Divining the News (DTN)

A typical day – (of murder)

in a far off land

We are the infidels

From the horses mouth …

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A B-1B Lancer at a forward deployed location in Southwest Asia prepares for a mission. Lancers support both Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Clark Staehle)

4/23/2009 - SOUTHWEST ASIA (AFNS) – Coalition airpower integrated with coalition ground forces in Iraq and the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan during operations April 22, according to Combined Air and Space Operations Center officials here.

In Afghanistan, an Air Force B-1B Lancer destroyed a large compound used as an anti-Afghan forces staging base. The strike employed a variety of guided bomb unit munitions and was conducted in support of an Afghan and coalition clearing operation taking place in the area.

Near Shurakian, Navy F/A-18C Hornets conducted several strafing runs, targeting anti-Afghan personnel gathering weapons and rocket-propelled grenade launchers from a weapons cache. The strikes resulted in the destruction of the enemy force.

An Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II strafed an anti-Afghan motorcycle with its cannons. The aircraft carried out the strafing run after enemy personnel were spotted leaving a mortar site they had used to shell a coalition base.

In the vicinity of Sheykhabad, A-10s flew shows of force over an Afghan National Army convoy after the convoy started taking enemy fire. The aircraft, which also expended flares during their pass, dispersed enemy personnel and ended the attack on the convoy.

In the Garmser area, a coalition aircraft performed a show of force over a compound where enemy forces gathered. Following the aircraft’s maneuver, the aircraft conducted tactical surveillance as the enemy personnel ran from the area.

Joint terminal attack controllers assigned to coalition units verified the success of these missions.

In total, 75 close-air-support missions were flown in support of the ISAF and Afghan security forces, reconstruction activities and route patrols.

Twenty Air Force intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft flew missions as part of operations in Afghanistan. In addition, two Navy aircraft performed tactical reconnaissance.

In Iraq, coalition aircraft flew 29 close-air-support missions for Operation Iraqi Freedom. These missions integrated and synchronized with coalition ground forces, protected key infrastructure, provided overwatch for reconstruction activities, and helped to deter and disrupt hostile activities.

Thirty Air Force and Navy ISR aircraft flew missions as part of operations in Iraq. In addition, three coalition and Air Force aircraft performed tactical reconnaissance.

Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft and C-17 Globemaster IIIs provided intra-theater heavy airlift, helping to sustain operations throughout Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Horn of Africa.

Approximately 150 airlift sorties were flown; 420 tons of cargo was delivered; and about 3,000 passengers were transported.

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From another blogger – Travellrev

… In the ‘great’ depression 7 million people died of hunger in the US alone. The ‘Great’ depression led to WWII and the abject world wide poeverty that some of the oldies still remember and which prevents them from spen[d]ing even the smallest amount of money on themselves. I’m sure you all know of such a person. They had every reason.

At he time of the great depression 90% of the US population grew their own food and had their own small family farms. Now perhaps 15% of the US population has access to homegrown food and the rest of the population works in the service industry or the financial industry and only some 12% work in factories actually producing something that can be sold.

More than  600.000 people a month for the last four months have lost their jobs in the US alone. The expectation is that more than 8 million houses will be foreclosed on in the next two years with millions already having been foreclosed on.
So let me set you straight on this littel issue. The IMF says it will be the deepeset depression since the ‘Great’ depression? No, It will be a depression that will dwarf the ‘great’ depression.

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I like Bagels.

Why don’t they make them from the Biblical wheat called Spelt, it is far healthier.

I also like a Matzabria, again why don’t they use Spelt for the Matzos as Moses probably did

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Head of center in Rurrenabaque reports several Israelis arrested in number of police raids in recent days; center shut down. Rabbi says given no reason for raids, but rumors say they could be related to assassination attempt on president’s life

Kobi Nahshoni
Published:     04.23.09, 12:18

Bolivian police forces raided a Chabad center in the northeastern town of Rurrenabaque a number of times in recent days, ordered its closure and arrested a number of Israeli tourists who were staying there.

Police at Chabad center in Rurrenabaque (Photo: Curtesy of Chabad.info)

Rabbi Aharon Fraiman, who heads the center, told Ynet the police refused to give him a reason for the raid, but rumors throughout the town have linked the police activity to an assassination attempt on the Bolivian president last week.

On Wednesday, after the center temporarily resumed activity, Fraiman, who was almost arrested himself, said this was nothing more than a local dispute: “An anti-Semitic restaurateur who thinks we are hurting his livelihood is doing everything to get us out of here,” the rabbi said.

On Thursday, however, the multiple arrests, closure of the center and the local media’s coverage of police activity in the area, led the rabbi to believe it was something more: “Apparently it’s not him, but something bigger. He doesn’t have this much power”.

“Rumors floating around say that it has something to do with an assassination attempt on the president,” the rabbi said. “But on the other hand, the media is reporting all kinds of other things, like that the Chabad center here is involved in dealing drugs and the like.

“Meanwhile, I hired a lawyer here to handle the case, but this is not a law-abiding state, and so far, no one has told us what the commotion is about. They also haven’t showed us any closure injunctions.”

The emissary told Ynet about one Israeli tourist who was arrested by the Bolivian immigration police, taken to the airport in handcuffs and deported from the country. He also said there were a few others still under arrest.

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http://www.lonelyplanet.com/maps/south-america/bolivia/

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An older post in reaction to the Mumbai terror attack:

There is a history of Chabad Houses not only being used as safehouses and logistics centers for Israeli intelligence but as storefronts for criminal activity. In March 1989, U.S. law enfocement rounded up a criminal network in Seattle, Los Angeles, New Jersey, Colombia, and Israel that involved a Chabad House that was involved in money laundering and currency violations.

The Associated Press reported from Newark, New Jersey that Adi Tal, a former employee of Israel’s El Al Airlines who emigrated to the United States from Israel in 1983, and his chief assistant Nir Goldeshtein, were found guilty by the U.S. District Court in Newark of laundering $25 million. The cash was sent to Panama and Colombia directly and smuggled to Britain, West Germany, and Israel as personal and cashier’s checks, money orders, and cash. The money was then wired to Panamanian bank accounts. Tal and Goldeshtein lived in Edison, New Jersey. They had moved there from Seattle. Goldeshtein had attempted to deposit $437,000 in Citibank’s London branch.

Federal prosecutors said Tal conspired with Jose Stroh, one of the Cali, Colombia drug cartel’s chief money launderers. Sixteen people were indicted in the case but five were never captured. Of the five, Nir Levy, Rea Lev-Ari, and Dov Feldman, escaped to Israel and avoided extradition back to the United States. Among the fugitives was Tal’s recruiter, Enrique Korc of Israel. Among those indicted was Rabbi Sholom Levitin, the founder and head of the Chabad House in Seattle. Tal claimed that the laundered money was Israeli “investments” and Levitin denied knowing that the money he was laundering was illegally obtained. Federal prosecutors said Tal told his “mostly Israeli operatives” that the money was not connected to organized crime but, according to the March 23, 1989 AP report from Newark, told them “the cash came from Israel for investment in the United States or that it was somehow connected to the Mossad, Israel’s secret service.”  –more–

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President George Bush's meeting with a group of Chabad Rabbis in the Oval Office grew awkward yesterday when Bush suddenly announced that he "really likes bagels" during a lull in the conversation. http://people.desktopnexus.com/wallpaper/20723/

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Mondoweiss: Jack Ross on the relationship of Chabad to Zionism

Jack Ross on Chabad, referring to the next post down: I’m not sure whether or not its fair to hold them up as representing anyone but themselves.
www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2009/03/jack-ross-on-the-relationship-of-chabad-to-zionism.html

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Niqnaq with prescience made a post yesterday:

dwyer mystery: krav maga=IDF buddies

April 22, 2009

Dwyer unarmed and undressed when shot
Ken Foxe, Sunday Tribune (Ireland), Apr 19 2009

The Irishman gunned down in a suspected assassination plot in South America was unarmed and in his underwear when he was shot dead after being woken in a dawn raid. ….

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The Chabad web site is here:

http://www.chabad.org/

The stakes are so huge, no one could allow it to unravel. She might be sacrificed, but that is affordable.

Tens of thousands of insiders know this is how the US (and Europe?) ticks. If a full expose was issued it would bring down everyone in Government and intelligence and that is over decades. So a lid will be put on the shenanigans.

Still the question remains; what faction is releasing the info? Mike Rivero at whatreallyhappened suggests the Israelis themselves made the leak, and looking at the likely sudden dropping of the prosecutions against the AIPAC operatives by the implicated DOJ that is possible.

Imagine all the taped conversations that reveal the same scenarios? No one could allow their release. It is anyway ‘classified’ information.

The only alternative to the Israelis releasing the wiretap info, is that a faction opposed to Israeli influence has done so, and although I thought that yesterday, today I smell the Israelis, and Mike Rivero has his ear to the ground.

I was sure it was Israelis who brought down New York Governor Eliot Spitzer (another example of an expendable Jew) just as US navy warships in the ME were positioning for a Cheney war Jamboree.

A few posts before this ( Israelis and drugs ) is a Fox news video listing Israeli ownership of all US telecoms billing companies.

If only the Israeli interests (our masters) were more humane, but they are not!

There is toooo much hardship, violence, hate and wars.