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Good morning
Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Happy Birthday/Daily Drumstick Gam Shot

Tina Turner aka Auntie Entity in "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" aka The Acid Queen in "Tommy" (age 72)



Thanksgiving Special: Black Friday, shop till you drop.

Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 11/26/2010 0:52 Comments || Top||

#2  GB,
Thanks for the memories. Tina is beautiful and talented.
Posted by: WolfDog || 11/26/2010 10:56 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Ross Kemp In Afghanistan - Taliban Attack
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 11/26/2010 01:56 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Russia to allow NATO armour vehicles transit to Afghanistan
[Pak Daily Times] Russia will let NATO take armoured vehicles to Afghanistan through its territory under an expanded transit deal that would reduce reliance on Pakistain, its foreign minister said on Thursday.

"The transit applies to armoured vehicles with anti-mine protection," Sergei Lavrov told a news briefing attended by his Afghan counterpart Zalmay Rasul.

Lavrov added that existing transit deals, permitting the Western military alliance to ship non-lethal supplies such as food and fuel to Afghanistan, would be expanded to allow for so-called "reverse shipments". The addendum would potentially allow for vehicles in need of repair and refurbishment to be sent back to NATO countries.

Currently, about 80 percent of NATO's supplies cross through Pakistain. NATO has been trying to reduce its dependence on oil convoy routes through Pakistain because they are exposed to frequent terrorist attacks. A particularly brazen terrorist strike last month set ablaze over two dozen tankers.

Rasul said Afghanistan's Caped President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai was planning a visit to the Russian capital in January. Karzai has sought improved ties with Moscow and asked Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on his last Russian trip in August for help in establishing peace and stability in Afghanistan.

The transit deal stops short of opening the Russian route for weapons for the NATO mission in Afghanistan, where Moscow fought a disastrous 1979-89 war which still haunts Russia and killed 15,000 Soviet troops.

Territory: Russia's NATO envoy was quick on Thursday to stress that the deal would not allow NATO to ship tanks or combat-ready armoured personnel carriers (APCs) through Russian territory. "We are not talking about APCs or armoured vehicles that could participate in military action, but vehicles with reinforced protection to transport mainly civilian personnel," envoy Dmitry Rogozin told Moscow's Ekho Moskvy radio station.

Lavrov also said Russian counter-narcotics experts would continue to participate in joint anti-drug raids with NATO in Afghanistan, after the first such operation last month, in a sign of easing ties between the former Cold War foes. Russia has been critical of what it views as NATO's failure to stem the Afghan opium trade, the bulk of which flows north to Russia through Central Asia's mostly non-existent borders.
Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Africa Horn
South Sudan accuses north of raid
[Al Jazeera] Southern Sudan's armed forces have accused the northern military of carrying out an air strike on one of their bases, wounding four soldiers and two civilians.

"A SAF [Sudan Armed Forces] helicopter gunship attacked SPLA [Sudan People's Liberation Army] positions at Kiirabem, in North Bahr al-Ghazal, wounding four SPLA soldiers and two civilians," Philip Aguer, a front man for the SPLA, said.

"The intention of the SAF in this move is to try to disrupt the referendum process," he said in a statement.

The leaders of north and south Sudan have accused each other of building up troops in the border region ahead of the January 9 poll in which southerners will be asked if they want independence from the north.

While the south is seen likely to vote for secession, the north would like to keep the country whole.

If confirmed, the attack would be the second time this month the north has bombed targets in the south.

On the first occasion, the southern army said northern forces accidentally dropped a bomb on its territory while fighting rebels from Darfur near the north-south border.

But the Sudanese army has denied it carried out the latest attack on the SPLA military base.

"This is absolutely not true. We have not attacked anywhere near the border," al-Sawarmi Khaled, the SAF front man, said.

Darfur allegations
Meanwhile,
...back at the ranch...
in another sign of the increasing tensions ahead the referendum, a senior northern figure said the south had declared war by supporting rebels who have been fighting government forces and their allies in the western Darfur region.

"If you are accommodating these forces in the south, you are supplying these forces with weapons, logistics, petrol and cars," Mandour al-Mahdi, a bigwig from the northern National Congress Party, told the Rooters news agency.

"We think that this is a declaration of war against the north of the country."

Mahdi said Darfur's Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) had moved its forces to the south to receive training.

South Sudan's army was not immediately available for comment.
"I can say no more!"
on Mahdi's remarks, but it denies aiding rebels from Darfur.
Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Sudan


Arabia
Saudis arrest 149 al-Q suspects
RIYADH, Soddy Arabia -- Saudi authorities said Friday they jugged 149 al-Qaeda suspects in a months-long sweep and thwarted attacks inside the kingdom on government officials, media personalities and civilian targets.

Interior Ministry front man Mansour al-Turki said those jugged had organized themselves into three networks across the kingdom that had no knowledge of one another as well as several independent smaller cells. Most of the suspects jugged were Saudis; 25 were foreigners, said al-Turki. One woman was also among them. Saudi forces seized weapons and about $600,000 in the raids, he said.

The groups had foreign links, raised funds and trained their members in the use of weapons and making explosives. They also sent some members to areas of conflict outside of Soddy Arabia, he said, without elaborating.

Al-Turki said those jugged had been planning more than half a dozen attacks against Saudi government and military officials and establishments, as well as civilians and media figures. Some of the attacks were in advanced stages of preparations, he said. He said planning documents and computers were also seized.
Posted by: tu3031 || 11/26/2010 11:59 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Look at your education/Wahabism,corruption(Royal family) and your holy men for an answer Saudi Arabia what causes extremism.
Posted by: PaulD || 11/26/2010 12:20 Comments || Top||

#2  The 60 billion arms purchase not going smoothly?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/26/2010 16:15 Comments || Top||

#3  Doubt it's that. The key phrase is thwarted attacks inside the kingdom .
Posted by: Pappy || 11/26/2010 18:48 Comments || Top||

#4  suggestion: Jihadi Rehab™ via decapitation will have very few recidivists
Posted by: Frank G || 11/26/2010 18:52 Comments || Top||


Bangladesh
'Drug peddler' killed in Rab 'shootout'
[Bangla Daily Star] An alleged drug peddler was killed in a 'shootout' between his cohorts and members of the Rapid Action Battalion at Belghar bazaar in Madhabpur upazila of Habiganj early yesterday.
The dear departed was identified as Abdul Hakim, 40, son of Abdus Samad of Itakhola Nayapara in the upazila.
That sounds like it might be a real place, as opposed to the local name for Fairyland...
Hakim, a known drug-peddler in the area, was accused in 13 cases, a Rab official said.
Clearly, he was doe for an encounter. Do drug peddlars go to the Deceivers' Circle in Hell?
Flight Lt Kawsar Mahmud, in charge of Rab at the Srimangal camp, told The Daily Star, a patrolling team of Rab led by Deputy Assistant Director Biplob Kumar found around eight to 10 persons sitting near a restaurant on Dhaka-Sylhet Highway at Belghar bazaar at about 2:30am.
A restaurant? How bourgeois! But then, Mr. Hakim is an evil capitalist drug peddlar, not an evil communist ganster, so naturally the place of meeting would not suit the proletariat taste of the latter -- strawberry fields, brickyard, that kind of thing. It's nice to see that the criminal classes all plot during the third shift, though. Criminality leads to late nights, it seems.
As soon as the law enforcers reached there, the gang opened fire on Rab prompting them to retaliate, he said.
What happened to the other customers at the restaurant?
Police also joined the force to chase them, he added.
My goodness. One rarely sees the police and the Rab together on a case. Was there a large reward?
Rab men found the bullet-hit body of Hakim lying on the ground while his associates managed to escape.
As if they'd never been. Perhaps it was a bespoke restaurant.
Hakim was rushed to the upazila health complex where doctors declared him dead.
He's dead, Jim!

Brilliant, Dr. Quincy! How do you do it?
A point 22-bore pistol, 100 bottles of liquor, 50 bottles of phensidyl, four kgs of hemp and a machete were found near the body, the Rab official said.
All fallen out of Mr. Hakim's capacious pockets.
The body was sent to the Habiganj Sadar Hospital for his appointment with Doctor Quincy.
As mentioned above. The Rab writer didn't do a good proof read before sending off his report.
Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Britain
Foiled bomber makes bid for freedom
(KUNA) -- A man jugged for 45 years in Britain for plotting to blow up an Israeli airliner was making a High Court bid for release Thursday, his lawyers said.

Nezar Hindawi, who is serving what is believed to be the longest specific jail term imposed by an English court, is challenging the Justice Secretary's refusal in November last year to accept the Parole Board's recommendation that he should be released, the lawyers added. His case is being heard over two days by judges at the High Court in London.

Hindawi was sentenced in 1986 for attempting to blow up an El-Al aircraft flying from Heathrow to Tel Aviv. He hid explosives in the luggage of his pregnant fiance without her knowing, but the explosives were detected and the plot foiled. The potential loss of life, if the plot had succeeded, was 375 people.

The Parole Board recommended his release but Jack Straw, then Justice Secretary, refused to act on that recommendation. Hindawi had won the right to a parole hearing after a long legal battle. In 2004, a High Court judge ruled that it was unlawfully discriminatory for a long-term prisoner, liable to deportation on completion of his sentence, the chance of a review of his case by the Parole Board. But that ruling in favour of Hindawi was later overturned by judges in the Court of Appeal.

However,
The infamous However...
the House of Lords (now the Supreme Court) disagreed with the appeal judges and gave him a parole board hearing. The law House of Lords accepted his argument that he had been discriminated against by being denied an independent review, in contrast to other prisoners serving determinate sentences who were not liable to removal from the UK. His release date falls in May 2016 but he became eligible for parole, after serving one third of his sentence, in April 2001. The Home Secretary refused to allow his early release in April 2003.
Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: PLO


Caribbean-Latin America
Another drug tunnel found under Mexican border
Ay Pee - A second drug tunnel found, this one running half a mile from a house in Tijuana to a San Diego warehouse. Several people were arrested, an amount of marijuana was seized. The San Diego Tunnel Task Force is working with the Mexican military on the case.
Posted by: || 11/26/2010 11:12 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Who has more tunnels, San Diego or Gaza?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 11/26/2010 14:14 Comments || Top||

#2  High electrical conductivity interferes with ground penetrating radar, so they need to pay kids to sprinkle many tons of aluminum powder on the surface for a long range around the area the want to put the tunnel.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 11/26/2010 15:01 Comments || Top||


Mexico detains suspected drug lord
[Al Jazeera] Police in Mexico say they have jugged the alleged new leader of a drug gang fighting to control smuggling routes out of the Pacific port of Acapulco.

Federal police officials announced the arrest on Wednesday, saying they had captured Carlos "the Cowboy" Montemayor during a raid in an upscale neighbourhood of Mexico City, the capital, a day earlier.

The 38-year-old is said to be the successor to drug lord Edgar "La Barbie" Valdez who was jugged in August, police said.

The Valdez gang, a splinter group of the Beltran Leyva cartel, is believed to have driven a surge in violence in the state of Morelos, south of the capital.

Ramon Pequeno, the federal police anti-narcotics chief, said Montemayor told police that his faction was responsible for kidnapping and killing 20 Mexican tourists in Acapulco, mistaking them for members of the rival La Familia cartel.

The group of men were kidnapped in September while travelling in cars with license plates from their home state of Michoacan, the birthplace of La Familia.

Boosting troop levels
News of the arrest came as the government announced plans to send more soldiers and coppers to the northern states of Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas to fight drug-related violence.

The goal of the operation is to reinforce government authority in the two states most heavily affected by fighting set off earlier this year by a split between the Gulf and Zetas drug gangs, Alejandro Poire, a federal police front man, said.

The "Co-ordinated Northeast Operation" also aims to keep the cartels from regrouping after the takedown of key leaders, he said.

Intense cartel violence has plagued the industrial city of Monterrey in Nuevo Leon and all of Tamaulipas, where cartel firefights and violence this month sent hundreds of residents fleeing the town of Ciudad Mier.

The government already has operations targeting drug gangs in other parts of Mexico, including Chihuahua state, but the efforts so far have failed to quell drug violence, which has killed 28,000 people since Felipe Calderon, the president, launched his offensive on organised crime in 2006.

An opinion poll released this week said 49 per cent of Mexicans believe the government's drug war has been a failure, compared to 33 percent who said it has been a success.
Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Narcos

#1  Since the jailers dont want to die, el creepo is most likely walking as we speak.

Al Jazeera(AKA BLN...or Bin Laden Network) say so...

No matter, as Messy-cans are going vote the PRI
(Partido of the established Bolchevik Revolution)
back in power soon, which mean the cowboy
Montemayor will probably be their Foreign Minister.
Posted by: hotspur666 || 11/26/2010 23:48 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
S Korea to boost island forces
[Al Jazeera] South Korea has stepped up security near a disputed maritime border off its west coast as North Korea issued a warning it will launch more attacks if Seoul continues to make "reckless military provocations".

Following media criticisms of an allegedly weak response, South Korea's military said there are plans to change its "rather passive" rules of engagement, Hong Sang-Pyo, the senior South Korean public affairs secretary, said.

South Korea will also "sharply increase military forces, including ground troops, on the five islands in the Yellow Sea and allocate more of its budget toward dealing with North Korea's asymmetrical threats", said Hong.

The military reinforcement comes two days after the warring neighbours traded artillery fire on Tuesday over South Korea's Yeonpyeong island close to their disputed sea border. Two South Korean marines and two non-combatants were killed in the incident.

North Korea on Thursday warned of additional military attacks if it is provoked further, the North's KCNA news agency said.

"[North Korea] will wage second and even third rounds of attacks without any hesitation, if warmongers in South Korea make reckless military provocations again," the agency said, quoting from a military statement.

The latest warning came as Pyongyang rejected a proposal by the US-led United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society Command in South Korea for general officer-level talks to ease tension on the peninsula following an artillery attack on Tuesday.

"North Korea appears to have rejected the proposal on the ground that there's nothing much it could gain from the talks," South Korea's Yonhap news agency earlier quoted a Seoul government official as saying.

Security review
The US and South Korea are to hold joint military exercises next week, with the aircraft carrier USS George Washington participating in the drills.

"Over telephone talks with Secretary [of State] Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill...
, we agreed that through the drill, we will be able to ... send a clear message to the North in relation to the recent situation," a South Korean foreign ministry front man said.
Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies


N. Korea rejects talks with UN Command on artillery attack
(KUNA) -- North Korea has rejected a proposal by the US-led United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society Command (UNC) to hold general-level military talks on the North's deadly artillery attack on a South Korean island, Yonhap News Agency reported Thursday.

The UNC, which supervises the armistice that ended the Korean War in 1953, proposed holding the talks with North Korea on Wednesday, a day after North Korea shelled Yeonpyeong Island, killing two marines and two civilians, the report said.

"North Korea rejected the proposal by the UNC because it appeared to see no practical benefit in the talks," an official at the South's defense ministry was quoted as saying. The UNC said it will investigate the North's artillery attack as part of its responsibility to maintain the truce and will determine any violations.

North Korea fired a barrage of artillery rounds on Yeonpyeong in the mid-afternoon on Tuesday. The attack injured 15 marines and at least three civilians, gutting dozens of houses. The UNC is headed by the top US commander in South Korea, where some 28,500 American troops are stationed to deter North Korean aggression.
Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Lest we fergit, NORTH KOREA = had already unilaterally abrogated the 1953 ARMISTICE ending the 1950=-53 Korean War.

SCOPE > DPRK didn't do anything wrong in its recent attacks agz South Korea [Island + CHEONAN]because such were NORMAL, INTERNAL KOREAN AFFAIRS/MATTERS = "ROUTINE MIL DRILLS UNDERTAKEN IN SOVEREIGN NATIONAL PROPERTIES + ASSETS, ETC LOCATED IN NORTH KOREA'S SOUTH", as Pyongyang is the duly SOLE + ONLY LEGIT GOVT OF KOREA [Unified Korea].

As per POTUS BAMMER + "WEAK/DECLINING USA" , "GLOBALISM" + OWG-NWO = 20th CENTURY MAJOR POWERS MUST SHARE POWER-N-AUTHORITY WID LESSOR = MSALLER STATES, + NOT DICTATE OR COMMAND SAME.

Correct???

OOOOOOOPPPPPPPSIES......

[CHIEF WIGGUM + LOU here].
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/26/2010 0:18 Comments || Top||

#2  How about a bit of preemptive counter-battery on the arty base's ammo dump?
Posted by: OldSpook || 11/26/2010 0:56 Comments || Top||

#3  Why should the Norks talk to the U.N.? Ban Ka-Moon has already capitulated and promised to give them more of our food.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/26/2010 1:04 Comments || Top||

#4  By now I imagine that the Skor gun bunnies have been drilling so hard, humping dummy 155 rounds, that they are using Ben Gay by the 55 gallon drum.

Rather oddly, the Skor don't have many 8 inch guns. In their position, with permanent mountain based Nork arty facing Seoul, I would build some covert 16 inch naval guns inside of buildings.

Each 16 inch round could probably take out four well spaced Nork arty positions no matter how well they were dug in, or at least rattled them so hard it would put them out of operation.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 11/26/2010 7:04 Comments || Top||

#5  UAV's with Hellfires or SDBs make more sense that=n 16" against reverse slope counterfire.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 11/26/2010 8:08 Comments || Top||

#6  16" guns, UAVs; it doesn't matter. The SKORS have checked their balls at the door and along with the testicularly-challenged POTUS, will only continue to bow and grovel before the NORK whack-jobs.
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 11/26/2010 10:40 Comments || Top||

#7  What to do now:
* Begin the evacuation of Seoul and prepare to attack.
* Immediately respond to and counter any artillery or other attacks on South Korea.
* Issue a short ultimatum demanding the Kim family to be tried for murder in a South Korean court.
* Clearly indicate that soldiers who surrender will be fed and eventually pardoned.
* Establish air dominance over the peninsula.
* Bomb and destroy all Nork military logistics systems.
* Wait as all their soldiers defect across the DMZ for three squares and a warm cot.
* Advance to the extent necessary to maintain contact with the enemy.
* Return civilians to Seoul after the effective border has moved beyond easy artillery and rocket range.

Posted by: rammer || 11/26/2010 11:37 Comments || Top||

#8  Sounds like a decent enough plan Rammer, but not near exciting as Raise the Yamato and Prepare the Iowa.
Posted by: Goldies Every Damn Where || 11/26/2010 18:18 Comments || Top||

#9  Wondering where are all those South Korean students who have been protesting to get the U.S. off the peninsula? Changing their nickers probably. I say get out and take everything of ours that has value with us. Let those nasty f#!&ers slaughter each other. It will eventually be in the Chinese sphere. Why should we let them bleed us until both sides do the inevitable?
Posted by: Sgt. D.T. || 11/26/2010 22:21 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Drones Make Four More 'Good' Taliban Good
The US launched another airstrike in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan, killing four terrorists in a strike on a vehicle as it traveled in an area known to host al Qaeda operatives.

Unmanned Predators or the more heavily armed and deadly Reapers fired a pair of missiles at a vehicle as it traveled in the village of Pir Kali in the Mir Ali area of North Waziristan, AFP and The Nation reported.
This is 'good' Taliban country, according to Pakistan - and now there are four more good Talibunnies there.
Four Taliban fighters were reported killed. No senior al Qaeda or Taliban fighters have been reported killed in strike.

Since Sept. 8, a total of 16 Germans and two Britons
Werner, Hans & Percy were not among them.
have been reported killed in Predator strikes in the Mir Ali area. The Europeans were members of the Islamic Jihad Group, an al Qaeda affiliate based in the Mir Ali area. The IJU members are believed to be involved in a recently discovered al Qaeda plot that targeted several major European cities and was modeled after the terror assault on the Indian city of Mumbai in 2008.
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/26/2010 09:32 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


8 Taliban terrorists killed in Orakzai
[Pak Daily Times] The security forces on Thursday killed eight forces of Evil in the restive upper Orakzai Agency,
... crawling with holy men, home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar...
official said. Security forces used artillery to target the terrorists' positions in the upper Orakzai Agency. Two hideouts of forces of Evil were destroyed in the shelling. Separately, the security forces and the police launched a joint search operation in Hangu district and jugged 130 suspects. The operation was launched following a remote bomb attack on the vehicle of the forces that killed one troop and injured six others. Police also seized 10 klashinkovs, four hand grenades and twelve rifles.
Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Three terrorists surrender in Mohmand Agency
[Pak Daily Times] A jirga of Mohmand tribal elders was held on Thursday at the agency's headquarters in which a terrorist commander along with his two companions surrendered to the authorities. According to the political administration, the gunnies belonging to Shaani Khel tribe of Halimzai tehsil, surrendered to the authorities in a grand jirga, which was attended by hundreds of tribal elders and FC officials. The gunnies regretted for their wrong doings and promised to lead a peaceful life in future.
Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Two soldiers killed in Bara blast
[Pak Daily Times] Two security personnel were killed and six others injured in a kaboom in Bara on Thursday.

In a remote controlled kaboom at a bridge at Sheen Kamar, two security personnel were reportedly killed while six others were maimed as a convoy of personnel crossed the site, official sources said. The bridge was destroyed in the blast. The bomb had been planted under the bridge, some sources said. The six injured personnel were rushed to a hospital.

The convoy of security forces was targeted as it passed the bridge, sources said. Some sources said that the personnel were hit by more than one blast, but the fact could not be confirmed. Security forces cordoned off the area after the blast and started search operations.
Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Lashkar-e-Islami


US amends designation of Lashkar-e-Taiba front org
(KUNA) -- US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill...
amended the designation of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), said the US Department of State.

The Department State said in a release issued on its website that the designation was amended under Section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) and Executive Order (E.O.) 13224 and that Falah-i-Insaniat Foundation (FIF) was added as an alias of LeT after the consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury and the US Attorney-General.

The Department of the Treasury also designated LeT senior leader and current head of FIF, Hafiz Abdur Rauf, Mian Abdullah, the head of LeT's Traders Department, and Mohmmad Naushad Alam Khan, a key financial controller for LeT, as Specially Designated Global Terrorists under E.O. 13224, it said.

These actions will help stem the flow of finances to LeT through FIF and provide the Department of Justice with a critical tool to prosecute those who knowingly provide material support to LeT and its senior leaders, it added.

FIF is a Pakistain-based organization that is closely connected to banned terrorist group LeT and its humanitarian front Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JUD), it pointed out.

LeT has grabbed credit for numerous terrorist acts against Pak, Indian and US interests and is responsible for the horrific November 2008 Mumbai attacks, the Department of State said.

The United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society and Government of Pakistain have already banned JUD, through which LeT seeks to raise money for terrorist activities. In essence, FIF is JUD with a new name, designed to evade scrutiny and sanctions, it noted.

It said that various actions taken against FIF support the US effort to degrade the capabilities of LeT.

The release quoted the Department of State's Coordinator for Counterterrorism, Ambassador Daniel Benjamin, as saying that the amendment of the LeT designation to include FIF shows that the United States will not tolerate any support to this organization.

LeT has attempted to use FIF as a way to evade scrutiny, he said, adding that the designation will help put to an end that attempted evasion.
Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Lashkar e-Taiba

#1  The U.S. SOS and SOTT designate Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation as a terrorist entity to help the DOJ prosecute, and stem the LET's flow of income.
Reference: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2010/11/151931.htm
Reference: http://www.treas.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac/bulletin.txt

So how come the Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation's website, (that you can donate to), is hosted in and using a nameserver in the U.S.?

Reference: http://Fif.org.pk/donations.html

Reference: http://whois.domaintools.com/fif.org.pk
Posted by: Don Vito Thruter1393 || 11/26/2010 19:55 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Inter-AMAL Dispute Erupts into Gunfire in Barbour
[An Nahar] As some media outlets reported that armed festivities between AMAL Movement and Al-Ahbash broke out in the Beirut area of Barbour Wednesday night, AMAL sources told Naharnet that "an individual dispute between two AMAL members in Barbour erupted into gunfire."

The sources noted that the army intervened and managed to contain the situation.

Moreover, AMAL and Ahbash sources denied to Future News TV any involvement in the incident.
Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Future News TV has nuthin' on the Burg!

"Tomorrow's news here today"
Posted by: Frank G || 11/26/2010 16:34 Comments || Top||



Who's in the News
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Two weeks of WOT
Fri 2010-11-26
  South Sudan accuses north of raid
Thu 2010-11-25
  Bakri makes bail
Wed 2010-11-24
  Arrest warrant for Rafsanjani's son issued
Tue 2010-11-23
  North Korea Fires Rockets at Island
Mon 2010-11-22
  23 killed in Somalia fighting
Sun 2010-11-21
  FARC Honcho Killed
Sat 2010-11-20
  Nigeria seizes $9.9-million heroin shipment from Iran
Fri 2010-11-19
  Foopie cleared of terror charges in key Guantanamo trial
Thu 2010-11-18
  Hekmatyar offers truce terms
Wed 2010-11-17
  Missile strikes in Waziristan kill 17 20
Tue 2010-11-16
  Stop all settlements and we'll talk: Palestinians
Mon 2010-11-15
  British couple held hostage by pirates freed, reports
Sun 2010-11-14
  Bakri arrested by Leb cops
Sat 2010-11-13
  Fourteen suicide bombers attack Jalalabad airport
Fri 2010-11-12
  Yemen Qaeda Commanders Come through Iran

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