"a brilliant student with straight A's and on top of his class," "He was an ambitious kid with the hope to go to Harvard University to study medicine or law and become a medical doctor or a lawyer."
There are allegations he was recruited by his local Mosque to go to Somali.
Two weeks ago his family last heard from Hassan .
"That time he was sick, and he couldn't talk that much," he said. "He called his family and Burhan's voice was very weak, and then (a friend with him) ... told the family Burhan was sick a while and having malaria."
"Someone who claimed (to be) a member of al-Shabaab called Burhan's mom Friday (afternoon) and said Burhan died Friday morning," Ahmed said. "Burhan's mom got shocked and (threw) the phone when she heard the story."
"Al-Shabaab assassinated Burhan and shot (him in) the head," the individual said, according to his uncle Ahmed.
Hassan was a senior at Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis when he left for Somalia.
“We’ve dismantled bases from Los Zetas in which we came across anti-aircraft guns, military uniforms, anti-personnel mines,” Menocal says. “We suspect that these guys are preparing to defend their territories inside Guatemala.”
They seem to be setting up a backup base across a national border,
The Two Malcontents » Open Borders and Sanctuary Cities: Mexican ... By T2M Authorities say Mr. Haro-Perez was the Atlanta head of the Gulf Cartel, one of Mexico's most powerful drug-trafficking organizations, in charge of distributing drugs, collecting proceeds and keeping the books for the entire operation. ... They've carried out kidnappings and killings near the border in places such as Phoenix and even as far from the border as Alabama. In a well- publicized case near Birmingham, four men were tortured and killed and their throats slit in ...
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Two more bodies found amid spike in violence San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego,CA,USA The Citizens Association Against Impunity said that at least 70 people have been kidnapped this year, mostly in Tijuana. .. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Kidnapping, Rape Culprit Sought By Las Cruces Crime Stoppers KFOXtv.com - El Paso,TX,USA LAS CRUCES, NM -- Las Cruces Crime Stoppers is offering a reward of up to $1000 for information that leads to the arrest of the person who kidnapped and ... .
LAHORE: Six Taliban, believed to be close aides of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Baitullah Mehsud, have been arrested from Mianwali, a private TV channel reported on Thursday. According to the Mianwali district police officer (DPO), the Taliban – arrested in a search operation – were believed to have close ties to Mehsud. The police said the Taliban – arrested from the Musakhel, Bachran and Mauj areas of Mianwali – had been involved in attacks on police checkposts in the region. Officials identified four of the Taliban as Ahmed Khan, Hidayatullah, Abdul Wahid and Ramzan. daily times monitor
VOA expands service in NWFP WASHINGTON: Voice of America (VoA), the radio service funded by the US government, said on Friday it was expanding its service in the NWFP where millions have been displaced by the military operation against the Taliban. Voice of America said it would expand Radio Deewa’s broadcast from six to nine...
Taliban will 'never be defeated' Times Online - UK THE Pakistani intelligence agent who trained Mullah Omar, the Taliban leader, to fight has warned that Nato forces will never overpower their enemies in ...
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Taliban kill Sufi's men Daily Times - Lahore,Pakistan Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Major General Athar Abbas told reporters in Rawalpindi the Taliban attacked the convoy after it hit ...
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Taliban Stir Rising Anger of Pakistanis New York Times - United States Now the province has become a target of suicide attacks, most recently last week in Lahore. Mr. Rais cited changes in media coverage of the military ...
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Sunday, June 07, 2009
By Daud Khattak
PESHAWAR: Troops battling the Taliban in Swat are sure that the command and control structure of the militants has been dismantled and their junior and mid-level commanders have either been killed or were on the run, a Pakistan Army general said here on Saturday.
Lieutenant General Nadeem Ahmed, who is the chairman of the Special Support Group, however, conceded that the top Taliban leadership was still at large. He believed the Swat Taliban leadership’s contacts with low-ranking commanders had been disrupted and the recruitment and training centres were no more operational. He claimed the militants’ logistic dumps and ammunition had been destroyed and the flow of finances to the militants halted.
Briefing journalists about the relief activities in the IDP camps, reconstruction and rehabilitation in the affected areas and success against the militants, Lt Gen Nadeem said troops would stay in Swat till the revival of the civil administration.
To ensure that the militants do not stage a comeback, he said young men from villages would be recruited in police and the process would be completed in a year following the conclusion of the military operation.
At the same time, committees of village people would also be constituted to take the responsibility of their respective villages, said the general...
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Four perish as scores attack militants’ hideouts in Dir Bala Updated at: 0151 PST, Sunday, June 07, 2009 Scores of people attacked the sanctuaries of militants in Dir Bala area on Saturday, killing four militants while six homes were also obliterated in the attacks, Geo news said.
According to local sources, the people hailing from Hayagai Sharqi and adjoining areas launched attacks on the militants hideouts which resulted in the deaths of four militants while six homes were also destroyed...
He said Lower Dir had already been cleared. With the exception of Karakar Pass, the rest of Buner was safe for the people to return, he added.
Source: Geo TV
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Islamist urges al Qaeda to
open up to Obama's offer
Essam Derbala, a member of the leadership council of Al-Gama'a Al-Islamiya, or Islamic Group, made the appeal after President Barack Obama said in Cairo on Thursday he wanted a "new beginning" in ties between Washington and the Muslim world.
Islamist thinkers and groups in Egypt have long inspired Islamic movements around the world.
"I call on the Taliban of Afghanistan and Pakistan and al Qaeda to look at this solution and put the American side to a real test of the extent of its sincerity in achieving peace with the Muslim world," Derbala told Reuters.
"I consider this a chance to reveal the truth about Barack Obama before the people," he said, adding these organisations should open up to talks with the United States and declare they have "no need to kill American civilians".
10 B-2’s x 80 500lbs JDAMs/sortie. Between 50 and 60 B-1’s and BUFF’s x 100 JDAMs/sortie = 6800 aimpoints/sortie. This does not include F-15E’s or any other platform.
It will be difficult but 10,000 targets are not impossible to overcome.
The Associated Press reports that North Korea “detained” two American journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee from Al Gore’s Current TV, for filming the border region.
It looks, however, like the reporters were “detained” for shooting film of North Korea from the Chinese side of the border. They were in China interviewing refugees who fled North Korea. North Korean military and police officers don’t have jurisdiction in China. If they crossed the border and grabbed two American journalists, those journalists weren’t “detained.” They were kidnapped.
The North Korean and Chinese Communist armies were guilty of the following war crimes and crimes against humanity committed against American personnel during the conflict in Korea from June 25, 1950, until July 27, 1953:
a. Murder;
b. Attempted murder;
c. Malicious and aggravated assaults;
d. Various acts of torture, i.e., perforating flesh of prisoners with heated bamboo spears, burning prisoners with lighted cigarettes and inserting a can opener into a prisoner's open wound'
The incident is also known as the Hatchet Incident and the Poplar Tree Incident because the object of the conflict was a poplar tree standing in the JSA.
Initial trimming
On August 18, 1976, a group of five Korean Service Corps (KSC) personnel escorted by a UNC security team consisting of the Joint Security Force (JSF) Company Commander (Captain Arthur Bonifas), his South Korean (ROK) Army counterpart, Captain Kim, the platoon leader of the current platoon in the area (1st Lt. Mark Barrett), and 11 enlisted personnel, both American and South Korean, went into the JSA to trim the tree as previously scheduled with the KPA delegation. The two captains did not wear sidearms, as members of the Joint Security Area were limited to only five armed officers and 30 armed enlisted personnel at a time. However, there were mattocks in the back of the 2½ ton truck. The KSC workers had the axes they brought to prune the tree branches. The tree had been scheduled to be trimmed seven days earlier, but rain had forced the work to be rescheduled.
After trimming began, 15 to 16 KPA soldiers appeared, commanded by Senior Lt. Pak Chul, whom the UNC soldiers had previously nicknamed "Lt. Bulldog" due to a history of confrontations.[1][2] Pak and his subordinates appeared to observe the trimming without concern for approximately 15 minutes, until he abruptly told the UNC to cease the activity stating the tree could not be trimmed "because Kim Il sung personally planted it and nourished it and it’s growing under this supervision."[3] Capt. Bonifas ordered the detail to continue, and turned his back on "Lt. Bulldog". While this verbal communication is undocumented, it seems plausible, in that Kim Il Sung was often portrayed by the North Korean Communist Partypropagandists as being responsible for almost everything in North Korea.[4][5]
After being ignored by Capt. Bonifas, Pak Chul sent a runner across the Bridge of No Return. Within minutes a North Korean guard truck crossed the bridge and approximately 20 more North Korean guards disembarked carrying crowbars and clubs. Pak Chul again demanded that the tree trimming stop, and when Capt. Bonifas again turned his back on him, Pak Chul removed his watch, carefully wrapped it in a handkerchief, placed it in his pocket, and then shouted "Kill them!" as he swung a karate chop to the back of Capt. Bonifas' neck[6]. Using axes dropped by the tree-trimmers, the KPA forces attacked the two U.S. soldiers, Capt. Bonifas and Lt. Barrett, and wounded all but one of the UNC guards.[7][1]
While Capt. Bonifas died instantly, Lt. Barrett jumped a low wall which led into a 15 ft. (4½ m) deep tree-filled depression. The depression was not visible from the road. The entire fight lasted for only about 20–30 seconds before the UNC Force managed to disperse the KPA guards and place Capt. Bonifas' body in their truck.[6] However, there was no sign of Lt. Barrett and the two UNC guards at OP#5 could not spot him.
They did, however, observe the KPA guards grab (by the heels) approximately 5 members of their own force and drag them back across the bridge. They also observed the KPA guards at KPA#8 (along the UNC emergency egress road) exhibiting strange behaviour, in that one guard would take an axe and go down into the depression for a couple of minutes and then come back up and hand the axe to another guard who would repeat the process. This went on for approximately 90 minutes until the UNC guards at OP#5 were informed that Lt. Barrett was missing, at which time they informed their superiors about the KPA activity in the depression. A search and rescue squad was quickly dispatched and found Lt. Barrett having been attacked with the axe by the North Koreans.[8]
A helicopter on a training mission was also sent to the location (its crew issued yellow armbands and .45 automatics) and used for a medevac, but Barrett did not survive.
And N. Korea is exporting nuclear and missile technology to
Iran.
USA allowing N. Korea to get away with these things
impunes America's reputation and encourages others.
A shameful mark on America's reputation.
If someone were to stike N. Korea HARD, they would have little counter response left, and would be a clear message to Iran.It maybe safer and eaiser to hit N.Korea than Iran.
Suggested nane for the operation against N.Korea : "LIGHTING CRUSH".
Suggest other names in comments.
Gerald
anthropologist
A corporal witnessed the attack from OP#5 and recorded the incident with a movie camera.
Pyongyang, May 29 (KCNA) -- The DPRK Foreign Ministry issued a statement as regards the UNSC's threat to put additional sanctions against the DPRK, terming its successful nuclear test a violation of the UNSC Resolution 1718.
At present, some countries were shocked at the news of the DPRK's second nuclear test. But an exceptional act has its exceptional reason. The recent nuclear test conducted by the DPRK is the 2054th one on the earth. The five permanent members of the UNSC have conducted 99.99 percent of all the nuclear tests.
This resolution fabricated by the hypocrites has immediately invited a total rejection by the DPRK and we still do not recognize such resolution.
The UNSC has committed such unprecedented crime as the wanton infringement upon the right of a sovereign state to explore outer space for peaceful purposes and, instead of repenting of it, it is proactive in its outcry to cover up its crime.
There is a limit to our patience.
In the final analysis, they mean small countries should obey big countries.
we solemnly demanded that the UNSC make an apology for its crime of having seriously encroached upon the sovereignty of a sovereign state in gross violation of the Space Treaty and that it withdraw all its previously-crafted, unfair resolutions and decisions.
As long as the UNSC fails to respond to the DPRK's just demand, the DPRK will not recognize any resolution and decision of the UNSC in the future, too.
The end of the Cold War worldwide works only between big powers, but a Cold War still persists on the Korean Peninsula.
Any hostile act by the UNSC immediately means the abrogation of the Armistice Agreement.
Here's the most interesting statement:
The U.S. is keen on using a catchphrase "Carrot and stick."
It would be better for the "Donkey" of the U.S. Democratic Party to lick the carrot. ...
Some speculation that there is a sexual reference to the original statement...
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10 B-2’s x 80 500lbs JDAMs/sortie. Between 50 and 60 B-1’s and BUFF’s x 100 JDAMs/sortie = 6800 aimpoints/sortie. This does not include F-15E’s or any other platform.
It will be difficult but 10,000 targets are not impossible to overcome.
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Add the rest of the Air Force, and USA can hit 20,000
targets in 24 hrs, some hardened targets 20 or 30 times.
http://warintel.blogspot.com/2007/10/irans-invulnerable-bunkers.html
Two sets of bombs one for N.Korea and the other for Iran.
Lighting Crush comming..
G
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Internet Anthropologist Think Tank: Call N Korea's Bluff
Ahmadinejad wins, good for USAUSA
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