P-8I program put to the test.
Tuesday 30 April 2013
Rogue Communist Party of China Sells Helicopter Gunships to UWSA
China having problems with all its neighbors. The world should supply Chinese democracy dissidents with weapons.
http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/33350
China has allegedly sold helicopter gunships to ethnic Wa rebels who occupy areas of Shan State in eastern Burma, intelligence monitor Jane’s Information Group reported on Monday.
The report claimed China “delivered several Mil Mi-17 ‘Hip’ medium- transport helicopters armed with TY-90 air-to-air missiles to the Wa in late February and early March, according to both Myanmar ethnic minority and Myanmar government sources.”
Bertil Lintner, an expert on Burma and author of Great Game East: India, China and the Struggle for Asia’s Most Volatile Frontier, confirmed the accuracy of the Jane’s report.
Lintner said the Burmese government was moving to gain control of the Shan State Army-North’s mountainous bases on the western bank of the Salween River, for an eventual offensive against the Wa rebels.
“Since the Burmese government signed a ceasefire with the Shan, they haven’t withdrawn any troops, but rather they have reinforced their troops,” said Aung Kyaw Zaw, an analyst based on the China-Burma border. “That is not a good sign. So, the Wa wants to prepare [for a possible war].”
The purchase of the gunships is part of Wa moves to make the Wa region more like an independent state, able to project force if necessary.
The United Wa State Army is the largest ethnic armed group in Burma, with an estimated 20,000 well-equipped fighters, and advanced weaponry including surface-to-air missiles.
The Burmese government has carried out an offensive against the SSA-North and Kachin rebels in northern Shan State since mid-April, calling up troops from as far away as Karenni State to back up their forces in Shan State, according to Aung Kyaw Zaw.
Quoting a Wa rebel source, the Jane’s report said “the Mi-17s reached the Wa-administered area by flying across the Mekong River from Lao rather than direct from China.”
Jane’s said five helicopters had been bought, but the Burmese government, which confirmed the deal, said only two aircraft had so far been delivered.
The UWSA headquarters is in Panghsang, northeastern Shan State on the China border, but it has a secondary stronghold in southern Shan State on the border with Thailand.
Burma and the United States have long said the UWSA funds its activities through heroin and methamphetamine production, earning large sums of money through illegal activities.
If the government launches an attack on the Wa, it would be a big war, according to analysts. There have been unconfirmed reports in recent weeks that the Wa have been digging in for a protracted ground war, hollowing out tunnels and constructing fortified positions, according to the sources.
The Burmese government recently bought a number of Mi-24P ‘Hind’ gunships from Russia. The reported sale of the Mi-17s to the Wa, armed with TY-90 short-range air-to-air missiles, would provide a strong deterrent to Naypyidaw moving against the Wa.
http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/33350
China has allegedly sold helicopter gunships to ethnic Wa rebels who occupy areas of Shan State in eastern Burma, intelligence monitor Jane’s Information Group reported on Monday.
The report claimed China “delivered several Mil Mi-17 ‘Hip’ medium- transport helicopters armed with TY-90 air-to-air missiles to the Wa in late February and early March, according to both Myanmar ethnic minority and Myanmar government sources.”
Bertil Lintner, an expert on Burma and author of Great Game East: India, China and the Struggle for Asia’s Most Volatile Frontier, confirmed the accuracy of the Jane’s report.
Lintner said the Burmese government was moving to gain control of the Shan State Army-North’s mountainous bases on the western bank of the Salween River, for an eventual offensive against the Wa rebels.
“Since the Burmese government signed a ceasefire with the Shan, they haven’t withdrawn any troops, but rather they have reinforced their troops,” said Aung Kyaw Zaw, an analyst based on the China-Burma border. “That is not a good sign. So, the Wa wants to prepare [for a possible war].”
The purchase of the gunships is part of Wa moves to make the Wa region more like an independent state, able to project force if necessary.
The United Wa State Army is the largest ethnic armed group in Burma, with an estimated 20,000 well-equipped fighters, and advanced weaponry including surface-to-air missiles.
The Burmese government has carried out an offensive against the SSA-North and Kachin rebels in northern Shan State since mid-April, calling up troops from as far away as Karenni State to back up their forces in Shan State, according to Aung Kyaw Zaw.
Quoting a Wa rebel source, the Jane’s report said “the Mi-17s reached the Wa-administered area by flying across the Mekong River from Lao rather than direct from China.”
Jane’s said five helicopters had been bought, but the Burmese government, which confirmed the deal, said only two aircraft had so far been delivered.
The UWSA headquarters is in Panghsang, northeastern Shan State on the China border, but it has a secondary stronghold in southern Shan State on the border with Thailand.
Burma and the United States have long said the UWSA funds its activities through heroin and methamphetamine production, earning large sums of money through illegal activities.
If the government launches an attack on the Wa, it would be a big war, according to analysts. There have been unconfirmed reports in recent weeks that the Wa have been digging in for a protracted ground war, hollowing out tunnels and constructing fortified positions, according to the sources.
The Burmese government recently bought a number of Mi-24P ‘Hind’ gunships from Russia. The reported sale of the Mi-17s to the Wa, armed with TY-90 short-range air-to-air missiles, would provide a strong deterrent to Naypyidaw moving against the Wa.
Israel's fifth Dolphin-class submarine, the INS Rahav, unveiled during ceremony in Kiel, Germany
Israel's fifth Dolphin-class submarine, the INS Rahav, was unveiled on Monday, April 29 at a special ceremony in Kiel, Germany attended by Commander in Chief of the Israeli Navy Rear Adm. Ram Rothberg, Director-General of the Ministry of Defense Maj. Gen. (Res.) Ehud Shani and a delegation of Israeli and German officials.
The ceremony culminated in the smashing of a celebratory bottle of champagne on the hull of the new vessel.
The Dolphin is a versatile vessel, possessing a wide range of capabilities fit for a large variety of missions. The submarine fleet represents the technological cutting-edge of the Israeli Navy, the IDF and the State of Israel. Soldiers in the Israeli Navy's submarine fleet engage in operational activity day after day under a heavy veil of secrecy.
Israeli Navy already operates three Type 800 Dolphin class diesel-electric submarine based on the German 209 class submarine design (Dolphin commissioned in 1999, Leviathan in commissioned 2000, Tekumah commissioned in 2000). In 2006 Israel signed a contract with Thyssen Krupp Marine Systems (TKMS) to purchase two additional submarines from its HDW subsidiary. The two new boats are an upgraded version of the older Dolphins, featuring an AIP (Air-Independent Propulsion) system, similar to the one used on German Type 212 submarines.
An AIP system allows a submarine to operate without the need to surface or use a snorkel to access atmospheric oxygen therefore increasing diesel-electric submarines stealth and endurance. AIP offers diesel-electric submarines a remarkable increase in capability.
The new Israeli submarines are nammed Tannin and Rahav. Tannin was delivered last year. Israeli Navy had an option for a third unit.
Monday 29 April 2013
Iran to unveil indigenous S-300 missiles: Army cmdr
Most of the news coming out of Iran is fake, believe 50% of what you hear or read.
“Although because of US stonewalling efforts, Iran failed to purchase the S-300 system [from Russia], this system is being developed in the country and will be officially unveiled [in the next Persian calendar year],” deputy commander of Iran Army for self-sufficiency and research, Rear Admiral Farhad Amiri said on Sunday.
The official said the manufacturing of the Iranian S-300 system is underway and its subsystems have been already tested, adding that Bavar-373 missile system is projected to be unveiled in 2014.
Under a contract signed in 2007, Russia was required to provide Iran with at least five S-300 defense systems.
Moscow refused to deliver the system to Iran under the pretext that it is covered by the fourth round of the UN Security Council sanctions against Iran.
Over the past years, Iran has attained self-sufficiency in producing important military equipment and systems.
The Islamic Republic has repeatedly assured its neighbors that its military might poses no threat to other countries, insisting that its defense doctrine is based on deterrence.
“Although because of US stonewalling efforts, Iran failed to purchase the S-300 system [from Russia], this system is being developed in the country and will be officially unveiled [in the next Persian calendar year],” deputy commander of Iran Army for self-sufficiency and research, Rear Admiral Farhad Amiri said on Sunday.
The official said the manufacturing of the Iranian S-300 system is underway and its subsystems have been already tested, adding that Bavar-373 missile system is projected to be unveiled in 2014.
Under a contract signed in 2007, Russia was required to provide Iran with at least five S-300 defense systems.
Moscow refused to deliver the system to Iran under the pretext that it is covered by the fourth round of the UN Security Council sanctions against Iran.
Over the past years, Iran has attained self-sufficiency in producing important military equipment and systems.
The Islamic Republic has repeatedly assured its neighbors that its military might poses no threat to other countries, insisting that its defense doctrine is based on deterrence.
Two missiles target Russian passenger plane over Syria
Free Syrian Army getting desperate now.
MOSCOW: Unidentified assailants fired two land-to-air missiles at a Russian passenger plane carrying around 200 people when it flew over Syria earlier Monday, the Interfax news agency reported, citing an informed source in Moscow.
"The Syrian side informed us that on Monday morning unidentified people had fired two land-to-air missiles which exploded in the immediate proximity of a civilian plane belonging to a Russian airline," the source was quoted as saying.
"The crew has been able to move the aircraft to the side on time and save the lives of the passengers," the source said, adding that it was unclear whether the attackers knew that the plane was Russian.
The plane was returning from a resort in Egypt, a popular destination for Russian tourists.
The state RIA Novosti news agency, citing an employee of the Russian embassy in Damascus, said Russian diplomats were looking into the report of the attack.
Russia, one of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's staunchest allies, is firmly opposed to military intervention in Syria.
MOSCOW: Unidentified assailants fired two land-to-air missiles at a Russian passenger plane carrying around 200 people when it flew over Syria earlier Monday, the Interfax news agency reported, citing an informed source in Moscow.
"The Syrian side informed us that on Monday morning unidentified people had fired two land-to-air missiles which exploded in the immediate proximity of a civilian plane belonging to a Russian airline," the source was quoted as saying.
"The crew has been able to move the aircraft to the side on time and save the lives of the passengers," the source said, adding that it was unclear whether the attackers knew that the plane was Russian.
The plane was returning from a resort in Egypt, a popular destination for Russian tourists.
The state RIA Novosti news agency, citing an employee of the Russian embassy in Damascus, said Russian diplomats were looking into the report of the attack.
Russia, one of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's staunchest allies, is firmly opposed to military intervention in Syria.
Sunday 28 April 2013
Syrian Blood Tests Positive for Sarin Gas used by the FSA
This is what happens when you ask the Mujahideen to come and fight in your own country. Your country is no longer yours and it soon becomes a laboratory of new chemical and biological weapons and weapon testers
Saturday 27 April 2013
Friday 26 April 2013
Emaad Khalid says Zaid Hamid takes money from ISI and exposes his attempts to stage a mutiny in Pakistan Army
Interesting facts about mutiny in the Pakistan Army and ISI. How ISI Lt.-Colonels and Majors are plotting the assassination of Gen. Kayani.
Zaid Hamid wants to COAS by his 9 mm pistol which he keeps rapped in his underwear elastic holster.
Zaid Hamid wants to COAS by his 9 mm pistol which he keeps rapped in his underwear elastic holster.
Emaad Khalid -Staff Officer / Media Coordinator /Personal Assistant / Accountant exposes Zaid Hamid
China urges US to condemn Xinjiang ‘terrorism’
China has never condemned Pakistan sponsored terrorism in Kashmir. It sits on the sidelines of its rogue friend and watched the fun
BEIJING: China urged the United States on Thursday, 10 days after the Boston Marathon bombings, to condemn what Beijing has called terrorist attacks in its western Xinjiang region instead of lecturing the country on human rights.
Nine residents, six police and six ethnic Uighurs were killed on Tuesday in a knife, axe and arson attack, the deadliest violence in the region since July 2009, when Xinjiang’s capital, Urumqi, was rocked by clashes between majority Han Chinese and minority Uighurs that killed nearly 200 people.
Chinese authorities called the violence terrorism and Xinjiang spokeswoman Hou Hanmin was quoted on Thursday by the popular Chinese tabloid the Global Times as comparing it to the recent Boston Marathon bombings.
But the US State Department on Wednesday merely expressed regret at the loss of life and urged China to “provide all Chinese citizens, including Uighurs, the due process protections to which they’re entitled”.
The US refusal to condemn the attack showed double standards, considering that it had been the recent victim of a terrorist attack, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told reporters.
“We simply oppose the US reversing black and white, confusing right and wrong, and continually refusing to condemn violent terrorist incidents, and instead, making wild accusations about Chinese policy toward ethnic minorities,” she said.
“We hope the US will turn a mirror on itself and all its own domestic problems instead of pointing fingers at other countries.”
Many Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking Muslim people native to Xinjiang, chafe at Chinese controls on their religion, language and culture.
China has blamed previous attacks in the energy-rich region - strategically located on the borders of Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Central Asia - on Islamic separatists who want to establish an independent East Turkestan.
Some Chinese officials also blame such attacks on Muslim militants trained in Pakistan. But many rights groups say China overstates the threat to justify its tight grip on the region.
Dilxat Raxit, the Sweden-based spokesman for the exiled World Uyghur Congress, has said the violence was sparked by the shooting and killing of a young Uighur by “Chinese armed personnel”, prompting Uighurs to retaliate.
U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke was in Xinjiang with a delegation of American energy, rail and transportation executives when the attacks took place.
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BEIJING: China urged the United States on Thursday, 10 days after the Boston Marathon bombings, to condemn what Beijing has called terrorist attacks in its western Xinjiang region instead of lecturing the country on human rights.
Nine residents, six police and six ethnic Uighurs were killed on Tuesday in a knife, axe and arson attack, the deadliest violence in the region since July 2009, when Xinjiang’s capital, Urumqi, was rocked by clashes between majority Han Chinese and minority Uighurs that killed nearly 200 people.
Chinese authorities called the violence terrorism and Xinjiang spokeswoman Hou Hanmin was quoted on Thursday by the popular Chinese tabloid the Global Times as comparing it to the recent Boston Marathon bombings.
But the US State Department on Wednesday merely expressed regret at the loss of life and urged China to “provide all Chinese citizens, including Uighurs, the due process protections to which they’re entitled”.
The US refusal to condemn the attack showed double standards, considering that it had been the recent victim of a terrorist attack, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told reporters.
“We simply oppose the US reversing black and white, confusing right and wrong, and continually refusing to condemn violent terrorist incidents, and instead, making wild accusations about Chinese policy toward ethnic minorities,” she said.
“We hope the US will turn a mirror on itself and all its own domestic problems instead of pointing fingers at other countries.”
Many Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking Muslim people native to Xinjiang, chafe at Chinese controls on their religion, language and culture.
China has blamed previous attacks in the energy-rich region - strategically located on the borders of Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Central Asia - on Islamic separatists who want to establish an independent East Turkestan.
Some Chinese officials also blame such attacks on Muslim militants trained in Pakistan. But many rights groups say China overstates the threat to justify its tight grip on the region.
Dilxat Raxit, the Sweden-based spokesman for the exiled World Uyghur Congress, has said the violence was sparked by the shooting and killing of a young Uighur by “Chinese armed personnel”, prompting Uighurs to retaliate.
U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke was in Xinjiang with a delegation of American energy, rail and transportation executives when the attacks took place.
Thursday 25 April 2013
War profiteering with Chinese Characteristics
ZXAuto, a small Chinese producers of pick ups and SUVs proudly display their "Free Syria Army" technical in a recent Shanghai autoshow. While this is so wrong on so many levels, I can't help it but to cheer for their entrepreneurial spirit, (with Chinese Characteristics of course)
Chinese Double speak. Actions speak louder than words...On on side support Bashar Al-Assad at the UN, on the other side as private industry to supply his opponents with weapons.
This is how international diplomacy is going to be going forward, double speak where actions on the ground do not meet with words. Isn't China also a nuclear weapons proliferator?
Chinese Double speak. Actions speak louder than words...On on side support Bashar Al-Assad at the UN, on the other side as private industry to supply his opponents with weapons.
This is how international diplomacy is going to be going forward, double speak where actions on the ground do not meet with words. Isn't China also a nuclear weapons proliferator?
Wednesday 24 April 2013
Turkistan Islamic Party releases video of children in training to fight in China
When a drone comes and attacks them from above, Pakistanis will claim there were innocent women and childen killed.
The Turkistan Islamic Party, an al Qaeda-affiliated terror group, has released a video that shows young children firing weapons while at a training camp in Pakistan. The video was released by Islami Awazi, a propaganda arm of the Turkistan Islamic Party. A clip of the video was published on the LiveLeak video website. In the video, the children, some of whom appear to be no older than six, are shown firing handguns, AK-47 assault rifles, and a PKM machine-gun from various positions. At one point, 13 children are seen on line, firing AK-47s while standing and lying down. As the children fire their weapons, the black flag of the Taliban and a light blue banner used by the Turkistan Islamic Party can be seen flying in the background. The video is similar to others released by allied jihadist groups such as the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, the Islamic Jihad Group, and a jihadist alliance called the Fedayeen-i-Islam. All of these groups are known to run camps in North and South Waziristan that train children. The Turkistan Islamic Party operates in China as well as Central and South Asia and is thought to have scores of fighters in Pakistan's tribal areas and in Afghanistan. TIP fighters have been killed by Coalition forces in Afghanistan and by US drone strikes in Pakistan. Abu Ubaydah Abdullah al Adam, a senior al Qaeda leader who serves as the terror group's intelligence chief, has written several biographies for TIP fighters killed in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The group's leaders also hold senior positions in al Qaeda. Abdul Haq al Turkistani, the slain former leader of the Turkistan Islamic Party, was a member of al Qaeda's Shura Majlis, or executive council. And Abdul Shakoor al Turkistani, who was rumored to have been killed in a drone strike last year, is also thought to have been appointed to the Shura Majlis, in addition to being designated commander of al Qaeda forces in the tribal areas. Prior to the US invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001, Abdul Haq ran a training camp for his recruits at al Qaeda's camp in Tora Bora in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province [see LWJ report, The Uighurs in their own words]. He later reestablished camps for the Turkistan Islamic Party in Pakistan's lawless, Taliban-controlled tribal areas. Twenty-two Turkistan Islamic Party operatives were ultimately captured and detained at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility; since then, 17 of them have been released or transferred to allied governments, and five have been approved for release but have refused resettlement in volunteer countries.
The Turkistan Islamic Party, an al Qaeda-affiliated terror group, has released a video that shows young children firing weapons while at a training camp in Pakistan. The video was released by Islami Awazi, a propaganda arm of the Turkistan Islamic Party. A clip of the video was published on the LiveLeak video website. In the video, the children, some of whom appear to be no older than six, are shown firing handguns, AK-47 assault rifles, and a PKM machine-gun from various positions. At one point, 13 children are seen on line, firing AK-47s while standing and lying down. As the children fire their weapons, the black flag of the Taliban and a light blue banner used by the Turkistan Islamic Party can be seen flying in the background. The video is similar to others released by allied jihadist groups such as the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, the Islamic Jihad Group, and a jihadist alliance called the Fedayeen-i-Islam. All of these groups are known to run camps in North and South Waziristan that train children. The Turkistan Islamic Party operates in China as well as Central and South Asia and is thought to have scores of fighters in Pakistan's tribal areas and in Afghanistan. TIP fighters have been killed by Coalition forces in Afghanistan and by US drone strikes in Pakistan. Abu Ubaydah Abdullah al Adam, a senior al Qaeda leader who serves as the terror group's intelligence chief, has written several biographies for TIP fighters killed in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The group's leaders also hold senior positions in al Qaeda. Abdul Haq al Turkistani, the slain former leader of the Turkistan Islamic Party, was a member of al Qaeda's Shura Majlis, or executive council. And Abdul Shakoor al Turkistani, who was rumored to have been killed in a drone strike last year, is also thought to have been appointed to the Shura Majlis, in addition to being designated commander of al Qaeda forces in the tribal areas. Prior to the US invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001, Abdul Haq ran a training camp for his recruits at al Qaeda's camp in Tora Bora in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province [see LWJ report, The Uighurs in their own words]. He later reestablished camps for the Turkistan Islamic Party in Pakistan's lawless, Taliban-controlled tribal areas. Twenty-two Turkistan Islamic Party operatives were ultimately captured and detained at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility; since then, 17 of them have been released or transferred to allied governments, and five have been approved for release but have refused resettlement in volunteer countries.
Another trial of nuke-tipped 5000-6000 km Agni V next month
We in Pakistan call DRDO our friends: They are a drain on the Indian taxpayer and deliver nothing and the Chinese also have fan clubs in all cities for DODO scientists. On an average 1 project in DODO will last 30-40 years until it is scrapped for another new 30-40 year old project - Outcome nothing.
Seems Indian government cannot get anything out of testing phase. Indian scientists are just an extension of the useless government officials whose work is putting rubber stamps and signing documents in exchange for fee (bribe)
Projects still stuck in testing
The only product DODO seems to have launched successfully is - DODO Mosquito Repellent cream. Stingy Indian mosquitos once knowing that product was made at DODO by Indian govenment employees selected and promoted based on reservation get more confident to spread Dengue and Malaria without fear (just like DODO INSAS peanut shooting guns cannot kill Pak Lashkar-e-Jahannam terrorists)
Give Indian private sector a chance and close down all the Government Nawab and Badshah run ordanance factories
Seems Indian government cannot get anything out of testing phase. Indian scientists are just an extension of the useless government officials whose work is putting rubber stamps and signing documents in exchange for fee (bribe)
Projects still stuck in testing
- Agni V
- LCA (Technology long obsolete)
- Nuclear submarine
- ARJUN Tank (Technology long obsolete)
- LCH
- Aircraft Carrier
The only product DODO seems to have launched successfully is - DODO Mosquito Repellent cream. Stingy Indian mosquitos once knowing that product was made at DODO by Indian govenment employees selected and promoted based on reservation get more confident to spread Dengue and Malaria without fear (just like DODO INSAS peanut shooting guns cannot kill Pak Lashkar-e-Jahannam terrorists)
Give Indian private sector a chance and close down all the Government Nawab and Badshah run ordanance factories
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Here is another Indian defense minister Krishna Menon idiot who refused to use Indian Air Force in the China war in 1962. What do the Indian politicians know about fighting wars. Zia consulted Morarji Desai about ‘native urine drinking medicine’ and in return Morarji gave him secret information related to Pakistan's nuclear program. http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\12\17\story_17-12-2007_pg7_7 ISLAMABAD: Former president of Pakistan General Ziaul Haq befriended Indian former premier Morarji Desai after overthrowing Zulfiqar Bhutto government in 1977 and consulted Desai on native medicine, including urine drinking, according to Mr B Ramon, a former high official of the Indian secret agency RAW, in his book “The Cow Boy of RAW” which has recently been published in Chennai. According to B Raman, General Ziaul Haq, who overthrew Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in a military coup in 1977 and arrested him, was anxious to avoid any fresh tensions in Pakistan’s relations with India till he was able to get rid of Bhutto and consolidate his power. He kept in touch with Morarji Desai over phone in order to befriend him. Like many senior military officers of the Pakistan Army, Zia was a past master in the art of flattery, Raman stated. He wrote that often Zia would ring up Morarji Desai under the pretext of consulting him on native medicine. Nothing flattered Morarji more. Zia once asked him with seeming earnestness in his voice. “Excellency, how many times one should drink the urine in a day? Should it be the first urine of the morning or can it be any time of day?” the author disclosed. Nuclear capability: Raman further wrote, “In a disarmed and unguarded moment one day, Morarji told him that he was aware that Pakistan was clandestinely trying to develop a military nuclear capability. Indiscreet political leaders are the unavoidable occupational hazards of the intelligence profession.” B Raman was a high-ranking official of India’s secret agency. In 1967, he served in the Intelligence Wing of the Interior Ministry and was later appointed as head of Pakistan Desk in the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW). He retired in 1994 when he was head of Counter Terrorism Division. After serving for a long time in the Indian secret agency, Raman continued to work as member of Intelligence View Task Force till 2000 and later was made member of Advisory Board of National Security. Raman is well known as an expert on Pakistan Affairs with many articles and research papers on the country during and after his retirement. |
Israeli Air Force Commander Maj. Gen. Eshel Flies Cobra
Maj. Gen. Eshel joins Cobra helicopter squadron training after its return to regular activity, a month and a half after being grounded following an accident
The Israel Air Force's Cobra (Tzefa) helicopters have returned to flight activity, more than a month after the accident of the Cobra helicopter that cost the lives of Lt. Col. Noam Ron and Maj. Erez Flesker, and prior to the conclusion of the full investigation.
The findings of the investigation pointed to the accident being caused by a technical failure, and the IAF decided to return the first combat helicopter squadron to full activity.
The commander of the IAF, Maj. Gen. Amir Eshel, joined the squadron training that took place yesterday. "We lost two of our best fighters as a result of a technical malfunction. The investigation has yet to conclude, and we will continue until we reach all of the necessary conclusions in order to safely return to operational capability. There is considerable operational importance to the layout's return to activity, and the Tzefa is very relevant to the changing reality along our borders," said Maj. Gen. Eshel.
The Israel Air Force's Cobra (Tzefa) helicopters have returned to flight activity, more than a month after the accident of the Cobra helicopter that cost the lives of Lt. Col. Noam Ron and Maj. Erez Flesker, and prior to the conclusion of the full investigation.
The findings of the investigation pointed to the accident being caused by a technical failure, and the IAF decided to return the first combat helicopter squadron to full activity.
The commander of the IAF, Maj. Gen. Amir Eshel, joined the squadron training that took place yesterday. "We lost two of our best fighters as a result of a technical malfunction. The investigation has yet to conclude, and we will continue until we reach all of the necessary conclusions in order to safely return to operational capability. There is considerable operational importance to the layout's return to activity, and the Tzefa is very relevant to the changing reality along our borders," said Maj. Gen. Eshel.
Pakistani Terror General Hameed Gul (Bull) opens his mouth again ...in Urdu
When Pakistani Terror General Hameed Gul (Bull) PIGS fly as cupids and donkeys bray.
Tuesday 23 April 2013
Syrian Rebels Get Bored with Syria, Plot to Kill All the Buddhists in Burma
Somehow throat slitting, terrorizing people and marrying non Muslim women will not make people convert to Islam. It worked when Islam was on the ascent during 6th century to 15th century....but this won't work now. This is a just a bad advertizing campaign.
We are stuck up in a vicious circle for not adapting to changing times. We cannot kill our way into world domination...please.
Each campaign of Islamic terror against a non-Muslim country is usually preceded by complaints of human rights violations against the only humans that matter. Muslims.
Step 1 sees the Saudis and their useful idiots denouncing a country. Step 2 sees the media writing in-depth stories about a Muslim hangnail in Country X, when they couldn’t be bothered to write about Muslim massacres of non-Muslims in other places without spreading the blame to the victims. Step 3 sees the terrorists funded with Saudi money beginning their killing sprees.
Burma has gone through Steps 1 and 2 with a torrent of articles whining about Muslim persecution. Now we’re on to Step 3 of every Muslim supremacy campaign. Mass murder.
Syrian Islamist have been attempting to smuggle Muslim extremists into Myanmar, a Syrian Islamist source told NOW. According to the source, “many attempts have been made to send Jihadists to Myanmar for the sake of our brothers.”
“Contacts with Islamist groups in Pakistan, India and other surrounding countries are being made in order to facilitate their entry into Myanmar.” The source, however, added that “these attempts have failed.”Speaking to NOW, Salafist Sheikh Bilal al-Masri called on Muslims to attack Buddhists and their interests.
“I decree that every person who can get to a Buddhist should kill him because they are killing our people and the Muslims cannot be blamed for their reaction.”
The Sheikh went on to say that there was “a systematic war” against Muslims in Mali, Iraq, Palestine and Myanmar. “All this can trigger extremism, and then they will say that we are the terrorists,” the sheikh added.
Yeah it’s crazy isn’t it. You declare a genocidal war against Buddhists and people don’t realize that the Buddhists made you do it. Why don’t people understand that the Jews, Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Atheists and Every Other Religion on Earth are the real terrorists?
It’s incomprehensible why every religion is persecuting Muslims. Including notorious oppressors such as the Jews and the Buddhists who have a long history of enslaving and killing other people. Oh wait… Muslims have a long history of enslaving and killing other people.
But the good news is that the Syrian rebels are diversifying. They’re not just about killing Shiite Muslim and Christians in Syria. Their civil rights movement has bigger plans. Like going to Burma to kill all the Buddhists.
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/syrian-rebels-get-bored-with-syria-plot-to-kill-all-the-buddhists-in-burma/
We are stuck up in a vicious circle for not adapting to changing times. We cannot kill our way into world domination...please.
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| What was 8th year old Martin Richard's fault ? Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. |
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| Buddhists in Burma are the target now |
Each campaign of Islamic terror against a non-Muslim country is usually preceded by complaints of human rights violations against the only humans that matter. Muslims.
Step 1 sees the Saudis and their useful idiots denouncing a country. Step 2 sees the media writing in-depth stories about a Muslim hangnail in Country X, when they couldn’t be bothered to write about Muslim massacres of non-Muslims in other places without spreading the blame to the victims. Step 3 sees the terrorists funded with Saudi money beginning their killing sprees.
Burma has gone through Steps 1 and 2 with a torrent of articles whining about Muslim persecution. Now we’re on to Step 3 of every Muslim supremacy campaign. Mass murder.
Syrian Islamist have been attempting to smuggle Muslim extremists into Myanmar, a Syrian Islamist source told NOW. According to the source, “many attempts have been made to send Jihadists to Myanmar for the sake of our brothers.”
“Contacts with Islamist groups in Pakistan, India and other surrounding countries are being made in order to facilitate their entry into Myanmar.” The source, however, added that “these attempts have failed.”Speaking to NOW, Salafist Sheikh Bilal al-Masri called on Muslims to attack Buddhists and their interests.
“I decree that every person who can get to a Buddhist should kill him because they are killing our people and the Muslims cannot be blamed for their reaction.”
The Sheikh went on to say that there was “a systematic war” against Muslims in Mali, Iraq, Palestine and Myanmar. “All this can trigger extremism, and then they will say that we are the terrorists,” the sheikh added.
Yeah it’s crazy isn’t it. You declare a genocidal war against Buddhists and people don’t realize that the Buddhists made you do it. Why don’t people understand that the Jews, Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Atheists and Every Other Religion on Earth are the real terrorists?
It’s incomprehensible why every religion is persecuting Muslims. Including notorious oppressors such as the Jews and the Buddhists who have a long history of enslaving and killing other people. Oh wait… Muslims have a long history of enslaving and killing other people.
But the good news is that the Syrian rebels are diversifying. They’re not just about killing Shiite Muslim and Christians in Syria. Their civil rights movement has bigger plans. Like going to Burma to kill all the Buddhists.
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/syrian-rebels-get-bored-with-syria-plot-to-kill-all-the-buddhists-in-burma/
Monday 22 April 2013
Rental Pakistan Army good for nothing : Four soldiers killed in NWA IED blast
Getting beaten by the Taliban again and again
MIRANSHAH: Four soldiers of the Pakistan Army were killed and four others sustained injuries when an improvised explosive device (IED) hit a military convoy near the Khajoori area of Mir Ali subdivision in North Waziristan on Sunday.
Security officials said the military convoy was on its way to Miranshah, the headquarters of North Waziristan, from Bannu when it came under attack.They said unknown people had planted an IED under the bridge in the Khajoori area, considered as the gateway to North Waziristan. It went off when the military convoy was passing through the area, they added.
Military officials said four soldiers died on the spot while four others sustained injuries. The injured soldiers were shifted to the military hospital in Bannu.Those died in the blast were identified as Sepoy Assadullah, Sepoy Fazal Azeem, Zulfiqar Masih, a sweeper, and Sepoy Sharif.
The authorities had already clamped curfew in the entire North Waziristan, including the Bannu-Miranshah road due to movement of the security forces on Sunday.
MIRANSHAH: Four soldiers of the Pakistan Army were killed and four others sustained injuries when an improvised explosive device (IED) hit a military convoy near the Khajoori area of Mir Ali subdivision in North Waziristan on Sunday.
Security officials said the military convoy was on its way to Miranshah, the headquarters of North Waziristan, from Bannu when it came under attack.They said unknown people had planted an IED under the bridge in the Khajoori area, considered as the gateway to North Waziristan. It went off when the military convoy was passing through the area, they added.
Military officials said four soldiers died on the spot while four others sustained injuries. The injured soldiers were shifted to the military hospital in Bannu.Those died in the blast were identified as Sepoy Assadullah, Sepoy Fazal Azeem, Zulfiqar Masih, a sweeper, and Sepoy Sharif.
The authorities had already clamped curfew in the entire North Waziristan, including the Bannu-Miranshah road due to movement of the security forces on Sunday.
Saturday 20 April 2013
India's Light Combat Aircraft - Tejas At Iron Fist 2013
India should go for Russian T-50 stealth aircraft instead of the Rafale.
Friday 19 April 2013
Ex-Pakistan Army chief Pervez Musharraf aka Commando runs from cop's after his arrest orders from court
All the anti Kafir wars he fought and oppn leaders and judges he imprisoned and exiled are all catching up with him.
Pakistan Army Bravery at its best.
Pakistan Army Bravery at its best.
Sichuan Earthquake, 2013. Peoples Liberation Army mobilized
Hundreds of people may have been killed or injured after an earthquake in China's western Sichuan province, state media report.The US Geological Survey (USGS) said the quake, which had a 6.6 magnitude, was centred 80km (50 miles) west of the town of Linqiong. It said the tremor occurred at a depth of 12.3km (7.6 miles).
PLA strives for transparency
Declassified information outlines 'diversified employment' of military
China declassified a host of details on its military on Tuesday, a move experts suggest is a big stride by the armed forces to boost transparency and openness.
In a white paper titled "The Diversified Employment of China's Armed Forces", which was published by the State Council Information Office, the PLA disclosed the strength and formation of its ground force, air force, navy and missile arm. The structure and missions of the Armed Police Force and Chinese militia were also made public.
According to the document, the eighth of its kind issued by the Chinese government since 1998, the mobile operational units of the PLA ground force consist of 18 combined corps and several independent combined combat divisions or brigades. These units have a strength of 850,000.
The paper for the first time unveils the designations of combined corps and the military command that directs them. It also reveals that the PLA navy has 235,000 people in active service, and the air force has 398,000 servicemen and servicewomen. In addition, there is an airborne corps under the air force's control.
The PLA second artillery force, the country's core force for strategic deterrence, has an arsenal of Dongfeng (East Wind) ballistic missiles and Changjian (Long Sword) cruise missiles. It is the first time that the Chinese military has publicly mentioned the codenames of its missiles.
"This is the first time that the Chinese government has issued a white paper that focuses on one of the specific factors of its armed forces," said Senior Colonel Wen Bing, a researcher at the national defense policy research center under the PLA Academy of Military Science.
"The release of the document is of great importance for enhancing the system of white papers on national defense and expanding military transparency."
Wen said the international community has some concerns over China's increasing use of its armed forces, so the Chinese government decided to explain the diversified missions of its armed forces, such as in disaster relief, high sea escorts as well as joint drills with foreign militaries.
"(The paper's) content will help to better understand China's resolve to uphold peaceful development," he said.
Senior Colonel Hou Xiaohe, a strategy expert of the PLA National Defense University, said: "The disclosure of a lot of previously classified information, like the combined corps' designations and the strength of each military branch, is in response to the international community's attention. Moreover, the move signals that China now has the confidence of being a responsible power."
The white paper says China advocates a new security concept featuring mutual trust, mutual benefit, equality and coordination, and pursues comprehensive security, common security and cooperative security.
"China will never seek hegemony or behave in a hegemonic manner, nor will it engage in military expansion," the white paper says. However, it warns that China still faces multiple and complicated security threats and challenges.
The paper also mentions the determination of China's armed forces to protect the country's "national security interests" in outer space and cyberspace.
"The pledge is in accordance with our armed forces' new missions under new circumstances," said Senior Colonel Meng Xiangqing, who specializes in defense strategy at the PLA National Defense University. "As the strategic competition has been intensifying around the globe, the range of each country's national interests is also expanding."
He noted China has been facing diversified safety challenges and remains a major victim of cyberattacks. "Therefore we must ensure that the Internet and outer space will be used for peaceful purposes and in the interests of all people."
"China's security interests stretch from the land to the sea, to outer space and cyberspace, from territorial security to overseas interests, and from traditional areas to nontraditional fields," said Major General Chen Zhou, director of the PLA Academy of Military Science's national defense policy research center.
He made the remarks during an interview with China News Service when explaining why the paper uses two chapters to emphasize maritime and overseas interests.
"We have been witnessing a remarkable surge in issues concerning overseas resources, strategic routes on the sea and citizens living abroad, so the armed forces must strengthen their overseas operational capabilities to safeguard our country's overseas interests," he added.
Yang Yujun, spokesman for the Defense Ministry, said on Tuesday that military transparency is closely related to national security and has no universal definition, adding that no country can boast complete transparency of military affairs.
China is open and candid in its armed forces' strategic purposes and military capability, according to the spokesman.
China has established strategic consultation mechanisms with 23 countries, and has explained its defense policies, security concerns and the military's missions via various channels including senior leaders' speeches, multilateral meetings and interviews with the media, Yang said.
"It is fair to say that China has been highly transparent in its military affairs."
Tuesday 16 April 2013
PLA strategist reflects military’s mainstream
The Peoples oppression army seems to have increased allowance for opium smoking to its top generals.
One of China’s most influential military strategists has made headlines by saying that a new, lethal strain of bird flu is a “U.S. bio-psychological weapon” conspiracy designed to harm China.
Senior Col. Dai Xu, an air force officer in the People’s Liberation Army, has written several best-sellers, mostly on U.S. military strategy toward China, and enjoys a national following. He is a prominent voice inside China on military strategy and national security.
Though many in the West view him as an aberration, Col. Dai is a core member of China’s strategic community and his views are backed by a huge following in Chinese military circles.
In accusing the U.S. of “bio-psychological” warfare in the outbreak of the H7N9 bird flu virus in the Shanghai area, Col. Dai offered no evidence to support his scurrilous claims.
But he is not on the fringe of China’s mainstream strategic culture: He is a professor at the Chinese National Defense University, the ultimate symbol of China’s military establishment. He also directs China’s Research Institute of Maritime Security and Cooperation, based in Beijing.
His extremist views about the U.S. are encouraged by China’s tightly controlled mainstream media. The official Communist Party Central Committee’s mouthpiece, the People’s Daily, hosts a special online column for him, as does Global Times, a subsidiary focusing on military and security issues that is packaged for readers in a more popular format.
In addition, Col. Dai frequently appears on national television to rail against what he regards as a multitude of American conspiracies against China.
Col. Dai and his views have an enormous popular following.
In 2010, more than 300,000 Internet users in China voted Col. Dai one of China’s nine most popular online opinion-makers. In the same year, the xenophobic anti-American Global Times newspaper ranked him as one of “China’s 10 most Outspoken Virtuous Men.”
In December 2011, tens of millions Internet users on China’s second-most popular Internet portal, Tencent, endorsed the 2010 online voting result and confirmed Col. Dai as one of China’s nine most influential “public intellectuals.”
Col. Dai himself has a Twitter-like Weibo account that has more than 250,000 followers, giving him the aura of being part of mainstream China’s public space on security and defense issues.
His influence also reflects the potency of his message. Analysts say that what makes Col. Dai so influential is his deep, unshakable loathing of the U.S. and his sensational claims of various American conspiracies, grand or petty, against the virtuous and rising China.
To millions of Chinese, Col. Dai is synonymous with the exposure of America’s anti-China conspiracies, and he holds a unique place as China’s most paranoid conspiracist.
Examples of alleged U.S. conspiracies he supp
osedly has discovered were revealed in a 2 -hour speech in 2009 called “2030: China Faces the Fate of Dismemberment: The U.S. Strategy for a Global Empire and China’s Crisis.”
The closed-door speech later appeared on the Internet after it was given to military officers during a meeting at the Nanjing-based PLA Institute of International Relations Studies, a key training ground for elite officers. The conspiracies he outlined include that the United States:
Seeks to reduce the world’s population by 20 percent, with the Pentagon plotting to encourage countries on China’s periphery to develop nuclear weapons to create a holocaust on China, India and other populous Asian states.
Aims to destroy China’s investment in Pakistan in its battle against the Taliban.
Secretly controls 21 of China’s 28 industries.
Manufactured the 2008 financial crisis to steal China’s and other countries’ money.
Is encouraging North Korea to develop nuclear weapons to damage China’s role in the region.
Is engaged in short- and long-term plans to foment ethnic riots against China in Tibet and western Xinjiang province.
Wants to trick Russia into launching a nuclear war against China that would destroy both countries and assure a U.S. triumph.
Wants to split up China into smaller states and create alliances with some of them.
Popular as they are, these conspiratorial theories are not accepted by everyone in China. In fact, many Internet users ridicule Col. Dai’s fantastical claims. And quite a few Chinese security analysts have privately and quietly expressed disgust and shame toward the senior colonel’s scandalous claims to foreign counterparts at international conferences.
Yet not a single serious scholar or strategist inside China’s defense establishment has been able or permitted to challenge Col. Dai’s conspiracy mania face-to-face on national TV or in mainstream media outside of the Internet.
The reason is that Col. Dai represents views that are encouraged by China’s mainstream strategic culture, which is widely viewed as conspiratorial, anti-U.S. and paranoid a culture that does not allow open debate or the free exchange of views that contradict the official party line.
For these reasons, Col. Dai Xu is not on the fringe of China’s mainstream. He is the mainstream.
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| Senior Col. Dai Xu : Welcome to the conspiracy theorists club |
One of China’s most influential military strategists has made headlines by saying that a new, lethal strain of bird flu is a “U.S. bio-psychological weapon” conspiracy designed to harm China.
Senior Col. Dai Xu, an air force officer in the People’s Liberation Army, has written several best-sellers, mostly on U.S. military strategy toward China, and enjoys a national following. He is a prominent voice inside China on military strategy and national security.
Though many in the West view him as an aberration, Col. Dai is a core member of China’s strategic community and his views are backed by a huge following in Chinese military circles.
In accusing the U.S. of “bio-psychological” warfare in the outbreak of the H7N9 bird flu virus in the Shanghai area, Col. Dai offered no evidence to support his scurrilous claims.
But he is not on the fringe of China’s mainstream strategic culture: He is a professor at the Chinese National Defense University, the ultimate symbol of China’s military establishment. He also directs China’s Research Institute of Maritime Security and Cooperation, based in Beijing.
His extremist views about the U.S. are encouraged by China’s tightly controlled mainstream media. The official Communist Party Central Committee’s mouthpiece, the People’s Daily, hosts a special online column for him, as does Global Times, a subsidiary focusing on military and security issues that is packaged for readers in a more popular format.
In addition, Col. Dai frequently appears on national television to rail against what he regards as a multitude of American conspiracies against China.
Col. Dai and his views have an enormous popular following.
In 2010, more than 300,000 Internet users in China voted Col. Dai one of China’s nine most popular online opinion-makers. In the same year, the xenophobic anti-American Global Times newspaper ranked him as one of “China’s 10 most Outspoken Virtuous Men.”
In December 2011, tens of millions Internet users on China’s second-most popular Internet portal, Tencent, endorsed the 2010 online voting result and confirmed Col. Dai as one of China’s nine most influential “public intellectuals.”
Col. Dai himself has a Twitter-like Weibo account that has more than 250,000 followers, giving him the aura of being part of mainstream China’s public space on security and defense issues.
His influence also reflects the potency of his message. Analysts say that what makes Col. Dai so influential is his deep, unshakable loathing of the U.S. and his sensational claims of various American conspiracies, grand or petty, against the virtuous and rising China.
To millions of Chinese, Col. Dai is synonymous with the exposure of America’s anti-China conspiracies, and he holds a unique place as China’s most paranoid conspiracist.
Examples of alleged U.S. conspiracies he supp
osedly has discovered were revealed in a 2 -hour speech in 2009 called “2030: China Faces the Fate of Dismemberment: The U.S. Strategy for a Global Empire and China’s Crisis.”
The closed-door speech later appeared on the Internet after it was given to military officers during a meeting at the Nanjing-based PLA Institute of International Relations Studies, a key training ground for elite officers. The conspiracies he outlined include that the United States:
Seeks to reduce the world’s population by 20 percent, with the Pentagon plotting to encourage countries on China’s periphery to develop nuclear weapons to create a holocaust on China, India and other populous Asian states.
Aims to destroy China’s investment in Pakistan in its battle against the Taliban.
Secretly controls 21 of China’s 28 industries.
Manufactured the 2008 financial crisis to steal China’s and other countries’ money.
Is encouraging North Korea to develop nuclear weapons to damage China’s role in the region.
Is engaged in short- and long-term plans to foment ethnic riots against China in Tibet and western Xinjiang province.
Wants to trick Russia into launching a nuclear war against China that would destroy both countries and assure a U.S. triumph.
Wants to split up China into smaller states and create alliances with some of them.
Popular as they are, these conspiratorial theories are not accepted by everyone in China. In fact, many Internet users ridicule Col. Dai’s fantastical claims. And quite a few Chinese security analysts have privately and quietly expressed disgust and shame toward the senior colonel’s scandalous claims to foreign counterparts at international conferences.
Yet not a single serious scholar or strategist inside China’s defense establishment has been able or permitted to challenge Col. Dai’s conspiracy mania face-to-face on national TV or in mainstream media outside of the Internet.
The reason is that Col. Dai represents views that are encouraged by China’s mainstream strategic culture, which is widely viewed as conspiratorial, anti-U.S. and paranoid a culture that does not allow open debate or the free exchange of views that contradict the official party line.
For these reasons, Col. Dai Xu is not on the fringe of China’s mainstream. He is the mainstream.
Monday 15 April 2013
ISAF captures senior Lashkar-e-Taiba leader in Ghazni who was trained by Pakistan Army and financed by ISI
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| Pakistan Army Generals laugh at a joke at the corps commanders meeting in Rawalpindi to discuss next places to bomb in the world with the help of terrorists |
The leader is alleged to have planned and participated in multiple attacks against Afghan and coalition forces throughout Kunar, Kandahar and Ghazni provinces. He is known to have links to multiple foreign fighters, and was actively planning a high-profile attack at the time of his arrest.
In other International Security Assistance Force news throughout Afghanistan:
South
Afghan and coalition security forces confirmed today the death of senior Taliban leader, Tawab, during an operation in Panjwa’i district, Kandahar province, Saturday. Tawab was in charge of approximately 50 fighters in the area and was responsible for most insurgent activity and attacks against Afghan and coalition forces in western and central Panjwa’I district.
Afghan and coalition security forces confirmed today the death of senior Taliban leader, Mullah Asadullah, during an operation in Nahr-e Saraj district, Helmand province, Wednesday. Asadullah had operational control over a cell of insurgents responsible for multiple attacks against Afghan and coalition forces. His group has been known to use IEDs, vehicle-mounted automatic grenade launchers, rocket propelled grenades and various other weapons during their operations.
Afghan and coalition security forces confirmed today the death of Taliban leader, Yassin, during an operation in Washer district, Helmand province, Saturday. Yassin was in charge of a cell of fighters responsible for IED operations against Afghan civilians in Kandahar district. He was also involved in the facilitation of weapons and vehicles for use in attacks against Afghan and coalition forces.
East
An Afghan and coalition security force arrested a Taliban leader and detained one other insurgent during an operation in Sherzad district, Nangarhar province, today. The leader is believed responsible for planning and conducting attacks on Afghan and coalition forces throughout Nangarhar province. He is also accused of using his residence as a staging point for insurgent operations, and of housing Taliban fighters and weapons in preparation for later assaults. The security force seized two AK-47s, one automatic shotgun, one grenade and ammunition as a result of the operation.
An Afghan and coalition security force killed insurgent leader, Rauf, and two other insurgents during an operation in Asadabad district, Kunar province, yesterday. Rauf was an operational planner responsible for coordinating attacks on Afghan and coalition forces in multiple provinces throughout Afghanistan. He has facilitated funding for foreign fighters and coordinated operations between the Taliban and other insurgent groups.
Russian Navy removes emblems to make faceless subs
Russian navy will reintroduce Soviet practice and make it more complicated for possible enemies to identify the submarines sailing in surface position.
he huge and highly visible emblems in the front on the submarines’ towers make it too easy to figure out which of them sailing or not, believes the main command of the Russian Navy. Now, the order is given to paint over the emblems and numbers on the submarine hulls. “The main task of a submarine sailing on combat duty is to remain unnoticed for the enemies’ anti-submarine forces and the identification signs are too visible,” says a navy sources
All Russian submarines have different naval numbers and names. The coat of arms with the name on the signs in front of the tower easily shows which submarine sailing. These signs will now be painted over, especially for submarines on duty testing weapons. This is the same practice that the Soviet navy used for their submarines in the Cold War area in the 80ies.
U.S. submarines are also sailing without markings.
Sunday 14 April 2013
US drones kill four Pakistani Terrorists in North Waziristan
Leaving aside the hype, we ordinary Pakistanis are very grateful for these drone strikes...good riddance of these terrorists.
All 6 drones could have fired all the 12 hellfire missiles.
MIRANSHAH: At least four people have been killed while several more were injured by a US drone strike on Sunday in North Waziristan, security officials said.
The attack took place in Datta Khel town, 35 kilometres (22 miles) west of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan region which borders Afghanistan.
Six US drones flew over the area when one of them fired two missiles at a compound in the Manzarkhel area of the town.
"The drones kept hovering at the compound for a while and then one drone fired two missiles at the time of sunset," a local security official said.
An eyewitness said that the compound caught fire after the strike leaving all the bodies burnt.
Ever wondered what these no go areas look like?
All 6 drones could have fired all the 12 hellfire missiles.
MIRANSHAH: At least four people have been killed while several more were injured by a US drone strike on Sunday in North Waziristan, security officials said.
The attack took place in Datta Khel town, 35 kilometres (22 miles) west of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan region which borders Afghanistan.
Six US drones flew over the area when one of them fired two missiles at a compound in the Manzarkhel area of the town.
"The drones kept hovering at the compound for a while and then one drone fired two missiles at the time of sunset," a local security official said.
An eyewitness said that the compound caught fire after the strike leaving all the bodies burnt.
Ever wondered what these no go areas look like?
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| Taliban will respond with a suicide attack |
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| Pakistan Army and intelligence agency ISI supplies weapons and rations to the terrorists to infiltrate into Afghanistan as you can see there is no vegetation or aammunition factories in sight here in Datta Khel area. How do these militant terrorists get food and ammunition? |
Saudi court convicts 11 on terrorism charges for fighting in Afghanistan
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| Wanted terrorist from Saudi Arabia |
RIYADH: A court in Saudi Arabia has convicted 11 of its citizens on terrorism-related charges, including disobeying the king and fighting in Afghanistan.
The defendants were given prison sentences ranging from four months to four years. All were banned from traveling abroad for at least one year following their release.
The special penal court in Riyadh did not immediately release further details related to the case.
Saudi Arabia runs a rehabilitation program that aims to dissuade militants from fighting alongside al-Qaida and its affiliates.
An audio recording released days ago by al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula urged Saudis to revolt against the kingdom for allowing U.S. drones to launch missions from its soil and strike militants in neighboring Yemen, where the group is most active.
Saudi authorities round up Shiites in spy row
Abu Dhabi: Saudi authorities have called in several influential Shiite Muslim clerics and intellectuals for questioning, as last month’s arrest of 16 people on charges of spying for Iran threatens to raise tensions between leaders of the religious minority and the government in the oil-rich kingdom.
Over the past days and weeks, the interior ministry has summoned scores of clerics and intellectuals from the towns of Ihsaa and Qatif in the oil-producing Eastern Province for interrogation, Saudi activists say.
The trigger for the summons was the Shiite community’s angry reaction to last month’s arrest of 16 Saudi Shiites, who are accused of providing information and documents to Iran, allegations that Iran denies.
Their arrest had prompted a wave of anti-Shiite rhetoric in the state media. Leading Shiite thinkers had then published statements questioning the timing and motive for their detention. Some suggested the arrests and the accusations of espionage had been designed to distract a population eager for reform.
Saturday 13 April 2013
US Navy Wants Lasers on Marines’ Trucks to Shoot Down Drones
If there was any doubt that the military has new confidence in its forthcoming laser arsenal, the Navy’s top geeks want to outfit Marines with a laser cannon to shoot small drones out of the sky.
Specifically, the Office of Naval Research thinks that Marine air-ground task forces are too vulnerable to adversaries flying cheap, small spy drones overhead, like the four-pound Raven the Marines themselves used in Iraq. Its answer: outfit Marine ground vehicles with laser guns.
It’s all part of a new Office of Naval Research program, formally unveiled Thursday, with the clunky name of Ground-Based Air Defense Directed Energy on the Move. For the time being, it’s just a research effort, but the office expects to award grants and contracts for it worth up to $400,000. And it’s doable.
So, the specs. The idea is to get a laser cannon weighing less than 2500 pounds mounted onto a Marine Humvee or comparable truck. The cannon needs to provide a “minimum optical output power” of 25 kilowatts, with an eye toward scaling up to 50 kilowatts, for a two-minute full-power blast. Hardware that can adjust for all “environmental conditions” Marines operate in — from a muggy beach to the arid climes of Helmand Province — is encouraged; the Office is agnostic on how researchers get there.
Is the effort realistic? Yes, but it’s also ambitious.
The Navy is making a big push during 2013 to get its laser arsenal finally out of the lab and into the fleet. The first task anticipated for the laser arsenal is exactly the one envisioned here for Marine trucks — shooting down small drones hovering too close for comfort. The Navy’s had solid-state lasers capable of burning through a boat’s outboard motor at sea for two years, and those models generated 15 kilowatts worth of power. In tests three years ago, an MK-15 Phalanx cannon tricked out to host a laser successfully shot down small drones.
Friday 12 April 2013
Indo-Russian Fifth generation fighter crosses milestone
India and Russia have crossed the first milestone towards the development of the fifth generation fighter aircraft (FGFA), completing the preliminary design of the plane.
“The preliminary design contract (PDC) for the Russian-Indian fifth generation aircraft has been executed,” Russia’s Sukhoi aircraft company announced on Wednesday.
The Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) signed the $295-million PDC contract in December 2010 with the Sukhoi company, which is responsible in Russia for developing the PAK-FA (perspective aviation complex-frontline aircraft), as the FGFA is called in Russia.
“The aircraft design has been fully developed,” Sukhoi said in a press release. “Both parties have agreed upon on the amount and division of work during the research and development (R&D) stage. A contract for the R&D is being prepared. It is to be signed this year.”Under the PDC contract Sukhoi has also trained Indian engineers and provided HAL with the data and software needed to create a single working environment. A team of HAL engineers and IAF experts has been working at Sukhoi’s design bureau in Moscow, while Russian engineers have been assigned to HAL.
Four T-50 aircraft, the Russian prototype of the fifth generation fighter, have already performed more than 200 test flights since January 2010.
The customised FGFA version will have “some differences” from the Russian prototype to meet “specific requirements of the Indian Air Force,” the Sukhoi announcement said.
Russian experts said the FGFA will differ in “mission hardware and software,” as well as weapons. India has dropped its initial plan to redesign the single-seat T-50 into a twin-seat version.
Air Chief Marshal N.A.K. Browne told reporters at Aero India-2013 that India is to receive from Russia the first prototype of the fifth-generation fighter in 2014, followed by two more in 2017 and 2018. The FGFA is expected to go into series production by 2022.This is India’s biggest-ever defence project and its largest defence deal with Russia. It is expected to cost India more than $30 billion. However, last year India scaled down its original plan to acquire 214 planes by one-third, to 144 aircraft, citing time and cost factors. Russia plans to induct 60 planes at an estimated price tag of $100 million per aircraft.
Taliban peace envoys living in luxuries, eating, making babies with Pakistani wifes in Qatar
“The Americans want their soldier back, the Taliban want a vacation, the Pakistanis(aka notorious Pak Army and intelligence agency ISI) want the Taliban to look independent of them, and the Afghans want distance between the Pakistanis and the Taliban.”
DOHA, Qatar: When a handful of Taliban emissaries flew into Qatar on an American plane in 2010, the Obama administration hoped they would help negotiate a peace deal that could stabilize Afghanistan and allow the United States a graceful exit.
Three years after that secret arrival, the Taliban officials remain idle and their political office here remains unused.
“They are just living here enjoying the air-conditioning, driving luxury cars, eating and making babies,” one Afghan diplomat in Qatar said. “It’s all they can do; they have no work to do,” said a report published in the New York Times.
They are unlikely to see a negotiating table anytime soon either, with the new fighting season in Afghanistan off to a particularly violent start and with the latest push to restart talks all but abandoned. Once again, the Taliban’s attention is on the battlefield, and on what may be gained or lost there as the American military begins its withdrawal from the war.
The Taliban presence here — eight or more relatively high-ranking officials with their families, Afghan officials say — is occasionally reconfirmed in a sighting on the streets or, in the case of the Afghan diplomat, when the Taliban men come to the sleepy Afghan Embassy here to register the birth of another child.
Early insurgent negotiations with American officials had a faltering start, initially over a proposed prisoner exchange, in which five Taliban figures being held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, would be released in exchange for the freedom of the lone American soldier being held prisoner by the Taliban, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. But American officials say that their talks have ended and that there have been no further discussions with the Taliban since early 2012.
Recently, Western diplomats in Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital, expressed hope that the discussions might resume amid intense diplomatic activity by many countries to push peace talks, this time led by Afghanistan. That hope now appears to have fizzled once again, and diplomats’ expectations of some movement by the end of March from the Taliban side have come to naught. President Hamid Karzai met here with the Qatari emir, Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, on March 31 in what Afghan officials billed as discussions about opening the office, but no developments were announced after the meeting.
“There is a limit to how long we can wait,” said another Western diplomat familiar with the peace efforts. “If at some point they don’t issue statements, it’s not open-ended. There are ways we can pressure the Taliban in Qatar.”
Officially, the Qataris have never explicitly admitted that the Taliban are even present here, and the government-controlled press never mentions it, although they have acknowledged that they are willing to host an official office for peace talks.
Qatari officials did not respond to requests for comment about the Taliban presence.
“With the Taliban, the Qataris have a hot potato,” said an Afghan journalist working here, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of being expelled. “How do you handle hosting suicide bombers? They can’t acknowledge them until that sort of activity stops.”
The Taliban representatives here are not lightweights. The most prominent among them is Tayeb Agha, the chief of staff to the Taliban’s leader, Mullah Muhammad Omar. Others include Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, the former Taliban health minister, and Qari din Mohammed Hanafi, their former minister of planning. The delegation includes veteran diplomats like Mualavi Shahabadin Delawar, the former Taliban ambassador to Saudi Arabia; Sohail Shaheen, a former ambassador to Pakistan; and Hafiz Aziz Rahman, the representative to the United Nations for the Taliban government when it ruled Afghanistan.
Just why the effort to open a Taliban office has faltered is a matter of dispute. The Americans say the Taliban have simply decided to continue fighting, worried by pressure from their own hard-liners and concerned that entering peace talks would sap their will on the battlefield. “No one wants to be the last one to die before peace talks start,” as one diplomat put it.
The Taliban say the Americans reneged on their confidence-building pledge to free the Guantánamo five, which would have been politically difficult for President Obama, given bipartisan opposition in Congress to such releases. Instead, the Americans insisted that talks would have to include the Afghan government first. The Taliban has rejected that condition, deriding the government of President Hamid Karzai as a puppet regime and saying it would talk to the Afghan government only after reaching a settlement with the Americans.
Still, neither Western diplomats nor the Taliban have given up on the idea of talks in Qatar. “There are Taliban all over the place talking about peace, but the U.S. government’s view is that the most promising is the Doha track,” one diplomat said.
Wahid Muzhda, a former official in the Taliban’s Foreign Ministry who now lives in Kabul but maintains contacts with the insurgents, said that “some of the Taliban still believe it’s worth having the office there, but its prospects do look dim.”
Both Taliban and American officials publicly agree on one thing: that they are no longer talking to each another, officially or unofficially.
That, however, is a development that the Afghan government has refused to believe. President Karzai has openly accused the Americans of doing so. “We think they are secretly talking,” the Afghan diplomat in Qatar said. “America is the best friend of Afghanistan, and between friends we should tell each other what we’re doing.”
The Afghans have not tried to block the Qatari initiative. “It suits everybody,” said the Afghan journalist working in Doha. “The Americans want their soldier back, the Taliban want a vacation, the Pakistanis want the Taliban to look independent of them, and the Afghans want distance between the Pakistanis and the Taliban.”
While in Qatar, the Taliban have scrupulously avoided all public appearances, refusing interviews and issuing no statements — which the Qataris have made a condition of their presence.
An Afghan diplomat was at a shopping mall in Doha recently and heard a child call out in Pashto, the language used by most Taliban.
The diplomat turned and saw Hanif din Mohammad, a Taliban representative from northern Badakhshan Province. Introducing himself as an embassy official, the diplomat then said, “So, are you from the other side?” Blushing, the Talib turned and walked away, children in tow.
DOHA, Qatar: When a handful of Taliban emissaries flew into Qatar on an American plane in 2010, the Obama administration hoped they would help negotiate a peace deal that could stabilize Afghanistan and allow the United States a graceful exit.
Three years after that secret arrival, the Taliban officials remain idle and their political office here remains unused.
“They are just living here enjoying the air-conditioning, driving luxury cars, eating and making babies,” one Afghan diplomat in Qatar said. “It’s all they can do; they have no work to do,” said a report published in the New York Times.
They are unlikely to see a negotiating table anytime soon either, with the new fighting season in Afghanistan off to a particularly violent start and with the latest push to restart talks all but abandoned. Once again, the Taliban’s attention is on the battlefield, and on what may be gained or lost there as the American military begins its withdrawal from the war.
The Taliban presence here — eight or more relatively high-ranking officials with their families, Afghan officials say — is occasionally reconfirmed in a sighting on the streets or, in the case of the Afghan diplomat, when the Taliban men come to the sleepy Afghan Embassy here to register the birth of another child.
Early insurgent negotiations with American officials had a faltering start, initially over a proposed prisoner exchange, in which five Taliban figures being held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, would be released in exchange for the freedom of the lone American soldier being held prisoner by the Taliban, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. But American officials say that their talks have ended and that there have been no further discussions with the Taliban since early 2012.
Recently, Western diplomats in Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital, expressed hope that the discussions might resume amid intense diplomatic activity by many countries to push peace talks, this time led by Afghanistan. That hope now appears to have fizzled once again, and diplomats’ expectations of some movement by the end of March from the Taliban side have come to naught. President Hamid Karzai met here with the Qatari emir, Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, on March 31 in what Afghan officials billed as discussions about opening the office, but no developments were announced after the meeting.
“There is a limit to how long we can wait,” said another Western diplomat familiar with the peace efforts. “If at some point they don’t issue statements, it’s not open-ended. There are ways we can pressure the Taliban in Qatar.”
Officially, the Qataris have never explicitly admitted that the Taliban are even present here, and the government-controlled press never mentions it, although they have acknowledged that they are willing to host an official office for peace talks.
Qatari officials did not respond to requests for comment about the Taliban presence.
“With the Taliban, the Qataris have a hot potato,” said an Afghan journalist working here, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of being expelled. “How do you handle hosting suicide bombers? They can’t acknowledge them until that sort of activity stops.”
The Taliban representatives here are not lightweights. The most prominent among them is Tayeb Agha, the chief of staff to the Taliban’s leader, Mullah Muhammad Omar. Others include Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, the former Taliban health minister, and Qari din Mohammed Hanafi, their former minister of planning. The delegation includes veteran diplomats like Mualavi Shahabadin Delawar, the former Taliban ambassador to Saudi Arabia; Sohail Shaheen, a former ambassador to Pakistan; and Hafiz Aziz Rahman, the representative to the United Nations for the Taliban government when it ruled Afghanistan.
Just why the effort to open a Taliban office has faltered is a matter of dispute. The Americans say the Taliban have simply decided to continue fighting, worried by pressure from their own hard-liners and concerned that entering peace talks would sap their will on the battlefield. “No one wants to be the last one to die before peace talks start,” as one diplomat put it.
The Taliban say the Americans reneged on their confidence-building pledge to free the Guantánamo five, which would have been politically difficult for President Obama, given bipartisan opposition in Congress to such releases. Instead, the Americans insisted that talks would have to include the Afghan government first. The Taliban has rejected that condition, deriding the government of President Hamid Karzai as a puppet regime and saying it would talk to the Afghan government only after reaching a settlement with the Americans.
Still, neither Western diplomats nor the Taliban have given up on the idea of talks in Qatar. “There are Taliban all over the place talking about peace, but the U.S. government’s view is that the most promising is the Doha track,” one diplomat said.
Wahid Muzhda, a former official in the Taliban’s Foreign Ministry who now lives in Kabul but maintains contacts with the insurgents, said that “some of the Taliban still believe it’s worth having the office there, but its prospects do look dim.”
Both Taliban and American officials publicly agree on one thing: that they are no longer talking to each another, officially or unofficially.
That, however, is a development that the Afghan government has refused to believe. President Karzai has openly accused the Americans of doing so. “We think they are secretly talking,” the Afghan diplomat in Qatar said. “America is the best friend of Afghanistan, and between friends we should tell each other what we’re doing.”
The Afghans have not tried to block the Qatari initiative. “It suits everybody,” said the Afghan journalist working in Doha. “The Americans want their soldier back, the Taliban want a vacation, the Pakistanis want the Taliban to look independent of them, and the Afghans want distance between the Pakistanis and the Taliban.”
While in Qatar, the Taliban have scrupulously avoided all public appearances, refusing interviews and issuing no statements — which the Qataris have made a condition of their presence.
An Afghan diplomat was at a shopping mall in Doha recently and heard a child call out in Pashto, the language used by most Taliban.
The diplomat turned and saw Hanif din Mohammad, a Taliban representative from northern Badakhshan Province. Introducing himself as an embassy official, the diplomat then said, “So, are you from the other side?” Blushing, the Talib turned and walked away, children in tow.
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