Marine killed in Afghan explosion

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At Least 10 Are Killed as Israel Halts Flotilla With Gaza Aid 

JERUSALEM — The Israeli Navy raided a flotilla carrying hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists with supplies for Gaza on Monday, Israeli officials said. The Israeli prime minister canceled plans to meet President Obama. 

German President Quits Over Remarks on Military

Dennis Hopper

(still dead)

Satellite in German (Lena Mayer-Landrut)

Pak troops kill 80 Taliban fighters

PESHAWAR: Eighty Taliban fighters were killed and 60 more injured when helicopter gunships pounded militant hideouts in volatile Orakzai tribal region in northwest Pakistan, security officials said.      story

Bangladesh blocks Facebook over Mohammed cartoons

DHAKA: After Pakistan, Bangladesh has now blocked social networking site Facebook for hosting pages featuring blasphemous caricatures of Prophet Mohammed and "obnoxious" images of the country's leaders. 

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Banned Pak groups joining hands with al-Qaida

LAHORE: Banned militant groups like Jaish-e-Mohammed, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Sipah-e-Sahaba have joined hands with the Taliban and al-Qaida to destabilise Pakistan, interior minister Rehman Malik said on Sunday....    story

'Israeli subs with nukes in Gulf'

Israel is planning to permanently station a submarine carrying nuclear cruise missiles in the Persian Gulf, the Sunday Times reported on Sunday.
Israeli submarines have visited the Gulf before, but the decision has now been taken to ensure a permanent presence of at least one of the vessels.   link

Muslim preacher of hate is let into Britain

THE home secretary, Theresa May, is facing a stiff test of the Conservative party’s claims to oppose radical Islam after her officials chose to allow a misogynist Muslim preacher into Britain.
Zakir Naik, an Indian televangelist described as a “hate-monger” by moderate Muslims and one Tory MP, says western women make themselves “more susceptible to rape” by wearing revealing clothing.
Naik, who proselytises on Peace TV, a satellite television channel, is reported to have called for the execution of Muslims who change their faith, described Americans as “pigs” and said that “every Muslim should be a terrorist”....           story

Barack Obama's credibility hits rock bottom

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Beyond First Class

This brand spanking new Airbus 340-600, the largest passenger airplane ever built, sits just outside its hangar in Toulouse ,France without a single hour of airtime..Enter the Arab flight crew of Abu Dhabi Aircraft Technologies ( ADAT)

to conduct pre-delivery tests on the ground, such as engine run-ups

prior to delivery to Etihad Airways in Abu Dhabi . The ADAT crew

taxied the A340-600 to the run-up area.

Then they took all Four engines to takeoff power with a
virtually empty aircraft. Not having Read the run-up manuals,
they had no clue just how light an empty A340-600 Really is.

The takeoff warning horn was blaring away in the cockpit because
they had All 4 engines at full power. The aircraft computers
thought they were trying to take off, but it had not been configured
properly (flaps/slats, etc..)

Then one of the ADAT crew decided to pull the circuit breaker
on the Ground Proximity Sensor to silence the alarm. This
fools the aircraft into thinking it is in the air.

The computers automatically released all the Brakes and set
the aircraft rocketing forward. The ADAT crew had no idea that
this is a safety feature so that pilots can't land with the brakes on.

Not one member of the seven-man Arab crew was smart enough
to throttle back the engines from their max power setting, so the
$200 million brand-new Aircraft crashed into a blast barrier, totaling it!

The extent of injuries to the crew is unknown due to the news blackout in the major media in France and elsewhere.

Coverage of the story was deemed insulting to Muslim Arabs.

Finally, the photos are starting to leak out ..

A French Airbus ........ $200 million dollars
Untrained Arab Flight Crew... $300,000 Yearly Salary
Unread Operating Manual...... $300
AIRCRAFT MEETS RETAINING WALL -- WALL WINS
PRICELESS!

"That's why God gave them camels"!

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Spanish City Bans Islamic Veils at the Town Hall

MADRID (AP) -- The Spanish city of Lleida has barred women from wearing face-covering Islamic veils inside its municipal buildings.
The move makes the northern city of Lleida -- population of 135,000 -- the first in Spain to regulate the garments that have triggered debate across Europe.
Lleida's town hall passed the ban Friday with 23 votes in favor, one against and two abstentions.    story

Sectarian Attacks Hit Two Pakistani Mosques

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Gunmen attacked two mosques belonging to a minority sect during Friday Prayers in Lahore, seizing worshipers and repelling police officers as they tried to rescue the hostages, witnesses said.
At least 42 people were killed at one of the mosques, located near the central railway station, said a civil defense officer, Mazhar Ahmed. More than a dozen other worshipers were killed at the second mosque in Model Town, an upscale neighborhood, police officials said. Hospital officials reported scores of injured.   story

leftoid fashism

United Kingdom:

New passport for immigrants every 3 minutes

Korea

“We will immediately deliver a physical strike at anyone intruding across our maritime demarcation line,” the North’s state-run news agency K.C.N.A. quoted a senior military official as saying, referring to the North’s self-proclaimed sea border, which juts deeply into South Korean-held waters. 

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Leading Pakistani Taliban Said to Be Killed

KABUL, Afghanistan — A leading figure in the Pakistani Taliban was believed to have been killed during a clash with the police in eastern Afghanistan, Afghan provincial authorities said Thursday. (Maulana Fazlullah, photo)....
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NYC board OKs ground zero mosque

Council wishes to empower the "silenced moderate Muslim voice."

 NEW YORK— After hours of contentious public comment, a New York City community board voted late Tuesday to support a plan to build a mosque and cultural center near ground zero. 

"It's a seed of peace," board member Rob Townley said. "We believe that this is a significant step in the Muslim community to counteract the hate and fanaticism in the minority of the community."   story

Scientist 'infected' with computer virus

A British scientist claims to be the first human to have been infected with a computer virus after he contaminated an electronic chip which was inserted into his hand.
Dr Mark Gasson, of the University of Reading, said the device was programmed with a virus which could transfer itself to other electronic systems it came in contact with. Any other chips that interacted with the infected systems would also contract the virus, he said, raising the possibility that in the future, advanced medical devices such as pacemakers could become vulnerable to cyber attacks. story

Donkey detonated on Gaza border

Animal dead, no human casualties; 200 kg of dynamite heaped on cart. 

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U.S. Is Said to Expand Secret Actions in Mideast

WASHINGTON — The top American commander in the Middle East has ordered a broad expansion of clandestine military activity in an effort to disrupt militant groups or counter threats in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and other countries in the region, according to defense officials and military documents.
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Gunmen Kill 14 at Baghdad Market

BAGHDAD - Gunmen swooped on a row of Baghdad goldsmiths on Tuesday, killing fourteen people and making off with gold and cash in a brazen daylight robbery, an Interior Ministry source said.
Police said at least ten gunmen armed with pistols, bombs and Kalashnikov assault rifles attacked five goldsmiths and a money exchange on a bustling shopping street in the Bayaa district of southwest Baghdad. 
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Assassination & Candidate Prohibitions Roil Iraq

A newly elected member of Iraq’s Parliament was shot and killed in northern Iraq on Monday night, an ominous development in a contentious postelection impasse that has fueled fears of renewed violence.
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Crop circle 'inspired by most beautiful formula in mathematics' appears in Wiltshire

The circle, which is more than 300ft in diameter, was cut into a field of oil seed rape by Wilton Windmill at Wilton near Marlborough [ ... ]
Experts say that the design may be connected to Euler's Identity, a complex formula devised by the 18th Century Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler..... story

The Hashisch Army

 

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Taliban attack Nato's biggest base in Afghanistan

Al-Awlaki advocates killing in new video

An American-born cleric of Yemeni origin whose Internet sermons have helped inspire attacks on the US is advocating the killing of American civilians in a new al-Qaida video.
Anwar al-Awlaki has been singled out by US officials as a top terrorist threat and has reportedly been added to the CIA's list of targets for assassination despite his American citizenship....  story

Surveillance Is Suspected as Spacecraft’s Main Role

A team of amateur sky watchers has pierced the veil of secrecy surrounding the debut flight of the nation’s first robotic spaceplane, finding clues that suggest the military craft is engaged in the development of spy satellites rather than space weapons, which some experts have suspected but the Pentagon strongly denies. Last month, the unmanned successor to the space shuttle blasted off from Florida on its debut mission but attracted little public notice because no one knew where it was going or what it was doing. The spaceship, known as the X-37B, was shrouded in operational secrecy, even as civilian specialists reported that it might go on mysterious errands for as long as nine months before zooming back to earth and touching down on a California runway... story