Tydium
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Quote[/b] ]Heh, guess having ex-warsaw pact HMGs is not such a bad thing afterall.. (NSV weights 25kg while M2 does ~50kgs, right?)
From the above links the M2 weigths 38 kg and 58 kg with tripod. NSV weigths 25 kg and 41 kg with tripod and can of ammo. So yeah there are clear weight advantage for having russian HMGs.
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Quote[/b] ]Miller's concept, as it emerged in recent Senate hearings, was to "Gitmoize" the prison system in Iraq-to make it more focussed on interrogation. He also briefed military commanders in Iraq on the interrogation methods used in Cuba-methods that could, with special approval, include sleep deprivation, exposure to extremes of cold and heat, and placing prisoners in "stress positions" for agonizing lengths of time.
Here's what to "Gitmoize" means.
Quote[/b] ]BRITON: 'ATTACKS FILMED'
Attacks by US guards on Guantanamo Bay prisoners were filmed, a British man held at held at the Camp Delta detention centre on Cuba has claimed.
Tarek Dergoul, one of five Britons released from the base in March, said a special squad called the Extreme Reaction Force (ERF) videotaped prisoners being brutalised by their interrogators.
He told the The Observer newspaper of the treatment meted out by Guantanamo guards.
The 26-year-old from Mile End, east London, spent 22 months in the camp before his release.
Describing an alleged assault by a five-man ERF team, he told the paper: "They pepper-sprayed me in the face and I started vomiting.
"They pinned me down and attacked me, poking their fingers in my eyes and forced my head down the toilet pan and flushed.
"They tied me up like a beast and then they were kneeling on me, kicking and punching.
"Finally, they dragged me out of the cell in chains, into the rec(reation) yard and shaved my beard, my hair, my eyebrows."
Mr Dergoul's description of his treatment at Guantanamo are similar to that of fellow British detainees Shafiq Rasul and Asif Iqbal, who wrote an open letter to US President George Bush alleging they were tortured.
Lieutenant Colonel Leon Sumpter, the Guantanamo Joint Task Force spokesman, confirmed that films were made so interrogations could be reviewed by senior officers.
All tapes are kept in an archive at the base, he added.
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Quote[/b] ]Been reports on BBC news, that militia in Najaf have taken coalition hostages, including one American. Looks like they are demanding the release of one of their number arrested previously.
Can't find any links yet, so it hasn't been confirmed.
Here you go.
Quote[/b] ]An Iraqi militia group says it is holding Spanish hostages and possibly an American, reports say.
The Spanish military has "categorically" denied the claims made by militiamen loyal to anti-American cleric Muqtada al Sadr.
The militia is demanding the release of its Najaf-based leader Mustafa Yaacubi who was arrested by coalition forces on Saturday.
"We hold coalition hostages, most of them Spaniards, and possibly a US soldier, whom we want to swap against Mustafa al-Yaacubi", said Amar al-Husseini, a spokesman for Sadr in Baghdad's Shia stronghold of Sadr City.
The US-led coalition was not immediately available for comment.
Yaacubi, like al Sadr, is implicated in the murder of a rival pro-American cleric last year.
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Well according the article 117 of Russian constitution the president can sack the goverment. In Russia president can also dissolve parlament and order new elections if he so chooces (see article 109). Finland had similiar system before our constitution was modified in 1999.
Quote[/b] ]Article 117.
1. The Government of the Russian Federation may hand in its resignation which may be accepted or rejected by the President of the Russian Federation.
2. The President of the Russian Federation may take a decision about the resignation of the Government of the Russian Federation.
3. The State Duma may express non-confidence in the Government of the Russian Federation. The non-confidence resolution shall be approved by a simple majority of deputies in the State Duma. In the event the State Duma shall again express non-confidence in the Government of the Russian Federation within three months, the President of the Russian Federation shall announce the resignation of the Government or dissolve the State Duma.
4. The Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation may put the question of confidence in the Government of the Russian Federation before the State Duma. In the case of a non-confidence vote by the State Duma, the President shall within seven days make a decision about the resignation of the Government of the Russian Federation or about the dissolution of the State Duma and call a new election.
5. If the Government of the Russian Federation resigns or lays down its powers, it shall, following instructions by the President of the Russian Federation, continue working until the formation of a new government of the Russian Federation.
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Quote[/b] ]But I'm afraid we don't have as harsch a climate as Norway, atleast no more.
Well it depends in which part of the country you live. As you stated in southern Finland temperatures rarely goes below -20 C but in Lappland temperatures quite often drops below -30 C and occasionally even below -40 C. But as someone said before it's not just the temperature. Wind is even worse.
Fortunately i did my service in southern Finland and those days we were on exercise weren't too cold
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Well the claim on the site is based on these two documents.
According to document 1 Bush requested a discharge on 5th of September in 1973. And according to document 2 it was granted on 1st of October in 1973.
According the Texas military code
Quote[/b] ]Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 147, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987. § 432.130. Desertion
  (a) A member of the state military forces is guilty of desertion if the member:
  (1) without authority goes or remains absent from his unit, organization, or place of duty with intent to remain away permanently;
  (2) quits his unit, organization, or place of duty with intent to avoid hazardous duty or to shirk important service; or
  (3) without being regularly separated from one of the state military forces, enlists or accepts an appointment in the same or another of the state military forces, or in one of the armed forces of the United States, without fully disclosing the fact that he has not been regularly separated.
  (b) A commissioned officer of the state military forces who, after tender of his resignation and before notice of its acceptance, quits his post or proper duties without leave and with intent to remain away permanently is guilty of desertion. Â
 © A person found guilty of desertion or attempt to desert shall be punished as a court-martial directs.
Now are these documents real ? I don't know but they sure look like it. And the site also list a cover letter that apparently came with the documents. The big question is did Bush went AWOL before his discharge was approved ? We don't know. All we know that he did not sign his discharge papers as you can see from document 2 ("NOT AVAILABLE FOR SIGNATURE"). This probably means that he wasn't at his base on 1st of October.
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While searching the net about this topic I found an interesting site. The site shows documents about Bush's military carreer obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. Complete list of the documents can be found here.
Most interesting part of the site was this.
Quote[/b] ]As is evident from the above, one of the elements of desertion is intent to remain away permanently. Bush asked for discharge from the TANG on September 5, 1973, and apparently left for grad school immediately after. (Does anyone know of university grad school years starting after September?) Now, let's take another look at that excerpt from the Texas Military Code.
(b) A commissioned officer of the state military forces who, after tender of his resignation and before notice of its acceptance, quits his post or proper duties without leave and with intent to remain away permanently is guilty of desertion.
So... On September 5th, 1973, George Bush asked for discharge (resigned from) the Texas Air National Guard, thereby stating his intent to not return to duty with the TANG. Now let us examine another document
That document is Bush's Discharge from the TANG. Notice block 33, at the bottom: "NOT AVAILABLE FOR SIGNATURE". There it is, folks. Bush left Texas before his resignation from the TANG was approved. There is your evidence of desertion.
Now if this is true it could cause some problems for Bush's reelection campaing.
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After appealing court lowered his fine to 35000 FIM which is approximately 5900 EUR
Source: Iltasanomat (In Finnish)
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Well Admiral Gorshkov won't be the their first carrier. They are currently operating atleast one carrier.
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Here is some info about the ship.
Here is an interesting quote from the article
Quote[/b] ]Negotiations between Russia and India began in 1994 for the sale of the Admiral Gorshkov, which had been inactive since 1991. On 11 January 1999 Indian Minister of Defense George Fernandes acknowledged that agreement had been reached on the sale. The Gorshkov reportedly would be extensively modified at a cost of between $500-650 million to accommodate conventional take-off and landing aircraft [possibly either the Su-27K Flanker-D or the smaller MiG-29K Fulcrum-D]. The refit would include addition of a bow ski-jump take-off ramp, and removal of the missile launchers to make room for the ramp. The refit at Severodvinsk was expected to take up to three years. As of early 2001 negotiations continued, with Russia offering to donate the ship itself if India paid the conversion costs [which India was reluctant to do]. By late 2000 India had rejected the Russian offer of 22 new MiG-29K shipboard fighters, which remained unproven for naval service.
So they have been negoating about this deal for a long time.
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Quote[/b] ]He told the paper how he reported on the deployment of WMD warheads to units such as the air defence command he led in the western desert.
Now why would they assing WMDs to air defence troops ? You don't need WMDs to shoot down airplanes. Were iraqi rocket forces under their command ?
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Quote[/b] ]Is 100 mega-tonnes the most powerful nuke ever detonated? I hear the Russians set one off in Siberia and shattered windows in Moscow and set off car alarms as far away as France, is that correct?
I found some info about that bomb. According to it a scaled down 50 Megatons version of the bomb was detonated.
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Wow, I gotta see if I can catch BBC here... Â although I believe your summary and that should be enough.
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You can also find this video from BBC website.
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Hi Since you seems to know alot about this kind of stuff i thought i could ask you about this damn ADSL problem, the thing is that my phone plugs are "parallel connected" (is that how its called ?) witch makes me loose connection to internet when i answer the phone. So basically i loose one of the best futures with ADSL.
I live in sweden and i know the phone plugs may be totally different. And i dont even know if the problem is called "parallel connected phone plugs" in english Â
Im tired of ending a nice MP game for some damn phone call. So can some donkey like me fix this kind of thing?
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I presume that you have more than one phone plugs in your apartment and you have connected your ADSL box/card and your telephone into seperate plugs ? If this is the case you need an ADSL filter. If you have connected your DSL and telephone into same plug you can still use filter but in this case you could also use a slitter. You will also need one filter / telephone so keep this in mind if you have more than one telephone in your apartment.
Your local telephone / computer store probably sells these devices.
Hope this help
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I'm not sure if this is exactly related to the war in iraq but I found a interesting article from iraqwar.ru. According to this article Russian navy is preparing to send a unit to conduct military manouvers in the Arabian Sea.
Another article from the same site says that russian navy is sending ships to the Indian Ocean.
I'm not quite sure are these articles overlapping each other or are they sending two seperate units.
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Latest russian military intel report from iraqwar.ru
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During the night of March 30-31 the situation on the US-Iraqi front became increasingly more critical. All indications are that the coalition has launched a new attack.
Following a three-hour-long artillery barrage and several nighttime aviation strikes the coalition forces came in contact with the Iraqi troops near Karabela and attempted to move around the Iraqi defenses from the east.
For now the coalition is limiting its actions to probing the forward layer of the Iraqi defenses, attempting to assess its density and organization after nearly five days of artillery and aerial bombardment. There have been no reports of any coalition breaks through the Iraqi defenses in this area. At the same time morning radio intercepts uncovered a large US military convoy moving around the Razzaza Lake. At the moment it is unclear whether the purpose of this movement is to get to the town of Ar-Ramdia or a wider maneuver leading to the town of Al-Falludja.
Another [coalition] convoy numbering up to 100 combat vehicles was seen near the town of Al-Hillah moving in the southeaster direction 30 kilometers from the strategic Baghdad-Basra highway. Given there is no Iraqi resistance this coalition force will be able to reach the highway by today?s night. So far there were no reports of any losses in this area.
The US forces resumed attacking Iraqi defenses near An-Najaf. The US group of force in this area has been reinforced with at least three reserve Marine battalions and now Americans are trying once again to capture this key town. According to the US intelligence Iraqi defenses in this area number up to 3,000 troops aided by around 1,500 volunteers and [ba'ath] party activists. The Iraqis here are armed with around 30 T-55 and T-62 tanks, up to four artillery batteries and more than 300 various anti-tank weapons. The town is being stormed by the elements of the 1st Marine Division numbering up to 6,000 troops assisted by 80 tanks and 60 artillery systems. Additionally, aerial support is provided by up to 40 helicopters. So far the Americans were unable to push the enemy. Early today morning an American tank was destroyed near An-Najaf. At least two of its crew were killed.
Intensive exchange of fire is continuing in the vicinity of An-Nasiriya. The US Marines have so far been unable to side nth staging area they captured seven days ago on the left bank of Euphrates. The bridge connecting this staging area with the main coalition forces is nearly destroyed and is under constant fire from the Iraqi defenses located in the riverside city blocks. This is the reason why the [coalition] troops holding the staging area can only be reinforced by small and lightly-armed units and only during nighttime. During the past night alone the Marines holding the staging area sustained 2 killed and 5 wounded.
The situation [for the coalition] is complicated by the fact that the residential blocks occupied by the defending Iraqis come to the very edge of the river, giving a significant advantage to the defenders who control the river and all approaches to the river. Currently the coalition artillery and aviation is methodically destroying these blocks in an attempt to push the Iraqis away from the shoreline.
Intercepted radio communications indicate that the Marines engineering units are ordered to build a pontoon crossing up the stream from An-Nasiriya and move up to three battalions of Marines and troops from the 82nd Airborne Division to the left bank of the Euphrates for a future strike in the rear of the An-Nasiriya garrison. The coalition command would have been ready to bypass other defended crossings on the Euphrates if it wasn?t for one problem: the entire group of forces has only two pontoon units. Any new pontoon units will arrive not sooner than in mid-April.
A standoff between the Basra garrison and the British marine infantry is continuing in the area of Basra. Using localized attacks the British are attempting to ?lean? on Basra as closely as possible and to tighten the blockade, but so far they were unsuccessful. Thus, during the last night the British attempted to take the town of Al-Hasib located 7 kilometers southeast of Basra. The British plan was to reach the Al-Arab River and to slice the local Iraqi defenses in half, separating Basra from the defending Iraqi forces on the Fao peninsula. Up to a battalion of the British marine infantry supported by armored vehicles entered the town of Al-Hasib from south but in less than an hour they were stopped by Iraqi fire and requested aviation and artillery support.
Fighting for the control of the town is continuing. At least two British soldiers were killed and three were wounded in this battle. One British armored personnel carrier was destroyed. British commanders are reporting killing 50 Iraqis and capturing 10. In the area of the As-Zubair River port, which was declared to be under full coalition control just a week ago, a British patrol boat was attacked. The boat was carrying its crew and a marine infantry unit. As the result of the attack at least 4 British soldiers were killed and 9 were wounded.
The official coalition losses are, to put it mildly, "falling behind" the actual figures. The 57 dead acknowledged by the coalition command reflect losses as of the morning of March 26. This information was provided to a BBC correspondent by one of the top medical officials at a field hospital in Al Kuwait during a confidential conversation. "We have standing orders to acknowledge only those fatalities that have been delivered to the hospital, identified and prepared to be sent back home. The identification process and the required standard embalming takes some time - occasionally up to several days. But only the command knows how many casualties we sustained today and you will learn about it in about three days" [Reverse-translated from Russian] This conversation was taped by the journalist and sent to the editor via a cellular phone network.
Based on the radio intercepts and internal information networks of the US field hospitals as of this morning the coalition losses include no less than 100 killed US servicemen and at least 35 dead British soldiers. Additionally, some 22 American and 11 British soldiers are officially considered to be missing in action and the whereabouts of another 400 servicemen are being established. The number of wounded has exceeded 480 people.
US experts at the coalition command headquarters studied the cases of destroyed and damaged M1A2 tanks and various APCs. The conclusion was that without a doubt the Iraqis do possess modern anti-tank weapons but so far use them on a "very limited scale." Only three tanks have been hit by guided weapons which destroyed these tanks with the first hit. The rest of the tanks were destroyed with more standard weapons. Some of the most common causes [of destroyed armor] include: anti-tank guns (about 40% of all hits), man-portable rocket-propelled grenade launchers (25% of hits), and landmines (25% of hits). Effectiveness of anti-tank artillery has been particularly high. "Impacts by high-velocity projectiles do not always destroy the tank and its crew. However, in 90% of all cases the tank is disabled and the crew is forced to abandon the tank on the battlefield" says the report that was distributed to the commanders of the forward units for analysis.
Russian military analysts are advising the Iraqi military command against excessive optimism. There is no question that the US "blitzkrieg" failed to take control of Iraq and to destroy its army. It is clear that the Americans got bogged down in Iraq and the military campaign hit a snag. However, the Iraqi command is now in danger of underestimating the enemy. For now there is no reason to question the resolve of the Americans and their determination to reach the set goal ? complete occupation of Iraq.
In reality, despite of some obvious miscalculations and errors of the coalition's high command, the [coalition] troops that have entered Iraq maintain high combat readiness and are willing to fight. The losses sustained during the past 12 days of fighting, although delivering a painful blow to the pride and striking the public opinion, are entirely insignificant militarily speaking. The initiative in the war remains firmly in the hands of the coalition. Under such circumstances Iraqi announcements of a swift victory over the enemy will only confuse its own troops and the Iraq's population and, as the result, may lead to demoralization and a reduced defensive potential
Russian military analysts believe that the critical for the US duration of the war would be over 90 days provided that during that time the coalition will sustain over 1,000 killed. Under such circumstances a serious political crisis in the US and in the world will be unavoidable.
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I thought the RPG-7 would be able to take out a Warrior tank?
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Yes it is.
There are different kind of ammunition available to RPG-7, but older rounds can penetrate ~ 330 mm and newer ones ~ 600 mm. Should be more than enough for IFVs like Warrior and Bradley.
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Their most lethal weapon is the Russian-made Kornet AT-14 wire-guided anti-tank missile that can penetrate up to 1100 mm of steel armor at a range of 3.5km.
It was supplied from Belarus through Syria. Putin's possible involvement is under US intelligence scrutiny.
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Last time that I checked Putin was the president of Russia. So if these missiles were supplied by Belarus then i don't see what it has to do with Russia and Putin.
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So which part is false? The beginning (which states "earlier reports"), the ending correction (from official military spokespersons) or both?
Your article is an example of innacurate reporting possibly, with an updated correction added. Sounds pretty good to me!
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I ment that the earlier reports claiming that 70 - 120 armored vehicles had broken out of Basra was false. But you are right that inaccurate would have been a better word for this occasion.
Elsewhere:
US is sending over 100.000 new troops to the gulf
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Here's a good example of false reporting.
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Earlier the Commander of British forces in the Gulf, Air Marshal Brian Burridge, said Iraqi soldiers in Basra were being forced by Saddam's security forces to get into their tanks and attack British forces surrounding the city.
However, Â news reports on Wednesday evening that a column of 70 - 120 Iraqi armoured vehicles was heading south out of Basra seem to have been erroneous.
British Defence Minister Geoff Hoon said on Thursday that only three Iraqi tanks had actually been on the move and that these were destroyed by British forces.
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Source: Sky News
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