More Misery for Afghans

Taliban declares start of new Afghan offensive
Thu 27 Mar 2008, 21:00 GMT
LONDON (Reuters) - The Taliban announced the start of a spring offensive in Afghanistan, promising "painful strikes" to force all enemy soldiers to leave, according to a Web message seen by a U.S.-based monitoring service on Thursday.
[...] The Web message entitled "Taliban declares beginning of spring offensive in Afghanistan" was from Mullah Bradar Akhund, who styles himself deputy emir of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, according to a translation by the SITE Institute terrorism monitoring service seen in London.
[...] The Web statement said the Taliban would employ "new types of operations" across the country, according to the SITE Institute.
Last year saw a record level of violence in Afghanistan that killed nearly 6,000 people, about a third of them civilians. More than 200 foreign troops were killed in Afghanistan in 2007.
(Writing by Alison Williams: Editing by Keith Weir)http://africa.reuters.com/world/news/usnL27199594.html

Bang! You’ve Been Plamed

When you play with the bad guys you should expect to get screwed. I’m talking about BushCo, of course, not Al-CIAduh.
Leak Severed a Link to Al-Qaeda's Secrets
Firm Says Administration's Handling of Video Ruined Its Spying Efforts
By Joby Warrick , Washington Post Staff Writer, October 9, 2007
...within minutes of Katz's e-mail to the White House, government-registered computers began downloading the video from SITE's server, according to a log of file transfers. The records show dozens of downloads over the next three hours from computers with addresses registered to defense and intelligence agencies.
By midafternoon, several television news networks reported obtaining copies of the transcript. A copy posted around 3 p.m. on Fox News's Web site referred to SITE and included page markers identical to those used by the group. "This confirms that the U.S. government was responsible for the leak of this document," Katz wrote in an e-mail to Leiter at 5 p.m.

Cover Blown Girl

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