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Archive for category News
British Female Medic Awarded Military Cross
From: American Ranger
Courageous Army medic awarded Military Cross
By Brian Brady, Whitehall Editor
Sunday, 27 March 2011
An Army medic who put herself in “mortal danger” to treat a wounded Afghan soldier under heavy Taliban fire has been awarded the Military Cross, Britain’s third-highest medal for gallantry.
Lance Corporal Kylie Watson, who gave the casualty medical care in exposed open ground for 20 minutes before getting him to a helicopter, is one of more than 130 servicemen and women commended for bravery in the latest military honours list.
The medic, who also made a 100-yard dash through enemy fire to help another Afghan soldier, was praised for her “immense courage [and] willingness to put her own life at risk”.
L/Cpl Watson, of the Royal Army Medical Corps, stemmed the soldier’s bleeding despite being hampered by other Afghan troops, and got the injured man to a helicopter landing site 200 yards away.
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Signs Concealed-carry Bill into Law
Posted by Jack Sinclair in Law, News on 10/Jul/2011 17:24
ROTHSCHILD, Wis. (AP) — “Wisconsin has become the 49th state to legalize the carrying of concealed weapons.
Gov. Scott Walker signed a bill Friday removing the state’s ban. Except for a few minor aspects, the bulk of the law goes into effect in November.
Under Wisconsin’s law, people who obtain a permit and go through training will be allowed to carry concealed weapons in most public buildings, including the state Capitol and city halls, unless a sign is posted saying they are not permitted.”
http://www.newsmax.com/US/ConcealedCarry-Wisconsin/2011/07/09/id/403027?s=al&promo_code=C95C-1
Washington Post Blames the NRA for ATF Gun Running Scandal?
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 8/Jul/2011 21:56
“I don’t know what it is about gun issues that makes people lose their minds, but this editorial from the Washington Post is pretty incredible. The post acknowledges that the ATF flooding Mexico with 2,500 weapons which were used in a variety of crimes — including the murder of a U.S. border agent — was pretty questionable, but the real culprits are the NRA who has dared to criticize the agency…
…So in the wake of an incredible scandal that shows exceedingly poor judgment and got a number of people killed, the Washington Post is arguing the ATF should be given more power?”
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/washington-post-blames-nra-atf-gun-running-scandal_575582.html
Meet “the snapper.â€
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 8/Jul/2011 00:16
by Michael Yon
“The enemy has difficulty hitting our vehicles with RCIEDs (radio-controlled IEDs) because our countermeasures are excellent. Low-tech inexpensive methods, such as land mines, can work against us on roads, but the problem with land mines is that they are dumb and they blow up the first thing that ticks them off, which likely will be civilian traffic. Enemy CIVCAS toxifies their operating environment and also misses their target.
And so the enemy has developed techniques to circumvent countermeasures and reduce CIVCAS. One of those techniques is “the snapper.â€
The snapper uses a tire for a diaphragm in which nails are used for contacts. When a vehicle rolls over a snapper, the circuit closes. To avoid CIVCAS, the enemy waits in hiding with a battery. One of the electrodes is connected. Traffic is allowed to roll over the snapper but there is no explosion. When the target approaches, the enemy attaches the other connection and now the snapper is ARMED.”
Alabama’s new immigration bill
Posted by Jack Sinclair in Law, News, Threat Watch on 7/Jul/2011 16:35
“The tough new bill includes strict provisions that go even farther than the controversial Arizona law that sparked national debate last year
Alabama’s legislature has passed a hard-hitting bill that would make it a state crime to be an undocumented immigrant. Inspired by Arizona’s controversial law, the Alabama bill would make cops ask for proof of legal residence from anyone they think might be in the U.S. illegally, with the person jailed until their status is verified.
It would also penalize anyone who hires, shelters, rents to, or gives a ride to illegal immigrants, and bars illegal immigrants from public universities.
http://theweek.com/article/index/216062/alabamas-outrageous-immigration-bill
Taliban Hotel Attack: Low Death Toll, High Psychological Value
Posted by Brian in News, Threat Watch on 7/Jul/2011 13:54
Taliban Hotel Attack: Low Death Toll, High Psychological Value is republished with permission of STRATFOR.
By Scott Stewart
At about 10 p.m. on June 28, a group of heavily armed militants attacked the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan. According to government and media reports, the attack team consisted of eight or nine militants who were reportedly wearing suicide vests in addition to carrying other weapons. At least three of the attackers detonated their vests during the drawn-out fight. Afghan security forces, assisted by International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), needed some eight hours to clear the hotel of attackers. One group of militants even worked their way up to the roof of the hotel, where they fired several rocket-propelled grenades.
The attack resulted in the deaths of 12 people, as well as all the militants. The Taliban had a different take on the attack, posting a series of statements on their website claiming responsibility and saying the assault was conducted by eight operatives who killed 90 people and that the real news of their success was being suppressed. (Initially, the Taliban claimed to have killed 200 in the attack but reduced the toll to 90 in later statements.)
NATO and ISAF spokesmen have noted their belief that, due to the location and use of suicide bombers in the attack, the Haqqani network was involved in the operation. On the evening of June 29, a NATO airstrike killed Ismail Jan, a senior Haqqani leader in Afghanistan who NATO claims was involved in planning the hotel attack. Read the rest of this entry »
The HULC: Lockheed Martin’s latest piece of Army equipment
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Warrior Tools on 6/Jul/2011 21:37
“The fact that Lockheed Martin’s latest piece of Army equipment is called the HULC (pronounced like the comic book character The Hulk) is appropriate. That’s because the pack management system works as a superhuman “exoskeleton.â€
The name stands for Human Universal Load Carrier, and it’s meant to lighten a soldiers individual load while out in the field while also allowing him to carry things never thought possible. The description from Lockheed Martin is incredible:
The HULC is a completely un-tethered, hydraulic-powered anthropomorphic exoskeleton that provides users with the ability to carry loads of up to 200 lbs for extended periods of time and over all terrains. Its flexible design allows for deep squats, crawls and upper-body lifting. There is no joystick or other control mechanism. The exoskeleton senses what users want to do and where they want to go.”
STI 10mm and Uncle Ted
Uncle Ted shoots the STI Perfect 10 for the first time and loves it. Â Good ol Uncle Ted.
Dust in Afghanistan, Iraq may be Harmful
From: USA Today
Scientists say Pentagon misleads on dust study.
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is falsely claiming its research shows that airborne dust in Iraq and Afghanistan poses no health risk to U.S. troops, say three scientists whose review of that research found it riddled with mistakes.
Military officials then falsely said the review of their research backed their conclusion that the dust in the two war zones is no different from that in California, scientists Philip Hopke, Mark Utell and Anthony Wexler say.
Pakistani Spy Agency Reportedly Ordered Journalist’s Assassination
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 5/Jul/2011 18:35
Pakistani journalist Saleem Shahzad was found dead in Pakistan last May. Now, U.S. officials are saying that evidence concludes that Shahzad was assassinated by the Pakistani Spy Agency — a claim the Pakistani government has denied.
http://www.npr.org/2011/07/05/137630995/isi-reportedly-ordered-pakistani-journalists-assassination
For first time in their history, Canada leaving battlefield with war still raging.
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 5/Jul/2011 18:32
Brig.-Gen. Dean Milner, commander of Canadian troops in Afghanistan (right), shares a smile with Lt.-Col. Steve Miller, who is charge of the 3rd Battalion 21st U.S. Infantry Regiment, (left) as Lt.-Col. Michel-Henri St-Louis, the commander of the 1st Battalion Royal 22e Regiment battle group (seated) signs transfer of authority papers on Tuesday, July 5, 2011. For all intents and purposes Canada's war in Kandahar ended Tuesday as the battlefield was formally handed over to American units. MURRAY BREWSTER/THE CANADIAN PRESS
“We are packing up our dolls and dishes, exchanging gifts with our hosts — embroidered bolts of cloth for them, traditional Afghan man-shawls for us, awkward embraces all ’round — and heading home, putting the best face possible on an about-face that allows us to not lose face.
As of Tuesday, July 5, 2011, after 62 months and 157 lives lost, we’re done here.
At ease, Canada.
… There is still a Canadian platoon out in the field, conducting joint patrols with Americans and the Afghan National Army, but this is a segue presence and will conclude shortly. A training team, of course, remains in Kabul, expanding in months to come — the oar that Prime Minister Stephen Harper will allow to keep paddling against the current of Afghanistan destabilizing further, possibly reversing into chaos, anarchy and civil war anew.
But Canadians are now out of harm’s way, released from the badlands of Kandahar, even if that’s not what Canadian solders wanted.”
http://www.thestar.com/article/1020077–leaving-is-hard-to-do-even-in-afghanistan
Tributes To Highlander Scott McLaren, 20
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 5/Jul/2011 18:22
Highlander Scott McLaren, 20, joined the army in August 2009
“Colleagues of the British soldier who was found dead yesterday after going missing in Afghanistan have described Highlander Scott McLaren’s death as a “huge blow”.
British soldier Highlander Scott McLaren from 4th Battalion, the Royal Regiment of Scotland who went missing from a checkpoint in Afghanistan and was later found dead.
The Taliban Will Rule Afghanistan
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 3/Jul/2011 20:07
By Walid Phares
The administration’s plan for Afghanistan may include reconciliation with the Taliban, but the latter have no plans that allow American gains, much less bilateral-negotiations to end the conflict.
It appears that the administration is tangoing with an imaginary partner. Neville Chamberlain’s wishful Sept. 30, 1938 proclamation, “I have returned to Germany with peace in our time,†should serve as a chilling reminder to those who are under the illusion that war is receding which in fact, it is about to escalate into global conflict.
The Taliban strategy is not obscure; most of it has been announced, publicized and is based in ideology, as has been the case with totalitarian movements throughout history. U.S. inability to grasp Taliban plans is not due to the jihadists’ highly-developed denial and deception skills, but rather to the unwillingness or inability of the U.S. and its allies to see it.
The Taliban long-term strategic plan is simple: practice taqiyya to gain terrain and power; resume jihad to eliminate the other forms of governance; and implement their version of Shariah to reverse democracy.
http://www.newsmax.com/WalidPhares/taliban-shariah-afghanistan-Taqiyya/2011/07/02/id/402288
In North Korea, Even Army Is Starving
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 3/Jul/2011 12:30
Food shortages in North Korea have become so acute that even the traditionally well-fed military is starving, according to hidden camera footage from inside the impoverished communist state.
Based on the footage, shot by an undercover North Korean journalist, ABC News reports: “It is clear that the all-powerful army, once quarantined from food shortages and famine, is starting to go hungry.â€
One soldier told the journalist: “Everybody is weak. Within my troop of 100 comrades, half of them are malnourished.â€
The regime “used to put the military first, but now it can’t even supply food to its soldiers,†said Jiro Ishimaru, who trained the undercover reporter. “Rice is being sold in markets but they are starving. This is the most significant thing in this video.â€
Prosecutor: Inmates Prefer Gitmo to Freedom
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 3/Jul/2011 12:28
“Some prisoners being held at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba would rather remain in American custody there than be released to return to their home countries, a former Gitmo prosecutor said.
“Interestingly, some detainees were offered release, and asked to stay in Gitmo,†Kyndra Rotunda, who served in the Army Judge Advocate General’s office, told CNS News.
“They prefer captivity in Gitmo to freedom in their own countries.â€
Just last week, black-hooded activists with the group Witness Against Torture protested outside the White House, claiming in a news release that the Obama administration was responsible for the “ongoing torture, mistreatment and indefinite detention of troops at Guantanamo Bay.â€
But far from being tortured, Rotunda said prisoners at Gitmo are given a wide range of freedoms.
“They are outside of their housing bays for up to 12 hours a day. During that time, they can take classes, visit the library — which has over 5,000 titles, including the Harry Potter series translated into Arabic — exercise, check out movies or games, play sports — detainees can chose from a selection of athletic shoes — or even visit the computer lab.â€
Rotunda is now a civilian teaching military and international law at Chapman University Law School in Southern California, and she lectures at the University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of “Honor Bound: Inside the Guantanamo Trials,†about her experiences at Gitmo.
All detainees are allowed to freely practice their religion at Gitmo, she told CNS News.
“The Muslim call to prayer is broadcast over loudspeakers five times a day. During this time, the prison guards are instructed to give each detainee 20 minutes of uninterrupted time, even if the detainee is not praying.
“When I was in Gitmo, the camp commander hosted a celebration for detainees to mark the end of Ramadan and flew in seasonal nuts and dates for the celebration,†she added.