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General Category => General Radio Discussion => Topic started by: Fansome on December 22, 2015, 2126 UTC
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/a-new-islamic-state-radio-station-spreads-panic-in-eastern-afghanistan/2015/12/21/f41ecf96-a75c-11e5-b596-113f59ee069a_story.html
By Pamela Constable December 22 at 9:56 AM
JALALABAD, Afghanistan — At exactly 6 p.m. across this nervous city and surrounding districts, a clandestine radio broadcast comes to life each night with sounds of clashing swords, drumming hoofbeats and bursts of machine-gun fire.
“Caliphate Radio, where hell welcomes the conspirators of infidels,” intones the announcer in the Pashto language. For the next 90 minutes, speakers deliver sermons on Islam, recite Koranic verses in Arabic, threaten death for anyone connected with the “infidel” government and call on young Afghans to join their holy war.
No one is sure where the week-old broadcasts are coming from. Officials say that they are attempting to track the radio broadcast facility and silence it, but they suspect it is mounted on a truck, moving among the tribal regions that straddle the nearby border with Pakistan. The program can be heard throughout Nangahar province but not nationally.
Already, the broadcasts have struck new fear into residents of this besieged region, a rich agricultural area and strategic trade corridor. Fighters loyal to the Islamic State, known here as Daesh, its Arabic acronym, are reportedly arriving as close as 12 miles from this provincial capital as they wrest control of areas where Afghan security forces remain largely confined to outposts.
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Time for the Blue Eagle to do a fly over DF and send in a few jets to exterminate the bastards (sorry folks but I am hot on this subject)
Terror radio... that's all we need... bleeech
It's an FM station on 90 MHZ FM according to the following:
http://www.tolonews.com/en/afghanistan/22841-daesh-militants-launch-radio-station-in-nangarhar
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Perhaps a reception report delivered via drone might get some results :D
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Sounds like a plan... Man... have a merry Christmas and a happy happy ;-)
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And a Merry Christmas to you also ka1iic! :)
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Oh, that is just disgusting. The very antithesis of Radio Freedom, isn't it? I'm thinking here of the only other clandestine station I've ever heard of as signing on with gunfire sound effects, though I didn't know that one personally; too young. Utter. Polar. Opposites. *has the just about queasy shivers*
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Jalalabad in the 70's, eating apricots, pistachios, watching buzkashi, and smoking a red resinous substance with a blue seal in the hubbly-bubbly.
Haji Al Fansoom was the greatest Chapandaz of the era. A superb horseman, he could ride and drag a goat like no other. The Lord of Buzkashi was Al Fansoom. He was a great friend of mine.
There was movie made about him with Omar Sharif playing the the lead role. The great lie the ferengi Frankenheimer wrote in about Al Fansoom losing his leg in a great match for the King should haunt Frankenheimer's descendants unto eternity. I witnessed the match with mine own eyes. Al Fansoom rode like the wind that day, whipping his opponents into submission as he left them in the dust on the steppe of Mazar-i-Sharif. Cursed be the generations of that great heap of camel dung Frankenheimer.
Inshallah, we may see the likes of Al Fansoom ride again.
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This could be worrisome for the Piron ate radio folks... Me being a paranoid type. The powers that be only need something like this to increase shut downs etc claiming that
ho me la nd thingie by the group in the 3 letter washing (by the) ton peeples.
Just saying...
I don't do piron stuff bc of said claimed paranoia...
Also I have to consider Doctor Poo and his litter box... he messes my life (and his 'litter box') up so totally.
Time to put on the tin foil DEVO hat and hail BOB... prepare for X-day and all of that...
And as for any1 on this forum that might know me personally... 7 years have long since past so I smile :-)
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Oh, that is just disgusting. The very antithesis of Radio Freedom, isn't it? I'm thinking here of the only other clandestine station I've ever heard of as signing on with gunfire sound effects, though I didn't know that one personally; too young. Utter. Polar. Opposites. *has the just about queasy shivers*
I have a recording (vintage 1990's) of an African clandestine that opened up with "bone type" drums into machine gun sounds. And, back in the day, Up Against the Wall Radio would open with machine gun blasts into their ID.
I like the idea of the drone delivered reception report.
Merry (and safe) Christmas to all.
FPE
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Could that African clandestine be Radio Freedom itself? If it was prior to 1994 it's definitely possible, although I don't know how long after 1990 and Mandela's release/the start of the transition to equality they actually stayed on the air.