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The latest talk on the bin Laden raid has been a supposedly new stealth helicopter that was use by the Navy Seals during the raid. While it is not all that surprising in many respects that we may have a new stealth helicopter. The surprising thing is that it has been kept a secret until now. Although, it has not really been kept a total secret, but a through misinformation campaigns that would have deflect the fact that development had continued on the stealth helicopter programs after the cancellation of the Comanche program.

I remember the Comanche helicopter was actually used in computer game probably about a decade ago, so the existence of these types of helicopters has not been unknown or secret, per se. We have know about the potential for stealth helicopters for quite a while. Since the first Comanche helicopter was developed in 1995 and I am not sure when exactly the Comanche program became public knowledge, but as far as I know it wasn’t a big secret , but just a somewhat lesser known and talked about program and ultimately lesser valued program, since it was canceled in 2004. Here is a report from the time:

February 23, 2004
Army to End Comanche Helicopter Program
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 12:34 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Army has decided to cancel its Comanche helicopter program, a multi-billion project to build a new-generation chopper for armed reconnaissance missions, officials said Monday.

The contractors for Comanche are Boeing Co. and Sikorsky Aircraft Corp.

With about $8 billion already invested in the program, and the production line not yet started, the cancellation is one of the largest in the history of the Army. It follows the Pentagon’s decision in 2002 to cancel the Crusader artillery program — against the wishes of Army leaders.

Pentagon officials said a public announcement was planned for Monday afternoon.

Loren Thompson, who follows aviation and other defense issues for the Lexington Institute think tank, said he believes the Army under new chief of staff Gen. Peter Schoomaker favors ending the Comanche program, even though the service had been counting on it to provide a new reconnaissance capability.

“The Bush administration has now killed the two biggest Army weapons programs it inherited from the Clinton administration,” Thompson said, referring to the Crusader and Comanche.

Earlier this year the White House budget office asked the Pentagon to provide independent reviews of the Comanche and another expensive aviation program, the Air Force’s F/A-22 Raptor fighter.

Although killing the Comanche project would save tens of billion in future costs, the cancellation decision is expected to require the Army to pay at least $2 billion in contract termination fees.

The Comanche program was started in 1983 and had survived many reviews. Initial production was scheduled to begin in 2006.

Below are known facts about the Comanche:

Stealth characteristics. The Comanche incorporates more low-observable stealth features than any aircraft in Army history. The Comanche radar cross-section (RCS) is less than that of a Hellfire missile. To reduce radar cross-section, weapons can be carried internally, the gun can be rotated aft and stowed within a fairing behind the turret when not in use, and the landing gear are fully-retractable. The all-composite fuselage sides are flat and canted and rounded surfaces are avoided by use of faceted turret and engine covers. The Comanche’s head-on RCS is 360 times smaller than the AH-64 Apache, 250 times less than the smaller OH-58D Kiowa Warrior, and 32 times smaller than the OH-58D’s mast-mounted sight. This means the Comanche will be able to approach five times closer to an enemy radar than an Apache, or four times closer than an OH-58D, without being detected.

Noise suppression. The Comanche only radiates one-half the rotor noise of current helicopters. Noise is reduced by use of a five-bladed rotor, pioneered by the successful Boeing (McDonnell Douglas) MD-500 Defender series of light utility helicopters. The fantail eliminates interaction between main rotor and tail rotor wakes. The advanced rotor design permits operation at low speed, allowing the Comanche to sneak 40% closer to a target than an Apache, without being detected by an acoustical system.

Infrared (IR) suppression. The Comanche only radiates 25% of the engine heat of current helicopters, a critical survivability design concern in a low-flying tactical scout helicopter. The Comanche is the first helicopter in which the infrared (IR) suppression system is integrated into the airframe. This innovative Sikorsky design feature provides IR suppressors that are built into the tail-boom, providing ample length for complete and efficient mixing of engine exhaust and cooling air flowing through inlets above the tail. The mixed exhaust is discharged through slots built into an inverted shelf on the sides of the tail-boom. The gases are cooled so thoroughly that a heat-seeking missile cannot find and lock-on to the Comanche.

These characteristics combined with ground hugging (aka map of earth flying) are all in keeping with the reasons why the helicopter could had gotten in range without being seen on radar or heard by neighbors until it was overhead. So this really boiled down to three possibilities. One maybe they just took in a Comanche or a few Comanches, and found some other way to get the troops in either by conventional helicopter or some other means, two the most plausible possibility is they specific developed a sort of modified Black Hawk Comanche hybrid for this mission, which they had a year to plan, or third there could still be a black program going on which develops Comanche like helicopters on a limited scale for special forces missions.

Of course there are other possibles of similar helicopters currently in development that the Navy Seals could have used modifications of. One such helicopter is the Eurcopter X3 which can fly a plane like speeds and may also explain why they didn’t hear noise until the helicopter was right over top. Sikorsky also has a similar version the called the X2. While the neither of these specifically match the tail blade certain similar technologies could had been employed.

However, considering how bin Laden was such a high priority target it is very quie concivable that they did develop or at least modifiy something for this mission. Since there is not really any other convicable reason why we would have needed a year of planing for this mission, since we didn’t need to engage diplomatic channels with Pakiastan, but simply find ways around them.

However, considering how bin Laden was such a high priority target it is very quite conceivable that they did develop or at least modify something for this mission. Since there is not really any other conceivable reasons why we would have needed a year of planing for this mission, since we didn’t need to engage diplomatic channels with Pakistan, but simply find ways around them. Once we located bin Laden around that area it doesn’t seem feasible that we lost him (in fact the CIA even had a safe house in Abbottabad watching him), rather it seems the most likely scenario is that Pakistan has been shielding him. Thus the planing was needed to evade detection by Pakistan more than anything, and part of that planing was likely use of, not new or secret stealth technologies, but modified stealth technologies that are not widely used due to cost prohibitablity. Furthermore, it is clear the if the helicopter crashed the technologies did not work all that well, and were probably not widely developed under a large scale black program.

Now of course Obama may be trying to detract from this by meeting with “special operators” tomorrow. While it makes movies and such to have bin Laden killed in such a way, the ideal way really would be to of had him killed in the most indiscreet and insignificant way possible, which would had ddiminished his stature, now the fear becomes that it will be remembered that we used are best technology and everything we had to take him out. Nonetheless, the fact still remains we go him, so it will continue to be a rallying event. Now the best thing we can do is to forget him, because the terrorists would want for him to be remember as a martyr or something. Thus the best thing is to say we got him, and that is that.

So I just received emails from both the Washington Post and ABC News Indicating that President Obama said on 60 Minutes he is not going to release the pictures of Osama bin Laden.

One can’t help but wonder why this is. It must be assumed if he is not intending to release photographs there must be some other method of evidence that can certify that the body is indeed that of Osama bin Laden. Since he has about 600 relatives composed of a “Saudi group”, a “Syrian group”, a “Lebanese group,” and an “Egyptian group it is not inconceivable that they could run some sort of DNA test, but it doesn’t seem likely we could verify his exact DNA since we never had it to begin with.

Nonetheless, a paternity DNA test (which I just found is the type they reportedly ran on bin Laden’s DNA) that determines whether a father and child are related, is fairly accurate, but it would also be nice to verify the Mitochondrial (Maternal) DNA as well. Nonetheless, without the original DNA and considering the large family size that bin Laden came from there may continue to be speculation that we may, on some off chance, have killed the wrong man. People after all wouldn’t accept President Obama’s birth certificate as valid, so it’s not hard to see this conceivable escalating into some a trivial controversy.

Since there will always be that element of doubt, but what can anyone really know for sure anyway. We could take the argument all the way to existentialism (that you can only know what you experience) and beyond if we wanted and dismantlement all concepts of epistemology. Thus, it would be silly to seriously doubt bin Laden’s death unless we had some very compelling reason to believe the Obama administration has very compelling motive to device on this point. Again there is a very small question left, but the doubt right now is probably just the media doing its due diligence in vetting the withholding of these photographs.

In paternity testing, no man will ever be 100% included as the biological father because there is always the slight possibility that the DNA profile of the alleged father matches the DNA profile of the child by mere chance. The likelihood of this happening is usually well below 0.001% (1 in 100,000), but it depends in large part on the ethnic origin of the individuals involved. In addition, it important to note that the certainty usually increases with the number of DNA loci (locations) analyzed.
~DNA Genetic Connections http://www.dna-geneticconnections.com

But the test can’t rule out that the body was bin Laden’s brother, according to Dr. Lawrence Kobilinsky, a forensic scientist and chairman of science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. ABC World News http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/osama-bin-laden-relatives-dna-matching-technique-reliable/story?id=13510123

As many of you have heard WikiLeaks has Published Afghanistan war logs dating from 2004 all the way up to the beginning of 2010. They claim since everything is submitted anonymously they do not know who sent them the war logs. Not only did Wikileaks publish them, but they published the entire 91,000 logs, well actually they did hold back a few something like 18,000, so technically not all, but yet a huge amount.

So not only did they publish the logs, but they have sent them to the major papers the New York Times, The Guardian, and Der Spiegel, with the condition they not publish them before the date WikiLeaks published them, in order to increase the coordinate an increased buzz. While these logs do not contain much sensitive data, at least on the surface of it, they do contain dates and locations, but what they mostly do is confirm the tenacity and parasitic nature of our enemy. Here is one excerpt of from of Islamofascist propaganda that our enemy was attempting to spread back in January of 2004:

(M) NIGHT LETTERS DISTRIBUTED AROUND HAZARJUFT: THE FOLLOWING IS A TRANSLATED VERSION OF ONE LETTER:
ISLAMIC IMARATS OF AFGHANISTAN. FOR THE BRAVE WARLORDS OF AFGHANISTAN, SALAM ALAIKOOM. AS YOU KNOW THAT AFGHANISTAN IS THE LAND OF BRAVE PEOPLE AND HISTORICAL PEOPLE WHO AT THE FIRST TIME IN THE CRADLE HIS CHILD/KID HOW TO BE BRAVE. (ALAMA-SHEKEB ARSALAN) SAYS: THAT JIHADS NAME WOULD BE FORGOTTEN IN THE WORLD BUT STILL FROM PAMIR TO HIMALIAS LAND THE WARLORDS WILL FIGHT FOR ISLAM AND SUPPORT ISLAM. BUT IN THE LAST CENTURY, THE AFGHANISTAN WARLORD PEOPLE WERE ABUSED, KILLED AND THREATENED BY THE SUPERPOWERS LIKE ENGLAND AND RUSSIA THAT BROKE AFGHANISTAN IN PIECES. BUT STILL THE WARLORDS AND BRAVE PEOPLE OF AFGHANISTAN DIDN''T GIVE UP AND TAUGHT THEIR ENEMY A LESSON AND TOOK THE FREEDOM FOR THEMSELVES AND THE POOR MUSLIM INDIVIDUALS IN ALL OVER THE WORLD. BY KINDNESS OF GOD AND HIS MERCY THE TALIBAN KID''S OVER RULED AFGHANISTAN FOR AN ISLAMIC ENVIRONMENT AND BROUGHT PEACE AND ISLAM IN AFGHANISTAN THAT 95% OF THE PEOPLE WERE RULED BY ISLAMIC LAW.

Our first mistake in Afghanistan is something, that while seemly simple says it all. The name is no longer Afghanistan, but the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, and we legitimize them placing Islam before republic, not only symbolically in the name, but in everything they do they Islamic law takes precedent over any other laws of the republic. Not even in the United States do we allow religious tradition and sentiments to govern us to the extent that they do. We have our basis in religion sure, but never has that basis been used to force others to follow it in any way that is not consistent with an orderly system of law. Now just look at what the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan has in their Constitution and tell me if it is any wonder why we are not succeeding there.

Right off the bat, the second article of their Constitution completely contradicts itself in just the first two sentences. First Islam is declared the scared religion of the land, but follows can supposedly perform other rites, but essentially only within the limits of Islamic law which is declared in the third article as the law of the land. United States law is based on the Bible, but it doesn’t defer to the Bible, it takes the Biblical principal and clearly states it. They are not bold enough to state their Islamic principles in there actually, because they know they are intolerant.

Article 1 [Islamic Republic]
Afghanistan is an Islamic Republic, independent, unitary and indivisible state.

Article 2 [Religions]
(1) The religion of the state of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan is the sacred religion of Islam.
(2) Followers of other religions are free to exercise their faith and perform their religious rites within the limits of the provisions of law.

Article 3 [Law and Religion]
In Afghanistan, no law can be contrary to the beliefs and provisions of the sacred religion of Islam.

Furthermore, they do not even begin to talk about our first amendment rights until their 34th article. Then in their 34th article they defer their freedom of expression with “by observing the provisions stated in this Constitution” (i.e. article 2 and 3), right to publish without prior permission, but again “in accordance with the law” (i.e. Islamic law), directives related to mass media “will be regulated by the law” (i.e. Islamic law). What you think they are going to keep more scared their 34th or first 3 articles where they declare Islam as law of the land?

Here is another highly disturbing piece of Islamic propaganda from 2007 It sounds like they at least do show some restraint in not wanting to harm children, but it also sounds like they are willing to take any means necessary to kill an America, and are almost saying next time they will be willing to kill children if the local populace does not heed their warning. It sounds like they are so brain washed in this Islamofascist ideology that they are simply beyond any reasoning even with regards to our humanitarian efforts over there.

RC EAST: 021817Z Sharana PRT Nite Letter Received 01 MAY 07 WARNING Dear Brothers, Aslamu Alaikum: As a Muslim we are all brothers to each other, and we help each other in order to resolve our muslim brothers problems, therefore based on our religious claim that all Muslims are brother and they take part in their brothers problems in order to assist and find a resolution for his problem we have sent you this warning letter and we would ask you all to read this letter from A to Z with patience, and its every ones responsibility to act according to this warning letter, dear brothers we hope that the Mullah of your Mosque or your village elder reads this warning letter with loud voice in the mosque to all people in order to pass our words to all residents of the village, its because its our responsibility to pass the facts for you all, and after that its your responsibility either your going act accordingly or not, Prophet Mohammad Says Our Allah orders us for righteous and he has forbidden us for evil, those who are disobeying his orders he will be punished, after you commit an evil action even if you repent and ask for forgiveness you wont be granted forgiveness by Allah, because you have disobeyed his orders, as obvious our homeland has been occupied by infidels and the Jihad (the holy war) is obligated for each Muslim against occupiers, every time Americans or infidels show presence to your village, your kids and yourself show them lots of love and friendship this has caused to prevent your kids from participating in the holy war against occupiers in our homeland, we have had few of our Muhahideens in your district who were ready to commit suicide attack on the infidels in your district but unfortunately every time we have planned to attack them we have found a huge crowd of kids around the occupiers and that has prevented us from attacking them but after this warning letter we will warn you all that we have lost our patience and our tolerance from now on any civilian causality due to our suicide attacks you will be set responsible for it not we, every time Americans are going to a school in order to distribute school kits in order to make more aliens and enhance relationship stronger, we have warned the principle of your high school to keep students away from Americans but, this person passed the words the way to prove it that we have personal hostility with the principal and told the villagers not to worry and no one will harm your kids, but we will guarantee that this principle is trying to misled you all with his false words in fact he is a devil he works for his personal desires, for the interest of Americans and for the chief of police, last time we warned the principle of the high school via warning letter we asked him to resign from his position but unfortunately he didnt listening to us but instead he strengthened his relationship with Americans, and since he has had received the warning letter we have noticed increase in the patrols and presence of Americans around is village, brothers this person who is the principle of the high school he is an American spy and he uses students and some teachers for providing information about Taliban to collation forces, in a very near future the principle will be beheaded by Taliban however he relies on American and he believes that they will protect him but in fact he is wrong because no one can protect him from us, we have made the word to behead him and we will stay on our word and we will definitely cut his head off, the principle in the past spread our the word that Taliban are against education and they are the enemies of school but in fact we are supporting education but this principle is American collaborator and spy and we will assure you all that very soon we will get rid of this devil so that the entire Islamic society is purified from devils, Prophet Mohammad says that those who are deviling among Muslims they should be beheaded in order to act according to Sharia we have to behead the principle and his collaborators who provide him information about Taliban so he can pass it to Americans and the chief of police will also be beheaded, Allah says that all muslims are forbidden for make friendship with infidels because Allah says you will be granted dignity only by Allah not by any infidel in another verse of Quran Allah says do not pick ajew or Christian friend if you choose one from them you will be considered one of them, dear brothers once again at the conclusion of this warning letter we would ask you all to keep your children away from American forces and their convoys and we would as the Mullahs of the mosques and the elders of the village to read the entire warning letter loudly to all residents of the village and pass the above mentioned to every resident of this area, Dear brother principle of the high school (Faizullah) chief of police and their collaborators they all believe that the Americans will protect them but in fact no one or no force can protect these people from us, however we could behead long time ago but the only reason that we havent done yet, its because we wanted to make you all aware on their devil and Non-Islamic behaviors than we will kill them, so after this letter and notice these people will be beheaded, the above mentioned people are working against Islam and agaist Ulemas (religious leaders) in fact since they have been warned by Taliban we ave seen increase at the presence of Americans in our area but after this warning letter our Taliban brothers will put their efforts to kill these people, Dear Muslims Taliban are acting according to Islamic principles and we have always wanted to make more friends and strengthened our friendship with our follow Muslim friends.

Lastly, I saw one Air Assault related log where they sadly had to leave a body behind, and come back for it later. As anyone familiar with America Military honor knows you do not leave anyone behind dead or alive. However, practicality sometimes has to win out at least in the short term, and bodies get left to be recovered later. However, they do not forget and they take the recovery missions very seriously.

http://wardiary.wikileaks.org/afg/event/2007/07/AFG20070729n731.html

Yesterday at around 1:30pm we noticed a lot of police, fire, and news activity in the vicinity of Wal-Mart on Connell Highway in Newport; though the whole thing actually began before the store opened around 6:50 with a phone call. My first though was some sort of hold up or something of that nature and I was pretty close, in was a bomb threat placed from an international thief/terrorist, with specific employee information. It is still somewhat unclear why the building was not immediately evacuated in an orderly fashion by all, some employees went out the back door, and it is really unclear why they actually complied to the demands and wired $10,000 overseas to the threat maker, from the check cashing and money transfer department to somewhere in Portugal. The police did not say who owns the account. Perhaps the Wal-Mart employees do not understand the concept that if you negotiate with terrorists it just encourages the behavior.

When the police arrived on the scene they treated it as a hostage situation, because the front door had been locked down, and people were still inside, so the police took up positions around the building. WPRO-AM apparently incorrectly reported it originally as a hostage situation, and even Lite Rock 105 mentioned that it was originally though to be a hostage situation. A homeland security unit from the Naval Station just down the road responded, along with many state and local police, also there was a K-9 and the state fire marshal on the scene, in addition to many news organizations. This crime appears to have been very well orchestrated and was carried out in tandem with similar threats on other businesses across the country.

See more photos of the scene here: http://www.rifoto.com/