Archive for February, 2007
Why I Pity Kenneth Eng
DISCLAIMER!! We do NOT endorse Mr. Eng’s views. We find them ignorant and repugnant!
A young Asian columnist by the name of Kenneth Eng reently penned an article entitled “Why I hate Blacks” in the San Francisco-based national Asian weekly, “AsianWeek”. AsianWeek has since Apologized for the article, and promised that stricter publication guidelines would be used in the future, without ever explaining exactly how such a blatantly racist and inflammatory article evern made it past the editor. In the interest of fairness, and from the concept that even the most retarded child deserves to be heard, we here at America’s Blood.com are providing the text of the article as well as a scan of the original. Please bear in mind that we not only categorically disagree with the contents of this article, we worry about the psychological stability of the author. Kenneth Eng appears to be a reasonably intelligent individual, although some of his more “Philosophical” writings remind us of the tripe we first blurted out after learning that Philosophy existed back at the age of 13-14, and much of his reasoning is fundamentally flawed, but we expect that over time, once he realizes that he’s not the only Mensa candidate in the world, he will maybe go read some Descartes and leave well enough alone. Again, we disavow the following comments, and have true pity for their author, but in keeping with our strong beliefs in the First Amendment, want to make sure that everyone can see the source of the news. Article after the jump.. Read the rest of this entry »
“I heard a big boom”
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide bomber attacked the entrance to the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan Tuesday during a visit by U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, killing up to 23 people and wounding 20 more.
The Taliban claimed responsibility and said Cheney was the target. Cheney was unhurt in the attack.
About two hours after the blast, Cheney left on a military flight for Kabul to meet with President Hamid Karzai and other officials, then left Afghanistan.
The vice president had spent the night at the sprawling Bagram Air Base. He ate breakfast with the troops, and met with Maj. Gen. David Rodriguez, the commander of U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
He was preparing to leave for the meeting with Karzai when the suicide bomber struck about 10 a.m. (12:30 a.m. ET), sending up a plume of smoke visible to reporters accompanying him. U.S. military officials declared a “red alert” at the base.
“I heard a loud boom,” Cheney told reporters. “The Secret Service came in and told me there had been an attack on the main gate.” Read the rest of this entry »
Insurgents find softer targets.. Victory for the new security plan!
A car bomb exploded Tuesday at a soccer field on the outskirts of Ramadi, killing 18 children, Iraqi TV reported.
The soccer field is in western Ramadi — capital of the Sunni-dominated Anbar province. The children were playing on the field when the blast occurred, Iraqi TV reported. No other details on the attack were immediately available.
The soccer field attack followed terrorist bombings in Baghdad at a popular ice cream shop, a parking lot and a restaurant that killed eight people and wounded 24 on Tuesday.
Iraqi police say they believe new coalition security tactics are forcing insurgents to shift bombing attacks away from parked cars in the streets to alternative locations.
The new U.S.-Iraqi security crackdown forbids parking cars on Baghdad’s main streets.
Tuesday’s deadliest reported bombing took place in a popular ice cream shop in central Baghdad’s mostly Shiite Karrada district. A suicide car bomber slammed into the shop, killing five people and wounding 10 others, according to an Interior Ministry official.
In the city’s Tayaran Square, another bomber hid explosives inside a restaurant, where the blast killed two people and wounded eleven, the official said.
In a separate attack, Iraqi police said a car bomb blast Tuesday in a parking lot in the Karrada district killed one person and wounded three others.
Suspect arrested in attack on vice president
Authorities in Iraq said Tuesday they arrested a suspect in the attempted assassination of Adel Abdul Mahdi, one of Iraq’s two vice presidents.
Mahdi received minor injuries in Monday’s attack, which took place during a celebration at a meeting hall. A bomb that was planted under a chair just a few meters from Mahdi killed at least 12 people and wounded more than 40 others, including two ministry officials.
The suspect who was arrested was directly involved in the attack, said Laith Shubbar, head of Mahdi’s media office.
The U.N. Assistance Mission in Iraq issued a statement Tuesday condemning the attack and congratulating Mahdi “on his safe and immediate resumption of his duties.”
The attackers have been thought to be Sunni extremists targeting government officials.
Mahdi is a member of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, a powerful Shiite political group, which is a major component of Iraq’s ruling United Iraqi Alliance.
Raids net suspected insurgents
Coalition forces seized 12 suspected insurgents Tuesday in raids throughout Iraq.
The U.S. military said the coalition raids netted an emir with al Qaeda in Iraq and 11 other suspected insurgents who were captured in five Iraqi cities: Baghdad, Mosul, Tikrit, Ramadi and Falluja.
The dozen suspected insurgents who were captured included three of the emir’s “associates,” according to the U.S. military. All of the arrested suspects are thought to be involved in the making of roadside bombs.
Two others in the dozen were detained in Baghdad. They have “alleged ties” to the al Qaeda in Iraq network, the U.S. military said.
Two of the coalition arrests occurred in the northern city of Mosul, where troops seized two people with suspected links to a key al Qaeda leader who is suspected of coordinating “attacks against Iraqi security and U.S. military personnel.”
In Anbar province, a suspected insurgent was arrested in Falluja, and another was arrested in Ramadi. In the Salaheddin province city of Tikrit, two people were detained.
Other developments
Redefining Progress: WHite House Style
Assuming you mean progress to mean that all the hostiles are too busy bringing the battle home to Baghdad then, yes, progress sure has been made….. If there had been REAL progress, in ways we usually expect, then Blair would be more than happy to send his highly successful troops to Baghdad and solve the few remaining little niggling problems there.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — The White House said Britain’s announcement Wednesday to pull about 1,600 troops out of Iraq was proof of progress, while the top House Democrat said it “confirms doubts” about President Bush’s plan to send more U.S. troops there. Read the rest of this entry »
Iraqi’s develop Acrimonious acronym
Iraq’s have developed a troublesome acronym (of an acronym) of their own, and now appear to be using FEW’s (Field Expedient WMD’s). In the form of a tanker truck containing Chlorine.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — A tanker carrying chlorine gas exploded Tuesday morning outside a restaurant in the Iraqi town of Taji, killing at least six people, an Interior Ministry official said. At least 105 other people were either injured by the blast or poisoned by the fumes.
The official said a bomb on board the tanker caused the explosion.
Baghdad Security plan spokesman Gen. Qassim Atta had different casualty figures, telling state-run al-Iraqiya TV that five people died in the blast and 148 were poisoned by the gas. Read the rest of this entry »
Back-to-back Baghdad bombings beleaguer Bush
New term alert* There are now terrorist facilitators in Iraq according the US Military. I can only assume that these are individuals who through their active listening to the Dixie Chicks, and studying of the Founding Father’s precepts are enabling others in the country to continue to do what the hell they’ve been doing for the last 1500 years..
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Amid a massive security operation to secure Baghdad, car bombs Sunday struck in two Shiite neighborhoods targeting civilians and police, Iraqi officials said.
At least 57 people were reported killed, most of them civilians killed in a twin car bomb attack. Read the rest of this entry »
Imagine how bad it would be if there were a Civil war in Iraq!.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Five explosions ripped through central Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 90 people, amid memorials marking last year’s attack on a revered Shiite shrine in Samarra, police said.
More than 190 people were wounded in the bombings, sandwiched around a commemoration on the anniversary of the attack on Al-Askariya Mosque, also known as the Golden Mosque.
The February 2006 bombing is blamed for sparking an eruption of sectarian violence between Shiite and Sunni Muslims. It has been a year since the attack, according to the Islamic calendar.
In the deadliest attack, three car bombs exploded at the Shorja market, killing at least 79 people and wounding 170 others, police said. The blasts sent dense, black smoke rising hundreds of feet into the midday air.
The explosions destroyed shops and stalls at the market, according to The Associated Press. Inside the warehouse-like building, clothing mannequins were laying in thick pools of blood, AP reported.
Witnesses said buildings were on fire and emergency workers and firefighters responded. Read the rest of this entry »
IED’s WMD’s and now EFP’s?
A bit of background. I’m a veteran. I was a Combat Engineer in the U.S. Army. I think I know a bit about military terminology but this new one is throwing me for a loop. what the hell is a EFP? Back when I was in the military, we had a term for explosives that exploded in a controlled and directed fashion. WE called them shaped charges, the manuals called them shaped charges, any literature I have ever seen on them has called them shaped charges. Now all of a sudden they’re called EFP’s? (Explosively Formed Penetrators) Is this administration so bent on making what has been a standard and regularyly used staple of war a new and terrible threat that it finds it more expedient to make new entries for the Dictionaries? It’s kind of like referring to dead Iraqi’s as PAI’s (Previously Ambulatory Individuals). ..
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sectioned HEAT round with the inner shaped charge visible
A shaped charge is an explosive charge shaped to focus the effect of the explosive’s energy. Various types are used to cut and form metal, initiate nuclear weapons, and penetrate armour. A typical modern lined shaped charge can penetrate armour steel to a depth of 7 or more times the diameter of the charge’s cone (cone diameters, CD), though greater depths of 10 CD and above are now feasible.
Full CNN article after the jump.
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Howard has issues with Obama..
Australia’s PM, John Howard has somehow decided that having fewerthan half the troops in Iraq, all in non-combat roles mind you, that we have lost, gives him the right to criticize Barak Obama’s stance on the Iraq war. Let’s get one thing straight, Barak has never said, and does not NOW say we should cut and run, he has always said and still says that we had no Business there to start with. It’s like the cliff scene in Rebel Without a Cause, there’s a definite difference to being in the car after the race has started and saying, I’m gonna chicken out, and never going to the race at all. We should not have gotten involved in Iraq, especially in light of the fact that there was never any compelling reason to believe that Iraq was involved in the events of Sept 11. Of course even THAT bit of hindsight is not stopping our current administration from NOW deciding that maybe ran is the enemy who must be stopped., well, more on that in a minute, for now, remainder of the Howard story courtesy of CNN after the jump.
Iranian speechwriters plaigarize Bush: “Bring It On!”
If the United States were to attack Iran, the country would respond by striking U.S. interests all over the world, Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Thursday.Speaking to a gathering of Iranian air force commanders, Khamenei said: “The enemy knows well that any invasion would be followed by a comprehensive reaction to the invaders and their interests all over the world.”
Iranian leaders often speak of a crushing response to any attack. While the remarks are seen as an attempt to drum up national support, Iran’s position on Iraq and its nuclear program has provoked more than usual international pressure in recent months.
U.S. President George W. Bush has ordered American troops to act against Iranians suspected of being involved in the Iraqi insurgency and has deployed a second aircraft carrier to the Gulf area as a warning to Iran.
The U.N. Security Council has imposed sanctions because of Iran’s refusal to cease uranium enrichment, and is due to consider strengthening later this month.
“Some people say that the U.S. president is not prone to calculating the consequences of his actions,” Khamenei said in remarks broadcast on state television, “but it is possible to bring this kind of person to wisdom.”
“U.S. policymakers and analysts know that the Iranian nation would not let an invasion go without a response,” Khamenei added.
Khamenei addressed rumors about his health — a subject that is rarely discussed openly in Iran. Last month, there was speculation that his health had deteriorated seriously.
“Enemies of the Islamic system fabricated various rumors about death and health to demoralize the Iranian nation, but they did not know that they are not dealing with only one person in Iran. They are facing a nation,” Khamenei said.
