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I understand the thought, but you'd be surprised what's on the troops' iPods - exactly that music. The Youtubes are created by them, for their peers. I like pretty much everything (including being a Deadhead - as Alaska Paul likes to tease) and I like this, especially in context. Let them have it without judgement? If it bothers, turn it off/down
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i liked the music...
Posted by: abu do you love ||
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guilty plea - I like it too. I've got Kid Rock playin right now
Posted by: Frank G ||
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I liked it and it fit with that bad assed aircraft. In some units before they hrad out on convoy they crank the metal, sort of pumps them up.
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No real musical talent, just repetitive cords and growl-screaming (no way you can call it singing). So musically it sucks big.
But in terms of what this is, it simply fits - its by these guys and for them, and this is what a lot of them listen to. I remember Rock the Casbah (first song on AFN in the Gulf War), and in Panama "Welcome to the Jungle" was cranked by and for the troops (and for Noriega as well).
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LOL - Pappy - no song should be "too cutting edge" when one of the primaries (Ramones) is already dead.
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Well, not this lit'l old grandma's music -- but if watching and listening to this -- lets these guys know, folks at home support and care about 'em -- I'll listen all day long!
And about that Apache? I'll never forget that scene, I think it's from "Clear and Present Danger" where, suddenly, an Apache arises up, at eye level, from below a hill! Whoa!
And, having no ego -- correct me if I'm wrong about which movie!
Suspected militants fired rockets at Kandahar airfield in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, followed by a ground attack, NATO and Afghan officials said.
"Kandahar airfield came under indirect fire at approximately 8 o'clock tonight and shortly afterward a ground attack was under way as well," a spokesman for NATO-led forces in Afghanistan said.
The attack came days after an assault on the coalition's main base in Bagram.
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I hope there were lots of Apaches waiting for them in the dark.
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Update
A small number of NATO personnel were wounded, the spokesman said.
An intelligence source on the Kandahar base said three rockets had hit the base. One hit a helicopter terminal used by foreign troops, wounding four foreigners, one hit a shopping area and another did not hit any significant target.
The source said the Taliban came close to the airfield, fired rockets and then foreign helicopters hit back at them with gunfire.
People on the sprawling base were ordered to go into bunkers, a journalist there said. "The base came under rocket fire, which has been pretty much off and on every night I've been here for the last three weeks, maybe three or four rockets," Lucian Read said.
The Taliban have announced an offensive from May 20 against the government, foreign forces and diplomats in Afghanistan in response to NATO plans for an operation against the group's southern stronghold of Kandahar.
A man whom the U.S. described as a key figure in Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula accidentally blew himself up, U.S. military officials told Fox News.
The officials say Nayif Al-Qahtani was "messing with a bomb" when it went off. U.S. officials had been watching him, but Fox News' sources insist the U.S. had nothing to do with his death. Al-Qahtani was "a vibrant guy linked to ongoing operations planning, and his death will have an impact," one official told Fox News.
An Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula newsletter was the first to announce his death a week after the United States put terror sanctions on him. The newsletter did not say when it happened but said Al-Qahtani died in Yemen's Abyan province in the south of the country.
The State Department recently described al-Qahtani as "a liaison between Al Qaeda cells in Yemen and Saudi Arabia." It said he manages Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula's operations in Yemen and receives financial support from abroad to launch attacks in both Yemen and Saudi Arabia.
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I'd go with stupidity over bad manners any day, Tipper (#3). Of course, if they're still using those garage-door remotes to set off bombs, and we just HAPPENED to be flying a certain aircraft off the coast, well, stuff happens, right?
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"blowed up!" = Sudden Entropy Syndrome
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Why was a liaison playing at bombmaker?
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REYNOSA Federal agents were targeted in a grenade attack late Wednesday night on this city's west side.
Reynosa officials warned residents to avoid Hidalgo Boulevard about 11 p.m. during what appeared to be a grenade explosion at a Federal Preventive Police (PFP) facility in La Cima subdivision.
No further information was immediately available Thursday, and officials with the Mexico attorney general's office did not answer calls from The Monitor.
16 Dead in Northern Mexican Violence Today's 3M includes the six known dead in Urique. If more are reported the additional count will be included in a new 3M. I keep waiting for the RAB to appear in these ... Import a few Purbo Banglar commies and something could be arranged...
Sixteen people were murdered in drug and gang related violence in Chihuahua according to Mexican published reports. The violence includes two missing Mexican federal agents presumed abducted, and an inter-gang shootout in southern Chihuahua.
Three unidentified men were executed in the Felipe Angels district of Juarez late Thursday night, say Mexican news reports. According to witnesses, the trio attempted to flee their attackers, but were instead shot to death. No other details were available.
Five unidentified people were found executed near Santa Isabel, Chihuahua, according to Mexican news reports. Motorists spotted the corpses along the General Trias to Riva Palacios highway around 0600 hrs Friday morning.
The bodies displayed wounds from gunfire. No other details were available.
An unidentified man was found shot to death in Juarez underneath a bridge Friday, according to Mexican news accounts. The approximately 40 year old man was found atop a blanket near the Viaduct Diaz Ordaz under the bridge of the Norzagaray street.
Investigators think the body was dumped at the location and was shot elsewhere.
A poll worker for Chihuahua gubernatorial Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) candidate Caesar Duarte was gunned down by unknown assailant Friday afternoon in Juarez. Jorge Grouse Grouse died at the scene at Juan Pablo II Boulevard around 85th street. Two females accompanying him were unharmed.
The shooting represents another violent event in the campaign, the last of which was a shooting by the Mexican Army against campaign vehicles. The army claimed the shooting an an accidental discharge of a weapon, and no one was harmed but later said two days ago they would investigate.
Two federal agents on patrol in Nuevo Leon are reported missing and are presumed kidnapped according to Mexican news reports. The Sergio Torres, 30, and Geovanni Aguiar, 35, of were patrolling along a road leading to Reynosa, Nuevo Leon, when they disappeared.
Reports say armed men aboard several trucks had apparently intercepted the agents near Cadereyta, Nuevo Leon. Mexican police and military are searching for the missing agents.
Six gunmen were killed in a running gunfight in Urique, Chihuahua, Tuesday, Mexican news reports say.
Residents of the tiny community say the gunfight lasted more than 40 minutes and involved more than 20 men from two different gangs. Last reports say elements of the Mexican Army 42nd Military Zone are currently deployed in the community to assist authorities in the aftermath.
Currently authorities are releasing no more information, however, some unconfirmed reports indicate as many as ten died in the gun battle.
#1
A picture equals a thousand words. Check the pictures in Mexico's police weekly (Google: "El Alarma de Mexico"). Warning: not for the weak of heart.
Two people were wounded when unknown gunmen attacked a car carrying investigators in Russia's volatile North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia late on Friday, a local police source said. The attack took place at around 11.30pm Moscow time (20:30 GMT) in Ingushetia's largest city of Nazran, the source said.
Kosovo police say five men belonging to a Muslim sect have been arrested for plotting armed attacks. Police spokesman Arber Beka says 120 policemen took part in the arrest of two ethnic Albanians and three minority Muslim Bosniaks in the western town of Prizren early Saturday. Police found machine-guns, hand guns and military uniforms in at least eight locations in the town. Five laptop computers believed to hold data about possible targets were also seized.
Beka could not say if the five are suspected of having links to international terrorism but did not deny the possibility. No details were given about the nature of the allegedly planned attacks.
Abdul Rashid Sheikh cuts an incongruous picture carrying an AK-47. He is 12 years old. And sitting by his grandfather at their one-storeyed house in Tantrey Mohalla in Pattan, he declares, "I wanted to fight the Indian Army in Kashmir.'' Abdul set out to be a child soldier for the militant groups active in the Kashmir Valley. Brainwashed about the glory of 'jihad', he was among six children, all aged 12 and 13, who left their homes in the first week of May to cross the Line of Control over to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
The Muslim version of the Children's Crusade. Which as I recall led to robbery, rape, slavery or death for all who participated, convinced that their youthful innocence and purity of faith would persuade the Muslim invaders to relinquish their hold on the holy land of the Christians. Of course, the Muslim version is a bit different...
The six -- Mohammed Yaqoob Bhat, Mohammed Saleem Sheikh, Omar Sultan Mir, Ishtiyaq Ahmed Tantrey and Shariq Ahmed Mir, apart from Abdul -- were caught by the security forces from Kupwara district on May 9. All live in the same locality in Pattan.
Abdul has no idea how far PoK is from Kupwara. "We went on our own and wanted to go to PoK for arms training and fight the Indian Army,'' he told Express, adjusting his phiran while smiling sheepishly. (Sources said the children were lured into militancy by some overground workers of a militant group. Police are cagey about revealing details to the media.)
Chirpy Mohammed Yaqoob Bhat takes over the narration from Rashid: "We first boarded a bus to Sopore, then to Handwara and then to Kupwara. In Kupwara, we stayed overnight in a mosque.'' The imam of the mosque spotted them and asked them what they were up to, and the children candidly told him they were going to an arms training camp across the LoC. The imam promptly informed the police who arrived and brought them back to Baramulla.
Senior officers questioned the kids, who revealed the name(s) of their recruiters. Parents were summoned, affidavits were signed and the children sent back home. "We told our parents that we are going out to play cricket,'' said Bhat. The children had no idea how many days it would take them to trek to PoK. Bhat started out wearing his chappals. The group had a total of Rs 200 in their pockets. Asked whether somebody had instigated them, the boys replied in the negative.
Now that they are back, the school is "punishing'' them by shutting its gates to them, and Abdul's father Farooq Ahmed Sheikh is angry. "By God's grace, the police spared the children, but we never expected this from the school.'' Efforts to reach the school management proved futile. A parent of one of the six children, speaking on condition of anonymity, alleged that ever since the children were brought back from Kupwara, intelligence agencies have been harassing them, frequently calling in the children for questioning.
The six families are also facing another problem: other residents are taunting them. "They now look at us with suspicion,'' said one of them. This incident, the second of its kind, has set alarm bells ringing for the security forces. "This is a new trend we are seeing. This is a clear violation of the Geneva Convention and I hope it does not increase,'' IGP, Kashmir zone, Farooq Ahmed told Express.
In January this year, eight youngsters from Shopian, all aged 15, were caught at Pampore while they were on their way to PoK. Denying that the six children and their families are being harassed, IGP Ahmed said the police have the names of the people who lured them to the path of jihad. "The children gave us some names and and we are looking for them. To me it looks like the instigator impressed the kids with an AK-47 and the kids thought they could all become Rambos,'' he said.
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Give them a tour of the local morgue. The life span of an LOC infiltrator is measured in weeks. Those that don't get killed by the BSF at the border and hunted down by Kashmiri Police SOG units.
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Do you think Pakistan Govt use Jihad to cull the poor people.Less worry re unemployment/unrest!
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LAHORE: The Punjab Police's Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has revealed in a report on Friday that 55 Afghan-trained boys (ATBs) from southern Punjab, who disappeared from their houses sometime ago, are likely to be used in terrorist activities.
The copies of the CID's report have been forwarded to the regional and district police officers in Bahawalpur, Bahawal Nagar and Rahim Yar Khan.
The authorities issued the warning after they rechecked a list of Afghan-trained boys who participated in jihad in the past. Law enforcement agencies have directed regional police to trace the 55 missing people at the earliest.
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Seems to me that they might put a stop to this if they outlawed polygamy. If the longbeards decide that there are just too many men and they can't have their two, three, or four wives, then it might be in their interest to do things that result in a depletion of the male population in order to provide an ample supply of eligible females.
It would be awfully hard for these guys to amass their stables of women if the population were more equally divided. That, combined with the culture that makes it nearly impossible for a single woman to survive on her own, would give an incentive to foment violence that results in lots of young men being killed.
HANGU: Security forces backed by fighter jets killed at least 34 Taliban in various parts of Orakzai Agency and Swat district on Friday.
Sources said the terrorists attacked a security checkpost in Dabori area of Upper Orakzai, injuring two security personnel. Troops retaliated and killed 10 Taliban.
Also, the troops killed nine Taliban in Mulla Khel area of Orakzai, while fighter jets later targeted terrorists hideouts in Zakhtan and Kaul areas of the agency, killing 12 Taliban. In Bajaur Agency, the forces arrested 10 suspects during a search operation across the agency, an official said. Meanwhile in Swat, three Taliban were killed during a clash with security forces in the valley, official sources said.
The sources said the clash took place in Matta tehsil during routine patrolling. The slain Taliban were identified as Alam Sher, Khan Wali and Muhammad Ameen.
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MIRANSHAH: Taliban strapped bombs to two men they accused of spying for the US, blowing them up at a public execution in the Degan area of North Waziristan, security officials said on Friday.
Masked Taliban strapped improvised explosive devices (IEDs) to the bodies of two alleged spies and blew them up in public,' local police official Khalil Khan told AFP.
The Taliban threatened anyone spying' for the US with the same fate and called on locals to witness the public execution late on Thursday.
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That strikes me as excessively theatrical, bordering on hysterical. What, head-chopping and simply shooting their enemies isn't properly cowing the locals any more?
Posted by: Mitch H. ||
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Yeah, Mitch, I guess pouring hot oil down their throats and beheading them doesn't have the same pinache any more either.
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MIRANSHAH: A US drone attack on a suspected terrorists compound on Friday killed six Taliban in Miranshah, North Waziristan, security officials said. The target of the attack was a house used by terrorists in Mohammad Khel village, some 25 kilometres west of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan, officials said.
Two US drones fired four missiles, we have reports that six terrorists have been killed,' a senior security official in Peshawar told AFP by telephone. Two intelligence officials in Miranshah also confirmed the attack and the death toll.
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TUNCELI, Turkey - Iraqi Kurds on Friday condemned air strikes and shellfire by Turkey and Iran on Turkish-Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq as violations of Iraqi sovereignty.
Iranian forces shelled border regions and Turkish war planes caused huge' casualties, according to a statement from the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), which runs northern Iraq autonomously from Baghdad.
Turkish military sources said Thursday's attacks on the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), an outlawed Turkish-Kurdish group largely based in north Iraq, were the biggest such operation in over a year and had killed four guerrillas and wounded more.
The presidency of the Iraq Kurdistan region condemns these attacks on the border regions, and at the same time considers this a violation and aggression on the sovereignty of the Iraqi state and demands its immediate cessation,' the statement said.
KRG President Massoud Barzani had been expected to visit Ankara as relations between Turkey and Iraqi Kurds improve, but Thursday's operations could revive tension between the two.
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FREEREPUBLIC > ISLAMISTS GAINING INFLUENCE IN THE EGYPTIAN ARMY; + ISRAELI INTELLIGENCE MONITORING ISLAMIC CHALLENGE FROM JORDAN [MilTerr infiltration and basing in Jordan].
* SAME > HIZBOLLAH GETTING ADVANCED IRAN MISSLES FROM SYRIA "ON A REGULAR BASIS", + TURKEY MARKETS SAMS BASED ON US "STINGER" ADS TO ARAB STATES.
BAQUBA - A car bomb at a market in the central Iraqi city of Khales killed at least 23 people and wounded 55 others on Friday, Diyala province's security command said.
The attack came at around 7:30 pm (1630 GMT) in the city 65 kilometres (40 miles) northeast of the capital Baghdad, according to an official at Baquba operations command.
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BASRA / Aswat al-Iraq: Twelve persons wanted on different charges were arrested and an amount of munitions seized during search raids all over Basra province on Friday, a local police source said.
Security forces raided different areas of Basra, capturing 12 wanted persons on various criminal charges,' the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
The raiding forces also seized three rockets, three shells and two improvised explosive devices,' he added.
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NIRIM, Israel - Israeli troops killed two armed Palestinians who crossed into Israel on Friday from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, a military spokeswoman said. They entered Israel near Nirim, a small farming community, after breaching the security fence along the border with the Palestinian enclave, she said.
The soldiers on the scene and the gunmen exchanged fire, during which both gunmen were killed,' the spokeswoman said. No Israelis were hurt in the incident. Israeli media said soldiers ordered residents of Nirim to stay indoors during the gunfight.
No group in the Gaza Strip claimed responsibility for the incident.
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Five soldiers were injured by a roadside bomb explosion in Yala's Krong Penang district on Saturday morning, reports said. The terrorists suspected separatist militants detonated the bomb when the military patrol squad was passing on the intra-village road at Na Tham village of Krong Penang district.
After receiving report about the bomb attack, Pol Lt Sutichai Kammee, on duty office of Krong Penang police station, had led joint police and military force to the scene and tried to take the injured soldiers to Yala hospital. But the attempt failed as the terrorists militants cut trees to block the road. However, the security force and local villagers had later managed to move the trees out and rush the bomb victims to hospital.
The father of a man arrested in Pakistan in connection with the Times Square bombing attempt case vehemently denied that his son had anything to do with the plot.
Salman Ashraf was taken into custody a few days ago, U.S. and Pakistani officials told CNN on Friday. His father, Rana Ashraf Khan, who owns Hanif Rajput Catering, said he was shocked by the arrest of his son, who had been missing for 12 days.
Khan shook with anger when asked about his son. "I refute it outright," Khan said. "It is a very wicked accusation. He is not the type of guy who would ever think of involving himself in any criminal activity." But a U.S. official with knowledge of the case said Friday that Ashraf had been talking to the Taliban about pointing out the Pakistani military and other VIPs at diplomatic and other government events.
Another U.S. official said there were indications that the catering company was going to be used as a cover for an attack in Pakistan. There is "very specific information about a potential, imminent, plot," the official said. "Initial indications are it is a Pakistani target."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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A man whom the U.S. described as a key figure in Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula accidentally blew himself up, U.S. military officials told Fox News.
Kosovo police say five men belonging to a Muslim sect have been arrested for plotting armed attacks. Police spokesman Arber Beka says 120 policemen took part in the arrest of two ethnic Albanians and three minority Muslim Bosniaks in the western town of Prizren early Saturday. Police found machine-guns, hand guns and military uniforms in at least eight locations in the town. Five laptop computers believed to hold data about possible targets were also seized.
Abdul Rashid Sheikh cuts an incongruous picture carrying an AK-47. He is 12 years old. And sitting by his grandfather at their one-storeyed house in Tantrey Mohalla in Pattan, he declares, "I wanted to fight the Indian Army in Kashmir.'' Abdul set out to be a child soldier for the militant groups active in the Kashmir Valley. Brainwashed about the glory of 'jihad', he was among six children, all aged 12 and 13, who left their homes in the first week of May to cross the Line of Control over to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
MIRANSHAH: A US drone attack on a suspected terrorists compound on Friday killed six Taliban in Miranshah, North Waziristan, security officials said. The target of the attack was a house used by terrorists in Mohammad Khel village, some 25 kilometres west of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan, officials said.
BAQUBA - A car bomb at a market in the central Iraqi city of Khales killed at least 23 people and wounded 55 others on Friday, Diyala province's security command said.
NIRIM, Israel - Israeli troops killed two armed Palestinians who crossed into Israel on Friday from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, a military spokeswoman said. They entered Israel near Nirim, a small farming community, after breaching the security fence along the border with the Palestinian enclave, she said.
The father of a man arrested in Pakistan in connection with the Times Square bombing attempt case vehemently denied that his son had anything to do with the plot.
