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UN Envoy: UN Workers Killed Running From Bunker
Post Date: 2011-04-03 05:40:36 by sneakypete
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Fearing for their lives, the U.N. workers dashed into a dark bunker hoping to escape the mob of Afghan protesters angry over the burning of a Quran by a Florida church. Hope wasn't enough for three of them. They were hunted down and brutally slain - their bodies found later in three different parts of the compound in northern Afghanistan. Eric Kanalstein, UNAMA / AP In this photo taken Saturday in Kabul, Afghanistan, UN personnel carry the casket of one of seven colleagues killed in an attack on the UN operations center in Mazar-i-Sharif on Friday. "They were killed when they were running out of the bunker," said Staffan de Mistura, the top U.N. envoy ...
KloaughPossie (title edited from original) [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-04-03 01:49:34 by buckeroo
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Clown Posse.
It's the same folks and mentality that drives them.
They can't articulate and debate a political philosophy , so they hate.
As Goldi pushes them to LF, poor Stone worries about alienating them and losing them to his arch enemy, Robyn.
What Stone fails to see, is that once they have arrived at the bottom site, WTP, they quickly lose interest and tire of copying and pasting our words back and forth to each other.
Within in 2 weeks they always slow in posting on WTP.
Anyone that still posts at LF is welcome to share my thoughts with Stone
WhiteSands posted on 2011-04-03 1:11:25 ET
I can't watch this LP implosion anymore. I am busting a gut in total belly ...
Oops: NATObama Kinetic Forces Accidentally Kinetically Kill 15 Libyan Rebels, Injure 7
Post Date: 2011-04-02 16:33:41 by Happy Quanzaa
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NATO Forces Accidentally Kill 15 Libyan Rebels, Injure 7A Plane Enforcing the International No-Fly Zone Hit Rebel Vehicles, Including an Ambulance NATO forces accidentally killed at least 15 Libya rebels and injured seven when a convoy of five cars belonging to rebel forces was hit today west of Ajdabiyah. A plane enforcing the international no-fly zone hit the rebel vehicles, including an ambulance, between Brega and Ajdabiyah when an anti-aircraft gun was fired into the air, the BBC reported. The accidental hit was a result of NATO forces, who are aiding Libyan civilians, confusing forces loyal to strongman Moammar Ghadafi and rebel groups. Forces on both sides are using civilian ...
Libya: Obama's Kinetic Cut & Run-Stalemate Likely Outcome
Post Date: 2011-04-02 13:53:13 by Happy Quanzaa
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Apr 2, 12:44 PM EDT Libya mission: US eases off, Gadhafi holds on By ROBERT BURNS AP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Two weeks after a dark-of-night barrage of mostly U.S. missiles and bombs opened the international air assault on Libya's Moammar Gadhafi, the American combat role is ending, the rag-tag rebels are reeling and the Pentagon is betting its European allies can finish the job. Gadhafi is still standing, with a few uncertain signs that his inner circle could crack. The Obama administration is hoping that if Gadhafi's government doesn't implode soon, a relentless campaign of airstrikes on his tanks, air defenses and most trusted army units will at ...
Farrakhan: Demons altered Obama, defends Libya's Gadhafi as 'brother'
Post Date: 2011-04-01 09:00:17 by Happy Quanzaa
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Warning that destruction could be on America's doorstep because it oppresses “God's chosen people,” Minister Louis Farrakhan, the controversial Nation of Islam leader, defended Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi today, calling the U.S. action in Libya hypocrisy. Speaking from the pulpit of Chicago's Mosque Maryam, the Nation of Islam's international headquarters, purchased 40 years ago with a $3 million loan from Gadhafi, Farrakhan blamed demons for altering President Barack Obama's moral conscience and driving the assault on Gadhafi, who he calls a brother. “It is a terrible thing for me to hear my brother called all these ugly and filthy names when I ...
SRS concrete pump heading to Japan nuclear site (world’s largest concrete pump)
Post Date: 2011-03-31 22:25:15 by Hondo68
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The world’s largest concrete pump, deployed at the construction site of the U.S. government’s $4.86 billion mixed oxide fuel plant at Savannah River Site, is being moved to Japan in a series of emergency measures to help stabilize the Fukushima reactors.SpecialThe large boom is shown in a file photo from Ashmore Concrete Back | Next Corey Perrine/StaffJerry Ashmore Jr. walks past a 52-meter crane at Ashmore Concrete in Augusta, Ga. Back | Next Corey Perrine/StaffJerry Ashmore Jr. shows off the controls used to operate a 52-meter crane. Back | Next Corey Perrine/StaffJerry Ashmore Jr. shows off the hopper used to keep concrete agitated when poured in a 52-meter crane ...
Kinetic Libyan Rebel Commander Is From Fairfax, VA~ Gen. Khalifa Haftr Wears Pinstripe Suit Instead of Camouflage
Post Date: 2011-03-31 13:59:47 by Happy Quanzaa
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Gen. Khalifa Haftr, the self-proclaimed commander of the Free Libyan Army, does not dress for battle. On a recent day after his forces had reclaimed much of the territory they had lost, the commander was wearing a pinstripe suit and a black turtleneck sweater. Haftr, who lived in Fairfax, Va., until recent weeks when he returned to join the rebellion against Moammar Gadhafi, was appointed to lead the rebel army earlier this month. His top aides appear to be his sons. It is difficult for the media as well as the Obama administration to determine who, if anyone, is in charge of the rebellion. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said recently, "We don't know as much as we would ...
Obama approves Double Secret Kinetic CIA operation in Libya
Post Date: 2011-03-31 12:50:38 by Happy Quanzaa
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Libya rebels glad and wary of U.S. support, defection NEAR BREGA/BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Rebels massed for a counter-attack against Muammar Gaddafi's forces in eastern Libya on Thursday, both encouraged by and wary of news of covert U.S. support and his foreign minister's defection. "We are beginning to see the Gaddafi regime crumble," rebel spokesman Mustafa Gheriani said in the eastern town of Benghazi, while stopping short of welcoming fugitive foreign minister Moussa Koussa, a former spy chief, into the rebel fold. Analysts agreed the defection of Koussa, who flew to London on Wednesday, was a blow to Gaddafi whose forces have gained ground in recent days. It ...
Oil climbs to highest since 2008 on Obomber's Kinetic Libya Konflict
Post Date: 2011-03-31 12:00:52 by Happy Quanzaa
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Oil climbs to highest since 2008 on Libya conflict NEW YORK (AP) -- The price of oil rose past $106 a barrel on Thursday as fighters loyal to Moammar Gadhafi pushed back rebels from key areas in eastern Libya. Benchmark west Texas Intermediate crude gained $2.04 at $106.31 in morning trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. That's the highest it's been since September, 2008. In London, Brent crude rose $1.98 to $116.93. Energy traders are worried that ongoing unrest in North Africa and the Middle East will disrupt global oil supplies from OPEC countries like Saudi Arabia and Iran.
B. Hussein Obomber's kinetic humanitarian air strikes kill at least 40 civilians in Tripoli
Post Date: 2011-03-31 08:48:58 by Happy Quanzaa
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At least 40 civilians dead inTripoli strikes: Vaticanofficial ROME (Reuters) - At least 40 civilians have been killed in air strikes by Western forces on Tripoli, the top Vatican official in the Libyan capital told a Catholic news agency on Thursday, quoting witnesses. "The so-called humanitarian raids have killed dozens of civilian victims in some neighborhoods of Tripoli," said Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, the Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli. "I have collected several witness accounts from reliable people. In particular, in the Buslim neighborhood, due to the bombardments, a civilian building collapsed, causing the death of 40 people," he told Fides, the news agency of ...
Exclusive: Barack Hussein Obama authorizes secret support for Libya rebels
Post Date: 2011-03-30 17:33:57 by Happy Quanzaa
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(Reuters) - President Barack Obama has signed a secret order authorizing covert U.S. government support for rebel forces seeking to oust Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, government officials told Reuters on Wednesday. Obama signed the order, known as a presidential "finding", within the last two or three weeks, according to four U.S. government sources familiar with the matter. Such findings are a principal form of presidential directive used to authorize secret operations by the Central Intelligence Agency. The CIA and the White House declined immediate comment. News that Obama had given the authorization surfaced as the President and other U.S. and allied officials spoke openly ...
‘Freelance jihadists’ join Obama's Libyan rebels~Ex-al Qaeda member speaks out
Post Date: 2011-03-30 11:25:03 by Happy Quanzaa
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‘Freelance jihadists’ join Libyan rebelsEx-al Qaeda member speaks out A Libyan rebel waves a “magic box” bracelet thought to have been captured from a foreigner fighting with Col. Moammar Gadhafi’stroops, on the frontline outside of Bin Jawaad on Tuesday. The wearers believe the bracelets will protect them from injury. A former leader of Libya’s al Qaeda affiliate says he thinks “freelance jihadists” have joined the rebel forces, as NATO’s commander told Congress on Tuesday that intelligence indicates some al Qaeda and Hezbollah terrorists are fighting Col. Moammar Gadhafi’s forces. Former jihadist Noman Benotman, who renounced his al ...
(video) Rumsfeld on 'kill team' photos: 'Much worse' than Abu Ghraib
Post Date: 2011-03-30 11:17:11 by Happy Quanzaa
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Rolling Stone published horrific photos reportedly taken by members of the U.S. Military who allegedly were part of what is being called the "Kill Team." These individuals have been described by the Army, according to Rolling Stone, as a "rogue unit" operating completely on its own, "without the knowledge of its superiors.” Rolling Stone's Mark Boal reports: Indeed, it would have been hard not to know about the murders, given that the soldiers of 3rd Platoon took scores of photographs chronicling their kills and their time in Afghanistan. The photos, obtained by Rolling Stone, portray a front-line culture among U.S. troops in which killing Afghan ...
Rebels routed, Kinetic Military Retreat from Libya oil port under attack
Post Date: 2011-03-30 10:22:07 by Happy Quanzaa
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Rebels retreat from Libya oil port under attack Rebels retreated Wednesday from the key Libyan oil port of Ras Lanouf along the coastal road leading to the capital Tripoli after they came under heavy shelling from ground forces loyal to leader Moammar Gadhafi. NATO planes flew over the zone where the heaviest fighting was under way and an Associated Press reporter at the scene heard explosions, indicating a new wave of airstrikes against Gadhafi's forces. NATO has intervened in the Libyan conflict with near daily airstrikes to weaken the regime's superior military power vis-a-vis the poorly trained and badly equipped ragtag rebel army. A rebel near the front lines told the AP ...
Syrian president blames protests on 'conspirators'
Post Date: 2011-03-30 09:02:01 by Happy Quanzaa
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DAMASCUS, Syria – Syria's president has blamed the wave of protests against his authoritarian rule on "conspirators" — but he failed to offer any concessions to appease the extraordinary wave of dissent. In an unusually short speech, President Bashar Assad blamed satellite TV stations and other media of fabricating lies and said Syria has overcome conspiracies targeting it before and will do so again. Assad had been widely expected to announce a series of reforms. Wednesday's speech was his first to the nation since the protests erupted nearly two weeks ago. Human rights groups say more than 60 people have been killed since March 18 in a crackdown on the ...
Random Thoughts on the Situation in Japan
Post Date: 2011-03-29 22:16:54 by jwpegler
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Japan is suffering through a horrendous series of back-to-back catastrophes that are starting to make the world question whether or not Japan will survive. I've been to Japan 25+ times. Japan is a great country. The Japanese are a great people. They will survive these catastrophes. However, they may not be able to survive their own brain dead politics which have: A.) Kept Japan in a rolling recession for 20 years because the politicians refuse to reform their financial system. B.) Torpedoed population growth by discouraging young women from marrying and having babies. (Only single women can really have careers in Japan, so many young women just don't get married and don't ...
Japanese PM Signals 'Maximum Alert' Over Fukushima Nuke Crisis
Post Date: 2011-03-29 18:02:58 by Hondo68
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(RTTNews) - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan has said his government is in a state of maximum alert over high-level radiation leaked from the quake-wrecked nuclear power plant in the country's northeast. Speaking at the House of Councilors Budget Committee on Tuesday, Kan said the situation at the plant "continues to be unpredictable" and that the government "will tackle the problem while in a state of maximum alert." He gave the assurance to the parliamentary committee after traces of radioactive water as well as highly toxic plutonium were detected outside the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Kan told the House that he planned to present a quake-relief ...
Where is Obama's Kinetic Military Assistance? Libyan rebels' @$$e$ kicked in Gadhafi hometown
Post Date: 2011-03-29 09:50:04 by Happy Quanzaa
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Libyan rebels pushed back from Gadhafi hometown BIN JAWWAD, Libya – Libyan government tanks and rockets blunted a rebel assault on Moammar Gadhafi's hometown of Sirte on Tuesday and drove back the ragtag army of irregulars, even as world leaders prepared to debate the country's future in London. Rockets and tank fire sent Libya's rebel volunteers in a panicked scramble away from the front lines, before the opposition was able to bring up truck mounted rocket launchers of their own and return fire. The latest rebel setback emphasizes the see-saw nature of this conflict and how the opposition is still no match for the superior firepower and organization of Gadhafi's ...
Your sons and daughters in Libya, fighting for France.
Post Date: 2011-03-28 20:53:17 by CZ82
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The Libyan Job Your sons and daughters in Libya, fighting for France. By William Saletan Posted Monday, March 28, 2011, at 7:28 AM ET Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary ClintonYesterday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates went on the Sunday shows to defend the U.S. military intervention in Libya. They emphasized its "humanitarian" motives, noting repeatedly that Muammar Qaddafi had vowed to crush his domestic adversaries with "no mercy." But under interrogation, Gates and Clinton exposed what's really driving our participation in the Libya campaign: the wishes of other governments. Jake Tapper asked ...
Oh Yuuuukoooon, Where Are Yooooouu??!!
Post Date: 2011-03-28 16:12:32 by Biff Tannen
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Where are you, you pillow biter!! My prediction for the next poster to be outed is .......... Liberator. He's even worse than Yukon for homo talk.
Obama aides find kinetic moral klarity in Libya's foggy kinetic military operation
Post Date: 2011-03-28 12:41:20 by Happy Quanzaa
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Obama aides find moral clarity in Libya's foggy war United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice (R) answers reporters' questions during a press briefing at the White House February28, 2011 in Washington, DC. "I swore to myself that if I ever faced such a crisis again," Susan Rice said about the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, "I would come down on the side of dramatic action, going down in flames if that was required." Now that Rice is U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and played a leading role in the Obama administration's decision to attack Libya, this passage from a 2001 Atlantic Monthly article is striking -- all the more so because the author was Samantha ...
Prominent Chinese blogger charged as kinetic krackdown deepens
Post Date: 2011-03-28 11:28:00 by Happy Quanzaa
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Prominent Chinese blogger charged as crackdown deepens BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese police have arrested prominent writer Ran Yunfei for challenging the ruling Communist Party, people close to the blogger said on Monday, the latest in a string of arrests in a deepening crackdown on dissent. Ran, a writer and literature magazine editor from southwest Sichuan province, who had been detained without charge for more than a month, was formally arrested on the charge of inciting subversion of state power, Wang Yi, a Christian activist in Sichuan and a friend of Ran, told Reuters. Ran, 46, was detained by police in Chengdu on February 20 as unrest rippling across the Middle East generated ...
Yemeni Islamic militants seize control of weapons factory
Post Date: 2011-03-27 11:06:59 by Happy Quanzaa
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SANAA, Yemen (AP) - Islamic militants seized control of a weapons factory, a strategic mountain and a nearby town in the southern Yemen province of Abyan Sunday, said a witness and security officials, as a political stalemate in the capital causes security to unravel around the country. The fragile nation has been rocked by weeks of mass protests against the long-serving president Ali Abdullah Saleh, who refuses to step down. Saleh's fate is of deep concern to the U.S. as he is a key ally in the fight against al-Qaida, but with his attention on massive anti-government protests in the capital, security has declined in the provinces. Residents of the southern Abyan province said police ...
Obama Officials: No proof of civilians killed in Libya strikes
Post Date: 2011-03-27 10:54:49 by Happy Quanzaa
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The Obama administration says the Libyan government's claims of civilians killed in airstrikes are unproven. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says "the truth of the matter is we have trouble coming up with proof of any civilian casualties that we have been responsible for." Gates said there were numerous intelligence reports suggesting Moammar Gadhafi's regime was taking bodies of people killed by the pro-government forces and placing them at sites attacked by U.S. planes. Gates said the American forces and those of other countries enforcing the U.N. resolution to protect Libyan civilians have been "extremely careful." Gates spoke Saturday in an interview ...
Obama Administration officials: Libyan Kinetic Military Operation could last months
Post Date: 2011-03-27 10:49:31 by Happy Quanzaa
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US officials: Libyan operation could last months WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S.-led military action in Libya has bolstered rebels fighting Moammar Gadhafi's forces, but the international operation could continue for months, the Obama administration says. Ahead of President Barack Obama's national address Monday to explain his decision to act against the Libyan leader, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said in appearances on the Sunday talk shows that the intervention had effectively rendered Gadhafi's forces defenseless against air attacks and created the conditions for opposition advances westward. In interviews taped Saturday, Gates and ...
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