DTN News - THAILAND NEWS: Deadly Attacks Rock Thailand

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(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada / BANGKOK, Thailand - May 7, 2011: SEVEN people were killed and 16 wounded in a string of attacks across Thailand's far south.

Police say the deadly attacks included two roadside bombs detonating within minutes of each other.

Dark days: Thai police officers examine the site of an attack on a local government chief who was shot by suspected separatist militants in Thailand's restive south. Picture: Madaree Tohlala

The first blast hit a military patrol vehicle on a village road in Yala, one of three southern provinces close to the border with Malaysia that have suffered a seven-year insurgency.

"Three soldiers died instantly and two were seriously injured," a local police officer said.

A second device, buried in the car park of a football field in Pattani province, detonated about five minutes later, killing three police officers and wounding 14 others.

"The officers had just arrived there for a football match with local villagers and the bomb exploded as they parked their car," police said.

In a separate attack, four gunmen riding motorbikes shot dead a 45-year-old Muslim man as he drove his car in Narathiwat province.

More than 4,500 people, both Muslims and Buddhists, have died in almost daily attacks since shadowy insurgents launched an uprising in Thailand's southernmost region in early 2004.

The attacks have become more brazen in recent months, including car bombs and attacks on military bases or outposts

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

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**Analysts: Secret Stealth Helicopter Used In Bin Laden Raid A Mix Of Sikorsky's Black Hawk, Comanche Technology

**Navy SEALs used 'secret' stealth helicopter in Bin Laden raid

**Secret Black Hawk stealth helicopter now in Pakistani hands By Bob Holt

**Stealth craft in bin Laden raid has Nevada ties

Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources |By JESSE LEAVENWORTH, leavenworth@courant.com, The Hartford Courant

(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.

*Link for This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources By JESSE LEAVENWORTH, leavenworth@courant.com, The Hartford Courant

**Analysts: Secret Stealth Helicopter Used In Bin Laden Raid A Mix Of Sikorsky's Black Hawk, Comanche Technology

**Navy SEALs used 'secret' stealth helicopter in Bin Laden raid

**Secret Black Hawk stealth helicopter now in Pakistani hands By Bob Holt

**Stealth craft in bin Laden raid has Nevada ties

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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.”

  
  

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    (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)

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    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)

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    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)

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    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)

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    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)