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Ummm, Para, It's a joke, one of the biggest early first TV sets were Curtis Mathis.
Fellow had one He was A Big Shot they were consoles expensive and huge.
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Fellow had one He was A Big Shot they were consoles expensive and huge.
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Pre wall mounted flatscreen tely architecture tips:
Don't pitch that fancy plastic oak console into the rubbish bin! Dead picture tubes can be removed from the fancy consoles and replaced by plastic Sony's from the box stores (30 minutes and a phillips screwdriver and pliers needed). Or the Sony can be tastefully placed atop the Curtis Mathis box, now ransformed into a magazine library or handgun rack. (same tools required)
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The frames are obviously selected for propaganda effect, but these fighters are pretty impressive - they're stoic, tenacious and capable of directing aimed fire (accurate or not) at coalition forces, in the face of chopper and A-10 attacks. They're also collecting their dead and wounded, like a disciplined force. Obviously we have better equipment, but if all of these people are similarly motivated and they live long enough to have a chance to get some experience and learn from it, this war's going to get worse before it gets better.
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Impressive? I didn't get the impression they were stoic, tenacious or all that capable. Any one can learn to point a weapon down range. They collected their wounded. I didnt' see the collect any dead. They reminded me of a paramilitary force, not soldiers. The weird thing was, as soon as I saw the A-10, and what I think was an Apache, but way to jumpy and blurry, they only thought I has was, "Must be fighting US troops. I guess they lost the battle."
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Please. The war is going to go underground in 2011/2012-ish, troops will come home. It will be quiet for a short while. Then, in a few years it will be revived when we have another large terrorist attack, but we will also be attacking other terrrorist bases of operation besides Afghanistan, like Somalia or something.
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Total edited propaganda. Camera was 90 degrees out from both the A-10 and the Apache. Didn't see any incoming near the terrorists freedom fighters.
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I have to agree with flapper that there seems to be a lot of editing going on.
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Impressive? I didn't get the impression they were stoic, tenacious or all that capable. Any one can learn to point a weapon down range. They collected their wounded. I didnt' see the collect any dead. They reminded me of a paramilitary force, not soldiers.
If the clip isn't majorly edited, they're advancing in the face of coalition fire and air support. It's not just a matter of pointing a weapon downrange. It's a matter of exposing yourself to coalition fire. Fighters who unable to control their fear simply hide behind cover and raise their weapons above the obstacle without exposing their heads and fire wildly without even looking at their target. That is the meaning of spray and pray. From the unblinking stare of the last individual being carried in, I think he was a goner.
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zhang fei, yeah they still fight like this 20 years after the soviets tried it but now they don't have the US giving them stingers. So what are they gonna do about that air power. I say we are doing the right thing by letting all the little jihadi wannabes come to afghanistan and die and the russians are doing the same thing by killing the shit out of the chechens in the caucuses.They get killed there and go there so they don't come here.Nopw we just need too exterminate that nest in pakiland.
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I don't get it, if they were shooting AT it they're lousy shots, from the oil in front of the white truck, it's obvious the engine's thrown a rod and isn't going anywhere, why the laughter?
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RJ
Those rockets are probably 2.75 dumb projectiles. Notice the WP marking rounds. As for the thrown rod, that's where I got the idea of Road Service. Sort of a AAA with Apache as one of the As.
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I suspect they're laughing because the 30 cannon already did the job. They're just tossing the rockets for practice and entertainment and psychological warfare. Nothing like a boom from HE or WP. I think the last rounds were WP any way.
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Poor shots with the WP but you don't have to be exactly on target with a 2.75 WP to get the job done. Must have been taken at the end of June. I learned in VN that if you don't use your allotment of rockets by the end of the month, you get less next month. Just some odd attitude target practice I'd guess.
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GBUSMC,m we already had that acronym back in the 80's: AAA Army Aviation Apache (Derived from Army Aviation A-hole, AKA Flight Warrant WO-1)
A top official in the Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) said on Wednesday that 31 Afghan parliamentary candidates were removed
Accused of having connections with illegal armed groups, these parliamentary candidates were deprived of taking part in Afghan parliamentary election, spokesperson for the ECC, Ahmad Zia Rafat, said.
The Afghan ECC said that the removed names are those of the candidates from seventeen provinces of Afghanistan.
The spokesperson for the Afghan ECC highlighted that they have received about 50 complaints against the candidates after they started their electoral campaigns.
"The commission (which investigates about candidates' membership in the illegal armed groups) is part of the Independent Election Commission and has sent an official list to the ECC, introducing 31 candidates with membership in the illegal armed groups ," he said.
Previously, the ECC had removed the names of five candidates when a primary list of parliamentary election candidates was announced.
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[Maghrebia] Algerian security services on Tuesday (July 6th) killed three terrorists near Msila, Tout sur l'Algerie reported. Within the last week, security officers dismantled a terror-support network and arrested eight people in the M'sila region.
In related news Tuesday, ten terrorists remained encircled by ANP troops between Mkira and Draa El Mizan in southern Tizi Ouzou province. Army units last Thursday launched a "broad" security sweep of the area, said to be a transit point for armed Islamists.
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An activist died and more than 100 were wounded when Bangladesh riot police broke up anti-government protests across the country on Wednesday, police and witnesses said, with demonstrators calling for early elections.
The activist died in a stampede when police clashed with demonstrators in Naogaon town, 250 km (160 miles) northwest of the capital, Dhaka.
Police said the cause of death was a heart attack, but the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) blamed police for causing the stampede.
Hundreds of protesters from the BNP, of former prime minister Begum Khaleda Zia and its main ally Jamaat-e-Islami, formed human chains in the capital and elsewhere.
At least 30 people were hurt in Dhaka, and the rest in several cities and district headquarters including Chittagong port, where police arrested nearly 100 activists.
Witnesses and officials said Wednesday's protests were the most violent and widespread since Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina took office in January last year.
"The autocratic government is out to deny us our democratic rights," BNP Secretary-General Khandaker Delwar Hossain said. "This will only compel us to call more protests."
Police are holding dozens of BNP activists following a countrywide strike on June 27 and later arrested three top Jamaat leaders on charges of obstructing police, inciting violence, murder and sedition.
Jamaat denies the charges and says the government is trying to crush anyone who speaks out against it.
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Where's the RAB? Oh, right, it was daylight.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Interrogators are quizzing detained Jamaat trio Nizami, Mojahid and Sayedee on the information divulged by detained JMB chief Saidur Rahman.
Saidur, former Jamaat ameer of Habiganj district, said at least 25 Jamaat rokans (high-ranking field operatives) are actively involved with JMB and that Jamaat provides physical and small arms trainings to its health department members.
Jamaat Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami, its Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid and Nayeb-e-Ameer Delwar Hossain Sayedee are being quizzed at the Detective Branch headquarters in the city in connection with two cases filed with Paltan Police Station.
A member of the interrogation team said they had asked Nizami about the training on small arms.
In reply the Jamaat chief said blasting bombs and using arms to kill people are the features of JMB, not Jamaat's, he added.
Officer-in-Charge of Paltan Police Station Shahidul Haq yesterday told The Daily Star that they are now interrogating the Jamaat leaders about the cases for which the trio were placed on remand.
Nizami is on remand in a case filed for obstructing police in discharging their duties while Mojahid and Sayedee are being quizzed in a case filed for blocking a motorcade of the president.
Meanwhile, the 24 Jamaat-Shibir leaders and activists picked up from a meeting in the port city Thursday, were shown arrested in two separate cases and sent to jail yesterday.
Among the arrestees, 10 including Majlish-e-Sura member of Chittagong unit Jamaat Mafizur Rahman were shown arrested in a case filed with Double-mooring Police Station in connection with Sunday's rampage in Halishahar and Agrabad areas.
They were produced before the court of Metropolitan Magistrate Fazlul Bari with a five-day remand prayer for each.
The court fixed July 11 for the hearing on the remand prayer, sources said.
The other 14 arrestees were shown arrested in connection with assaulting police on October 28, 2009 at Chittagong Medical College under Panchlaish Police Station.
The court of Metropolitan Magistrate Muntasir Ahmed sent them to jail.
Remand prayer against the arrestees would be placed in the court later, said Sub Inspector Mohammad Alamgir, investigation officer of the case.
Police claimed they held 25 activists of Jamaat and Islami Chhatra Shibir Tuesday afternoon during a "secret" meeting on destructive activities in the name of a reception to freshers at a city restaurant.
Detained Ali Haider was released later as police found no link of him with Jamaat-Shibir.
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SEOUL, July 7 (Yonhap) -- North Korea threatened Wednesday to wage a "death-defying war" if the United Nations Security Council adopts any statement that blames the communist state for the deadly sinking of a South Korean warship in March.
The warning comes as the 15-member Council is debating a South Korean request for a statement that condemns the North for the Yellow Sea sinking that killed 46 South Korean sailors.
Should a Council statement blame Pyongyang in any way for the sinking, the North's "military and people will view it as a grave act of infringement on our national dignity and will not hesitate to wage a death-defying war to defend sovereignty," the North's Committee for the Peaceful Unification of the Fatherland said.
The committee that handles inter-Korean affairs apparently targeted South Korea and the United States in its statement released through the official Korean Central News Agency.
North Korea has already threatened an "all-out war" if it is sanctioned or punished for the sinking. The communist country has disputed the veracity of the South Korea-led probe and demands that Seoul accept an inspection group from Pyongyang for verification.
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North Korea threatened Wednesday to wage a "death-defying war"
Try it. And "defy" death all you want, but some things are unavoidable.
#5
Noisy gits aren't they?
Somewhere in the Communist training they get from "Dear Leader" must be the Teaching that words are more powerful than evidence.
A lie of course, but you knew that already, ALL their "Schooling" To be a perfect Slav-- excuxe me, citizen is a Pack of lies.
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While I'm on the subject, they are At War already, there was NO peace,(Hence NO Victory/Loss) just a Face saving Armistice.(Cease Fire).
Translation, "We're Losing" DO SOMETHING.
Like losing at checkers so just tip over the table and declare you've never been "Defeated"
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I am personally sick to death of a bunch of half-baked, 10th Century morons threatening me. If I were president, I would not only see to it that the NORKS were blamed for sinking the Cheonan, but that I would be ready with 50-100 nukes to totally wipe their sorry a$$es from the face of the earth if they so much as made a rude gesture at the the South. As my dad taught me when I was about six, it's nice to be liked, but sometimes it takes putting the fear of God into someone before they'll quit being a pain in the butt. It's better to be feared than to be treated with contempt, something Obumble hasn't learned yet.
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be hard too keep the troops a fighting when you can't feed them and they seee the other sides supply lines keep rolling in too the other camp.
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Meh.... go ahead. The ROKs will kick your ass back to China.
Darth, I always felt fairly secure flying lima-lima over an area in VN cleared by the ROKs. Not even ducks came up to intercept.
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THREE suspected al-Qaeda members are under arrest in what Norwegian and US officials say was a bombing plot linked to similar plans in New York and England.
The US and Norway had been watching the three men for more than a year and say they planned a bombing similar to the one thwarted in the New York subway system last year. US Attorney General Eric Holder has called that one of the most serious terrorist plots since 9/11.
Yesterday, US prosecutors revealed the existence of a related plot in England.
The Norwegian Police Security Service says only that the three were arrested on suspicion of "preparing terror activities." A news conference was planned for later on today.
An Iranian-Canadian man has been found guilty by the Ontario Court of Justice of allegedly trying to export nuclear-related pressure transducers to Tehran.
Mahmoud Yadegari, 36, was found guilty on Tuesday of nine charges and acquitted of one count of forgery, Press TV's correspondent in Toronto Zahra Jamal reported.
The export-controlled material Yadegari allegedly tried to ship in March of 2009 is subject to a UN embargo on nuclear-related exports to Iran. The transducers have dual purposes and can be used for peaceful functions as well. The problem, however, is that Yadegari did not have an export permit for them.
"Our defense was that he didn't know what the character of the transducers was, and ... that even if he did, they weren't really prohibited items under the UN Act," said Yadegari's defense attorney Frank Addario, adding that the court rejected the defense.
This comes as Federal Crown Attorney Bradley Reitz puts another spin on the story.
"They are called transducers and you can (export them) if you get the licenses and the permits that are required. Mr. Yadegari didn't do that. He didn't even apply," Rrietz said.
When Yadegari was arrested last April in his home in North York, Ontario, police said it was the first time in Canadian history that an individual had been charged with offenses under the Customs Act, United Nations Act and Export and Import Permits Act.
The following month, five additional charges were brought against him. Some of the accusations were related to the Nuclear Safety and Control Act and criminal code offences.
On whether or not the charges were politically motivated, Yadegari's lawyer said there was no question the UN regulations regarding Iran are politically tainted; but the trial itself, he added, was a pure criminal law trial.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police Customs and Excise Inspector Kreig Johnson claims the evidence put forth proves the final destination for the pressure transducers was Tehran, and that the specifications of these devices were customized for uranium enrichment.
Yadegri has one month to appeal the court ruling.
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But who among us hasn't tried to export uranium transducers to pariah states?
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An exchange of fire at the India-Pakistan border at Sialkot has killed two Indian troops and injured a Pakistani soldier and several villagers, officials said on Wednesday.
The neighbours have in the past exchanged almost daily fire across what is known as the Line of Control separating the two armies in Kashmir, but the latest incident occurred in the Sialkot sector, which rarely experiences trouble.
A spokesman for the Pakistan Rangers said the Indian Border Security Force fired automatic weapons and mortars at a village along the Sialkot working boundary.
"First they fired yesterday morning and then again in the evening, and the firing continued sporadically throughout the night until Wednesday morning," said Nadeem Raza.
"One of our soldiers and several villagers have been injured in the Indian firing," he said.
A senior Indian border official confirmed the incident but said Indian forces retaliated for "unprovoked firing" from the Pakistani side.
"We were facing unprovoked firing from the Pakistani side for the last two days, resulting in the death of two of our men. We were forced to retaliate," said K Srinivasan. "The firing was precise, but at this stage we cannot say for sure who fired at us," he added.
Reports said a flag meeting had been convened to discuss the latest disturbance.
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Only mortars. Bah.
India and Pakistan used to trade 155mm artillery fire every day for years.
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Indian Army contingents moved into the streets of Srinagar on Wednesday, as New Delhi insisted they had been called for "deterrent" purposes and only to reduce tensions. Authorities in Indian-held Kashmir (IHK) also launched a major crackdown on pro-freedom leaders and activists across the state.
Reports from Srinagar said 17 columns of the Srinagar-based 15 Corps had been deployed in the city alone. Soldiers in armoured and machine gun-mounted vehicles drove through various localities in Srinagar. Union Home Secretary GK Pillai and the director general of Military Operations (DGMO) rushed to Srinagar on Wednesday morning to conduct meetings with officials and army commanders. After the troubled incidents of Tuesday, the state government had requisitioned the army to help police and paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troops in enforcing curfew in the city. However, official sources assured that the army would not be used for crowd control in Srinagar, where the situation was described as "tense but under control". Despite the army's presence, curfew was defied at several places, including Baramulla, Sopore, Pattan, Chadoora, Machua and Anantnag.
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NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: One policeman was killed and seven more were wounded in a roadside bomb blast in south of Mosul, a security source said on Wednesday.
The bomb exploded in al-Qayara district, south of Mosul, on Wednesday evening (July 7), killing a policeman and injuring seven civilians, the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
The explosion occurred spontaneously near a café in the district, he added, without giving further details.
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BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Casualties from the suicide explosion in northern Baghdad on Wednesday went up to 28 dead and 68 wounded, according to a security source.
A security source had said earlier that a bomber blew up an explosive belt strapped to his body amid a group of Shiite pilgrims heading for Imam Moussa al-Kadhim shrine near Jisr al-Aiema (Bridge of Imams) in al-Aadhamiya region, northern Baghdad, killing 3 pilgrims and injuring 12.
Tens of thousands of Shiite worshippers streamed into the Iraqi capital earlier in the day amid heavy security for the pilgrimage, a day after six people were killed in violence.
In April 2009, two female suicide bombers detonated their payloads near the shrine, killing 65 people, including 20 Iranian pilgrims, and wounding 120 others.
Shiites throughout Iraq and from the worldwide are heading for the al-Kadhimiya City in Baghdad on the occasion of the Imam Moussa al-Kadhims anniversary.
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At least 33 people have been killed and nearly 100 others have been wounded in a series of attacks on Shia pilgrims in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
The attacks, which occurred despite heavy security, targeted Shia pilgrims heading to the shrine of Imam Moussa al-Kadhim -- the seventh of the twelve Shia Imams.
The pilgrims came under attack as they were on their way to commemorate the anniversary of the Shia Imam's death.
According to security sources from the Iraqi Interior Ministry and police, 28 pilgrims were killed after a bomber detonated explosives attached to his body near a group of pilgrims in Adhamiyah district.
Meanwhile, five other pilgrims were killed by bomb explosions in eastern parts of Baghdad.
Tens of thousands of people were in the area when the explosions took place. Police officials have announced that the casualties are likely to rise.
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Egyptian authorities have destroyed another cross-border tunnel along Rafah used as a conduit for vital supplies to the besieged Gaza Strip. According to Egyptian security officials, the tunnel was being used for sending cars into Gaza.
Small cars. One piece at a time.
Security officials raided the tunnel in Al-Dehniya region on Tuesday as efforts were underway therein to transfer the cars into the besieged territory, AFP reported.
An exchange of fire was also heard during the incident.
"Hey! You! [bang!] Put that muffler down!"
The tunnels, also known as "Gaza's feeding tubes" which link the south of the impoverished strip to Egypt, are frequently attacked by Israeli and Egyptian security forces. The tunnels are at times filled with gas or water.
Earlier this month, nine tunnels on the border with Gaza were attacked by Egyptian forces and a Palestinian was captured along with quantities of unspecified goods bound for the besieged territory.
As a result of the crippling land, sea, and air blockade imposed by Israel and Egypt on Gaza, the Palestinian territory's 1.5 million inhabitants have had to rely heavily on the perilous tunnels as the sole means of obtaining essential supplies such as weapons and ammunition food and medicine.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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SEOUL, July 7 (Yonhap) -- North Korea threatened Wednesday to wage a "death-defying war" if the United Nations Security Council adopts any statement that blames the communist state for the deadly sinking of a South Korean warship in March.
