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Posted on 03/01/2007 8:28:33 PM PST by nwctwx
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=3308
"DoD, State Department Criticize Red Cross Law of War Study"
By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, March 8, 2007
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1797611/posts
"Store Owner with Permit kills one and injures another in hold up attempt"
http://www.nbc10.com/news/11200756/detail.html ^
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=zimbabwe
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1797598/posts
"Zimbabwe: A Tragedy in Progress"
The American Spectator ^ | March 8, 2007 | George H. Wittman
Posted on 03/08/2007 1:19:12 PM PST by libstripper
I assume someone was going to pay a pretty penny for those 100 bars of uranium in order for those two to risk their jobs. Very interesting, thanks Cindy.
Glad to hear you are doing better as well crabbie. Thanks for the update MD.
>> blankets that plug into the cigarette lighter <<
Hi MD. My only worry about ANYTHING battery powered is what happens when he batteries go dead. Other than that, those blankets sound like they could come in handy. If you don't mind me asking (as I'm dirt poor these days), what's the price tag?
Re #285
>> Forcible Suicide <<
PC speak for murder. Stop the planet and let me off. NOW I've heard it all.
*shaking head in complete disbelief*
>> MOSCOW -- A journalist who plunged to his death from his apartment building window faced threats while reporting on a highly sensitive story that Russia planned to sell sophisticated missiles to Syria and Iran <<
The plot continues to thicken. Good digging O. Thanks for the info. Well done!
Glad to hear that ExSoldier is doing well.
So am I TWhiteBear. I consider it an honor to call ExSoldier (as well as everyone here on TM and FR) a friend. He's taught me alot about self defense.
There's a great series on CBS these days called JERICHO. Don't watch it for the realism if you're nit picky about nuclear terrorism, but JERICHO has a lot to offer in the way of philosophy and preparation and a sheepdog mentality. Oh and THE UNIT is possibly the BEST show currently on the air.
Everybody has to decide for themselves the viability of a move even a forced move due to a fluid situation. For example, here in South Florida (in the middle of Miami-Dade County) I'm trapped by terrain and limited access to a limited road network. I might be able to manuever cross country around choke points and unbelievable traffic problems (especially in a crisis) but it would take a world class 4x4 SUV that I currently lack. So I plan to shelter in place, no matter what until I can afford to move my abode permanently. That may take about three years. Think they'll hold off that long? Neither do I.
Police and federal agents are investigating the theft of explosives from a construction site in St. George. The St. George Police Department said bags of premixed ammonium nitrate were stolen from a work site last October in the Black Rock area, just south of the city in Arizona. More bags were reported stolen from the same site last month.
"The property stolen is a premix explosive," St. George Police Sgt. Craig Harding said Thursday. "The large bags are clearly labeled with the word 'explosive' and should be considered dangerous." Police said the bags were locked in a storage bunker, but the thieves broke in and took them. Police said they are tracking down a truck that left the scene of the thefts. Ammonium nitrate is one of the components for a fertilizer bomb, which was used in the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995. While dozens of the 30-to-50-pound bags have been reported stolen, police were unsure if it was part of a larger plan.
"We're looking at all possibilities and hoping it's none of them," Harding said. "We're looking at kids and criminal mischief, up to terrorists." Harding added that they have no evidence right now to suggest terrorism is a motive for the thefts. The ammonium nitrate is inert, and authorities are researching if any other bomb-making components were purchased in the St. George area recently.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is involved in the investigation and is offering a reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the thieves. Anyone with information on the explosives thefts is asked to call the St. George Police Department at 435-634-5001.
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660201650,00.html
Australia warns of higher attack threat in Thailand
Thu Mar 8, 2007
Australia issued a travel alert for its citizens in Thailand on Thursday, the second in little more than two weeks, saying intelligence pointed to a high threat of extremist bomb attacks.
"We continue to receive reports that terrorists may be planning attacks against a range of targets, including tourist areas and other places frequented by foreigners," Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs said in its latest advisory.
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http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKSYD11523820070308
Afghan official a convicted trafficker
Thu Mar 8, 2007
KABUL, Afghanistan - When the deal went down in Las Vegas, the seller was introduced only as "Mr. E." In a room at Caesars Palace hotel, Mr. E exchanged a pound-and-a-half bag of heroin for $65,000 cash — unaware that the buyer was an undercover detective. The sting landed him in Nevada state prison for nearly four years.
Twenty years later and Mr. E, whose real name is Izzatullah Wasifi, has a new job. He is the government of Afghanistan's anti-corruption chief.
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How are you?? So good to see you here!
Islamabad, 8 March - American troops in Afghanistan arrested on Thursday the deputy head of the Taliban fighters active in the Pakistani tribal area of Waziristan, according to a report on the Arab satellite television channel Al Jazeera. A unit of US special forces penetrated the town of Loramani in Waziristan which border Afghanistan, capturing the Taliban leader Mullah Hakimallah Mansub.
A report on Al Jazeera also said that the Taliban had carried out two suicide attacks against NATO troops in the southern Afghan region of Kandahar. Some eyewitnesses said that they had seen at least two NATO vehicles destroyed in the same area.
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Security&loid=8.0.393220170&par=0
Waziristan: Militant-Tribesman Ceasefire As Jirga Called
Tank, Waziristan, 8 March. - A 15-member jirga comprising elders from the North Waziristan Agency have gone to Azam Warsak in South Waziristan to resolve a dispute between foreign militants and Darikhel tribesmen which left at least 12 people dead. Authorities in Tank said that Maulana Alam Muhammad Dawar, who headed the jirga, had brokered a ceasefire in the troubled area near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and talks were under way. Clashes erupted between armed supporters of pro-government tribal elder Malik Saadullah Darikhel and foreign militants in Azam Warsak on Tuesday.
The authorities confirmed that 12 of the dead and 11 wounded were foreign militants. Three local Taliban were also killed in the clash.However, the casualty figures could not be confirmed from independent sources. Malik Saadullah heads a peace committee in the area working to counter the influence of foreigners who are supported by local militants.
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Security&loid=8.0.393012370&par=0
KARACHI, Pakistan - Fugitive Afghan rebel leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar told The Associated Press that his forces have ended cooperation with the Taliban and suggested that he was open to talks with embattled President Hamid Karzai. In a video response to questions submitted by AP, Hekmatyar said that his group contacted Taliban leaders in 2003 and agreed to wage a joint jihad, or holy war, against American troops.
"The jihad went into high gear but later it gradually went down as certain elements among the Taliban rejected the idea of a joint struggle against the aggressor," Hekmatyar said in the video, which was received Thursday. Hekmatyar wore glasses and a black turban as he spoke in front of a plain white wall at an undisclosed location.
He offered no details of the split or its timing, but said his forces were now mounting only restricted operations, partly because of a lack of resources. "It was not a good move by the Taliban to disassociate themselves from the joint struggle," he said. "Presently we have no contact with the Taliban."
Hekmatyar's Hezb-i Islami fighters, who have been most active in eastern Afghanistan, were central to the CIA-backed resistance to the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s, and in the civil war that followed, but were sidelined by the Taliban militia's rise to power in the mid-1990s.
Hekmatyar nevertheless opposed the U.S.-led invasion in late 2001 that pushed the Taliban from power, and his followers have since waged a campaign of violence against American and allied forces. Hekmatyar's exact whereabouts have been unknown since he returned to Afghanistan from exile in Iran in 2002.
AP's questions to Hekmatyar were submitted through an intermediary three weeks ago. There was no indication of where or exactly when the video was shot. Asked if he would consider opening negotiations with Karzai, Hekmatyar said dialogue was the best way to resolve Afghanistan's problems — albeit with conditions the U.S.-backed government would be unlikely to accept — apparently a cease-fire followed by negotiations.
"We say that dialogue can only be fruitful if the aggressors truly allow the Kabul government to halt the fighting, negotiate with the mujahedeen and honor what Kabul and the resistance decide," Hekmatyar said. "This is the prime and basic demand of the Afghan nation and if such a conducive environment could be provided, we can go for dialogue with Karzai," he said.
The U.S. government considers Hekmatyar a terrorist. A CIA drone fired a missile at him near Kabul in 2002, but missed. Hekmatyar said American forces had twice come close to him on the ground.
He insisted he had a large pool of fighters who could sustain a long struggle. And, while his tone was more conciliatory toward both the West and Karzai than in the past, he sent a defiant message to President Bush that he had no hope of defeating the insurgency.
The Taliban is vowing to intensify its resistance this spring, and says it has thousands of forces deployed in southern Afghanistan, where NATO this week launched its biggest offensive yet. "You must have realized that attacking Afghanistan and Iraq was a historical mistake. You do not have any other option but to take out your forces from Iraq and Afghanistan and give the Iraqis and Afghans the right to live their own way and select the system of their choice."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070308/ap_on_re_as/pakistan_hekmatyar;_ylt=AtPQ5ooKQETB_RF.ZQBOxY7MWM0F
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/007014.htm
United States Attorney's Office District of Connecticut Press Release:
FORMER MEMBER OF U.S. NAVY ARRESTED IN ARIZONA ON TERRORISM AND ESPIONAGE CHARGES
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