Today on All Things Considered NPR has a story featuring NPR photographer David Gilkey who has taken some amazing photos of the Marines with the 2nd Battalion, 8th Regiment in Helmand, Afghanistan

Predator Drone from TBD1’s Flickr set

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-Kevin

Tribesmen began battling the foreigner militants they had previously sheltered early last month after the foreigners tried to kill a tribal leader.

“The people in South Waziristan have risen against the foreigners. They have killed about 300 of them and they get support from the Pakistan army, they asked for support,” Musharraf told a military conference on global counter-terrorism in Islamabad.

Reuters

They say if a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, there is a question if it makes any noise.
If none of us live to tell about this, can we be covered in Glory?

-Captain Hayes
The Magnificent Seven – Ride!

KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 22 — Fighting between the followers of rival commanders of two Pashtun clans in the western province of Herat on Sunday killed 32 fighters and wounded numerous others, said an assistant to Ismail Khan, the former governor of Herat.

The clash took place in the Shindand district south of the city of Herat three days after a factional commander, Arbab Basir, and three of his men were killed in a clash with another Pashtun commander, Amanullah Kahn.

Motorcycle attack:

He [Amanullah Khan] was wounded earlier this year in Herat in an attack on a vehicle in which he was riding. An unknown man on a motorcycle had tossed a hand grenade at his vehicle as he was traveling to the city of Herat for an event aimed at persuading commanders to hand in their weapons, Agence France-Presse reported.

NY Times

From Canada B.C.

John had the best written description of a corkscrew landing I had seen. .
Here is the cockpit video version:

link

An artist:
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From boingboing

Does this look familiar?


Excellent photos on flickr by TKnoxB
And Pagman Lake Arch:


Rugs featuring Pagman Arches.

Photos by Bobby Bran