Show Summary: 09/13/09
ISAF in Afghanistan
Fuel tanker bombing incident
Hat Thief – ISAF Regional Commander West
Times Online:
Last orders for troops arriving for daily duty with hangovers
US troops are banned from drinking and British troops are allowed to drink only at official functions with special permission. Soldiers from the rest of the 42-nation alliance are governed by divergent national guidelines on alcohol consumption.
The Isaf headquarters is only half a mile square but it has at least seven bars that serve tax-free beer and wine — including a Tora Bora sports bar complete with flat-screen televisions and football memorabilia, the Gravel Pit, which has a snooker table, a German beer hall, the 37 Club and a Nordic Palace.
Germany forces in Afghanistan
German opinion about Afghanistan mission
Show Summary 08/09/2009
Welcome Back
Pakistan Taliban leader killed
Reaper Drones
Indonesia Taliban leader shootout
Operating CIA Drones in Pakistan
Air Force Operating Predator drones from Indian Springs, NV just north of Las Vegas
Wack a Taliban
Marines and Social Media
Show Summary 7/26/09
Movie the Hurt Locker Website at – http://thehurtlocker-movie.com/
Hillary and Iran’s Nuke Program
Israelis in Point Mugu testing Arrow Missile Systems
Arrow II fails takeoff in Pacific test – setback for Israel’s missile race with Iran
DEBKAfile’s military sources report a serious setback in Israel’s defenses against Iranian ballistic missiles. Thursday, July 23, the newly upgraded Arrow II missile defense system, poised for its first long-range test at the US Pacific range off the central California coast, could not be launched because of “interceptor problems.”
This left Israel’s key defense system, designed to intercept long-range Iranian or Syrian missiles 1,000 kilometers from their launch point, unproven.
The Israeli defense establishment said the problems preventing the launch came from “malfunctions in the communications system.”
British Forces Don’t Have Enough Helicopters in Afghanistan.
The Atlantic Conveyor
Sole Chinook in Falkland RAF Legend BN
Korea Armistice Anniversary
Somali Community in Minneapolis, MN
Vanishing Somalis showing up in Somalia as terrorists.
John Walker Lindh
Adam Gadahn American Al Qaeda
2nd Amendment in LA Country
Show Summary 7/19/09
Captured Soldier in Afghanistan
Post on Taliban Internet Forum
Russian RPOD
British Helicopter Crisis
British Outsourcing their Helicopter Service
MI-26
MoD blunder in deal on Chinook helicopters ‘endangers lives of British troops’
The lives of British troops in Afghanistan have been put in even greater peril by the Ministry of Defence mishandling the purchase of extra combat helicopters, Parliamentary watchdogs will say today.
Bungling officials placed an order for eight helicopters 14 years ago. But the contract was so ‘appallingly’ written that the Chinooks were never airworthy and have languished in a hangar since 2001.
Now we are borrowing Russian helicopters to fight the Taliban
British frontline troops in Afghanistan are so short of helicopters and transport planes that they are being bailed out by the Russians.
The Mail on Sunday has established that the Ministry of Defence is using civilian Russian-built Mi-8 and Mi-26 transport helicopters to ferry supplies and soldiers in Afghanistan. The pilots are freelance Russians and Ukrainians.
Marines Testing Unmanned Helicopter
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Show Summary for 6/28/09
Captain Dale Dye fills in today, sans Micheal Jackson news.
Independence Day
Show Summary 6/21/09
Tehran riots
History of some other revolutions and their results
A young woman shot
Role of the Iranian Army
Comparison of Tiananmen Square and Iran
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Show Summary 06/14/09
Send a reporter to Afghanistan or Iran?
Iran is the #4 blogger in the world.
Iranian Youtube user – Penguins will fly
I don’t think this is the actual video Bryan put on the radio, but it’s close. Check out the User’s page above for a growing list of videos showing the protests in Iran and around the world.
More Iran election news.
Show Summary 6/7/09
No more Swine Flu in Mexico, but watch out for the lead in the air.
Gun battle in Acapulco
More North Korea Missile Tests could put Alaska in Range.
Possible Regime change in North Korea
North Korea back could go back on the State Terror list.
IDF more polite to Palestinians than Palestinian Police Force
IAEA agrees with Israel about Iran’s nuclear program.
D-Day 65th Anniversary Jun 6th
D-Day stories
D-Day Movie List
Saving Private Ryan
The Longest Day
Band of Brothers
D-Day 6th of June – Avoid
D-Day Book List
Band of Brothers
D Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II
Citizen Soldiers: The U. S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany
Six Armies in Normandy: From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris; June 6 – Aug. 5, 1944; Revised
The Longest Day: The Classic Epic of D-Day
Show Sumary 5/31/09
Changes to the US – Canada Border Crossings.
President Obama heads to Egypt. Taliban in the Swat Valley
BBC News
Pakistan city centre ‘destroyed’
Taliban rebels were driven out of Mingora on Saturday by Pakistan government troops.
English Aljazeera
Inside the conflict zone in Swat’s Mingora city
The Pakistani military has been conducting a significant offensive on the Taliban in the Swat valley in recent weeks. Al Jazeera was the first member of the international media to enter Mingora, a locus of fighting and a city from which thousands of residents have fled the conflict. The army has taken control but has not permanently secured the region. Al Jazeera’s Mike Hanna reports.
Show Summary 5/24/09:
From the KFI Podcasting page for Sunday 5/24/09:
5/24 SHOWS NOT AVAILABLE
It’s been a week and still no show on the podcast page. I have no idea what happened. If it changes and shows up, I’ll put it in this spot.
