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Belgium makes arrests over woman suicide bomber
Reuters ^ | 30 Nov 2005
Posted on 11/30/2005 12:38:39 AM PST by ncountylee
BRUSSELS, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Belgian police raided homes overnight and arrested a number of people believed to be linked to a Belgian woman who carried out a suicide attack near Baghdad, the Federal Prosecutor's Office said on Wednesday.
"This is terrorism file. We were looking for a group of people who were the entourage of a woman who carried out an attack in Iraq," Lieve Pellens, a spokeswoman for the prosecutor's office, told Reuters.
The Belgian woman, who blew herself up a few weeks ago, had converted to Islam when she married a Muslim, Pellens said, declining to give the bomber's name or other details.
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The threat, carried by local media, follows increasing violence against international forces in Kosovo and may lead to an alliance between armed rebel groups and jihadist forces, according to a former security chief from the region.
Rebels have blown up several vehicles belonging to the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) and the Kosovo Protection Service (KPS), leading UNMIK to warn employees to check their vehicles for bombs before starting the engines. (Click here to view UNMIK internal memo on vehicle tracking.)
Prior to the bombing of vehicles, graffiti across Kosovo warned "UNMIK get out!" Last month U.N. vehicles were defaced to read "FUND," which is Albanian for "The End."
Internal U.N. emails obtained by Cybercast News Service described the development as "extremely serious." (Click here and here to view photos of defaced vehicles)
Cybercast News Service has learned that NATO's Kosovo Force has an emergency plan called "Operation Safe Haven" in place to evacuate internationals.
The news organization has also obtained the first communique issued by the Kosovo Independence Army (KIA). It was signed on Oct. 5 and delivered by children to UNMIK police headquarters in Pristina, according to local and U.N. sources. (Click here to view communique)
The KIA promised to apply the "rules of war" and execute parliamentarians who failed to declare independence by Oct. 15. "Kosovar quislings" (collaborators) would be executed as well, the KIA stated. "They don't deserve one bullet in their forehead but seven."
On Friday the KIA ordered UNMIK, which it labeled the "modern occupier," to release all "war hostages" taken since 2000 or UNMIK officers and those who apply U.N. laws and regulations would "suffer.""[F]or six years you betrayed us," the communique read. International judges, prosecutors and investigators have also been ordered to "retreat" from Kosovo.
The existence of the KIA was at first denied by UNMIK and the Kosovo Force (KFOR), but later confirmed by UNMIK Police Commissioner Kai Vittrup. KFOR is a NATO-led international force responsible for establishing and maintaining security in Kosovo.
While the KIA is considered a new rebel group, it is made up of former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army, said Thomas Gambill, a former security chief for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in the eastern region of Kosovo.
OSCE is a regional security group made up of members from 55 countries and operating under the authority of the United Nations.
"All rebel groups are offshoots of the KLA. It's just the KLA renamed," Gambill said.The threatened destabilization of Kosovo comes at a sensitive time, as the United Nations is making preparations for final status talks on the troubled Serbian province.
Gambill believes that Albanian frustration over the independence issue could lead armed rebels to forge an alliance with al Qaeda. Both groups want the international presence out of Kosovo and al Qaeda has a history of attempting to destabilize the Balkans region where it wants to gain influence.
Al Qaeda activity in neighboring Albania has been a primary concern to Gambill since 2000, given the porous borders and intelligence indicating that terrorist training camps were operating in the country.
Two months ago, Abdul Latif Saleh, an alleged associate of Osama bin Laden and a resident of Albania, was listed by the United Nations as a terrorism financier. Bin Laden gave Saleh $600,000 to create extremist groups in Albania in order to destabilize the country, according to the U.S. Department of Treasury.
Cybercast News Service, meanwhile, has learned that a bomb which exploded in a downtown market in the town of Strpce last Thursday was a time-triggered IED (improvised explosive device) planted beneath the truck owned by a Kosovo Albanian from Kacanik. The man had gone to the market to sell goods and was injured by the blast.
According to Gambill the man was warned recently by members of the KIA to stop doing business with Serbs. No one has declared responsibility for the attack. "The people are frustrated and scared. Tensions are high." said Gambill who maintains sensitive contacts with officials and Serbian and Albanian locals. The threats are played down, Gambill said, because "it does not suit the internationals to have a serious crisis such as this at the time when they are sending out reports on how much improvement has been made in Kosovo.
""The time for the KIA-KLA to join with al Qaeda seems to be close at hand," said Gambill. "The Albanian and American love affair will be put to the test.
"Make media inquiries or request an interview with Sherrie Gossett.
Off Topic.
This caught my eye, my earthquake lists showed 4 today of 3+. Said they were in a line on the Nevada side.
granny.
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ALASKA VOLCANO OBSERVATORY INFORMATION RELEASE (Augustine Volcano status raised to Yellow)
Alaska Volcano Observatory, USGS ^ | November 29, 2005
Posted on 11/29/2005 8:37:52 PM PST by Strategerist
AUGUSTINE VOLCANO (CAVW#1103-01-) 59.3633°N 153.4333°W, Summit Elevation 4134 ft (1260 m) Current Level of Concern Color Code: YELLOW Previous Level of Concern Color Code: GREEN
AVO has detected important changes in earthquake activity and ground deformation at Augustine Volcano in southern Cook Inlet. These data are consistent with renewed volcanic unrest. AVO is therefore raising the level-of-concern color code from green to YELLOW and will continue to monitor activity closely. There is no indication that an eruption is imminent or certain.
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ON THE NET...
http://www.internet-haganah.us/jihadi/hizballah.html
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http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20350
"Hezbollah Rising"
By Brigitte Gabriel
FrontPageMagazine.com | November 30, 2005
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Hezbollah receives over $650 million annually in cash from Iran. It earns another $650 million from phone card monopolies and controls the Internet traffic in Lebanon. Hezbollah is rumored to earn an estimated $300 million annually in brokering drug deals in the region. All told, according to reliable sources, it has an annual war-chest of over $1.6 billion, more than enough to fund terrorism and build up a hidden store of tens of thousands of Katyusha rockets and arms in mountain bunkers in the Bekaa Valley. The PLO armed itself with Soviet assistance in the 70's, but the Israelis were able to neutralize much of this threat. With such unbridled access and money, Hezbollah can arm itself for another generation of death.
Iran, Syria, Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad and al Qaeda see only weakness - a weakness arising from Israel’s vulnerability after the Gaza withdrawal and last week’s border crossing fiasco pushed by Condi Rice and the Arabists in the U.S. State Department. They also are pumped up because they see anti-war activists such as Cindy Sheehan and members of Congress in an uproar demanding an early exit in Iraq.
Sensing Israel and the U.S. on the run, they naturally pounce not only because of the prospect of American forces leaving the region, but also because of possible change in party control in Israel’s Knesset next March. Now, will the world, especially the U.S., do what is right by its best ally and military defense force in the Middle East? The terrorists are watching our consistency and conviction waiting for their opportunity to strike."
ON THE NET...
ICCWBO.ORG - THE WEEKLY PIRACY REPORT
http://www.iccwbo.org/ccs/imb_piracy/weekly_piracy_report.asp
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"Somali pirates release ship and 10 crew"
Reuters ^ | 30 Nov 2005 | Guled Mohamed
Posted on 11/30/2005 2:53:44 AM PST by ncountylee
November 30, 2005 Anti-Terrorism News
Nine dead in Iraq minibus attack
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4484304.stm
Near Baghdad - the farm workers were attacked on their way to work by
10 gunmen who shot at the vehicle and then disappeared.
(Iraq) Christian hostages called 'spies'(update)
http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20051129-115712-4907r.htm
Al Jazeera television yesterday aired a video of four aid workers
kidnapped over the weekend, apparently being held by a previously unknown
terrorist group called the "Swords of Righteousness." The four -- two
Canadians, an American and a Briton, members of Christian Peacemaker Teams
(CPT) -- sat with their backs against a wall, and looked calm.
Family of Belgian suicide bomber raided (update)
http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=24&story_id=25769&name=Family+of+Belgian+suicide+bomber+raided
Police raided 10 premises in Brussels overnight in a suspected link to
reports on Tuesday that a Belgian woman recently carried out a suicide
bomb attack in Iraq.
British police arrest man in probe into suspected terrorist plots
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2005/November/theworld_November790.xml§ion=theworld
British police said on Wednesday they have arrested a man as part of an
investigation into suspected plans to buy weapons for international
terrorist attacks.
(Thailand) Govt plays down "al-Qaeda" threat
http://etna.mcot.net/query.php?nid=4820
Egyptian police detain 1,610 Muslim Brotherhood members
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2005/November/middleeast_November838.xml§ion=middleeast
Norway staging post for terrorists
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1168180.ece
Norwegian security police believe that several people linked to major
terrorist networks use the country as a base between operations abroad.
Merkel says Germany not open to terrorist blackmail
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2005/November/theworld_November806.xml§ion=theworld
TSA Would Allow Sharp Objects on Airliners
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/29/AR2005112901614.html
Screeners to Focus More on Bombs
European Nations Not Complying with US Passport Rules (my title)
http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/58644.htm
More Iraqi battalions 'in the lead' against rebels
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20051129-121843-6470r.htm
Hamas Beats Out Fatah in el-Najah University
http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=93888
Al-Zarqawi's Family Again Disowns Him
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051129/ap_on_re_mi_ea/jordan_al_zarqawi_tribe_1
Over 370 members of Al-Zarqawi's clan joined his close family members
Tuesday in publishing full-page letter in Jordanian newspapers disowning
him - second declaration in 20 days to renounce all ties
Cremation Of Taliban Dead Leads To Fallout
http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/11/C2E93E8E-D57C-4F8F-A171-8BD27B55A257.html
Hostage Video Released, Hostages Identified (Images/Video)
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/139298.php
"Jawa Report" post with names of 4 Western hostages in Iraq and video
Ansar Jihad Mailing List Sends Advisory Announcing One Week Shutdown
http://www.lauramansfield.com/j/112805_ansarvacation.asp
"LauraMansfield.com" post with troubling news about jihadist website
(Iraq) Kidnapped Iranian women released
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,17412444%255E1702,00.html
(Spain) Four Algerians charged with financing terrorism
http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=81&story_id=25745&name=Four+Algerians+charged+with+financing+terrorism+
A Spanish judge has charged four Algerians (Kaled Bakel, Said Bouchema,
Salim Zerbuti and Lyief Sihamida) with membership of a terrorist cell
that financed and gave logistical support to an Islamic extremist group
linked to al-Qaeda
CIA chief defends agency over bin Laden hunt
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/11/29/cia.alqaeda.ap/index.html
CIA Director Porter Goss, saying his agency struggles to penetrate
terrorist sanctuaries overseas, insists that "we know more than we're able
to say publicly" about Osama bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
CIA sought Muslim drug dealers as moles
http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=26&story_id=25733&name=CIA+sought+Muslim+drug+dealers+as+moles%3A+report
CIA asked German domestic intelligence agencies to help it recruit
moles who could infiltrate Islamist terrorist groups
Hotel Probe KO'ed Qaeda
http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/58222.htm
Intelligence from Amman bombings probe led to U.S. raid on Mosul al
Qaeda safe house where 8 Al-Zarqawi followers blew themselves up
Ten dead, 21 seriously hurt in Bangladesh's first suicide bombings
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051129/wl_afp/bangladeshblast_051129191633;_ylt=AjJx0m9KAhOwu274tXJpxtWs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3b2NibDltBHNlYwM3MTY-
Updated AFP: Police accuse Jamayetul Mujahideen, which wants to impose
strict Islamic law there
It appears that there are multiple global plots in the works.
GREAT BRITAIN: ROCKET JET PLOT IS FOILED (Nice work by England's Finest)
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Operation Iron Hammer in Hit
Coalition forces continue the offensive along the Euphrates River
By Bill Roggio
Coalition forces have launched Operation Iron Hammer in the city of Hit. This is a multi-battalion operation consisting of one Iraqi and two to three U.S. battalions;:Approximately 500 Iraqi Army soldiers from 2nd Brigade, 7th Iraqi Army Division and 1,500 Marines and Sailors from the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit along with 500 Soldiers from 2nd Battalion-114th Field Artillery Regiment.”
The Coalition forces currently occupy Hit, but Iron Hammer is directed at a portion of the city called the Hai Al Becker region which lies on the Eastern bank of the Euphrates River. Intelligence indicates the area is “an al-also believed to be a stopping point for insurgents, as they transit the ‘rat lines’ down the Euphrates River from Syria into the interior of Iraq.” Operation Iron Hammer is but another operation in the Anbar Campaign.
Hit has been the focus of Coalition operations in the past, including Operation Sword last July and a classic take down of the terrorist Al-Ahwal Brigade. There is a Coalition Civil Affairs Group operating in Hit as well to assist in restoring public services and building the local government.
Link:http://inbrief.threatswatch.org/2005/11/operation-iron-hammer-in-hit/
U.S. blames rail workers for deadly train crash
29 Nov 2005 23:27:01 GMT
Source: Reuters
WASHINGTON, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Freight railroads should locate tankers hauling toxic chemicals toward the rear of trains or take other steps to minimize the crash impact in a derailment, U.S. transportation safety investigators said on Tuesday.
The recommendation to regulators came as the National Transportation Safety Board blamed rail workers for an improperly aligned track switch that led to the deadly collision of two freight trains last January in South Carolina.
The crash punctured a Norfolk Southern Railway Co. tank car carrying chlorine, releasing a gas cloud that settled over the town of Graniteville, killing the train's engineer and eight other people.
More than 5,000 people were evacuated from their homes for several days, hundreds complaining of breathing problems, officials said.
Investigators found the crew of the train struck on a siding while idle and unoccupied failed to tend to a switch that would have kept the Norfolk Southern train traveling on the main track.
"Contributing to the accident was the absence of any feature or mechanism that would have reminded crewmembers of the switch position," the safety board said.
The tanker carrying chlorine -- the ninth of 42 freight cars of the Norfolk Southern train -- was pierced on its side by the coupler of the 11th car.
The safety board recommended regulators make railroads minimize the potential consequences of a derailment. This could include placing tanker cars loaded with toxic material toward the rear of a train and making trains hauling such cargo go slower through populated areas.
The Norfolk Southern train was traveling at 47 mph.
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/8898175/?pageid=rs.NewsArchive&pageregion=mainRegion&rnd=1133365091300&has-player=true&version=6.0.7.811
The Insurgent's Tale
A veteran foot soldier reveals his role in the jihad -- and why he's having second thoughts about a holy war that seems to have no end
By TOM DOWNEY
Khalid had been in Iraq for only a few weeks, but he was already sick of the place. It wasn't the missions that bothered him. He was fighting alongside a small group of Saudis, and they were consummate professionals when it came to jihad, completely focused on the lightning-fast attacks they staged each day on the foreign invaders. The ambushes usually lasted no more than five or ten minutes, but Khalid reveled in the chance to hit the streets and fire off his AK-47 at the American soldiers and their allies, four grenades strapped to his waist so he could kill himself if captured.
After the attacks, however, Khalid and the other fighters were confined to safe houses in Mosul and Haditha -- dark, dank places with no hot water or electricity. The biggest problem was the Iraqis, the very people he was there to help. Sometimes it seemed as though there were double agents everywhere, checking him out on the street, trying to overhear him speaking the Yemeni dialect that would betray him as a foreigner, all so they could pick up their cell phones and call in the Americans, maybe even collect a reward. That made this jihad more dangerous and unpredictable than the other wars Khalid had fought in -- Afghanistan, Bosnia, Somalia, places where they were often treated like heroes. When they weren't out on missions in Iraq, he and the Saudis were forced to stay in the safe house, the shades pulled down, with only a well-thumbed copy of the Koran and five prayer sessions a day to break the monotony.
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was a pillar of strength to the insurgents. Khalid knew him from a decade and a half ago, when they were fighting the Soviets and their proxies in Afghanistan. But now, meeting al-Zarqawi in Mosul, he was amazed at the changes in his old comrade. Back then al-Zarqawi was an ordinary foot soldier like Khalid. Now, flanked by two bodyguards and barking orders with fiery determination, he was the most wanted man in Iraq, an Islamic militant with a $25 million price on his head. He had been hailed by Sheik Osama bin Laden himself as "the prince of Al Qaeda in Iraq," but al-Zarqawi still had time for a word with someone from the old days. He and Khalid chatted for a few minutes, recalling their time together in Afghanistan, before al-Zarqawi rushed off to make arrangements with an ally in Kurdistan to try to send some insurgents off to Iraq's northern mountains to fight.
That was more than two years ago, when the insurgency had been looking for fighters like Khalid, veteran soldiers who could be relied on to attack foreign troops with skill and precision. Now, back in Yemen, Khalid heard that they were looking for suicide bombers only. He would watch kids he knew signing up to go to Iraq, unaware that they were being recruited to kill themselves. It made Khalid glad he wasn't in Iraq anymore. Not that he had anything against that kind of mission -- it was a noble calling -- but he thought that a person willing to fight and die should know what he was meant to do before he left home.
At thirty-two, Khalid was beginning to have serious reservations about the course of the insurgency in Iraq. They are overkilling there. Fighting foreign soldiers was one thing -- he had been doing it all of his adult life. But did his faith really sanction killing civilians in their own country? The blood of people is too cheap. Fifteen years in the jihad, fighting in five foreign wars, imprisoned in England and Yemen, enduring the death of a close friend on a mission in Iraq -- enough. The cost was just too high. Although he was proud of all the fighting he had done in the past, Khalid wanted to settle down to an ordinary life as a father, husband and son. He was a soldier fighting a war. But what if the war had no end?
Khalid, who agreed to recount the story of his jihad on the condition that his identity not be revealed, is a Yemeni from the ancient city of Sanaa in northern Yemen. The country is one of the most lawless and drug-addicted places in the world. Despite a recent government crackdown, hand grenades are laid out alongside fresh produce at street-side markets, and sources estimate that there are at least 10 million guns in circulation in a country with a population of 20 million.
Social life revolves around qat, a leafy, reddish-green plant that contains amphetamine-like substances. Eighty percent of adult men in Yemen chew regularly, and important political and business decisions are routinely made in the mafraj, a room in many homes specially designed for chewing sessions. The leaf combines the talkative affability of pot with the drive of speed. First comes euphoria and intense sociability -- not ponderous, marijuana-induced ramblings, but a deep appreciation of the flow of conversation. In this stage, five hours can pass in what seems like ten minutes. Next comes reflective quiet -- a comfortable silence descends as people look inward, contemplating the contents of their minds. The final stage is depression and insomnia -- it's not uncommon to see solitary cloaked figures roaming the streets at night, waiting for the effects of the drug to pass. On average, Yemeni men spend about a third of their income on qat, and commerce in the leaf accounts for a third of the nation's GNP.
I met Khalid at a qat chew in the mafraj of a friend. The room was hot and stuffy, the way chewers like it, and each man in the room was identically posed: left knee up and right arm resting on a cushion. Cold bottles of "Canada" -- the Yemeni term for water, based on the market dominance of Canada Dry -- were distributed all around. The room was clean, but people were already beginning to litter the floor with leaves or stalks too thick or firm to chew. After a few hours, the middle of the room would be blanketed with a thick green carpet of discarded qat.
Qat sessions usually begin with a raucous flow of conversation. But Khalid was quiet, smiling at jokes, carefully pruning his stalks, venturing little. When he finally spoke, he told me that he had just been let out of a Yemeni prison. I asked him why.
"I was arrested as a terrorist," he told me in English, with a trace of a working-class British accent.
Late one night, he went on, an undercover anti-terrorism squad had dragged him away from his family's home in a comfortable, middle-class neighborhood of Sanaa. He was locked up and questioned repeatedly by Yemeni police in the presence of American agents. To curry favor with the Bush administration, Yemen's president, Ali Abdullah Salih, has arrested hundreds of suspected terrorists, imprisoning almost everyone who returns to Yemen with a Syrian or Iranian stamp in their passport -- prima facie evidence that they fought in Iraq. Khalid was released after thirty days when a family friend posted a large bond to ensure that he would stay out of trouble.
At this point, a friend at the qat chew hissed at Khalid in Arabic: "Why are you telling him this? Don't talk about these things."
"I have nothing to hide," Khalid told him. He then proceeded to recount the extraordinary story of his fifteen years fighting as a foot soldier in the jihad. Although it is impossible to independently corroborate every detail of his tale, other Yemenis confirmed Khalid's long, frequent absences from Yemen, his presence at training camps in Afghanistan and his imprisonment in Yemen by the anti-terrorism police. His passport contains entry stamps to Syria that match the dates he said he had gone to Iraq, and the account he gave of his arrest in England mirrors one reported by police in the U.K. around the same time. Moreover, the details Khalid gave of fighting in relatively obscure battles in Bosnia, Somalia and Afghanistan match events that actually took place. In the broad strokes of his story, at least, he appears to be telling the truth.
Khalid is not an ultraorthodox, unbending Muslim. Although he meets to chew qat wearing his Yemeni dress cut midcalf, in the style of an Islamic purist, he also wears button-down shirts and European hiking boots. He has lived in England for years and has befriended Westerners. Slight and handsome, he has the quiet charisma and modesty of the guy who is elected class president based on his low-key appeal. In short, he is not the kind of enemy we have been led to believe we are fighting. He harbors some of the same doubts that our own soldiers have about what brought them to fight and, perhaps, to die, in a place so far from home. To hear a polite and thoughtful man talk casually about his friends in Al Qaeda is to have the whole enterprise reduced to a more fragile, human scale. It is to see this war for what it is: a battle between men filled with contradictions, inconsistencies and weaknesses -- not a mythic struggle between our supermen and their ghosts.
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This is only the top third of the story.
If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
Today is the birthday of Winston Churchill, the British Statesman, Soldier, and Author (1874-1965) who said:
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
A joke is a very serious thing.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
Advertising nourishes the consuming power of men. It sets up before a man the goal of a better home, better clothing, better food for himself and his family. It spurs individual exertion and greater production.
Air power can either paralyze the enemy's military action or compel him to devote to the defense of his bases and communications a share of his straitened resources far greater that what we need in the attack.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
It could be that the time has come to start all the attacks as planned.
They are loosing in Iraq, we have found too much of the weapons, and killed a lot of the leaders.
Take time to read the article that I just posted, it is different, I have known viet Nam veterans, who came home and did not know what to do, as they had put all they had into fighting and didn't know what to do, except fight.
Coming home to work on a ranch or in gas station in Kingman, simply did not satisfy them.
Your train wreck is interesting, could be a simple accident or a planned one.......LOL, still don't know the answer.
A joke is a very serious thing. <<<
All of your quotes are very good, thank you for sharing.
The above reminded me of a tribute that I heard the other night, it was lovely and said on the late program, on a program that they are like Freepers on the radio, without politics.
The tribute was to an old time Las Vegas Comedian, I did not get his name, but those that knew him thought he was special as a person.
To quote:
For every time he made someone laugh, God will give him
15 minutes of Heaven.
The reference to the faulty switch caught my attention in the article. As we look back we can recall that many were stolen earlier in the year. I agree though...we can't really tell if it was an accident if it was planned.
We had another tanker accident with a chlorine spill on the highway system yesterday. They had to close down roads until cleaned up by Hazmat.
This doesn't mean that he's not a good muslim as the article implies....it just means he's a smart muslim, or he'd have been picked off a long time ago.
In short, he is not the kind of enemy we have been led to believe we are fighting. He harbors some of the same doubts that our own soldiers have about what brought them to fight and, perhaps, to die, in a place so far from home.
What blather. There is nothing in this article to suggest this. So he's not a stereotype. He's a smart, effective, cold blooded assassin who would kill a hundred of his own to kill one of the enemy also. That's a classic fanatic. So I guess he is a stereotype...or is the stereotype the reality?
Thanks for posting this, granny. It helps me to keep my blood on a slow boil. Keeps me sharp.
Could it be that chewing his cud, has made him into a relaxed jihadi........being sarcastic.
Poor terrorist, he wants to change, but the smell of blood is stronger and more compelling.
No, I don't think he is typical, as those that are a threat to us are insane.
Flipside: The more you complain....the longer God lets you live....
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