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"India Test-Fires Nuclear-Capable Missile"
AP/The Washington Post ^ | November 19, 2006 | ARCHANA MISHRA
Posted on 11/19/2006 6:22:37 AM PST by RDTF
BHUBANESHWAR, India
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=2163
"Bush: Terrorism Threatens U.S., Asia"
By Gerry J. Gilmore
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19, 2006
Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=2168
Iraq Anti-Terror Ops Kill Scores of Insurgents, Nab Weapons
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19, 2006 – American and Iraqi forces killed scores of insurgents and found numerous enemy weapons caches during anti-terrorist operations conducted across Iraq in recent days, according to Multinational Corps Iraq news releases.
In one such operation conducted in the Tikrit area, U.S. soldiers with the 3rd Battalion, 1st Brigade, the 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, and soldiers with the 1st Brigade, 5th Iraqi Army, teamed up to kill nearly 50 insurgents while capturing 20. A large enemy weapons cache complex containing six caches was also uncovered during the sweep.
Many of the seized caches were buried in underground bunkers, according to U.S. military officials. The caches included more than 400,000 rounds of small-arms ammunition, 15,000 rounds of heavy machine gun ammunition, five mortar bipods, three heavy machine guns, three anti-tank weapons, two recoilless rifles and numerous mortar rounds, grenades, flares and other artillery rounds.
The combined U.S.-Iraqi force also found a number of improvised explosive device-making materials, including batteries, cellular phones, blasting caps, explosives, propaganda materials and a large amount of American money.
“We made a significant impact on the enemy’s ability to conduct any type of anti-Iraqi force operations,” said Army Lt. Col. Andrew Poppas, the 5-73rd’s commanding officer.
Poppas praised the Iraqi soldiers for their performance during the five-day operation that took the fight directly to insurgents while they were attempting to emplace IEDs or getting ready to stage new attacks against U.S., Iraqi and coalition forces in the area.
“The Iraqi army fought in partnership with us,” Poppas said, noting the combined U.S.-Iraqi force engaged and defeated insurgents who were often dug in and manning hard-to-assault defensive positions.
Coalition forces also employed close-air-support provided by planes and helicopters that rained bombs and rockets upon enemy ground troops.
“This was an operation of opportunity,” Poppas said, noting the offensive had demolished enemy command-and-control nodes while destroying arms caches, heavy weapons, and killing scores of insurgents.
Poppas said the coalition troops found approval from local villagers, who “also want the insurgents out of their area so they can return to a sense of normalcy.”
In other operations conducted across Iraq yesterday, coalition forces killed 11 terrorists and detained 24 suspects during raids in Tikrit, Baqubah, Yusufiyah, and Baghdad, according to officials.
Iraqi commandos with coalition advisors also raided several areas in Sadr City, Baghdad, yesterday. Commandos searched for recent kidnap victims, while they disrupted terrorist cells and criminal gangs operating in the area, officials said.
Another coalition-forces raid conducted at a suspected terrorist meeting place in Ramadi yesterday resulted in the deaths of eight terrorists and the capture of two suspects, according to officials. After the shooting had stopped, coalition troops discovered numerous enemy explosives and other munitions, which were destroyed.
In other action, coalition aircraft attacked and destroyed a vehicle containing two terrorists traveling near Baghdad yesterday. Intelligence reports cited the pair as having been active in IED attacks against coalition forces and suicide bombing operations, according to U.S. officials.
Additionally, Iraqi police and coalition forces found and disarmed two enemy rockets and launching components during a combined operation conducted Nov. 17 in the town of Dibbis, located northwest of the city of Kirkuk, officials said. The Dibbis police found the 52 mm rockets and ignition systems and promptly called for backup. Explosive experts from the U.S. 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, arrived to disarm and destroy the rockets.
In another Nov. 17 operation conducted in Baghdad’s Mansour neighborhood, U.S. soldiers seized an enemy weapons cache and helped Iraqi troops find another. U.S. soldiers with Company A, 52nd Infantry, 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, raided the home of a suspected terrorist and found a supply of weapons. Weapons confiscated included two AK-47s, six magazines, a rifle, two hand grenades, and sniper weapon ammunition. The American troops also detained a suspect for further questioning.
U.S. soldiers also assisted Iraqi troops in seizing another weapons cache in the same area later that same day.
Also, U.S. and Iraqi forces detained four suspected insurgents and seized multiple enemy weapons caches during combat operations conducted east of Balad on Nov. 16. The caches included more than 30 artillery rounds, 16 mortar rounds, two machine guns, two rocket launchers, and several thousand rounds of small arms ammunition.
“The discoveries of these caches put a dent in the roadside bombs in our area,” said Army Lt. Col. Kevin Dunlop, commander of 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. “This will send a message to all who plant and supply roadside bombs.”
(Compiled from Multinational Corps Iraq news releases.)
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http://www.osac.gov/Reports/report.cfm?contentID=58757
TSA Carry-On Baggage Reminder
Safety and Security
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Threat Level Raised to Red for UK Flights to U.S.
10 Aug 2006
Update on Foiled Airline Terror Plot
10 Aug 2006
Public Announcement: Civil Aviation
The Transportation Security Administration released the following as a reminder for travelers unfamiliar with new TSA carry-on baggage requirements:
1. Please remove all coats, jackets and outer most garments.
2. Please remove your shoes for x-ray screening.
3. Please take out all metal objects, cell phones, keys, etc. and place them in a bin for x-ray inspection.
4. Please remove your laptop computers from your bags and place them in a bun for x-ray inspection.
5. Please keep your quart size bags with liquids and gels out for x-ray inspection.
Additionally, TSA reminds travelers to think "3-1-1" when carrying baggage aboard any flight. For more information, please view the attached PDF file.
Snip: DSHS, the Weatherford Police Department and the Parker County Sheriff's Office are looking for the rabid puppy's original owners and for anyone who visited the shelter between Oct. 21-26.
Yard sale kitten tested positive for rabies
Snip: One kitten in the missing cat's litter has tested positive for rabies, said Cleveland County Health Department Director Denese Stallings. Two others have died, and the other one has been captured.
Parents say rabies infected kidney killed teen
Snip: Josh Hightower's family said he was thrilled to get a new kidney from Baylor Medical Center, but it was that kidney they said ultimately killed him 51 days later. Three other people who received organs from the same donor also died, and a lawsuit claims the donated kidney was infected with rabies.
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"Harrods bars uniformed soldiers"
posted at 7:40 pm on November 18, 2006 by Allahpundit
That's frightening to see so many rabid animals/rabies cases out there. Disturbing.
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1104AP_Indonesia_Beheading_Trials.html
(AP)
Wednesday, November 15, 2006 · Last updated 9:03 a.m. PT
Suspect apologizes for beheadings
By IRWAN FIRDAUS
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "JAKARTA, Indonesia -- A suspected Islamic militant told judges Wednesday he took part in the beheadings of three Christian girls on an Indonesian island wracked by religious violence to avenge the deaths of Muslims, but apologized to their families.
"We are not cold-blooded killers," Hasanuddin, 34, told the Central Jakarta District Court. "We just wanted revenge."
Prosecutors allege that he and two other defendants ordered the Oct. 29, 2005, murders of the girls as they walked to school on Sulawesi, the scene of religious clashes that left at least 1,000 people dead from 1998 to 2002."
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"Assassination-mania in Indonesia"
By Michelle Malkin · November 19, 2006 10:40 AM
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"Muslim Groups Protest Bush In Jakarta"
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"Religion of Peace in Jakarta"
(November 19, 2006)
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"UK And Pakistan Forge Terror Pact"
BBC ^ | 11-19-2006
Posted on 11/19/2006 4:54:07 PM PST by blam
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"Toll rises to 5 in Mexico prison siege"
Houston Chronicle/AP ^ | Nov. 19, 2006 | THERESA BRAINE
Posted on 11/19/2006 5:38:13 PM PST by SwinneySwitch
MORELIA, Mexico
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U.S. keeping an eye on sensitive projects at Bell Labs [French takeover]
Newark Star Ledger ^ | 11/19/2006 | Kevin Coughlin
Posted on 11/19/2006 8:18:57 PM PST by Incorrigible
Although a French company soon will own the famed Bell Labs, the U.S. will exercise "unprecedented" control over sensitive government projects at the New Jersey facility, U.S. Rep. Rob Andrews (D-1st Dist.) said yesterday.
"The U.S. government will be able to veto any people who have direct control over Bell Labs, and can veto the removal of any persons who have control over Bell Labs," said Andrews, who serves on the House Armed Services Committee and was briefed last week on the pending takeover of Lucent Technologies by Alcatel of France.
His approval hinges on both companies following through on "two robust and far-reaching agreements designed to ensure the protection of our national security," according to a statement from the White House. One of those agreements involves oversight of Bell Labs by three former top defense and intelligence officials. Andrews said Bell Labs is involved with just about "anything that touches on imperatives for the country's security." But he called the merger of the two telecom companies vital for their economic health, "good for the country, and good for New Jersey."
"The U.S. government will have more control over the flow of information in and out of this entity than it has over the flow of information into other so-called American entities," Andrews said. "I think this is an unprecedented level of control, where the U.S. government will have an ongoing window into the management of Bell Labs."
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Yep, puppies and kittens - which most kids and adults would think nothing of petting.
"Yep, puppies and kittens - which most kids and adults would think nothing of petting."
Yep, you got a point there.
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"Muslims excluded from India's spy agency - report
Reuters ^ | Mon 6 Nov 2006 11:50:51 GMT | Simon Denyer
Posted on 11/19/2006 10:18:15 PM PST by Gengis Khan
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "NEW DELHI, Nov 6 (Reuters) - There are scarcely any Muslims working in India's 10,000-strong external intelligence agency, and neither Muslims nor Sikhs working as bodyguards for the country's top leaders, according to officials and media reports.
Mainly Hindu but officially secular India has its first Sikh prime minister, Manmohan Singh, but his community is not trusted enough to guard him, according to Outlook magazine this week.
The magazine said India's minority Muslims were not trusted by the security apparatus because of fears they could sympathise with the country's mainly Muslim neighbour and long-time foe Pakistan.
It said none had been recruited by the country's external spy agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), since 1969.
The domestic Intelligence Bureau (IB) had decided to recruit Muslims in the l990s, Outlook said, but the organisation still only had a "handful" of Muslim officers.
A government spokesman declined to comment on the report.
An intelligence official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Outlook was wrong to say there were no Muslims in RAW but right to say there were scarcely any.
Nor were there any working as bodyguards in the Special Protection Group (SPG) assigned to protecting current and former prime ministers and their families, he said.
"It is an unwritten rule in the SPG that they cannot recruit a Muslim or a Sikh," he told Reuters.
A.S. Dulat, who served as RAW chief from 1999 to 2000, said he did not recall coming across any Muslims in the organisation but could not confirm the Outlook report."
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"UK 7/7 Bombing Suspect's Anonymity Protected"
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"Submarine with cocaine seized off Costa Rica"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Nov 20, 2006 — SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (Reuters) - U.S. Coast Guards have seized a submarine carrying 3.5 tons of cocaine in the Pacific Ocean off Costa Rica and arrested three Colombians on board, the Costa Rican Coast Guard said on Sunday.
The submarine appeared to be a makeshift vessel unlike military submarines or those used by oceanographers."
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