding communities."
The front man did not explicitly state who was behind the attack, saying that the agency had seen the statements of both governments, while telling journalists: "You will have to look to see who has the capacity to carry out the bombing."
Miabek Lang, commissioner of Pariang County in Unity State, said Thursday it was the Sudan Armed Forces which targeted Yida. But this was denied as "completely false" by SAF front man Sawarmi Khaled Saad.
"We didn't bomb any camps or any areas inside the borders of South Sudan," Saad told AFP.
Tens of thousands of civilians have decamped across Sudan's poorly defined border with the newly independent south to escape the fighting in the Blue Nile border area and nearby South Kordofan.
"UNHCR is concerned by the escalating tensions in the border areas between Sudan and South Sudan where hundreds of thousands of civilians have been uprooted since June as a result of fighting," Edwards said.
Sudan last week lodged a complaint against South Sudan, accusing it of funding the SPLM-North rebels who fought alongside the south's ruling SPLM during its 1983-2005 war with Khartoum.
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Let me guess: we can fix this by shoveling a little money towards UNESCO?
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saying the attack could amount to an international crime.
And that will stop it how, exactly?
Mike
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Let me guess: we can fix this by shoveling a little money towards UNESCO?
UNESCO doesn't have anything to do with refugees. That falls under UNHCR:
"Two of the bombs fell within the Yida camp, including one close to the school," said UNHCR spokesman Adrian Edwards. "Fortunately there were no casualties in the camp and we are verifying the situation of surrounding communities," he told journalists in Geneva.
There are also reports this week of bombing in New Guffa village of South Sudan's Upper Nile state resulting in civilian casualties. As many as 55,000 civilians originating from the Damazine and Kurmuk areas are said to be moving southwards in Sudan's Blue Nile state. Some of these people are heading to Chali within Blue Nile state.
Note the discrepancy in the first paragraph. Beware of "local sources"?
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UNESCO doesn't have anything to do with refugees.
I was aware of that. But the first two letters match and UNESCO could use a little walking-around money until payday. And shrimp cocktail is fungible. What can I say? I regard the UN as one giant Blair's Law chew toy.
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] South Sudan's army on Friday said a cross-border attack by Sudanese troops on a military base left 18 fighters dead and 73 maimed, as the UN warned that Sudanese air raids on a southern refugee camp could be an "international crime".
Relations between Sudan and its newly-independent southern neighbour appear to have deteriorated sharply this week, due to fighting either side of the new international frontier that has prompted an angry exchange of accusations.
The Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) said the ground attack in Upper Nile state took place on Thursday, when the northern army also bombed the Yida refugee camp in nearby Unity state and another location in Upper Nile, according to southern officials.
"There has been fighting in Kuek after an attack on our base by Sudanese armed forces (SAF) and mercenaries" that started at 9:00 am (0600 GMT) on Thursday and lasted seven hours, SPLA front man Philip Aguer told AFP.
"On our side, five were killed and 26 were maimed and on the side of the attackers, 13 bodies were counted on the ground and they have 47 maimed," Aguer said, claiming they used mortars, AK-47 assault rifles and heavy machineguns.
"We repulsed the attack, and the attackers were driven back to the Republic of Sudan, on the border with White Nile state," Aguer said, adding that more incursions were expected in South Sudan's oil-producing region.
President Salva Kiir claimed, in a speech on Thursday, that South Sudan's former civil war enemy was trying to drag the new country back to war and seize its oil fields.
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[Iran Press TV] Somali pirates have demanded a ransom payment of millions of dollars for the release of a UAE-owned vessel that they hijacked last year, Press TV reported.
The pirates are said to be demanding $8 million in ransom to free MV Iceberg 1 fat merchantman and its 24 crew members. They have warned that hostages would be killed if ransom demands were not met soon.
Somali pirates seized MV Iceberg 1 some 10 nautical miles off the port of Aden in Yemen on March 29, 2010. The Panama-flagged ship was bound for Jebel Ali in the United Arab Emirates, and was carrying a mixed cargo of general mechanical equipment.
The crew consists of nationals from Yemen, India, Ghana, Sudan, Pakistain and the Philippines.
Meanwhile, ...back at the sea battle, the Terror of the Baltic's career had come to an abrupt and watery end... Francis Koosom, the son of one of the sailors still languishing in captivity, launched a struggle for the release of his father and other 23 crew members of MV Iceberg 1.
He pleaded with the Ghanaian government to pay the ransom to secure the release of MV Iceberg crew.
Ghana's Foreign Minister Muhammed Mumuni has promised to take all the necessary efforts to ensure the release of all the MV Iceberg sailors.
Attacks by heavily armed Somali pirates in speedboats have prompted some of the world's largest shipping firms to abandon the Suez Canal and reroute cargo vessels around southern Africa, resulting in higher shipping costs.
Somalia has been without a functioning government since 1991, when warlords overthrew former dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.
The authority of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government is generally limited to the area around the capital Mogadishu.
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"...We want a million helicopters...and a dollar!!"
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[Iran Press TV] Somalia's al-Shabaab ... Harakat ash-Shabaab al-Mujahidin aka the Mujahideen Youth Movement. It was originally the youth movement of the Islamic Courts, now pretty much all of what's left of it. They are aligned with al-Qaeda but operate more like the Afghan or Pakistani Taliban. The organization's current leader is Ibrahim Haji Jama Mee'aad, also known as Ibrahim al-Afghani. Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, a Kenyan al-Qaeda member, is considered the group's military leader... fighters say they have killed at least 30 foreign soldiers in an attack in the country's south, as violence rages on the lawless Horn of Africa nation, Press TV reports.
The incident occurred when the Somali fighters ambushed a convoy of Kenyan troops, which resulted in an hours-long battle.
The fighting began on Thursday afternoon and continued overnight between the southern Somali towns of Tabda, where Kenyan soldiers are operating, and Bilis Qooqaani.
Al-Shabaab fighters said they also managed to destroy six Kenyan military trucks.
Somali government officials, however, has put the number of mortalities at about 21.
They said only three trucks destroyed in that attack and four other vehicles were captured by the fighters.
The conflict is the latest outbreak of violence in southern Somalia, where Kenyan forces and al-Shabaab fighter have been engaged fierce battled over the last weeks.
In October, Kenya dispatched soldiers into neighboring Somalia and began air and ground offensives against al-Shaboobs, who Nairobi blames for a string of kidnappings in Kenya. .
Tension has been growing between the hapless Somali government backed by Kenyan troops and al-Shaboobs over control of towns in south Somalia.
Somalia has been without a functioning government since 1991, when warlords overthrew the country's former dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.
Strategically located in the Horn of Africa, Somalia remains one of the countries generating the highest number of refugees and internally displaced people in the world.
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[Iran Press TV] Nine people are believed to have died after a French helicopter crashed near Somalia's Southern port city of Kismayo, Press TV reports.
The military chopper crashed late on Friday as it was patrolling the area between the town of Kuda and Kismayo, local Somali official, Captain Sabriye, said.
The crash caused a massive kaboom and sent flames high into the sky.
French helicopters fly over the area, to provide backup for Kenyan forces, who launched an incursion into Somalia in October in pursuit of al-Shabaab ... Harakat ash-Shabaab al-Mujahidin aka the Mujahideen Youth Movement. It was originally the youth movement of the Islamic Courts, now pretty much all of what's left of it. They are aligned with al-Qaeda but operate more like the Afghan or Pakistani Taliban. The organization's current leader is Ibrahim Haji Jama Mee'aad, also known as Ibrahim al-Afghani. Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, a Kenyan al-Qaeda member, is considered the group's military leader... fighters.
In late October, French military front man Colonel Thierry Burkhard said Gay Paree would transport air-borne military equipment to Kenyan soldiers near the Somali border.
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Heavy fighting between local armed groups killed several people on the outskirts of Tripoli on Saturday, as interim government officials struggled to calm tensions amid talk of tribal feuds and diehard support for Muammar Gaddafi.
On a second day of clashes near a military camp lying among farms and villages between the capital and the port of Zawiyah, some 50 km (30 miles) to the west, anti-Gaddafi fighters from Zawiyah pounded targets with heavy machineguns, anti-aircraft cannon, rocket-propelled grenades and Grad rockets.
[An Nahar] Forces loyal to Yemeni President Abdullah Saleh shelled the country's second largest city Taez early on Friday, killing nine people, among them two women and a child, a medic and witnesses said.
"The bombing killed nine people this morning (Friday), all of them civilians," the medical source said, adding that two women and a nine-year-old child were among those killed and that dozens of other people were maimed.
Security forces began operations shortly after midnight (2100 GMT Thursday) in the area of Freedom Square, where demonstrators had rallied to call for the fall of the regime, witnesses told AFP.
Residents said the shelling intensified on Friday morning, focusing on the neighborhoods of al-Rawdah and Zeid al-Mushky in Taez, which have been at the forefront of anti-regime protests.
On Thursday, one man was killed and nine other people were maimed in Taez, said medics.
Witnesses said Republican Guard troops, commanded by Saleh's son Ahmed, fired artillery rounds into the center of Taez where tens of thousands of protesters were calling for the veteran leader's prosecution.
The escalation in violence coincides with the return of the U.N. envoy to Yemen, Jamal Benomar, to revive efforts aimed at resolving the country's political turmoil.
Benomar, who arrived in the capital Sanaa on Thursday, began meeting with several government and opposition figures to discuss recent developments and the best means for resolving the current crisis.
"My visit came to reach a political reconciliation and to sign the Gulf initiative" by which Saleh will step down in return for immunity from prosecution for himself and his family, Benomar told news hounds upon his arrival.
Officials of the ruling party and delegates negotiating on behalf of the opposition told AFP on Thursday the talks were making progress.
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[Washington Post] Commandos in civilian clothes slipped onto a hijacked passenger ferry and posed as hostages before fatally shooting a suspected Kurdish rebel carrying explosives in a 12-hour drama that ended before dawn Saturday. There were no other casualties aboard the Kartepe, that was hijacked on Friday after it left the northwestern port city of Izmit. There were 18 passengers on board, including five women, as well as four crew and two trainees, authorities said.
Despite the success of the raid, the hijacking drew attention to the conflict with Kurdish rebels who have stepped up attacks on government forces in the country's southeast this year. The Turkish military has responded by staging an air and ground offensive against rebel hideouts in neighboring Iraq. The rebels, who are considered hard boyz terrorists by Turkey and the West, are seeking autonomy in Turkey's mostly Kurdish southeast.
Coast guard boats and helicopters had shadowed the vessel for much of its journey before it was forced to anchor off the port town of Silivri, west of Istanbul, Interior Minister Idris Naim Sahin said.
The commandos prepared the raid while the police conducted lengthy negotiations with the lone hijacker, including a single communication that lasted over one hour, Sahin said.
Some commandos, who apparently climbed the vessel from rubber boats, mingled with the hostages before killing the suspect, he said.
"They were wearing civilian clothes and waited orders from us to go ahead," Sahin said.
Two passengers said they heard six gunshots from the captain's cabin, where the hijacker was located. Six? That should do it.
One of them, Ceyhun Sezer, told NTV television that they had watched the news about the hostage drama all night on TV screens in the passenger hall.
"He did not talk to us at all," said Sezer of the hijacker. "We saw the commandos, then heard three shots and then three more."
"The whole operation lasted at most 10 minutes," Sezer said.
Another passenger, Kadir Altunoglu, told NTV that he opened the door to other security forces after hearing the gunshots.
Sahin identified the hijacker as Mensur Guzel, and said he was armed with 450 grams of plastic explosives. The minister said Guzel, born in 1984, was the head of the youth wing of the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, in the northwestern province of Kocaeli, and joined the rebels after escaping from the military in 2009.
The PKK has not grabbed credit claimed responsibility for the hijacking.
Sahin said that police launched the operation after the talks had failed.
"We tried to convince him to surrender for hours," Sahin said. "But he refused."
TRT television said police jugged three suspected accomplices of the hijacker in Kocaeli.
The hijacker had collected some of the passengers' mobile phones but some others and crew members were able to make calls to authorities and their families.
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A Kurdish rebel with a phony bomb who hijacked a Turkish ferry was killed early Saturday and his hostages brought to safety after a 12-hour ordeal. Commandos stormed the ferry at dawn and killed the hijacker, according to reports.
Eyewitness Ceyhun Tezel told the NTV news channel, "We saw the commandos (boarding). They finished it in 10 minutes. We didn't see them (killing the hijacker), but we heard three shots first, and then three more. We prayed and thanked to God that we survived."
Istanbul Governor Huseyin Avni Mutlu said the hijacker was a member of the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). He said, "Soon after the beginning of an operation, the hijacker was captured dead."
Kocaeli governor Ercan Topaca said the hijacker had been carrying a "mechanism" that appeared to be a bomb. He said, "No bomb was found on the (hijacker's) body," the Anatolia news agency quoted Topaca as saying. "A mechanism made of bottles and wires, which was designed to look like a bomb, was found."
NTV said police raided the hijacker's house in city of Izmit and obtained documents, while Topaca said one person was arrested in Izmit in connection with the hikacking.
The ferry Kartepe was hijacked on Friday in the Sea of Marmara, where PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan is jailed on an island. Tezel said, "We should have arrived at the destination point in 20 minutes. When we were delayed and saw that the (ferry) was going somewhere else, we understood that we were being hijacked."
The former hostage said the passengers did not see the hijacker because he was on the upper deck and they were below.
Security forces under the command of the Interior Ministry boarded the ferry off the coast of Silivri, a town west of Istanbul, on Saturday.
Yildirim said 18 passengers including five women, four crew and two trainees were aboard the vessel, which was taking its normal route in the north of the Sea of Marmara when it was seized. The boat was anchored off Silivri, after sailing in circles until it ran out of gas.
The hijacker told the ferry's captain that he wanted publicity, mayor Ismail Karaosmanoglu told NTV. Yildirim added that the attacker had conveyed demands for food and fuel.
The island of Imrali, where Ocalan, the jailed PKK leader, is held, is about 75 miles southwest of the hijacking spot. Turkish media say the hijacker was assumed to be heading for the island.
The pro-Kurdish Firat news agency said, "Measures were boosted around the island of Imrali where PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, who has not been allowed to meet with his lawyers for months, is being held."
You just gotta watch the video here -- you got 6 minutes. Looked and looked and looked and yet to find a pic of the 16 foot statue after it was unveiled... Did find an interview with Greg Kelly and his co-host, interviewing one of the four men that were first into Afghanistan. When asked "Why horses?" His reply was "When we got there, there was no transportation. No cars, no roads. We could walk, or we could walk, or we could ride horses."
It was the news the world breathlessly waited for immediately after the 9/11 terror attacks: a report of the first American troops on the ground in Afghanistan.
All at once the world's attention focused on an iconic photo of those Special Operations Forces doing something no American military had done in nearly a century: They rode horses into combat.
Their secret mission: secure northern Afghanistan by advising the warring tribal factions that formed the Northern Alliance. During the 2011 Veterans Day Parade on November 11, a new monument to these men -- and to all Americans in uniform -- will make its way down New York City's famed Fifth Avenue on the way to its final home, a stone's throw from Ground Zero.
Retired Army general and current CIA director David Petraeus will be among the parade marshals. One vid I saw, had a brief group scene with Petraeus in a suit, but with his beret on. First time I've seen him in a vid since retirement.
Hollywood producer Jerry Bruckheimer is producing a future movie about America's "Horse Soldiers." You know his work. Finally, a movie to pay money to go see. You will appreciate if you watch the video
The spirit of the elite forces who rode on that dangerous and unprecedented mission in Afghanistan -- the men depicted in this short film -- was the monument's inspiration.
War reporter Alex Quade tracked down some of those courageous American commandos. She obtained their permission, and that of their commanding officers, to share their personal stories, their names, their faces, and their mission photos. This footage and most of these photos have never been seen before. And you got to hear their story of the female navigator in an AC130, known as "The Angel of Death." It's in the vid.
John Vigiano is a former marine and retired New York fire captain who lost two sons at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. John Jr. was a firefighter. Joe was a New York City police officer.
"We are all in this equally, but in a different capacity," Vigiano told Quade. "President Bush called us [in New York] 'the first casualties of the war' ... we may have responded first to the attack, but the Special Forces took it to them on their turf," Vigiano says. "The Horse Soldiers picked up the standard from us, here in the USA, and brought it to them in Afghanistan."
"In every sense of the word," he said, "they were an extension of our sons."
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Just bought the book and plan to read it. Thanks for the tip, Sherry!
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Sherry, a scale model of the statue is briefly shown at about the 1:12 point in the vid. Shots of a larger rendering start at 5:34. Absolutely magnificent work; somewhere on the other side, Frederic Remington is smiling. And one side benefit to this statue...both the subject and the placement will make fashionably-leftist heads explode all over Manhattan.
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Corrected an inline mispelling of Petraeus' name.
You just gotta watch the video here -- you got 6 minutes. Looked and looked and looked and yet to find a pic of the 16 foot statue after it was unveiled... Did find an interview of Greg Kelly and his co-host, interviewing one of the four men that were first into Afghanistan.
It was the news the world breathlessly waited for immediately after the 9/11 terror attacks: a report of the first American troops on the ground in Afghanistan.
All at once the worlds attention focused on an iconic photo of those Special Operations Forces doing something no American military had done in nearly a century: They rode horses into combat.
Their secret mission: secure northern Afghanistan by advising the warring tribal factions that formed the Northern Alliance. During the 2011 Veterans Day Parade on November 11, a new monument to these men and to all Americans in uniform will make its way down New York Citys famed Fifth Avenue on the way to its final home, a stones throw from Ground Zero.
Retired Army general and current CIA director David Petraeus will be among the parade marshals. One vid I saw, had a brief group scene with Patraeus in a suit, but with his beret on. First time I've seen him in a vid since retirement.
Hollywood producer Jerry Bruckheimer is producing a future movie about Americas Horse Soldiers. Finally, a movie to pay money to go see
The spirit of the elite forces who rode on that dangerous and unprecedented mission in Afghanistan the men depicted in this short film was the monuments inspiration. War reporter Alex Quade tracked down some of those courageous American commandos. She obtained their permission, and that of their commanding officers, to share their personal stories, their names, their faces, and their mission photos. This footage and most of these photos have never been seen before.
John Vigiano is a former marine and retired New York fire captain who lost two sons at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. John Jr. was a firefighter. Joe was a New York City police officer.
We are all in this equally, but in a different capacity, Vigiano told Quade. President Bush called us [in New York] the first casualties of the war we may have responded first to the attack, but the Special Forces took it to them on their turf, Vigiano says. The Horse Soldiers picked up the standard from us, here in the USA, and brought it to them in Afghanistan.
In every sense of the word, he said, they were an extension of our sons.
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Nice review. Thanks. "Only capable of threatening India with your BMs is not enough, remember the biggest threat for your nation is USA.
So Pakistan needs some 20-30 MIRVed ICBMs to defence itself from USA, since hundred of them are too expensive to be maintained for the current economy of Pakistan."
Interesting remarks.
The audience is very 'defensive(?)'.
[Dawn] Five bodies, two stuffed in gunny bags, were found in separate places of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar and Swabi on Thursday.
Officers of the Mathra cop shoppe of Peshawar said they called in the bomb disposal squad (BDS) after being informed about the presence of two suspicious gunny bags on Pejagi Road in the morning.
The BDS found bodies of two bearded men, one aged around 35 years and the other around 40 years, in the bags but no identification papers on them. Police said it was likely the two were killed somewhere else and dumped there at night.
Ostensibly, they were poisoned as no marks of torture were found on the bodies. The bodies were shifted to the Khyber Medical Colleges mortuary for an appointment with Dr. Quincy.
Police inquired from the residents of Pejagi Road about the bodies but none could help with the identification of the victims.
Families of the dead might turn up after publication of the news, police said.
One police officer said the two didn't appear to be locals. He recalled a similar case on Charsadda Road where four bodies found in gunny bags four months.
In Swabi, the three bodies, all of unidentified women and carrying marks of torture, were found in the fields near the Daulat-Gumbat police check post.
Police felt that the women might be victim of domestic violence but were clueless about their identity. Since the bodies were found in a Sawbi-Mardan border area, they said the dead could belong to any of the two districts.
Police later placed the bodies in the Yar Hussain basic health unit for identification but to no avail by Thursday night. They will be laid to rest by police after approval by tehsil municipal administration if they remain unidentified even after posting their pictures at public places.
Police hoped to trace the identity of the dead soon.
A local resident said initially the police were reluctant to take the bodies, perhaps because of the time municipal authorities took to permit the interment of a girl whose body was found lying in the area governed by the city cop shoppe a day ago.
Police registered the case and began investigations but got no clues about the whereabouts of the dead women by night.
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[Dawn] Militants blew up a government-run school in Haleemzai tehsil of Mohmand ... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar... tribal region on Thursday, official sources said.
They said that unidentified forces of Evil planted improvised explosives device at a girls` primary school in Malik Nader Khwajawas Kor at the night between Wednesday and Thursday.
The device went off with a bang, destroying two rooms of the school completely and damaging another, they added.
About 350 girl students will be deprived of getting education if alternative arrangements are not made for them.
More than 83 schools have been destroyed in Mohmand Agency after spillover of militancy into the region, affecting over 20,000 students.
Schools were reopened recently in Biazai tehsil after three years while in tehsil Safi educational institutions were reopened after four years, said Agency Education Officer Said Mohammad Khan. He said that students of the destroyed schools had no other option but to attend classes in tents, hujras and mosques.
The Levies and Khasadar personnel conducted search operation in the village after the incident and demolished houses of two suspects identified as Pir Zada and Tariq.
Scores of locals including the landowner were tossed in the calaboose under the collective territorial responsibility clause of FCR after the blast.
Meanwhile, ...back at the sandwich shop, Caroline was experimenting with ingredients of increasing volatility... the chief of peace committee of Kohat division has said that Taliban can get control of the region if government continues to ignore needs and requirements of the volunteers.
Salamat Khan Orakzai, the chief of anti-Taliban lashkar raised by government in 2009 for Orakzai Agency ... crawling with holy men, home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar. 14 distinct tribes of beturbanned primitives inhabit Orakzai agency's 1500 or so square kilometers... , Hangu and Kohat, said that they closed their training centre in Hangu owing to financial constraints.
He said that they fought against Death Eaters alongside army and seized weapons worth millions of rupees from them. "We have also tossed in the calabooseforces of Evil and handed them over to security forces," he added.
Talking to journalists, Mr Orakzai said that so far their 13 volunteers had been killed and five maimed but none of them had been compensated.
He said that police were harassing their volunteers that could lead to dismantling of the lashkar and Kohat division could fall into the hands of jihad boys.
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But, But, Mualims aren't supposed to harm other Muslims?
Are they?
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[Dawn] The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a review application seeking cancellation of bail to Malik Mohammad Ishaq, leader of a banned outfit, in the Sri Lankan team attack case.
A two-member bench comprising Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani and Justice Asif Saeed Khan Khosa was hearing the matter at Lahore Registry of the apex court.
Earlier, a division bench of the SC had granted bail to Ishaq in the attack case wherein he was accused of masterminding it while in prison.
The Punjab government had moved a review application before the apex court to cancel the bail. The bench, however, dismissed it today.
Ishaq was released on July 14, 2011, after being imprisoned in Kot Lakhpat jail for 14 years.
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Bahrain says a terrorist cell plotting attacks against the Gulf kingdom has been uncovered by security officials in neighboring Qatar and that the four suspects have links to Iran. Shiites - Interrogation will be painful
The Interior Ministry says in a statement Saturday that the four detained Bahrainis had a laptop containing sensitive security information about sites like the Saudi Embassy and the Interior Ministry building in Bahrain's capital. The Shiite rebellion has been an Iranian puppet job
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[NY Times] The Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... voted Saturday to suspend Syria and warned that the country could face sanctions if it did not end its crackdown against anti-government protesters.
The decision was a symbolic blow to a nation that prides itself on being a powerhouse of Arab nationalism.
Sheik Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani, the Qatari foreign minister, said 18 countries agreed to the suspension, which would take effect on Wednesday. Syria, Leb and Yemen voted against it, and Iraq abstained. The Arab League will also introduce political and economic sanctions against Syria, he said.
Violence has continued unabated since Syria agreed on Nov. 2 to an Arab-brokered peace deal that called for the Syria to halt violence against protesters, pull tanks and armored vehicles out of cities, release political prisoners and allow journalists and rights groups into the country.
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[BBC] Fifteen soldiers have been killed in a huge explosion at a military base near Iran's capital of Tehran, officials say. "Ardeshir! Put out that stogey! We gotta move these weapons!"
The blast occurred when weapons were being moved inside a Revolutionary Guards depot, a spokesman for the elite unit told state TV. "Nothin' to worry about, Your Enormity! It ain't like they're loaded! Who'd be dumb enough to move weaponry without unloading it first?"
Windows in nearby buildings were shattered and the blast was heard in central Tehran, 40 km (25 miles) away.
[KABOOM!]
A helicopter and ambulances have reportedly been sent to the scene. "And hearses! Tell 'em we need hearses, dammit!"
Local MP Hossein Garousi said "a large part of an ammunition depot exploded," parliament's website reported. Important safety tip here, folks: Safeties on, stogies out...
The Revolutionary Guards spokesman did not say what caused the blast in the village of Bidganeh, near the city of Karaj. "I can say no more!"
"But you ain't said nuttin'!"
"Some of the casualties are reported to be in a critical condition," he said. "Ardeshir! Ardeshir! Speak to me!"
[rattle]
Karaj resident Kaveer told the BBC's Newshour programme that the sound was "deafening". That was how they could tell it was a kaboom...
"We were kind of shocked. I just ran out of the house and looked around," he said. That's what I always do when something explodes down the road from me.
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Lawmaker Parviz Soroori ruled out sabotage."No sabotage was involved in this incident. It has nothing to do with politics," Soroori was quoted as saying by the parliament's website, icana.ir.
Heh. Whatever you say, buddy...
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Making room for the Pak nukes?
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Brig. Hassan Moghadam, head of Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) missile development and sections of its nuclear program, was killed in one of the two consecutive explosions that hit two IRGC bases 46 kilometers west of Tehran Saturday, Nov. 12.
well, one would suspect a release of specific radioactive material in such an explosion. I hope we are monitoring for it
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I've been suggesting for a while that what is really needed is for Iran to have a serious nuclear accident, in which a lot of Iranians are burned and killed, because the average Iranian on the street just does not have a concept of what nuclear weapons can do.
Explosions like these would be the perfect cover for someone to pump a whole bunch of nasty isotopes into the air in a metro area. And they would be long gone before they would be implicated.
This teaches us (the Iranians) that if you bluff and bluster about nuclear weapons and dirty bombs, you may very well get a taste of your own medicine. When westerners "play hurt", they mean it.
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gromky: A nuke warhead of the type they would put on a SHAHAB-3 has a LOT of high explosive on it, and can give off a pretty impressive non-nuclear boom on its own.
All that would be needed to set one off is probably poor grounding. I wouldn't put it past the spooks to incorporate some component with the ability to generate a milli-amperage overload. Just as likely, the Iranians built a device that did it by itself.
[An Nahar] Human Rights Watch ... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world... on Friday accused Syrian government forces of "crimes against humanity" based on the systematic nature of abuses against civilians in their eight-month crackdown on dissent.
In a report issued a day before the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... holds an extraordinary meeting on the crisis, HRW urged the Cairo-based pan-Arab group to suspend Syria's membership.
The watchdog also called on the 22-member League to ask the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... Security Council to impose an arms embargo and sanctions against responsible individuals, and to refer Syria to the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ...
"The systematic nature of abuses against civilians in Homs by Syrian government forces, including torture and unlawful killings, indicate that crimes against humanity have been committed," it said.
Based on the accounts of 110 victims and witnesses, the report said "violations by the Syrian security forces killed at least 587 civilians" in the central city of Homs and its province between mid-April and the end of August.
In their latest assault on the restive city, the forces had killed at least another 104 people since November 2 when the regime of embattled Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Sonny, disguised as Fredo, trying to be Mike... agreed to an Arab League initiative to end the violence.
"Homs is a microcosm of the Syrian government's brutality," said Sarah Leah Whitson, HRW's Middle East director, quoted in a statement.
"The Arab League needs to tell President Assad that violating their agreement has consequences, and that it now supports Security Council action to end the carnage," she said.
Human Rights Watch said it had documented dozens of violent attacks by security forces and "government-supported militias" on "overwhelmingly peaceful protests," including in the towns of Tal Kalakh and Talbiseh.
"Typically, security forces used heavy machineguns, including anti-aircraft guns mounted on armored vehicles, to fire into neighborhoods to frighten people before entering with armored personnel carriers and other military vehicles," said its report.
"They cut off communications and established checkpoints restricting movement in and out of neighborhoods and the delivery of food and medicine."
Assad's forces, it said, had arbitrarily placed in durance vile thousands of people -- including children, women and the elderly -- and subjected many of them to systematic torture.
Several hundred were still missing, said HRW, adding it had independently documented 17 deaths in jug in Homs, all but five of them a clear result of torture.
Former detainees said the security forces used heated metal rods to burn their bodies and electric shocks.
One of them said he was tortured after being brought blindfolded into Homs' military intelligence base.
"They beat with cables and then hanged me by my hands from a pipe under the ceiling so that my feet weren't touching the floor," he said in the report.
"I was hanging there for about six hours, although it was hard to tell the time. They were beating me, and pouring water on me, and then using electric stun guns."
The Syrian regime has repeatedly said it is fighting "armed terrorists" backed from abroad.
Human Rights Watch said protesters were unarmed in most festivities, but that defectors from the security forces intervened when the demonstrators came under fire from regime troops and militiamen.
"Violence by protesters or defectors deserves further investigation," said the report, adding however that "these incidents by no means justify the disproportionate and systematic use of lethal force against demonstrators."
The watchdog said the Syrian regime's strategy had provoked some protesters and defectors to arm themselves and fight back.
It said this "highlights the need for the international community to ensure an immediate cessation of lethal force lest the country slip into bloodier conflict."
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[An Nahar] At least 33 people were killed in violence in Syria on Friday, most of them in the restive city of Homs, as Human Rights Watch ... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world... accused the regime of crimes against humanity.
The Local Coordination Committees said that 33 people were killed at the hands of security forces during Friday's demonstrations.
The Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... , meanwhile, prepared for a ministerial meeting on the Syria crisis which, according to the United Nations ...Parkinson's Law on an international scale... , has claimed more than 3,500 lives since protests against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Despoiler of Deraa... erupted in mid-March.
Ten people were killed in Homs, including a defecting soldier and a 63-year-old man, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said in a statement received in Nicosia.
The deaths in Homs came amid mass anti-regime rallies demanding the vaporous Arab League suspend Syria's membership in the pan-Arab body to sanction its brutal, eight-month crackdown on dissent.
Security forces broke up demonstrations in al-Malaab, a main thoroughfare in Homs, but rallies relocated and mushroomed, engulfing eight neighborhoods, including al-Bayada, al-Ghuta and Baba Amr, the Observatory said.
Three people died in Daraa province, cradle of the revolt. They were a man shot by security forces in the town of Busret al-Sham, another man killed in al-Sanmeen, and a 13-year-old boy who died in a kaboom in Mseifra.
In the northwestern province of Idlib, near Turkey, "security forces rubbed out a man in the town of Ariha," where demonstrations erupted after the weekly Mohammedan midday prayers.
The Observatory also reported "mass protests" in Idlib's Sheikhun in the wake of a "retreat by security forces from government buildings following violent festivities."
In Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... , security forces deployed on the streets of Barzeh and posted snipers on rooftops, after a wave of arrests and deadly violence shook the capital's neighborhood.
And "security forces unleashed heavy gunfire to disperse demonstrations," in the eastern oil hub of Deir al-Zour.
Friday prayers have become a lightning rod for demonstrations in Syria, which each week adopt a new theme and this week called for the Arab League to suspend Syria's membership.
The League, under international pressure to act after Syria failed to honor a peace plan and instead stepped up its brutal protest crackdown, held talks ahead of a meeting on Saturday to discuss the crisis.
Syria's envoy to the Arab League, Youssef Ahmed, presented early Friday a memorandum in which Damascus expressed its willingness to receive a pan-Arab delegation.
"This will help assess Damascus's commitment to the (Arab) plan and to unveil motives behind certain external and internal parties working for the failure of the Arab blueprint," the official SANA news agency said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the abandoned silver mine, the water was up to Jack's neck and still rising... Human Rights Watch (HRW) in a report accused Syrian government forces of "crimes against humanity" based on the systematic nature of abuses against civilians.
It said protesters were unarmed in most festivities, but that defectors from the security forces had intervened when the demonstrators came under fire from regime troops and militiamen.
Based on the accounts of 110 victims and witnesses, HRW said "violations by the Syrian security forces killed at least 587 civilians" in the central city of Homs and its province between mid-April and the end of August.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[BBC] Fifteen soldiers have been killed in a huge explosion at a military base near Iran's capital of Tehran, officials say.
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