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Military Slang Downrange

Like their fellow soldiers in Germany, Vietnam or Korea, those deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq have created a language all their own, filled with black humor, cultural references and even the occasional crudity.

Most of us have heard of RADAR -- originally a military acronym standing in for the cumbersome term "Radio Detection and Ranging."

We may even have encountered, or experienced, the occasional SNAFU, for "Situation Normal: All (Fouled) Up."

But what on Earth is a "death blossom?" Or a "fobbit," for that matter?

Slang terms referring to features of a base are also common, for example, a sign someone put next to an oil-filled puddle on a base in Afghanistan reading, "Rainbow Lake."

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Captured Iranian arms ship tip of the iceberg of vast weapons sealift to Hizballah

clipped from www2.debka.com

DEBKAfile's military and intelligence sources report that a mammoth arms train has been running to Hizballah for months via Egypt. They identify the ship which offloaded the arms shipment at the Egyptian port of Damietta, where it was picked up by the Francop as the Iranian Visea, which is now on its way from the British port of Felixtowe to Hamburg, Germany. An international operation is afoot to apprehend the Iranian ship as of Wednesday, Nov. 4, when Israeli naval forces commandeered the Francop with hundreds of tons of Iranian arms bound for the Lebanese Hizballah near Cyprus. The arms were unloaded at the Israeli naval base at Ashdod port.

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Pakistani soldiers seized passports that may be linked to 9/11 suspects

clipped from www.foxnews.com

Oct. 29: Pakistani soldiers display seized photos, passports, ammunitions and weapons during operations against Taliban militants in South Waziristan. AP

Pakistani soldiers battling their way into a Taliban stronghold along the Afghan border have seized passports that may be linked to 9/11 suspects, as they confront an enemy skilled in operating in a mountainous terrain with endless ways to wage a guerrilla war.

The military on Thursday took foreign and local journalists for a first look inside the largely lawless territory since it launched a ground offensive here in mid-October. The U.S.-backed operation is focused on a section of the tribal region where the Pakistani Taliban are based and are believed to shelter Al Qaeda.

Soldiers displayed passports seized in the operation, among them a German document belonging to a man named Said Bahaji. That matches the name of a man thought to have been a member of the Hamburg cell that conceived the 9/11 attacks. Bahaji is believed to have fled Germany shortly before the attacks in New York and Washington.

Playing games with Iran

Lets cut through all the crap.

First do you think that Iran will stop all research and development of weaponized Nuclear material?

Do you think they will stop after sanctions?

Do you think they will give in if China and Russia were actually looking out for the interest of world peace?

I think the only way they will stop is by force.

The powers that be are riding high after ousting a weak U.S presence in 1979.

They bolster weapons they have purchased from both Russia and China. They have lucrative energy deals with Germany and who knows what else under the scope.

There is no real pressure for Iran to stop anything they are doing.

The two factors they consider is what will Israel do?

And at one time they were concerned that Iran was next in regime change under President Bush.

Today very little threatens them.

Israel has to defend themselves and can not count on the backing of the United States. With the Liberal Democrats controlling the Government and their focus on domestic issues foreign policy is least of their worries. Iran has time to play the game waiting for the opportunity to do what they must to bring the Mahdi.

The latest round of games....

I think that Iran will make the first move. The world is weary of war and this makes it a time of opportunity.