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Talk about psy-ops
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Who are the iraqis going to vote, when the list of the 7000 candidates is not published becouse of the security reason?
Is it democratic if you dont know who you are voting?
Quote[/b] ] The election is for a 275-member National Assembly that will oversee the drafting of a permanent constitution. -
Report: U.S. Conducting Secret Missions Inside Iran
Quote[/b] ]WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has been conducting secret reconnaissance missions inside Iran to help identify potential nuclear, chemical and missile targets, The New Yorker magazine reported Sunday.The article, by award-winning reporter Seymour Hersh, said the secret missions have been going on at least since last summer with the goal of identifying target information for three dozen or more suspected sites.
Hersh quotes one government consultant with close ties to the Pentagon as saying, "The civilians in the Pentagon want to go into Iran and destroy as much of the military infrastructure as possible."
One former high-level intelligence official told The New Yorker, "This is a war against terrorism, and Iraq is just one campaign. The Bush administration is looking at this as a huge war zone. Next, we're going to have the Iranian campaign."
The White House said Iran is a concern and a threat that needs to be taken seriously. But it disputed the report by Hersh, who last year exposed the extent of prisoner abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
"We obviously have a concern about Iran. The whole world has a concern about Iran," Dan Bartlett, a top aide to President Bush, told CNN's "Late Edition."
Of The New Yorker report, he said: "I think it's riddled with inaccuracies, and I don't believe that some of the conclusions he's drawing are based on fact."
Bartlett said the administration "will continue to work through the diplomatic initiatives" to convince Iran -- which Bush once called part of an "axis of evil" -- not to pursue nuclear weapons.
"No president, at any juncture in history, has ever taken military options off the table," Bartlett added. "But what President Bush has shown is that he believes we can emphasize the diplomatic initiatives that are underway right now."
COMMANDO TASK FORCE
Bush has warned Iran in recent weeks against meddling in Iraqi elections.
The former intelligence official told Hersh that an American commando task force in South Asia is working closely with a group of Pakistani scientists who had dealt with their Iranian counterparts.
The New Yorker reports that this task force, aided by information from Pakistan, has been penetrating into eastern Iran in a hunt for underground nuclear-weapons installations.
In exchange for this cooperation, the official told Hersh, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has received assurances that his government will not have to turn over Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of Pakistan's atomic bomb, to face questioning about his role in selling nuclear secrets to Iran, Libya and North Korea.
Hersh reported that Bush has already "signed a series of top-secret findings and executive orders authorizing secret commando groups and other Special Forces units to conduct covert operations against suspected terrorist targets in as many as 10 nations in the Middle East and South Asia."
Defining these as military rather than intelligence operations, Hersh reported, will enable the Bush administration to evade legal restrictions imposed on the CIA's covert activities overseas.
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If you dont like the news they report, is it the reporters fault then?I just wish it could be more accurate, that is their job after all
EDIT: By the way, I'm not taking a political stance in this if that is what anyone is thinking. The news usually just sucks in general. Ever noticed how they love reporting bad things, yet hate reporting happy things
?I see what you mean, but there are news, and there are "news" , whether you read the reuters,bbc,cnn, or in the other hand foxnews, daily mail etc. I get my news from trusted medias, everything else that I read are rumours, until picked up by several many newsagencies...Hope that cleared up my stance, but I still disagree with attitude of nowadays (and the articles above) that "its not our fault, its the medias fault"
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Thanks for the heads up Balls, stay safe!
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We have our first pin-via-mail: added CanalienThat'll be from the OGN forums
Would be nice if Catshitone (maker of the famous Afghnistan island) could hear about this, IIRC he was in Guam or some such place?
Hope he wasnt in the way of the tsunami anyways... Wasnt he once allready?
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While DOD tells it tales, reality tells another story:
Quote[/b] ]BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Seven U.S. soldiers were killed on Thursday when their Bradley Fighting Vehicle hit an explosive device on a road in northwestern Baghdad, the U.S. military said in a statement.The group was on a routine security patrol when the attack occurred at 6 p.m. local time, said Captain Patricia Brewer, a U.S. military spokeswoman.
"All of the occupants were killed," she said.
Iraq's U.S.-backed government said on Thursday it was extending emergency powers equivalent to martial law for a further 30 days to try to safeguard Jan. 30 elections, which are under threat from deadly attacks.
More than 90 people, mostly Iraqi policemen, have been killed this week alone in the violent campaign targeting the U.S.-backed interim government, its security services and U.S. forces.
Since the war began in March 2003, 1,062 American troops have died in combat.
+ 2 marines dead elsewhere in Iraq today.
Quote[/b] ]PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - New Jersey is collecting used bulletproof vests for U.S. troops in Iraq to use as armor for their vehicles, following complaints that soldiers were underprotected.Acting Gov. Richard Codey on Thursday asked all local, state and federal law enforcement agencies in New Jersey to donate used vests that could be used to strengthen armor on military vehicles.
"We are establishing regional drop-off points at our National Guard armories to collect used bulletproof vests to give our troops every possible protection," Codey said in a statement.
The vests are intended for vehicles and not for individual soldiers, who already have personal body armor, the statement said.
The U.S. government has been accused in recent months of failing to properly protect its forces in Iraq where some 140,000 troops are fighting an insurgency.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, on a visit to Kuwait last month, was grilled by a U.S. soldier who said troops have been forced to protect their vehicles with any scrap they can find.
"Why do we soldiers have to dig through local landfills for pieces of scrap metal and compromised ballistic glass to uparmor our vehicles?" Army Specialist Thomas Wilson asked Rumsfeld, to cheers from some 2,000 fellow soldiers.
Codey's initiative was launched because he wanted to help an existing grass-roots appeal, said Sean Darcy, a spokesman for the acting governor. "This was something that was already going on, and he wanted to give it greater prominence," Darcy said.
The vest-collection effort could also give politically useful publicity to Codey, who took over as acting governor in November from the resigned Jim McGreevey. Codey is considering a run for a full term this year and would face a tough field of potential challengers.
Some vests are being collected by the New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police, whose forces total some 25,000 officers. Even as the vests reach the end of their useful life for people, they can still help reinforce vehicles, said Mitchell Sklar, executive director of the organization.
"There are hundreds and hundreds of vests that we have no use for and, rather than dumping them, we feel that we are doing our bit," Sklar said.
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What's the USO exactly?Quote[/b] ]USO entertainer at the Ft. Crook hospital in Omaha.
The national United Service Organization (USO) was organized on April 17, 1941. It was created to serve the religious, spiritual, and educational needs of the men and women in the armed forces. USO clubs were to be financed by the public through voluntary contributions.
During the war, volunteers, mostly women, organized USO clubs throughout Nebraska. USO clubs sponsored a variety of activities for service personnel that included dances, sporting events, and dinners in the homes of local families.
The flag of the National War Fund often hung in USO clubs. Because there were so many agencies seeking funds during the war, the government created the National War Fund. It was based on the idea of a Community Chest -- consolidating many causes in one large fund drive. To receive funds an agency had to be approved as being essential to the war effort by the president's War Relief Control Board. The USO received nearly half of the money collected by the National War Fund in 1944.
Locally, the Lincolnettes, an organization of young women from Lincoln, served as partners and hostesses in recreational activities for service men stationed in Lincoln.
And at the large ammunition depot in Hastings, a separate USO club was organized for African-American service personnel stationed there. The armed forces in WWII were still racially segregated, and separate clubs were organized across the national and overseas.
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I would definetly get an 9800 pro 256mb, and put a 9800xt bios in it, so it would work as 9800xt.
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It all depends on where do you want to see the villain. How does this thing differ from the german newspapers blaming the jews in the 30´s?
Replace the word arab, with the word jew, and the word islam, with the word judaism, and voila,here we have a relic of the third reich.
The difference between US and Europe is that war was fought in Europe, and most of the european citys are in this day still bearing the scars of that terrible war, and people want to prevent such thing from happening in the future. Flaming a certain ethnic, or religious group doesnt solve anything, on the contrary, we see what was done in name of that in Germany back in the 30´s
As for Aftonbladet, iirc its a tabloid comperable to the sun in Britain.
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add -console to your shortcut, just like -nomap in ofp.
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im on the level after the buggy coastal drive, i entered prison, accompanied by my "mates" and killed all guards...now i seem to be stuck...can anyone help out?i8f you are in a prison, try to throw a grenade to a room near you..
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Quote[/b] ]Well Saddam did support Hamas and Hezbolla. They don't count as terrorist organisations though, they just kill filthy jews and I hear they built a school. (They can't top old Bin though, he built day care centers for working women)
Saddam supported the families of the suicide bombers, Just like Saudi-Arabia, and all "friends" of usa in that region. Why isnt saudi-arabia attacked on the war on terror?
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Chill out, go outside for a long walk, and learn to know yourself.
But im not sure if this thread serves any purpouse... Strength!
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Quote[/b] ]It seems America is almost alone in being willing to fight terrorism.How exactly is Iraq part on the war on terror? Was Iraq supporting terrorists or something?
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Quote[/b] ]WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Officers are investigating the deaths of other Iraqis seen on the same videotape that depicted a Marine shooting an apparently wounded and unarmed insurgent in Falluja, U.S. military officials said Tuesday. -
Quote[/b] ]The military command launched an investigation after video footage showed a U.S. Marine shooting a wounded and unarmed man in a mosque in the city on Saturday. The man was one of five wounded and left in the mosque after Marines fought their way through the area.A pool report by NBC correspondent Kevin Sites said the mosque had been used by insurgents to attack U.S. forces, who stormed it, killing 10 militants and wounding the five. Sites said the wounded had been left for others to pick up.
A second group of Marines entered the mosque on Saturday after reports it had been reoccupied. Footage from the embedded television crew showed the five still in the mosque, although several appeared to be close to death, Sites said.
He said a Marine noticed one prisoner was still breathing.
A Marine can be heard saying on the pool footage provided to Reuters Television: "He's f***ing faking he's dead."
"The Marine then raises his rifle and fires into the man's head," Sites said.
is this your idea of self defence?
Anyways, this goes to Iraq thread obviosly
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Quote[/b] ]So *hearing* something on the TV instantly makes you a credible expert on all the off-camera aspects as well?Quote[/b] ] The military command launched an investigation after video footage showed a U.S. Marine shooting a wounded and unarmed man in a mosque in the city on Saturday. The man was one of five wounded and left in the mosque after Marines fought their way through the area.A pool report by NBC correspondent Kevin Sites said the mosque had been used by insurgents to attack U.S. forces, who stormed it, killing 10 militants and wounding the five. Sites said the wounded had been left for others to pick up.
A second group of Marines entered the mosque on Saturday after reports it had been reoccupied. Footage from the embedded television crew showed the five still in the mosque, although several appeared to be close to death, Sites said.
He said a Marine noticed one prisoner was still breathing.
A Marine can be heard saying on the pool footage provided to Reuters Television: "He's f***ing faking he's dead."
"The Marine then raises his rifle and fires into the man's head," Sites said.
Go ahead, defend an execution of a POW, but dont wonder the next time you dont get any pity when american soldiers are being executed.
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Quote[/b] ]The move comes as the Americans began investigating the fatal shooting by a US marine of an injured insurgent in the city of Falluja on Saturday.The officer, 2nd Lieutenant Erick Anderson, has been charged with premeditated murder and conspiracy to commit premeditated murder.
He was charged with the killing of an injured Iraqi in August in the volatile Sadr City slum area of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
Sensitive cases
A similar incident was captured in Falluja on camera by an embedded American television journalist working for US network NBC over the weekend.
Pentagon officials insist they are taking that matter very seriously, while also arguing that it would be wrong to rush to judgement on the case before all the facts have been collected.
Clearly these are hugely sensitive cases, but some Pentagon officials argue that it is a measure of how seriously they take such matters generally that there have been a number of probes into alleged unlawful killings in Iraq.
Several murder charges have already been brought against US personnel, of which those against the army officer are only the latest.
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Halo 2 is a console game unlike hl2, i dont think the scale is the same.
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Hidden and dangerous 2? (great coop game btw)
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The president doesnt decide anything nowadays.
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Quote[/b] ]of course it aint, as the marines advance the area in which the insurgents/terrists occupy decreases so the ferocity of the fight will increase as they become more concentrated.
well afaik the rebels are not surrounded...
dplay
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One of our squad members is having a problem that needs solving, quote from the guy:
Any ideas?