Saturday, May 07, 2011

DTN News - SINGAPORE NEWS: Reform Party Falls To The PAP ‘Dragon’

DTN News - SINGAPORE NEWS: Reform Party Falls To The PAP ‘Dragon’
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada / SINGAPORE - May 7, 2011:

In the end, it was no surprise the "dragon slayers" were slain instead of the "dragon".

Alex Tan, Arthero Lim, Lim Zi Rui, Mansor Rahman, Osman Sulaiman and Vigneswari Ramachandran of the Reform Party (RP) -- labelled as "dragon slayers" entering a "dragon's den" -- were handily defeated by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong

and his People's Action Party team in Ang Mo Kio group representation constituency (GRC) in the General Election on Saturday.

RP's "dragon slayers" lost to PM Lee's team in Ang Mo Kio. (Yahoo! photo/ Ewen Boey)

RP has steadfastly refused to call their team a "suicide squad", referring to the name given to the team that from Workers' Party (WP) that dared challenged PM Lee's slate in the 2006 election.

PM Lee's group comprising Ang Hin Kee, Inderjit Singh, Intan Mokhtar, Seng Han Thong and Yeo Guat Kwang, successfully defended their seats in Ang Mo Kio GRC by winning a mandate of 69.3 percent.

In West Coast GRC, the only other ward contested by RP, the opposition party lost to a PAP team comprising Lim Hng Kiang, S. Iswaran, Arthur Fong, Foo Mee Har and Lawrence Wong, grabbing 36,395 votes or 33.4 percent of votes.

Party chief Kenneth Jeyaretnam

said, "We are the first new party set up in over 20 years, and this was our first election. I am proud of the 34 percent that we won in this contest."

Jeyaretnam's wife, Amanda, added that the RP chief's late father, J.B. Jeyaretnam would have been very proud of his son's achievements at this election.

After his loss in the election, users on Twitter provided their own statements of encouragement.

@perculiarpy said, "Work towards next elections Mr Kenneth Jeyaretnam. Your dad was a good man and your brother wrote a novel i cannot forget."

@Larissa_SG added, "Kenneth Jeyaretnam, please come back stronger with better, more competent candidates and contest Ang Mo Kio GRC."

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DTN News - STEALTH HELICOPTER NEWS: SEALs Used Secret Stealth Helicopter In Osama bin Laden Abbottabad Raid

DTN News - STEALTH HELICOPTER NEWS: SEALs Used Secret Stealth Helicopter In Osama bin Laden Abbottabad Raid
**Stealth craft in bin Laden raid has Nevada ties
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 7, 2011:

Making a whisper-quiet helicopter is still beyond the means of modern technology, but military defense analysts say the Sikorsky choppers that Navy SEALs used in the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan were clearly an advance toward that long-sought goal.

One of the helicopters was damaged during a hard landing and the commandos destroyed it before leaving with the infamous terrorist's body. Military aviation experts have been poring over photographs of the debris, particularly the tail section.

Precisely how the Black Hawk helicopters were modified is not known, but the photographs of the wreckage, analysts say, offer new clues to the military's cutting-edge methods.

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Several analysts agreed the aircraft used technology that appeared to stem from the Comanche, a $39 billion, joint project between Sikorsky and Boeing that employed hundreds of people in Connecticut until it was scrapped in 2004 due to high costs.

"It's clearly something unusual," said Dan Goure, a defense analyst with the Virginia-based Lexington Institute.

But with only the tail boom to look at, picturing the entire machine is a bit like trying to rebuild a dinosaur from one bone, Goure said.

"Nobody could afford to do a purpose-built stealth helicopter," Goure said. "If you're not going to spend $1 billion on a purpose-built helicopter," then a modified aircraft is the next best thing."

Aviation analyst Richard Aboulafia said it's clear to him that Comanche technology was incorporated in the modified Black Hawks.

"I was hoping that something would be salvaged from that thing," Aboulafia said.

The curved, bulbous structure of the chopper is crucial to confounding radar, he said.

"You don't want sharp angles and you don't want gaps to appear in the structure — that's where radar emissions can bounce around," Aboulafia said.

U.S. officials confirmed that the marquee helicopter of Stratford-based Sikorsky Aircraft was the platform for the warbirds that delivered 25 SEALs to the compound. But that's all they would say.

"We have no additional operational details, or comments on operational details, to make at this time," U.S. Army Lt. Col. Elizabeth Robbins, a Department of Defense spokeswoman, wrote in an email Friday.

Sikorsky also declined to comment other than to say the company has not been asked to help investigate why the aircraft sustained a hard landing.

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Photos Of The Secret Stealth Helicopter Used In The Osama Raid

  • Photos Of The Secret Stealth Helicopter Used In The Osama Raid

  • POLITICS BUZZ It appears the Seal team used two secret stealth choppers. One of the choppers crash landed after sustaining some damage. “We had to blow the helicopter,” CIA Director Leon Panetta said, “and that probably woke up a lot of people, including the Pakistanis.”

    • (With reporting by The Associated Press) A Pakistani youngster shows metal pieces collected from the wheat field outside a house, where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was caught and killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on Tuesday, May 3, 2011. Local residents showed off small parts of what appeared to be a U.S. helicopter that Washington said malfunctioned and was disabled by the American commando strike team as they retreated, while Pakistan's leader on Tuesday denied suggestions that his country's security forces had sheltered Osama bin Laden. (AP Caption and Photo/Anjum Naveed)

    • A Pakistani security official carries metal piece collected from the wheat field outside a house, where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was caught. (AP Caption and Photo/Anjum Naveed)

    • A boy collects trophy pieces of metal from the wheat field outside the compound and house where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was caught and killed late Monday, in Abbottabad, Pakistan. (AP Caption and Photo/Anjum Naveed)

    • A Pakistani youngster shows metal pieces collected from wheat field outside a house, seen background, where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden lived in Abbottabad, Pakistan. (AP Caption and Photo/Anjum Naveed)

    • Vehicles carry the wreckage of a helicopter that crashed next to the wall of a compound. (AP Caption and Photo/Aqeel Ahmed)

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    • A tractor trolley carries the wreckage of a helicopter that crashed next to the wall of a compound. (AP Caption and Photo/Aqeel Ahmed)

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