Bombing Attacks Continue In Pakistan

Pakistan Bomb Kills 35 As Anti-Taliban Fighters Targeted -- The Telegraph

Pakistani militants detonated a car bomb in a market killing 35 people on Tuesday morning, many of them members of an anti-Taliban militia, in the most deadly attack in months.

The explosion in Jamrud, a town in the Khyber tribal region close to the border with Afghanistan, also wounded more than 60 people.

Witnesses said members of the pro-government Zakhakhel tribal militia were the target of the attack.

Insurgents linked to al-Qaeda have carried out hundreds of bombings in the country since 2007, killing tens of thousands of soldiers, police officers and civilians.

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More News On Today's Bombing In Pakistan

Truck Bomb Kills Dozens in Pakistan -- New York Times
Official: Marketplace blast kills at least 35 in Pakistan -- CNN
Bomb Kills 35 in NW Pakistan -- Voice of America
Dozens Killed in Bombing in Northwest Pakistan -- FOX News/AP
Bombing kills 30 in northwest Pakistan -- Washington Post
Bomb blast at bus terminal in Pakistan kills at least 29 -- L.A. Times
Deadly blast hits bus terminal in Khyber, Pakistan -- BBC

America's Space Weakness Revealed By The Problems In TheAdvanced Extremely High Frequency Satellite Program

Source: Wired

America’s Space Weakness -- David Axe, The Diplomat

On August 15, 2010, the U.S. Air Force almost lost a $2-billion communications satellite. A team of military and contract space operators eventually saved the Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite, built by Lockheed Martin. But the rescue, admittedly an impressive technological feat, is also a window into the greatest weaknesses of the world’s leading space power, according to one space insider.

The seven-ton “AEHF-1,” part of a planned six-satellite constellation meant to support radio communication between far-flung U.S. military units, had been in orbit just one day when the problems began. The satellite started out in a highly-elliptical, temporary orbit. The plan was to use the spacecraft’s on-board engine to boost it to a permanent, geo-stationary orbit. But when the Air Force space operators at Los Angeles Air Force Base activated the engine, nothing happened. The Government Accountability Office would later blame the failure on a rag left inside a fuel line by a Lockheed worker.

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More News On How The Advanced Extremely High Frequency Satellite Was Saved

Risky rescue for crippled Air Force satellite -- Wired
The fight to save AEHF 1 produces remarkable rescue -- Space Flight Now
Fight to Save US Military Satellite Ends in Remarkable Rescue -- Space.com
The piece of cloth that nearly sank an Air Force satellite -- The Vergehttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif
Space soldiers save satellite from FLAMING DEATH -- The Register

WNU Editor: An excellent post on how the Advanced Extremely High Frequency Satellite was saved is here.

Israel Preparing For The Fall Of The Syrian Government And A Flood Of Refugees

Israel Prepares To Take In Syrians If al-Assad Falls -- CNN

Jerusalem (CNN) -- In an "unprecedented" reaction to internal Arab affairs, an Israeli official said the country is getting ready to absorb fleeing Syrian Alawites if the Bashar al-Assad regime falls.

Israeli military chief of staff Benny Gantz told members of a Knesset committee that Alawites would be permitted to settle in Golan Heights, a spokesman for Knesset member Avi Dichter told CNN.

The Golan is regarded internationally as occupied territory despite Israeli governmental control. It is home to 41,000 residents -- Jewish settlers, Druze and Alawites themselves. Israel seized the territory from Syria during the 1967 Israel-Arab war, and it was eventually annexed.

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More News On Israel Readying For The Fall Of the Assad Regime In Syria

Israel prepares for fall of Assad, Syria refugees -- Reuters
Israeli military readying for Syrian refugees -- Boston.com/AP
Israel 'preparing to take in Syria refugees' -- AFP
Israel expects Alawite refugees from Syria -- Al Bawaba
IDF preparing to take in Syrian refugees -- YNet News
IDF Chief: Israel ready to absorb some Syria refugees once Assad falls -- Haaretz
IDF Prepares To Accept Syrian Refugees on Golan Heights -- Arutz Sheva