KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A suicide car bomber triggered a huge blast Tuesday near two armored vehicles used by U.S.-led coalition troops in Kabul, killing at least two civilians and destroying the wall of a nearby house, witnesses and officials said.
The bomber damaged the armored vehicles and wounded four people, though none of the troops was injured, said Lt. Col. David Johnson, a coalition spokesman.
At least two civilians were killed in the blast, said Gen. Ali Shah Paktiawal, director of criminal investigations for the Kabul police.
Four other people, including two Pakistani road construction workers, were injured in the blast, said Dr. Mohammad Musa, from Kabul's Wazir Akbar Khan hospital.
U.S. and Afghan security forces raced to the scene, where broken glass and pieces of the bomber's vehicle littered the street in a neighborhood of the capital where many foreigners live. The body of one victim lay in the street.
A day earlier, a blast ripped through a car south of the capital, killing four civilians, police said. The explosion occurred in the Musayi district of Kabul province, where a bomb had been freshly planted in the muddy, unpaved road, regional police commander Gen. Zalmai Oryakhail said.
Also Monday, a remote-controlled roadside bomb struck an Afghan army vehicle in the eastern province of Paktia, killing four soldiers and wounding two, Din Mohammad Darwish, spokesman for the provincial governor, said.
In protest of the government's response to an attack on a traveling group of lawmakers earlier this month, dozens of lawmakers walked out of parliament Monday, led by lower house speaker Mohammad Yunus Qanuni who is also a top opposition figure.
Qanuni is a leading figure in the National Front, the largest opposition group challenging U.S.-backed President Hamid Karzai's authority and the walkout is likely to deepen Afghanistan's political divide.
Qanuni said the government had ignored parliament's demand for the suspension of officials in the northern province of Baghlan where a suicide bomber attacked a visiting delegation of lawmakers on Nov. 6.
Some 77 people, including 61 students and six lawmakers were killed, and more than 100 were wounded in the blast and the subsequent shooting by panicked guards, officials said. One of the lawmakers killed was a key opposition member.
British troops killed two Danish soldiers by "friendly fire" during an operation against the Taliban in Afghanistan, British and Danish defence sources disclosed yesterday. They fired missiles over the heads of the Taliban hitting a small Danish compound more than a mile away on the other side of the river Helmand in the Upper Geresk valley, Denmark's TV2 station said, quoting Danish military sources.
British officials privately confirm the incident. It occurred on September 26 but the results of an official Danish investigation are only beginning to emerge. "We are doing all we can to find out what happened and avoid a repeat. We are still taking evidence from our personnel," a British defence source said.
A Ministry of Defence spokesman said in a statement: "We are working closely with the Danish government to establish the details and the causes of this incident and there is a board of inquiry into it ongoing. It would not be appropriate to comment further before the board of inquiry is complete."
However, Danish sources said the British troops fired between six and eight Javelin heat-detecting missiles at a 14-man Danish unit. The Danish television station said Danish troops did not realise they were being fired on by British forces until they identified the missile remains as belonging to the British after the attack.
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friendly Fire :(
have to wait till all the "facts" *shake* out but this may prove..
/wondering if the Brits will 'ave to step up and point that pointy thing back at themselves..
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Tragic. The Javelin did not miss. Not 6-8 times. The Javelin uses an imaging infrared seeker that, once locked on, is very hard to spoof.
The British squad lost the position of the Danish squad and misidentified them as taliban. I wonder if the engagement happened at night when the British were forced to rely on low resolution night/infrared vision devices. Was the Danish position properly marked with identifying symbols?
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Unfortunately, this is NATO at its predictable incompetency when you factor in the poor allocation of spending by the Danes, the UK and other members on defense. That includes technology and training. Plus it is very difficult to coordinate such diverse national defense programs into one war plan and RoE. That is why Gates has read the riot act to all the members of NATO. We just can't keep propping up this misnomer of defense cooperation.
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Didn't I hear something about the Brits having a critical need for a Blue Force Tracker? IIRC they are 15 - 20 years behind the US in that regard.
Al
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Re: Blue Force Tracker -
The phrase is used loosely, but properly refers to a device that was a prototype element of FBCB2, a brigade-and-below comprehensive command and control capability. BFT was deployed in Afghan and during the invasion of Iraq and proved to have some utility on its own.
The Danes were quite eager to get Blue Force Tracker, to avoid blue on blue casualties. IIRC an agreement was made to let them have the beacons but not the C2 system we use, which would expose other capabilities.
Integrating coalitions without giving away technology or requiring costs that smaller countries can't afford is a challenge. One response is to establish data exchange mechanisms between varied systems. The JC3IEDM and the Battle Management Language standards (the latter still in development, including the Geospatial BML for terrain-oriented data exchange and reasoning) are designed to allow interoperability between command & control software in coalitions.
The Brits were offered Blue Force Tracker units as well. Ironically, in some ways integrating with them is harder than with the Danes. For one thing, they already had C2 systems and doctrine in place that differs from ours in a number of ways. And secondly their military was deeply starved for funds when Gordon Brown ran the Exchequer that they couldn't even kit out their troops with their own equipment in many cases - body armor etc. We did give some Blue Force Tracker equipment to the Brits, but not enough for every unit they deployed.
Systematic, a Danish company, has fielded a compliant C2 system being used by their troops in Afghan and under consideration by a lot of smaller countries.
Reports from the field; looks like Spin Boldak is back in play.
Four policemen were killed in separate incidents in Kandahar and Herat provinces, officials said on Sunday. Border police commander Muhammad Aqa informed Pajhwok Afghan News two cops were killed and another three wounded in a bomb blast in the Spin Boldak town this afternoon. Aqa added the remote-controlled explosive device hit vehicles of police patrolling the district bordering Pakistans southeastern Balochistan province. The explosion comprehensively destroyed two Ranger pick-up trucks of the border police.
Earlier, Herat police spokesman Col. Noor Khan Nekzad said a constable shot dead two of his colleagues Saturday night. He attributed the incident to differences between the constables. But Taliban spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi claimed the two cops were gunned down by fighters in an attack on their check-post in Sarjangal area. The militants also seized weapons from the policemen, he said.
In Gardez, the capital of the southeastern Paktika province, police arrested four container drivers supplying food to Coalition forces. Brig. Gen. Asmatullah Alizai, provincial police head, said the drivers were selling eatables and other materials.
ISLAMABAD - President Pervez Musharraf was set to embark on pomp-filled farewell visits to his troops on Tuesday, one day before he quits as head of Pakistans nuclear-armed military and becomes a civilian leader. The former commando, who grabbed power in a coup in 1999 and then signed up as a US ally in the fight against Al Qaeda and the Taliban, will tour various military bases to say his goodbyes over the next two days, officials said.
"So long guys, I'll be thinking of you when you're in Swat ... and I'm not!"
He is to step down as army chief on Wednesday. On the following day, he will take the oath for a second five-year term as president -- but this time without the uniform that he has described as being like his skin.
Just making way for the next General-President-Honcho.
General Musharraf will make a series of farewell visits to various military headquarters on Tuesday and Wednesday, presidential spokesman Rashid Qureshi told AFP. He is on Tuesday to visit the headquarters of the joint services, the navy and the air force, which are spread out between the capital Islamabad and the neighbouring garrison city of Rawalpindi, Qureshi said.
Musharraf will on Wednesday go to the armys general headquarters in Rawalpindi to hand over his position as chief of army staff to his heir apparent, General Ashfaq Kiyani, the spokesman added. Officials said Musharraf would receive a guard of honour during the handover ceremony to Kiyani, the former head of Pakistans premier spy agency, Inter-Services Intelligence.
Gotta wonder just how devious Kiyani is ... and how quick ...
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I wonder if he worries about having an Anwar Sadat moment.
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Actually, having the taliban take over in Pakistan would be a good thing. Then we can quit pretending that Pakistan is an ally, and stomp them into the ground, as many so richly deserve. Attacking south out of Afghanistan and north through a Marine amphibious landing, with India attacking from the east would put a hurt on Pakistan like nothing else every envisioned. The first attack needs to take out the nukes...
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A Sadat moment, a Zia moment, a Bhutto pere moment. None of them good moments for those departed "leaders"...
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A Sadat moment, a Zia moment, a Bhutto pere moment. None of them good moments for those departed "leaders"...
When Pakistan says "departed leader", they mean it.
As is too often the case, the traditional instability of autocracies seems to have coalesced into a discordant yet perverse sympathetic resonance within the MME (Muslim Middle East). While Iraq may have served as some sort of "quantum butterfly", to begin this domino chain reaction, the inherent brittleness of Muslim institutions more likely plays a greater role.
Nonetheless, the convergence of political turmoil in Iraq, Iran and, now, Pakistan all present some significant challenges to American military planners. I would love to see Old Patriot's scenario come to pass. While I remain concerned regarding our ability to field the expeditionary force required for such an action, it would send a truly unmistakable message to our other putative "allies"Saudi Arabia in particularthat no further duplicity will be tolerated.
I can only add howwoe beset as Bush's tenure has beenfar better that the rather inconvenient advent of this new crisis comes now while there is still some fight left in the White House, rather than having the wave crest during the watch of some spineless democrat.
Main pipeline supplying gas to Punjab from Sui was blown Saturday-Sunday night. Supply to Punjab was affected. According to details, 30-inch dia main pipeline supplying gas to Punjab was blown by terrorists 1 am Saturday-Sunday night at Goth Dinari Doli Check Post of Police. A big portion of the gas pipeline was destroyed due to explosion and gas caught fire. Due to destruction, supply of gas to Punjab was suspended. Security forces from Punjab and Balochistan reached the site and started investigation. Official sources said that after the explosion police arrested 8 suspects in a crack down. Repair of the affected pipeline was undertaken and hopefully it would be repaired within 36 hours to resume supply of gas. Supply has been started through alternate arrangements.
The Pakistan government has freed two brothers of a former member of the Taliban leadership council as part of a prisoner exchange agreement with militants in the troubled Waziristan tribal region.
A Peshawar-based intelligence official confided to Pajhwok Afghan News on Sunday that Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Usmani's brothers, Abdul Wafa and Abdul Qadeer, walked out of the infamous Dera Ismail Khan prison last night. The two had been arrested in 2005 from Zhob town of the southeastern Balochistan province on the charge of having links to al-Qaeda and Taliban extremists.
They were released under a swap deal reached between the government and local Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud.
Bah.
Muhammad Ghazi Khan, a Dera Ismail Khan journalist, confirmed to Pajhwok by phone the slain militant commanders brothers were set free Saturday night. Wafa and Qadir left for Quetta following their release, he revealed. The journalist linked their release to the controversial government-Mehsud agreement on prisoners exchange.
Mullah Usmani, a close confidant of Mullah Muhammad Omar, had been the Kandahar corps commander and Balkh police chief during the Taliban regime. He was also a member of the Taliban leadership council before being zapped eliminated in a December 2006 airstrike by the US-led Coalition in the lawless Helmand province.
The police squad of a caretaker federal minister on Monday held a man with four hand grenades on MM Alam Road and handed him over to the Ghalib Market police. The first information report (FIR) said the man intended to hit caretaker federal minister Tariq Hameed who was having his dinner. The police, however, claimed that they had detained the suspect at a police picket. The FIR said a suspect was standing outside a restaurant. When the ministers squad asked him why he was standing there. The man ran but the squad nabbed him near Mini Market. A police official said they had also recovered four hand grenades from the man.
Ghalib Market police cops, another official said, when tried to frisk a suspected man who was about to board a rickshaw at a picket, the man ran away. During interrogation, he said, the police had learnt that the man was a fanatic. He said the man was not a suicide bomber.
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QUETTA: Unidentified people killed two more government officials here on Monday as violence that erupted in the city after the death of Baloch nationalist leader Balach Marri continued. Noshaki District Tehsildar Asghar Mengal and his security guard were ambushed on Dr Bano Road. They succumbed to their injuries in the Civil Hospital. A passerby was also injured in the incident, while the assailants managed to escape from the scene. However, Quetta police said that the incident was result of a tribal feud. Asghar was a close relative of former Balochistan governor Amirul Mulk Mengal.
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Security forces used artillery and gunship helicopters on pro-Taliban militants in the troubled Swat valley, killing 40 militants, including two commanders, and losing four soldiers, said military spokesman Major General Waheed Arshad. He said another five soldiers had been injured in the operation. Arshad told Daily Times that the hilltops had been cleared, while security forces were now advancing towards areas where the militants had taken refuge.
Swat Media Centre spokesman Amjad Iqbal said two local commanders were among those killed, reported AFP. Commander Khitab Khan was one of the commanders killed, Daily Times learnt. Iqbal said security forces had targeted the hideouts of militants loyal to rebel cleric Maulana Fazlullah throughout Sunday night.
Meanwhile, a statement issued here said security forces destroyed eight vehicles and killed several militants during an operation. The militants convoy was destroyed on Bara Bandai-Shakardara Road. Separately, two security personnel were injured in a mortar attack on Kabal Golf Course.
Bet that complicated the 11th hole...
Curfew relaxation: Also on Monday, the local administration announced a four-hour relaxation in curfew from 8am till 12pm. The curfew had been in place since Saturday.
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The Kabal Golf Course in Swat is 18 holes. There are 25 golf courses in Pakistan and I envision a new form of golf tourism - suicide golf. Instead of jumping off bridges or slicing your wrists you can at least go to Swat, enjoy your passion (golf) for a few holes and end up horizontal the way you wanted to go in the first place.
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Safe enough golfing there if one wore armour made of the heads of recycled 1 irons.
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Hummm from the article: Correspondents say the US military presence is unpopular among many of the Iraqi population, because of what is seen as the heavy-handed use of force by US troops.
And just who are these Correspondents that seem to be the expert on Iraqis' feelings? Seems to me, the GI's coming home, both enlisted and officers, are reporting that the Iraqis really do like them.
Suspicious Iraqi soldiers thwarted terror suspects disguised as a bride and groom trying to pass through a checkpoint along with their "wedding procession" outside the Iraqi capital, the Iraqi Defense Ministry said Monday.
The procession Sunday near Taji, about 12 miles north of Baghdad, raised suspicion among the soldiers because most of those celebrating were men, an official in the ministry told The Associated Press. Soldiers searched the car carrying the purported bridge and groom and discovered the "couple" were two wanted men: Haider al-Bahadili and Abbas Latif. Two other terror suspects were detained along with them, according to the Defense Ministry statement.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to ministry orders, said the investigation into the suspects was ongoing and declined to release further information.
Iraqi Forces, advised by U.S. Special Forces, detained one suspected al Qaeda in Iraq terrorist commander and two suspected extremists, as well as uncovered 18 improvised explosive devices during three separate operations Nov. 25 targeting criminal groups within Iraq.
The Habbaniyah Special Weapons and Tactics team, along with U.S. Special Forces, conducted a raid west of Baghdad specifically targeting an AQI commander. The individual is reported to be responsible for murder and intimidation campaigns against Iraqi Police and their families in Saqlawiyah, and multiple improvised explosive device attacks against Iraqi and Coalition Forces.
In a separate operation, the 8th Iraqi Army Division and U.S. Forces conducted a raid to disrupt the command structure of an extremist network operating in Ash Shamiyah. This network is alleged to be responsible for multiple attacks against the Iraqi Army, which have killed several IA Soldiers. Two suspects were detained during the operation.
Additionally, during a mission to clear southwest Baqubah of al Qaeda in Iraq terrorists, Iraqi Forces and U.S. Special Forces discovered 18 IEDs along with a homemade mortar system, RPG rounds, remote detonation devices, homemade primers, 30 feet of detonation cord and military grade explosive. All items were destroyed by controlled blast.
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Coalition forces detained 10 suspects Monday during operations targeting al-Qaeda networks along the Tigris River Valley in Iraq. Coalition forces conducted several operations targeting associates of al-Qaeda in Iraq leaders, including foreign terrorist facilitators and planners of car-bombing attacks. During the operations, Coalition forces captured two wanted individuals and detained eight suspects on site.
During one of the operations, information gathered from local citizens indicated that a school was being used by al-Qaeda in Iraq terrorists as a meeting location and safe house. Coalition forces briefly entered the school, but did not do any damage and left the school as it was found.
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Coalition forces killed two terrorists Monday during operations targeting al-Qaeda networks north of Bayji in Iraq.
During the operation, as Coalition forces entered the target area, they observed several individuals begin to maneuver in and around the area reported to be a logistical sanctuary and safe haven where terrorists allegedly plan and coordinate attacks. Perceiving hostile intent, the ground force called for supporting aircraft to engage, killing two terrorists.
Later in the operation, Coalition forces saw two men in a vehicle approach a road block at a high rate of speed. The driver failed to comply with Coalition forces instructions and warnings. The ground force fired warning shots, but driver attempted to speed through the road block. Perceiving hostile intent, the ground force engaged, killing both men. As the ground force secured the vehicle, they also found a child inside that had been wounded during the engagement. The child received immediate medical care before being transferred to a military medical facility where he died while receiving further treatment.
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5¢ the fricken terrorist animals hi-jacked a car and didn't care about the kid..
of course we are all cynics by now and by reason..
The child just as easily coulda been one of Terrorist's own..
Of the vessel which holds each one of their Evil deeds, I've yet to witness the *bottom* of that container ..
Ma'an Hamas said that Fatah-allied security forces seized 11 Hamas supporters in the West Bank on Sunday night. A Hamas statement said the security forces detained their members in raids throughout the West Bank, and stormed a Hamas-affiliated religious club called Iqra in the city of Nablus.
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Ma'an Israeli Special Forces arrested a Hamas member in Jericho on Monday evening. Eyewitnesses said that two of the Special Forces posed as herb sellers in front of the vegetable store owned by thirty-eight-year-old Ibrahim Hussein. They offered to sell him herbs, seizing him when he approached their the car. He was taken to an unknown detination.
"Hey, man! Wanna buy some herb?... Gotcha!"
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I'm wondering if he was going to Scarborough Fair?
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Ma'an Israeli Special Forces seized 12 Palestinian citizens, including six Hamas members, in the village of Zawata village, west of Nablus, on Monday evening. Our correspondent said that Israeli Special Forces invaded the village and surrounded the area taking away 12 people. Six of those seized are, Shaddad Abu Amsha, Baha Abu Amsha, Abdullah Abu Amsha, Hathifa Abu Amsha and Hasan Musa, are all Hamas members.
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Six were nabbed, but only five named. Was the other Mahmoud the Weasel? Enquiring minds want to know...
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Ma'an The Palestinian cabinet announced on Monday that the Palestinian security services have recently disbanded several armed groups affiliated to Hamas, who were planning to cause chaos in the West Bank during the Annapolis conference. In a press conference, following the weekly cabinet meeting, Information Minister Dr Riyad Al-Maliki, said that Hamas groups were rated as active and inactive and that the Palestinian Authority has details of Hamas activists, as well as weapons possessed by the various Hamas groups.
He warned that Hamas in the Gaza Strip plans to force the pilgrims travelling to Mecca for the Hajj to leave through the Rafah crossing into Egypt. He said this step is meant to embarrass both the Palestinian and the Egyptian governments. Al-Maliki said that the Palestinian Authority had agreed with the Israelis that pilgrims from the Gaza Strip will leave for Saudi Arabia through Jordan.
Al-Maliki also refuted Hamas' allegations that there are patients in the Gaza Strip, who are suffering from kidney failure and do not have access to the necessary medical treatment. He added that there are 66 kidney dialysis machines in the Gaza Strip. He said that with 13 new machines, the number would be enough to cover both the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. He blamed Hamas for that closure of the Erez Crossing, saying they had dug several tunnels near the crossing which has led the Israeli authorities to close it.
Al-Maliki also criticized the Israeli government for not implementing the decision to export flowers and strawberries from the Gaza Strip, as they had promised last week.
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Ma'an Israeli forces killed three Palestinians in two separate attacks in the northern Gaza Strip on Monday, on the eve of the Annapolis peace summit. An Israeli aerial drone killed a Palestinian resistance fighter and injured four others in the Sheikh Zayid area in the northern Gaza Strip. Local Palestinian sources said the man killed by the missile attack was twenty-four-year-old Musab Al-Jaabee, an activist in the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas. Medical teams evacuated the wounded and deceased to Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza.
Israeli sources said that two homemade Palestinian projectiles landed in the Western Negev desert earlier on Monday. No connection between the fighters targeted in the airstrike and those projectiles has been verified. Later on Monday, an Israeli missile killed two Palestinians and injured a third in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun. Israeli media said warplanes attacked Palestinian mortar launching positions.
Muawiya Hassanain, the director of ambulance and emergency services in the Palestinian Health Ministry said that Israeli officials asked the department to send ambulances to the northern Gaza Strip to collect two Palestinian corpses. Local sources could not identify the deceased as fighters or civilians.
"You recognize this elbow?"
"Doesn't ring a bell..."
"'course it can't, it's not attached to a hand ...
He added that Israeli forces had detained another Palestinian who was wounded by Israeli fire. Israeli media put the death toll for the day at four, reporting that all of the dead were resistance fighters with the Al-Qassam brigades.
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(KUNA) -- At least 14 Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and one trooper have been killed in fresh clashes with security forces in Northern Sri Lanka. As many as three LTTE rebels were killed in two separate clashes at Wanni area this morning, Sri Lanka's Media Centre for National Security said in Colombo, news agency Press Trust of India reported. Meanwhile, the pro-LTTE 'Tamilini' website claimed that a Sri Lanka Army (SLA) trooper was killed in Kaddaiyadampan in Mannar area late Sunday. As many as seven LTTE cadres were killed also in Mannar yesterday, the news agency said.
In another incident also in Mannar, four LTTE men were killed yesterday in a clash at Adampan. Meanwhile, Commanding-in-Chief of Indian Navy's Southern Naval command, Vice Admiral Sunil K Damle today said that the LTTE has started shifting its operations to India's Southern state of Kerala. "Attempts are being made by the LTTE to use Kerala coast for smuggling arms and ammunition and drugs," Damle told reporters at the port city of Kochi in Kerala.
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"WAVES" stands for "Women's Auxiliary Volunteer Enlisted Service". My mom served in the WAVES from 1942 through 1945, in Washington, DC. I've got a couple of photographs of her in uniform, but not scanned in. She was part of the Navy cryptographic unit that decoded Japanese naval code during the war. I'm quite proud of her!
She's not in THAT photo, though.
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As part of the ongoing PC-ization of our Armed Forces, the WAVES acronym was replaced by WIN ( Women In the Navy). It was deemed no longer cool to say that you were Riding the Waves......
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Four policemen were killed in separate incidents in Kandahar and Herat provinces, officials said on Sunday. Border police commander Muhammad Aqa informed Pajhwok Afghan News two cops were killed and another three wounded in a bomb blast in the Spin Boldak town this afternoon. Aqa added the remote-controlled explosive device hit vehicles of police patrolling the district bordering Pakistans southeastern Balochistan province. The explosion comprehensively destroyed two Ranger pick-up trucks of the border police. 
Earlier, Herat police spokesman Col. Noor Khan Nekzad said a constable shot dead two of his colleagues Saturday night. He attributed the incident to differences between the constables. But Taliban spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi claimed the two cops were gunned down by fighters in an attack on their check-post in Sarjangal area. The militants also seized weapons from the policemen, he said. 
ISLAMABAD - President Pervez Musharraf was set to embark on pomp-filled farewell visits to his troops on Tuesday, one day before he quits as head of Pakistans nuclear-armed military and becomes a civilian leader. The former commando, who grabbed power in a coup in 1999 and then signed up as a US ally in the fight against Al Qaeda and the Taliban, will tour various military bases to say his goodbyes over the next two days, officials said.
Main pipeline supplying gas to Punjab from Sui was blown Saturday-Sunday night. Supply to Punjab was affected. According to details, 30-inch dia main pipeline supplying gas to Punjab was blown by terrorists 1 am Saturday-Sunday night at Goth Dinari Doli Check Post of Police. A big portion of the gas pipeline was destroyed due to explosion and gas caught fire. Due to destruction, supply of gas to Punjab was suspended. Security forces from Punjab and Balochistan reached the site and started investigation. Official sources said that after the explosion police arrested 8 suspects in a crack down. Repair of the affected pipeline was undertaken and hopefully it would be repaired within 36 hours to resume supply of gas. Supply has been started through alternate arrangements.
The Pakistan government has freed two brothers of a former member of the Taliban leadership council as part of a prisoner exchange agreement with militants in the troubled Waziristan tribal region. 
QUETTA: Unidentified people killed two more government officials here on Monday as violence that erupted in the city after the death of Baloch nationalist leader Balach Marri continued. Noshaki District Tehsildar Asghar Mengal and his security guard were ambushed on Dr Bano Road. They succumbed to their injuries in the Civil Hospital. A passerby was also injured in the incident, while the assailants managed to escape from the scene. However, Quetta police said that the incident was result of a tribal feud. Asghar was a close relative of former Balochistan governor Amirul Mulk Mengal.
Security forces used artillery and gunship helicopters on pro-Taliban militants in the troubled Swat valley, killing 40 militants, including two commanders, and losing four soldiers, said military spokesman 
Suspicious Iraqi soldiers thwarted terror suspects disguised as a bride and groom trying to pass through a checkpoint along with their "wedding procession" outside the Iraqi capital, the Iraqi Defense Ministry said Monday.
Iraqi Forces, advised by U.S. Special Forces, detained one suspected al Qaeda in Iraq terrorist commander and two suspected extremists, as well as uncovered 18 improvised explosive devices during three separate operations Nov. 25 targeting criminal groups within Iraq.
Coalition forces detained 10 suspects Monday during operations targeting al-Qaeda networks along the Tigris River Valley in Iraq. Coalition forces conducted several operations targeting associates of al-Qaeda in Iraq leaders, including foreign terrorist facilitators and planners of car-bombing attacks. During the operations, Coalition forces captured two wanted individuals and detained eight suspects on site. 
Coalition forces killed two terrorists Monday during operations targeting al-Qaeda networks north of Bayji in Iraq. 
Ma'an Israeli Special Forces arrested a Hamas member in Jericho on Monday evening. Eyewitnesses said that two of the Special Forces posed as herb sellers in front of the vegetable store owned by thirty-eight-year-old 
Ma'an The Palestinian cabinet announced on Monday that the Palestinian security services have recently disbanded several armed groups affiliated to Hamas, who were planning to cause chaos in the West Bank during the Annapolis conference. In a press conference, following the weekly cabinet meeting, 
Ma'an Israeli forces killed three Palestinians in two separate attacks in the northern Gaza Strip on Monday, on the eve of the Annapolis peace summit. An Israeli aerial drone killed a Palestinian resistance fighter and injured four others in the Sheikh Zayid area in the northern Gaza Strip. Local Palestinian sources said the man killed by the missile attack was twenty-four-year-old 
(KUNA) -- At least 14 Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and one trooper have been killed in fresh clashes with security forces in Northern Sri Lanka. As many as three LTTE rebels were killed in two separate clashes at Wanni area this morning, Sri Lanka's Media Centre for National Security said in Colombo, news agency Press Trust of India reported. Meanwhile, the pro-LTTE 'Tamilini' website claimed that a Sri Lanka Army (SLA) trooper was killed in Kaddaiyadampan in Mannar area late Sunday. As many as seven LTTE cadres were killed also in Mannar yesterday, the news agency said.
