When the smoke cleared, 13 rebels and five air-force staff were dead, and half the fleet of Air Lanka, together with eight military planes, had gone up in flames.

ECONOMIST: The separatists strike close to home

The single 120mm shell landed on a stall in the packed open-air market just before noon leaving Muslims and Serbs dead and injured.

BBC: 5 February

Ranger Dalzell, who was unresponsive, was attended to by medics and air-lifted to the field hospital at Camp Bastion where he was declared dead.

BBC: County Down soldier shot dead in 'accident' in Afghanistan

Two RAF Chinooks and two Irish Army Air Corps helicopters are helping to deliver food supplies to stranded animals - with many feared dead.

BBC: Easter getaway as thousands leave the UK

Whatever the case, Barack Obama and his administration were dead-set on delaying this thing, presumably in an attempt to secure even more funds out of the thin night air to make sure the " millions" still "unprepared" would be ready to rock 'n roll when the transition actually, finally happened.

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