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Archive for category News
Scores of Taliban Killed in 2 Airstrikes
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 25/Sep/2010 16:37
By ROD NORDLAND
KABUL, Afghanistan — Two separate airstrikes killed more than 70 Taliban insurgents on Saturday, NATO officials said, although some local residents said that civilians were among the victims.
In eastern Laghman Province, a combined force of Afghan and coalition soldiers airlifted troops into the Masooda village in the Alishing district to clear the area of insurgents, the international forces said in a statement. After coming under fire, they called for air support, and 32 insurgents were killed, according to Afghan police officials. NATO officials separately put the death toll at “more than 30.â€
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/26/world/asia/26afghan.html?_r=1
Military’s Cyber Commander Swears: “No Role†in Civilian Networks
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 24/Sep/2010 22:48
If your business gets hacked, don’t bother calling the U.S. military’s new Cyber Command.
Sure, the unit has some of the government’s top geeks — and is oh-so-conveniently co-located with the network infiltration experts at the National Security Agency. But Cyber Command is too busy trying to shore up the Pentagon’s digital defenses. Plus, they’re not even sure helping your company out would be legal, yet.
“Right now, we do not have a role,†new Cyber Command chief Gen. Keith Alexander tells reporters in a rare on-the-record interview. “Within the United States, I do not believe that’s where Cyber Command should or will operate.â€
Changing that, Alexander adds, “is a decision the White House needs to make.â€
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/09/militarys-cyber-commander-swears-no-role-on-civilian-networks/#ixzz10VeDt0xu
Army Reveals Afghan Biometric ID Plan; Millions Scanned, Carded by May
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 24/Sep/2010 22:43
Scanning prisoners’ irises is just Step 1. In Afghanistan, local and NATO forces are amassing biometric dossiers on hundreds of thousands of cops, crooks, soldiers, insurgents and ordinary citizens. And now, with NATO’s backing, the Kabul government is putting together a plan to issue biometrically backed identification cards to 1.65 million Afghans by next May.
The idea is to hinder militant movement around the country, and to keep Taliban infiltrators out of the army, NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan commander Lt. Gen. William Caldwell tells Danger Room. “The system allows the Afghans to thoroughly screen applicants and recruits for any potential negative past history or criminal linkages, while at the same time it provides an additional measure of security at checkpoints and major facilities to prevent possible entrance and access by malign actors in Afghanistan,†Caldwell e-mails.
Maggie Reese/Team Surefire at USPSA Multi-gun Nationals
Posted by Gary in Matches and Competitions, News, Warriors on 23/Sep/2010 15:06
Press Release
Team SureFire Stands Tall on the Podium at USPSA Multi-gun Nationals
Fountain Valley, CA — SureFire, LLC, manufacturer of high-end illumination tools and tactical products, is proud to announce Team SureFire’s incredibly successful weekend at the USPSA Multi-gun Nationals. Women’s shooting captain, Maggie Reese, was crowned the female Open Division National Champion for the second time in a row, and every member of the team placed third place or above in their divisions.
Maggie Reese
“Last year’s championship was so incredible that it was hard to wrap my head around because it was my first win and just my second competition,” said Reese. “This year is just as exciting, but it’s also more satisfying because now I have a whole team to share it with.”
Reese, a Southern California native, just started shooting competitively three years ago. Now she’s a back-to-back national champion in her only two attempts. Reese signed on as SureFire’s female shooting captain only two months ago and now has won another national championship for one of the most dominant teams in the sport.
CIA’s Afghan Kill Teams Expand U.S. War in Pakistan
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 22/Sep/2010 18:26
Let there be no doubt that the U.S. is at war in Pakistan. It’s not just the drone strikes. According to insider journalist Bob Woodward’s new book, the CIA manages a large and lethal band of Afghan fighters to infiltrate into Pakistan and attack al-Qaeda’s bases. What could possibly go wrong?
Woodward’s not-yet-available Obama’s Wars, excerpted today in the Washington Post and the New York Times, unveils a CIA initiative called the Counterterrorist Pursuit Teams, a posse of anti-Taliban and al-Qaeda locals who don’t respect the porous Afghanistan-Pakistan border. The teams are practically brigade-sized: a “paramilitary army†of 3000 Afghans, said to be “elite, well-trained†and capable of quietly crossing over in the Pakistani extremist safe havens where U.S. troops aren’t allowed to operate. The CIA directs and funds the teams.
Administration officials didn’t just confirm the existence of the teams — they bragged about them. “This is one of the best Afghan fighting forces and it’s made major contributions to stability and security,†says one U.S. official who would only talk on condition of anonymity — and who wouldn’t elaborate.
U.S. welcomes Russia’s ban on S-300 missile sales to Iran
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 22/Sep/2010 18:09
The U.S. welcomes the Russian president’s decree to prohibit the delivery of S-300 air defense missile systems and other weapons to Iran, a White House official said.
National Security Council spokesman Mike Hammer welcomed the move as a “faithful and robust implementation of UN Security Council resolution 1929” of June 9, 2010, which imposes an additional set of sanctions on the Islamic Republic over its controversial nuclear program.
A Change of Course in Cuba and Venezuela?
A Change of Course in Cuba and Venezuela? is republished with permission of STRATFOR.
By George Friedman and Reva Bhalla
Strange statements are coming out of Cuba these days. Fidel Castro, in the course of a five-hour interview in late August, reportedly told Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic and Julia Sweig of the Council on Foreign Relations that “the Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.â€
Once that statement hit the headlines, Castro backtracked. Dressed in military uniform for the first time in four years (which we suspect was his way of signaling that he was not abandoning the revolution), he delivered a rare, 35-minute speech Sept. 3 to students at the University of Havana. In addition to spending several minutes on STRATFOR’s Iran analysis, Castro addressed his earlier statement on the Cuban model, saying he was “accurately quoted but misinterpreted†and suggesting that the economic model doesn’t work anymore but that the revolution lives on.
Castro, now 84, may be old, but he still seems to have his wits about him. We don’t know whether he was grossly misinterpreted by the reporter during the earlier interview, was acknowledging the futility of the Cuban model and/or was dropping hints of a policy shift. Regardless of what he did or did not say, Castro’s reported statement on the weakness of the revolution was by no means revolutionary. Read the rest of this entry »
Girls Really In To Shooting – GRITS
I have a soft spot in my heart for chicks with guns. I stumbled across these ladies on Facebook.
The Gates at Fort Bliss in Texas Were Closed After a Shooting Monday Afternoon
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 21/Sep/2010 01:31
“The El Paso Times is reporting that one armed assailant shot two people at a convenience store on the Fort Bliss military base before they themselves were killed by law enforcement around 3pm.
CNN is reporting that one man, believed to be the shooter, is dead and two females are wounded. There were earlier reports that this was a murder / suicide, but it now appears that is not the case.
The shooting occurred at Cassidy’s Shopette, located at 1333 Cassidy Road.
It is not known at this time what the motive for the shooting was. The residents of the base were alerted to the shooting through an emergency-response e-mail system.
http://www.nowpublic.com/world/fort-bliss-shooting-sept-20-least-1-dead-after-shooting-2668034.html
1950s American military psyops in the Philippines: use vampire tales to create panic in Communist Huk rebels
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 21/Sep/2010 01:26
“The operation was a truly ingenious one that was coordinated by a certain Major General Edward G. Lansdale.
In his own words, Lansdale would later say that: “To the superstitious, the Huk battleground was a haunted place filled with ghosts and eerie creatures.
A combat psy-war squad was brought in. It planted stories among town residents of an Asuang living on the hill where the Huks were based. Two nights later, after giving the stories time to make their way up to the hill camp, the psywar squad set up an ambush along the trail used by the Huks.â€
Lansdale continued: “When a Huk patrol came along the trail, the ambushers silently snatched the last man of the patrol, their move unseen in the dark night. They punctured his neck with two holes, vampire-fashion, held the body up by the heels, drained it of blood, and put the corpse back on the trail.
When the Huks returned to look for the missing man and found their bloodless comrade, every member of the patrol believed that the Asuang had got him and that one of them would be next if they remained on that hill.
When daylight came, the whole Huk squadron moved out of the vicinity.â€
Sangin, Afghanistan: Taliban stronghold, “Afghanistan’s Fallujah”
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 21/Sep/2010 01:11
By Thomas Harding, Defence Correspondent
“I’d tell anyone now don’t come here because I’d never want to come here again,” one soldier told me this summer at a Sangin patrol base hemmed in by all sides by insurgents.
“This place is different to anywhere else; really it’s a Taliban stronghold,” he added.
The town is likely to remain a Taliban redoubt because it always has been and there is little desire, or resources, to tackle Sangin’s problems. The centre for the narcotics trade and a hub for warring tribes the complexities of Sangin’s problems are deep.
But the town is also the testing ground for the Taliban where an average of 400 external fighters come each year to “earn their stripes” and the fighting is of an intensity not found anywhere else in Helmand. On average there are 15 small arms fire contacts a day and 15 IEDs found a week.
No wonder then that troops nicknamed Sangin the “bastard child of Helmand” or “Afghanistan’s Fallujah”.
Helicopter crash in Afghanistan kills nine Western troops
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Warriors on 21/Sep/2010 01:07
“Nine Western service members died Tuesday in a helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan, making this the deadliest year for NATO in the nine-year war.
Military officials did not immediately disclose the nationalities of the dead or say precisely where the crash happened. Two other Western troops, an Afghan soldier and an American civilian were injured, NATO’s International Security Assistance Force said in a statement.
Combat deaths in June and July had spiked to the highest levels of the conflict. With Tuesday’s crash, according to icasualties.org, 529 members of the international force have been killed this year. The previous high was 2009, when 521 Western troops were killed, according to the website’s tally.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-afghan-chopper-crash-20100921,0,6586947.story
Cpl. Paul Miller, Combat Engineer, Honored at Memorial
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Warriors on 20/Sep/2010 22:38
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The 3rd Combat Engineer Battalion’s firing detail executes a 21-gun salute before the playing of Taps during Cpl. Paul Miller’s memorial ceremony aboard Camp Delaram II, Aug. 10. Miller, a combat engineer with 3rd CEB, Regimental Combat Team 2, was killed in action while on a patrol. During the ceremony, many Marines from Miller’s unit spoke about Miller’s character and told stories about Miller, as a Marine and a friend. After the ceremony was concluded, Marines passed by Miller’s battlefield memorial to say a quick prayer and salute the fallen Marine. Photo by Sgt. Dorian Gardner
Airdrops Break Records in Afghanistan
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Warriors on 20/Sep/2010 22:36
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Forty container-delivery-system bundles, parachute to the ground from a C-17 Globemaster III May 9, 2010, over a drop zone in Afghanistan. Photo by Staff Sgt. Manuel J. Martinez
Pakistan Humanitarian Aid
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Warriors on 20/Sep/2010 22:33
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A Pakistani soldier watches flour being unloaded from a U.S. Army CH-47 helicopter at Rubicon, Pakistan, Sept. 19. Pakistan and it's people, have been recovering from record floods over the recent weeks and many roads were completely destroyed. Photo by: Spc. Stephen J. Schmitz