(See also - MSNBC Deep Background: "Exclusive Interviews with Iraqi Insurgents" ) In an effort to help Americans better understand the evolving dynamics behind the Sunni insurgency in Iraq, I have begun conducting a series of exclusive interviews with prominent Sunni insurgent organizations. The first groups to accept my invitation were Hamas al-Iraq and the Al-Rashideen Army--arguably two of the
The US military is drawing up plans for a "surgical strike" against an insurgent training camp inside Iran if Republican Guards continue with attempts to destabilise Iraq, western intelligence sources said last week. One source said the Americans were growing increasingly angry at the involvement of the Guards' special-operations Quds force inside Iraq, training Shi'ite militias and smuggling weapons into the country. Despite a belligerent stance by Vice-President Dick Cheney, the administration has put plans for an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities on the back burner since Robert Gates replaced Donald Rumsfeld as defence secretary in 2006, the sources said. However, US commanders are increasingly concerned by Iranian interference in Iraq and are determined that recent succes
Pengenalan Peperangan Menentang Insurgensi Atau Perang Gerila Ialah Satu Taktik Peperangan Hutan.Taktik Ini Pernah Digunakan Semasa Zaman Darurat.Peperangan Ini Juga Dinamakan Ciw. Perkara Perkara Yang Terdapat Di Dalam Ciw ♣ Pengkalan Hutan ♣ Ronda ♣ Serang Hendap ♣ Serang Khemah Sementara Musuh ♣ Tembak Dan Gerak ♣ Tindakan Serta Merta (Tsm) Pangkalan Hutan Jenis Pangkalan 1.Pangkalan Sementara 2.Pangkalan Tetap -Bulat -Tiga Segi Kawad-Kawad Menduduki Pangkalan 1.Memutus Jalan 2.Tinjauan 3.Menduduki Pangkalan 4.Pemeriksaan Perimeter 5.Ronda Pembersihan 6.Pengawal 7.Kerja Biasa 8.Siap Sedia Ronda Tujuan Ronda 1.Untuk Mengekalkan Daya Usaha 2.Untuk Memperolehi Maklumat 3.Mengharu Musuh 4.Untuk Keselamatan 5.Untu
The NEFA Foundation has released a new chart that I have created mapping the complex network of Sunni insurgent groups fighting in Iraq. The chart includes representations for the four dominant insurgent umbrella groups--Al-Qaida's Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), the Reform and Jihad Front (RJF), the Political Council for the Iraqi Resistance (PCIR), and the Front for Jihad and Change (FJC)--as well as over twenty individual organizations, including Al-Qaida, the Ansar al-Sunnah Army, the Army of al-Mustafa,...(read more)
The Global Defence Forum, with the Swedish National Defence College and the UK Defence Academy, will hold a conference titled, "Countering Insurgency and Terrorism," on March 11 through 13, 2008, in Stockholm. The Counterterrorism Blog is proud to serve as a "Media Partner" for the conference. Co-hosted by Lieutenant General Sir John Kiszely, KCB MC Director of the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, and Swedish National Defence College (SNDC) President Henrik Landerholm, the conference will include...(read more)
It is just the plagiarized passages that are not attributed or footnoted. This is precisely what is so damning, and why this whole argument that manuals don’t have footnotes is a red herring. I noted here a few days ago that Montgomery ...
And yes, plagiarism happens all the time in field manuals and it will continue to happen. As far at the UC version of the manual, I can’t even imagine what they were thinking when they decided to publish the manual. ...
This “genre difference” argument seems problematic in light of the fact that the manual did make use of quotation marks, footnotes, and bibliographic referencing. By adopting these conventions, I think it’s fair to suggest that the ...
Hi Drake,. Surely the manual already “is” an academic work—but it didn’t begin that way, it only became that because of the way it was sold. You are surely not saying that at the level of genre the manual is not, in fact, ...
Seth: Price didn’t “create” the manual as an academic work. Price opens with book reviews and article stressing that the manual is a work of great scholars and peer reviewed scrutiny. I buy his argument that, “To highlight the Manual’s ...
Rex complains that people are seeing this work as a “failure”; I agree with him re:the field manual, though again, I wonder why if they were going to plagiarize they couldn’t find anything more current than the early ‘70s. ...
To the contrary. Treating this only as a ‘field manual’ because it might be used in the field would be a mistake. It is part of how the war(s) are being sold to US and global publics, and has been marketed to diverse audiences with ...
Are we sure that previous field manuals—and it is a field manual, whatever else it might be—have not been “plagiarized,” happily or otherwise? Are we upset at the thought that the military’s doctrine, previously the culmination of ...
The arguments about plagiarism have to do with principles and some here have contrived a situation in which stealing others’ work is not a bad thing or even suspicious, and in fact might be happy. I am not convinced yet that this is not ...
3) I’ve been reflecting on why the plagiarism in the chapter bothers me. Here are my thoughts. It seems to me that in academia we rely on trust in each other’s basic honesty, even when we disagree with each other, in order to keep the ...
Chris’ post above made me realize something really interesting: Price’s Counterpunch article had to create a conventional academic authorship first in order to accuse it of plagiarism. That is, he first notes that it’s unsigned, ...
I always look on the internet first in cases of student plagiarism, because the internet allows for the unique opportunity to copy and paste text. JStor (and then other lesser-know full text DBs) is where I look second, since it’s kind ...
The Taliban are attacking President Pervez Musharraf's hold on political and military power in Pakistan. The Taliban is also working to weaken the resolve of the police, military, and civilians in the Northwest Frontier Province and beyond. The Taliban and al Qaeda have struck Pakistani military bases in Dargai, Kharian, Dera Ismail Khan, Hangu, and North and South Waziristan. Military convoys have been repeatedly hit by suicide attacks, improvised explosive devices, and ambushes throughout the Northwest Frontier Province. The Bannu suicide attack is the latest in series of Taliban suicide strikes at civilian, police, military, and governmental targets inside Pakistan.The tribal agencies have long been recognized as the nexus for al Qaeda and the Taliban's suicide campaigns in Pakistan, Afghanistan and beyond. The Pakistani Ministry of the Interior has repeatedly accused the powerful South Waziristan Taliban leaders Baituallah and Abdullah Mehsud of carrying out the suicide campaigns
The DEA and the ONDCP have launched a surge of their own: against sick Americans on American soil and it has gone totally under the radar of the ever-hopeless and pathetic Mainstream Media.
Of course, the “insurgents” are the medical marijuana and cannabis reform movement, its patients, their dispensaries and the people who, for whatever reason, [...]
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In der Multiplayer-Mod “Insurgency” wird der Kampf zwischen Guerilla-Kämpfern und herkömmlichen Truppen nachgestellt. Das Ziel ist, dem Spieler eine realistische, eindringende Kampfatmosphäre zu bieten. Daher wird die im derzeitigen Irak-Krieg spielende Mod, deren Teamleader selber in der kanadischen Armee war, Schwerpunkte vor allem in den Bereichen Realismus und Teamplay setzen. Gute Taktiken und richtige Befehle [...]
At last, after rigorous testing, we are happy to announce that you can now safely switch your game servers to and from Insurgency! We are also accepting Insurgency orders which will be setup instantly via our automated system.
If you already have an account with us, here’s the quickest way to install the game:
1. Log into the Server Control Panel
2. Click on ’switch game’ next to the game you are currently running.
3. Select ‘Half-Life 2: Insurgency’ from the list. Do not tick the ‘install game’ box, just click Switch!
4. Back on the main page you will see an ‘Update’ button. Click this then restart your game server.
Please note that although we have tested the game thoroughly, Insurgency may not work perfectly for all customers. The game itself is still in beta so do not expect it to be bug free for at least several weeks. May I remind you that the game takes a good 30 seconds to load after you click the Start/Restart button; the
I’ve a quick break from the support tickets to catch some breath…
With the game’s developers stating the game so close, gunshots can be heard, we ask, just what is the kerfuffle surrounding this game?
Lazy I know, but quoting direct from the official Insurgency site for starters:
Insurgency’s primary concept is to create an immersive online combat experience for the player,with an emphasis on teamwork and realistic elements to create intense firefights in detailed urban environments. The first scenario is set during the present war in Iraq, after the fall of the government and the uprising insurgency that followed as a result.
What’s that in short? Having talked to a member of the team, he quotes it as a cross between CS Source and Battlefield 2. Battlefield 2 without the irritating base spammers. Wow, get me some of that.
For me, the media (although in short supply, does the pre-reputation justice. Just look at this:
We’ve also uploaded the Insurg
This is just an update on the last article in today's Motiveless Crime News Headlines segment. The BBC is reporting that the Taliban basically lifted the idea of planting the bomb on a bus straight from the tactics of insurgents in Baghdad...great, this is what they mean by "Al Qaeda" (its a learning block on how to get your point across violently).According to witnesses the bomb exploded in front of a police headquarters and the area was littered with blood and body parts. It brings to mind more than a few of the horrific terrorist scenes that Bret Easton Ellis has been known for. It appears that the last three days are marking a sharp rise in Afghanistan insurgent attacks. The comparison to Iraq added into the mix means that the US could have an even messier mess in the Middle East...
The insurgency in Somalia continues to gain strength as attacks have increased throughout the country, and fighting has returned to Mogadishu. A Hawiye clan-brokered ceasefire collapsed on Wednesday of last week in the face of clashes between Ethiopian troops and insurgent forces aligned with the fundamentalist Islamic Courts Union (ICU). The situation has become so [...]
The government of Nepal and the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-M) today signed a landmark comprehensive national peace treaty, which formally ends the decade-long...
Today's edition of the New York Times includes an interesting article on the funding of militia's in Iraq. In "U.S. Finds Iraq Insurgency Has Funds to Sustain Itself' reporters John F. Burns and Kirk Semple discuss a U.S. government report, according to which '[t]he insurgency in Iraq is now self-sustaining financially, raising tens of millions of dollars a year from oil smuggling, kidnapping, counterfeiting, connivance by corrupt Islamic charities and other crimes (...)'. Click here to read the article.
Iraq, Funding, Insurgency, New York Times
"Congress has appropriated almost $2 billion this year for countermeasures to protect our troops in Iraq against improvised explosive devices, but the administration has not put forward a request to invest comparable resources in trying to understand the people who fabricate, plant and explode those devices."
According the Iraq Study Group Report, which was released last week, the United States government '(...) still does not understand very well either the insurgency in Iraq or the role of the militias' (chapter 9, "Intelligence'). Furthermore, the Study Group found that "there is significant underreporting of the violence in Iraq'. "For example, on one day in July 2006 there were 93 attacks or significant acts of violence reported. Yet a careful review of the reports for that single day brought to light 1,100 acts of violence.' Click here to read "Sunni and Shiite Insurgents Remain Mystery to U.S., Iraq Report Charges', James Risen's article on the issue, publ
