Thursday, May 3, 2012
Alligator.
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Thanks to Ynet we have latest dope on the Israeli nuclear capable [?] submarine forces. Four [three on current operational patrol status, the fourth one or two more years before also patrol capable] Dolphin submarines now in the arsenal, two more to follow. German made submarines diesel/electric with presumably some sort of air-independent-propulsion [AIP] and made to certain Israeli task tailored instructions and specifications.
"Israel gets 4th German submarine"
"Advanced submarine handed over to Israel in festive ceremony; new sub is IDF's most expensive weapon. Defense Minister Barak: Vessel will greatly boost army's capabilities"
"Fourth Dolphin submarine starts long journey to Israel . . . the handover of a fourth submarine to Israel's Navy."
"The Tanin ('alligator' in Hebrew) is considered one of the world's most advanced submarines and is the IDF's most expensive. The vessel is expected to reach Israel only in 2013 and dock at the Haifa Port."
"A fifth submarine is currently under construction and will arrive in Israel in 2014. Recently, the German government approved the sale of a sixth submarine, which is expected to arrive in Israel by 2017"
That MOST EXPENSIVE WEAPON IN THE ISRAELI ARSENAL, A $ HALF BILLION PER COPY!
Too, again, carrying, perhaps nuclear weapons, cruise missiles with atomic warheads? This is unclear, given the Israeli ambiguity and announced intention NOT TO BE THE FIRST TO INTRODUCE ATOMIC WEAPONRY INTO THE MIDDLE EAST! So it is said.
Once more thanks to Ynet more articles - - that Israeli submarine force an elite force maintaining a very low profile! At least until NOW!
1. "Doomsday weapon: Israel’s submarines"
"Rare glimpse into Israel’s doomsday weapon – the submarine fleet"
2. "IDF submarine fleet bans dual citizenship"
"Candidates for prestigious unit now required to renounce foreign citizenship; officer: 'This is absurd'"
3. "Israel inks another Dolphin deal"
"Israel, Germany finalize sale of sixth Dolphin-class submarine for $530 million"
"Germany will fund a third of the vessel's cost."
Built in Germany, one-third [1/3] of the cost as borne by the German, these Dolphin class subs if indeed carrying cruise missiles with an atomic warhead further indication that Israel has: "the second or third most powerful military on the planet [Van Creveld]"!
German politicians since the time of Adenauer willing and able to finance Israeli war munitions purchases, primarily done sub rosa, without fanfare and little if any publicity. Armaments direct from German factories of all varieties all preferred for use by Tzahal, the Israeli military.
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George.
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Thanks to this obituary in the LA Times from the tip as found originally in the Chicago Tribune we have the story of the American OSS officer in command of the WW2 mission Halyard:
"George Vujnovich dies at 96; leader of daring World War II rescue"
"In 'Operation Halyard,' George Vujnovich guided a team of agents to airlift more than 500 airmen from a makeshift runway carved on a mountaintop in Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia."
George an American born OSS officer of Serb ancestry orchestrating the repatriation of downed American airmen during WW2.
An OSS effort greatly aided and abetted by the Chetnik partisan forces of Mihailovich. The Chetniks in the aftermath of the war deemed as "collaborationist", Mihailovich executed after a kangaroo court trial courtesy of the communist leader Tito. Many less senior Chetniks also meeting a grisly and undeserved fate of death!
Indeed the Chetniks portrayed by communist fellow travelers as "collaborationist" and unwilling to fight the German ooccupier.
Such a portrayal ALL A LIE! Halyard, the rescue operation further evidence of such distortions and downright deceitful lies regrettably believed at the time [1945] and to an extent EVEN NOW!
Belatedly so thank you George, Draza [Mahailovich] and all those other Chetniks loyal to the allied fliers and helpful in a way that was not reciprocated post-war!
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Thanks to this obituary in the LA Times from the tip as found originally in the Chicago Tribune we have the story of the American OSS officer in command of the WW2 mission Halyard:
"George Vujnovich dies at 96; leader of daring World War II rescue"
"In 'Operation Halyard,' George Vujnovich guided a team of agents to airlift more than 500 airmen from a makeshift runway carved on a mountaintop in Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia."
George an American born OSS officer of Serb ancestry orchestrating the repatriation of downed American airmen during WW2.
An OSS effort greatly aided and abetted by the Chetnik partisan forces of Mihailovich. The Chetniks in the aftermath of the war deemed as "collaborationist", Mihailovich executed after a kangaroo court trial courtesy of the communist leader Tito. Many less senior Chetniks also meeting a grisly and undeserved fate of death!
Indeed the Chetniks portrayed by communist fellow travelers as "collaborationist" and unwilling to fight the German ooccupier.
Such a portrayal ALL A LIE! Halyard, the rescue operation further evidence of such distortions and downright deceitful lies regrettably believed at the time [1945] and to an extent EVEN NOW!
Belatedly so thank you George, Draza [Mahailovich] and all those other Chetniks loyal to the allied fliers and helpful in a way that was not reciprocated post-war!
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Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Jamming.
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Thanks to the Voice of American and the tip from DEC we have this maddening headline. If true a grave and very malevolently evil violation of international law and ALL protocols regarding international air travel and transport.
"GPS on Airline Flights Out of South Korea Jammed"
"South Korean officials say more than 250 airline flights into and out of the country have experienced GPS signal jamming over the past few days."
"The transport ministry in Seoul says the interference began last Saturday and has affected flights out of the capital's two main airports. It said the affected planes have relied on alternate navigation systems, and that none of the flights was in danger."
"Similar jamming in the past has been traced to North Korea."
This is a deliberate interference with a public transportation vehicle [airplane] during international flights the result of which can result in death! NOT merely a nuisance but can be understood under some circumstances as AN ACT OF WAR not to be tolerated!!
That main corridor for air traffic in/out of Seoul I would have to think VERY CLOSE to the DMZ the North Korean if responsible egregiously causing difficulties that might even result in border violations, a fly-over inadvertent used as a pretext for further hostile actions against civilian air traffic!!
This is serious business and just plain downright EVIL!! Heightened and unwarranted tensions were no such measures are needed or desired. Young'Un stop and do so at once!!
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Thanks to the Voice of American and the tip from DEC we have this maddening headline. If true a grave and very malevolently evil violation of international law and ALL protocols regarding international air travel and transport.
"GPS on Airline Flights Out of South Korea Jammed"
"South Korean officials say more than 250 airline flights into and out of the country have experienced GPS signal jamming over the past few days."
"The transport ministry in Seoul says the interference began last Saturday and has affected flights out of the capital's two main airports. It said the affected planes have relied on alternate navigation systems, and that none of the flights was in danger."
"Similar jamming in the past has been traced to North Korea."
This is a deliberate interference with a public transportation vehicle [airplane] during international flights the result of which can result in death! NOT merely a nuisance but can be understood under some circumstances as AN ACT OF WAR not to be tolerated!!
That main corridor for air traffic in/out of Seoul I would have to think VERY CLOSE to the DMZ the North Korean if responsible egregiously causing difficulties that might even result in border violations, a fly-over inadvertent used as a pretext for further hostile actions against civilian air traffic!!
This is serious business and just plain downright EVIL!! Heightened and unwarranted tensions were no such measures are needed or desired. Young'Un stop and do so at once!!
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Raiders!
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On three recent occasions American navy SEAL's demonstrating a combat expertise and skill at ranger/commando/special operations missions of the most daring and difficult variety, feats of military prowess perhaps without parallel!
1. From 2009:
"Navy Kills 3 Pirates, Rescues Ship Captain off Somalia's Coast"
"Kidnapped Captain Freed, Pirates Killed"
"Navy snipers on the fantail of a destroyer shot and killed three Somali pirates in a lifeboat and rescued an American sea captain in a surprise nighttime assault on Easter Sunday, ending a five-day standoff."
SEAL's parachuting from a fixed-wing long-range aircraft into mid-ocean, taken aboard the USS Bainbridge, engaging with sniper rifles Somali pirates and hostage takers, killing three, capturing one, American merchant marine captain safely rescued. Mission accomplished!
2. From only 2012 recently:
"U.S. special forces rescue Somalia aid workers"
"U.S. Special Forces parachuted overnight into Somalia from fixed-wing planes, then advanced on foot to a compound holding two kidnapped international aid workers and freed them"
"The nine gunmen holding the hostages -- were killed, the officials"
The nighttime combat parachute jump, the forced march, the raid on the compound and subsequent gun battle with Somali kidnappers, hostages rescued! Mission accomplished!
3. And of course from one year ago now:
"Obama Announces Killing of Osama bin Laden"
"WASHINGTON —President Obama announced late Sunday that Osama bin Laden, the leader of Al Qaeda responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks, was killed in a firefight during an operation he ordered Sunday inside Pakistan, ending a 10-year manhunt for the world’s most wanted terrorist."
Mission accomplished!! And most gratifyingly so too!
Their reputation preceding them, the American naval ranger/command/special operations SEAL's without qualification ranking among the BEST of all time. Raiders the missions of which historically have only about a fifty percent [50 %] success rate under the most ideal of circumstances the SEAL's seem to accomplish with what appears to be almost casual indifference, NONETHELESS markedly outstanding.
They do themselves proud!!
coolbert.
On three recent occasions American navy SEAL's demonstrating a combat expertise and skill at ranger/commando/special operations missions of the most daring and difficult variety, feats of military prowess perhaps without parallel!
1. From 2009:
"Navy Kills 3 Pirates, Rescues Ship Captain off Somalia's Coast"
"Kidnapped Captain Freed, Pirates Killed"
"Navy snipers on the fantail of a destroyer shot and killed three Somali pirates in a lifeboat and rescued an American sea captain in a surprise nighttime assault on Easter Sunday, ending a five-day standoff."
SEAL's parachuting from a fixed-wing long-range aircraft into mid-ocean, taken aboard the USS Bainbridge, engaging with sniper rifles Somali pirates and hostage takers, killing three, capturing one, American merchant marine captain safely rescued. Mission accomplished!
2. From only 2012 recently:
"U.S. special forces rescue Somalia aid workers"
"U.S. Special Forces parachuted overnight into Somalia from fixed-wing planes, then advanced on foot to a compound holding two kidnapped international aid workers and freed them"
"The nine gunmen holding the hostages -- were killed, the officials"
The nighttime combat parachute jump, the forced march, the raid on the compound and subsequent gun battle with Somali kidnappers, hostages rescued! Mission accomplished!
3. And of course from one year ago now:
"Obama Announces Killing of Osama bin Laden"
"WASHINGTON —President Obama announced late Sunday that Osama bin Laden, the leader of Al Qaeda responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks, was killed in a firefight during an operation he ordered Sunday inside Pakistan, ending a 10-year manhunt for the world’s most wanted terrorist."
Mission accomplished!! And most gratifyingly so too!
Their reputation preceding them, the American naval ranger/command/special operations SEAL's without qualification ranking among the BEST of all time. Raiders the missions of which historically have only about a fifty percent [50 %] success rate under the most ideal of circumstances the SEAL's seem to accomplish with what appears to be almost casual indifference, NONETHELESS markedly outstanding.
They do themselves proud!!
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Latrines & Tarawa.
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From the Sail Billabong web site we have these items:
Those American marines during the Second World War [WW2] assaulting the Japanese island stronghold fortress of Tarawa atoll [Betio island] KNOWING ALMOST PRECISELY THE NUMBER OF ADVERSARIES!
Aerial photo reconnaissance able to determine with precision the number of latrines as present on the island, Japanese doctrine as to hygienic facilities, number of latrines per troop strength known with exactness.
"Intelligence had estimated between 2,500 and 3,100 Japanese forces. Interestingly enough these calculations were derived from the number of latrines (toilets) the Japanese had built (the latrines were multi-holed wooden 'buildings' built over the water and clearly visible on aerial photographs). Even more interesting was that the estimated number was remarkable accurate! (The Japanese forces consisted of 2,619 combat troops. However, in addition there were 2,217 labor forces [impressed Koreans])"
Disposal of human waste in a safe and hygienic manner, excrement, vital to maintaining, especially in the tropics, the health of those present, disease from overcrowding and unsanitary conditions a greater threat and producing more casualties than mortal combat itself!!
Shit, kak, govno, merde, scheisse!
That Battle of Tarawa intense in the extreme, seventy-two hours of hell on earth, casualties beyond almost measure, of those Japanese defending the island only seventeen taken alive, CAPTIVES SHELL-SHOCKED AND IN SUCH A STUPOR THEY WERE UNABLE TO FURTHER RESIST!!
[Korean forced [?] laborers also killed in large numbers but willing to surrender if the opportunity made available!!]
"Only 17 Japanese prisoners (along with 129 Koreans) were captured, another 4,690 estimated dead" [that is total dead, Japanese and Koreans combined!!]
This comment by the Japanese commander of Tarawa NOT so necessarily boastful but considered within the context as envisioned by the Shibasaki:
"Rear Admiral Shibasaki told his troops that the Americans could not take Tarawa with a million men in a hundred years."
Shibasaki making the assumption that Tarawa NOT ONLY defended by organic forces ashore but by a cordon of Japanese naval vessels and aviation assets shore and carrier based both!! Those Japanese defenders at Tarawa NOT alone but having considerable outside forces acting in concert - - the American attacker having to run a gauntlet even prior to arriving on the scene at Betio!!
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From the Sail Billabong web site we have these items:
Those American marines during the Second World War [WW2] assaulting the Japanese island stronghold fortress of Tarawa atoll [Betio island] KNOWING ALMOST PRECISELY THE NUMBER OF ADVERSARIES!
Aerial photo reconnaissance able to determine with precision the number of latrines as present on the island, Japanese doctrine as to hygienic facilities, number of latrines per troop strength known with exactness.
"Intelligence had estimated between 2,500 and 3,100 Japanese forces. Interestingly enough these calculations were derived from the number of latrines (toilets) the Japanese had built (the latrines were multi-holed wooden 'buildings' built over the water and clearly visible on aerial photographs). Even more interesting was that the estimated number was remarkable accurate! (The Japanese forces consisted of 2,619 combat troops. However, in addition there were 2,217 labor forces [impressed Koreans])"
Disposal of human waste in a safe and hygienic manner, excrement, vital to maintaining, especially in the tropics, the health of those present, disease from overcrowding and unsanitary conditions a greater threat and producing more casualties than mortal combat itself!!
Shit, kak, govno, merde, scheisse!
That Battle of Tarawa intense in the extreme, seventy-two hours of hell on earth, casualties beyond almost measure, of those Japanese defending the island only seventeen taken alive, CAPTIVES SHELL-SHOCKED AND IN SUCH A STUPOR THEY WERE UNABLE TO FURTHER RESIST!!
[Korean forced [?] laborers also killed in large numbers but willing to surrender if the opportunity made available!!]
"Only 17 Japanese prisoners (along with 129 Koreans) were captured, another 4,690 estimated dead" [that is total dead, Japanese and Koreans combined!!]
This comment by the Japanese commander of Tarawa NOT so necessarily boastful but considered within the context as envisioned by the Shibasaki:
"Rear Admiral Shibasaki told his troops that the Americans could not take Tarawa with a million men in a hundred years."
Shibasaki making the assumption that Tarawa NOT ONLY defended by organic forces ashore but by a cordon of Japanese naval vessels and aviation assets shore and carrier based both!! Those Japanese defenders at Tarawa NOT alone but having considerable outside forces acting in concert - - the American attacker having to run a gauntlet even prior to arriving on the scene at Betio!!
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Economy.
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From ONLY TODAY this item discussed on the radio talk show airways.
American commercial aviation once again in the cross-hairs of those surviving remnants of Al Qaeda. Terrorists suicide bombers with explosive devices surgically implanted into their bodies escaping all known means of detection able to bring down and airliner with immense and total loss of life. So it is thought this is the intention of Al Qaeda as a means of demonstrating staying-power sans the supreme leader [OBL].
MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE, A DISLOCATION AND "CRASHING DOWN" OF THE AMERICAN ECONOMY THE GOAL!
AS IT WAS IN THOSE DAYS IMMEDIATELY AFTER 9/11, AS IT IS NOW!!
"Osama Bin Laden Wanted 9/11 Follow-Up to Doom Economy, Terrorist Says"
"A convicted terrorist said that shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, Osama bin Laden told him that the next attack would strike a fatal blow to the American economy."
"In a video testimony played in a New York court Monday, Saajid Badat, who was convicted in London of a December 2001 plot to blow up a U.S.-bound flight with a bomb in his shoes, recounted his meeting with the al Qaeda leader just after the 9/11 attacks."
"'he [bin Laden] said the American economy is like a chain,' . . . 'If you break one -- one link of the chain, the whole economy will be brought down. So after [the] Sept. 11 attacks, this operation will ruin the aviation industry and in turn the whole economy will come down.'"
It can be reasonably inferred to that in the months prior to 9/11 and the attacks on WTC and the Pentagon MORE THAN A FEW FOLKS KNOW THAT A CALAMITY WAS GOING TO OCCUR, BUT THAT A "CRASH" OF THE AMERICAN STOCK MARKET WAS INEVITABLE!!
Bob Brinker the radio talk show investment guru heard weekends recalling how several months prior to 9/11 receiving a phone call from a person [speaking English with a foreign accent] describing how there was going to be "something big" happen in the next few months that would be fatal for the American stock market.
Stocks in the aviation, travel, hotel, and tourist industry all to decline precipitously in value AND IT KNOWN FOR A FACT THAT ACCOUNTS ESTABLISHED BEFORE 9/11 SELLING "SHORT" STOCKS IN THOSE SECTORS REAPING IMMENSE PROFITS FOR THE HOLDERS, THOSE OWNERS OF THE ACCOUNTS NEVER CLAIMING THEIR MONEY!!
[too many questions would be asked!!]
OBL not entirely wrong about his assumption but not entirely correct either, the American economy too resilient and robust, able to respond to changing conditions in an effective and comparatively fast and quick manner!! This IS SO!
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Advanced?
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Here from the Voice of America thanks to the tip from DEC this somewhat misleading headline. The latest update and info on the hunt for Joseph Kony and the Lord's Resistance Army [LRA]:
"US Uses Advanced Intelligence to Hunt LRA in Central Africa"
"Where is Kony?"
NOT "advanced" as in the use of high-technology intelligence gear. Advanced in the manner of the collection, processing and analysis of low-technology data and tidbits of info those tidbits the type of material as would have been understood immediately by a person such as Sun Tzu [500B.C.]!
Data and tidbits of intelligence as primarily from military patrols, reconnaissance, and info from agents in the field [spies] as gathered by case officers [agent runners]! LOTS AND LOTS of case officers each with LOTS AND LOTS of agents in the field [local spies].
Those normal methods of communication intercepts and photographic images as used by American military forces negated and not useful due to the conditions as found in central Africa.
1. Joseph and his minions too smart, not to using radio and cellphone communications, to the extent that they possess such equipment.
"Tracking the rebel leader is a major challenge. LRA fighters have all but abandoned using mobile or satellite phones to communicate with one another, making them very difficult to trace."
2. Photographic images and real-time television from drones and such deemed as difficult at best due to the inclement weather, cloud and ground jungle cover as found in the area [central Africa]. Joseph giving the order to disperse into small bands, wear civilian dress, do not carry your weapons openly, establish camps for hiding, camouflaged and concealed.
"Dispersed across an area the size of California, the LRA moves in small groups, only occasionally meeting up at pre-determined rendezvous points."
As described, JOSEPH AND THE LRA ARE IN A SURVIVAL MODE, BUT THAT IS ALL THEY NEED! THEY WIN IF THEY SURVIVE TO FIGHT ANOTHER DAY!
That American special forces unit operating as a collection point for the data as received, almost exclusively low-level tidbits of data from persons having knowledge as to the whereabouts of the LRA and hopefully Joseph. "Locals", "hunters" and "nomads" who have seen "something and are able to report in a manner that constitutes use-ability
"members of the local communities, as well as hunters and nomadic herdsmen who may have information to share about the LRA's whereabouts"
This is warfare almost in the ancient manner? Those five varieties of spies as would be have been instantly recognized by Sun Tzu and having a modern applicability to include:
* Local spies.
* Returned spies.
* Converted spies.
* Doomed spies.
* Inward spies.
DO NOT also preclude the possibility that Joseph is also engaging in an extensive [?] and quite deliberate campaign of disinformation intended to fool and trick the American special forces operatives. Feed facts and tidbits that are misleading and create "noise" that deceives. DECEPTION!
I just don't have a good feeling about any of this. Joseph has been at this business for over two decades now and would not have survived and thrived as he has without having an innate "street smarts" and uncanny ability to elude all the while deceiving those in pursuit. It will be the same now?
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