3 Killed Including Pilot As Jaguar Fighter Jet Of Indian Air Force Crashes In Uttar Pradesh

The Times of India

LUCKNOW: A Jaguar fighter plane of Indian Air Force (IAF) has crashed 50 miles south-east of Gorakhpur in Mau district of Uttar Pradesh on Thursday morning. At least three persons including the pilot died in the accident.

The plane crashed at Ferozpur Dhilai village under Madhubani block of Mau district. According to police, the pilot of the plane and two persons including a woman working in the field died. Senior officers have rushed to the spot.

The plane had taken off from an air base in Gorakhpur district.

According to police, the plane has been identified as Jaguar. Soon after the accident, an IAF helicopter arrived and lifted the body of the pilot.

America's Secret War In 120 Countries

Somewhere on this planet an American commando is carrying out a mission. 

Now, say that 70 times and you're done ... for the day. Without the knowledge of the American public, a secret force within the United States military is undertaking operations in a majority of the world's countries. This new Pentagon power elite is waging a global war whose size and scope has never been revealed, until now.

After a US Navy SEAL allegedly put a bullet in Osama bin Laden's chest and another in his head while storming his compound in Pakistan, one of the most secretive black-ops units in the American military suddenly found its mission in the public spotlight. It was atypical. While it's well known that US Special Operations forces are deployed in the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq, and it's increasingly apparent that such units operate in murkier conflict zones like Yemen and Somalia, the full extent of their worldwide war has remained deeply in the shadows.

Last year, Karen DeYoung and Greg Jaffe of the Washington Post reported that US Special Operations forces were deployed in 75 countries, up from 60 at the end of the George W Bush presidency. By the end of this year, US Special Operations Command spokesman Colonel Tim Nye told me that number will likely reach 120. "We do a lot of traveling - a lot more than Afghanistan or Iraq," he said recently. This global presence - in about 60% of the world's nations and far larger than previously acknowledged - provides striking new evidence of a rising clandestine Pentagon power elite waging a secret war in all corners of the world. 

Connection Between Nepal Police And Indian RAW Operative Subrat Das Exposed

If one recalls, the Government of Nepal had formed a probe commission some four months back to investigate the gun firing at an imprisoned media-house owner right inside the tightly guarded central jail in Kathmandu by an armed Indian contract killer.

Younus Ansari who is currently serving imprisonment for possessing fake Indian currency notes was fired bullets from a close range by an armed Indian contract killer, Jasjit Singh.

The police investigation had revealed that Manmeet Singh Bhatiya alias Jasjit Singh was a resident of Kanpur (Cawnpore) Road of Lucknow, India.

Afghan Puppet Intelligence Chief killed in Kunduz, Afghanistan

A file photo of a car bomb attack on stooge regime puppets in June 2011

The head of Afghanistan's intelligence service in the northern province of Kunduz has been killed in a car bomb attack, reports confirmed earlier today. On Thursday, a bomb exploded in the car of Payenda Khan, the stooge head of the National Directorate of Security in Kunduz, said puppet police spokesman Sayed Sarwar Husaini. A number of attacks amid Mujahideen's Operation Badr have targeted high ranking cowardly Afghan puppet officials during the past months. On July 12, Ahmad Wali Karzai, the Afghan Drug King and the younger brother of Afghan Puppet President Hamid Karzai, was killed in the southern city of Kandahar.

USZ debt tops 100% of GDP: Treasury

The USZ Department of the Treasury says the country's debt has topped 100% of its gross domestic product amid concerns over the slow pace of economic recovery. Washington's gross debt rocketed $238 billion on Tuesday to reach 100 percent of its GDP immediately after USZ Zionist President Barack Obama signed into law the congress legislation to raise the country's borrowing ceiling, AFP reported on Wednesday. On Tuesday, Obama voted in favor of a controversial bipartisan plan to raise the debt ceiling of the United States of Zionism in exchange for spending cuts, just hours before the first ever default in USZ history. The USZ Treasury figures show the new borrowing has increased Washington's total public debt to $14.58 trillion, which stands higher than the end of 2010 GDP of $14.53 trillion.

USZ Treasury Secretary, the Zionist Timothy Geithner (C) walks to the Rose Garden at the White House before USZ Zionist President Barack Obama made a statement to the media about the passing of a bill raising debt-ceiling and cutting spending in Washington, August 2, 2011.

It has also put the USZ within a coterie of countries whose public debt exceeds their GDP, including Japan (229 %), Greece (152 %), Lebanon (134 %), Italy (120 %), and Ireland (114 %).

US Prepares For 'Worst-Case Scenario' With Pakistan Nukes

As U.S.-Pakistani relations spiral downward, the specter of a showdown between the increasingly antagonistic allies is garnering more attention, including the worst-case scenario of the U.S. attempting to “snatch” Pakistan’s 100-plus nuclear weapons if it feared they were about to fall into the wrong hands.That would be a disastrous miscalculation, former Pakistani President and army chief Pervez Musharraf told NBC News, saying that such an incursion would lead to “total confrontation” between the United States and Pakistan.

Privately, current and former U.S. officials say that ensuring the security of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons has long been a high national security priority, even before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and that plans have been drawn up for dealing with worst-case scenarios in Pakistan.

The greatest success of the U.S. war on terrorism – the military operation that killed Osama bin Laden in his safehouse in Pakistan in May – has fueled the concerns about Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal, increasing suspicions among U.S. officials that he had  support within the ISI, Pakistan’s intelligence service, and emboldening those in Washington who believe an orchestrated campaign of lightning raids to secure Pakistan’s nukes could succeed.

India Participated In 80 Joint Military Exercises In 4 Years

NEW DELHI (PTI): India has participated in 80 joint military exercises with friendly foreign countries in the last four years, Defence Minister A K Antony has said.

"24 joint exercises with foreign countries were carried out every year between 2008 to 2010. This year till the month of July eight such exercises have been conducted," Antony told the Lok Sabha on Monday in reply to a question.

The Defence Minister, however, maintained, "There are no such agreements entered into by the government (with participating nations) during such exercises."

Exercise specific coordination and administrative issues are mutually agreed upon by the participating units before the conduct of exercises, he said.

Replying to a query on request from other countries for providing counter-insurgency training to their military personnel, Antony said there is no such proposal to impart such training abroad.

Time For An ISPR In The Indian Army?

Is it time for an Indian ISPR (Inter-Services Public Relations)? Given its Pakistani origins you could always call it something else as long as it serves the functional tri-service purpose. 

Many will admit the ISPR as the single point media reference is a good concept. It enables the armed forces to get their point across, timely and effectively, which is not the case in India. The three Service HQs in Delhi for instance cannot brief the media unless the Chiefs are doing it. And the chief cannot be briefing the media on every issue affecting the services. As per policies, no briefing is allowed without clearance from the DPR in the Ministry of Defence.

But the civilian DPR lacks the expertise to brief on military matters. Besides, the DPR basically functions as the media outlet for the Defence Minister and matters falling within the domain of the MoD. It leaves the armed forces out on a limbo. Briefings are done informally, no senior officer can be quoted unless it is at some official event where the media are invited. There's no transparency and it leaves the door open for all kinds of mischief. Army sources are sometimes quoted in stories even where there are none.

Ex-South Korean Air Force Chief Indicted For Leaking Secrets To Lockheed

Prosecutors have indicted three retired high-ranking Air Force officers including a former four-star general on charges of providing classified military information to the U.S. defense giant Lockheed Martin, officials said Wednesday.

Among them was a former Air Force chief of staff identified only by his surname Kim. Kim, 81, led the Air Force from 1982-84. Since 1995, he has run a local weapons brokerage firm.

The indictment has triggered seething public criticism over military retirees’ poor national security awareness and deteriorating sense of responsibility.The other two, who worked with Kim at the same firm, are a former colonel, surnamed Lee, and a former senior master sergeant. All three have been indicted without detention, officials at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office said.