#6
It seems like there's a cute girl in there struggling to get out.
Here, let me help you . . . .
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That standing-on-toes thing she's doing aint easy, especially for a cone-head.
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Methinks it appears that the second 'cone' is to be worn by another dancer. Perhaps they twirl about connected by the 'cord', symbolism for some 1920's Utopian "we are all one" or some other such dribble.
Surprised BHO (or the archdruid of Canterbury) hasn't pulled this out at one of his/it's 'revival' meetings.
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That looks kind of like a Spark Plug costume to me - complete with wire and connector/hood.
#2
Religious Policeman, June 2,2004 on Saudi security forces:
"Tho' many be surrounded,
and the surrounding be complete,
all shall escape
but the one with bad feet".
#3
We'll survive four years of Obama. It may be what we need to get enough people to realize how far we've strayed from the path. I doubt the Germans will recover before they join EUrabia, what few Germans are left there by then. If we opened up our immigration quotas for the EUros, the place would empty in a hurry.
#5
The rot is in the German rules of engagement for their troops in Afghanistan, not necessarily in the troops themselves, in a society which believes itself entitled to all the benefits of Western life without producing more than, in George Bernard Shaw's wonderful descriptor, "chocolate cream soldiers".
#6
That sound you hear is Otto Skorzeny revolving in his grave.
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I had to look up Otto Skorzeny to get the reference. The wikipedia entry on Operation Greif (the false flag trick that Skorzeny used in the Battle of the Bulge where German soldiers wore captured American uniforms and equipment) had this line which stood out: Many of the saboteurs were captured by the Americans. Because they were wearing American uniforms, a number of the Germans were executed, either summarily or after court martial.
This is what we should do with anyone caught on a battlefield without a uniform or other identifying marks as REQUIRED by the Geneva Convention.
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Dramatic photos show a Marine's narrow escape from death Sunday while facing insurgent gunfire in Afghanistan.
The Marine, part of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), was exchanging gunfire with Taliban fighters near Garmser in Afghanistan's Helmand Province when a Reuters photographer captured the soldier's very close call.
A series of six photos show the Marine, wearing a T-shirt and fatigues but no combat helmet, ducking as insurgent gunfire tears through the top of a mud wall he's using for cover. Remarkably, the Marine escaped the gunfight without injury.
The insurgents are finding that every time they engage with the Marines, they lose, Col. Peter Petronzio, commander of the 24th MEU, said in a statement issued May 10. The Marines are gaining ground every day and securing more of the routes through the district. The support we have received from our allied partners has contributed to our many successes thus far.
The Garmser district has been the center of a joint operation of U.S. and British troops designed to put pressure on Taliban insurgents, Agence France-Presse reports.
Troops have targeted this region on the Pakistan border that has served as a route for supplies and reinforcements for insurgents since April 28.
"Definitely they are putting resistance in the area because Garmser is very important for them," Gen. Carlos Branco, a spokesman for NATO's International Security Assistance Force, told the AFP.
"Garmser is a planning, staging and logistics hub. Once lost it will mean a severe defeat for them," he told the agency. "That is why they are reinforcing with insurgents coming from other places, both north and south."
Branco told the AFP that the insurgents had suffered "heavy" losses.
#3
At times like this, I wonder why not sustain the fight right there ? Let the Taliban think they are close to a stunning victory so they send in more canon fodder insurgents and milk this till the Talibunnies wise up ? As long as our boys can be resupplied and a reserve is ready to trump the play, prolong, prolong, prolong.
Or maybe that IS what happens and I'm too dumb to realize it.
#6
I'd imagine a Company 1stSgt there is right now chewing the ass of the platoon sergeant in charge of that devil dog. I'd also imagine the Company Commander similarly chewing the ass of the platoon commander in charge of that devil dog.
Fifteen Taliban rebels were killed in an operation by the Afghan military in a troubled southwestern province, a military commander said here Sunday.
The Islamic rebels were killed in a gunbattle in the southwestern province of Badghis on Saturday, colonel Ghulam Sakhi told AFP. "We killed 15 Taliban in face-to-face fighting," the colonel, who led the operation in the province's Ghormach district, said. Several other rebels were injured, he added, without giving a figure. The rebels were killed during an operation launched in several provinces last week, the colonel said.
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What ever happened to the Northern Alliance? Seems to me that would be a fertile recruiting ground for Afghan Army potentials. You wouldn't have to worry about mixed loyalties that way.
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I do not know if it is NATO or something else but the recruitment of military and police in Afghanistan seems to have been a very low priority. In addition, the military seems to be trained unit by unit until it is at peak before being deployed. US advisors have complained that training for both military and police is shorthanded.
This is a war being conducted on the cheap, with all the countries involved including the US doing as little as possible to get Afghanistan running so we can get out.
A suspected Taliban suicide bomber killed four civilians in an attack targeting a district police chief in a southern Afghan former insurgent stronghold on Sunday, a police official said.
Taliban insurgents carried out more than 140 suicide bombings in 2007 and have vowed to step up such attacks this year. Some 95 percent of those killed by the Taliban are civilians, a United Nations special rapporteur said this week.
The latest attack came in the town of Musa Qala in Helmand province and targeted the district police chief. Four civilians were killed by the blast and eight more people, three civilians and five police, were wounded, the provincial police chief said.
The suicide bomb came a day after Taliban insurgents fired at a NATO helicopter carrying the provincial governor near Musa Qala forcing it to make an emergency landing.
Musa Qala took on a symbolic importance after Taliban fighters forced British troops out of the dusty opium-trading centre in late 2006. The Taliban then seized it in February last year making it the only town of any size held by the rebels.
Afghan, British and U.S. forces took back Musa Qala in a large offensive in December, but Taliban insurgents still hold many of the villages around the town which sits on a river running through barren desert.
Elsewhere, a roadside bomb killed a soldier from U.S.-led coalition forces and an Afghan civilian in the southern province of Zabul on Sunday, the U.S. military said.
Thousands of people have been killed in Afghanistan in the last two years as the Taliban step up their campaign to topple the pro-Western Afghan government and force the withdrawal of more than 50,000 foreign troops from the country.
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Jaber Elbaneh, the al-Qaeda operative who had roamed free in Yemen despite a $5 million reward offered by the U.S. government for his capture, was jailed Sunday by a Yemeni judge.
Elbaneh's detention was ordered one day after a Washington Post article on how he was living under the personal protection of Yemen's president, Ali Abdullah Saleh. The Yemeni government has repeatedly refused U.S. requests to extradite him to stand trial on terrorism charges, straining diplomatic relations between the two countries.
According to Yemen's official news agency, a judge ordered Elbaneh's arrest after prosecutors filed a request to lock him up. Elbaneh is part of a group of 36 Yemeni defendants who are being tried on charges of conspiring to blow up oil installations in 2006.
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al-Qaeda
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Note to General Kayani - wrong border. You're supposed to be firing on Taliban positions on your western border.
Jammu (PTI): Casting an ominous shadow ahead of Indo-Pak talks, Pakistani troops on Monday opened unprovoked heavy fire on a forward Indian post along the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch sector of Jammu and Kashmir killing an army jawan.
Viewing this action as a serious violation of ceasefire, army authorities deployed in Mendhar lodged a strong protest with their Pakistan counterparts.
The firing comes just ahead of Foreign Secretary-level talks in Islamabad to review the fourth round of the composite dialogue process. This will be followed by meeting of External Affairs Miniter Pranab Mukherjee with his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Wednesday.
This is the third ceasefire violation along the Indo-Pak border and second along the LoC in less than a fortnight.
"Pakistani troops resorted to heavy and unprovoked firing on our forward posts in Mendhar in Poonch sector around 0800 hours today", a senior army officer said.
The firing, which continued for over 10 minutes, resulted in the death of an army jawan, he said, adding that Indian troops later took up positions, but observed restraint.
The jawan, who was manning the forward post at the time of firing, belonged to 2/8 Gorkha Rifles.
"They (Pak army) have violated the ceasefire by resorting to heavy firing on our positions", the officer said.
Army authorities conveyed to Pakistani commanders that firing on the Indian post was started from Pakistani side, the army officer said and added that they have also been asked to hold a flag meeting to discuss the issue.
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#2
Pakistan is already unofficially at war with the U.S., NATO and Coalition members on the Afghan front, via their Taliban proxies. Is it wise for them to open a second front with India, or do they think that, like a parent with a temper tantrum-throwing child, India will accept whatever they do without a serious response?
#4
Is it wise for them to open a second front with India,
No.
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This incident again suppors my belief that despite the confrontations and strifes going on vv Israel-Hizb + Africa, RUSSIA, CENTRAL ASIA, + "NEAR ABROAD"/PERIPHERALS IS THE REAL FOCII 2008-2012/13 FOR IRAN + RADICAL ISLAM.
*ION CHINESE MIL FORUM Thread > ASIA TIMES > SOUTH EAST ASIAN INTEGRATION INTO BOOMING CHINESE ECONOMY/CHINA'S EMBARCE LEAVES THE US OUT IN THE COLD. The CHIN-ASEAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT [CAFTA].
ALso, SAME > THE NEW GLOBAL ECONOMIC ALLIANCE OF [ANti-US-West?]BRIC NATIONS [Brazil, Russia, India, China].
Two people were killed in separate incidents of violence in North Waziristan on Sunday. A local man died and his companion was injured by a remote-controlled bomb blast in the Mamirogha Manzar village, located 40 kilometres west of Miranshah, local residents said. In another incident, one person was killed and two others wounded in crossfire between two groups in the Anghar village located south of Miranshah. The clash erupted over a land dispute. Separately, a landmine exploded near an army camp in Miranshah, but there were no human deaths or injuries. Officials said the landmine was planted near a barbed wire fence and exploded when a dog stepped on it.
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#1
Time to start indiscriminate bombing of the Tribal Areas - they're planting mines to kill dogs. Next thing you know, they'll be killin' fluffy bunnies and baby ducks!
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#2
And I thought the U.S. Military had a patent on the killing of fluffy bunnies and baby ducks.
An armed group of militants occupied the house of a member of the National Assembly (MNA) from Bajaur Agency on Sunday, but vacated it after intervention by elders.
About 25 militants broke into engineer Shaukatullahs house after overpowering two security guards. AFP said they took the MNAs family and servants hostage, but it could not ascertain how many people had been held. The occupation continued for nearly two hours.
The militants demanded that the MNA stop opposing the local Taliban and hand over a hill containing marble reserves to them.
A jirga of tribal elders was formed to persuade the Taliban militants to end the occupation. The militants demanded that the MNA stop opposing the local Taliban and hand over a hill containing marble reserves to them. The Taliban are demanding that Shaukatullah Khan hands over his land and a hill from where marble is extracted, a local tribesman told AFP The militants relinquished the control of the house after the elders assured them that their demands would be considered.
Meanwhile, the political administration arrested seven tribesmen during a crackdown against the Salarzai tribe in search of the militants involved in the killing of a security official in the area about a week ago.
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A suicide bomber on Sunday killed at least 11 people, including four troops, and wounded 24 others in an attack close to the gates of an army training centre in Mardan, police sources said.
The bomber was on foot and blew himself up outside the gates of the Punjab Regimental Centre, close to a bakery shop in the cantonment area, the sources added. The attack was the deadliest in more than two months. Talking to a private television channel, NWFP Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain condemned the attack, adding that it was the work of those who wanted to derail the peace process started by the Awami National Party (ANP) government with militants in the Malakand division. He said such tactics would not affect ongoing talks with militants.
Military spokesman Major General Athar Abbas told AFP that four of the dead were soldiers guarding the gate, adding that the bomber blew himself up when he was stopped by one of the soldiers. He said that the regimental centre also ran the bakery, adding that soldiers routinely guarded the commercial area.
Responsibility: The local Taliban claimed responsibility for the suicide attack, Dawn News reported. According to the channel, the Taliban said that the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan had allowed them to carry out such attacks in retaliation for the ongoing military operation in Dara Adam Khel and Kohat.
Earlier on Sunday, Taliban spokesman Maulvi Umar also warned the government against conducting any military operation in Dara Adam Khel, saying it could harm the peace efforts in the Tribal Areas, the channel said.
Mardan has suffered several attacks by militants during a wave of violence that has swept Pakistan after the army stormed the Lal Masjid in Islamabad last July to crush a Taliban-style armed movement. Militants linked to the Taliban and Al Qaeda have carried out a wave of suicide bombings threatening security, particularly in the northwest. More than 600 people have been killed in militant related violence since the beginning of this year alone.
The violence had tapered off in recent months, particularly after the new government, sworn in at the end of March, opened peace talks with tribes in the Tribal Areas.
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Maulvi Umar
Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan
NWFP Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain
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A leader of al Qaeda in Iraq has been sentenced to death for the killing of Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho, whose murder in March drew worldwide condemnation, the Iraqi government said on Sunday. The Iraqi Central Criminal Court imposed the death sentence on Ahmed Ali Ahmed, known as Abu Omar, Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said in a statement.
Rahho, the archbishop of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, was abducted on Feb. 29 after gunmen attacked his car and killed his driver and two guards. His body was found in a shallow grave two weeks later. At the time, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki blamed al Qaeda and vowed to bring the bishop's killers to justice. Dabbagh said Ahmed was a leader of Sunni Islamist al Qaeda and had been sought for his involvement in a number of "terror crimes against the people of Iraq". He described Rahho as an advocate of peace and tolerance among Iraqis.
When Rahho's body was found on March 13, police said it was not clear whether the 65-year-old clergyman, known to be in poor health, had been killed or died of other causes. A number of Christian clergy have been kidnapped and killed and churches bombed in Iraq since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. A former archbishop of Mosul, Basile Georges Casmoussa, was kidnapped in 2005 but later released after a day in captivity.
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If the execution is carried on it will show that Irak is on teh right tracck: Muslim countries routinely pardon criminals when the victim is an infidel thus conforming to Shariah: nodeath penalty when a Muslim kills an infidel
Ma'an Three Palestinian citizens were injured on Saturday in a fight between the Hamas-affiliated de facto government's police and the members of an Islamic group called Ahl Al-Kitab Wa As-Sunna (followers of the Qur'an and the Prophet's teachings) in the northern Gaza Strip.
Palestinian medical sources told Ma'an that three injured people were hospitalized at Kamal Udwan Hospital.
For his part, the spokesperson of the de facto Interior Ministry in the Gaza Strip, Eyhab Al-Ghusain, denied that any shooting took place in the northern Gaza Strip.
Islam Shahwan, the spokesperson of the de facto government's police, said that the police dispersed a clan-motivated clash in the area without any casualties. He denied that the police opened fire on Palestinians.
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Ma'an The Israeli military removed a roadblock which had shut off the southern entrance to the West Bank city of Hebron on Saturday evening.
The removal was postponed several times because Israeli settlers protested, claiming that removal of the roadblock threatened their security.
The road, which links the city of Hebron with a nearby industrial zone, has been closed to since the beginning of the second Palestinian Intifada.
According to Israeli officials, the removal of the roadblock was a goodwill gestures towards the Palestinians that Israel pledged to the US and the international Quartet.
Last week, the Quartet's Middle East envoy Tony Blair announced that Israel would remove three other checkpoints in the West Bank.
According to the United Nations, Israel maintains more than 500 roadblocks, gates, and checkpoints as a part of its occupation of the West Bank.
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#1
And the paleos will thank you by promptly sending a female suicide bomber to the nearest pre-school.
Ma'an An official source in the Hamas movement in Bethlehem said on Sunday that Palestinian Supreme Judge Tayseer Tamimi released an order to dismiss Hamas-affiliated marriage officials in Bethlehem. The source saod that the decision was based on the recommendations of the intelligence services.
According to Hamas' source, all marriage officials who are affiliated to Hamas will be suspended. Hamas' statement described that as a new procedure against Hamas loyalists in the West Bank by the Palestinian security service. The supreme judge's office has not yet commented on the Hamas statement.
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They've been allowing paleos to marry goats, haven't they!
Ma'an A bomb destroyed a popular fast food restaurant in Gaza City on Sunday morning. The owner of the café, Khalil Abu Harbeed blamed Hamas-run de facto government for not protecting his business. He said this was second attack on the restaurant within a month, and that government police were stationed near the café at the time of the blast. Local residents said they heard a thunderous explosion at 2:30am. Abu Harbeed estimated his losses to be 5,000 US dollars.
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Bomb blows up in Gaza is kind of a dog bites man story.
An entire restaurant is destroyed, a popular one at that, and its total value is less than half price my company paid for a used fork-lift last month.
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Well you gotta figure that even the best resturants in Gaza have a pretty damn big discount on their net value.
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Ma'an - The Hamas movement said that the Palestinian security forces arrested three of its supporters in the West Bank on Friday night. Hamas said that the security forces arrested Mahmoud Al-Masri from Al-Ein refugee camp near the city of Nablus, Tha'er Mansur, also from Nablus. In Tulkarem, the security forces detained Faris Abed Rabu after summoning him for interrogation, Hamas claimed.
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Sri Lankan air force helicopters bombed a Tamil Tiger rebel operations center in the contested north, while separate ground battles killed 12 insurgents, the military said Sunday.
Air force pilots bombed the rebel center in northern Mannar district on Saturday, the military said in a statement. It did not give details of any casualties or damage caused in the attack.
Twelve Tamil guerrillas were killed in separate fighting Saturday across the islands embattled north, the statement said. The fighting was in the Mannar, Vavuniya and Welioya regions, it added. Rebel spokesman Rasiah Ilanthirayan was not immediately available for comment. The government and rebels often release conflicting reports on the fighting, exaggerating enemy casualties and lowering their own losses.
Independent confirmation of the claims is impossible because reporters are not allowed in the war zone. Also Saturday, the military said it captured Palampiddi town from Tamil Tiger rebels in Mannar district. Military spokesman Brig. Udaya Nanayakkara said capturing Palampiddi was strategically important because it would block the rebels supply route between the northern Vavuniya and Mannar districts. The government has vowed to crush the rebels by the end of the year and dismantle their de facto administration.
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Dramatic photos show a Marine's narrow escape from death Sunday while facing insurgent gunfire in Afghanistan.
Fifteen Taliban rebels were killed in an operation by the Afghan military in a troubled southwestern province, a military commander said here Sunday.
A suicide bomber on Sunday killed at least 11 people, including four troops, and wounded 24 others in an attack close to the gates of an army training centre in Mardan, police sources said.
A leader of al Qaeda in Iraq has been sentenced to death for the killing of Chaldean Catholic Archbishop 
Ma'an Three Palestinian citizens were injured on Saturday in a fight between the Hamas-affiliated de facto government's police and the members of an Islamic group called Ahl Al-Kitab Wa As-Sunna (followers of the Qur'an and the Prophet's teachings) in the northern Gaza Strip.
Sri Lankan air force helicopters bombed a Tamil Tiger rebel operations center in the contested north, while separate ground battles killed 12 insurgents, the military said Sunday. 
