COLUMBUS, Ohio - Paul Tibbets, who piloted the B-29 bomber Enola Gay that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, died Thursday. He was 92 and insisted almost to his dying day that he had no regrets about the mission and slept just fine at night.
Tibbets died at his Columbus home, said Gerry Newhouse, a longtime friend. He suffered from a variety of health problems and had been in decline for two months. Tibbets had requested no funeral and no headstone, fearing it would provide his detractors with a place to protest, Newhouse said.
Tibbets' historic mission in the plane named for his mother marked the beginning of the end of World War II and eliminated the need for what military planners feared would have been an extraordinarily bloody invasion of Japan. It was the first use of a nuclear weapon in wartime. The plane and its crew of 14 dropped the five-ton "Little Boy" bomb on the morning of Aug. 6, 1945. The blast killed 70,000 to 100,000 people and injured countless others.
Tibbets, then a 30-year-old colonel, never expressed regret over his role.
"I'm not proud that I killed 80,000 people, but I'm proud that I was able to start with nothing, plan it and have it work as perfectly as it did," he said in a 1975 interview. "You've got to take stock and assess the situation at that time. We were at war. ... You use anything at your disposal."
He added: "I sleep clearly every night."
In 1976, he was criticized for re-enacting the bombing during an appearance at a Harlingen, Texas, air show. As he flew a B-29 Superfortress over the show, a bomb set off on the runway below created a mushroom cloud. He said the display "was not intended to insult anybody," but the Japanese were outraged. The U.S. government later issued a formal apology.
Tibbets again defended the bombing in 1995, when an outcry erupted over a planned 50th anniversary exhibit of the Enola Gay at the Smithsonian Institution. The museum changed its plan and agreed to display the fuselage of the Enola Gay without commentary, context or analysis.
He told the Dispatch in 2005 that he wanted his ashes scattered over the English Channel, where he loved to fly during the war.
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I had the privilege of hearing him recount the mission at a "roundtable" discussion in Columbus in 1990. Remarkably humble and matter-of-fact about his role in one of history's most important events.
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Rest in peace, Colonel Tibbets. A grateful nation bids you farewell. If Japan had the least shred of sense, they would mourn your passing as well. By your actions, you saved countless millions of Japanese lives from being wasted at the direction of their conscienceless wartime regime.
I believe that it was someone here at Rantburg who mentioned how the USA isto this very daystill issuing Purple Hearts minted during WWII in preparation for the massive losses America faced had we needed to invade the Japanese mainland.
No small debt is owed Colonel Tibbets for precluding timely issuance of those medals.
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I was lucky enough to tour the Smithsonian Aircraft Restoration facility while the EG was in there. Sad part was that although the engines and aircraft was to be restored to operational status, there was an agreement in place that the aircraft and engines would never be powered up. It would be sweet to hear those radials one more time!
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"I'm not proud that I kill 80,000 people..." but you saved so many thousands--HUNDREDS of thousands--more by doing so, Colonel!
Godspeed, Colonel!
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My Dad was on Okinawa when the bomb was dropped over Hiroshima. Then came Nagasaki. Then Japan surrendered. All of his 1st MARDIV buddies were greatly relieved, because they would not be facing the invasion of the Japanese home islands. There were literally miles of rows of equipment on Okinawa, getting ready for the invasion.
In the awful accounting of war, this terrible weapon in its own weird way, saved many Allied and Japanese lives. We also know now what these weapons will do to real live targets.
Paul Tibbets was a great American who was given a dirty job to do, and he did it to the best of his abilities. We owe you a great debt of gratitude, Paul.
My stepfather was an ordinance officer at Tinian for B-29 loads of conventional bombs and mines. He told me before he died that the area of the 509th Composite Group was the tightest off-limits area that he ever saw. They were serious about their security then.
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TU and AP
Im not going to go over the details of my dads story, but suffice it to say that given his assignment, he had little expectation of surviving the invasion, so Im in the same position. Whatever my intellectual take on the decision to nuke may be, my gut reaction cant be seperated from that.
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I feel that the Abombs saved Japan. Without it, not only would have an invasion killed thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Japanese, what was left of the infrastructure of Japan would have been ruined. We would not have had the motivation to rebuild it like we did for Germany to oppose a Soviet Union in Europe. Japan today would be a shadow of itself, broke and unimportant.
Instead, it is a thriving example of a Asian capitalist democracy. It is vibrant, talented and a important player on the world stage, without threatening its neighbors militarily. Japan owes its current life to the destructive power of the Abombs that forced its government to finally admit it could no longer force any settlement from the US.
Rest in Peace Mr. Tibbets. You did the world a huge favor.
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Estimates of US dead were 500,000-1,000,000 with an addition 1.5-3.0 million wounded. Using the Pacific battles as the model, that would give 4-8 million Japanese military dead and equal number of civilians. But that assumes Japanese civlians would comingled but not be armed (they were, even the children). So figure millions more armed dead Japanese.
By the time the atomic bombs were dropped, Kyushu (the first invasion landing) had 900,0000 Japanese soldiers (and growing), considerably more than the 600,000 estimated by US intel.
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rest in Peace Paul T.
You saved perhaps a million Allied and Japanese lives on a tough demanding mission, possibly more.
My Father who just passed away on July 30, 2007 and 3 of my uncles made it through WW II due in good part to those famous Atomic Bomb missions..
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Dittos RBees.. and I'm proud as hell of every one of our Moms and Pops who pitched in for Flag and Country!
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ed,
Point, your estimation & stats are more thought through and accurate because they are based on analysis rather than my off-the-cuff guesstimate.
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Comment, it's GENERAL Tibbets, he was promoted after the mision, also thanks General, my father was one of those (Army Leutenant) standing by to enter Japan. Instead he lived to come home and father Me.
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Second comment, at one time he lived a few blocks from me (Montgomery Alabama), gowing up we knew who he was, but didn't bother him any.
Dad had great respect for him. said "Leave him alone, he saved my life".
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it's GENERAL Tibbets
It's difficult to imagine a more well-deserved promotion in rank.
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amen, RIP - my uncle, someone I always loved and admired, said he wouldn't have survived a Japan invasion, may he RIP as well, a truly honorable and hard-working man, Harold Johnson, Marine. If it saved only his life, IMHO, it was worth it, TY Paul Tibbets, American Hero
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My grandfather and all 10 of his brothers served in the war. They were either tasked for the invasion (grandfather and a brother), recovering from wounds (including my favorite uncle who took a machine gun burst on Okinawa and would be in the hospital for the next 18 months) or expected to be shipped from Europe or stateside to fight in Japan. If the invasion did go ahead, there would have been a considerable pruning of my and many others' family trees.
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I believe his grandson flys B-2s. A great American who saved many lives. Sad that he has no tombstone but shame on us that there is no memorial.
As one of Churchill's team of personal secretaries from 1941 to 1945, Elizabeth Nel endured a punishing routine. In war-torn London, during the week she worked three consecutive days from 2pm to anything between 2am and 4.30am, with duties at Chequers every other weekend, both day and night, plus regular dictation in the car en route between the two venues. Many a night was spent typing before snatching three hours' sleep at 6am and starting another busy day's work at 10am.
She coped because she was young (23 when she started working for Churchill) and robust after a healthy upbringing on the western slopes of the Rocky Mountains in Canada. It also helped that she became a fervent admirer of her employer a man who, as she wrote in her engaging wartime memoir, Mr Churchill's Secretary, was the spearhead of our stand against Nazism. If he alternately barked at her, ignored her and teased her, she bore it for the sake of his occasional sunny smile and word of thanks. This, combined with his fatherly worries about her eating properly and keeping warm in wartime winters, inspired her to the most furious feelings of devotion and loyalty. Let me say at once that neither I nor anyone else considered this treatment unfair, she wrote. The Prime Minister carried a heavy load.
To Nel fell the distinction of taking from Churchill his final night's dictation of the war in Europe, beginning late on May 7 and finishing at 3.45am on VE Day (for her, not untypical hours). As she came into his study on that final night, he said: Well, the war's over. You've played your part.
She was born Elizabeth Layton in Suffolk in 1917. When she was 7 her family moved to Canada, but in 1936, at 19, she returned to Britain to train as a shorthand typist, staying on to work for an employment bureau. The outbreak of war found her on holiday in British Columbia, where a combination of family commitments and offical red tape obliged her to remain until December 1940. But by spring 1941 she was working in London for the Prisoners of War Department of the Red Cross, and it was then that she heard of a vacancy at Downing Street for a third personal secretary to the Prime Minister. She applied at once, and was taken on, starting work on May 5, 1941.
Churchill, who disliked all changes of staff, had a particular horror of new shorthand typists, and so, during Layton's first few weeks at Number Ten, her two senior colleagues prepared her as best they could for what would eventually prove to be the ordeal of her first prime ministerial dictation. For the sake of speed, Churchill expected his secretaries to take his dictation straight on to a silent typewriter and to hand him a perfect typescript almost as soon as he finished. This wasn't easy when his cigar, speech impediment and habit of walking about conspired to make him inaudible.
When you don't hear you may ask him what he said if you're brave and prepared for a squash, the other two secretaries advised Layton; or you may put what you thought he said if you don't mind having your head snicked off; or you may leave a space and hope that from the sense you'll later realise what it was you missed, in which case you can creep back quietly on the typewriter and put it in and hope he doesn't roar at you for fidgeting.
For Layton, the trouble started as soon as she sat down to take her first dictation. She didn't notice until it was too late that the silent typewriter had been left set at single spacing instead of the prime ministerially decreed double. On discovering her offence, Churchill went off like a rocket as she described it in her memoirs, and she was sent away to be replaced by a colleague. For weeks afterwards, she seemed unable to do anything right but then, in the small hours of one morning at Chequers, she produced a piece of shorthand writing that at last passed muster. Although the man she called the Boss or the Master still barked at her thereafter, she had turned a corner and won his confidence.
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Which reminds me - I just finished reading for the 2nd time, John Lukacs "5 Days in London, May 1940" in which those days of decision making during the evacuvation of Dunkirk, Churchill's new role as PM, his rivalry with Lord Halifax (another bloody appeasing diplomat) and Hitler's intentions as to invasion mark the real man in history. Best damn book on going or not going to war to defend your country and its ideals I have ever read. I'll bet Bush read it before March of 2003 and if he didn't he got lucky.
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If any non Brits ever have the chance, go to the War Room in London. The amazing thing to me was the fact that the entire English war team operated in the square footage of a typical American house (2000 square ft maybe?). That included the executive staffs of the Royal Navy, Air Force, Army as well as the very manual logistics tracking of all merchant ships around the world. The administrative staff shared 4 typewriters for everyone.
While the new renovations to the museum have been sexxed up with graphics and displays for the MTV genereation, I was simply overwelmed with the spartan surroundings of original war rooms. Don't forget the war room could have been knocked out with one bomb down a ventilation shaft.
A coalition of European countries, U.S. states, Canadian provinces, New Zealand and Norway announced on Oct. 29 the formation of the International Carbon Action Partnership (ICAP) to address global warming. Let the bureaucratic games begin! Let me make a suggestion: The name should be International Carbon Resolute Action Partnership (ICRAP).
ICAP will provide an international forum in which governments and public authorities adopting mandatory greenhouse gas emissions cap and trade systems will share experiences and best practices on the design of emissions Three Shells and a Pea trading schemes. This cooperation will ensure that the programs are more compatible and are able to work together as the foundation of a global carbon market. Such a market will boost demand for low-carbon products and services, promote innovation and allow cost-effective reductions so as to allow swift and ambitious global reductions in global warming emissions, officials said. And Al Gorilioni will hold seminars on setting up these little trading schemes, heh.
The agreement was signed by U.S. and Canadian members of the Western Climate Initiative, northeastern U.S. members of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative also known popularly as the FARTI or Flatulance Air Reduction Triumverate Initive, and European members including the United Kingdom, Germany, Portugal, France, the Netherlands and the European Commission. New Zealand and Norway joined on behalf of their emissions trading programs.
Leaders attending the summit included: President José Sócrates, council of the European Union and prime minister of Portugal; European Commission President José Manuel Barroso; New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, New York Governor Eliot Spitzer and Premier Gordon Campbell, British Columbia. Fine, upstanding North American representatives.
ICAP seeks to open lines of communication for sharing valuable information, such as research, effective policy initiatives, lessons learned and new developments. The new partnership supports the current ongoing efforts undertaken under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which all ICAP members agree has a central role in fighting global warming. And fight it we must, and we will, and we will win, and be bathed in Glory!!!!
For more information, contact ICAP at http://www.icapcarbonaction.com.
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Isn't Governor Spitzer a bit busy these days to take part in such silliness? He's got the driver's licence thingy, and I seem to remember something about illegal capers by some of his underlings... Besides, New York's economy isn't what it used to be; now isn't really a good time to add this kind of handicap.
Those clowns don't represent you, swksvolFF, unless Kansas is one of the U.S. states involving itself in this. I'm actually surprised Oregon and California didn't send representatives.
Army tests James Bond style tank that is 'invisible'
New technology that can make tanks invisible has been unveiled by the Ministry of Defence. In secret trials last week, the Army said it had made a vehicle completely disappear and predicted that an invisible tank would be ready for service by 2012.
The new technology uses cameras and projectors to beam images of the surrounding landscape onto a tank. The result is that anyone looking in the direction of the vehicle only sees what is beyond it and not the tank itself.
A soldier, who was at the trials, said: "This technology is incredible. If I hadn't been present I wouldn't have believed it. I looked across the fields and just saw grass and trees - but in reality I was staring down the barrel of a tank gun."
How the technology works in a combat situation is very sensitive, but the MoD is believed to be testing a military jacket that works on the same principles. It is the type of innovation normally associated with James Bond, and the brains behind the latest technology is the MoD's very own "Q" - Professor Sir John Pendry, of Imperial College London.
He said the only drawback was the reliability of the cameras and projectors. But he added: "The next stage is to make the tank invisible without them - which is intricate and complicated, but possible."
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The trouble is that only David Copperfield knows how to find it once it becomes invisible and his otherwise occupied at the present.
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Optical Camouflage One of the labs in the University of Tokyo uploaded some interesting videos several years ago, so I compiled them. This technology involves neither chroma-keying nor photoshopping but is "quasi-invisivility" using a specific fablric and projector.
If you need more information, please visit these sites;
http://science.howstuffworks.com/invisibility-cloak.htm
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.08/pwr_invisible.html?pg=2&topic=&topic_set=
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China raised gasoline and diesel prices Thursday by about 10 percent to curb demand amid shortages that have caused long lines at filling stations and disrupted trucking in key export areas. Oil companies have blamed the shortages, which began last week, on a lack of refining capacity. Consumers and some Chinese media have accused suppliers of creating a phony crisis to force Beijing to raise prices.
Thursday's price increases are meant to narrow the gap with soaring crude costs, according to the National Development and Reform Commission, the country's main planning agency. It was the government's first fuel price hike in 18 months. The NDRC statement said prices would rise by 9.1 percent for gasoline and 9.9 percent for diesel, but said prices at some retailers could be up to 8 percent more than that.
Trucking companies say diesel rationing has slowed deliveries in Shanghai and areas along China's southeast coast that export manufactured goods to the United States and other foreign markets. A man was killed in a fight Wednesday after he tried to cut in line for gas in the central province of Henan, police said.
Thursday's price increase marked the reversal of a September government order that froze prices of gasoline and other basic consumer goods to rein in rising inflation. The commission said it would try to shield the public from some of the increases.
"Prices of railway tickets, natural gas for civilian use and public transportation will not be raised to reduce the impact of the price hikes on the public, and the government will provide subsidies for taxi drivers," the commission said.
Some refineries have stopped processing to avoid losses. It was unclear whether the price increase would be big enough to make refiners profitable and open to increasing production.
After Thursday's increase, Chinese motorists will pay about $3.20 per gallon for gasoline. Diesel prices rose to about $2.69 a gallon.
Inflation hit an 11-year monthly high of 6.5 percent in August. It eased to 6.2 percent in September but the full-year rate is expected to be well above the official target of 3 percent.
HT Drudge
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clintons (D-N.Y.) top advisers, doing damage control after the candidates debate performance Tuesday, told supporters on a conference call Wednesday that the campaign needed more money to fight back.
While one supporter voiced his concern that the Clinton campaign is not devoting enough money and staff to Iowa, lagging behind Obama, most supporters who commented on the call expressed their displeasure with what they saw as the moderators focus on Clinton.
One caller from Oklahoma City said that the questions were designed to incite a brawl, and that Russerts and Brian Williamss moderating was an abdication of journalistic responsibility. Another said Russert should be shot, before quickly adding that she shouldnt say that on a conference call.
Penn and Mantz said they were hearing a lot of the same sentiment from other supporters, but they do not plan to engage the media or the debates moderators. Were not challenging the media on that, but the sentiment youve expressed is obviously one Ive heard, Penn said. Seems they get a tad riled with a Prince of the Church of MSM doesn't genuflect their way...
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Army, stung by a contracting fraud scandal that has generated more than 80 criminal investigations, needs 1,400 more personnel to deal with the demands of supplying troops in combat, said U.S. officials familiar with a report by federal procurement experts.
The group's report, to be released Thursday, also calls for creating general officer positions within the Army's contracting work force - a move to attract talented men and women to a field most would otherwise avoid because of dim prospects for career advancement.
Collectively, higher numbers, better quality and more clout within the Army's contracting ranks are expected to reduce opportunities for fraud, waste and abuse as tens of billions of dollars continue to be spent on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. officials told The Associated Press. They described the report on condition of anonymity because it has not been released.
The report, ``Urgent Reform Required: Army Expeditionary Contracting,'' proposes adding 400 military and 1,000 civilian personnel with contract-signing authority to an Army contracting work force that now has just over 10,000 people.
Additionally, the panel, chaired by former Pentagon acquisition chief Jacques Gansler, recommends giving the Defense Contract Management Agency several hundred more personnel to exercise greater oversight of contracts awarded overseas. The U.S. officials did not say what the costs of adding more people would be.
Established in August by Army Secretary Pete Geren, the Gansler panel was given a broad mandate to examine how the military branch acquires the gear and services it needs each year to operate.
Since 2001, provisional offices have spring up in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait and Qatar and other locations to buy items such as bottled water, laundry services, barracks, food, transportation, and warehouse services. But in certain places, such as Camp Arifjan in Kuwait, there were too few qualified people, too little oversight, high staff turnover, and poor record-keeping. In the midst of those shortcomings came a huge flow of dollars for the war, creating an environment ripe for misconduct and inefficiency.
A separate Army task force was assigned to examine a random sampling of the 6,000 contracts worth nearly $2.8 billion issued since 2003 by the Kuwait office in a search for rigged awards and sloppy work. That review is to be completed by the end of the year.
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Collectively, higher numbers, better quality and more clout within the Army's contracting ranks are expected to reduce opportunities for fraud, waste and abuse
Bullshit flag down. The execution of US Government contracts is the responsibility of a US Government Contracting Officer's Representative (COR). This can be a military officer or US Government civilian employee. Elevating contractors to General officer rank is a "screw-up and move-up" throw more money at the problem - government solution. It's a recipe for further corruption and post-retirement boondoggles. Competent Government and Military COR's and senior level Army officers who have their collective heads in the contracting game and monitor what is going on with governement contract within their areas of responsibility is the way ahead. Elevating contractors to GO level salaries is a mistake. Many are already there.
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The execution of US Government contracts is the responsibility of a US Government Contracting Officer's Representative (COR).
Almost, but not quite, true. The COR represents the Contracting Officer and in practice does oversee execution of the contracts. But legal responsibility remains with the CO.
What is a COR?
A Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) is a Government official appointed in writing by the contracting officer who provides technical direction, clarification and guidance with respect to the contract specifications and statement of work.
The COR is the technical liaison between the contractor and the contracting officer and is responsible for ensuring satisfactory performance and timely delivery as set forth in the contract. The COR is appointed by a COR Appointment letter which sets out roles, responsibilities, limitations and duties from the Contracting Officer. (emphasis added)
In short, contracting officer representatives (COR) are qualified individuals appointed by
the Contracting officer (KO) to assist in the technical monitoring or administration of a contract.
Although CORs can be employed on all types of contracts, they are extremely useful in the more
complex services, supply, and/or construction contracts. However, you must keep in mind that the use of CORs does not alleviate the need for a full time contracting professional to monitor contract surveillance and manage the contract management team.
The reason this distinction matters is that the contracting officer has legal responsibility that the COR doesn't. Only the contracting officer can authorize payment to contractors, for instance. The COR advises and, in an award fee contract has a strong influence, re: payment. But the buck stops with the KO him/herself.
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When someone screws up, instead of hanging the bastard as an clear public example to others, the first impulse in the government is to make more rules and regulations. The second impulse is to demand more people. If they did the hanging first, you'd find a much reduced need to propagate new paper and expand personnel empires. However, that takes leadership, not management.
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Lotp, you are indeed correct. However, the COR is the first government representative to have eyes on target and, as you say advise the contracting officer and the government chain of command. It has been my experience that the breakdown of individual contracts is generally at the COR level. As you are obviously aready aware, the CO can have numerous on-going contracts to oversee (thru his COR's). Yes, bottom line, if you take it up the chain of command the CO and eventually the SECAR are both responsible.
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Agreed, Besoeker. Agreed. And the CORs need to be competant!
Back in my days as a contractor project & then program manager, I often pulled my hair out over COR directions that were a) technically meaningless or counter-productive, b) contradictory to the intent of the contract as expressed many times in the runup to the formal source selection or c) flat out contradictory to the contract itself.
Only in case c) was there much recourse. It's a fine line to walk in trying to educate the rest of the govt leadership on advanced technology issues without so totally pissing off the COR that the whole contract goes south in a hurry.
And people wonder why I have ... silver ... hair early.
(AKI) - Pakistan's opposition leader and former prime minister, Benazir Bhutto, has postponed her planned visit to Dubai by one day, her spokesman Farhatullah Babar said on Wednesday. Bhutto has not stated the reason for delaying her planned departure until Thursday.
Might not be sure she'd get back into Pakistan.
However, the announcement comes amid a climate of mounting political uncertainty and rumours that a state of emergency could be imposed in the country.
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Indonesian police have arrested a Muslim sect's leader on suspicion of defaming Islam after he declared himself a new prophet, an official said Wednesday. Ahmad Mushaddeq and six of his followers surrendered themselves to police Monday following strong condemnations of his sect, called Al-Qiyadah Al-Islamiyah. Mushaddeq, a retired civil servant, could be sentenced to up to five years in prison if he is charged and convicted of blasphemy.
Hard-line Muslims, angered by Mushaddeq's claim that he is a new prophet and has been ordered by God to purify the Prophet Muhammad's teachings, have branded his group a "misleading sect" and threatened to attack its members.
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Hard-line Muslims, angered by Mushaddeq's claim that he is a new prophet and has been ordered by God to purify the Prophet Muhammad's teachings, have branded his group a "misleading sect" and threatened to attack its members.
Ahhh, yes. The old, "too pure", "not pure enough", "insufficiently pure", "differently pure" "fake jihad" enough sort of problem.
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Buddhist monks in Myanmar staged a protest march on Wednesday, their first since soldiers crushed a pro-democracy uprising a month ago, as UN special envoy Ibrahim Gambari prepared a return visit to the former Burma. The latest march by monks in the central town of Pakokku, 370 miles northwest of Yangon, suggests the crackdown merely managed to stifle, not eradicate, widespread anger at 45 years of military rule and deepening poverty. The town has been a flashpoint since soldiers fired over the heads of monks in early September, transforming small, localised protests against shock hikes in fuel prices into the biggest anti-junta uprising in two decades A witness told Reuters about 200 maroon-robed monks chanted prayers as they walked three abreast through the centre of the town. The Democratic Voice of Burma, a dissident radio station based in Norway, said the monks were sticking to their demands for lower fuel prices, national reconciliation and release of all political prisoners, including Suu Kyi. We are not afraid of getting arrested or tortured, a monk was quoted as saying. There were no reports of trouble.
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We are not afraid of getting arrested or tortured, a monk was quoted as saying.
It's impossible not to admire these brave Buddhists. Here we see some true modern-day martyrs. Compare these unarmed and defenseless monks to Muslims who refuse to take action against their own oppressive regimes, save only when they seek to install an even more repressive one. This is true martyrdom as compared to Islam's hideous counterfeit of it.
The University of Delaware subjects students in its residence halls to a shocking program of ideological reeducation that is referred to in the university's own materials as a "treatment" for students' incorrect attitudes and beliefs. The Orwellian program requires the approximately 7,000 students in Delawares residence halls to adopt highly specific university-approved views on issues ranging from politics to race, sexuality, sociology, moral philosophy, and environmentalism. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is calling for the total dismantling of the program, which is a flagrant violation of students' rights to freedom of conscience and freedom from compelled speech.
The universitys views are forced on students through a comprehensive manipulation of the residence hall environment, from mandatory training sessions to "sustainability" door decorations. Students living in the universitys eight housing complexes are required to attend training sessions, floor meetings, and one-on-one meetings with their Resident Assistants (RAs). The RAs who facilitate these meetings have received their own intensive training from the university, including a "diversity facilitation training" session at which RAs were taught, among other things, that "[a] racist is one who is both privileged and socialized on the basis of race by a white supremacist (racist) system. The term applies to all white people (i.e., people of European descent) living in the United States, regardless of class, gender, religion, culture or sexuality."
The university suggests that at one-on-one sessions with students, RAs should ask intrusive personal questions such as "When did you discover your sexual identity?" Students who express discomfort with this type of questioning often meet with disapproval from their RAs, who write reports on these one-on-one sessions and deliver these reports to their superiors. One student identified in a write-up as an RAs "worst" one-on-one session was a young woman who stated that she was tired of having "diversity shoved down her throat."
This last bit is really disturbing. I just finished reading "Mao, the untold story" and this is EXACTLY TO A T the way that the party cadres were brought into line. You know, not everyone who was a communist thought the same thing. But after one-on-one with local leaders (RAs in this case, what a sinister turn for such an innocuous occupation) the rank-and-file had their opinions permanently changed, and if they ever thought to step out of line later, harsh penalties awaited (in this case, persecution, being expelled from the University, and possibly civil or criminal charges for "racist" thoughts). I'm not even talking about the racism definition above, which is outrageous enough.
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"[a] racist is one who is both privileged and socialized on the basis of race by a white supremacist (racist) system. The term applies to all white people (i.e., people of European descent) living in the United States, regardless of class, gender, religion, culture or sexuality."
Clearly highlights the decline of our educational system. I cannot understand why this must be taught at the college level. I've accepted it a universal tenant of our society since grammer school in the early 1960's.
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The pathetic 'liberals' who permit this sort of thing seem to forget that in the end the socialist leadership had to purge their most ardent followers who got out of control [Hitler and the SA, Mao and the Red Guard] or degenerate into paranoid based purges like Stalin. It's the executive and legislative branch of state government that in the end must step in and reclaim the property of the 'real' people, the citizens of Delaware, or shut it down.
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This is why the West is failing as a society. Question all values and thought except the "accepted" version.
So much for the Renaissance. So much for the industrial revolution. Hello dark ages.
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A Message to the University of Delaware Community
Nov. 1, 2007
The University of Delaware strives for an environment in which all people feel welcome to learn, and which supports intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, free inquiry and respect for the views and values of an increasingly diverse population. The University is committed to the education of students as citizens, scholars and professionals and their preparation to contribute creatively and with integrity to a global society. The purpose of the residence life educational program is to support these commitments.
While I believe that recent press accounts misrepresent the purpose of the residential life program at the University of Delaware, there are questions about its practices that must be addressed and there are reasons for concern that the actual purpose is not being fulfilled. It is not feasible to evaluate these issues without a full and broad-based review.
Upon the recommendation of Vice President for Student Life Michael Gilbert and Director of Residence Life Kathleen Kerr, I have directed that the program be stopped immediately. No further activities under the current framework will be conducted.
Vice President Gilbert will work with the University Faculty Senate and others to determine the proper means by which residence life programs may support the intellectual, cultural and ethical development of our students.
Patrick Harker
President
Newspeak for we've been exposed trying to play fast and loose with the program and got caught. Time to regroup and cover our retreat with paper.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Army, stung by a contracting fraud scandal that has generated more than 80 criminal investigations, needs 1,400 more personnel to deal with the demands of supplying troops in combat, said U.S. officials familiar with a report by federal procurement experts. 
(AKI) - Pakistan's opposition leader and former prime minister, Benazir Bhutto, has postponed her planned visit to Dubai by one day, her spokesman Farhatullah Babar said on Wednesday. Bhutto has not stated the reason for delaying her planned departure until Thursday. 
Indonesian police have arrested a Muslim sect's leader on suspicion of defaming Islam after he declared himself a new prophet, an official said Wednesday. Ahmad Mushaddeq and six of his followers surrendered themselves to police Monday following strong condemnations of his sect, called Al-Qiyadah Al-Islamiyah. Mushaddeq, a retired civil servant, could be sentenced to up to five years in prison if he is charged and convicted of blasphemy. 
Buddhist monks in Myanmar staged a protest march on Wednesday, their first since soldiers crushed a pro-democracy uprising a month ago, as UN special envoy Ibrahim Gambari prepared a return visit to the former Burma. The latest march by monks in the central town of Pakokku, 370 miles northwest of Yangon, suggests the crackdown merely managed to stifle, not eradicate, widespread anger at 45 years of military rule and deepening poverty. The town has been a flashpoint since soldiers fired over the heads of monks in early September, transforming small, localised protests against shock hikes in fuel prices into the biggest anti-junta uprising in two decades A witness told Reuters about 200 maroon-robed monks chanted prayers as they walked three abreast through the centre of the town. The Democratic Voice of Burma, a dissident radio station based in Norway, said the monks were sticking to their demands for lower fuel prices, national reconciliation and release of all political prisoners, including Suu Kyi. We are not afraid of getting arrested or tortured, a monk was quoted as saying. There were no reports of trouble.
