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Date | 2010-02-25 16:22:35 |
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I should admit that I am really impressed with your integrity and level of
expertise. It was a great conversation. I look forward to get together and
continue from where we left. Thanks to Ilhan:) I have to go to Congress
now, and will write you back today late afternoon and will e-introduce you
with couple people whom I think would help you very much.
PS: thanks for these extremely helpful documents. I just skipped those and
will read tonight. Many thanks....
Nuh YILMAZ
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On Feb 24, 2010, at 10:14 PM, Reva Bhalla wrote:
Hi Nuh,
Thank you again for taking the time to meet with me today. I really
enjoyed chatting with you. I hope we get another chance to get together
I heard a few things on the Armenia item that we discussed today that
I'd like to follow up on with you. Let me know if you prefer phone or if
email is okay.
Below are a couple of past analyses I've done on the Pak supply chain.
I have an updated attack database for the supply line as well that I
can send you (I just don't have my researcher online right now to ask
for it). Please let me know how else I can be of help to you.
Like I said, I will be in Turkey March 5-14, and am still trying to
figure out how many days to spend in Istanbul v. Ankara. I would be very
appreciative if you could connect me with people that could share some
insight on the kinds of issues we discussed today. I'm interested in
everything from the foreign policy issues to domestic politics to
banking. I am especially interested in meeting someone who is
knowledgeable about the Turkish energy sector and Turkey's energy
strategy overall, if you have someone in mind.
Again, it was a real pleasure meeting with you today. I'll have to thank
Ilhan for introducing us.
Have a good night,
First, check out the interactive map we created that can be found at
this link:
This was last updated in early January but I have a database that's been
updated since.
And some analysis..
Pakistan: NATO Supply Trucks Attacked in Karachi
STRATFOR TODAY A>>January 28, 2010 | 2145 GMT
ASIF HASSAN/AFP/Getty Images
A Pakistani policeman examines a bullet-ridden NATO supply truck after
an ambush in Karachi on Jan. 28
Three trucks carrying supplies to NATO troops in Afghanistan were
attacked by militants in Karachi Jan. 28, leaving three Pakistani
civilians injured. Four militants riding on two motorcycles armed with
automatic rifles and hand grenades intercepted the convoy on highway
N-25 near the Baldia neighborhood on the northwestern outskirts of
Karachi. There have been 40 attacks onNATO supply trucks over the course
of the past year, but the majority of the attacks have been confined to
the Peshawar-Khyber corridor in the northwest and the Quetta-Chaman
corridor in the south.
(click here to enlarge image)
Karachi lies outside of traditional Pakistani militant territory, but
there has been an increase in militant activity in the city in recent
months, in addition to the great deal of organized crime-related
activity in the city as well as ever-present ethnic tensions. Karachi is
the main point of entry through which the majority of NATO supplies pass
on their way to troops in Afghanistan, and this attack is the first of
its kind this close to the source of the NATO supply line. Militant
activity has increased in the region, making an attack like this all but
inevitable. The large concentration and steady flow of supply vehicles
hauling containerized cargo and equipment for the United States and NATO
provide a large target set for any enterprising militant.
The tactics of the attack on the three NATO supply trucks were
relatively simple and unsophisticated, using small arms and hand
grenades, which tracks with other attacks on NATO supply vehicles seen
in the Khyber and Quetta regions a** though these are the basic tools of
the trade and readily available in Pakistan. The unarmed trucks, likely
traveling at a slow speed along a well-known route, were peppered with
automatic weapons fire, and a hand grenade was thrown into the cab of
one of the trucks, which caused the three injuries. This attack, in many
ways, was just as easy as attacking NATO supply vehicles at armed
checkpoints and depots near the Pakistani border with Afghanistan.
STRATFOR will continue to monitor the security of the supply chain and
will watch for more details and follow on attacks that would establish a
Pakistan: The Supply Line Dilemma
STRATFOR TODAY A>>December 14, 2009 | 1310 GMT
SHAHBAZ BUTT/AFP/Getty Images
Supply trucks in Pakistana**s Khyber district on Feb. 3
Rumors have been circulating that the Obama administration will approve
unilateral military action deeper into Pakistani territory beyond the
tribal belt. A potential backlash to such a strategy is the disruption
of already vulnerable U.S. and NATO supply lines running through
* Special Report: U.S.-NATO, Facing the Reality of Risk in Pakistan
(With STRATFOR Interactive map)
With U.S. President Barack Obamaa**s revised Afghan strategy now under
way, rumors have been spreading rapidly in both Washington and Islamabad
that the Obama administration will approve drone strikes and other types
of unilateral U.S. military action deeper into Pakistani territory
beyond the tribal belt. These discussions are indeed taking place, but
U.S. officials are also taking a hard look at the potential backlash of
such a strategy a** particularly, the threat to already-vulnerable U.S.
and NATO supply lines running through Pakistan.
The primary mission that Obama has assigned to U.S. Central Command is
to neutralize al Qaeda a** a mission that encompasses pursuing
high-value jihadist targets in the region, knocking the momentum out of
the Taliban insurgency and training Afghan security forces to help
shoulder the counterterrorism burden. Obama has also articulated a plan
to initiate a drawdown of forces from the region as early as the summer
of 2011, depending on conditions on the ground. That means that the
United States needs results, and has a strategic need to see those
results sooner rather than later.
This is an extremely worrying prospect for Pakistan. To escape pressure
from U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, al Qaeda has shifted its
safe-havens to the tribal areas in Pakistana**s rugged northwest
periphery with the help of select Taliban allies. If a large part of the
U.S. mission is to defeat al Qaeda, then the United States can be
expected to have very little regard for the Durand Line that divides the
Pashtun lands between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The CIA and U.S. Special Forces already have a track record in carrying
out covert, cross-border activity in Pakistan, ranging from human
intelligence operations to unmanned aerial vehicle attacks against
high-value targets, such as Tehrik-i-Taliban (TTP) leader Baitullah
Mehsud. These operations cause Pakistan extraordinary unease, and to add
insult to injury, the drones fly out of bases in Pakistan itself. In
June 2008, aU.S. airstrike targeted a Pakistani paramilitary checkpoint
in Mohmand Agency in the northwestern tribal area, which the Pakistani
military continues to believe was deliberate targeting by their supposed
ally. The United States crossed a line with Islamabad, however, in
September 2008 when it went beyond routine unmanned aerial vehicle
strikes and launched its most overt full-scale raid against high-value
Taliban and al Qaeda targets hiding out in a town in South Waziristan.
That attack ended up killing 20 people and sparked a public backlash, as
Pakistani citizens charged the government and military with selling out
Pakistana**s national sovereignty to Washington.
Pakistan decided at that point that it would have to resort to the one
tool that gives Islamabad enormous leverage over Washington: control
over U.S. and NATO supply lines. The United States currently depends
almost exclusively on Pakistan to transport mostly non-lethal supplies
(such as food, fuel and building materials) for troops fighting the war
in Afghanistan. This may not be the safest route, but Pakistan does
offer the shortest and most logistically viable supply lines into
landlocked Afghanistan. The Pakistani supply lines originate in Karachi
and then split into two separate routes. The longer and more
commonly-used northern route passes through Sindh, Punjab, the
North-West Frontier Province (NWFP), the Federally Administered Tribal
Areas (FATA) and the Khyber Pass to the Torkham border crossing into
central and northern Afghanistan. The shorter, southern route passes
through Sindh to the Balochistan-Chaman border crossing into southern
(click here for STRATFOR Interactive map on attacks targeting U.S.-NATO
supply lines)
Following the September 2008 U.S. operation in South Waziristan, U.S.
and NATO logistics teams ran into trouble at the port of Karachi. Within
several days of the strike, Pakistani authorities suddenly demanded that
the logistics teams would have to fill out all their paperwork in Urdu,
and that it would be up to Pakistani authorities to determine whether
their Urdu was up to Pakistani standards to allow supplies to pass
through. The disruption lasted a few days. This was essentially
Pakistana**s way of signaling to the United States that it was not going
to tolerate unilateral U.S. military action in Pakistan and that the
consequences of such action would be a supply cut-off to U.S. and NATO
troops in Afghanistan.
Pakistan has since caused sporadic disruptions to the supply lines,
usually by citing security concerns and closing the border crossings at
Torkham and Chaman for days at a time. And though Pakistan has been
battling its own jihadist insurgency for several years now, militant
attacks on the supply lines only picked up at the end of 2008 when
U.S.-Pakistani tensions were running particularly high following the
November 2008 Mumbai attacks. This phenomenon has been discussed among
officials in New Delhi and Washington, though no evidence has been
presented to demonstrate a direct link between the sudden uptick in
attacks and an increase of U.S. pressure on Pakistan. Pakistan-based
jihadists have their own incentive to wreak havoc on U.S./NATO supply
lines into Afghanistan, but Pakistana**s murky militant landscape could
also provide the Pakistani military and intelligence services with the
means to disrupt the supply lines should the political need arise.
Now that the United States is pursuing a more aggressive posture in
targeting high-value militants on Pakistani soil, the Pakistani military
and government have an even greater strategic incentive to hold
U.S./NATO supply lines hostage. Pakistan and the United States cannot
agree to disagree on their definitions of a**gooda** versus a**bada**
Taliban. While Pakistan is serious about pursuing TTP militants whose
main battle is with the Pakistani state, it does not want to incur the
backlash of pursuing those militants and allies of al Qaeda whose focus
is on Afghanistan, most notably the Haqqani network and Hafiz Gul
Bahadir in North Waziristan, Maulvi Nazir in South Waziristan, and the
Mullah Omar-led group of Afghan Taliban in the Pashtun belt of
Balochistan. Pakistana**s intelligence services have adelicate network
of alliances to maintain within each of these networks, and from
Islamabada**s point of view, strikes by U.S. Hellfire missiles do not
particularly help in this regard.
Pakistan is particularly concerned about the United States going beyond
the tribal areas and pursuing militants closer to the Pakistani core.
While the Pakistani public has become more or less tolerant of drone
strikes in FATA, the idea of a U.S. drone going after Mullah Omar in
Balochistan province is another matter entirely. FATA is an autonomous
region, where the writ of the Pakistani state does not reach very far.
Balochistan, in spite of its own separatist tendencies, is still an
integral piece of the Pakistani state. The public backlash from the
September 2008 attack in South Waziristan was notable a** to the point
where even the Pakistani army chief gave orders to Pakistani forces to
fire on U.S. drones a** but U.S. military operations in Balochistan
would trigger a much more intense and violent response.
And then there is the issue of Punjab a** the Pakistani heartland a**
where the population, military, industry and agriculture are
concentrated. Several TTP attacks in the past week have taken place in
Punjab, with the most recent suicide attack against an Inter-Services
Intelligence (ISI) facility in Multan. Though the Pakistani Taliban has
nowhere near the support network in Punjab than it has in the
Pashtun-dominated northwestern tribal badlands, these attacks are
spreading fears that the TTP has activated a preexisting social support
network of radical Islamists in southern Punjab. The last thing the
Pakistani military wants is to be drawn into military operations in the
Pakistani core, but the Pakistani military cannot afford to see U.S.
operations expand to Punjab. Such a possibility, though remote, would
cause a major crisis of confidence within an already embattled military,
whose loss of internal coherence would pose a direct threat to the
survival of the state.
The United States is thus caught in a dilemma. On one hand, ita**s on a
tight timeline to achieve results in defeating al Qaeda and its allies
in Pakistan so that it can move on to other pressing issues beyond South
Asia. On the other hand, the means that the United States would use in
defeating al Qaeda run a good chance of seriously destabilizing
Pakistan, a nuclear-armed ally whose cooperation is essential to the
U.S. mission in Afghanistan.
The United States has begun tackling this dilemma by depriving Pakistan
of at least some of the leverage it holds through the supply lines.
Washington has been in negotiations with Moscow for roughly a year to
develop a supplemental supply line through the former Soviet Union, and
is now at a point where the two are working on the details of an
agreement to transport U.S. and NATO supplies from the Latvian port of
Riga through Russia and into Afghanistan. This is one of several
alternate routes, but any route through the Central Asian states or
through Ukraine and Romania would still require the White House to deal
with the Kremlin, a lesson the United States learned the hard way. The
supplemental supply routes through the former Soviet Union cannot
replace the routes through Pakistan, and are resting on an extremely
shaky political foundation. After all, Russia is more than happy to make
Washington more dependent on Moscow for its mission in Afghanistan since
the Kremlin would then have the ability to cut the supply line whenever
U.S.-Russian political negotiations go south.
Even as plans are in the works for a supplemental supply line through
the former Soviet Union, Washington knows there is still no going around
Pakistan. Between a raging jihadist insurgency, an economy in turmoil
and a government on the verge of collapse, Pakistan is already under a
great deal of pressure. An increase in U.S. military operations on
Pakistani soil going beyond the tribal badlands could well be the final
straw. The United States is thus in a quandary: How does it achieve its
goals on the western periphery of Pakistan without creating anarchy in
its core? Pakistani authorities are now tasked with making the United
States understand just how fragile their situation is, and if those
appeals dona**t work, Pakistana**s alternate plan will likely be to hold
U.S./NATO supply lines hostage.
Special Report: U.S.-NATO, Facing the Reality of Risk in Pakistan (With STRATFOR
Interactive map)
STRATFOR TODAY A>>April 27, 2009 | 1119 GMT
Pakistan is the primary channel through which U.S. and NATO supplies
travel to support the war effort in Afghanistan. The reason for this is
quite simple: Pakistan offers the shortest and most logistically viable
overland supply routes for Western forces operating in landlocked
Afghanistan. Once Pakistan found itself in the throes of an intensifying
insurgency mid-2007, however, U.S. military strategists had to seriously
consider whether the United States would be able to rely on Pakistan to
keep these supply lines open, especially when military plans called
for increasing the number of troops in theater.
* To download a PDF of this piececlick here.
In late 2008, as Pakistan continued its downward spiral, U.S. Central
Command (CENTCOM) chief Gen. David Petraeus began touring Central Asian
capitals in an attempt to stitch together supplemental supply lines into
northern Afghanistan. Soon enough, Washington learned that it was
fighting an uphill battle in trying to negotiate in Russian-dominated
Central Asia without first reaching a broader understanding with Moscow.
With U.S.-Russian negotiations now in flux and the so-called a**northern
distribution networka** frozen, the United States has little choice but
to face the reality in Pakistan.
This reality is rooted in the Pakistani Talibana**s desire to spread
south beyond the Pashtun-dominated northwest tribal badlands (where
attacks against the U.S.-NATO supply lines are already intensifying)
into the Pakistani core in Punjab province. Punjab is Pakistana**s
industrial heartland and home to more than half of the entire Pakistani
population. If the Taliban manage to establish a foothold in Punjab,
then the idea of a collapsing Pakistani state would actually become a
realistic scenario. The key to preventing such a scenario is keeping the
Pakistani military, the countrya**s most powerful institution, intact.
However, splits within the military over how to handle the insurgency
while preserving ties with militant proxies are threatening the
militarya**s cohesion. Moreover, the threats to the supply lines go even
further south than Punjab. The port of Karachi in Sindh province, where
U.S.-NATO supplies are offloaded from ships, could be destabilized if
the Taliban provoke local political forces.
In league with their jihadist brethren across the border in Afghanistan,
the Pakistani Taliban and their local affiliates are just as busy
planning their next steps in the insurgency as the United States is in
planning its counterinsurgency strategy. Afghanistan is a country that
is not kind to outsiders, and the overwhelming opinion of the jihadist
forces battling Western, Pakistani and Afghan troops in the region is
that this is a war that can be won through the power of exhaustion. Key
to this strategy will be an attempt to make the position of U.S. and
NATO forces in Afghanistan untenable by increasing risk to their supply
lines in Pakistan.
(click image to enlarge)
A Dearth of Security Options
As the pre-eminent global maritime power, the United States is able to
sustain military operations far beyond its coastlines. Afghanistan,
however, is a landlocked country whose inaccessibility prevents the U.S.
military from utilizing its naval prowess. Instead, the United States
and NATO must bring in troops, munitions and militarily sensitive
materiel directly by air and rely on long, overland supply routes
through Pakistan for non-lethal supplies such as food, building
materials and fuel (most of which is refined in Pakistan). This
logistical challenge is compounded by the fact that the overland supply
routes run through a country that is trying to battle its own jihadist
The deteriorating security situation in Pakistan now requires an
effective force to protect the supply convoys. Though sending a couple
of U.S.-NATO brigades into Pakistan would provide first-rate security
for these convoys, such an option would be political dynamite in
U.S.-Pakistani relations. Pakistan already has an extremely low
tolerance for CIA activity and U.S. unmanned aerial vehicle attacks on
its soil. The sight of Western forces operating openly in the country
would be a red line that Islamabad simply could not cross. Even if this
were an option, U.S.-NATO forces are already stretched to the limit in
Afghanistan and there are no troops to spare to send into Pakistan a**
nor is there the desire on the part of the United States or NATO to
insert their troops into such a dicey security situation.
Alex Wong/Getty Images
U.S. Central Command chief Gen. David Petraeus
Enlisting the Pakistani military would be another option, but the
Pentagon has thus far resisted allowing the Pakistani military to take
direct charge of protecting and transporting U.S.-NATO supplies through
Pakistan into Afghanistan. The reasons for this are unclear, but they
likely can be attributed (at least in part) to U.S. distrust for the
Pakistani military-intelligence apparatus, which is heavily infiltrated
by Islamist sympathizers who retain links to their militant Islamist
Instead, CENTCOMa**s logistics team has given the security
responsibility to private Pakistani security contractors. This is not
unusual in recent U.S. military campaigns, which have come to rely on
private contractors for many logistical and security functions,
including local firms in countries linked to the military supply chain.
In Pakistan, such contractors provide security escorts to Pakistani
truck drivers who transport supplies from the port of Karachi through
Pakistan via a northern route and a southern route into Afghanistan,
where the supplies are then delivered to key logistical hubs. While this
approach provided sufficient security in the early years of the Afghan
campaign, it has recently become an issue because of increasingly
aggressive attacks by Taliban and other militants in Pakistan.
STRATFOR is told that many within the Pakistani military have long
resented the fact that Washington has not entrusted them with the
responsibility to secure the routes. The reasons behind the Pakistani
militarya**s complaints are twofold. First, the military feels that its
authority is being undermined by the dealings between the U.S. military
and local contractors. Even beyond these deals, the Pakistani military
consistently expresses its frustration when it is not the chief
interlocutor with the United States in Pakistan, and has done so as much
when U.S. officials have met with local leaders in the country and with
the civilian government in Islamabad.
Second, there is a deep financial interest on the part of the military,
which does not want to miss out on the large profits reaped by private
security contractors in protecting the supply routes. As a result,
Pakistani security forces are believed to turn a blind eye and
occasionally even facilitate attacks on U.S. and NATO convoys in
Pakistan in order to pressure Washington into giving the contracts to
the better-equipped Pakistani military. That said, it is unclear whether
the Pakistani military could fulfill such a commitment since the
military itself is already stretched thin between its operations along
the Afghan-Pakistani border and its massive military focus on the
eastern border with India.
Many of the private Pakistani security companies guarding the routes are
owned by wealthy Pakistani civilians who have strong links to government
and to retired military officials. The private Pakistani security firms
currently guarding the routes include Ghazi Security, Ready Guard,
Phoenix Security Agency and SE Security Agency. Most of the main offices
of these companies are located in Islamabad, but these contractors have
also hired smaller security agencies in Peshawar. The private companies
that own terminals used for the northern and southern supply routes
include al Faisal Terminal (whose owner has been kidnapped by militants
and whose whereabouts are unknown), Bilal Terminal (owned by Shahid
Ansari from Punjab), World Port Logistics (owned by Major Fakhar, a
nephew of former Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf), Raziq
International, Peace Line, Pak-Afghan and Waqar Terminal.
While the owners of these security firms make a handsome profit from the
U.S.-NATO military contracts, the guards who actually drive and protect
the trucks ferrying supplies make a meager salary, somewhere between
4,000 and 5,000 rupees (under $65) per month. Not surprisingly, the
security is shoddy, with three to five poorly trained and equipped
guards usually spread throughout a convoy who are easily overrun by
Taliban forces that frequently attack the convoys in hordes. Given their
poor compensation, these security guards feel little compulsion to hold
their positions and resist concerted assaults.
BANARAS KHAN/AFP/Getty Images
A Pakistani soldier stands guards on top of an armored personnel carrier
on a street in Quetta on April 12
The motivations for attacks against the supply infrastructure can vary.
The Taliban and their jihadist affiliates are ideologically driven to
target Western forces and increase the cost for them to remain in the
region. There are also a number of criminally motivated fighters who
adopt the Taliban label as a convenient cover but who are far more
interested in making a profit. Both groups can benefit from racketeering
enterprises that allow them to extort hefty protection fees from private
security firms in return for the contractorsa** physical safety.
One Pakistani truck driver relayed a story in which he was told by a
suspected Taliban operative to leave his truck and come back in the
morning to drive to Afghanistan. When the driver returned he found the
truck on fire. Inadequate security allows for easy infiltration and
manipulation by Pakistana**s Inter-Services Intelligence agency, which
is already heavily penetrated by Islamist sympathizers. Drivers will
often strike a deal with the militants allowing raids on the convoys in
return for a cut of the proceeds once the goods are sold on the black
market. One indication of just how porous U.S.-NATO security
arrangements are in Pakistan is that the commander of the most active
Taliban faction in Khyber agency, Mangal Bagh of Lashkar-e-Islam (LI),
is allegedly a former transporter himself now using jihad as a cover for
his criminal activities.
STRATFOR is not aware of any plans by the Pentagon to turn these
security contracts over to the Pakistani military. It is even more
unclear whether doing so would do much to improve the situation. If the
U.S. military continues to rely on these contractors to guard the supply
routes in the face of a growing Taliban threat, certain changes could be
made to enhance the contractorsa** capabilities. Already, U.S. logistics
teams are revising the northern route by moving some of the supply
depots farther south in Punjab where the security threat is lower
(though the Taliban are attempting to expand their presence there). More
funding could also be directed toward these security contractors to
ensure that the guards protecting the convoys are properly trained and
paid sufficiently to give them more of an incentive to resist Taliban
attacks. Nonetheless, the current outsourcing to private Pakistani
security firms is evidently fraught with complications that are unlikely
to be resolved in the near term.
Karachi: The Starting Point
Both supply routes originate in Pakistana**s largest city and primary
seaport, Karachi. The city is Pakistana**s financial hub and provides
critical ocean access for U.S.-NATO logistics support in Afghanistan. If
Karachi a** a city already known to have a high incidence of violence
a** were to destabilize, the Western military supply chain could be
threatened even before supplies embarked on the lengthy and volatile
journey through the rest of Pakistan.
There are two inter-linking security risks in Karachi: the local ruling
party a** the Mutahiddah Qaumi Movement(MQM) a** and the Islamist
militancy. The MQM is a political movement representing the Muhajir
ethnic community of Muslims who migrated to Pakistan from India. Since
its rise in the 1980s, the party has demonstrated a proclivity for
ethnic-driven violence through its armed cadres. While the MQM does not
have a formal militia and is part of the Sindh provincial legislature as
well as the national parliament, the party is very sensitive about any
challenges to its power base in the metropolitan Karachi area and
controls powerful organized crime groups in the city. On many occasions,
clashes between MQM and other rival political forces have paralyzed the
STR/AFP/Getty Images
Armed Pakistani militants
Ideologically speaking, the MQM is secular and has been firmly opposed
to Islamist groups since its inception. The party has been watching
nervously as the Taliban have crept southward from their stronghold in
the countrya**s northwest. In recent weeks, the MQM also has been the
loudest political voice in the country sounding the alarm against the
growing jihadist threat. The party is well aware that any jihadist
strategy that aims to strike at Pakistana**s economic nerve center and
the most critical node of the U.S.-NATO supply lines makes Karachi a
prime target.
The MQM is particularly concerned that Baitullah
Mehsuda**s Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) will try to encroach on its
turf in Karachi. While the Waziristan-based TTP itself has very little
presence in Karachi, it does have a jihadist network in the city that
could be utilized. Many Taliban members come from Pashtun tribes and
derive much of their political support from Pashtun populations. Karachi
has a Pashtun population of 3.5 million, making up some 30 percent of
the citya**s population. Moreover, Karachi police have reported that
Taliban members are among the a**several hundred thousanda** tribesmen
fleeing violence in the frontier regions who have settled on the
outskirts of Karachi.
Jihadists have thus far demonstrated a limited ability to operate in the
city. In 2002, jihadists kidnapped and killed U.S. journalist Daniel
Pearl and attacked the U.S. Consulate. In a 2007 suicide attack on a
vehicle belonging to the U.S. Consulate in Karachi, jihadists killed
a U.S. diplomat and injured 52 others on the eve of one of
then-President George W. Busha**s rare trips to Pakistan. A host of
Pakistani jihadist groups as well as a**al Qaeda Primea** (its core
leadership) have been active in the area, evidenced by the capture of
Ramzi bin al-Shibh, deputy coordinator of the 9/11 attacks, in Karachi
in 2002.
Until now the MQM did not perceive the Taliban to be a direct threat to
its hold over the city, but the MQM is now feeling vulnerable given the
Talibana**s spread in the north. There has been a historic tension
between the MQM and the significant Pashtun minority in Karachi. The MQM
regards this minority with deep suspicion because it believes the
Pashtuns could provide a safe haven for Pashtun jihadists seeking to
extend their influence to the south.
In the wake of the a**shariah for peacea** agreement in the Swat
district of Pakistana**s North-West Frontier Province (NWFP), tensions
have risen between the MQM and the countrya**s largest Pashtun political
group, the Awami National Party (ANP), which rules the NWFP and is the
party chiefly responsible for negotiating the peace agreement with the
Tehrik-Nifaz-i-Shariat-i-Muhammadi (TNSM), the jihadist group in the
greater Swat region. MQMa**s 19 members of parliament were the only ones
who did not vote in favor of the Swat peace deal, which has amplified
its concerns over the threat of Talibanization in Pakistan. In response,
TNSM leader Maulana Sufi Muhammad has declared parliamentarians who
oppose the Nizam-i-Adl Regulation non-Muslims. The MQM is also trying to
mobilize religious groups that oppose the Sunni Islamic Deobandi
movement, particularlyBarelvis, against the Taliban.
With rising Muhajir-Pashtun ethnic tensions, the MQM-ANP spat and the
MQMa**s fear of a jihadist threat to its authority, conditions in
Karachi are slowly building toward a confrontation. Should jihadists
demonstrate a capability to step up operations in the city, the MQM will
show little to no restraint in cracking down on the citya**s Pashtun
minority through its armed cadres, which would lead to wider-scale
clashes between the MQM and the Pashtun community. There is a precedent
for urban conflict in Karachi, and it could cause authorities to impose
a citywide curfew that would disrupt operations at the port and impede
supplies from making their way out of the city.
The situation described above is still a worst-case scenario. Since
Karachi is the financial center of the country, the MQM-controlled local
government, the federal government in Islamabad and the Rawalpindi-based
military establishment all share an interest in preserving stability in
this key city. It will also likely take some time before Pakistani
jihadists are able to project power that far south. Even a few days or
weeks of turmoil in Karachi, however, will threaten the countrya**s
economy a** which is already on the verge of bankruptcy a** and further
undercut the weakened statea**s ability to address the growing
insecurity. So far, the MQM has kept its hold over Karachi, but the
Taliban already have their eyes on the city, and it would not take much
to provoke the MQM into a confrontation that could threaten a crucial
link in the U.S.-NATO supply chain.
The Northern Route
The northern route through Pakistan, used for transporting the bulk of
U.S.-NATO overland supplies to Afghanistan, travels through four
provinces a** Sindh, Punjab, the NWFP and the tribal badlands of the
Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) a** before it snakes its way
through the Khyber Pass to reach the Torkham border crossing with
Route Variations
Convoys generally travel on main north-south national highway N-5 or a
combination of N-5 and N-55 from Karachi to Torkham, a distance that can
range from approximately 1,325 kilometers to 1,820 kilometers. Most
transporters say they prefer the combination of N-5 and N-55, which
allows them to cut across Sindh by switching from N-5 to N-65 near
Sukkur and then jumping onto N-55 at Shikarpur before heading into
Punjab. A small percentage of trucks (some 5 percent) use a combination
of national highways and what are called a**motorways,a** essentially
expressways that allow for better security, have no traffic lights and
avoid urban centers. These motorways also have fewer chokepoints and
thus fewer opportunities for militant ambushes, but they also lack rest
stops, which is why most convoys travel on the national highways.
Pakistani transporters tell STRATFOR that they typically decide on a
day-to-day basis whether to go the longer N-5 route or the shorter N-55
route. If they feel the security situation is bad enough, they are far
more likely to take the longer N-5 route to Peshawar, which reduces
their risk because it goes through less volatile areas a** essentially,
less of the NWFP. With the Taliban rapidly taking over territory in the
NWFP, trucks are likely to rely more heavily on N-5.
Once the trucks leave Karachi, the stretch of road through Sindh
province is the safest along the entire northern route. Most of Sindh,
especially the rural areas, form the core support base of the
secular Pakistan Peoplea**s Party (PPP), which controls both the federal
and the provincial governments. Outside of Karachi, there is virtually
no serious militant Islamist presence in the province. However, small
pockets of jihadists do pop up from time to time. In 2004, a top
Pakistani militant leader, Amjad Farooqi of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), who
worked closely with al Qaeda Prime operational commander Abu Faraj
al-Libi and was responsible for assassination attempts on Musharraf, was
killed in a shootout with police in the town of Nawabshah in central
Once out of Sindh and into Punjab province, the northern supply route
enters the core of Pakistan, the political, industrial and agricultural
heartland of the country where some 60 percent of the population is
concentrated. The province is also the mainstay of the countrya**s
powerful military establishment, with six of the armya**s nine corps are
headquartered in the key urban areas of Rawalpindi, Mangla, Lahore,
Gujranwala, Bahawalpur and Multan.
This province has not yet witnessed jihadist attacks targeting the
U.S.-NATO supply chain, but the jihadist threat in Punjab is slowly
rising. Major jihadist figures have found a save haven in the province,
evidenced by the fact that several top al Qaeda leaders, including the
mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, were captured in
various parts of Punjab, including Rawalpindi, Faisalabad and Gujarat.
Punjab also has witnessed a number of high-profile jihadist attacks in
major cities, including suicide bombings in the capital, Islamabad, and
its twin city Rawalpindi (where the military is headquartered) as well
as manpower-heavy armed assaults in the provincial capital, Lahore,
where teams of gunmen have assaulted both moving and stationary targets.
The attacks have mostly targeted Pakistani security installations and
have been conducted mainly by Pashtun jihadists in conjunction with
Punjabi jihadist allies. The bulk of jihadist activity in the province
takes place in the northern part of Punjab, closer to the NWFP border,
where suicide bombings have been concentrated.
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Pakistani soldiers guard trucks carrying NATO supplies on a street in
the Khyber tribal region near the Afghan border on Jan. 1
The Punjabi jihadist phenomenon was born in the 1980s, when the military
regime of Gen. Mohammed Zia-ul-Haq aggressively pursued a policy of
Islamization to secure power and weaken his principal opponent, the PPP,
whose government he had overthrown to come to power. It was during the
Zia years that Pakistan, along with Saudi Arabia and the United States,
was heavily involved in backing Islamist militias to fight the Marxist
government and its allied Soviet troops Afghanistan, where many of the
Punjab-based groups joined the Pashtun groups and had their first taste
of battle. Later in the 1990s, many of these Punjabi groups, who
followed an extremist Deobandi interpretation of Sunni Islam, were used
by the security establishment to support the rise of the Taliban in
Afghanistan and to aid the insurgency in Indian-administered Kashmir.
Sectarian groups like Sipah Sahaba Pakistan and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ)
were also developed to help the regime keep the Shiite minority in
Pakistan contained.
Pakistana**s Afghan and Kashmiri jihadist project suffered a major
setback with the 9/11 attacks against the United States and the American
response. Caught between contradictory objectives a** the need to align
itself with the United States and to preserve its Islamist militant
assets a** Pakistan eventually lost control of many of its former
Islamist militant assets, who then started teaming up with al Qaeda-led
transnational jihadists in the region.
Most alarming for Islamabad is the fact that these groups are now
striking at the core of Pakistan in places like Lahore, where brazen
assaults were launched on March 3 against a bus carrying the Sri Lankan
national cricket team and on March 30 against a police academy. These
attacks illustrated this trend of Pakistana**s militant proxies turning
against their erstwhile patron a** first in the Pashtun areas and now in
Punjab. The Lahore attacks also both involved multi-man assault teams, a
sign that the jihadists are able to use a large number of Islamist
recruits from the province itself.
Though Pakistan came under massive pressure to crack down on these
groups in the wake of the November 2008 Mumbai attacks in India, groups
such as Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) have considerable influence in the Lahore
region. Similarly, LeJ and JeM have growing pockets of support in
various parts of Punjab, particularly in southern Seraiki-speaking
districts such as Bahawalpur, Rahim Yar Khan and Dera Ghazi Khan. One of
the major causes of rising support for such jihadist groups in Punjab
stems from a incident in 2007, when a clerical family hailing from the
border region between Punjab and Balochistan led an uprising at
Islamabada**s Red Mosque. The subsequent security operation to regain
control of the mosque from the militants turned many locals against the
military and into the arms of the Islamists.
While the major urban areas of Punjab have not been spared by jihadists,
most jihadist activity in the province is concentrated closer to the
provincial border with the NWFP. The route that travels along N-5 must
pass through Wah, Kamra and Attock, the three main towns of northwestern
Punjab. Each of these towns has been rocked by suicide attacks. Attock
was the scene of a July 2004 assassination attempt against former Prime
Minister Shaukat Aziz. Kamra, home of the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex,
an aircraft servicing and manufacturing facility, was the scene of a
December 2007 suicide attack targeting a school bus carrying children of
air force personnel. In August 2008 in Wah, a pair of suicide bombers
struck Pakistana**s main ordnance factory.
There are indications that such jihadist activity could creep further
south into the heart of Punjab and potentially target the U.S.-NATO
supply chain. The Taliban are growing bolder by the day now that they
have made significant territorial gains in the greater Swat region in
the NWFP further north. As the security situation in the NWFP and FATA
deteriorates, U.S.-NATO supply depots and terminals are being moved
further south to Punjab where they will be safer, or so it is thought.
However, locals in the area are already protesting the relocation of
these terminals because they know that they will run a greater chance of
becoming Taliban targets the more closely attached they are to the
U.S.-NATO supply chain. These people have good reason to be nervous. The
jihadists are now openly declaring grander intentions of spreading
beyond the Pashtun-dominated periphery into Punjab, Pakistana**s core.
Though it would take some time to achieve this, these jihadist groups
would have a strategic interest in carrying out attacks against Western
supply lines in Punjab that could demonstrate the jihadist reach,
aggravate already intense anti-U.S. sentiment and hamper U.S.-NATO
logistics for the war in Afghanistan.
The last leg of the northern supply line runs through the NWFP and
the tribal badlands of the FATA. This is by far the most dangerous
portion along the route and where Taliban activity is already reaching a
Once in the NWFP the route goes through the district of Nowshehra before
it reaches the provincial capital Peshawar and begins to hug Taliban
territory. A variety of Taliban groups based in the FATA, many of whom
are part of the TTP umbrella organization and/or the Mujahideen Shura
Council, have taken over several districts in western NWFP and are now
on Peshawara**s doorstep. There have been several attacks in Peshawar
and further north in Charsaddah, where former Interior Minister Aftab
Ahmed Khan Sherpao twice escaped assassination at the hands of suicide
bombers, and east in Nowshehra, where an army base was targeted.
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Pakistani paramilitary soldiers inspect seized ammunition on Jan. 2
Though suicide attacks have occurred in these areas, the Pashtun
jihadists are not in control of the territory in the NWFP that lies east
of Peshawar. All attacks on the northern route have taken place to the
west of Peshawar, on the stretch of N-5 between Peshawar and the Torkham
border crossing, a distance of nearly 60 kilometers where jihadist
activity is intensifying.
Once the transporters reach Peshawar, they hit what is called the
a**ring roada** area, where 15 to 20 bus terminals are located for
containers coming from Karachi to stop and then head toward Afghanistan
through the Khyber Pass. The area where the bus terminals are situated
is under the jurisdiction of Peshawar district, a settled and relatively
calm area. But when the trucks travel east on the Peshawar-Torkham road
toward Afghanistan, they enter a critical danger zone. Some Pakistani
truckers have refused to drive this stretch between Peshawar and the
Khyber Pass for fear of being attacked. Militants destroyed a key bridge
in February on the Peshawar-Torkham road, where there are a dozen of
other bridges that can be targeted in future attacks. The most recent
and daring attack on highway N-5 between Peshawar and Torkham was the
March 27 suicide bombing of a mosque during Friday prayers that killed
dozens of local political and security officials.
For those convoys that make it out of the Peshawar terminal-depot hub,
the next major stop is the Khyber Pass leading into Khyber agency, where
the route travels along N-5 through Jamrud, Landikotal and Michni Post
and then reaches the border with Afghanistan. The border area between
Peshawar district and Khyber agency is called the Karkhano Market, which
is essentially a massive black market for stolen goods run by smugglers,
drug dealers and other organized-crime elements. Here one can find high
quality merchandise at cheap prices, including stolen goods that were
meant for U.S. and NATO forces. STRATFOR sources claim they have seen
U.S.-NATO military uniforms and laptops going for $100 in the market.
Khyber agency (the most developed agency in the tribal belt) has been
the scene of high-profile abductions,destroyed bridges and attacks
against local political and security officials. Considering the
frequency of the attacks, it appears that the militants can strike at
the supply chain with impunity, and with likely encouragement from
Pakistani security forces. This area is inhabited by four tribes a** the
Afridi, Shinwari, Mullagori and Shimani. But as is the case in other
agencies of the FATA, the mullahs and militia commanders have usurped
the tribal elders in Khyber agency. As many as three different Taliban
groups in this area are battling Pakistani forces as well as each other.
Militiamen of the most active Taliban faction in Khyber agency, Mangal
Bagha**s LI, heavily patrol the Bara area and have blown up several
shrines, abducted local Christians and fought gunbattles with police. LI
is not part of Baitullah Mehsuda**s TTP umbrella group but maintains
significant influence among the tribal maliks. Mehsud is allied with
another faction called the Hakimullah Group, which rivals a third
faction called Amr bil Maarouf wa Nahi Anil Munkar (a**Promotion of
Virtue and Prevention of Vicea**), whose leader, Haji Namdaar, was
killed by Hakimullah militiamen.
Not all the Khyber agency militants are ideologically driven jihadists
like Baitullah Mehsud of the TTP and Mullah Fazlullah of the TNSM. Some
are organized-crime elements who lack religious training and have long
been engaged in smuggling operations. When the Pakistani military
entered the region to crack down on the insurgency, these criminal
groups saw their illegal activities disrupted. To continue to earn a
livelihood, many of these criminal elements were reborn as militants
under the veil of jihad.
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Trucks remain at a standstill on a road after Islamic militants
destroyed a bridge in Khyber district on Feb. 3, 2009
LI commander Bagh (the alleged former convoy driver) is uneducated
overall, and never received any kind of formal religious education. He
became the leader of LI two years ago when he succeeded Deobandi cleric
Mufti Munir Shakir. Bagh stays clear of targeting Pakistani military
forces and says his objective is to clean up the areaa**s criminal
elements and, like his counterparts in other parts of the Pashtun
region, impose a Talibanesque interpretation of religious law. This
tendency on the part of organized-crime elements in Pakistan to jump on
the jihad bandwagon actually runs the risk of weakening the insurgency.
Because criminal groups are not ideologically driven, it is easier for
Pakistani forces and U.S. intelligence operatives to bribe them away
from the insurgency.
The Southern Route
The southern route into Afghanistan is the shorter of the two U.S.-NATO
supply routes. The entire route traverses the 813-kilometer-long
national highway N-25, running north from the port of Karachi through
Sindh and northwest into Balochistan before crossing into southern
Afghanistan at the Chaman border crossing.
About 25 to 30 percent of the supplies going to U.S.-NATO forces
operating in southern Afghanistan travel along this route. Though most
of the southern route through Pakistan is relatively secure, the
security risks rise dramatically once the trucks cross into Afghanistan
on highway A-75, which runs through the heart of Taliban country in
Kandahar province and surrounding areas.
Once out of Karachi, the route through Sindh is secure. Problems arise
once the trucks hit Balochistan province, a resource-rich region where
ethnic Baloch separatists have waged an insurgency for decades against
Punjabi rule. The Baloch insurgency is directed against the Pakistani
state and is led by three main groups: the Balochistan Liberation Army
(BLA), the Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF) and the Peoplea**s
Liberation Army. The BLA is the most active of the three and focuses its
attacks on Pakistani police and military personnel, natural gas
pipelines and civil servants. The Pakistani military deals with the
Baloch rebels with an iron fist, but the Baloch insurgency has been a
long and insoluble one. (Balochistan enjoyed autonomy under the British,
and when Pakistan was created it forcibly took over the province;
successive Pakistani regimes have mishandled the issue.)
Once inside Balochistan, the supply route runs first into the major
industrial town of Hub (also known as Hub Chowki) and then into the
Baloch capital of Quetta. These are areas that have witnessed a number
of Baloch separatist attacks in recent years, including the December
2004 bombing of a Pakistani military truck in Quetta (claimed by the
BLA), the killing of three Chinese engineers working at Gwadar Port in
May of the same year and, more recently, the abduction of the head of
the U.N. refugee agency (an American citizen) in February 2009 from
Quetta. Although the Baloch insurgency has been relatively calm over the
past year, unrest reignited in the province in early April after the
bodies of three top Baloch rebel leaders were discovered in the Turbat
area near the Iranian border. The Baloch separatist groups claim that
the rebel leaders died at the hands of Pakistani security forces.
The Baloch rebels have no direct quarrel with the United States or NATO
member states and are far more interested in attacking Pakistani
targets. But they have struck foreign interests before in Balochistan to
pressure Islamabad in negotiations. Baloch rebels also demonstrated the
ability to strike Western targets in Karachi when they bombed a KFC
fast-food restaurant in November 2005. Although the separatists have yet
to show any interest in attacking U.S.-NATO convoys running through the
region, future attacks cannot be ruled out.
The main threat along this route comes from Islamist militants who are
active in the final 150-kilometer stretch of the road between the Quetta
region and the Chaman border crossing. This section of highway N-25 runs
through what is known as the Pashtun corridor in northwest Balochistan,
bordering South Waziristan agency on the southern tip of the FATA.
Although the supply route traversing this region has seen very few
attacks, the situation could easily change. A number of jihadists who
have sought sanctuary from the firefights farther north as well as
Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Mohammed Omar and his Quetta Shura (or
leadership council) are believed to be hiding in the Quetta area. The
Pashtun corridor also is the stronghold of Pakistana**s largest Islamist
party, the pro-Taliban Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam. In addition, the al
Qaeda-linked anti-Shiite group LeJ has been engaged in sectarian and
other attacks in the region. Northwestern Balochistan also is a key
launchpad for Taliban operations in southern Afghanistan and is the
natural extension of Pakistani Taliban activity in the tribal belt.
Although the Baloch separatists are firmly secular in their views, they
have been energized by the rise of Islamist groups fighting the same
enemy: the Pakistani state.
A Worrisome Outlook
The developing U.S. military strategy for Afghanistan suffers from a
number of strategic flaws. Chief among them is the fact a** and there is
no getting around it a** that Pakistan serves as the primary supply line
for both the Western forces and the jihadist forces fighting each other
in Afghanistan.
Pakistana**s balancing act between the United States and its former
Islamist militant proxies is becoming untenable as many of those proxies
turn against the Pakistani state. And as stability deteriorates in
Pakistan, the less reliable the landscape is for facilitating the
overland shipment of military supplies into Afghanistan. The Russians,
meanwhile, are not exactly eager to make life easier for the United
States in Afghanistan by cooperating in any meaningful way on alternate
supply routes through Central Asia.
Jihadist forces in Pakistana**s northwest have already picked up on the
idea that the long U.S.-NATO supply route through northern Pakistan
makes a strategic and vulnerable target in their campaign against the
West. Attacks on supply convoys have thus far been concentrated in the
volatile tribal badlands along the northwest frontier with Afghanistan.
But the Pakistani Taliban are growing bolder by the day and are publicly
announcing their intent to spread beyond the Pashtun areas and into the
Pakistani core of Punjab. The Pakistani government and military,
meanwhile, are strategically stymied. They cannot follow U.S. orders and
turn every Pashtun into an enemy, and they cannot afford to see their
country crushed under the weight of the jihadists. As a result, the
jihadists gain strength while the writ of the Pakistani state erodes.
But the jihadists are not the only ones that CENTCOM should be worrying
about as it analyzes its logistical challenges in Pakistan. Islamist
sympathizers in Pakistana**s security apparatus and organized crime
elements can take a** and have taken a** advantage of the shoddy
security infrastructure in place to transport U.S.-NATO supplies through
the country. In addition, there are secular political forces in play a**
from the MQM in Karachi to the Baloch rebels in Quetta a** that could
tip the balance in areas now considered relatively safe for transporting
supplies to Afghanistan.
The United States is becoming increasing reliant on Pakistan, just as
Pakistan is becoming increasingly unreliable. There are no quick fixes
to the problem, but the first step in addressing it is to understand the
wide array of threats currently engulfing the Pakistani state.


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The Second Quesion of Monogamy
Second, I do not believe that becoming
non-monogamous will by itself solve serious relationship problems. For example, if the problem is a lack of
emotional connection, it's probably a very bad idea to bring another person
into the sexual relationship. Doing so
would give the person seeking deeper emotional connection a different person to
relate to, which would likely cause an even deeper divide with their partner.
A third point when considering alternatives
to monogamy is the issue of trust. If
you don't trust your partner, don't even consider non-monogamy. Jealousy and
insecurity are two big warning signs that there's not enough trust for
non-monogamy in your relationship. I
suspect that 85-90% of couples fall into this category. It takes a lot of emotional maturity to allow
your partner to be with another person sexually and still maintain a loving
emotional commitment.
Creating a healthy, loving non-monogamous
relationship is tricky business.
Essential components include trust, mutual love and respect, and open
communication. Maintaining open
communication means discussing the entire range of feelings you experience,
even if you'd rather not confess to them.
Both you and your partner must be willing to live and speak from an open
heart. I would recommend creating a
clear contract in advance, including a clause that invites re-negotiation on a
regular basis.
In my contemplation about all of this, I've
concluded that non-monogamy would work best in two cases. In the first, a couple deeply loves each
other and cherishes the companionship of the relationship but have different
sexual needs. In the second, both
partners consciously choose to change the paradigm of monogamy for themselves
and within their relationship. If you
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Culture Warrior By Landon Palmer on June 10, 2014 | Be the First To CommentThe Wedding Singer is set in 1985, but it might as well have just been set in "The 80s" in big block letters, scare quotes preserved. As represented in that late '90s Adam Sandler-starring hit, the '80s were more of a simultaneous event than a brimming block of time that bore its own shifts and specifics as it rolled on. In the 1985 of the Sandlerverse, New Order was as popular as Nightmare on Elm Street and Billy Idol held simultaneous relevance to "Billie Jean"-era Michael Jackson. Any sign of a previous decade having existed before the '80s is absent. Much of cinema's millennial nostalgia for the '80s followed the lead of The Wedding Singer. From American Psycho to Hot Tub Time Machine, the '80s of the '00s have not been so much a part of history as they are an "idea" having to do with greed, excess, frivolous pop culture, and easy cracks at anachronistic fashion. But somewhere down the line, at some point between La Roux and The Americans, we started to take the '80s seriously.
Aural Fixation: The Sweet Movie Sounds of Modern Romance
Aural Fixation By Allison Loring on February 16, 2012 | Be the First To CommentIn the spirit of Valentine's Day (which I know came and went two days ago, but I wanted to keep the romance going) I decided to get into the spirit of things by looking not just into romantic movies, but movies that featured romantic moments where music played a big part in the delivery. We all know the moment when the music swells and our two leads finally lean in, run for or jump into that kiss or embrace created to make our hearts swoon. But I'm not talking about those moments. I'm talking about the moments where the music was just as important as anything said or done and it was the music that truly helped bring the romance to the scene (granted most of these moments were usually also paired with two good looking actors making eyes at each other). Grab your leftover chocolate and conversation hearts and join me in watching these love birds sing, dance and profess their love through the magic of music in these movie moments that are as much about the tunes as they are about the love.
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By James Slater - Amir Khan disagrees strongly with those people who claim he has a suspect chin and is unable to take a hard crack to the jaw. How come, you may ask, when Khan was iced inside a minute by the only true puncher he has faced in his pro career, in Breidis Prescott? Because, claims Khan, in talking to Boxing News Magazines web site - www.boxingnewsonline.net, he had seriously weakened himself in making weight for that fight and most of his other lightweight bouts. And Khan, now a light-welterweight, says he has full confidence in his ability to take a shot if he needs to due to the way he has been able to handle anything and everything stable mate Manny Pacquiao threw at him in sparring In L.A.. Khan, who faces the single biggest threat to his career, punch-power-wise, in Marcos Maidana next, told Danny Flexen that he has no doubts about his chin now, due to his handling of Pac-Mans power in the gym, coupled with his increased strength up at 140-pounds. Ive taken Manny Pacquiaos hardest shot in sparring when he weighed 152-pounds and hes not put me down Khan said. Ive been hit by middleweights and never been put down in sparring. It was only when I was killing myself making weight. I make the weight easier now, Im a lot stronger and I feel like I can stand in front of any shot. The jury is still very much out on whether or not the reigning WBA light-welter champ can stand in front of any shot and be able to take it - simply because Khan has not faced a big-hitter since leaving the 135-pound weight class behind him. Andriy Kotelnik, from whom Khan won the WBA belt he now holds, is more stylist that banger, Dmitriy Salita, Khans first title defence opponent, was blown away before he had a chance to test the champs whiskers, and we all know Paulie Malignaggi, Khans last foe, is no puncher at all. Who knows, maybe Khans jaw will have more substance to it up at 140, and perhaps the KO loss and the trips to the floor he suffered at lightweight were largely due to his weight-making efforts? There will be definite proof on this score if Khan gets tagged by the lethal Maidana on Dec. 11th and takes the shot without crumbling. If, however, the Argentine does as many fans say he will, and takes Khan down in a Prescott-like manner, all talk of whether or not Amirs chin can do the business at the higher weight will be forgotten. Taking the best shots of a fighter like Pacquiao is admirable, even with head-gear on. But can Khan replicate this toughness in a real fight? Well soon see. For even if Khan adopts a hit-and-run, safety first approach in his Las Vegas debut, he is still sure to get tagged at least once. Then well see if the 23-year-old can back up this recent talk regarding his beard!
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Our Sunday comics contract was no laughing matter — a long-term deal involving several other newspapers and a Colorado printer.
It is nearly impossible to get newspaper editors to agree on anything, especially something as controversial as a comics lineup. One editor's favorite strip is another editor's snoozer. That arrangement made it difficult to change our lineup to ensure that The Gazette continued to deliver a bunch of Sunday giggles to our loyal comics readers.
Tee hee. We're now on our own.
That restrictive contract is in the rearview mirror, and we're now printing our own funnies.
Our readers helped shape The Gazette's four-page lineup that debuts today by leaving their thoughts on our comics hotline earlier this spring.
Many thanks to the callers who left hundreds of suggestions on what to add and what to subtract from Sunday's collection of comics. From those suggestions came some easy additions.
Readers love "Pickles," which has been on the daily comics page for a few years. More callers asked for "Pickles" than any other strip. That's why you will see that the funny side of Earl and Opal Pickles' family life now occupies the top spot on the front page of our revamped section.
Close behind were a couple other daily favorites — "Baby Blues" and "Zits." They, too, will come to you in Sunday color on the cover of the comics section. And though a few callers said they're growing tired of "Garfield" and "Peanuts," support was solid for the famous fat cat and Charlie Brown, who will bring their antics to you from the cover, too.
Other daily strips that drew enough support to move into Sunday's lineup include "Luann," "Pearls before Swine" and "Non Sequitur."
Readers still like "Blondie." Another long-running strip, "Beetle Bailey," drew some criticism from those who find it sexist and irrelevant, but it had a platoon of supporters, too. Both made the cut along with several other holdovers from the previous edition.
On the subtraction side, callers made it clear what stinkers they'd retire to make room for new strips. "Prince Valiant" was the biggest loser in our unscientific survey. It received an overwhelming "toss it overboard" sentiment. "Ziggy" fared poorly, as did "Shoe," "Sally Forth" and a few others.
Our freshened up, 21-strip lineup includes two new features.
I think you'll love "Tundra," Chad Carpenter's award-winning strip about life in Alaska. Readers of all ages in our Rocky Mountain region will connect with this hilarious panel, which we'll also add to the daily paper. I think it has a "Far Side" feel to it, and folks loved the "Far Side." More than 400 newspapers spread the "Tundra" humor.
"Uncle Art's Funland," a feature for kids, didn't fare well on the hotline. So we found a popular kids feature that provides brainteasers, fun facts, jokes and helpful tips. "Slylock Fox and Comics for Kids" will engage children — and adults — as they follow the capers of Slylock Fox and his sidekick, Max Mouse. More than 400 papers carry Bob Weber Jr.'s activity feature.
The comics hotline that helped us shape our new section is still hooked up and awaits your feedback. Dial us up at 657-1421. Did we go far enough in shaking up the lineup? Did we go too far? What do you think of "Tundra" and "Slylock Fox"?
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Hate Me Now! 10 Non-Rapping Celebrities Who Have Taken Shots at Kanye West
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What He Said: "We did it!" Colbert said on The Colbert Report in December 2008 after the comedian got his fans to push his A Colbert Christmas album above 'Ye's Graduation. "We humbled him!"
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Lee Jasper's racist Twitter outbursts are rumbling on. It seems the disgraced former City Hall aide is running out of friends. One person that constantly stands by him though is Simon Woolley, the leader of Operation Black Vote, the campaign to get more black people involved in politics. Last month when Jasper came under fire for comparing the British police to Apartheid South Africans. In response to Woolley said:
"There have been times throughout our history when politicians, newspapers and funders have indicated that if we cast aside Lee Jasper we will gain their support and funding. I'm pleased to say at every juncture that has occurred we've showed them the door. Without integrity we have no organisation. Keep with us and spread the word. Our strength is in our unity. "
Does this still apply given Jasper's latest tirades against "white boys"?
Guido wouldn't normally care who or what a private organisation chooses to condemn or support, but Freedom of Information requests shine an important light on Operation Black Vote:
OBV pretend to be politically neutral, yet backed Diane Abbott's leadership campaign and Yes2AV. Given that they choose to hug left-wing agitators and race-agitators like Lee Jasper close to their chest, why exactly should we all pick up the tab? If they do nothing about Jasper then it's time to reconsider that taxpayer funding…
Two weeks ago Guido noted who was blaming who within Downing Street for the Coulson situation. It was made clear to him that Steve Hilton was trying to push any flak firmly in the direction of Cameron's Chief of Staff Ed Llewellyn. The latter came under intense pressure as the crisis blew up, with widespread calls for him to walk. How funny then that Hilton was subject to such a particularly wounding insider briefing in this morning's FT:
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When the government announced that they were switching from the Retail to Consumer Price Index for pensions, Labour kicked off. Stephen Timms set out their absolute opposition to the move in the Commons, and Balls told the GMB union that the move one of the biggest hits "to the living standards of your members in a generation". However it seems that it was all just opportunistic bluster…
Kudos to the eagle-eyed Tory spinner in CCHQ who spotted that Labour's annual accounts show that they too have changed from RPI to CPI for their own pension scheme. And why the sudden change of heart? Well a £4.2 million reduction in the cash-strapped Labour Party's own pension liabilities must have helped…
Lord Justice Leveson told the press this morning he's coming for them and will begin taking evidence in September. He says he will use all powers exercise his powers to compel witnesses to not only to testify but to turn over their documents as well. Is that the gentle hum of shredders coming out of Canary Wharf?
One thing he made very clear was that this inquiry would not be restricted to the News of the World, or even the tabloids. Leveson pleaded for hacks not to "close ranks", making it clear they were all in his sights. Evidence will be given under oath. Better get lawyered up Piers…
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"Both are Orange Bookers, though Browne is seen as more right-wing which will likely dent his chances for the soppy climate change brief. Obviously Laws is toxic and Guido understands that Sarah Teather has little chance of a promotion."
Huhne has managed to convince everyone he's a bit left-wing, which makes Davey seem a likelier option. Though given he held the LibDems Foreign affairs brief before the election, it would make sense to pop him in the Foreign Office and promote the telegenic Browne to the Cabinet.
After she lost control of her backbenchers, leaving the Prime Minister floundering at the height of the phone hacking crisis, the speculation that Warsi is for the chop is growing. Grant Shapps is much tipped to replace her as Tory chairman. Newsnight's permanent fixture Michael Fallon wouldn't be too happy though. The current Deputy Chairman has been pressing the flesh recently…
Guido reckons two birds could be killed with one stone here. Shapps, the uber-loyal Cameroon Housing Minister could go and beef up the CCHQ operation, Warsi could stay out of trouble sticking little windmills on a map in Huhne's old job, and a LibDem could replace Shapps. However it is unlikely that the yellows would be willing to swap a Cabinet job for a mere Minister. Though given the fact that Huhne walking would be their third Cabinet cock-up in a row, perhaps Dave should put his foot down.
Steve Hilton is coming under all sorts of fire for some mad blue-sky ideas he may or may not have thrown around in Downing Street. The FT are running with the fact that he suggested cutting maternity leave, job centres and pondered why the PM had to obey the law. Though the article is somewhat weakened by the concession that "the shaven-headed policy guru's friends admit that three-quarters of his ideas fail to get off the drawing board – to the relief of colleagues."
There is all sorts of speculation flying around about who leaked it, the knives seem to be out for Hilton again, and this article looks suspiciously like the revenge of Sir Humphrey. The theory that this was Steve himself flying a kite can't be discounted though. Amongst the bait, upon which the opposition have dutifully bit, there was a gem though:
"When Mr Hilton was looking at ways to cut the deficit, he suggested replacing hundreds of government press officers with a single person in each department who would convey all necessary information via a blog."
Guido thinks this is a fantastic idea. Imagine all those efficiency savings. If three-quarters of Hilton's ideas go in the bin, this one, along with his Eurosceptic conversion should be the last to go…
The Sun mocks Cable's "attack" on red tape…
"Way to go, Vince Cable. As the economy flatlines, the Business Secretary saves the day – by cutting regulations on the sale of chocolate liqueurs. 'This is very radical – we are moving fast,' declared Mr Cable as he went further by axing rules on fly spray and lowering the age for buying Christmas crackers… Thank goodness the Business Secretary didn't do anything rash, like tackling the high taxes and red tape destroying enterprise."
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I heard recently that it's become relatively common for thieves to break in to garages that have a remote control keypad with a device that sends multiple codesets, one after the other, until the garage code is dialed in.
Makes me nervous - and I'm wondering how to protect against this. Does anyone know if garage door opener companies have acknowledged this issue, and which, if any, have addressed the problem? |
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That was a problem many years ago. The way it worked was the crook followed you home and had a piece of equipment called a 'code grabber'. When you opened your door it learned your code and they could come back later, open your door and rob you. Now we have technology that changes the code every time you use the opener. Their 'code grabber' is probably for sale on e-bay. |
The newer remotes use a rolling code (Texas Instruments is one vendor of teh chip). Each code is used once and then the code sequence advances to a new code. Most receivers have a short table of codes (~128 is common). Each tiem the remote is pushed it also advances one code step. The receiver nedds the table in case the remote is operated out of range. After a code is received, the receiver regenerates the table based on the most recent code, thus keeeping alignement with the remote. They are very secure against recording and finding the spot on the pattern since it is 2^40 long. That is 1,099,511,627,776 combinations. |
The old units with a set of switches only had 256 combinations and could be spoofed by trying every combination. |
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I bought a chamberlain whisper drive a few months ago. Do you know how many code combinations it has? http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000CGGD6/002-7225222-3804054?v=glance&n=228013 |
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I bought a chamberlain whisper drive a few months ago. Do you know how many code combinations it has? http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000CGGD6/002-7225222-3804054?v |
Your whisper drive has the rolling code. According to brickeyee it has 1,099,511,627,776 combinations. I have no reason to doubt his figures. |
Thanks for the answers here, you prompted me to look at my own opener's manual - vendors only supplied one opener with the house, they admittedly do appear to have been pretty stupid, but a niggly doubt makes me wonder if they did lose the opener or kept it? Agent tried to tell me it's 'normal' for only one remote to be supplied with a single garage but I've never heard such a load of old cobblers, besides, the book clearly states two are supplied. The good news is, I can wipe all the remotes from the opener's repetoire, then add just the one I have, making the missing one useless for opening this place, anyway. |
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Fall 2012 classical-music highlights: a new "Listen boldly" motto for music director Ludovic Morlot's second season at Seattle Symphony; French pianist Hélène Grimaud at Meany Theater; and a farewell recital by baroque violinist Ingrid Matthews, in her last season as Seattle Baroque Orchestra co-director.
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Big changes are afoot at the Seattle Symphony, where music director Ludovic Morlot starts his second season exemplifying the orchestra's new motto: "Listen boldly."
Launched by an all-American "Opening Night Concert and Gala" (featuring stellar violinist Joshua Bell with Morlot conducting) on Sept. 15, the orchestra's 2012-13 season proceeds with a colorful spectacular Sept. 20-22 offering Respighi's "Pines of Rome." Cello fans won't want to miss brilliant principal cellist Efe Baltacigil in Tchaikovsky's "Rococo Variations" Oct. 4-7, and then there's thought-provoking pianist András Schiff in an all-Bach recital Oct. 15 and the incomparable Emanuel Ax playing the Brahms Second Piano Concerto with the orchestra Nov. 15-18. (And 2012-13 also says farewell to two well-loved SSO series, the Visiting Orchestras and Symphony Specials.)
Also for ivory fanciers: Hélène Grimaud, the French pianist known for her musical intelligence and crystalline technique, returns to Meany Theater for a Nov. 1 President's Piano Series recital spanning Mozart and Alban Berg.
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"We decided that the postcard option would be a lot easier for people to RSVP instead of worrying about a separate card and envelope. The design team made it say exactly what we wanted, including pre-printing our address so that the guests didn't have to worry about it! We were also able to include a note that they can RSVP on our wedding website instead of mailing it back. The only downfall is what WPD warns about... that the paper is slightly different than the invitation, due to the fact that it's a postcard. However, no one in my wedding party noticed until I pointed it out!"
"What a wonderful alternative to traditional RSVP cards! We loved the idea of a simple postcard that was already addressed and stamped for people to pop in the mail! Disappointed that we could not pre-print our address on the back of the card, but used matching personalized return address labels and attached ourselves. The line for a person's name is very ambiguous and we are finding that people are not writing in their own names. Being a school teacher I wanted to add the word "Name" but there simply was not room. **Hint number your mailing list and write that number in the bottom right hand corner of the postcard so you can match the number to the nameless RSVP card you received! We wanted to break from tradition and use sassy RSVP wording and the designers were FANTASTIC to work with on spacing and creating lines. We are thrilled with this product!"
"These were a perfect match with our invitations. This is exactly what we were looking for and wanted, and we paid less here than we would have anywhere else. The order was quick, no mistakes, and our package was delivered almost 3 days earlier than the predicted date. We highly recommend the Wedding Paper Divas."
"I saw these postcards and just knew I had to have them for my August wedding on the beach!! I ordered them and they gave me a shipping date and they actually arrived like 5 days earlier than they were supposed to! When I got them in I took a look at them and they were everything I'd hoped they would be! These postcards were amazing!!"