Wrong narrative for the USAF of course, but perhaps B-1 cannot simply assume the CAS role of the A-10.
So the B-1 was flying 'too high' to get the signals required from the ground forces. Was there a reason why the B-1 had to be that high? I'm not advocating nap-of-the-earth flying but for goodness sakes one has to be able to communicate with ground forces -- that's the whole point of CAS.
Sounds like a USAF doctrine issue, considering the aircraft's design and original intended purpose.
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Gen. Harrigian’s investigation revealed the four crew members showed incompetence in how to conduct CAS as well as in how to use their identification sensors. The Air Force Joint Terminal Attack Controller who was positioned with the Green Berets relayed inaccurate information to the bomber.
Incompetence? WTF? I'll wager heavy equipment drops or the Fulton Recovery System would be also be out of the question for the B-1. But that's just a guess.
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I'm not military but isn't a stealthy B1 (as in 'I'm not here... you don't seem me...') kind of ill-suited for Close Air Support (as in 'I'm here, I'm in your face and I'm going to kick your ass!').
More like someone used a sledgehammer to screw in a screw and wonder why their finger got smashed...
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Reads to me as if a strategic air crew and airframe needed some OP mission airtime or they were going to be rotated out of the commander's control, and his OER.
A jacket wallah suicide bomber detonated a car laden with explosives in front of a hotel where Libya's elected parliament was in session in the eastern city of Tobruk on Tuesday, wounding three deputies and eight others, the assembly's spokesman said, Reuters reported.
The bombing is the biggest attack on the parliament since it set up in Tobruk, near the Egyptian border. The assembly, which was elected in June, shifted its seat to Tobruk for security reasons after violence in its planned location, the eastern port city of Benghazi, worsened.
The car exploded in a parking lot near the entrance gate to the hotel as lawmakers sat in a nearby hall, parliamentary spokesman Farraj Hashem told Reuters by phone. Three deputies and eight hotel staff were wounded, he said.
Until now, Tobruk has been relatively secure compared to the rest of Libya, which has been in violent turmoil since Muammar Gaddafi was toppled nearly four years ago. A car bomb in November targeted the city, but not parliament itself.
Libya's conflict is pitting former rebel brigades which helped oust Gaddafi in 2011 but now fight for power and a share of Africa's biggest oil reserves.
Details of Tuesday's bombing were not clear. Another lawmaker at the scene said the attack was a car bomb, not a suicide attack. Officials often contradict themselves in Libya, which has no efficient state institutions or police.
The House of Representatives in Tobruk is allied to the internationally recognized government of Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni, who was also forced to relocate after Libya Dawn took control of the capital. Thinni is based in the city of Bayda, while the parliament set up in the Tobruk hotel. An initial plan to relocate to the port city of Benghazi was called off as it was judged too dangerous.
Libya Dawn has established its own parliament in Tripoli, though this has not been recognized by world powers.
The conflict has been complicated by a separate battle in Benghazi where Thinni's forces have merged with troops of a former general fighting Islamists.
Tobruk is located east of the coastal town of Derna, a hotspot for Al Qaeda sympathizers and other radicals.
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Fifteen people were killed yesterday by suspected Boko Haram members in Kautakari village in Borno State. Witnesses said dozens of militants armed with rifles and gasoline bombs stormed Kautakari around 7 a.m.
A fleeing resident said, "The attackers killed 15 people, mostly youths who normally keep vigil in the village. There was pandemonium in Kautakari after the arrival of the attackers. They burnt some houses and asked our people not to flee, saying they came for certain people."
However, it was seen that most youths and middle aged men fled, leaving only the old and children in the village. Another villager said, "The attackers did not stay long after they did what they did. They zoomed off towards Chibok on motorcycles and warned the villagers against standing on their way."
Kautakari village is near Chibok, the village where 276 girls were kidnapped by the militants on April 14.
Earlier on Monday, a Toyota pickup van loaded with explosives exploded while on its way to Biu town in southern Borno. The Biu main market opens Mondays and Thursdays and attracts people from many towns and villages.
Bukar Alhaji, a local trader, said, "All the occupants in the van which we suspect to be Boko Haram insurgents were killed by the bomb which went off near Chikwarkhir village. There was a loud bang from the direction of the moving rickety van and a few minutes after, we saw the decapitated bodies of the occupants. The beans and maize were burnt to ashes."
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[IsraelTimes] Pak police have rejugged Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! the main suspect in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, officials said Tuesday, quashing expectations that he might soon be freed.
Zaki-ur-Rahman Lakhvi is one of seven suspects being tried by Pakistain in connection with the attacks, which killed 166 people and seriously damaged relations between longtime rivals Pakistain and India.
After a judge on December 18 granted him bail there had been concerns that he would be freed, possibly as early as Tuesday. But Tuesday morning police arrested him on another case, his lawyer Rizwan Abbasi said.
Lakhvi appeared in court in Islamabad amid tight security. He told an News Agency that Dare Not be Namednews hound that he accepted whatever God intended for him.
Police inspector Mohammed Arshad told the court that someone had filed a complaint at a cop shoppe on the Islamabad outskirts saying that Lakhvi had kidnapped his brother-in-law to wage ?jihad? six and a half years ago. The judge granted a police request for time to investigate the accusation, extending Lakhvi?s detention for two days.
A lawyer for Lakhvi questioned why the complaint had only become known when it appeared that Lakhvi would be let go on bail. Rizwan Abbasi called it a tactic to ??.deprive my client of the fundamental right of liberty.?
The legal maneuverings Tuesday stem from the decision on Dec. 18 by the judge in an anti-terrorism court to grant him bail, citing a lack of evidence.
That announcement was extremely embarrassing to the government, which had vowed to crack down on militancy following the Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. school attack days earlier. It provoked a harsh condemnation from India, which has repeatedly said Pakistain is not doing enough in the case.
In the wake of the bail announcement Pak legal authorities tried various mechanisms to keep Lakhvi behind bars, but in a hearing on Monday, a judge said that there were no grounds to prolong the detention and that the only thing standing between him and freedom was posting bail.
Pak television reported that bigwigs met late Monday at the Interior Ministry to discuss the case. Lakhvi was rearrested the following morning.
The series of attacks in Mumbai in November 2008 by members of a Pakistain-based terror group left 166 people dead, including six at the Mumbai Chabad House, which was targeted along with luxury hotels, a train station and a popular cafe. Lakhvi is accused of planning the attacks.
[AnNahar] Iraqi forces on Tuesday completed the recapture of the town of Dhuluiyah, parts of which had been held by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... jihadist group for months, commanders said.
Pro-government forces had pushed into the town, located 90 kilometers (55 miles) outside Baghdad, from the north two days earlier, fighting their way south.
"Forces from the army and the police and (militiamen) and tribal fighters succeeded today in regaining control of Dhuluiyah," an army major general told Agence La Belle France-Presse.
The officer said that 50 military vehicles advanced from the north and linked up with allied forces in the town's southern Jubur area, which had resisted repeated assault by IS.
This "means the complete liberation of Dhuluiyah and the end of the (IS) presence," he added.
A leader in the Shiite Badr militia, which took part in the operation, confirmed the "complete liberation of Dhuluiyah."
"We succeeded in breaking the blockade which was imposed by (IS) on the Jubur tribe," the commander said.
People had gun sex and honked car horns in celebration, according to a policeman in the town, which is strategically located on roads linking the eastern province of Diyala to Salaheddin province in the north.
Omar al-Juburi, a leader of the tribal forces battling IS, said earlier that military reinforcements had arrived to carry out a renewed push to retake the town.
Clashes took place in some areas on Tuesday where IS forces were holed up in houses, Juburi said.
IS fighters have been carrying out "suicide kabooms" on pro-government forces, he added.
On Monday IS published pictures online showing what it described as battles in Dhuluiyah.
In one of the pictures, fighters are seen rigging a car with explosives. Another shows a man carrying out a suicide attack on government forces.
The Iraqi defense ministry said Monday that government warplanes had carried out raids against jihadists positions in the town.
In October, Iraqi forces retook most of Dhuluiyah from IS, but the jihadists later launched a counter-offensive and were able to recapture ground.
Since Sunday government forces backed by Sunni rustics and Shiite snuffies have been clearing bombs and other explosives placed by the jihadists in various parts of the town.
IS spearheaded a Lion of Islam offensive in June that overran Iraq's second city djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... and then swept through much of the country's Sunni Arab heartland.
Backed by U.S.-led air strikes, Kurdish forces, Shiite militias and Sunni rustics, Iraqi troops have since managed to wrest back some territory from the jihadists, but three major cities and swathes of other territory are still outside government control.
The U.S.-led coalition announced that it had carried out eight air strikes against IS in Iraq on Tuesday, targeting fighters as well as vehicles and buildings used by the jihadists.
It also launched seven raids in Syria, where IS has also seized large areas for its self-proclaimed cross-border Islamic "caliphate."
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On Monday evening, a soldier was killed, while seven elements of the army and the police were injured in a bombing and an armed attack in Tarmiya area (north of Baghdad), according to a police source.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, "An explosive device emplaced on the side of the road exploded this evening, targeting a police patrol in the district of Tarmiya northern of Baghdad. It resulted in wounding three police elements."
The source added, "On Thursday evening, unidentified gunmen opened fire from machine guns toward the army in Tarmiya, which resulted in killing one soldier and wounding four others."
The source added, "Security forces cordoned off the two locations and carried out a raid and search operation to find the perpetrators, while ambulances transported the injured to a nearby hospital and the dead to the Forensic Medicine department."
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On Tuesday, a source within the Kurdish Peshmerga stated, that the Peshmerga forces repelled an ISIS attack on the area of Sinjar and killed 5 ISIS elements in violent clashes.
The source told IraqiNews, "The Kurdish Peshmerga forces have foiled an ISIS attack on the area of Sinjar," adding that, "The Peshmerga fighters have killed 5 elements of the ISIS group including a senior leader."
"No casualties have been reported among the Peshmerga fighters," the source noted.
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The Iraqi Security Forces controlled the village of AL-Alous near Haditha district of western Anbar province on Tuesday. Mayor of Haditha district Abdul Hakim al-Jughaifi stated to IraqiNews.com "The ISF controlled the village of Al-Alous completely and caused huge casualties among the terrorists of the ISIL."
He added "Clashes between the ISF supported by the tribesmen from one side and the terrorists of the ISIL continue in albu- Hayat village (20 km) to the east of Haditha district."
He clarified "A force from the Iraqi Army/ 7th Division rushed to support the security forces positioned in the Albu- Hayat village and Hawarat check point," noting that "The force clashed with the terrorists and detonated three bombs emplaced on the road."
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[Ynet] Scores of Paleostinians gathered at the West Bank village of Borin and hurled stones at IDF forces that had arrived to disperse them. The soldiers responded with riot dispersal methods, wounding one demonstrator in his lower body. He was independently evacuated for medical treatment.
Indonesian national police have announced the arrests of three suspected terrorists, including two linked to Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) leader Dulmatin , thought to be the mastermind of the 2002 Bali bombings.
Muhammad Shibghotulloh, one of several Indonesians who were deported from Malaysia after being stopped on December 2 while allegedly traveling to the Middle East to join the IS, has since been arrested by Indonesian authorities who have linked him to Dulmatin.
Inspector General Ronny F. Sompie said, "[He] allegedly once sheltered Dulmatin and was involved in a militant group training camp in Ambon."
Shibghotulloh was interrogated for three days and then named a suspect, Sompie said, denying reports the suspect was tied to IS.
Earlier this month, a pair of former suspected leaders of an Aceh terror training camp were arrested in East Java. Dulmatin, killed by Indonesian security forces in March 2010, had run the camp, according to reports.
Tony Sangaralo was arrested in Lamongan on December 21st and Adi Margono was captured the next day in Banyuwangi. The two had allegedly contacted one another. Tony helped run the Janto, Aceh camp that was raided in 2010.
National Police spokesman Agus Rianto said, "Tony was one of those who fled. His colleague, Dulmatin, was shot dead in Tangerang, West Java in 2010. The JI link is now much smaller than it used to be. They are also weaker. Its leader, Jemaah Islamiyah leader Abu Bakar Bashir is serving a prison sentence in Cilacap, Central Java. However, many JI followers are still around. Tony is only one of them."
[Mindanao Examiner] Police seized three suspected Abu Sayyaf members believed to be behind a bombing in Zamboanga City in southern Philippines.
Police spokesman Dahlan Samuddin said the three men - Marcel Jumadil, Jumdan Dassan, and Al-Shirit Sabdani – were arrested in separate operations in Zamboanga City hours after the blast inside a massage parlor in downtown Zamboanga late Monday.
Samuddin said Jumadil was first nabbed by policemen who saw him fleeing the area shortly after the blast. He said Jumadil broke down during interrogation and admitted his participation in the attack and pointed to Dassan and Sabdani as his companions.
Two people were slightly wounded in the explosion after the improvised explosive device went off in the building, which was also bombed on last month. On November 9, a member of the police bomb squad was injured when an improvised explosive device went off inside a bar there as he and his dog searched for bombs.
[AnNahar] Israeli troops deployed Tuesday opposite the al-Wazzani River on the border with Leb and some of them took combat positions, as an Israeli force violated the U.N.-demarcated Blue Line in the Bustra area.
?Backed by a Merkava tank, 12 Israeli soldiers crossed the electronic fence in the al-Wazzani area at 3:00 am, erecting two tents around 50 meters away from the al-Wazzani River and 200 meters from the electronic fence,? Leb's National News Agency reported.
The tank was positioned on the hill overlooking the river and the adjacent recreational parks as a number of Israeli troops deployed in the area, the agency said.
An Israeli military jeep had arrived at 10:00 am at the electronic fence's gate and the soldiers who were in it headed to the two tents, along with a sniffer dog, NNA added.
Troops ?took combat positions opposite the Lebanese side of the border and other soldiers accompanied by two civilians arrived half an hour later,? the agency said, noting that the Israelis later marched in the area facing the Hosn al-Wazzani park.
?Some of them used binoculars as one of the troops filmed the area with a video camera,? NNA said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the game, the Babe was wondering why the baseball kept getting bigger and bigger. Finally it hit him... the Lebanese army and UNIFIL peacekeepers took the necessary precautions and monitored the Israeli activities that ended around noon.
?The enemy troops then left through another gate,? the agency said.
The electronic fence is not the Blue Line, which is the U.N.-mapped border.
The fence is located approximately 50 meters south of the Blue Line.
In the evening, NNA said 11 Israeli soldiers violated the Blue Line at the Bustra Farm, west of the town of Kfarshouba, making a 100-meter incursion beyond the U.N.-demarcated frontier.
The force combed the area for around half an hour as an unmanned drone flew over the occupied Shebaa Farms.
On Monday, the Israeli army staged patrols alongside the border with Leb.
In recent days, Israel has reportedly erected a defensive barrier and sonar array off the Ras al-Naqoura border area, in south Leb, to prevent any Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... divers from infiltrating northern Israel.
[AnNahar] Notorious runaway Osama Mansour is reportedly still in the northern port city of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... and continuously changing his residence, As Safir newspaper reported on Tuesday.
The daily said that Mansour has changed his features and is still located in Bab al-Tabbaneh neighborhood in overcrowded areas.
The newspaper said that the army raided in the few past weeks several houses inhabited by Mansour's relatives but failed to arrest him.
Information obtained by the daily pointed out that the army will continue raiding the area until all the wanted suspects are apprehended.
Media reports said in November that wanted Death Eaters Shadi al-Mawlawi and Mansour have been reportedly injured in the latest battles with the Lebanese army in Tripoli and are hiding among civilians, taking them as human shields.
Al-Mawlawi and Mansour have been charged with belonging to an armed terrorist group in order to stage terrorist acts, and holing up at a Tripoli mosque with the aim of preparing bombs and bombs to target Lebanese troops in the area.
In Novemeber, the militia led by the two runaways clashed with the army in Tripoli and Akkar district. The gunbattles left dozens of fighters, soldiers and civilians dead and injured.
[AnNahar] Tens of Lions of Islam have been reportedly killed and maimed when trying to infiltrate into Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... positions in Assal al-Ward of Syria's Qalamun region near Leb's border.
According to Ad Diyar newspaper published on Tuesday, Hizbullah and the Syrian army ambushed the terrorist groups inflicting heavy casualties in their ranks.
?The Syrian army and Hizbullah fighters foiled an infiltration by more than 50 gunnies into their checkpoints on the outskirts of Qara and Breij, killing several,? the newspaper added.
Al-Akhbar newspaper said that front row leaders have been targeted in the ambush.
?An ambush by the Syrian army targeted a convoy for front row terrorist leaders, killing dozens of gunnies,? the newspaper quoted sources on the field as saying.
Hizbullah has dispatched fighters to battle alongside the Syrian regime against rebels seeking the overthrow of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... .
Regime forces recaptured most of the Qalamun region in April, with many rebel fighters withdrawing from the strategic area or slipping across the border into Leb.
But pockets of opposition fighters, including jihadists, have remained in the mountainous region.
[AnNahar] Sheikh Wissam al-Masri announced Tuesday after a brief visit to Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... gunnies in Arsal's outskirts that the group is demanding a border ?buffer zone? to ?protect? Syrian refugees in the area as well as a ?hospital? for treating the maimed and the release of women prisoners from Lebanese jails.
?I met with the Islamic State officials in charge of the file of captives,? Masri said at the Riad al-Solh Square after meeting the families of the Lebanese servicemen held by the IS and the Qaeda-linked al-Nusra ...the current nom de guerre of al-Qaeda in the Levant, which isn't to be confused with al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant... Front.
They demanded ?protecting Syrian refugees from Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... 's recurrent attacks against them in Leb through the creation of a buffer zone stretching from Wadi Hmeid to Tufail's outskirts to Arsal,? Masri added.
On Saturday, the Lebanese army took a decision prohibiting anyone from moving from the Bekaa border town of Arsal to its mountainous outskirts without prior permission from the military institutions. The new measures are aimed at preventing Syria-based gunnies from infiltrating Leb's border, according to an army statement.
The second demand is ?providing equipment for a modern hospital along with a complete medicines storehouse for the treatment of the maimed and the sick,? said Masri, adding that the IS also wants Lebanese authorities to release from jail ?all women held in connection with the Syrian conflict.?
The holy man also revealed that he has received a pledge from the holy warrior group that it would ?refrain from killing or harming any serviceman as long as the negotiations are underway.?
?Any closure of the Wadi Hmeid checkpoint would subject the servicemen to death,? he warned, quoting the IS holy warriors.
The Lebanese troops and soldiers were taken hostage during deadly festivities in and around Arsal in early August.
?The Islamic State is demanding the immediate release of Saja (al-Dulaimi) and Ola (al-Oqaili),? Masri added.
Dulaimi is a divorcee of IS chief His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... , according to Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq. She was incarcerated Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! at the army's al-Madfoun checkpoint in the North in recent weeks.
Al-Oqaili has been meanwhile identified as the wife of top Islamist holy warrior Abu Ali al-Shishani. She was referred to the General Security department on December 9, according to Mashnouq.
?The battle is not with the Lebanese army and government but rather with the party (Hizbullah) that is killing their children and women,? Masri quoted the IS as saying.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pound, the little lost dog had finished eating the rat terrier... the families of the servicemen did not seem to be very upbeat regarding Masri's announcement.
?We call on the Islamic State to issue an official statement containing the name of the person it wants to mediate in the case of the servicemen, whether he is al-Masri or (Ahmed) Fleiti,? the deputy municipal chief of Arsal, a front man for the families said.
?The families feel lost and confused and we want al-Masri or other mediators to be officially authorized ? We want to know whom we're dealing with and we strongly wish the captives will be released at the hands of Sheikh al-Masri,? the front man, Sheikh Omar Haidar, added.
?The families do not have confidence in anyone anymore and we want official demands from the Islamic State,? he went on to say.
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[IsraelTimes] The Syrian army has given civilians ?safe passage? out of a besieged area east of Damascus, state news agency SANA said on Tuesday.
?Syrian army units gave safe passage to dozens of families from Douma and Zibdin in Eastern Ghouta,? said SANA, referring to a rebel-held area that has been under a suffocating army siege for more than a year.
The news agency said 31 families were evacuated.
Among them were women, children and elderly people, as well as ?several gunnies who turned themselves in.?
The evacuation was the second since December 9, when 76 families were allowed out of Douma, SANA said.
Speaking to AFP in Beirut via the Internet, an activist in Douma confirmed the evacuations.
The activist, who identified himself as Saeed al-Batal, said there were fears those evacuated would be detained or face conscription into pro-regime militia.
?A group of people who were evacuated a month and a half ago? are still being held today,? he said.
?There are also rumors that (male evacuees) will be recruited into? a pro-regime militia.?
Human rights groups say that living conditions for the tens of thousands of civilians in Eastern Ghouta are miserable.
Rebel-held towns such as Douma face frequent aerial and tank bombardment. Food is scarce, while medical facilities are ill-equipped to handle either illness or injury.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Incompetence? WTF? I'll wager heavy equipment drops or the Fulton Recovery System would be also be out of the question for the B-1. But that's just a guess.
[Mindanao Examiner] Police seized three suspected Abu Sayyaf members believed to be behind a bombing in Zamboanga City in southern Philippines.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
