The DoD is reporting a new death of a Marine supporting OEF. Lance Cpl. Randy M. Heck died in an undisclosed non-hostile incident in Djibouti, Africa on Sunday, March 28th.
NATO is reporting the death of an ISAF soldier in an IED attack in an undisclosed location in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, March 30th. We believe this to be an American.
Iraq awards Rumaila drilling deals worth $500 mln:
Iraqi artist who opposed Saddam now fights 'terrorist' label:
Iran, Iraq to establish joint industrial estate: report
NATO wants more Czech soldiers deployed in Afghanistan:
US asks Canada to stay in Afghanistan:
U.S. forces set sights on Taliban bastion of Kandahar:
Reported security incidents
Baghdad:
#1: A roadside bomb targeted the house of a director general in the culture and media ministry in south Baghdad, Tuesday, causing only material damages.
#2: update Two magnetic bombs targeted two cars belonging to employees in the finance ministry, late Monday, killing one of the employees and injuring two civilian passers by.
Amarra:
#1: An improvised explosive device went off targeting a U.S. convoy in northern Amara, without causing casualties, a deputy police chief said on Wednesday. “The bomb exploded late Tuesday (March 29), targeting a U.S. convoy in Kamiet district near a power station, northern Amara, without leaving casualties,” Colonel Sadeq Abdulazeem told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
#2: Policemen found on Tuesday a cannon and 31 mortar shells in central Amara, deputy police chief said. “Forces from the emmergency police dpartement managed on Tuesday (March 30) a cannon and 31 mortar shells in the industerial region in central Amara,” Colonel Sadeq Abdulazeem told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
Kirkuk:
#1: One citizen was killed on Tuesday by gunmen in southern Kirkuk, according to a senior police officer. “Unknonwn gunmen opened fire on Tuesday (March 30) on a citizen inside his store in al-Nsr neighborhood in southern Kirkuk,” Brigadier Sarhad Qader told Aswat al-Iraq news agency, noting that he died before carrying him to the hospital.
#2: One gunman was wounded on Wednesday by policemen in central Kirkuk, according to a police source. “A joint patrol of U.S. forces and Iraqi police came this morning under an armed attack by a thermal bomb near the Kirkuk public hospital in central Kirkuk,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. “The forces opened fire on the gunmen, injuring one of them, while the rest of them fled to unknown place,” he added.
Mosul:
#1: Two civilians were killed on Tuesday by gunmen in eastern Mosul, a police source said. “Armed men shot and killed two young men in al-Jamasa region in eastern Mosul and fled to an unknown place,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
#2: One civilian was wounded on Tuesday by a roadside bomb explosion in central Mosul, according to a security source. “The bomb went off targeting a police vehicle patrol in al-Kourniesh street, central Mosul, injuring a passing civilian, who was rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
#3: Two Iraqi police officers were killed by an explosive device targeting their patrol unit in the northern city of Mosul, security forces said Wednesday. The police patrol was moving through the area of New Mosul, in the western part of the city, when the device exploded, security sources told the German Press Agency dpa.
#4: A man and a woman were wounded on Wednesday in a hand grenade explosion in central Mosul, a security source said. “A gunman threw a hand grenade on a police vehicle patrol in Khaled bin Walied street, central Mosul, injuring the two persons,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
Tal Afar:
#1: Two persons were wounded when a roadside bomb went off in Talafar on Tuesday.
“One of the casualties is a woman,” a local police source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
#2: Police found the corpse of an unknown civilian shot in the head in Tal Afar, 420 km (260 miles) northwest of Baghdad
Al Anbar Prv:
#1: An improvised explosive device went off on Tuesday targeting a freight train in western Anbar, injuring the driver and two workers, according to a police source. “The bomb, planted on the rail between Akashat city and the Phosphate factory in western Anbar, exploded while a freight train was passing, injuring three civilians, including the driver and two of the train’s workers, one of them who remains in critical condition,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
Afghanistan: "The Forgotten War"
#1: A bomb concealed on a bicycle killed at least eight people Wednesday in southern Afghanistan. The bomb went off in the Nahr-e-Sarraj district just north of Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand province, police said. It exploded near people who gathered to receive free vegetable seeds provided by the British government as part of a program to encourage them not to plant opium poppy, provincial government spokesman Daoud Ahmadi said. NATO said more than 35 civilians were wounded in the blast, and its forces were helping Afghan authorities control the scene.
#2: In the Khyber tribal district that straddles NATO supply lines, Pakistan's military said 80 to 100 militants armed with guns, rockets and suicide vehicles attacked a paramilitary camp, sparking clashes that killed six soldiers. Troops said they repelled the militants from storming the paramilitary Frontier Corps camp in the lawless northwest district. Around 100 militants launched an attack on the camp in Jansi near Bara town around 2:00 am (2100 GMT), said local administration chief Shafirullah Wazir. "Security forces effectively responded and repulsed the attack. During an exchange of fire with security forces, about 20 terrorists were killed and more than 30 were injured," the military said. Six security force personnel were killed and 15 others wounded, while vehicles rigged up with explosives were destroyed.
#3: Unmanned US aircraft fired three missiles that destroyed a compound in the North Waziristan, a stronghold of Afghan Taliban and Al-Qaeda affiliates, killing six suspected militants, Pakistani security officials said. The missiles struck a compound owned by Zamir Khan, a local tribesman, in the village of Tapi, about 20 kilometres (13 miles) east of Miranshah, the main town of North Waziristan, security officials said.
DoD: Lance Cpl. Jacob A. Ross
DoD: Lance Cpl. Randy M. Heck
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Nine killed by twin bombings in Russia's Dagestan
At least nine people, including a top regional police official, have been killed by two bombs in Russia's restive North Caucasus republic of Dagestan.A car bomb was detonated at about 0830 (0430 GMT) outside the offices of the local interior ministry and the FSB security agency in the town of Kizlyar.
The second bomb went off about 35 minutes later on the same street.
Russia is on alert after double suicide bombings on the Moscow Metro on Monday morning, which killed 39 people.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has called on security forces to "scrape from the sewers" those responsible. Investigators say they believe the bombers were linked to militants operating in the North Caucasus.
Last month, Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov threatened that "the zone of military operations will be extended to the territory of Russia... the war is coming to their cities".
Violence in Dagestan has escalated following a crackdown on militants in Chechnya. In June, its interior minister was shot dead.
Officials said the chief of police in Kizlyar, Col Vitaly Vedernikov, was killed in the second of Wednesday's blasts.
He was in a crowd gathered at the site of the car bomb, which a suicide bomber infiltrated before blowing himself up, they added.
Kizlyar is situated close to Dagestan's border with Chechnya.
Today's Rainbow for YOU!
After work today, I took a long walk to the store and back - about 1-1/2 hrs - and not 15 minutes after I got home it started to rain, so I thought, thank You, Lord! THEN... out one window I saw the sun shine and out the other, dark clouds and rain, so I thought, "I wonder if there's a rainbow?" So I looked out and YES! there it was, so big and so BEAUTIFUL! Reminding me of God's wonderful promises found in His Word.
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And God said, This [is] the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that [is] with you, for perpetual generations: I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: And I will remember my covenant, which [is] between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
Genesis 9
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And God said, This [is] the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that [is] with you, for perpetual generations: I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: And I will remember my covenant, which [is] between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
Genesis 9
new era begins now: taking down posters by my desk to put up newer posters
took down the gang gang dance / ariel pink / octis flier to put up an elliott smith poster.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
War News for Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Three Turkish soldiers killed in mine blast in southeast:
Afghan Leader Is Seen to Flout Influence of U.S.:
Iraqi Ex-Premier Looks to Past in Fighting Critics:
Reported security incidents
Baghdad:
#1: Two civilians were wounded on Monday in a sticky bomb explosion in western Baghdad, a police source said. “The bomb, stuck to a civilian vehicle, went off near the Red Crescent hospital in al-Mansour neighborhood, western Baghdad, injuring two civilians” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
#2: A bomb attached to a car killed a Finance Ministry employee in the Doura district of southern Baghdad, police said.A bomb attached to a car killed a Finance Ministry employee in the Doura district of southern Baghdad, police said.
Kirkuk:
#1: Police forces have safely dismantled a rocket in Kirkuk, a local security source said on Tuesday. “During a late hour on Monday (March 29) evening, an emergency police force found a rocket inside a plastic tube and connected to a timer in al-Baath neighborhood, downtown Mosul,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. “Police patrols and bomb squad personnel soon arrived at the scene and defused the rocket,” the source noted, adding that no casualties were reported.
#2: Police found a body of a civilian riddled with bullets in southern Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
Afghanistan: "The Forgotten War"
#1: Five civilians have been killed in western Afghanistan after their van hit a bomb planted in the road. Police spokesman Raouf Ahmadi says the vehicle was traveling outside the main western city of Herat early Tuesday. Ahmadi says two other passengers were wounded. He says the explosion occurred in Adraskan district. He did not say how many people were in the vehicle or give any more information about the dead.
#2: Pakistani fighter jets bombed several militant hide-outs near the Afghan border Tuesday, killing at least 30 suspected insurgents, an official said. The assault took place in Orakzai, a tribal region where many Pakistani Taliban fighters are believed to have fled to escape an army offensive further south. The military launched another operation in Orakzai last week, and nearly 150 alleged militants and five soldiers have died in gunbattles and airstrikes so far. Local government official Sami Ullah said Tuesday that the troops were not facing much resistance. "The security forces are using jets and ground forces to target militant positions," Ullah said, detailing the latest casualties.
Afghan Leader Is Seen to Flout Influence of U.S.:
Iraqi Ex-Premier Looks to Past in Fighting Critics:
Reported security incidents
Baghdad:
#1: Two civilians were wounded on Monday in a sticky bomb explosion in western Baghdad, a police source said. “The bomb, stuck to a civilian vehicle, went off near the Red Crescent hospital in al-Mansour neighborhood, western Baghdad, injuring two civilians” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
#2: A bomb attached to a car killed a Finance Ministry employee in the Doura district of southern Baghdad, police said.A bomb attached to a car killed a Finance Ministry employee in the Doura district of southern Baghdad, police said.
Kirkuk:
#1: Police forces have safely dismantled a rocket in Kirkuk, a local security source said on Tuesday. “During a late hour on Monday (March 29) evening, an emergency police force found a rocket inside a plastic tube and connected to a timer in al-Baath neighborhood, downtown Mosul,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. “Police patrols and bomb squad personnel soon arrived at the scene and defused the rocket,” the source noted, adding that no casualties were reported.
#2: Police found a body of a civilian riddled with bullets in southern Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
Afghanistan: "The Forgotten War"
#1: Five civilians have been killed in western Afghanistan after their van hit a bomb planted in the road. Police spokesman Raouf Ahmadi says the vehicle was traveling outside the main western city of Herat early Tuesday. Ahmadi says two other passengers were wounded. He says the explosion occurred in Adraskan district. He did not say how many people were in the vehicle or give any more information about the dead.
#2: Pakistani fighter jets bombed several militant hide-outs near the Afghan border Tuesday, killing at least 30 suspected insurgents, an official said. The assault took place in Orakzai, a tribal region where many Pakistani Taliban fighters are believed to have fled to escape an army offensive further south. The military launched another operation in Orakzai last week, and nearly 150 alleged militants and five soldiers have died in gunbattles and airstrikes so far. Local government official Sami Ullah said Tuesday that the troops were not facing much resistance. "The security forces are using jets and ground forces to target militant positions," Ullah said, detailing the latest casualties.
Setting the record straight on regulation
In case anyone has yet to see it, Open Europe has today published a new report detailing the cost and benefits of regulation introduced in the UK since 1998. Since last year's study on the same topic we have analysed an additional 320 of the Government's impact assessments, bringing the number of IAs analysed in total above 2,300.
It's not the easiest subject to traverse for those unfamiliar with the inner workings on regulation and deregulation initiatives, which is perhaps why it seems to have led to confusion in some quarters over what the report actually is.
The European Commission, for one, gave their response to our study in the Telegraph saying:
"The Open Europe study lacks rigour and is intentionally misleading. The headline figures suffer from a methodological bias. It confuses stocks and flows, it suffers from double-counting, it does not consider what repealing EU regulations would imply either in terms of foregone benefits or alternative regulatory costs."
An intriguing response. The Commission appears to have read only the first sentence of our press release and nothing of the actual report. That's a shame because:
The Department for Business added that its "Forward Programme", which details the regulations planned for next year, shows that EU regulation will only make up 31% of the total cost. The discrepency is explained by the fact that the forward programme doesn't take into account any of the existing regulations generating costs to businesses and the public sector - our estimate does.
And closer inspection of the Government's "Forward Programme" reveals that the economic impact of many of the EU regulations due to come into force next year have yet to be quantified (24 to be exact). Some are also very important, such as the proposed establishment of the EU's three new financial regulators - which could have a massive impact on the City of London. True, there are also many domestic regulations yet to be quantified but, as we have seen in previous years, a high EU proportional cost can just as easily be attributed to just a few extremely costly regulations as several put together. So, essentially, it is too early to tell until all the costs are quantified.
Interestingly, former Dutch EU Commissioner Frits Bolkstein today reaches some similar conclusions to those we spell out in our report. Writing in Belgian daily De Standaard he calls for the size of the Commission to be reduced to 12. He explains his reasoning:
"A proposal to grant independent women the right to pregnancy leave. Both in the Netherlands and Bulgaria, shouldn't we decide on that ourselves? The European Commission has apparently learned nothing from the Nos in France and the Netherlands...Under Barroso the Commission has become a presidential system. Now there are 27 Commissioners. Power is with the President and his Chief de Cabinet. The Chief of Cabinet has more power than many Commissioners. Discussions within the Commission don't mean anything any more."
It's not the easiest subject to traverse for those unfamiliar with the inner workings on regulation and deregulation initiatives, which is perhaps why it seems to have led to confusion in some quarters over what the report actually is.
The European Commission, for one, gave their response to our study in the Telegraph saying:
"The Open Europe study lacks rigour and is intentionally misleading. The headline figures suffer from a methodological bias. It confuses stocks and flows, it suffers from double-counting, it does not consider what repealing EU regulations would imply either in terms of foregone benefits or alternative regulatory costs."
An intriguing response. The Commission appears to have read only the first sentence of our press release and nothing of the actual report. That's a shame because:
- We presented three sets of figures, the cumulative cost of regulation, the annual cost of regulation and benefit/cost ratio of regulation. The Commission only responds to the first figure.
- The cumulative cost, or a cost of the 'stock' of regulation, measures the entire cost to the economy since 1998, which is £176 billion. The EU is responsible for 71%, or £124 billion of that cost. We explained that £176 billion is equivalent to 12.6% of the UK's annual GDP, and roughly equivalent to the country's budget deficit. This does not mean that the £176 billion cost of regulation occurs in one year, as we make clear, and the comparison to the budget deficit and GDP is illustrative and designed to relate a large figure to something most people are familiar with. In particular it's a useful reminder that regulatory policy deserves as much scrutiny as budgetary policy, as both have a significant impact on the economy. We can see why the Commission doesn't like that thought. We're note sure what the Commission's remark about 'double-counting' refers to.
- In the report, we do address the counterfactual , i.e. the costs that would have occured in absence of EU regulation. This is indeed an interesting discussion - one that the Commission would do well in seriously engaging with. We accept that many regulations - but certainly not all - would exist in national law also in the absence of the EU. However, and this is crucial, while the framework of laws may still exist at the national level, a whole range of prescriptive requirements that go with it would not. We give examples in our report.
- Additionally, knowing the source of regulation is vitalling important, both in terms of practically amending the law if so desired, and in terms of political accountability. Not knowing the source of the laws massively undercuts citizens' ability to hold policymakers to account. I.e. if I'm not happy with my energy bills rising as a result of regulation, who should I blame? The answer is far from straightforward.
- The annual cost of regulation measures the cost to business and the pulic sector arising from red tape in any given year (from existing and new regulation). We consider this to be a more useful measure than the cumulative cost as it allows us to look at trends. The Commission doesn't seem to address this figure, which is surprising. Particularly as it shows that the EU proportion of the total cost has gone down over the last three years (at 59% in 2009, compared to a 72% average), which could be a sign of the EU's 'better regulation agenda' beginning to pay off...
- But the most interesting figure is the benefit/cost ratio, showing the benefits of EU and UK regulations relative to each other. This figure is not being addressed by the Commission either. The ratio makes clear that for both EU regulations and UK regulations the benefits outweigh the costs, but UK regulations areo n average 2.5 times more cost-efficient than EU laws. This is also true in the areas where the EU and UK regulate the same parts of the economy (for example, social policy and environment legislation). This is what the Commission really should be trying to respond to if they’re concerned with relative benefits.
"The figures presented in this report are out of context as they take little or no account of the wider economic benefits that regulation can deliver. European regulation has helped open up new markets for UK business across Europe and provided important new rights and protections."Again, we acknowledge that regulations come with benefits, and that EU laws, for example on public procurament or energy 'unbundling', can have a positive impact on the economy. The problem is that EU regulations too often are mistargeted, overly burdensome and decided at the wrong level of policy-making in the first place. That's what we're addressing.
The Department for Business added that its "Forward Programme", which details the regulations planned for next year, shows that EU regulation will only make up 31% of the total cost. The discrepency is explained by the fact that the forward programme doesn't take into account any of the existing regulations generating costs to businesses and the public sector - our estimate does.
And closer inspection of the Government's "Forward Programme" reveals that the economic impact of many of the EU regulations due to come into force next year have yet to be quantified (24 to be exact). Some are also very important, such as the proposed establishment of the EU's three new financial regulators - which could have a massive impact on the City of London. True, there are also many domestic regulations yet to be quantified but, as we have seen in previous years, a high EU proportional cost can just as easily be attributed to just a few extremely costly regulations as several put together. So, essentially, it is too early to tell until all the costs are quantified.
Interestingly, former Dutch EU Commissioner Frits Bolkstein today reaches some similar conclusions to those we spell out in our report. Writing in Belgian daily De Standaard he calls for the size of the Commission to be reduced to 12. He explains his reasoning:
"A proposal to grant independent women the right to pregnancy leave. Both in the Netherlands and Bulgaria, shouldn't we decide on that ourselves? The European Commission has apparently learned nothing from the Nos in France and the Netherlands...Under Barroso the Commission has become a presidential system. Now there are 27 Commissioners. Power is with the President and his Chief de Cabinet. The Chief of Cabinet has more power than many Commissioners. Discussions within the Commission don't mean anything any more."
"What do Commissioners want? They want to get into the picture with initiatives, smart or not...The only way to stop the stream of useless initiatives is to reduce the number of Commissioners to what is necessary to steer the EU. I think a Commission of twelve capable people is enough."
US official doubts N.Korea role in warship sinking
South Korean navy ship ATS-28 Gwangyang searches for possible survivors
and bodies from a sunken warship
and bodies from a sunken warship
A senior US official on Monday doubted that North Korea was involved in the recent sinking of a South Korean warship, in which dozens of crewmen are missing.Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg said that while South Korea was leading the investigation into Friday night's maritime explosion, he had heard nothing to implicate any other country.
"Obviously the full investigation needs to go forward. But to my knowledge, there's no reason to believe or to be concerned that that may have been the cause," Steinberg told reporters.
US naval forces are assisting South Korea in search, recovery and salvage efforts for the warship, 46 of whose crewmen remained missing.
South Korean officials said there was no evidence so far that Pyongyang attacked the 1,200-tonne Cheonan, which was torn in half in the Yellow Sea.
However, Defense Minister Kim Tae-Young said a drifting North Korean mine dating back to the 1950-53 war might have caused the blast, or the North might have intentionally sent a mine floating towards the ship.
fatty is missing
at least i hope he's missing and not dead. i haven't seen the dude in two months and he used to come over at least once a day. ambies, kevs, and i keep looking for him whenever we walk by his house but no luck...
if you see fatty tell him we miss him and love him!
if you see fatty tell him we miss him and love him!
How many presidents does it take to change a...
Following the infamous "Obama snub", the ‘EU as global power’ project has suffered another humiliating dressing down this week. This time the reality check comes from the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, Pascal Lamy, who, in his frustration with the shambolic organisation of the EU representation has set out some guidelines as to how the member states should behave at future WTO meetings:
“If one European takes the floor on one topic, and then another European takes the floor on the same topic, nobody listens. Nobody listens because either it’s the same thing and it gets boring, or it’s not the same thing and it will not influence the result at the end of the day….So the right solution, if I may, is at least to make sure that they speak with one mouth. Not one voice—one mouth—on each topic on the agenda. That would be a great improvement.”More than a little patronising and far from the “unified EU voice” that those supporters of the Lisbon Treaty suggested. Gideon Rachman, reporting from the Brussels Forum of the German Marshall Fund on his FT blog, has offered an insight into how the EU is actually viewed by American diplomats:
“In the lobby of the conference hotel, I just bumped into some official Americans who had been to see senior people at the commission. They had delicately raised the question of which of the two European 'presidents' would represent the EU at future international summits. 'Oh that’s all settled,' they were told, 'they’re both going.' With enormous self-restraint, the Americans apparently refrained from laughing out loud, or banging their heads against the wall. Meanwhile European officials still maintain, with a straight face, that the Treaty has 'simplified' Europe's structures.Which pretty much sums it up.
Monday, March 29, 2010
War News for Monday, March 29, 2010
NATO is reporting the death of an ISAF soldier in an IED attack in an undisclosed location in southern Afghanistan on Monday, March 29th.
Obama makes secret trip to Afghanistan:
In Afghan Trip, Obama Presses Karzai on Graft:
Reported security incidents
Baghdad:
#1: A Finance Ministry employee has been killed when a sticky bomb hit his car in the capital Baghdad, a local police source said on Monday. “A sticky improvised explosive device (IED) hit a civilian vehicle in Abi Dasheer area, al-Doura neighborhood, southern Baghdad,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
#2: A magnetic bomb stuck to a civilian car exploded in Mansour neighbourhood at 7 a.m. Sunday seriously injuring the driver.
#3: A roadside bomb targeted two Sahwa members in Jihad neighbourhood, west Baghdad, Sunday injuring them both.
#4: A roadside bomb targeted civilians in Bataween neighbourhood, central Baghdad, Saurday, injuring five.
#5: A sniper shot and killed Khaleel Ibraheem al Ubaidi, a Sahwa commander in Athamiyah neighbourhood, north Baghdad, Saturday.
Diyala Prv:
#1: Seven police personnel have been injured in an explosive charge blast in Diala’s Baaquba, a local security source said on Monday. “On Sunday evening, an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated near the house of the Katoun mayor in Baaquba,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. When police forces arrived at the scene of the blast, another explosive device went off on a main road in the area, wounding seven of them, according to the same source.
Karbala:
#1-2: Iraqi police say a pair of car bombs in the holy city of Karbala killed at least four people and wounded 22, with the second blast detonating near the provincial governor's home.
#1: Police officials said the first booby-trapped car exploded about 12:30 p.m. on Monday near a kindergarten and across from a restaurant popular with police about half a mile from the revered Imam Hussein shrine.
#2: The second blast went off minutes later just 50 yards (meters) away in a residential street near the governor's residence. He was not near either blast.
Basra:
#1: The Iraqi army arrested a group of gunmen who were planning to fire rockets at Basra airport, where the U.S. forces are stationed, a security source said on Monday. “Those arrested had a launch pad in their possession,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.The arrest was made in al-Touba area (15 km northwest of Basra), the source pointed out.
Kirkuk:
#1: Police forces on Monday found the body of a man who had been kidnapped by gunmen near Kirkuk, a local police chief said. “During an early hour this morning, police forces have found the body of Mutaz Nayef Dawoud al-Luhaybi, born in 1987, near Laylan district (10 km south of Kirkuk),” Brig. Sarhad Qader told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. The body bore signs of gunshot wounds, the official noted.The man, a resident of al-Orouba neighborhood, southern Kirkuk, had been kidnapped by unknown gunmen, who stole his vehicle, the official pointed out.
#2: One police officer was wounded when gunmen clashed with police late on Sunday in Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
Mosul:
#1: Sunday One civilian has been injured in an explosive charge blast in downtown Mosul, a local security source said on Sunday. “At noon, an improvised explosive device (IED) hit a Federal Police patrol vehicle in al-Farouq area, downtown Mosul, wounding one civilian,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
#2: An unidentified gunmen blew up a house that belongs to a Shamar clans chief in western Mosul city on Sunday, a police source in Ninewa said. “The gunmen detonated the house of Sheikh Harroush al-Salem Abdulaziz al-Djerba, a tribal chief of the Shamar clans in Iraq, in western Mosul neighborhood of al-Thawra,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. “The gunmen raided the house and claimed that they were secret detectives that evacuated the house and blew it up,” the source added.
#3: Clashes between police and insurgents killed a civilian who works with the police and wounded another in western Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
Afghanistan: "The Forgotten War"
#1: A NATO helicopter crashed Monday in southern Afghanistan, injuring 14 people, the international force said. The coalition said no one is reported to have been killed in the helicopter crash and that all personnel on board were evacuated to nearby medical facilities. Jilani Farah, deputy police chief in Zabul province where the crash occurred, said 14 people were injured, including international service members, three Afghan soldiers and one Afghan policeman. NATO confirmed that 14 people were injured in the crash, and said that none of them sustained life-threatening injuries.
#2: Taliban militants fired at least one rocket at a principal US military base in Afghanistan hours after President Barack Obama ended a surprise six-hour visit, officials said Monday, DPA reported. Hours after the president left Bagram airfield, where he spoke to about 2,000 soldiers, the base came under a rocket attack, Jeffery Loftin, a NATO spokesman in Kabul said."There was an indiscriminate fire, but there were no causalities," he said, noting that Obama "was already gone" when the rocket hit.The Taliban said in a statement posted at their website that three rockets were fired into the base.
#3: An Australian soldier and an Afghan interpreter were wounded on Sunday, following a series of incidents over the weekend involving Improvised Explosive Devices (IED). The soldier and the interpreter were travelling as part of a foot patrol in the Mirabad region of Oruzgan Province on 28 of March 2010 when they were struck by the blast from an IED. The interpreter suffered serious wounds while the soldier was only slightly wounded.
#4: On Saturday, three Australian soldiers and two Afghan National Army soldiers were wounded in multiple IED incidents.Commander Joint Task Force 633, Major General John Cantwell, said the combined Afghan and Australian patrols were involved in 10 separate incidents over the weekend, eight involving IEDs and two small-arms fire attacks.
#5: The Pakistani Army reportedly killed 22 Taliban insurgents near the Afghanistan border on Sunday after a group of militants attacked an army base with rockets and utomatic weapons. The Dawn quoted Samiullah Khan, a Pakistani government official, as saying that the fighting occurred in the Orakzai tribal region where the army is on the offensive. He added that security forces first killed 10 militants in a retaliatory attack and the military helicopter gun ship later bombed hideouts in the Chapri Ferozkhel area, killing another 12.
#6: Some unidentified hijackers took away a truck here near Hasanbadal, carrying goods for the NATO forces stationed in Afghanistan on Saturday, said police sources on Sunday. According to the sources, the truck was snatched near Burhan in the Hassanabdal Police Station jurisdiction on March 22. Talking to APP, the investigation officer Mumtaz Khan said, the truck bearing number Y-0057, comprising crew namely Ihsan Ul Haq, Hazrat Ali and Bakhat Rawan, was carrying goods for NATO forces, when the hijackers garbed it by pretending themselves as custom personnel. They forced the truck crew to sit in their vehicle and took them away, which were freed up later.
MoD: Lance Corporal of Horse Jonathan Woodgate
MoD: Rifleman Daniel Holkham
Obama makes secret trip to Afghanistan:
In Afghan Trip, Obama Presses Karzai on Graft:
Reported security incidents
Baghdad:
#1: A Finance Ministry employee has been killed when a sticky bomb hit his car in the capital Baghdad, a local police source said on Monday. “A sticky improvised explosive device (IED) hit a civilian vehicle in Abi Dasheer area, al-Doura neighborhood, southern Baghdad,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
#2: A magnetic bomb stuck to a civilian car exploded in Mansour neighbourhood at 7 a.m. Sunday seriously injuring the driver.
#3: A roadside bomb targeted two Sahwa members in Jihad neighbourhood, west Baghdad, Sunday injuring them both.
#4: A roadside bomb targeted civilians in Bataween neighbourhood, central Baghdad, Saurday, injuring five.
#5: A sniper shot and killed Khaleel Ibraheem al Ubaidi, a Sahwa commander in Athamiyah neighbourhood, north Baghdad, Saturday.
Diyala Prv:
#1: Seven police personnel have been injured in an explosive charge blast in Diala’s Baaquba, a local security source said on Monday. “On Sunday evening, an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated near the house of the Katoun mayor in Baaquba,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. When police forces arrived at the scene of the blast, another explosive device went off on a main road in the area, wounding seven of them, according to the same source.
Karbala:
#1-2: Iraqi police say a pair of car bombs in the holy city of Karbala killed at least four people and wounded 22, with the second blast detonating near the provincial governor's home.
#1: Police officials said the first booby-trapped car exploded about 12:30 p.m. on Monday near a kindergarten and across from a restaurant popular with police about half a mile from the revered Imam Hussein shrine.
#2: The second blast went off minutes later just 50 yards (meters) away in a residential street near the governor's residence. He was not near either blast.
Basra:
#1: The Iraqi army arrested a group of gunmen who were planning to fire rockets at Basra airport, where the U.S. forces are stationed, a security source said on Monday. “Those arrested had a launch pad in their possession,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.The arrest was made in al-Touba area (15 km northwest of Basra), the source pointed out.
Kirkuk:
#1: Police forces on Monday found the body of a man who had been kidnapped by gunmen near Kirkuk, a local police chief said. “During an early hour this morning, police forces have found the body of Mutaz Nayef Dawoud al-Luhaybi, born in 1987, near Laylan district (10 km south of Kirkuk),” Brig. Sarhad Qader told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. The body bore signs of gunshot wounds, the official noted.The man, a resident of al-Orouba neighborhood, southern Kirkuk, had been kidnapped by unknown gunmen, who stole his vehicle, the official pointed out.
#2: One police officer was wounded when gunmen clashed with police late on Sunday in Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
Mosul:
#1: Sunday One civilian has been injured in an explosive charge blast in downtown Mosul, a local security source said on Sunday. “At noon, an improvised explosive device (IED) hit a Federal Police patrol vehicle in al-Farouq area, downtown Mosul, wounding one civilian,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
#2: An unidentified gunmen blew up a house that belongs to a Shamar clans chief in western Mosul city on Sunday, a police source in Ninewa said. “The gunmen detonated the house of Sheikh Harroush al-Salem Abdulaziz al-Djerba, a tribal chief of the Shamar clans in Iraq, in western Mosul neighborhood of al-Thawra,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. “The gunmen raided the house and claimed that they were secret detectives that evacuated the house and blew it up,” the source added.
#3: Clashes between police and insurgents killed a civilian who works with the police and wounded another in western Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
Afghanistan: "The Forgotten War"
#1: A NATO helicopter crashed Monday in southern Afghanistan, injuring 14 people, the international force said. The coalition said no one is reported to have been killed in the helicopter crash and that all personnel on board were evacuated to nearby medical facilities. Jilani Farah, deputy police chief in Zabul province where the crash occurred, said 14 people were injured, including international service members, three Afghan soldiers and one Afghan policeman. NATO confirmed that 14 people were injured in the crash, and said that none of them sustained life-threatening injuries.
#2: Taliban militants fired at least one rocket at a principal US military base in Afghanistan hours after President Barack Obama ended a surprise six-hour visit, officials said Monday, DPA reported. Hours after the president left Bagram airfield, where he spoke to about 2,000 soldiers, the base came under a rocket attack, Jeffery Loftin, a NATO spokesman in Kabul said."There was an indiscriminate fire, but there were no causalities," he said, noting that Obama "was already gone" when the rocket hit.The Taliban said in a statement posted at their website that three rockets were fired into the base.
#3: An Australian soldier and an Afghan interpreter were wounded on Sunday, following a series of incidents over the weekend involving Improvised Explosive Devices (IED). The soldier and the interpreter were travelling as part of a foot patrol in the Mirabad region of Oruzgan Province on 28 of March 2010 when they were struck by the blast from an IED. The interpreter suffered serious wounds while the soldier was only slightly wounded.
#4: On Saturday, three Australian soldiers and two Afghan National Army soldiers were wounded in multiple IED incidents.Commander Joint Task Force 633, Major General John Cantwell, said the combined Afghan and Australian patrols were involved in 10 separate incidents over the weekend, eight involving IEDs and two small-arms fire attacks.
#5: The Pakistani Army reportedly killed 22 Taliban insurgents near the Afghanistan border on Sunday after a group of militants attacked an army base with rockets and utomatic weapons. The Dawn quoted Samiullah Khan, a Pakistani government official, as saying that the fighting occurred in the Orakzai tribal region where the army is on the offensive. He added that security forces first killed 10 militants in a retaliatory attack and the military helicopter gun ship later bombed hideouts in the Chapri Ferozkhel area, killing another 12.
#6: Some unidentified hijackers took away a truck here near Hasanbadal, carrying goods for the NATO forces stationed in Afghanistan on Saturday, said police sources on Sunday. According to the sources, the truck was snatched near Burhan in the Hassanabdal Police Station jurisdiction on March 22. Talking to APP, the investigation officer Mumtaz Khan said, the truck bearing number Y-0057, comprising crew namely Ihsan Ul Haq, Hazrat Ali and Bakhat Rawan, was carrying goods for NATO forces, when the hijackers garbed it by pretending themselves as custom personnel. They forced the truck crew to sit in their vehicle and took them away, which were freed up later.
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Moscow metro blasts: female suicide bombers kill 35
Two female suicide bombers known as “black widows” blew themselves up in Moscow’s busy metro during morning rush hour killing at least 35 people, according to the Russian authorities.
A further 40 people were reported badly wounded.
Though no group has so far claimed responsibility for the atrocity, security sources said early indications suggested that the suicide bombers were from the volatile North Caucasus region that includes Chechnya.
The bombers struck two separate metro stations in central Moscow – Lubyanka and Park Kultyry - in a carefully coordinated attack.
At least 22 people were reported dead at the Lubyanka metro station, which is situated close to the headquarters of the FSB security service, the successor agency to the KGB.
Witnesses said an explosion tore through one of the carriages as the train was coming into the station killing commuters onboard as well as people standing on the platform. Dozens were reported wounded.
One witness, a policeman, said the bomb went off as the train’s doors opened and people poured out. Officials said the suicide bombers were wearing belts around their bodies packed with explosives. There were unconfirmed reports that they had set off the bombs using their mobile phones.
A second explosion at the busy Park Kultyry metro station located close to Moscow’s famous Gorky Park followed about forty minutes later.
It is not clear how many people that blast killed and wounded though some reports said up to fifteen people had lost their lives. Officials said the attacks had been conducted in identical fashion and that the overall death toll was likely to rise.
There were unconfirmed reports of a third blast at a third metro station, Prospekt Mira, but officials said they could not confirm whether that was true or not.
Traffic on the metro system, one of the world’s busiest, was disrupted as emergency service vehicles surrounded the stations affected. Police said sniffer dogs were checking for explosives before removing victims’ bodies. Mobile phone networks crashed as people scrambled to find out about their loved ones, long traffic jams formed, and emergency hotlines were set up.
A further 40 people were reported badly wounded.
Though no group has so far claimed responsibility for the atrocity, security sources said early indications suggested that the suicide bombers were from the volatile North Caucasus region that includes Chechnya.
The bombers struck two separate metro stations in central Moscow – Lubyanka and Park Kultyry - in a carefully coordinated attack.
At least 22 people were reported dead at the Lubyanka metro station, which is situated close to the headquarters of the FSB security service, the successor agency to the KGB.
Witnesses said an explosion tore through one of the carriages as the train was coming into the station killing commuters onboard as well as people standing on the platform. Dozens were reported wounded.
One witness, a policeman, said the bomb went off as the train’s doors opened and people poured out. Officials said the suicide bombers were wearing belts around their bodies packed with explosives. There were unconfirmed reports that they had set off the bombs using their mobile phones.
A second explosion at the busy Park Kultyry metro station located close to Moscow’s famous Gorky Park followed about forty minutes later.
It is not clear how many people that blast killed and wounded though some reports said up to fifteen people had lost their lives. Officials said the attacks had been conducted in identical fashion and that the overall death toll was likely to rise.
There were unconfirmed reports of a third blast at a third metro station, Prospekt Mira, but officials said they could not confirm whether that was true or not.
Traffic on the metro system, one of the world’s busiest, was disrupted as emergency service vehicles surrounded the stations affected. Police said sniffer dogs were checking for explosives before removing victims’ bodies. Mobile phone networks crashed as people scrambled to find out about their loved ones, long traffic jams formed, and emergency hotlines were set up.
Why we had very limited sunshine today
San Francisco Bay area
March 28 2010
Chemtrail Assault
Geoengineering Areosol Spray Crimes
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How way you style in Social Media
Personality to which every person is different, consciously or not your tendency to interact in a virtual world based on your personality tendencies in the real world. What are the 'style' that we often encounter in cyberspace?
1. Extroverted, if you see someone who is very active to update the status on facebook, chatting via plurk or provide information through twitter, you can expect that they are extroverted. example update: "How tweeps ..?"
2. Introverted, in contrast to extroverted, introverted people have a behavior in cyberspace is more passive. If you update the status, then he will be more likely to provide a status-oriented himself, ex: "Keep trying to change the fate kept the spirit .."
3. Thinking, thinker and always depend on the visible reality. People who have this tendency, in the media usually give bersosial updates such as "Say the truth even though it was bitter .."
4. Feeling, people who have this tendency more memperahtikan values that apply and what other people feel. ex: "Want presentation, ya nervous, afraid of ..."
5. Judging, these people tend to give assessments and used to live regularly. ex: "Time to make plans to live ...."
6. Perceiving, the tendency people easily accept the conditions are around, trying to adapt and compromise with the situation. ex: "There's a new temen nih, should be able to make him comfortable ..."
Nah-nah, about where you are ya?
8 Tips Making Presentations More Interesting
Making presentations is a skill required should we have today, especially if you are trying to convince the client to your sales excellence. Here are some tips so that your presentations look more attractive and professional.
1. Background Appropriate UseOke, are u ready to presentation?
If you want to present serious topics do not use the background of a very light / bright. In this case it is better to use dark colors. Also, see the white slides on for twenty minutes can tire the eyes. But it all depends on your presentation topic. If you're going to talk about tourism, bright colors will give a lot of points.
2. Add your initials on the Master Page
The presentation is a good chance to remain in the memory audience. So, give your initials on the page master page that will appear on every slide.
3. Use a common font type
A presentation is not the place to show that you have gathered a collection of fonts. Use common fonts because someday your presentation may need to be given on a computer that has a collection of different fonts to your computer.
4. Animate Your Body, Not Slides
Many animation software maker provided slides and many people use the facilities and animation effects are. Do not waste your time to adjust effects unnecessary. It is not going to make your presentation better. Use your body language to 'turn' your slides is better than a lot of effects or animation in the slides.
5. Use Bullets
Many people do not use a bullet. They may say that they have very specific information and bullets will not provide much point. Instead of bullet most of them prefer to display and read a block of text looks 'heavy'.
For users who use a bullet, they put the bullet at the same time, it was a mistake. To create a bullet: click, bullet 1, explain; click, bullet 2, the explanation. Well here we are allowed to use animation.
6. Use Only One Level of Bullet
If you use a bullet 'story', the audience may think that your slides contain information that describes more than one topic. Fix this in your mind: one slide, one point, Bullet must support this.
7. The use of diagrams and graphs
Use charts and graphs to explain trends and numerical data. If you think that you need a long paragraph to explain a point, then guankan charts and graphs instead.
8. Make a Printable Slides
Customize text and graphics text and graphics on the slides to make it printable. In some cases, you will share these slides to your audience, so the audience will make it easier to read slides as you serve.
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Where Did the Towers Go? The Evidence of Directed Energy Technology on 9/11 by Dr. Judy Wood
UPDATE: Dr. Wood will be on the Aroostook Watchmen show again April 5, 2010.
Where Did the Towers Go? The Evidence of Directed Energy Technology on 9/11 by Dr. Judy Wood (July 2010)
"The data told us what destroyed the twin towers. The data told us that directed-energy weapons must exist. We were not aware that the US military had directed-energy weapons. After we concluded that some sort of energy weapon was used, we looked for evidence that such weapons exist and found it." - Dr. Judy Wood
http://drjudywood.com/
LISTEN TO DR. JUDY WOOD INTERVIEW FROM MARCH 16, 2010
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Where Did the Towers Go? The Evidence of Directed Energy Technology on 9/11 by Dr. Judy Wood (July 2010)
"The data told us what destroyed the twin towers. The data told us that directed-energy weapons must exist. We were not aware that the US military had directed-energy weapons. After we concluded that some sort of energy weapon was used, we looked for evidence that such weapons exist and found it." - Dr. Judy Wood
http://drjudywood.com/
LISTEN TO DR. JUDY WOOD INTERVIEW FROM MARCH 16, 2010
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News of the Day for Sunday, March 28, 2010
Iraqis clear debris at the site of twin blasts in the city of Khales, northeast of Baghdad. The casualty toll of the twin bombings in Khales has risen to 52 dead and 73 wounded, a security official said. (AFP) This occurred yesterday and was noted in yesterday's post.Afternoon Update: President Obama is in Kabul meeting with Hamid Karzai. "In a briefing with pool reporters on the trip, National Security Adviser James Jones said Obama would push Karzai to improve efforts to meet benchmarks for better governance in his second term, which began last year. According to Jones, Obama planned to point out that more attention was needed to certain issues -- such as a merit-based system for appointing key government officials, battling corruption and taking on narcotics trafficking that helps fund insurgents." Good luck with that -- C
Reported Security Incidents
Qaim
A series of explosions apparently targeting a leader of the Development and Reforms movement, a small party in the al-Iraqiya bloc, kills 6 people. The dead include movement leader Ghanim Radhi, who was not himself a candidate for parliament. As this MSNBC report notes, accounts conflict as to whether the house that was targeted belonged to Radhi himself, or to Sheik Murdhi Muhammad al-Mahalawi, who was a candidate. Other reports describe the blasts as "roadside bombs," but these seem more credible. The location is remote so the confusion is not unusual. -- C Reuters also reports 15 people injured.
Ramadi
Bomb attack near a police officer's house in Albo Ebeid causes damage but no casualties.
Kirkuk
One Iraqi soldier killed, 1 injured in drive by shooting late Saturday.
Other News of the Day
Asaib Ahl al-Haq (League of the Righteous) releases kidnapped U.S. contractor Issa T. Salomi, claiming it did so in exchange for 4 prisoners held by the U.S. The U.S. had no comment. The U.S. had previously been in reconciliation talks with the group and had released hundreds of its members before talks broke down.
Iyad Allawi starts efforts to form a governing coalition. As Leila Fadel tells us, in addition to wooing potential Shiite and Kurdish partners, "He will also almost certainly have to make overtures to predominantly Shiite Iran, which is more influential in Iraqi politics than the United States."
Jim Loney of Reuters thinks the election results in fact empower the Sadrists. Excerpt:
[O]fficials with Maliki's State of Law bloc and a fellow Shi'ite coalition, the Iraqi National Alliance, say they are talking about a merger that would make anti-American Shi'ite Moqtada al-Sadr, whose Mehdi Army fought fiercely against U.S. troops, a power player in Iraq's new political landscape.
"The government will not form (from other than) State of Law and INA because the kingmaker now is Moqtada al-Sadr," Iraqi political analyst Ibrahim al-Sumaidaie said. "Moqtada will not stand in front of the Shi'ites and Iran and tell them 'I got you a mainly Sunni government with Baathist links.'"
The "Baathist links" remark is a bit of a canard. People in government or high level professional positions during the Saddam era had no choice but to belong to the party; but Allawi himself broke with the Baathists in 1975 as Saddam consolidated power, and plotted to overthrow Saddam from exile in 1978, whereupon Saddam tried to have him killed. He spent the next 30 years working for the overthrow of the Baathist regime. So this is hardly about a restoration. -- C
And Juan Cole also sees the Sadrists empowered by the results:
Al-Hayat reports in Arabic on the emergence of the Sadr Movement as the largest Shiite party within the Shiite fundamentalist coalition, the Iraqi National Alliance. The Free Independent (al-Ahrar) party that represented the Sadrists won 38 seats out of the 70 that the INA garnered, making the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, the Islamic Virtue Party and other Shiite religious components of the list much smaller and less weightier in the coalition's deliberations.
No sooner, the article says, than the election tallies began coming in did the government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki begin gradually releasing Sadrist prisoners who had been in Iraqi penitentiaries for years. Al-Hayat's sources say that in Babil Province, orders were received from the government to release members of the Sadr Movement, in an attempt to mollify that group.
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al-Hayat is also reporting that a couple of days ago representatives of the Sadr Movement and of al-Maliki's State of Law met in Tehran in an Iranian-backed attempt quickly to form a new Shiite-dominated government. In Iran for the talks were President Jalal Talibani and his Shiite vice president, Adil Abdel Mahdi of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq.
This move underlines the way in which Iraq's election has geopolitical as well as local significance. Also that Iran is sitting pretty while the US prepares to withdraw.
And meanwhile, Rod Nordland describes Maliki's various machinations to undo the election results. Excerpt:
On Thursday, a day before the results were announced, he quietly persuaded the Iraqi supreme court to issue a ruling that potentially allows him to choose the new government instead of awarding that right to the winner of the election, the former interim prime minister Ayad Allawi.
On another front, officials in charge of purging the government of former members of Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party said Saturday that they still expected to disqualify more than 50 political candidates, many of them members of Mr. Allawi’s Iraqiya Party. That could strip Mr. Allawi of his plurality, 91 parliamentary seats compared with 89 for Mr. Maliki’s State of Law party.
And if all that does not work, the prime minister still is clamoring for a recount, and he said he planned to file a legal appeal even though the United Nations, the elections commission and international observers have declared the election valid.
Afghanistan Update
Six civilians killed in 2 separate IED explosions in Helmand; 5 children injured by explosion in Herat.
AP's Adam Goldman and Kathy Gannon report on the murder of a prisoner by the CIA in Kabul in 2002. Excerpt:
More than seven years ago, a suspected Afghan militant was brought to a dimly lit CIA compound northeast of the airport in Kabul. The CIA called it the Salt Pit. Inmates knew it as the dark prison. Inside a chilly cell, the man was shackled and left half-naked. He was found dead, exposed to the cold, in the early hours of Nov. 20, 2002. . . .
The man was Gul Rahman (gool RAHK'-mahn), a suspected militant captured on Oct. 29, 2002, a U.S. official familiar with the case confirmed. The official said Rahman was taken during an operation against Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin, an insurgent group headed by Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (gool-boo-DEEN' hek-mat-YAR') and allied with al-Qaida. . . .
It remains uncertain whether any intelligence officers have been punished as a result of the Afghan's death, raising questions about the CIA's accountability in the case. The CIA's then-station chief in Afghanistan was promoted after Rahman's death, and the officer who ran the prison went on to other assignments, including one overseas, several former intelligence officials said.
British soldier from Third Battalion The Rifles has been killed by a car bomber in Afghanistan on Saturday, on the same day another soldier killed by a grenade was named. A soldier from Suffolk killed in Afghanistan on Friday was named as Lance Corporal Jonathan Woodgate.
A clash between Taliban and police in west Afghanistan's Farah province left two militants dead and two others injured, police said on Sunday.
"If the U.S. Marines at Combat Outpost Turbett have any problems with their Afghan colleagues, they're with the Afghan soldiers who followed them into battle against Taliban fighters, not with the elite police officers who have stepped in to help fill the security vacuum. While the Marines praise the Afghan National Civil Order Police force, they can barely conceal their contempt for the Afghan soldiers who live alongside the Americans in this one-time drug den in Marjah," reports McClatchy's Don Nissembaum.
However, the Afghan police in general do not get much love, says the AP.
Britain's Foreign Office says the U.K. has deep concerns over progress in building an Afghan national police force. Its comments come as the Independent on Sunday newspaper reported that, in a series of memos, Foreign Office officials complained about the standard of police recruits — criticizing the fitness, poor literacy and lax vetting of candidates. It quoted one document suggesting drug testing for police should be compulsory.
And here's the original Independent article, by Brian Brady. Excerpt:
A series of internal Foreign Office papers obtained by The Independent on Sunday lay bare the deep concerns of British officials over the standard of recruits to the Afghan National Police (ANP), ranging from high casualty rates and illiteracy to poor vetting and low pay.
The memos, which warn that building an effective police force "will take many years", also reveal how non-existent "ghost recruits" may account for up to a quarter of the purported strength of the police force, often the front line against the Taliban insurgency. The "attrition rate" among police officers – including losses caused by deaths, desertion and dismissals, often due to positive drug tests – is as high as 60 per cent in Helmand province.
Quote of the Day
Muqtada al-Sadr will not return to an occupied Iraq. He has said more than once that he will only return when the American occupiers have left. There is no doubt that gaining the rank of ayatollah will empower the Sadrist bloc. It will also broaden the Sadrists’ base by giving those who love Sadr the chance to follow him as a marja.
Sadrist politician Nasser al-Rubaie
Note: Muqtada al-Sadr is in the Iranian city of Qom pursuing religious studies.
How to increase page rank
Before reading further should be understood and understand this is not the writing how to increase pagerank so I also want to ask before I'm sorry for this paper is not to deny the writings from friends or from anyone but this is only the writing that began with a few questions from friends -a friend who came into my email. and the question is how to increase the Pagerank PR or my own this may be very confused to explain what and how? honestly this is not the writing how to increase pagerank, but I tried to meulis several factors that support the pagerank can ride, and I tried to answer with what they are and in accordance with the reality of what happened and ask some other people.
Problems may initially Pagerank (PR) is very meaningful for someone who has a blog because it is impossible for me personally Pagerank is a gift or work provided by the uncle google, the more Pagerank is very important to me when I had to force myself to jadul memonetize this blog (as I learned from the anonymous comments), because the broker paid review many who see PR as a benchmark to provide jobs for the owner's blog, although there are some paid review brokers that do not require this homework .. But please let's leave paid review for a moment the problem is and my focus back to the surface that is the question how to increase Pagerank.
How to raise this at the beginning Pagerank blogging first learned I had read some articles that in order to improve the Pagerank is to exchange links? really so? I agreed because it was true aja and deeply affected him and certainly that is not just any link exchange. As I read the results after the first and wondered who had blogs IMFreakz finally explained that there are several factors: 1. Important factor is the Backlink process. which means blog / web we were getting backlinks from a blog that basically has a higher PR and this is oneway links (if you do not know because I was googling aja also do not understand but if I do is link the term without compensation under the direction heee .. hehehe) 2. Link exchange is also included in the count cuman this is not seen from the many we do exchange links. (This may be experienced by friends who have done a link exchange as much but it was not naik2 homework too)
I tried to see which of the two things are the most influential because of the two things above, in fact, a gift giver or other public relations said, why do I say this? there are several examples of cases I have come across blogs that soaring Pageranknya blog kangrohman example is usually only used as an example when writing a tutorial on how to automatically refresh the blog and blogs that addresses your curious http://contoh-refresh.blogspot.com/ how the obtained PR blog this empty? blog it was in the gift by a google PR 4! Ga believe you wrote please visit and see this blog and making it bukansaya but also because the recognition of such kangrohman that the blog was empty, and now if there is a visit to your blog you might get it on blogspot templates and other postings such as blogs was used again by kang rohman because such a PR 4. This is just the first case.
you may not believe the first case then I will give a more concrete example is a domain / new blog that might be 2 months old but less than the grant of PR 3 by uncle is the first google blog http://www.jooph.com/ joviee which he belongs is also no exchange link ...
Then from these two examples is whether to break from the two above factors? My answer again is not because of these two examples was the first factor that supports the link or links oneway direction because it is clear that in the first instance had given kangrohman backlinks from blogs on the main and second samples as well as providing joovie oneway links via postings on the main blog also and it is this that allows the two blogs that get hadiahdari uncle google ... But there tapinya loh ... if you tiba2 get high PR like that you immediately for caring for these blogs because they do not often blog will be lowered by google to PR uncle had been like a scene jadulsaya other blogs.
Then exchange links Is it useless? ya ga ukan whether it is also little support but I wanted to write some benefit from exchange of links to link exchange is not understood as a base or a springboard for getting high PR or any other kind that? Because I interpret that the exchange is only an attempt to establish a Silahturahmi and preserve the integrity and friendship among fellow bloggers, and some reasons lainsaya about the link exchange: 1. Establish friendship with other people because of this link exchange we will know each other. 2. So we are not tired, tired of remembering and retyping the link / url of our friends when we want to visit. Or maybe you have other reasons and opinions about the link exchange.
I also just want to emphasize that the Pagerank algorithm to understand the secrets of the kitchen is a difficult uncle google we examine and understand ...... thanks if there is a mistake corrected it because I also learned ........ again
Problems may initially Pagerank (PR) is very meaningful for someone who has a blog because it is impossible for me personally Pagerank is a gift or work provided by the uncle google, the more Pagerank is very important to me when I had to force myself to jadul memonetize this blog (as I learned from the anonymous comments), because the broker paid review many who see PR as a benchmark to provide jobs for the owner's blog, although there are some paid review brokers that do not require this homework .. But please let's leave paid review for a moment the problem is and my focus back to the surface that is the question how to increase Pagerank.
How to raise this at the beginning Pagerank blogging first learned I had read some articles that in order to improve the Pagerank is to exchange links? really so? I agreed because it was true aja and deeply affected him and certainly that is not just any link exchange. As I read the results after the first and wondered who had blogs IMFreakz finally explained that there are several factors: 1. Important factor is the Backlink process. which means blog / web we were getting backlinks from a blog that basically has a higher PR and this is oneway links (if you do not know because I was googling aja also do not understand but if I do is link the term without compensation under the direction heee .. hehehe) 2. Link exchange is also included in the count cuman this is not seen from the many we do exchange links. (This may be experienced by friends who have done a link exchange as much but it was not naik2 homework too)
I tried to see which of the two things are the most influential because of the two things above, in fact, a gift giver or other public relations said, why do I say this? there are several examples of cases I have come across blogs that soaring Pageranknya blog kangrohman example is usually only used as an example when writing a tutorial on how to automatically refresh the blog and blogs that addresses your curious http://contoh-refresh.blogspot.com/ how the obtained PR blog this empty? blog it was in the gift by a google PR 4! Ga believe you wrote please visit and see this blog and making it bukansaya but also because the recognition of such kangrohman that the blog was empty, and now if there is a visit to your blog you might get it on blogspot templates and other postings such as blogs was used again by kang rohman because such a PR 4. This is just the first case.
you may not believe the first case then I will give a more concrete example is a domain / new blog that might be 2 months old but less than the grant of PR 3 by uncle is the first google blog http://www.jooph.com/ joviee which he belongs is also no exchange link ...
Then from these two examples is whether to break from the two above factors? My answer again is not because of these two examples was the first factor that supports the link or links oneway direction because it is clear that in the first instance had given kangrohman backlinks from blogs on the main and second samples as well as providing joovie oneway links via postings on the main blog also and it is this that allows the two blogs that get hadiahdari uncle google ... But there tapinya loh ... if you tiba2 get high PR like that you immediately for caring for these blogs because they do not often blog will be lowered by google to PR uncle had been like a scene jadulsaya other blogs.
Then exchange links Is it useless? ya ga ukan whether it is also little support but I wanted to write some benefit from exchange of links to link exchange is not understood as a base or a springboard for getting high PR or any other kind that? Because I interpret that the exchange is only an attempt to establish a Silahturahmi and preserve the integrity and friendship among fellow bloggers, and some reasons lainsaya about the link exchange: 1. Establish friendship with other people because of this link exchange we will know each other. 2. So we are not tired, tired of remembering and retyping the link / url of our friends when we want to visit. Or maybe you have other reasons and opinions about the link exchange.
I also just want to emphasize that the Pagerank algorithm to understand the secrets of the kitchen is a difficult uncle google we examine and understand ...... thanks if there is a mistake corrected it because I also learned ........ again
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