Tribal elder, three relatives killed in Pakistan (Reuters)

[Newsguy]

Reuters - Gunmen killed a pro-government
tribal elder, two of his sons and a brother on Friday in a
troubled Pakistani tribal region where al Qaeda-linked
militants are believed to have been hiding.

http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050722/ts_nm/security_pakistan_dc

[just-Wynn]

Just run a few oil lines into the mouth of some of these caves. Let it run all night. Then light her up and see what jumps out.....then shoot it....them bomb it. Didn't anyone else play wiht fire-ant beds, gasoline and fireworks growing up?

[MC69TA]

You don't think he's thought of that? We're talking miles of concrete tunnels with bomb blast traps and sumps, and vault doors.

In all these years of fire ants and humpteen formulations of posions, have we, in all our ingenious glory been able to eradicate them? NO

We need a Brigade of task force 121 guys in the mountains to corner this rat. And, we can't trust the Paks not to slip him out.

The rain and wind will erode the mountains that they hide in !

BUT if your impatient the following will speed up the process

The GBU-37, which air force commanders have nicknamed "the crowd pleaser," is a 2.25 tonne (5,000-pound) bomb that guides itself to the target using Global Positioning Satellites and steerable fins.

Its hardened nose and 13 foot (4.0 metre) length is designed to penetrate six to nine metres (20 to 30 feet) of reinforced concrete before exploding. Its fuse can be set to explode at varying depths depending on the target.

It is delivered only by the B-2 stealth bomber, which can carry eight of the bombs.

"We actually are looking at weapons concepts that could penetrate 60 linear feet of reinforced concrete before exploding," said Loren Thompson, an expert at the Lexington Institute, a Washington research group.

Or this

The program, involving leading US nuclear weapons laboratories such as Los Alamos and Livermore, sought to find the possibility of converting into "bunker busters" two existing warheads - the B61 and B83, according to administration officials.

The B61 is a tactical thermonuclear gravity bomb that can be delivered by strategic as well as tactical aircraft -- from B-52 and B-2 bombers to F-16 fighter jets.

The B83 is designed for precision delivery from very low altitudes, most likely by B-2 stealth bombers, military experts said.

Prior to the program's suspension, scientists were working on finding ways to harden the bombs' shells so they can survive penetration through layers of rock, steel and concrete before detonating, the experts said.

"Bunker busters" are seen by some experts as important tools for waging preventive wars against enemies that are secretly building arsenals of weapons of mass destruction.

According to the Defense Intelligence Agency, at least 10,000 bunkers currently exist in over 70 countries around the world.

More than 1,400 of them are used as strategic storage sites for weapons of mass destruction, concealed launch pads for ballistic missiles as well as leadership or top-echelon command and control posts, the DIA estimates.

(So many Targets so little time (Remains in the Administration) " the crowd pleaser," (I Like that)

[MC69TA]

okay, ya'll still don't get it. would that ordance hurt NORAD? No.

NORAD!!

Dam they got that SLEEPER CELL CRAP DOWN TO AN ART!!!!

We are in trouble



LOL

[MC69TA]

okay, ya'll still don't get it. would that ordance hurt NORAD? No.

Maybe?
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2000/democracy/nuclear/stories/nukes/index.html
Cheyenne Mountain by the NumbersJune 1961 -- Blasting begins
1963 -- Excavation completed - construction of 15 interior buildings begins.
April 20, 1966 -- NORAD Combat Operations Center fully operational
Cost of project: $142.4 million
Cost if built today: approximately $18 billion
Length of tunnels: 2.8 miles
Area excavated: 4.5 acres
Amount of granite above facility: 1,700 feet
Number of free-standing structures: 15
Square footage of buildings: 250,000
Number of springs supporting structures: 1,319
Weight of each spring: 1,000 pounds
Number of personnel: 1,200 military and civilian
Number of personnel/days they can survive autonomously: 800 people/30 days
Sleep facilities: None (cots available for use in hallways)

Natural Temperature: 57 degrees F
Climate control: Recovered heat from computer systems
Number of computers: 250
Electrical generators: 6
Minimum needed to run facility: 4
Back up: Gel-cell batteries can provide 30 minutes of emergency power
Length of time for ICBM to fly from Russia to U.S.: 30 minutes
Weight of blast doors: 25 tons
Time to swing them shut: 15 seconds
Chances of facility surviving a direct hit by a nuclear missile: slim to none
Source: Col. Gary Shugart, USAF