 | 10 bis 15 Jahre Di, 03.06.2008 1.200 Soldatinnen und Soldaten sind auf dem Weg nach Afghanistan. Sie werden das 17. Deutsche Einsatzkontigent stellen. Es ist ein gefährlicher Einsatz, mit Risiko für Leib und Leben. Aber er ist notwendig - auch für unsere Sicherheit. Bundesverteidungsminister Franz Josef Jung verabschiedete in Lemgo mit einem feierlichen Appell die Soldatinnen und Soldaten der Panzerbrigade 21 Lipperland. Unter ihnen ist auch der 250.000. Bundeswehr-Soldat, der in einen Auslandseinsatz geht. Deutschland dürfe nicht riskieren, dass das Land wieder in die Hände von Terroristen fiele, sagte der Minister. Ein Rückfall würde das internationale Aufbauwerk in Afghanistan zunichte machen. Zudem wachse dann auch die Gefahr für die Sicherheit in Deutschland. Mit ihrem Einsatz schützten die Soldatinnen und Soldaten auch die Menschen hier zu Lande. Besonders wandte sich der Verteidigungsminister an die Familien, Angehörigen und Freunde der Soldaten. Für diese ist die Zeit des Einsatzes eine große Belastung. Er bedankte sich für die Unterstützung, die sie den Soldaten gäben. Jung wünschte dem 17. Deutschen Einsatzkontingent "alles Gute und eine glückliche und gesunde Heimkehr." Bundeswehr in Afghanistan Die Soldatinnen und Soldaten der Panzerbrigade 21 aus dem lippischen Augustdorf werden ab sofort das 17. Deutsche Einsatzkontingent ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) in Afghanistan stellen. Unter ihnen befinden sich auch Soldaten der taktischen Eingreifreserve Quick Reaction Force (QRF) des Regional Command North. Die QRF wird ab dem 1. Juli erstmals von der Bundeswehr gestellt, nachdem die Bundeswehr den Auftrag von Norwegen übernommen hat. |
 | Kilab: Magpet Raid Coverage Part 1 of 2 http://isnayp.blogspot.com http://www.philippinerevolution.net Kilab: Magpet Raid Coverage The Merardo Arce Command of the New People's Army in Mindanao presents Kilab. A coverage of the June 2005 NPA Mindanao's raid of a police headquarters in Magpet, North Cotabato. In this daring and well planned tactical offensive, no shots were fired and nobody was hurt nor injured in the entire duration. The sucessful raid earned a number of high powered firearms and ammunition for the people's army. Length of the coverage is approximately 20 minutes. The production was produced by the Merardo Arce Command - Southern Mindanao Regional Operations Command of the NPA, Herminio Alfonso Command, Magtanggol Roque Command, and the Ka Paking Guimbaolibot Red Partisan Brigade Southern Mindanao Region. |
 | Kilab: Magpet Raid Coverage_1 The Merardo Arce Command of the New People's Army in Mindanao presents Kilab. A coverage of the June 2005 NPA Mindanao's raid of a police headquarters in Magpet, North Cotabato. In this daring and well planned tactical offensive, no shots were fired and nobody was hurt nor injured in the entire duration. The sucessful raid earned a number of high powered firearms and ammunition for the people's army. Length of the coverage is approximately 20 minutes. The production was produced by the Merardo Arce Command - Southern Mindanao Regional Operations Command of the NPA, Herminio Alfonso Command, Magtanggol Roque Command, and the Ka Paking Guimbaolibot Red Partisan Brigade Southern Mindanao Region. |
 | Kilab: Magpet Raid Coverage_2 The Merardo Arce Command of the New People's Army in Mindanao presents Kilab. A coverage of the June 2005 NPA Mindanao's raid of a police headquarters in Magpet, North Cotabato. In this daring and well planned tactical offensive, no shots were fired and nobody was hurt nor injured in the entire duration. The sucessful raid earned a number of high powered firearms and ammunition for the people's army. Length of the coverage is approximately 20 minutes. The production was produced by the Merardo Arce Command - Southern Mindanao Regional Operations Command of the NPA, Herminio Alfonso Command, Magtanggol Roque Command, and the Ka Paking Guimbaolibot Red Partisan Brigade Southern Mindanao Region. |
 | Kilab: Magpet Raid Coverage_3 The Merardo Arce Command of the New People's Army in Mindanao presents Kilab. A coverage of the June 2005 NPA Mindanao's raid of a police headquarters in Magpet, North Cotabato. In this daring and well planned tactical offensive, no shots were fired and nobody was hurt nor injured in the entire duration. The sucessful raid earned a number of high powered firearms and ammunition for the people's army. Length of the coverage is approximately 20 minutes. The production was produced by the Merardo Arce Command - Southern Mindanao Regional Operations Command of the NPA, Herminio Alfonso Command, Magtanggol Roque Command, and the Ka Paking Guimbaolibot Red Partisan Brigade Southern Mindanao Region. |
 | Kilab: Magpet Raid Coverage Part 2 of 2 http://isnayp.blogspot.com http://www.philippinerevolution.net Kilab: Magpet Raid Coverage The Merardo Arce Command of the New People's Army in Mindanao presents Kilab. A coverage of the June 2005 NPA Mindanao's raid of a police headquarters in Magpet, North Cotabato. In this daring and well planned tactical offensive, no shots were fired and nobody was hurt nor injured in the entire duration. The sucessful raid earned a number of high powered firearms and ammunition for the people's army. Length of the coverage is approximately 20 minutes. The production was produced by the Merardo Arce Command - Southern Mindanao Regional Operations Command of the NPA, Herminio Alfonso Command, Magtanggol Roque Command, and the Ka Paking Guimbaolibot Red Partisan Brigade Southern Mindanao Region. |
 | Turkish Army ( Turk Ordusu ) Military Turkish Military ;Guardian of the Peace The First Army has its headquarters in Istanbul and is widely deployed in the European part of Turkey. Their responsibility is to defend Istanbul, Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits, and Kocaeli Peninsula. The Second Army has its headquartered in Malatya and is deployed in southeastern Anatolia with a defensive mission facing Syria, Iraq, and Iran. The Third Army has its headquarters in Erzincan and is deployed in eastern Anatolia, covering the borders with Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan from the east and northeast. For the Armed Forces readiness against any possible crisis in the area (such as during Persian Gulf War and Iraqi War), most of the armored, mechanized, and commando brigades are located in the central region in order to act rapidly into any scenario around our borders. The Aegean Army (or 4th Army) has its headquarter in Izmir and was established in mid-1970s against growing tensions with Greece in the Aegean Sea. Their responsibility is to defend the Aegean coast from the Dardanelles to the north down to Cyprus, and keeping sea routes and communication lines open in the Aegean. The Turkish peace corps on Cyprus are connected to the Aegean Army command structure. Turkish Land Forces are composed by; 4 field armies, 10 army corps, 2 mechanized infantry division, 2 mechanized infantry division headquarters (tactical), 1 infantry division and 1 training division, 14 mechanized infantry brigades, 14 armored brigades, 12 infantry/regional security brigades, 5 commando brigades, and 5 training brigades. Turkish Naval Forces are composed by; 13 submarines, 20 frigates, 21 fast patrol boats, 21 mine sweepers or hunters or layers, 52 various landing ships, 23 various maritime patrol aircraft or helicopters, and amphibious brigade. Navy's subordinate commands are; Fleet Command, Northern Sea Area Command, and Naval Training and Education Command. Turkish Air Forces are composed by; 19 combat squadrons, 2 reconnaissance squadrons, 5 training squadrons, 6 transportation squadrons, 1 tanker squadron, and 8 surface to air missile (SAM) squadrons. These units are organized into; 2 tactical air forces (1st TAF HQ in Eskisehir and 2nd TAF HQ in Diyarbakir), 2 main air transport bases, tanker base, air training, and air logistics commands. After US Air Forces, Turkish Air Forces have the most number of F-16 aircraft in the world. Turkish Air Forces can participate in exercises conducted overseas flying non-stop thanks to their in-air refueling capability with tanker planes. God Bless Turks |
 | Bad Religion - Misery and Famine lyrics (words and music by Greg Graffin) A famine is a widespread shortage of food that may apply to any faunal species, which phenomenon is usually accompanied by regional malnutrition, starvation, epidemic, and increased mortality. Although most famines coincide with regional shortages of food, famine in some human populations has occurred amid plenty or on account of acts of economic or military policy that have deprived certain populations of sufficient food to ensure survival. Historically, famines have occurred because of drought, crop failure, pestilence, and man-made causes such as war or misguided economic policies. Bad harvests, overpopulation, and epidemic diseases like the Black Death helped cause hundreds of famines in Europe during the Middle Ages, including 95 in the British Isles and 75 in France.[1][2] During the 20th century, an estimated 70 million people died from famines across the world, of whom an estimated 30 million died during the famine of 1958--61 in China. The other most notable famines of the century included the 1942--1945 disaster in Bengal, famines in China in 1928 and 1942, and a sequence of man-made famines in the Soviet Union, including the Holodomor, Stalin's famine inflicted on Ukraine in 1932--33. A few of the great famines of the late 20th century were: the Biafran famine in the 1960s, the disaster in Cambodia in the 1970s, the Ethiopian famine of 1983--85 and the North Korean famine of the 1990s. Famine can be induced by a human population beyond the regional carrying capacity to provide food resources. An alternate view of famine is a failure of the poor to command sufficient resources to acquire essential food (the "entitlement theory" of Amartya Sen), analyses of famine that focused on the political-economic processes driving the creation of famine, an understanding of the complex reasons for mortality in famines, an appreciation of the extent to which famine-vulnerable communities have well-developed strategies for coping with the threat of famine, and the role of warfare and terrorism in creating famine. Modern relief agencies categorize various gradations of famine according to a famine scale. Many areas that suffered famines in the past have protected themselves through technological and social development. The first area in Europe to eliminate famine was the Netherlands, which saw its last peacetime famines in the early 17th century as it became a major economic power and established a complex political organization. Noting that many famines occur under dictatorship, colonial rule[citation needed], or during war, Amartya Sen has posited that no functioning democracy has suffered a famine in modern times. |
 | Twin Car Bombings Hit Algerian Hotel, Barracks - ABC News Twin Car Bombings Hit Algerian Hotel, Barracks 11 dead in twin car bombings target hotel, military barracks in Algerian town By ALFRED de The Associated Press ALGIERS, Algeria Twin car bombings rocked a hotel and military headquarters in the Algerian town of Bouira on Wednesday, killing 11 people a day after a suicide bombing in a neighboring region killed 43, official media and witnesses said. Wednesday's first bomb targeted Bouira's regional military command and injured four soldiers, the state-run APS news agency said. A minute later, 11 people died and 27 were wounded when a second bomb went off next to a hotel in downtown Bouira, APS and the state-run national radio said. A security official in the Bouira area told The Associated Press that nearly all the victims were civilians. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't allowed to discuss such matters with the media. It was not immediately clear whether the bombings, which occurred at about 6 a.m. local time, were suicide attacks or if the two cars blew up by remote control. There was no immediate official comment on the attacks. The military barracks were most damaged. "Parts of the walls have fallen-off, the fence is destroyed, cars are buried under the rubble," Abdellah Debbache, the Bouira correspondent of Algeria's Liberte newspaper, told AP by telephone. Algerian news reports said the front facade of the barracks had been torn off and that several other buildings had been damaged. Most victims from the second bomb had been traveling in a bus that passed in front of the hotel, APS said. Local hospital officials said they were workers from a construction company building a dam nearby at Koudiet-Acerdoun, the news agency reported. Witnesses said several people had been brought to the hospital. Bouira was cordoned off by police and several additional roadblocks were set up in the surrounding region, they said. The blasts appeared to be quite powerful, and an AP reporter in the area heard them from several miles away. Bouira is located some 60 miles southeast of Algiers in the Bouira province. Some 45 kilometers 27 miles to the north of Bouira in the adjacent Boumerdes province, a suicide bomber on Tuesday rammed a car into a line of applicants at a police academy in the town of Les Issers, killing at least 43 people and injuring 45. No group has claimed responsibility for either attack. An al-Qaida affiliate has organized a series of bombings over the past two years in this North African country that has important oil and natural gas fields. Violence has dramatically increased since 2006, when the GSPC, Algeria's last big extremist group left over from a quieted insurgency in the 1990s renamed itself Al-Qaida in Islamic North Africa and joined Osama bin Laden's network. The insurgency broke out in 1992 when the army canceled the second round of legislative elections that an Islamist party was expected to win. Ensuing fighting between security forces and Islamic militants left some 200,000 dead. ——— Associated Press Writer Aomar Ouali contributed to this report. |
 | LTTE communication base & coordinating centre raided by SLAF The Air Force carried out raids on several targets of the LTTE terrorists. Air Force Spokesman Wing Commander Andy Wijesuriya said the raids were carried out this morning and in the afternoon.(05/02/2008) Air Force pilots confirmed that the raid carried out with fighter jets on the strategic command and control centres of the tigers located at Kaivelikulam Northwest of Puthukudi-iruppu, were successful. Another raid was carried out on a building of LTTE regional leaders at Karadiyabokka, North of Killinochchi at around 3.25 this afternoon. The Air Force spokesman said the target was engaged on the on the real time ground information and air surveillance. The pilots confirmed that the raids were successful. |
 | Tibet, China -- Ownership of Tibet, Part Two #002 Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) In the early 13th century, Genghis Khan, leader of the Mongols, established the Mongol Khanate in north China. In 1247 Sagya Pandit Gonggar Gyamcan, religious leader of Tibet, met the Mongol Prince Gotan at Liangzhou (present-day Wuwei of Gansu, China) and decided on terms for Tibetan submission to the Mongols, including presentation of map and census books, payment of tributes, and the acceptance of rule by appointed officials. The Tibetan work Sagya Genealogy written in 1629 includes Sagya Pandit's letter to the religious and secular leaders in the various parts of Tibet that they must pledge allegiance to the Mongols and accept the regional administrative system prescribed for Tibet. The regime of the Mongol Khanate changed its title to Yuan in 1271 and unified the whole of China in 1279, establishing a central government, which, following the Han (206 BC-220) and Tang dynasties, achieved great unification of various regions and races within the domain of China. Tibet became an administrative region directly under the administration of the central government of China's Yuan Dynasty. The Yuan emperor established the Xuanzheng Yuan or Ministry for the Spread of Governance to directly handle important military and political affairs of the Tibet region. Choice of its members lay with the emperor and its reports were submitted directly to the monarch. Yuanshi, the chief minister having real authority in the Xuanzheng Yuan, was a post generally held concurrently by the right-hand prime minister of the central government who was in charge of the whole nation's governmental affairs. In the Tibetan region, local military and administrative organs were set up under the name of the High Pacification Commissioner's Office, which was under the Xuanzheng Yuan. Under the jurisdiction of this office were 13 wanhu offices (myriarchies each in command of 10,000 households) and more qianhu offices (chiliarchies each in command of 1,000 households) handling civil administration. The names of these organizations and official posts were decided by the central government of the Yuan Dynasty. It also had troops stationed in Tibet. A royal prince and his descendents were stationed on the eastern border of Tibet at the head of an army. When Tibet was enmeshed in trouble, the prince could enter the area from nearby garrison to perform his duty of guarding the security of the border region. In 1290, when the head of a wanhu office rose in rebellion, the central government of the Yuan Dynasty dispatched the prince into Tibet at the head of his army to put it down. The central government of the Yuan Dynasty sent officials into Tibet to set up post stations, whose size varied according to the local population, topography and resources. These post stations were linked up in a communication line extending from Tibet up to Dadu (present-day Beijing). The central government of the Yuan Dynasty also dispatched officials into Tibet to conduct censuses, establish the number of corvee laborers in areas under various wanhu offices and decide the number of corvee laborers, provisions and animal transport the areas along the post route had to supply. Such censuses were conducted three times in Tibet, in 1268, 1287 and 1334. The Tibetan work History From the Han and Tibetan Sources records them in detail. |
 | Kehlstein, former mounain residence of Hitler Kehlstein, former Hitler´mounain residence. Bayern, Germany. The Eagle's Nest near Berchtesgaden was commissioned by Martin Bormann and the National Socialist German Workers' Party before being presented to the fascist dictator Adolf Hitler as a gift on his fiftieth birthday. Since then, the idyllic setting and remarkable architecture of the Eagle's Nest on the Kehlstein have been overshadowed by its close connection with the Third Reich. Although Hitler rarely stayed in the building himself, his wicked tyrannical image still hangs over it today. Given this background, it is not surprising that a plan to demolish the Eagle's Nest was very nearly approved in the 1960s. Just as Hitler's command centre on the Obersalzberg had been destroyed by the bombs of the liberating Allied forces, so, it was hoped, would the Eagle's Nest be wiped forever off the face of the beautiful Bavarian landscape. As it turned out, however, history took a different course, and the building has been administered by the Berchtesgaden Regional Tourist Office since 1960. Today, the Eagle's Nest is leased out to private operators who run it as an alpine restaurant. The engineering feats and mighty architecture of the building leave many visitors speechless. Even the approach from the carpark is imposing: a tunnel of 124 metres in length, lined with panels of natural rock, runs through the mountain massif. At the end of the tunnel there is a grandiosely designed brass-plated lift. The lift ascends to the interior of the Eagle's Nest in just forty-one seconds. Inside, visitors are surrounded by metre-thick walls and mighty bulwarks. At 1,834 metres above sea level, the Eagle's Nest commands a breathtaking panoramic view. The Eagle´s Nest itself and the unique Kehlstein road were constructed in an extremely short period of time despite the difficulties of wartime: the fortress-like residence took one year to build, the Kehlstein road thirteen months. The unique design of the road has no counterpart anywhere in the world. It makes no more than a single bend in its ascent of the towering 700 metres between the Obersalzberg and the Kehlstein carpark, traversing the steep north-west face of the Kehlstein twice as it does so. The road is now closed to normal traffic; it can only be accessed by a bus service. The province of Bavaria has made the Eagle's Nest part of a charitable foundation; its profits are used to support good causes. |
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