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Google And CIA Invest In The 'Future' Of Web Monitoring

02 August, 2010, by ITProPortal Staff

Google Ventures and In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA, have invested in technology start-up Recorded Future.

Recorded Future has designed a Temporal Analytics Engine for web monitoring that could predict the future.

Tech news site Wired reported that, in 2009, the investment divisions of Google and the CIA had invested under $10 million each in the start-up and have since been providing valuable expertise to the company.

According to Wired, the company has developed a program that scans the internet for websites, social networking profiles, blogs and incidents to attempt to find links between people, organisations and incidents. The program will the give a detailed analysis of the present and predict the future.

Speaking to Wired, Christopher Ahlberg, the CEO of Recorded Future and a former ranger in the Swedish army, said: "The cool thing is, you can actually predict the curve, in many cases. We're right there as it happens. We can assemble actual real-time dossiers on people."




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The Pentagon is running a neural network with
massive computer-power, the SENTIENT WORLD SIMULATION.
The spooks have  built a virtual world where they try
out the latest psycho tricks on us, in order to stop
us from rebelling against their horrendous crimes
against humanity.

All mayor news stories is controlled by the CIA
in what used to be called "THE GIANT WURLITZER"

The programme uses AI routines based upon the
psychological theories of Marty Seligman, among others.
(Seligman introduced the theory of "learned
helplessness" in the 1960s, after shocking beagles until
they cowered, urinating, on the bottom of their cages.)

Sentient World Simulation (SWS), is a "synthetic mirror
of the real world with automated continuous calibration
with respect to current real-world information" ...
."SWS provides an environment for testing Psychological
Operations (PSYOP),"  so that military leaders can
"develop and test multiple courses of action to
anticipate and shape behaviors of adversaries, neutrals,
and partners"

In the finest detail the simulation features an avatar
for each person in the real world, based upon data
collected about us from government records and the
internet.

Meanwhile, a psychology professor, Leon Festinger and
his colleagues, had been working out a theory of
cognitive dissonance

Read more: http://chomsky-must-read.blogspot.com/2010/02/sentient-sim-cognitive-dissonance.html




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Sentient world: war games on the grandest scale

Sim Strife

By Mark Baard  23rd June 2007 09:02 GMT

Perhaps your real life is so rich you don't have time for another.

Even so, the US Department of Defense (DOD) may already be creating a copy of you in an alternate reality to see how long you can go without food or water, or how you will respond to televised propaganda.

The DOD is developing a parallel to Planet Earth, with billions of individual "nodes" to reflect every man, woman, and child this side of the dividing line between reality and AR.

Called the Sentient World Simulation (SWS), it will be a "synthetic mirror of the real world with automated continuous calibration with respect to current real-world information", according to a concept paper for the project.

"SWS provides an environment for testing Psychological Operations (PSYOP)," the paper reads, so that military leaders can "develop and test multiple courses of action to anticipate and shape behaviors of adversaries, neutrals, and partners".

SWS also replicates financial institutions, utilities, media outlets, and street corner shops. By applying theories of economics and human psychology, its developers believe they can predict how individuals and mobs will respond to various stressors.

SEAS can display regional results for public opinion polls, distribution of retail outlets in urban areas, and the level of unorganization of local economies, which may point to potential areas of civil unrest

Yank a country's water supply. Stage a military coup. SWS will tell you what happens next.



"The idea is to generate alternative futures with outcomes based on interactions between multiple sides," said Purdue University professor Alok Chaturvedi, co-author of the SWS concept paper.

Chaturvedi directs Purdue's laboratories for Synthetic Environment for Analysis and Simulations, or SEAS - the platform underlying SWS. Chaturvedi also makes a commercial version of SEAS available through his company, Simulex, Inc.

SEAS users can visualise the nodes and scenarios in text boxes and graphs, or as icons set against geographical maps.

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Corporations can use SEAS to test the market for new products, said Chaturvedi. Simulex lists the pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and defense contractor Lockheed Martin among its private sector clients.

The US government appears to be Simulex's number one customer, however. And Chaturvedi has received millions of dollars in grants from the military and the National Science Foundation to develop SEAS.

Chaturvedi is now pitching SWS to DARPA and discussing it with officials at the US Department of Homeland Security, where he said the idea has been well received, despite the thorny privacy issues for US citizens.

In fact, Homeland Security and the Defense Department are already using SEAS to simulate crises on the US mainland.

The Joint Innovation and Experimentation Directorate of the US Joint Forces Command (JFCOM-J9) in April began working with Homeland Security and multinational forces over "Noble Resolve 07", a homeland defense experiment.

 SEAS (as will SWS) provides figures for specific economic sectors, and helps military, intel and marketing people visualize their global connections. Users can vary export and import figures for manufactured goods, for example, to gauge the potential impacts on other sectors

In August, the agencies will shift their crises scenarios from the East Coast to the Pacific theatre.

JFCOM-J9 completed another test of SEAS last year. Called Urban Resolve, the experiment projected warfare scenarios for Baghdad in 2015, eight years from now.

JFCOM-9 is now capable of running real-time simulations for up to 62 nations, including Iraq, Afghanistan, and China. The simulations gobble up breaking news, census data, economic indicators, and climactic events in the real world, along with proprietary information such as military intelligence.

Military and intel officials can introduce fictitious agents into the simulations (such as a spike in unemployment, for example) to gauge their destabilising effects on a population.

Officials can also "inject an earthquake or a tsunami and observe their impacts (on a society)", Chaturvedi added.

Jim Blank, modelling and simulation division chief at JFCOM-J9, declined to discuss the specific routines military commanders are running in the Iraq and Afghanistan computer models. He did say SEAS might help officers determine where to position snipers in a city square, or to envision scenarios that might emerge from widespread civil unrest.

SEAS helps commanders consider the multitude of variables and outcomes possible in urban warfare, said Blank.



"Future wars will be asymetric in nature. They will be more non-kinetic, with the center of gravity being a population."

The Iraq and Afghanistan computer models are the most highly developed and complex of the 62 available to JFCOM-J9. Each has about five million individual nodes representing things such as hospitals, mosques, pipelines, and people.

The other SEAS models are far less detailed, encompassing only a few thousand nodes altogether, Blank said.

Feeding a whole-Earth simulation will be a colossal challenge.

"(SWS) is a hungry beast," Blank said. "A lot of data will be required to make this thing even credible."

Alok Chaturvedi wants SWS to match every person on the planet, one-to-one.

Right now, the 62 simulated nations in SEAS depict humans as composites, at a 100-to-1 ratio.

One organisation has achieved a one-to-one level of granularity for its simulations, according to Chaturvedi: the US Army, which is using SEAS to identify potential recruits.

Chaturvedi insists his goal for SWS is to have a depersonalised likeness for each individual, rather than an immediately identifiable duplicate. If your town census records your birthdate, job title, and whether you own a dog, SWS will generate what Chaturvedi calls a "like someone" with the same stats, but not the same name.

Of course, government agencies and corporations can add to SWS whatever personally-identifiable information they choose from their own databases, and for their own purposes.

And with consumers already giving up their personal information regularly to websites such as MySpace and Twitter, it is not a stretch to imagine SWS doing the same thing.

"There may be hooks through which individuals may voluntarily contribute information to SWS," Chaturvedi said.

SEAS bases its AI "thinking" on the theories of cognitive psychologists and the work of Princeton University professor Daniel Kahneman, one of the fathers of behavioural economics.

Chaturvedi, as do many AR developers, also cites the work of positive psychology guru Martin Seligman (known, too, for his concept of "learned hopelessness") as an influence on SEAS human behaviour models. The Simulex website says, if a bit vaguely, SEAS similarly incorporates predictive models based upon production, marketing, finance and other fields.

But SWS may never be smart enough to anticipate every possibility, or predict how people will react under stress, said Philip Lieberman, professor of cognitive and linguistic studies at Brown University.



"Experts make 'correct' decisions under time pressure and extreme stress that are not necessarily optimum but work," said Lieberman, who nevertheless said the simulations might be useful for anticipating some scenarios.

JFCOM's Blank agreed that SWS, which is using computers and code to do cultural anthropology, does not include any "hard science at this point".

"Ultimately," said Blank, "the guy to make decision is the commander."

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WIKILEAKS detained by Stalinist Regime

Dissident arrested by Stalinist Regime.

Wikileaks editor detained by US customs -- by Stephen Foley

8:51 AM Monday Aug 2, 2010

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been advised against travelling to the US, where site editor Jacob Appelbaum was detained by customs. Photo / AP

A senior volunteer for Wikileaks in the US has been detained, questioned and had his phones seized when he returned to the country from Europe, as the FBI steps up its investigation into the leak of thousands of Afghanistan war secrets to the whistleblower website.

Jacob Appelbaum, who has stood in for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange since he was advised not to travel to the US, spent three hours at a New York airport while customs officers photocopied receipts and searched his laptop, and he was again approached and questioned by FBI officers at a computer hackers conference in Las Vegas.

Two officers approached Mr Appelbaum after he had given a talk on how to subvert Chinese government internet surveillance at the annual DefCon conference. He declined to talk to them.

The internet security researcher had returned to the US for the conference from the Netherlands on Thursday when he was detained.

Border officials quizzed him on the whereabouts of Mr Assange, on his attitudes to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and on the philosophy behind Wikileaks.

Jacob Appelbaum pub 4096R/E012B42D 2010-05-07 Key fingerprint=D8C9 AF51 CAA9 CAEA D3D8  9C9E A34F A745 E012 B42D

Mr Assange has not been to the US since Wikileaks published a secret video showing US military personnel in Iraq celebrating a helicopter attack in which 12 civilians were killed, including Reuters journalists.

The controversy has escalated further since the site additionally published 90,000 field reports and other military documents from the war in Afghanistan, including some that contained the names of Afghan informants.

Mr Appelbaum, who works with the Tor project, which helps internet users to obscure their identity online, has long been a senior spokesman for Wikileaks in the US.

Last month he stood in for Mr Assange at a New York computer conference and used the event to ask for funding and volunteers. Fearing the authorities, instead of returning to the stage as promised after the helicopter video played, he left by a side entrance and used a decoy in a similar hooded top to walk out of the front.

Since the seizure of his electronic equipment last week, Mr Appelbaum's voicemail now says "this telephone number is no longer an appropriate way to reach me".

Talking to The Independent at DefCon at the weekend, he angrily rejected comments from the US joint chiefs of staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, who said of Wikileaks and its volunteers last week that "they might already have on their hands the blood of some young soldier or that of an Afghan family" because insurgents could use information in the documents to launch reprisals.

"When you have been waging war for 10 years, who are you to say that?" Mr Appelbaum said. "What are you thinking, writing these people's names down? And what are you doing in concrete terms to protect these people?"

Both the FBI and the US military believe that the documents came from the same source as the helicopter video, and they have already charged a 22-year-old intelligence analyst working in Iraq, Bradley Manning, with that leak. Now they are examining Mr Manning's links with the hacker community.

At DefCon, Mr Appelbaum refused to confirm or comment on his detention but defended Wikileaks' commitment to exposing information that governments around the world want suppressed.

"All governments are on a continuum of tyranny," he said. "In the US, a cop with a gun can commit the most heinous crime and be given the benefit of the doubt. In the US, we don't have censorship but we do have collaborating news organisations."

- THE INDEPENDENT

By Stephen Foley



Jacob Appelbaum is an independent computer security hacker. He currently is employed by the Tor project and spoke as a representative of Wikileaks at the 2010 Hope conference.[1]

He is known for his research on the cold boot attack amongst other things.[2][3]

Appelbaum is a founder of the hackerspace Noisebridge, located in San Francisco.[citation needed] He is also a photographer[4] and ambassador for the art group monochrom.

On July 17, Appelbaum spoke on behalf of Wikileaks at the 2010 Hackers on Planet Earth conference in New York City, replacing Assange due to the presence of federal agents at the conference.

Detainment and questioning

Upon returning to the U.S. from Holland, on July 29, Appelbaum was detained for three hours at the airport by U.S. agents, according to anonymous sources.[7] The sources told Cnet that Appelbaum's bag was searched, receipts from his bag were photocopied, his laptop was inspected, although in what manner was unclear.[7] Appelbaum reportedly refused to answer questions without a lawyer present, and was not allowed to make a phone call. His three mobile phones were reportedly taken and not returned.[7] On July 31, he spoke at a DEF CON conference and mentioned his phone being "seized". After speaking, he was approached by two FBI agents and questioned.[7]

7 children killed - USA unjudicial killing team

Reference ID	Region	Latitude	Longitude
AFG20070617n853	RC EAST	33.0050087	68.70246124

Date	Type	Category	Affiliation	Detained
2007-06-17 21:09	Friendly Action	Other	FRIEND	7

	Enemy	Friend	Civilian	Host nation
Killed in action	6	0	7	0
Wounded in action	0	0	0	0

http://wardiary.wikileaks.org/afg/event/2007/06/AFG20070617n853.html
 


 NOTE: The following information (TF-373 and HIMARS) is Classified Secret / NOFORN.  The knowledge that TF-373 conducted a 
HIMARS strike must be kept protected.  All other information below is classified Secret / REL ISAF.  
 
(S) Mission: O/O SOTF conducts kinetic strike followed with HAF raid to kill/capture ABU LAYTH AL LIBI on NAI 2.
 
(S)Target: Abu Layth Al Libi is a senior al-Qaida military commander, Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) leader.  
He is based in Mir Ali, Pakistan and runs training camps throughout North Waziristan.  
Collection over the past week indicates a concentration of Arabs IVO objective area. 
 


Result: 6 x EKIA; 7 x NC KIA, 7 x detainees 
 
(S) Summary: HAF departed for Orgun-E to conduct link-up and posture to the objective immediately after pre-assault fires.  

On order, 5 rockets were launched and destroyed structures on the objective (NAI 2).  
 The HAF quickly inserted the assault force into the HLZ.  ISR reported multiple UIMs leaving the objective area.  
 The assault force quickly conducted dismounted movement to the target area and established 
containment on the south side of the objective.  During the initial assault, dedicated air assets 
engaged multiple MAMs squirting off the objective area.  GFC assessed 3 x EKIA squirters north 
 and 3 x EKIA squirters south of the compound were neutralized from air asset fires.  The assault 
force quickly maneuvered with a SQD element on the remaining squirters.  The squirter element 
 detained 12 x MAMs and returned to the objective area.  GFC passed initial assessment of 7 x NC KIA (children).  
 

 
During initial questioning, it was assessed that the children were not allowed out of the building, 
due to UIMs presence within the compound.  The assault force was able to uncover 1 x NC child from the rubble.  
 The MED TM immediately cleared debris form the mouth and performed CPR to revive  the child for 20 minutes.  
Due to time restrictions, TF CDR launched QRF element to action a follow-on target (NAI 5).  
 They quickly contained the objective and initiated the assault. 
 The objective was secured and the assault force initially detained 6 x MAMs.  
The GFC recommended that 7 MAMs be detained for additional questioning. 
  The TF CDR assessed that the assault force will continue SSE.  
The local governor was notified of the current situation and requests for assistance were made to cordon 
 the AO with support from ANP and local coalition forces in search of HVI.  A PRT is enroute to AO. 
 
1)     Target was an AQ (AL QAEDA) Senior Leader

2)     Patterns of life were conducted on 18 June from 0800z  1815z (strike time) with no indications of women or children on the objective
 
3)     The Mosque was not targeted nor was it struck  initial reports state there is no damage to the Mosque

4)     An elder who was at the Mosque stated that the children were held against their will and were intentionally kept inside
 
UPDATE: 18 0850Z June 07

- Governor Khapalwak has had no success yet in reaching President Karzai (due to the Presidents busy schedule today) 
but expects to reach him within the hour (PoA reached later in the afternoon ~ 1400Z)
 
- The Governor conducted a Shura this morning, in attendance were locals from both the Yahya Yosof Khail & Khail Districts

- He pressed the Talking Points given to him and added a few of his own that followed in line with our current story 
 
- The atmospherics of the local populous is that they are in shock, but understand it was caused ultimately by the presence of hoodlums 

            - the people think it is good that bad men were killed

             - the people regret the loss of life among the children

- The Governor echoed the tragedy of children being killed, but stressed this couldve been prevented had the people exposed
 the presence of insurgents in the area
 
- The Governor promised another Shura in a few days and that the families would be compensated for their loss

- Tthe Governor was asked what the mood of the people was and he stated that "the operation was a good thing, 
 and the people believe what we have told them"

- Additionally, the people accused the Yahya Khail Chief of Police and his officers of corruption and collusion with TB in the area
 

- The Governor and the Provincial NDS Chief relieved the CofP and his officers, disarmed them, and they are currently detained and enroute to 
 Sharana at this time  unknown as to total numbers detained (MTF on this incident)

Report key: 15A27543-B022-4736-AC31-71006B18794E
Tracking number: 2007-186-112133-0753
 Attack on: FRIEND
Complex atack: FALSE
Reporting unit: CJTF-82
Unit name: CJTF-82
Type of unit: None Selected
Originator group: UNKNOWN
Updated by group: UNKNOWN
MGRS: 42SVB7220751882
CCIR: (SIR IMMEDIATE 7) Injury/Death of local national due to coalition actions
 Sigact: CJTF-82
DColor: BLUE




 

 One particularly sensitive report of a TF 373 operation dated June
17, 2007 is classified so secret that details of the mission must not be
 passed on to other ISAF forces. On this day the soldiers appear to have
 committed a particularly fatal error. The aim of the mission seems to
have been to kill the prominent al-Qaida official Abu Laith. The unit
had spent weeks watching a Koran school in which the Americans believed
the al-Qaida man and several aides were living. But the five rockets
they launched from a mobile rocket launcher ended up killing the wrong people.

Instead of the finding the top terrorist, the troops found the bodies of six dead children in the rubble of the completely destroyed school. One other child who was seriously wounded could not be saved even though a medic spent 20 minutes trying to revive him. Such a dramatic incident can't be kept secret and one day later the US army had to apologize publicly.

Routine Murder

The tone of the reports conveys how routine killing has become routine for the members of Task Force 373. One terse report on December 26, 2008 says an operation against a target identified as "Object Midway" cleared a number of compounds and found components for making improvised explosive devices. A brief entry lower down mentions that the soldiers killed 11 supposed insurgents and wounded one local Afghan civilian. The report makes no mention of the reason for the killing.

Even though it is an American unit, the revelations of its secret operations are likely to embarrass the German government. Some 300 soldiers from TF-373 have been stationed at the German military base Camp Marmal since the sommer of 2009. They operate as part of the Northern Regional Command, which is under German command.

Their presence was an awkward issue from the start and was something of a taboo even under Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, who took over the ministry last October. His only reference to them was during a visit to the troops in November 2009 when he said vaguely that the Germans "are grateful for any help provided by the US Army." Elite troops had just spent five days attacking the Taliban bastion of Gul Tepa north-west of Kunduz. Some 130 people were killed, all of them insurgents, according to the US Army.

 how the Pentagon tracked down the source of the leaks.

On 21 May, a Californian computer hacker called Adrian Lamo was contacted by somebody with the online name Bradass87 who started to swap instant messages with him. He was immediately extraordinarily open: "hi… how are you?… im an army intelligence analyst, deployed to eastern bagdad … if you had unprecedented access to classified networks, 14 hours a day, 7 days a week for 8+ months, what would you do?"

For five days, Bradass87 opened his heart to Lamo. He described how his job gave him access to two secret networks: the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network, SIPRNET, which carries US diplomatic and military intelligence classified "secret"; and the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System which uses a different security system to carry similar material classified up to "top secret". He said this had allowed him to see "incredible things, awful things … that belong in the public domain and not on some server stored in a dark room in Washington DC … almost criminal political backdealings … the non-PR version of world events and crises."

Bradass87 suggested that "someone I know intimately" had been downloading and compressing and encrypting all this data and uploading it to someone he identified as Julian Assange. At times, he claimed he himself had leaked the material, suggesting that he had taken in blank CDs, labelled as Lady Gaga's music, slotted them into his high-security laptop and lip-synched to nonexistent music to cover his downloading: "i want people to see the truth," he said.

He dwelled on the abundance of the disclosure: "its open diplomacy … its Climategate with a global scope and breathtaking depth … its beautiful and horrifying … It's public data, it belongs in the public domain." At one point, Bradass87 caught himself and said: "i can't believe what im confessing to you." It was too late. Unknown to him, two days into their exchange, on 23 May, Lamo had contacted the US military. On 25 May he met officers from the Pentagon's criminal investigations department in a Starbucks and gave them a printout of Bradass87's online chat.

On 26 May, at US Forward Operating Base Hammer, 25 miles outside Baghdad, a 22-year-old intelligence analyst named Bradley Manning was arrested, shipped across the border to Kuwait and locked up in a military prison.

Gathered from 92,201 records of individual events or intelligence reports, The Guardian presents a selection of 300 of the key ones.

Piecing together details from the reports, The Guardian describes the operations of an undisclosed "black" unit of special forces, Task Force 373, whose mission was to hunt down targets for death or detention without trial.

On the night of Monday 11 June 2007, the leaked logs reveal, the taskforce set out with Afghan special forces to capture or kill a Taliban commander named Qarl Ur-Rahman in a valley near Jalalabad. As they approached the target in the darkness, somebody shone a torch on them. A firefight developed, and the taskforce called in an AC-130 gunship, which strafed the area with cannon fire: "The original mission was aborted and TF 373 broke contact and returned to base. Follow-up Report: 7 x ANP KIA, 4 x WIA." In plain language: they discovered that the people they had been shooting in the dark were Afghan police officers, seven of whom were now dead and four wounded.

The coalition put out a press release which referred to the firefight and the air support and then failed entirely to record that they had just killed or wounded 11 police officers. But, evidently fearing that the truth might leak, it added: "There was nothing during the firefight to indicate the opposing force was friendly. The individuals who fired on coalition forces were not in uniform." The involvement of TF 373 was not mentioned, and the story didn't get out.

However, the incident immediately rebounded into the fragile links which other elements of the coalition had been trying to build with local communities. An internal report shows that the next day Lieutenant Colonel Gordon Phillips, commander of the Provincial Reconstruction Team, took senior officers to meet the provincial governor, Gul Agha Sherzai, who accepted that this was "an unfortunate incident that occurred among friends". They agreed to pay compensation to the bereaved families, and Phillips "reiterated our support to prevent these types of events from occurring again".

Yet, later that week, on Sunday 17 June, as Sherzai hosted a "shura" council at which he attempted to reassure tribal leaders about the safety of coalition operations, TF 373 launched another mission, hundreds of miles south in Paktika province. The target was a notorious Libyan fighter, Abu Laith al-Libi. The unit was armed with a new weapon, known as Himars – High Mobility Artillery Rocket System – a pod of six missiles on the back of a small truck.

The plan was to launch five rockets at targets in the village of Nangar Khel where TF 373 believed Libi was hiding and then to send in ground troops. The result was that they failed to find Libi but killed six Taliban fighters and then, when they approached the rubble of a madrasa, they found "initial assessment of 7 x NC KIA" which translates as seven non-combatants killed in action. All of them were children. One of them was still alive in the rubble: "The Med TM immediately cleared debris from the mouth and performed CPR." After 20 minutes, the child died.

The coalition made a press statement which owned up to the death of the children and claimed that troops "had surveillance on the compound all day and saw no indications there were children inside the building". That claim is consistent with the leaked log. A press release also claimed that Taliban fighters, who undoubtedly were in the compound, had used the children as a shield.

The log refers to an unnamed "elder" who is said to have "stated that the children were held against their will" but, against that, there is no suggestion that there were any Taliban in the madrasa where the children died.

The rest of the press release was certainly misleading. It suggested that coalition forces had attacked the compound because of "nefarious activity" there, when the reality was that they had gone there to kill or capture Libi.

Glossary of military acronyms
Acronym	Meaning
Download the table from The Guardian
(number)IN	Infantry group
(number)US	Number of US personnel
(number)V	Vehicles
(Time)L	Local time
(Time)Z	Zulu time - GMT
42 CDO RM	42 Commando Royal Marines
508 STB	508th special troops battalion
81	81mm mortar round
9-liner	9 Line MEDEVAC Request
A/C	aircraft
AAF	anti-afghan forces
ABP	Afghan Border Police
AC-130	Gunship adapted from Hercules
ACK	Acknowledge
ACM	Anti-Coalition Militia
AFG	Afghans
AH-1W	Attack helicopter 1W - US Marines Super Cobra gunship
AIHRC	Afghan Independent Human Right Commission
AK-47	Assault rifle
ANA	Afghan National Army
ANAP	Afghan National Auxiliary Police
ANBP	Afghan National Border Police
ANP	Afghan National Police
ANSF	Afghan National Security Forces
AO	Area of operation
AQ	Al Qaida
ARSIC	Afghan regional security integrated command
ASG	Area Support Group
ASV	armoured security vehicle
ATT	At this time
ATTK	Attack
AUP	Afghan uniform police
B-HUTS	Semi-permanent wooden structures used in place of tents
BAF	Bagram Air Field
BCT	Brigade combat team (US)
BDA	Battle damage assessment
BDE	Brigade
Beaten zone	Area where spread of rounds fired
BFT	Blue Force Tracking: identifying friendly forces in area
BG	Brigadier General
Blue forces	Nato/ISAF forces
Blue on Blue	Friendly fire
BN	Battalion
BP	Blood Pressure
BPT	Be [ing] prepared to
BRF	Brigade Reconnaissance Force
BSN	(Camp) Bastion
BSSM	Border Security Subcommittee Meeting
BTG	Basic target graphic
BTIF	Bagram theatre internment facility
BTL	Battalion
buzz saw	Signalling method by waving light stick in circle
C//NF	Confidential, no foreign nationals
C/S	Call sign
CAS	Close air support
CAT C	Category C patient - priority
CCA	carrier-controlled approach
CCIR	commander's critical information requirements
CD	Command
CDN	Canadian
CDR	Commander
CF	Coalition Forces
CG	Coldstream Guards
CGBG	Coldstream Guards Battle Group
cgbg 1 coy	1 company, Coldstream Guards battle group
CHOPS	Chief of Operations
CIV	Civilian
CIVCAS	Civilian casualties
CJ2	US intelligence and security command, afghanistan
CJ3	Joint special ops
CJSOTF	combined joint special operations task force
CJTF	Combined Joint Task Force
CJTF-82	Combined Joint Task Force-82: HQ of US Forces in ISAF and Regional Command East, March 2007-April 2008
CLP	Combat logistics patrol [supply convoy]
CO	Commanding officer
CoP	Chief of Police
COP	Combat outpost
Coy	Company
CP	Check point
cpt	Captain
Csh	combat support hospital
CTC	? counterterrorist center
CWIED	Command Wire Improvised Explosive Device
DBC	database code
DC	District Centre
DF	Direct fire
DOI	Date of incident
DoS	Department of State
DSHKA	Soviet-origin heavy machine gun
ECP	entry control point
EKIA	Enemy killed in action
Element	Part of a task force e.g. "Puma element" = part of Task Force Puma
ENG BDE	Engineer Brigade
EOC	Emergency Operation Centre
EOD	Explosive Ordnance Disposal [bomb defuser]
eof	Escalation of Force [also 'exchange of fire']
ETT	embedded training team
evac	Evacuation
EVACD	Evacuated
F-15	Fighter /bomber
FB	Forward Base (context -"Do China FB")
FF	Friendly Forces
FFIR	Friendly Forces Information Requirement
FIR	First Impressions Report
FO	Forward observer
FOB	Forward Operating Base
FP	Firing point
fps	Facility protection service
FRA BG	French battle group
FSB	Forward Support Base
GBU	Guided Bomb Unit
GBU-12	500lb laser-guided "smart bomb"
GBU-31	2,000lb "smart bomb'
GBU-38	GPS/laser guided 500lb 'smart' bomb
GCTF	Global Counter Terrorism Forces
GEN	General
GHZ	Ghazni
GIRoA	Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
GMLRS	Multiple rocket launcher
Green on green	Fighting between Afghan forces
GSW	Gunshot wound
GT R2RR	Canadian troops: tactical group:2nd bn 22nd royal regiment
helos	Helicopters
HHB	Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion
HIMARS	latest GPS-guided multiple rocket system, mounted on v. mobile truck [carries GMLRS qv]
HLZ	helicopter landing zone
HMG	UK government (HM Government)
HMLA-169	US Marines light attack helicopter sqadron
HRT	hostage rescue team
HVI	High-value Individual
HWY	Highway
IAW	In accordance with
IAW EOF SOP	in accordance with escalation of force standard operating procedure
ICOM	Radio
IDF	indirect fire
IED	Improvised explosive device
Illum	Illumination mortar, fired to provide light
INFIL	Infiltrate
INS	Insurgents
INTSUM	Intelligence summary
IO	Information operations
IOT	In order to
IR	Incident Report
ir	infrared
IR STROBE	Infrared Strobe
IRoA	Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
IRT	Incident Response Team?
ISAF	International Security Assistance Force
ISN	Internment [or Insurgent] serial Number
ISO	In support of
ISR	Intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance
IVO	In vicinity of
J COY 42 CDO	J company 42 Commando Royal Marines
JAF	Jalalabad Air Field
JAG	Judge Advocate General (Army legal team)
JBAD	Jalalabad
JDAM	Joint Direct Attack Munition
JDCC	Joint District Coordination Center
JDOC	Joint Defense Operations Center
JEL	Joint Effects List [hit list]
Jingle trucks	Brightly decorated trucks covered in bells common across central Asia
JOC	joint ops centre
JPEL	Joint Prioritised Effects List [hit list]
JTAC	Joint terminal air controller
JUGROOM	Fort, Garmsir, Afghanistan
KAF	Kandahar Air Field
KAIA	Kabul international airport
KDZ	Kunduz
KIA	Killed in action
KJI	Kajaki
KMTC	Kabul military training cetnre
KPRT	Kandahar Provincial Reconstruction Team
L:	Location (in relation to S, A, L, T)
LEP	Law Enforcement Professionals
Line 1	Location of the pick-up site.
Line 2	Radio frequency, call sign, and suffix.
Line 3	Number of patients by precedence: A to E with A being most urgent
Line 4	Special equipment required
Litter	Stretcher used by medics
LKG	Lashkar Ghar
LN	Local national
LNO	Liaison Officer
LTC	Lieutenant Colonel
Luna	German drone
LZ	Landing Zone
m240b	Type of machine gun
M249	light machine gun
M4/M-4	Type of gun
MAJ	Major
MAR	Marine
MED OPS	Medical Operations
MED TM	Medical Team
medevac	Medical evacuation
MEY PRT	Meymaneh provincial reconstruction team
MG	Machine Gun
MHL	Mehtar Lam
MM	Military Message
MOD	Ministry of Defence
MOI	Afghanistan's Ministry of Interior
MP	Military Police
MS	Military support
MSN	Nurse (with a masters)
Msr	main supply route
MTF	More to follow
MTT	military training team
N/I C	Nato/ISAF Confidential
NAI	Named areas of interest
NC	non-combatant
NCO	Non-commissioned officer
NDS	Afghan intelligence [national directorate of security]
NFI	Not Further Identified
NFTR	Nothing further to report
NMC	non mission-capable
NOFORN	no foreigners [secrecy classification]
NSTR	Nothing significant to report
OBJ	Objective
OC	Outcome
OCC- P	operational command centre - provincial
OCCD	Operational Coordination Center District
ODA	Operational Detachment (Alpha) - special forces
OGA	Other Government Agency (usually CIA)
OIC	Officer in charge
OMF	Opposing Militant Forces
Op	Operation
OP	Observation Post
OP grid	Operation/Observation post map coordinates
OPSUM	Operations Summary
ORSA	operations research and systems analysis
PA	Physician Assistant
PAK	Pakistan
PAKMIL	Pakistan military
PAO	Public Affairs Officer
PAX	Passengers/People
PB	Patrol Base
PBG	Polish battle group
PEF	poppy eradication force [afghan police]
PEN	Penich (outpost)
PHQ	Police headquarters (in reference to ANP)
PID	positive i.d.
PKM	Russian-made machine gun
PL	Platoon
PLT	Platoon
PLT SJT	Platoon Seargant
PMT	Police Mentor Team
PoA	President of Afghanistan
poc	point of contact
POI	point of impact
POO	Point of origin
PRED	Predator drone
PRO COY	protection company
PRT	Provincial Reconstruction Team
PRT CDR	Provincial Reconstruction Team Commander
PSO	Post Security Officer
PT	Patient
PTS	Peace Through Strength (PTS) reconciliation process
QRF	Quick Response Force
RB	Road block
RC (N)	Regional Command North
RC CENTRAL	Regional Command Central
RC(E) / RC East	Regional Command East
RC(W)	Regional Command West
RC=S / RC(S)	Regional Command South
RCAG	Regional Corps Assistance Group
RCC / RC(C)	Regional Command Capital
RCP	Route clearance Patrol
rds/RDS	Rounds
rfs	Resident Field Squadron
RG	US armoured vehicle
RGR	Royal Gurkha rifles
ROE	Rules of engagement
Role 3	Surgical facility
RPG	Rocket propelled grenade
RPK	Light machine gun, Kalashnikov (Ruchnoi Pulemyot Kalashnikova)
RPT	Report
RTB	Return to base
RTE	Route
RTF	Reconstruction Task Force [Australian at TF Uruzgan]
S-2	Intelligence staff officer
S-5	Staff member responsible for civil-military operations
S, A, L, T	Size, Activity, Location, Time (military report)
S, A, L, T, U, R	Size, Activity, Location, Time, Unit, Result (military report)
S:	Size (in relation to S, A, L, T)
S//REL	Secret or Selective release? (context - "S//REL TO USA, AFG, GCTF, ISAF, NATO")
SAF/Safire	Small ams fire/Surface to air fire
SAW	Squad Automatic Weapon [ machine gun]
SC-26	Scorpion 26 - US special forces unit in Helmand
SCIDA	Site Configuration and Installation Design Authority?
SEWOC	Sigint Electronic Warfare Operational Centre
SFG	special forces group
Shura	Meeting of tribal elders and Afghan leaders
SIED	Suicide IED
SIGACT	Significant activity
SIR	Serious Incident Report
sof	Special ops force
SOG	Special ops group
Solatia	Payments to civilian victims of US attacks (or their families)
SOP	Standard Operating Procedure
SOTF	Special Operations Task Force
SOTG	Special ops taskgroup
SPC	Specialist
SQD	Squadron
sqn	Squadron
Squirter	Someone running for cover
SSE	Sensitive site exploitation
SVBIED	suicide vehicle-borne IED
SWO	Surface warfare officer
SWT	Scout weapons team
T:	Time (in relation to S, A, L, T)
TB	Taliban
TBC	To be confirmed
TBD	To be decided
TCP	Traffic control point
TERP	Interpreter
TF	Task force
TF373	task force 373 [special ops]
TFK	Task Force Kandahar
TG	Tactical Group
TG AREs	Tactical group Ares
Thready	Pulse that is very fine and scarcely perceptible.
TIC	Troops in contact
Toc	tactical op center
TTPs	tactics, techniques, and procedures
UAH	Up-armoured Humvee
UAV	Unmanned aerial vehicle [drone]
UH-1N	US Twin Huey transport/communications helicopter
UH-60	Black Hawk helicopter
UNAMA	United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
UNK	Unknown
usfor-a	United States Forces Afghanistan
UXO	unexploded ordnance [or unfired]
VBIED	VBIED vehicle-borne improvised explosive device
VCP	Vehicle Check Point
vic	vicinity
VIC	Vehicle? (context - "ANP officer hit ANA officer with door of VIC...7 to 8 rounds struck ANP VIC")
vitals	Vital signs (for example blood pressure)
VP	Vulnerable point
VPB	Vehicle patrol base
VSA	vital signs absent [i.e. dead]
w/d	wheels down
w/u	wheels up
White Eagle	Polish task force

RC EAST: 172100Z TF 373 OBJ Lane
            

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NOTE: The following information (TF-373 and HIMARS) is Classified Secret / NOFORN. The knowledge that TF-373 conducted a HIMARS strike must be kept protected ...

Affiliation	FRIEND
Type	Friendly Action
Category	Other
Date	2007-06-17 21:09