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Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Gloria Grahame aka Rosemary Bartlow in "The Bad and the Beautiful" aka Ado Annie Carnes in "Oklahoma!" aka Angel in "The Greatest Show on Earth" (Died in 1981 at age 57)
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Mods: Could we get a link somewhere off the main page that details the "fair use rules" that you would like to see followed here? We've seen hints here and there, but nothing that puts together the big picture. I've seen a "less than 70%" rule, I've also seen "Less than eight sentences" or something like that. I've also seen that quotes are entirely fair game. What about copying titles?
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Gorb, here's a first cut, to be modified by them as actually knows what they're talking about:
Eight sentences from the article, the rest rewrite to summarize the facts in your own words... or skip straight to the summary. Rewrite need not be highlighted. Add in-lines as appropriate, which you should hilite. Improved headlines are always preferred, just because they're more fun. It's helpful to add the reporting source in brackets at the beginning, eg. [AP], [Reuters]. If the article is original reportage from abroad, as opposed to an AP article in the Jerusalem Post, there is less concern -- the Telegraph isn't likely to come chasing across the ocean with blood in their eye to see why they're getting hits from some little American blog.
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Here is a discussion in Groklaw on a R1ghthav3n case. An excerpt:
There is no X number of words that the law sets as necessarily all right to copy or not all right, as you will see in the judge's ruling. It's case by case, so fair use is situational. All four elements will be analyzed if you go to court as a defendant. So when AP said what it did, my reaction was that they were overreaching, and since they have lawyers who know what fair use is supposed to be, it bothered me enough to decide not to ever link to them again.
We have a case R1ghthav3n brought in which the plaintiff said the defendant copied 30 sentences when the defendant in fact only used eight. The judge said in a ruling in a motion:
The court finds that this use weighs in favor of a fair use of the copyrighted material, copying only as much as necessary in a greater work (story) to provide relevant factual information weighs in favor of fair use.
Nelsonâs use of the copyrighted material is likely to have little to no effect on the market for the copyrighted news article. Nelsonâs copied portion of the work (story) did not contain the authorâs commentary. As such, his use does not satisfy a readerâs desire to view and read the article in its entirety the authorâs original commentary and thereby does not dilute the market for the copyrighted work. Additionally, Nelson directed readers of his blog to the full text of the work. Therefore, Nelsonâs use supports a finding of fair use.
Whether you agree that the first eight sentences is a hard and fast rule is a debate for another time, but the judge did provide a definitive guideline by stating explicitly the first eight sentences that can be copied verbatim from the original article qualify as fair use.
As a matter of form I now follow the eight sentence "guideline" because we have something in writing inasmuch as it only comes from a ruling on a motion not the case itself.
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well done snark and parody also qualify...so I'm SOL
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Excellent suggestion, Gorb, and we'll work on text and a permanent link over the next few days. In the meantime, what TW says is a good start. Let me add:
1) cutting the fluff in the article goes a long, long way to helping us on the 'fair use' rule.
2) common sense. Don't repost entire articles, particularly from American news sources.
3) adding your commentary, be it serious or snark, goes a long, long way towards helping with the 'fair use' rule.
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Great! Hopefully we'll be able to open up the throttles more soon.
Of course, please let us know when it's ready to go via a technical article, that way we can all digest and comment on it at the same time.
[Dawn] Five village elders were killed in northern Afghanistan when hard boyz attacked their vehicle, coalition forces said.
The men were travelling through Faryab province Wednesday which borders Turkmenistan when their vehicle was struck by a rocket propelled grenade, a statement from the forces said.
Four other elders were maimed in the attack.
While Taliban influence in the north and west is not as pervasive as in the movement's southern heartland, the insurgency has been slowly expanding its presence in areas such as Kunduz, Faryab and Baghlan since 2007, mostly among Pashtuns who are a minority in northern parts of the country.
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[Tolo News] At least 4 Afghan police were killed 11 others were maimed in a suicide kaboom on Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... police headquarter on Saturday afternoon, officials said
The incident happened at 12:00 noon in Paktika in a police headquarter while a jacket wallah disguised in police uniform blew himself up, Mukhles Afghan, a spokesperson for the governor of Paktika told TOLOnews news hound.
Four Afghan police were killed and 11 others were maimed in the incident, he added.
But the Taliban claimed two jacket wallahs have targeted the provincial Police Headquarter.
A spokesperson for the Taliban said the attack has killed nearly 50 people, a claim denied by Afghan officials.
Paktika borders Pakistain and the Afghan and foreign forces have conducted many operations to wipe out the cut-throats in the area.
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[Iran Press TV] Unknown gunnies have rubbed out a Somali-born American national north of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, a report says.
The assailants opened fire on 51-year-old Bashir Ahmed Abdi Wednesday morning as he was riding a car into Villa Somalia -- the presidential palace in Mogadishu, Radio Garowe reported on Friday.
Bashir had traveled to Mogadishu at the invitation of the Somali Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed.
He was a lawyer in Somalia before he immigrated to the United States.
Bashir had recently received calls from several Somali politicians as well as the prime minister to help them with the formation of the new government. No group has yet grabbed credit for Wednesday's terror attack.
In a recent report, the International Committee of the Red Thingy (ICRC) stated that hundreds of civilians have been injured in fighting in Somalia in recent months.
The Geneva-based humanitarian institution said that a total of 5,000 patients with war injuries, including 1,900 women and kiddies, were admitted to Mogadishu's Keysaney and Medina hospitals from January through September.
Compared to last year, the figures suggest an increase of 25 percent in the total number of war casualties and a 72 percent rise in the number of hospitalized women and kiddies.
Some 4,000 patients with injuries, among them 1,100 women and kiddies, were taken to Mogadishu's two referral hospitals in 2009.
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There are more than 1.4 million internally displaced people in Somalia. Over 300,000 of this uprooted population have been sheltered in Mogadishu alone.
Most of the displaced live in poor and degrading conditions in makeshift camps in southern and central Somalia, according to the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society High Commissioner for Refugees.
Somalia has lacked a functioning government since 1991, when warlords overthrew former dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.
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i am sorry to hear this story.
most somalis run away leaving their country to the Shabaab. The brave, talented ones like this lawyer that return to try to fix the place are the rare, golden apples in a rotten barrel
to lose one is very sad
think of those cowardly thousands that just run away at the first opportunity. this guy returned.
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"Cowardly thousands" seems a bit harsh. I would certainly leave Somalia at the first opportunity, and the U.S. was created by people fleeing their own hellholes around the world.
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For that reason I don't object to our country taking in peaceful, hard-working Somalis who are willing to forsake the old country and are willing to become Americans.
But the ones who cling to the old ways, particularly the old culture, need to be sent back.
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Steve, I've talked with the law enforcement intelligence personnel at fusion centers in Cleveland, Minneapolis and San Diego. They would tell you that the Somalis are a multi-generational, clan-centric horde of thieves with fundamentalist Deobandi Muslim ideals and zero desire to integrate. Of all the people we alow to come here, thses are the last we should consider!
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They would tell you that the Somalis are a multi-generational, clan-centric horde of thieves with fundamentalist Deobandi Muslim ideals and zero desire to integrate.
Didn't Ayaan Hirsi Ali come from Somalia originally? She certainly doesn't think highly of her kinfolk!
[Iran Press TV] Fresh festivities between al-Shaboobs and African Union (AU) troops have left at least 18 civilians dead and more than 30 others injured in Somalia.
Heavy festivities erupted in the capital Mogadishu on Saturday, a Press TV correspondent reported.
An artillery shell fell on a crowded market as the two sides exchanged heavy fire. Hundreds of people have reportedly decamped from the Bakaara market.
Al-Shabaab accuses African Union troops -- backing Somalia's transitional government -- of invading the country. The fighters say they will continue their battles until the AU forces withdraw from Somalia.
On Wednesday, the AU peacekeeping mission in Somalia confirmed that its troops shot and killed at least two civilians and injured several others in Mogadishu. It described the shooting as accidental and apologized for the deaths.
The AU peacekeeping force, which has been in Somalia to prop up its Western-backed government, has long been accused of killing civilians in the African nation.
The Somali government controls only a few areas around the presidential palace.
The peacekeepers, however, claim that they have made advances in the Somali capital over the past months.
For months, Mogadishu has been the scene of daily battles between government forces and local fighters -- both of whom are trying to take control of the capital.
Somalia has lacked a functioning government since 1991 when warlords overthrew former dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.
Over the past two decades, up to a million people have bit the dust in fighting between rival factions and due to famine and disease.
There are more than 1.4 million internally displaced people in Somalia. Over 300,000 of this uprooted population are sheltering in Mogadishu, alone.
Most of the displaced live in squalid conditions in makeshift camps in southern and central Somalia, according to the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society High Commissioner for Refugees.
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[Yemen Post] Fierce festivities erupted between the military camp stationing in downtown Al-Habilain in Lahj Province and gunnies in which light and medium weapons were used.
Al-Habilain turned into a ghost town after its people and shoppers left it and its usually crowded markets amid fears they could be innocent victims of the festivities.
There were no reports of casualties from the one-hour fighting, but some houses were said to have suffered slight damages, local sources said.
The fighting started after soldiers jugged a separatist activist, Muhsen Al-Suhaibi, 43, from Yafi'a, the sources said, adding that the arrest took place while on his way back after he drove his kids to school.
The arrest triggered the influx of gunnies who imposed a siege around the military camp in eastern Al-Habilain.
The gunnies also took two soldiers hostage from the camp who were off duty and in civil uniform. They watched the soldiers until they arrived at the market, jugged them and took them to an unidentified place.
Sources close to the activist said the gunnies gave a 24-hour deadline to release him and his car.
The authorities should stop annoying and provoking civilians, if not the lives of the soldiers will be in danger, the gunnies said, according to the sources.
Fighter jets flew over the town amid the siege, but there were no reports of strikes.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Three alleged extortionists were maimed when they locked in a "shootout" with Rapid Action Battalion forces near Motijheel Colony in the capital early yesterday.
The bullet injured criminals -- Ismail Hossain Billal, 35, Faruq Hossain, 44, and Mamun, 28, -- were given treatment at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) and taken into Rab-3 custody yesterday morning.
Police chief Tofazzal Hossain said, the three muggers on Thursday snatched passport and visa from an expatriate at Paltan and over the phone demanded Tk 1 lakh from him for releasing those documents. Later, the victim informed Rab-3 officials of the incident.
Rab sources said their team followed the victim to Motijheel Colony area where the criminals had asked the victim to come with the ransom around 3:00am yesterday.
Spider senses tingling at the proximity of Rab, the criminals opened fire and a "shootout" ensued between Rab men and them. All three extortionists received bullet injuries during the fight, sources added. "Aaaiiieee! My kneecap!"
"Aaaiiieee! My kneecap!"
"Aaaiiieee! My kneecap!"
Rab filed a case against the criminals and handed them over to Motijheel Police Station.
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What? Still alive? This is the second one in as many weeks. RAB is slipping. First, they lost the shutter gun, now this?
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They were extortionists, not Biplobi communists ...
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What? Still alive?
Some months back, the entire Rab was threatened with judicial investigation because of a certain lack of believability in the "Encounter" reports. Arrests suddenly appeared in the reports thereafter, and the term encounter has mostly ceased appearing.
I assume holding cells were added to the various Rab headquarters on low-bid/quick-time contracts, because there certainly hadn't been a need for them before.
(Itar-Tass) -- A serviceman of the Russian Interior Ministry troops, who was maimed in a shooting attack in Dagestan's Kizlyar district overnight, has died.
The contract serviceman was maimed at his post when he guarded a railroad. It occurred at about 01:45 Moscow time, a law-enforcement source in the republic told Itar-Tass.
Unidentified persons at first blew up a railway track and then opened submachine gun fire at the guard post of interior troops and local police, the source said.
The blast damaged about 3.5 metres of rails and six concrete ties. Repair teams are working at the site.
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South Korea mistakenly fired an artillery shell toward the southern side of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on Sunday afternoon and soon sent a message to North Korea that the firing was accidental, military officials said.
No casualties occurred from the accidental discharge that took place at around 3 p.m., the officials said.
An army artillery unit in the border town of Paju, Gyeonggi Province, mistakenly fired a 155mm towed howitzer while on training, they said. The shell landed some 14 kilometers north of the army base, on a hill on the South Korean side of the DMZ, they said.
"The army unit was not engaging in an artillery firing exercise. A shell that had been loaded previously was mistakenly fired," an army official said.
The military authorities sent a message to North Korea explaining that the firing was unintentional. North Korea has given no response, they said. hopefully someone got their ass removed
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These are very old missiles and can be intercepted or defeated. Both are subsonic and are vulnerable to anti missile defenses. Also both need a radar for guidance and radars are sitting ducks when they are radiating. Finally I want to point out that when we sunk that old carrier not too long ago it took a great number of missiles, torpedoes, and salvos to sink a stationary target.
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Damn, ain't anyone said shit about running up against no Guidelines. Count me and the boys out.
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You don't have to sink a carrier. You don't even have to incapacitate it. Just hit it, and you've got a huge victory in a propaganda war where the enemy's press is your greatest ally. And there's an extra bonus if you can get a few aircraft refueling or rearming.
The propaganda value of putting these targets in harms' way in no way corresponds to the risk assumed, as we will learn at the least convenient moment, especially as we have no intention of using them. If we really want to send a message, we should talk to the Japanese about basing rights for Predators.
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In agreement with the comments regarding the propaganda value of hitting the carrier or some of the aircraft.
The more basic question is about is this a statement by a very determined US leadership convinced they can stare down the NORKs and with the stones to do what is necessary is that shot is fired, or the stupid act of a clueless moron in the White House making a press statement because he is convinced no one would dare offend him?
Buehler? Buehler......anyone?
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Finally I want to point out that when we sunk that old carrier not too long ago it took a great number of missiles, torpedoes, and salvos to sink a stationary target.
Yeah, to SINK it. I'm sure after the first 1-3 hits it was a flaming wreck that needed a tugboat to go anywhere. Not to mention the thousands of casualties.
1) you're talking a lot more than 100 missiles; each Aegis ship in the AAW screen is carrying nearly that, not counting SeaRAM, Sea Sparrow and Sea Wiz.
2) You're overlooking electronic jamming and spoofing- the Silkworm is a very old, very stupid missile; and there's no limit on the number you can direct into the water.
3) Even the much smaller Essex-class carriers in WWII took multiple hits from kamikazes and bombs with more destructive power than an SS-N-2, and in most cases had resumed flight ops within a couple of hours. Even the tiny throwaway frigate Stark survived two Exocets.
4). However, the Norks do have half-decent submarines, a much, much much bigger threat- especially since that moron Clinton got rid of the S-3 Vikings.
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Do I understand the submarine USS Jimmy Carter is there? She's supposed to be quite good at her job, including detecting enemy subs, despite who she is named after.
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If it is a standard Carrier Battle Group that got deployed, it will have at least 2 attack class subs with it, in addition to all of the surface ships and aircraft. Also regarding the Silkworm, it can be easily spoofed into thinking up is down, left is right, etc. Adding to carrier defenses are the CIWS systems carried by all the CBG frigates and destroyers - Silkworms are easy kills for CIWS.
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As far as 3 hits disabling a carrier, review how many hits Essex carriers in WWII took and kept fighting. Nimitz class carriers next to Essex class carriers look like Greyhound buses next to Mini-Coopers.
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A good indicator of how hard it is to sink a carrier is actually visible when you boat past one while it's in port. Doing this, I was able to see a LOT of daylight, right through the middle of the carrier.
If a missile hits significantly above the water line, there is a good chance it will take out one of the redundant elevator shafts, or other lower value mostly empty space.
Clearly designed to be ship to ship missile resistant. And I imagine the same idea went into its torpedo resistant design as well.
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Interesting coincidence that the Washington is sailing into harms's way just as our friend Assange releases thousands of diplomatic exchanges. For whose benefit is Assange acting?
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An Essex didn't have miles of computer cables nor highly sophisticated fighter jets. Whistling past the graveyard.
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IIRC the last couple ships tested were sunk with classified weapons/time/intensity/amount. Not a Nimitz class test
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The Yellow Sea is far too shallow a wading pool for the likes of a 12,000 ton nuclear powered submarine.
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Grom - an Essex class didn't carry upward of 60 tac nukes, either. A single Carrier Battle Group could take out most of North Korea by itself. It's also very strongly defended, and has some "stuff" on board you'd have to see to believe. Taking a poke at a CBG is about as smart as beating a hornet's nest while on crutches. You may get in a lick or two, but you're GONNA suffer.
Unless you've seen some of the classified reports I've seen of US warships used in thermonuclear tests, you cannot believe how hard it is to sink a modern warship. The typical carrier is designed to withstand up to 20 torpedo hits - unless the warheads are nuclear, and even then, it better blast immediately under the ship, or the retaliation will be fierce. I don't even believe Kim is stupid to really attack a US CBG. If he does, it very well could be the last thing he does, regardless of who's in the White House.
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I think they're stupid enough to TRY it, we shall see.
But NOT smart enough to survive the try.
Then again, they're all bluster and Hype,
I think it's too good a target, For the NORKS to pass up and it WILL be the end of them, hit it or not.
I give the NORKS a month to exist, then away to the dustbin of History.
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Again, the DPRK had unilater abrogated = declared null + void the 1953 Armistice "ending" the first Korean War.
SCOPE > Tech speaking, as far as North Korea is concerned A MAJOR MIL CONFLICT = "SHOOTING WAR" on the Korean Peninsula can RESUME ANEW AT ANY TIME. A Pyongyang dems istelf the SOLE LEGITIMATE GOVT FOR BOTH NORTH, SOUTH KOREA, ITO THE USS "MIGHTY/HOLY GEORGE" CVN + CBG, etc. will be violating DPRK sovereignty by:
(1) holding MILEXS in DPRK-claimed territorial waters, or else agz "Spheres/Zones of Influence".
ANDOR
(2) Holding sSame wid what Pyongyang perceives are ILLGITIMATE, ILLEGAL, SOUTH KOREAN "REBELS/
INSURGENTS/CRIMINALS" IN OPPOS TO PYONGYANG.
IFF MAHA-RUSHIAN "HISTOIRE'" IS ANY MEASURE, NORTH KOREA WILL CLAIM "DEFENSE OF SOVEREIGNTY/TERRITORY" WHILE SIMUL CLAIMING THAT IT TWASN'T THE ONE WHOM PLANNED OR ORDERED THE SPECIFIC ATTACK [SSSSSSSSSSHHHHHH...CCCCCCCCCCC C-orrectness read, "CHINA" TWAS DUN IT].
STARVING NORTH KOREA ...
* will be destroyed either by China or US-Allies in MAJOR WAR [Sino-US/UNO].
* will be destroyed by China to save China from US-Allies.
* RUSSIA > likely will refuse to fight any major War Agz NUCLEAR CHINA.
* CHINA > may likely entrench deeper both Economically + Demographically, hence also Politically, in coming decades thanks to NEW SINO-DPRK FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS [Chin-built,
Chin-dominated FREEPORTS = EEZS-SEZS/FTZ Encalves inside DPRK]. Think "INK BLOT" STRATEGY.
* CHINA > does NOT want either a NON-COMMIE GOVT IN DPRK NOR TO SEE ANY NON/ANTI-CHIN US-WESTERN INFLUENCE OF ANY SORT GAIN A POTENT FOOTHOLD IN DPRK.
* CHINA > desires CONTINUITY OF HISTORIC PAN-KOREAN "VASSALAGE" OR HOMAGE TO BEIJING, HENCE THE DPRK FEARS BEING SEEN IN BEIJING AS "TOO SUCCESSFUL/INDEPENDENT" FROM, COMPARED TO BEIJING.
* PERTS > ITO CHINA does NOT desire to care for MILYUHNS + DILYUHNS OF DPRK REFUGEES IN CASE OF WAR OR ECON, OTHER DPRK NATIONAL COLLAPSE.
IOW, STARVING NORTH KOREA = "UN-ANNEXED CHIN TERRITORY", WID LITTLE OR NO HOPE OF DPRK/KOREAN-CENTRIC, SOVEREIGN NATIONAL "MANIFEST DESTINY", + WHOSE SOLE ECON INDUSTRY IS MAINTAINING A MASSIVE, COST-PROHIBITIVE ARMY TO DO BEJING'S BIDDING ["DO-N-DIE" FOR CHINA].
The good news for the DPRK = ORDINARY NORH KOREANS is that they get to DIE FIRST in war before any Chinese do.
Given the above, the questione for MAINSTREAM AMERICA = POTUS BAMMER is how should the US respond iff the STARV DPRK DOES INDEED DO SOMETHING MIL ASYMMETRIC, EE ATTACKS THE "USS GEORGE" + OR USFK, USFK ASSETS.
REMEMBER, IFF BEIJING TAKES OVER THE DPRK FOR ANY REASON, THE KOREANS AS A PEOPLE WOULD HAD LOST ROUGHLY 2-1/2 OF THREE OF THE ORIGINAL ANCIENT "THREE KINGDOMS" OF KORYE. ALSO, A "WEAK" US MIL RESPONSE OR US "NON-RESPONSE" TO DPRK MIL AGGRESSION MAY EMBOLDEN CHINA + perhaps also NUCLEARIZING RADICAL ISLAM.
Not to mention a NUCLEAR-ARMED JAPAN, NUCLEAR SOUTH KOREA, + other REGIONAL, GEOPOL DOMINOS.
[Domino Theory].
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See also FREEREPUBLIC > NORTH KOREA DEPLOYS MISSLES ON SOUTHERN BORDER.
Yokay, Ill bite, as per ARTIC = ISN'T THE DPRK'S "SOUTHERN BORDER" FACING CHINA + RUSSIA, i.e. NOT THE DMZ WID SOUTH KOREA???
* WAFF > NORTH KOREA READIES MISSLES [SSMS, SAMS] AS US, SOUTH KOREA BEGIN DRILLS.
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ION KOREA TIMES > [YeonPyeong] FIRST NORTH KOREAN ATTACK ON SOUTH KOREAN SOIL [since 1950-1953 Korean War].
* SAME > NORTH KOREA USED "FUEL-AIR" SHELLS [thermobaric] FOR YEONPYEONG.
* SAME > SEOUL MULLS NEW COMMAND FOR WEST SEA REGION [Integrated = ROK "Joint Services/Forces"]. ROK hindsight in aftermath of DPRK ARTY strikes agz YeongPyeong Island.
Non-WoT for now but put under Home Front until we know more.
An Arkansas man was arrested, and charged with multiples counts of manufacturing and possessing explosive devices after a traffic stop in Smyth County.
Around 10:00 p.m. on Thanksgiving State Trooper L. J. Testerman was traveling through Chestnut Ridge Road and Grubmore Road when he observed someone throwing some type of bottles out of a black Ford Ranger pickup. Moments later the trooper heard a loud bang come from the pickup.
Trooper Testerman stopped the pickup truck on Chestnut Ridge Road. After a search of the vehicle the officer found explosive devices.
21-year-old Snuffy Smith Emad Hatem Abdullah of Little Rock, Arkansas was arrested, and taken to the Southwest Virginia Regional Jail in Abingdon where he is being held on $5,000 bond. Abdullah ... hmmm ... that's a common name in the Ozarks, right?
Abdullah has been charged with one felony count of throwing a missile at a vehicle and four counts of manufacturing and possessing an explosive device.
A 20-year-old passenger in the pickup truck from Marion, Virginia was not charged. The Smyth County Sheriff's Office assisted State Police with its investigation into the incident
A Somali-born teenager plotted "a spectacular show" of terrorism for months, saying he didn't mind that children would die if he bombed a crowded Christmas tree-lighting ceremony, according to a law-enforcement official and court documents.
He never got the chance. Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, was jugged Friday in downtown Portland after using a cell phone to try to detonate what he thought were explosives in a van, prosecutors said. It turned out to be a dummy bomb put together by FBI agents.
It is the latest in a string of alleged terrorist plots by U.S. citizens or residents, including a Times Square plot in which a Pakistain-born man pleaded guilty earlier this year to trying to set off a car boom at a bustling street corner. Last month, another Pakistain-born Virginia resident was accused in a bomb plot to kill commuters.
In the Portland plot, Mohamud believed he was receiving help from a larger ring of jihadists as he communicated with undercover federal agents, but no foreign terrorist organization was directing him, according to a law-enforcement official who wasn't authorized to discuss the case publicly and spoke on a condition of anonymity.
The official said Mohamud was very committed to the plot and planned the details alone, including where to park the van to hurt the most people.
"I want whoever is attending that event to leave, to leave dead or injured." Mohamud said, according to the affidavit.
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Pretty much a US Gov't (State Depart in particular or as big sis puts it) man-made event. Allowing political asylum from a jihadist countries has consequences, dummies.
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So there is obviously a risk to letting these people into our country. Is it worth it? I don't think so. Do we know which ones are interested in peace and assimilation? Do we know which of them are interested in jihad? How do we know? Whose word do we have to take? Obama? Not good enough. What do we gain from having them here? When we take immigrants from countries like Ireland, Italy, Japan or China we are getting people from countries that have contributed to the advance of civilization. What has anybody from Somalia ever contributed?
[Pak Daily Times] At least two people, including a soldier, were killed in a clash between security forces and unidentified myrmidons in Darra Adam Khel, a private TV channel reported on Saturday. The crossfire between the forces and the perpetrators began at the main road leading to Beautiful Downtown Peshawar from Kohat in the area of Akhurwaal, Darra Adam Khel. During the clash, one soldier identified as Mohammad Shoaib and a person named Fidda Mohammad belonging to Lakki Marwat were martyred, while three others were maimed. As a result of the crossfire, three vehicles were also destroyed, the channel reported.
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[Dawn] Over a hundred local leaders and activists of Sunni Ittehad Council were jugged on Saturday. Police stopped the rally near 'Soha Rawalpindi, where the activists had held a sit-in protest and were determined to move forward.
Police in twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi jump-started into action since Saturday morning in a bid to stem Council's Long March from Islamabad to Lahore. Hazrart Bari Imam Shrine was sealed.
The workers of Sunni Tehreek (ST) arriving on board Khyber Mail were jugged at Rawalpindi Railways station.
According to Cantt Police Station, at least 50 people were taken into custody. Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... Sunni Council front man claimed over 200 of their workers were nabbed.
In view of security apprehensions, the government was in top gear since yesterday to stanch Islamabad-Lahore Long March announced by Sunni Ittehad as the march to 'Save Pakistain'.
Islamabad's exits and entry points especially those roads leading to Bari Imam Darbar were heavily guarded with baton-wielding police contingents armed with tear-gas shells and armored personnel carrier (APC).
Police were given duties outside madaris in support of Sunni Tehreek. Also, some local leaders were browbeaten into staying back.
Police took 19 Tehreek workers including a local leader during an operation in Jhelum.
According to Rawalpindi officials, over 100 people have been taken into custody. -- Agencies
Chief of the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) Sahibzada Fazal Karim on Saturday said the SIC will not allow the repeal of the blasphemy laws. He said terrorism had distorted Pakistain's image across the globe, adding that those persuading people for suicide kabooms were not loyal to Pakistain.
Hundreds of SIC activists started a nearly 200-mile long march on Saturday in a protest against Taliban attacks on the country's religious sites.
Authorities warned that gunnies could attack the procession which was being led by Sahibzada Fazal Karim.
Police escorted the convoy out of Islamabad, where the journey had started.
The participants, travelling on foot and in cars, plan to rally in Lahore, where 47 people died in a suicide kaboom at a Sufi shrine in July.
While addressing the participants of the long march at Islamabad's Bari Imam shrine, Karim said the government had not accepted the SIC's demand for legislation to curb terrorism and called for an All Parties Conference on the issue.
He further demanded the release of the jugged SIC activists.
The local administration had imposed Section 144 in Rawalpindi and several activists from various religious seminaries had been jugged.
Following intelligence reports of possible terror attacks, the Punjab government had banned the long march to avert any untoward incident.
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BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: A member of Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) was killed during the security operation that resulted in the capture of assailants on Baghdads Our Lady of Salvation Church on Saturday, Iraqs interior minister revealed.
A leading member of the AQI, known as Abi Ammar al-Nejadi, was killed by Iraqi security forces, Jawad al-Bolani said in statements reported by the semi-official al-Iraqiya TV.
Earlier, a security source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency that the security operation, conducted in al-Mansour neighborhood, western Baghdad, targeted the detention of the so-called AQI ruler of Baghdad.
A number of his escorts, one of them wounded in clashes with security forces, were captured, the source said.
Maj. General Ahmed Abu-Rugheaf, the ministrys police affairs director, said the name of that so-called ruler is Abu Hussein, a dentist and a former inmate of Basras Boca prison. Abu-Rugheaf had said the terrorist group that attacked Our Lady of Salvation Church earlier this month was arrested on Saturday.
Security forces arrested the 12-man terrorist group, among them the new military commander of al-Qaeda Organization in Baghdad, he said in statements broadcast by al-Iraqiya.
The group members confessed to involvement in and responsibility for the attack on Our Lady of Salvation Church. They also confessed to their participation in a large number of terrorist operations, including attacks on gold jewelry stores, the Central Bank of Iraq (CBI), al-Arabiya channel and the recent blasts in Baghdad, as well as to home-making of explosive charges and belts, he added.
Six tons of explosive charges, along with a quantity of toxic material, were also seized in their hideout, he said.
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[An Nahar] Internal Security Forces succeeded on Saturday in arresting escaped prisoner Walid Lababidi after he had fled from the intensive care unit in a Zghorta hospital on Friday.
The inmate was apprehended in the northern city of Tripoli.
Lababidi, 30, who escaped from the hospital in handcuffs, is convicted with car theft.
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[An Nahar] An Inerga-type rocket-propelled grenade hit the Tripoli neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen Saturday night, causing no casualties but prompting angry residents to block the public road with burning tires to protest the recurrent Inerga attacks.
On Tuesday one person was slightly injured in Jabal Mohsen when an Inerga-type RPG hit a café.
The mostly Alawite neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen, along with Tripoli's predominantly Sunni Bab al-Tebbaneh quarter, has been hit by deadly sectarian violence and sporadic RPG attacks in recent years.
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[Dawn] Revolutionary Guard air marshals jugged a "counter-revolutionary" who tried to hijack an Iranian passenger plane headed for Syria, the Islamic republic's elite group said on Saturday.
Iran Air earlier said that Friday's foiled hijacking on its Tehran-Damascus flight 517 was the work of an unarmed "mentally unstable" man who had warned of a bomb on the plane.
"As the plane was approaching Damascus, one of the passengers falsely claimed he had a bomb and that the plane should land in another country," an Iran Air front man told Mehr news agency.
"The air marshals immediately jugged the offender," he said. They "talked to him, calmed him down and the plane safely landed in Damascus airport."The unnamed man was handed over to authorities at Damascus airport, the airline said.
"The firm and timely intervention of security agents on the plane, members of the Revolutionary Guards, thwarted the attempt by an element linked to the counter-revolution," the Guards, the regime's ideological army, said.
"This individual, whose identity is known and who is part of elements linked to counter-revolution, tried to hijack the plane by causing fear on the flight by pretending a bomb was on board," it said in a statement on its website, Sepahnews.
Earlier Fars carried an unsourced report saying the incident happened on Saturday morning.
Iran's flagship carrier Iran Air has frequent flights to the Syrian capital, which many Iranians visit on pilgrimage.
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