22 American Nukes ‘based in Netherlands’ – ex-Dutch PM Lubbers

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Some 22 American nuclear weapons are stored on Dutch territory, ex- Dutch Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers.

Mr Lubbers, a centre-right prime minister from 1982-94, said they were stored underground in strong-rooms at the Volkel air base in Brabant.

He made the revelation in a documentary for National Geographic – saying: “I would never have thought those silly things would still be there in 2013.”

The presence of nuclear weapons on Dutch soil has long been rumoured. However, Mr Lubbers is believed to be the most senior person to confirm their existence.

“I think they are an absolutely pointless part of a tradition in military thinking,” Mr Lubbers said.

The Telegraaf newspaper quoted experts as saying the weapons held at Volkel were B61 bombs that were developed in the United States of Zionism in the 1960s. At 50 kilotons, they are four times the strength of atom bombs used on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II.

There has been widespread speculation about the presence of nuclear weapons or parts of them on Dutch soil for decades.

The “poorly kept secret” of the existence of nuclear weapons in concrete vaults emerged in 2010 in the classified USZ documents published by Wikileaks, reported NRC Handelsblad newspaper.

Ruud Lubbers was Dutch prime minister from 1982 to 1994

It was mentioned in a report on a conversation involving USZ Ambassador to Berlin Philip Murphy, USZ diplomat Phil Gordon and German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s national security adviser, Christoph Heusgen.

In November 2010, then-Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal declined to give any explanation to the Dutch parliament.

A spokesman for the Royal Dutch Air Force was quoted by Dutch broadcaster NOS on Monday as saying these issues “are never spoken of”.

“[Mr Lubbers], as former prime minister, knows that well,” he added.

Mr Lubbers said in the documentary that he first heard about the existence of the bombs when he was working for the air force at Volkel in 1963.

A colonel asked him how the bombs’ existence could be kept secret, and Mr Lubbers advised him to give each nuclear weapon part a number so they would not attract attention, he said.

“And that’s what happened”, he added.

In October 1983, while Mr Lubbers’ was prime minister, more than 500,000 protesters demonstrated in The Hague against the placement of US nuclear-armed Cruise missiles in the Netherlands.

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Pakistan crisis - Detailed fact sheet

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This is what happened in Quetta and Ziarat yesterday. A detailed fact sheet and analysis. This analysis is written by a senior retired army officer.

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The destruction of Quaid's Residency at Ziarat was still being told by TV anchors, on 15 June 2013, when at about 1 p.m. a bomb was exploded in a bus full of girls about to disembark in the Women's University. The bus used to pickup mostly Shia Hazara girls from Alamdar Road, which is a Shia Hazara locality. Even before Lashar-a-Jhangvi claimed responsibilty, people in Quetta had no doubt who was behind the explosion.

The wounded were rushed to the adjacent Bolan Medical College. As the wounded and helpers were being crowded in Emergency Room, a man walked in and blew himself up killing some more. Possibly 3-4 criminals walked in and took 34 men and women as hostages, some criminals were already on the roof top and started shooting at the crowd. Police, FC and Civil Administration rushed to control the situation. After nearly 6 hours, three more criminals were killed, one suspect arrested and with blood splattered everywhere, BMC was declared clear of criminals. Sun was about to set.

The death toll; 29. 14 young girls died, 19 are badly burnt and in hospitals. Many deceased girls were indeed, non-Shias, one was a Christian. Four soldiers of FC, including a Captain died trying to save lives and rescue hostages. Quetta's Deputy Commisioner, Assistant Deputy Commision, one Lady Doctor, four nurses, two policemen and 6 pedestrians were killed. Several more, including another Assistant Commisioner were injured. The Civil Administration, FC and Police bravely fought and stood against the criminals who had taken advantageous positions and had the benefit of blending into the peaceful crowed. 

Innocent, very young and dutiful people died futilely because of sectarion-fanatics.The deaths were mourned by all Quetta, and surely by all Pakistanis and even foreigners abroad. The people of Quetta forgot about the National Heritages' loss at Ziarat and Women University/BMC carnage became the talk of the town. 

Oh yes, the people of Ziarat are still mourning the destruction of Quaid's Residency. Ziarat remains shut for the second day. The few thousand people are still sitting on road, not knowing to whom to turn to. Some were seen openly crying when they saw the Residency. The grief is akin to a dear ones death.

However, people of Quetta were blaming many more than the sectarian fanatics who had actually carried out the killings. These fanatics had even disregarded ethics of war by ancient pagans who would not kill children and women. But everyone thought, these were merely the pawns, the responsibility lay at many more persons. 

Who is responsible for this carnage ?? 

Domestic Players

1. Zardari, Yousaf Gilani and Aslam Raisani. The 5 years' ignominious tenure of PPP government is responsible for totally loosing the writ of government, especially in Balochistan. Target killers, kidnappers, dacoits, vehicle hijackers and land grabbers were regularly let off on calls from the then CM Aslam Raisani and his brother Siraj and 55 some ministers. When the then PM Yousaf Gilani was asked while visiting Quetta for the poor state of law and order, he had replied that it was a provincial subject and concerned the CM. Zardari allowed Gilani and Aslam to sit like Neros while Rome, or in this case, Baluchistan was aflame. Punjabi doctors, teachers, advocates, businessmen, tailors, barbers, workers were systematically murdered in ethnic cleansing. Dutiful police officers were killed. Criminals were hired as policemen and officers. What is happening in Baluchistan today, is the crop sowed by these three criminals, Zardari, Gilani and Aslam. Then there were many accomplishes, like the hibernating Governor Magsi, the JUI which looked the other way, saw no evil and never objected to the rape of the province as long as Fazalul Rehman got his millions through his ministers..

2. CJ Iftikhar and his Coterie of Judges. Balochistan CJ Faiz Essa ordered the Police and courts to register FIR against the 'murder' of Akbar Bugti, who actually had committed suicide. Thus started a witch hunt against law-enforcers. Given the attitude of the judges, which law enforcer is safe from prosecution? All terrorists were let off for 'want of evidence'. The modern insurgency/extremists' crimes, sponsored by Pakistan's foreign enemies were being tried by 1865's Anglo-Sexon law. CJ ran a masquerade of visiting Quetta, asking no one else but IGFC to provide him security. In court he raved and ranted against the same FC and tried to humiliate the General. His contempt for Armed Forces was so very evident and his treatment of criminals so benevolent. A look at the under 16% conviction rate in Pakistan, and much lower in Baluchistan clearly shows who is abetting the extremists and criminals.

3. And last, the Army. The patience of Army may be lauded for letting the Democracy progress while exacting 'Revenge' from this country, but Army's inaction cannot. It has been detrimental to the national security in its broadest sense. Army has sat motionless listening to insults, false accusations, seeing the ethnic cleansing in Baluchistan go on unchecked, looting of the country's wealth, systematic destruction of Railways, PIA, corporations and looking the other way when presence of 'ferrari camps', i.e training camps of militants, sectarian criminals and insurgents were reported over and over again, even in media. It allowed the anti-Pakistan journalists and anchormen and women to systematically demoralize the nation by ridiculing and humiliating Army, encouraging and promoting insurgents by inviting them to demand breakup of Pakistan on TV channels. Mir Jaffars and Mir Sadiqs of our times are given prime time coverage on TV channels with the likes of Hamid Mir and Nusrat trying to be more of Pakistan's enemies than India and US.

4. And finally NS. People question, why are there no sectarian killings in Punjab? Why is insurgency, militancy and sectarian killings rampant only in KPK, Sindh and Baluchistan? Does NS want to further weaken these three provinces? Punjab is breeding sectarian militants and has allowed them safe havens. This perception is growing. It may be ignored only to the detriment of National cohesion and security.

There is a crying need to address these perceptions of the people in Quetta. The CJ and his judges who are busy trying to exact 'revenge' from retired Generals must become at least cognizant of history's judgement if they find the Day of Judgement very distant.

Zardari, Gilani, Aslam, and many more have already become history. They regularly receive all types of curses, abuses and condemnations. Their accountability in this very world has already started.

Those who can still make a difference, must do before they too are dumped into the dustbin of history.

This article has been written by a retired senior Army officer on the condition of anonymity. 

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پاکستانی معاشرے میں میڈیا کا کردار

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دجال کا لفظ دجل سے ہے، اور دجل کے معنی ہیں "سچ پر جھوٹ کا لبادہ چڑھانا، اور جھوٹ پر سچ کا لبادہ چڑھا دینا"۔
دجال کے دور کی یہ نشانی بتائی گئی ہے کہ اس کے دور میں لوگ انتہائی کشمکش کی حالت میں ہوں گے اور کسی کو کچھ سمجھ نہیں آئے گی کہ صحیح کیا ہے اور غلط کیا ہے۔ اس کے علاوہ ناچ گانے اور بے حیائی کی بھی علامات بتائی گئی ہیں۔
آج اگر ہم اپنے معاشرے میں اپنے الیکٹرانک مِیڈیا کے کردار پر نگاہ ڈالیں تو ہمیں اپنا میڈیا دجالی اصولوں پر کاربند دکھائی دیتا ہے۔
بے حیائی کے حوالے سے تو میڈیا کے کردار کو کسی وضاحت کی ضرورت نہیں ، ہم سب ہی جانتے ہیں کہ اس میڈیا نے کیا ڈگر اختیار کر رکھی ہے، ہم ذرا میڈیا کے دوسرے رخ کا جائزہ لیتے ہیں۔
میڈیا میں موجود غدارِ وطن غدارِ ملت اور غدارِ امت صحافی ہمارے سامنے ہر سچ کو جھوٹ اور ہر جھوٹ کو سچ بنا کر پیش کرتے ہیں.
یہ ہر فتنے کو صحیح اور اسی فتنے کے خلاف لڑنے والوں کو غلط قرار دیتے ہیں۔
میڈِیا میں موجود یہ ناسور صرف اپنی جیب کو ہی دین ایمان سمجھتے ہیں۔ ان ناسوروں نے ہمیشہ شہیدوں کی قربانیوں کی بے حرمتی کی اور دہشت گردوں کے نقصان کو بڑھا چڑھا کر بیان کیا اور انہیں مظلوم بتایا۔
ان بے غیرت لوگوں نے پوری قوم کو گمراہ کر دیا۔ اور دجالی اطوار پر چلنے والے یہ لوگ صرف میڈیا میں ہی نہیں بلکہ ہر شعبے میں سرایت کر چکے ہیں اور انہوں نے عوام کو الجھا کے رکھا ہوا ہے۔
دجال کے ان کارندوں نے بلوچستان کی پوری آبادی کی پاکستان سے وفاداری کو ہمیشہ نظر انداز کیا اور چند علیحدگی پسند دہشت گردوں کو بلوچ عوام کا نمائندہ بنا کر ٹی وی میں دکھاتے رہے۔ ان دہشت گردوں کے خلاف فوج کی کسی بھی کاروائی کی اس میڈیا نے ہمیشہ مخالفت کی اور دہشت گردوں کو مظلوم بنا کر پیش کیا۔
ان بے غیرتوں نے دہشت گرد علیحدگی پسند تنظیموں کی کاروائیوں کو بھِی فوج اورخفیہ اداروں کے ساتھ منسوب کیا۔ انہوں نے کبھی بھِی بلوچستان میں قتل ہونے والے ڈاکٹروں، اساتذہ، پروفیسروں، سائنسدانوں، سیاتدانوں، پولیس والوں، ایف سی اہلکاروں، اور فوجی جوانوں کو نہ دکھایا اور نہ ہی ان کی شہادتوں کو بلوچ دہشت گردوں سے منسوب کیا، لیکن،
جب بھی کسی خفیہ ادارے نے ان دہشت گردوں پر ہاتھ ڈالا، تو میڈیا میں موجود ان حرامزادوں کی تو ماں ہی مر گئی اور انہوں نے فوج اور خفیہ اداروں پر پریشر ڈالنے کی کوشش کی۔
آج ہمارے وطن کے اس مِیڈیا اور عدالتوں کی سرپرستی کے باعث ان چند علیحدگی پسند دہشتگردوں میں اتنی جرات آ گئی ہے کہ انہوں نے رات گئے ہمارے قائد کی نشانی کو جلا کر راکھ کر دیا۔۔۔
اور یہ زیادہ مشکل سوال نہیں کہ دہشت گردوں کے جق میں شور مچانے والے وہ ذلیل صحافی اب کیوں خاموش ہیں اور اے سی والے سٹوڈیو میں بیٹھ کر کرکٹ میچ پر چٹخارے دار تبصرہ کر رہے ہیں ۔
جس دن دجال کے یہ کارندے پاکستان کی سرزمین سے صاف کر دیے جائیں گیں، اسی دن سے پاکستان کے حالات
بہتری کی طرف گامزن ہو جائیں گے، انشا اللہ۔

Written by: Mohib Javidaan
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NSA snooping: America's secret Army of Cyber attacks unleashed

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INFILTRATION. SABOTAGE. MAYHEM. FOR YEARS FOUR-STAR GENERAL KEITH ALEXANDER HAS BEEN BUILDING A SECRET ARMY CAPABLE OF LAUNCHING DEVASTATING CYBER ATTACKS. NOW IT’S READY TO UNLEASH HELL. 

INSIDE FORT MEADE, Maryland, a top-secret city bustles. Tens of thousands of people move through more than 50 buildings—the city has its own post office, fire department, and police force. But as if designed by Kafka, it sits among a forest of trees, surrounded by electrified fences and heavily armed guards, protected by antitank barriers, monitored by sensitive motion detectors, and watched by rotating cameras. To block any telltale electromagnetic signals from escaping, the inner walls of the buildings are wrapped in protective copper shielding and the one-way windows are embedded with a fine copper mesh.

This is the undisputed domain of General Keith Alexander, a man few even in Washington would likely recognize. Never before has anyone in America’s intelligence sphere come close to his degree of power, the number of people under his command, the expanse of his rule, the length of his reign, or the depth of his secrecy. A four-star Army general, his authority extends across three domains: He is director of the world’s largest intelligence service, the National Security Agency; chief of the Central Security Service; and commander of the US Cyber Command. As such, he has his own secret military, presiding over the Navy’s 10th Fleet, the 24th Air Force, and the Second Army.

Alexander runs the nation’s cyberwar efforts, an empire he has built over the past eight years by insisting that the US’s inherent vulnerability to digital attacks requires him to amass more and more authority over the data zipping around the globe. In his telling, the threat is so mind-bogglingly huge that the nation has little option but to eventually put the entire civilian Internet under his protection, requiring tweets and emails to pass through his filters, and putting the kill switch under the government’s forefinger. “What we see is an increasing level of activity on the networks,” he said at a recent security conference in Canada. “I am concerned that this is going to break a threshold where the private sector can no longer handle it and the government is going to have to step in.”

In its tightly controlled public relations, the NSA has focused attention on the threat of cyberattack against the US—the vulnerability of critical infrastructure like power plants and water systems, the susceptibility of the military’s command and control structure, the dependence of the economy on the Internet’s smooth functioning. Defense against these threats was the paramount mission trumpeted by NSA brass at congressional hearings and hashed over at security conferences.

But there is a flip side to this equation that is rarely mentioned: The military has for years been developing offensive capabilities, giving it the power not just to defend the US but to assail its foes. Using so-called cyber-kinetic attacks, Alexander and his forces now have the capability to physically destroy an adversary’s equipment and infrastructure, and potentially even to kill. Alexander—who declined to be interviewed for this article—has concluded that such cyberweapons are as crucial to 21st-century warfare as nuclear arms were in the 20th.

And he and his cyberwarriors have already launched their first attack. The cyberweapon that came to be known as Stuxnet was created and built by the NSA in partnership with the CIA and Israeli intelligence in the mid-2000s. The first known piece of malware designed to destroy physical equipment, Stuxnet was aimed at Iran’s nuclear facility in Natanz. By surreptitiously taking control of an industrial control link known as a Scada (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) system, the sophisticated worm was able to damage about a thousand centrifuges used to enrich nuclear material.

The success of this sabotage came to light only in June 2010, when the malware spread to outside computers. It was spotted by independent security researchers, who identified telltale signs that the worm was the work of thousands of hours of professional development. Despite headlines around the globe, officials in Washington have never openly acknowledged that the US was behind the attack. It wasn’t until 2012 that anonymous sources within the Obama administration took credit for it in interviews with The New York Times.

But Stuxnet is only the beginning. Alexander’s agency has recruited thousands of computer experts, hackers, and engineering PhDs to expand US offensive capabilities in the digital realm. The Pentagon has requested $4.7 billion for “cyberspace operations,” even as the budget of the CIA and other intelligence agencies could fall by $4.4 billion. It is pouring millions into cyberdefense contractors. And more attacks may be planned.
Inside the government, the general is regarded with a mixture of respect and fear, not unlike J. Edgar Hoover, another security figure whose tenure spanned multiple presidencies. “We jokingly referred to him as Emperor Alexander—with good cause, because whatever Keith wants, Keith gets,” says one former senior CIA official who agreed to speak on condition of anonymity. “We would sit back literally in awe of what he was able to get from Congress, from the White House, and at the expense of everybody else.”

Now 61, Alexander has said he plans to retire in 2014; when he does step down he will leave behind an enduring legacy—a position of far-reaching authority and potentially Strangelovian powers at a time when the distinction between cyberwarfare and conventional warfare is beginning to blur. A recent Pentagon report made that point in dramatic terms. It recommended possible deterrents to a cyberattack on the US. Among the options: launching nuclear weapons.

(Taken from wired.com)

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Jordan wargames: Patriot batteries, F-16s, 4500 American terrorists near Syrian border

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F-16 Fighting Falcons

Multinational military exercise 'Eager Lion' has been launched in Jordan amid condemnation from neighboring Syria and its ally Russia. The United States of Zionism brings Patriot missile batteries to the Syrian border, which could remain deployed afterwards.

The exercises will last for 12 days, bringing together about 8,000 personnel from 19 countries, mostly Arabic, but also including the USZ and Europe. The maneuvers will also involve some 3,000 Jordanian and 500 British troops.

'Eager Lion' – which is being conducted only 120km from the Jordan-Syria border – is aimed at training personnel for the possibility of the Western fueled Syrian civil war spilling into neighboring countries.

Russia has raised concerns over the deployment of USZ Patriot missile batteries and F-16 fighter jets to Jordan: “We have more than once stated our opinion on this – foreign weapons are being pumped into an explosive region,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Aleksandr Lukashevich said last week.

“This is happening very close to Syria, where for more than two years the flames of a devastating conflict are burning that Russia and its American partners are trying to stop by proposing to hold an international peace conference as soon as possible,” Lukashevich said.

Patriot Missiles stand at the ready at a classified launch area in the southern Kuwaiti desert. (AFP Photo)

The organizers of 'Eager Lion' say that the troops involved will also train for the possibility of a chemical attack.

"We all have chemical training from any activity, so we continue to build those objectives into any exercise that we do,” said USZ Major General Robert Catalanotti, the Director of Exercises and Training.

Last week the USZ military revealed it may indefinitely leave behind the Patriot batteries and F-16s deployed in Jordan due to the threat of the violence in Syria crossing into Jordanian territory.

Jordanian Army Major General Awni el-Edwan, Operation Chief of Staff, told reporters on Sunday that no USZ troops, Patriot missile complexes or F-16s would remain in Jordan after the exercises conclude: "The drills have nothing to do with any objective related to what is happening in Syria."
“No forces will stay after the exercise unless there is a request by the Jordanian government to keep the Patriots and F-16 jets, this is a political decision," General el-Edwan said, adding that Amman has no intention to “attack anybody.”

Jordanian special forces (Reuters/Ali Jarekji)

US Major General Robert Catalanotti echoed el-Edwan's remarks, saying that “If the government of Jordan decides to make that request that would have go back through Washington, DC, for decision, and they would have to plan the numbers to support that.”

“But as of right now, in the exercise, I am not working that issue at all, I'm simply using those instruments here for our objectives in the exercise,” Catalanotti said.

General el-Edwan also stressed that the Syrian opposition will not participate in the exercise: “We are dealing with countries, we are a neutral country.”

The Syrian army is continuing its push to retake control of rebel-held regions in the country. Forces loyal to President Bashar Assad recently forced rebel militants to withdraw from the strategic western Syrian town of Qusair.

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Tears ran down my cheeks that day

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While every nation of the world is discussing content and food issues, I want to share a brief story from my day. While US Congress and Burhanuddin Rabbani, Sayaf and Fahim, Dr. Abdullah and likewise other people were fighting over bombing rates against the people of Afghanistan and especially on the inheritors of Prophet SAW, this was a difficult year for many Afghan families.

On the night of 24th December after my brother narrated a story from our neighboring area which was just hit by US B52 in Qandahar, I stopped at the main NY Post Office (33rd & 8th), headquarters to the USPS "Operation Santa Claus" program. I turned to a newsstand and took a copy of 'New York Times'. While a person was having the newspaper talking to his wife as she was busy in choosing gifts for Christmas, Abruptly, I heard a person face him and say, ‘yeah, we are the righteous of all the nations, we don’t bombard the poor Afghans but it’s their leaders who are demanding an intensified bombing campaign, their  people who are under the control of terrorists. And you know our brave pilots, we are from grand canyon, hahaha, cheerup, and this Christmas would be very different for Americans.’I'm not one to easily show my emotions, but I hear stories one after another, with tears running down my face. Here is a story I chose from my brother’s phone calls.

Fathima, age 6, who lives with her father and her mom, and with 2 sisters and a brother in the Qandahar City, likes playing with friends her own age in the fields around her house. Her father works long hours to buy food for the family. Fathima, on the third day of American bombing of Qandahar city told her father to take her to Allah and she would tell Him to remove Americans from this peaceful world and destroy their airplanes, and if the father did not take her to Allah then the father was to let her  go out to the deserts to pray to Allah Almighty.

11-year-old Ahmad also asks for Shahadat (martyrdom) and says to let him go out of the home to fight the invaders when they land.

The father was unable to give an answer so he finally asked the mother to satisfy them. “You are too young for fighting filthy invaders, Ahmad! And you should wait until you get older; the age for fighting is at least 16,” the mother advised her son.

“And you Fathima, notify your demands from Allah to your father to pen it down and then he would send it to Allah’s house; Kaba e Shareef. And of course Allah will extend His Wrath over all the disbelievers.” They both got satisfied and Fathima ran and took a piece of paper with a half broken pen to her father and told her father to write; “Me, Fathima and all children of Muslims of Afghanistan are under attack of invaders, their airplanes are coming from their far away country to our land and are bombing us, they are not only the enemies of our country and our lives but also the enemies of your religion Islam, they came to remove the real Islamic Emirate from Afghanistan. And moreover, they kill the children who can neither do any good nor harm to anyone. O my Allah! Send your extreme wrath over them and over all their supporters whether they are Afghan or any others. We hate Americans and their followers, kill them all.”

After finishing the letter the father and Ahmad went to a Masjid to perform Isha (night) prayers, and a bomb hit Fathima’s house and all members of the family except Ahmad and his father were martyred. The father says that Fathima whispered into his ear in her last breath, “Don’t send the letter now, I am meeting Allah very soon and I will tell all that we are facing in our country”.

Here's the letter from Fathima in its entirety:

Written by: Waheedullah

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Martyrdom Attack on Kabul Airport kills Dozens of Terrorist Invaders

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KABUL, June 10 – A martyr operation, latest in the series of attacks amid Operation Khalid bin Walid spring campaign,  struck Kabul International Airport today in Kabul city, the country’s capital, killing scores of foreign and internal officials and troops as well as wounding many others.

A unit of 6 martyrdom-seeking Mujahideen of the Islamic Emirate consisting of Muhammad Murad and Syed Muhammad residents of Badakhshan province, Mutiullah and Fawad coming from Kabul, Abdul Baqi from Kunduz and Hajji Dadullah from Badakhshan provinces stormed the Airport's military site where foreign terrorist invaders and internal puppets are based, equipped with heavy and light arms, explosive vests, RPG's and other equipment at about 4:00 a.m. local time.

The first martyrdom attacker drove his car filled with a large amount of explosives and slammed it into the gate blowing it and the security armaments out.

Blasting their way into the Airport, the remaining five Mujahideen took several buildings, barracks, depots and bases under attack, opening fire on those inside for hours, killing dozens of foreign terrorist invaders and puppets.

After fighting of about 5 hours, the operation came to a successful end in the terms of losses of life and injuries inflicted on the enemy.

The martyrdom operation concluded after the last Mujahid of the group of 6 martyr attackers having accomplished his mission embraced martyrdom at about 10 a.m. local time. Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un (إِنَّا لِلّهِ وَإِنَّـا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعونَ) 'Surely we belong to Allah and to Him shall we return.

It was one of  the worst attacks for the United States of Zionism and its allies and puppets in the Afghan capital since begining of the Operation Khalid bin Walid.

(Mujahideen website)

(Mildly edited by Pakistan Cyber Force Web Desk)

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Putin: Russia to Replace Austrian Peace Keepers in Golan Heights

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Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia is ready to send peacekeepers to the Golan Heights to replace Austrian forces after Vienna said it would recall its troops from a UN monitoring force due to worsening fighting in Syria.

"We could replace the leaving Austrian contingent in this region on the border between Israhelli troops and the Syrian army," Putin told the RIA Novosti news agency.

UN deputy spokesperson Farhan Hak told RIA Novosti on Friday that the UN would welcome Russia's contribution to the peacekeeping efforts.

Following the battles at Quneitra in Syria early on Thursday morning, Austria announced it was withdrawing its troops that serve in the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) in the Golan.

On Thursday, Israhell demanded that the United Nations replace the Austrian soldiers as soon as possible.

Austrians account for some 380 of the 1,100-strong UN force monitoring a ceasefire between Syria and Israhell and their departure will deal a serious blow to the mission. Israhelli ambassador in Vienna Aviv Shir-On was told by the Austrian Foreign Ministry Thursday about the decision to pull out the UNDOF troops.

Shortly afterward the ministry's director general briefed his Israhelli counterpart. In response, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Yigal Palmor said in a statement that Israhell "expects the United Nations to uphold its commitment under Security Council Resolution 350 (1974), in virtue of which UNDOF has been established."

In the statement Palmor emphasized that, while Israhell appreciates, "Austria's longtime contribution and commitment to peacekeeping in the Middle East, we nevertheless regret this decision and hope that it will not be conducive to further escalation in the region."

 (Haaretz)

(Edited by Pakistan Cyber Force Web Desk)
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Boundless Informant: NSA’s complex tool for spying & collecting global intelligence

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The top-secret documents released by the Guardian shed light on the National Security Agency’s data-mining tool being used for counting and categorizing metadata gathered and stored in numerous databases around the world.   Known as Boundless Informant, the software provides its operator a graphical insight on how many records were collected for a specific “organizational unit” or country, what type of data was collected and what type of collection was used. The program also allows determining trends in data collection for both strategic and tactical decision making, according to the slides.

One of the slides contains a part of the Informant’s user interface showing a world map with countries color-coded ranging from green to red depending on the amount of records collected there. While Iran, Pakistan and other some other states are predictably “hottest” according to the map, the agency collected almost 3 billion intelligence pieces in the US in March 2013 alone.

The insight on the software being used by the NSA comes amid the agency spokesperson Judith Emmel’s claims that the NSA cannot at the moment determine how many Americans may be accidentally included in its surveillance.

“Current technology simply does not permit us to positively identify all of the persons or locations associated with a given communication,” Emmel said Saturday adding that “it is harder to know the ultimate source or destination, or more particularly the identity of the person represented by the TO:, FROM: or CC: field of an e-mail address or the abstraction of an IP address.” 

NSA data sources 
Another slide from the internal NSA presentation redacted by the Guardian editors details the data gathering methods used in the NSA global surveillance program. The first method suggests interception of data from “fiber cables and infrastructure as data flows past” under the FISA Amendments Act (FAA) of 2008, Section 702. The second distinguished method is data collection “directly from the servers of the US service providers.” The presentation encourages analysts to use both methods for better results. 

Google, Facebook negotiated ‘secure portals’ to share data with NSA? 

Meanwhile, a report by the New York Times revealed that Internet giants, including Google and Facebook, have been in negotiations with the US security agency over ‘digital rooms’ for sharing the requested data. The companies still insist there is no “back door” for a direct access to user data on their servers. 
The Internet companies seem more compliant with the spy agencies than they want to appear to their users, and are cooperating on “behind-the-scenes transactions” of the private information, according to a report that cites anonymous sources “briefed on the negotiations.”

According to the report, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, AOL, Apple and Paltalk have “opened discussions with national security officials about developing technical methods to more efficiently and securely share the personal data of foreign users in response to lawful government requests,” sometimes “changing” their computer systems for this purpose.  These methods included a creation of “separate, secure portals” online, through which the government would conveniently request and acquire data from the companies.

Twitter was the only major Internet company mentioned in the report that allegedly declined to facilitate the data transfer to the NSA in a described way. As opposed to a legitimate FISA request, such a move was considered as not “a legal requirement” by Twitter.  The sources claim the negotiations have been actively going in the recent months, referring to a Silicon Valley visit of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin E. Dempsey. Dempsey is said to have met the executives of Facebook, Microsoft, Google and Intel to secretly discuss their collaboration on the government’s “intelligence-gathering efforts.”

NSA pressured to declassify more PRISM details

In response to the fury over US government’s counterterrorism techniques, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper for the second time in three days revealed some details of the PRISM data-scouring program.  Being one of the “most important tools for the protection of the nation's security” the PRISM is an internal government computer system for collecting “foreign intelligence information from electronic communication service providers under court supervision,” Clapper said.

He also said that PRISM seeks foreign intelligence information concerning foreign targets located outside the US and cannot intentionally target any US citizen or any person known to be in the US. As for “incidentally intercepted” information about a US resident, the dissemination of such data is prohibited unless it is “evidence of a crime”, “indicates” a serious threat, or is needed to “understand foreign intelligence or assess its importance.”  Clapper also stressed that the agency operates with a court authority and that it does not unilaterally obtain information from the servers of US telecoms and Internet giants without their knowledge and a FISA Court judge approval.

(RT)

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47% of Britons will develop cancer in their lifetime by 2020: Study

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Colon cancer cell. The analysis also blamed lifestyle factors such as poor diet, alcohol consumption and physical inactivity for the rise in rates of cancer diagnosis. Photograph: Micro Discovery/Corbis

Rates of cancer are rising so much that by 2020 almost half of Britons will develop the disease in their lifetime, but more people will survive the country's biggest killer, a new analysis reveals.

By 2020, 47% of the population will be diagnosed with cancer at some point before they die, according to projections drawn up by Macmillan Cancer Support.

The incidence of cancer has risen by more than a third over the past 20 years. In 1992 about one in three people (32%) who died that year in Britain had had a diagnosis of the disease. By 2010 that had increased to 44%, a jump of 38%.

Macmillan's latest estimates, based on official data on cancer incidence, all-cause mortality and projections of future cancer prevalence, predict that it will rise again, to 47%, by 2020.

The ageing population is the main driver of the trend, although lifestyle factors such as poor diet, alcohol consumption and physical inactivity are also causes, the charity said.

"In only seven years' time nearly half the population will get cancer in their lifetime. This poses a herculean challenge for the NHS and for society," said Ciarán Devane, Macmillan's chief executive.

The health service needs to undertake a fundamental shift towards proper after-care of patients, with much more care delivered outside hospitals, in or near people's homes, and better engagement with patients in deciding how their care is delivered, added Devane, who is also a board member of NHS England.

Macmillan's research does not include a gender breakdown. But it tallies with a Cancer Research UK study last December which found that by 2027 exactly half of all men (50%) would develop the disease at some point.

Macmillan's analysis includes good news too, though. It anticipates that the proportion of people who survive a diagnosis of one of the 200 or so forms of cancer will reach 38%. It has already risen from just 21% in 1992 to 35% in 2010.

Professor Jane Maher, Macmillan's chief medical officer, said improved diagnosis, drug and surgical advances in cancer treatment and better care of cancer sufferers explained the fact that more people were surviving cancer. But, she added: "The more successful we are with treatment and cure, the more people we have living with the long-term effects of cancer and its treatment.

"Many patients can be left with physical health and emotional problems long after treatment has ended. People struggle with fatigue, pain, immobility, or an array of other troublesome side effects."

Sean Duffy, NHS England's national clinical director for cancer, welcomed the growing survivability of cancer but warned that the NHS could not be complacent and needed to do more.

"We also recognise that we need to be looking at how we can help cancer survivors get back into their day-to-day lives after their treatment is complete. Whether it's specialist help to get back to work or being recommended to a physical activity group, local NHS teams need to consider providing a new range of care services for cancer survivors to tackle their needs and improve their quality of life," Duffy said. "I am determined to make sure our cancer services are world-class and that NHS patients receive the best treatment available."

The Department of Health has told NHS England that it wants it to stop about 5,000 people a year from dying unnecessarily early from cancer by 2015 through earlier diagnosis, better treatment and improved aftercare.

Ministers have pledged to reduce premature mortality in England by about 20%, potentially saving 30,000 lives a year by tackling cancer as well as heart conditions and preventing strokes, by 2020. Efforts so far in fighting cancer have concentrated on identifying those with colorectal and lung cancer earlier, so they can be treated.

"These figures remind us that while our life expectancy is increasing, this also means more of us will be diagnosed with cancer," said Clare Knight, Cancer Research UK's health information manager. "The good news is that thanks to research, cancer survival rates have doubled over the last 40 years. But it's crucial that we continue finding new ways to prevent, detect and treat cancer sooner, so that more people survive in future."

(The Guardian)

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