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Daily Brief 11 Jun 2010

Afghanistan: McChrystal says Kandahar operation to take longer than originally planned – due to local support of Taliban New plan to woo Taliban could harm villages NATO convoy drivers feel like traitors: “I ask myself all the time, why am I helping these...

Published Fri, Jun 11 2010 4:19 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs

Clandestine Iranian arms factory in Sudan?

Boy the news about Iran just gets better and better. That fist is so totally unclenched it is now busy producing weapons in the Sudan to distribute to its proxies and various and sundry terror groups in Africa. Saves them getting their convoys blown up...

Published Fri, Jun 11 2010 4:04 AM by BLACKFIVE

My new phone is a killer

And I don't mean it's killer, I mean it's a killer. Sure it's 4G and it has front and back 8MP cameras and it shoots HD video and it is a mobile hot spot for 8 wi fi devices etc. etc. But on the Metro ride back from the store it choked...

Published Fri, Jun 11 2010 2:35 AM by BLACKFIVE

Discussion: How much longer will the British stay in Afghanistan while Obama continues demonizing one of their signature companies?

My grandfather was an Englishman. He fought against the Italians in Abyssinia as a Leftenant in the Royal South African Army Corps of Engineers, and died in 1945. My grandmother, an Australian, kept a shrine to him until she passed just a few years ago...

Published Thu, Jun 10 2010 10:44 AM by BLACKFIVE

Problems at Arlington National Cemetary

This is the one place where there should be no problems. From the WashPo/AP: ...More than 300,000 people are buried at Arlington National Cemetery, including service members from the Civil War as well as Iraq and Afghanistan. Army Secretary John McHugh...

Published Thu, Jun 10 2010 5:56 AM by BLACKFIVE

Iran confirms Mullah Omar held by Pakistan

Well the horse is out of the barn now. Iran's Press TV, their official news organ, confirms that the Pakistanis are holding Mullah Omar. A former senior member of the militant group says Pakistani security forces are harboring the fugitive Taliban...

Published Thu, Jun 10 2010 5:22 AM by BLACKFIVE

"You will not fear"

You will want to see this NYT photo that Rich Lowry posted at the Corner. Paratrooper, Staff Sgt. Edward Rosa, offers comfort to a comrade — a cigarette and Psalm 91: http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=Zjc2NjhjMzdhNmM3ODVlZmE2NzFiNjE5NWU1NWQ2ZDM...

Published Thu, Jun 10 2010 3:34 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Picture of the Week

Another Korean war? Not likely

The last SF team I was on had a heavy focus on the Korean Peninsula and we were involved at very high levels with the Korean military leadership and the Special Ops plan for response to a North Korean attack. It was amazingly daunting on the surface as...

Published Thu, Jun 10 2010 3:34 AM by BLACKFIVE

Barbarians hang 7 year old "spy"

Just in case you didn't grasp the sheer barbarity of the swine we face in Afghanistan, this ought to do the trick. Taliban militants have executed a seven-year-old boy they accused of being a spy, it emerged today. The child was abducted from his...

Published Thu, Jun 10 2010 1:16 AM by BLACKFIVE

Know your enemy

One of the most important things about any conflict is knowing your enemy. It obviously helps you in the fight, but sometimes it helps define at least a part of why you fight: Suspected Taliban militants executed a seven-year-old boy in southern Afghanistan...

Published Wed, Jun 09 2010 11:15 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs

Save the Yards

RE: The Fate of the Montagnards Over at the Burn Pit, Mothax made a visit to the Montagnard compound in Asheboro, NC. ...Starting in 1986, U.S. Special Forces soldiers who served alongside the Montagnards started a modest effort to free some of the Yards...

Published Wed, Jun 09 2010 3:27 AM by BLACKFIVE

The U.N. Gets Firm

Iran must be truly afraid: U.N. Security Council Passes New Sanctions Against Iran By NEIL MacFARQUHAR UNITED NATIONS — The United States, moving firmly away from the Obama administration’s previous emphasis on wooing Iran, pushed through a new round...

Published Wed, Jun 09 2010 2:32 AM by BLACKFIVE

Action in Pakistan

There has been a lot of fighting and infighting in Pakistan lately. The Taliban is making some major moves to push back against a military offensive in the northwest provinces. ISLAMABAD | Pakistani forces are preparing to launch a long-awaited military...

Published Wed, Jun 09 2010 1:14 AM by BLACKFIVE

Live Blogging the Glee Season Finale

So of course I am watching the Glee Finale and you will really enjoy the comments from my co-live-blogger Froggy. (If you don't understand just scroll to the next story, or just imagine what I have done and why I am now in a secure undisclosed location...

Published Tue, Jun 08 2010 12:08 PM by BLACKFIVE

British Airways First Class Terrorist

Below is a cover of a recent London Heathrow airport magazine with a British Airways agent and happy iPhone customer on the cover: You probably don't notice the actual ticket data unless you look really close. The sample ticket included Bin Laden's...

Published Tue, Jun 08 2010 3:55 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Bust Their Chops

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