Hi all.

Ok, now this is one of the topics that has concerned me for some time. By that, I mean that Western countries seem to be very poorly prepared to defend against the so-called "jihad by stealth". This is the slow-but-steady increase in Islamic influence in Western countries.

As I see it ...

This hurt to read.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1196165/Britain-85-sharia-courts-The-astonishing-spread-Islamic-justice-closed-doors.html

It's getting worse and I'm fed up of it. British Law is British Law. You can't have two different types of justice in this country. This system ...

Hi all.

Ok, now this is one of the topics that has concerned me for some time. By that, I mean that Western countries seem to be very poorly prepared to defend against the so-called "jihad by stealth". This is the slow-but-steady increase in Islamic influence in Western countries.

As I see it ...

This is an interesting thread indeed! ( I'm a newcomer here, from NZ - a civvy despite the nick. ).

Looking at Peter Dow's excellent map, there are already three good-sized airports at Bastion, Kandahar and Bagram. If there were one more put about halfway along Highway 1, somewhere in Ghazni ...

Poached for knowing Morse code...........In those days nearly every Boy Scout knew Morse code and the the Semaphore Signals.

Yeah, actually that's fair comment! Anyway, it's too late to ask him exactly what the story was, given that he died in 2000.

What I do know for sure is that he met my ...

Hi all -

I'm a first-timer here from New Zealand. In spite of my nick, I'm a civvy - I do, however, have a soft spot for the Paras, having read a couple of books about their experiences in the war in Afghanistan ("3 Para" and the follow-on book "Ground Truth"). Given that, I decided to mention ...