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US army accidentally killed civilians
Post Date: 2005-11-21 08:59:30 by Flintlock
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BAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. troops opened fire on a crowded minivan north of Baghdad on Monday, fearing a car bomb attack, and killed at least three members of the same family, including a child, the U.S. military and survivors said. ~snip~ Click for Full Text!
Poster Comment:"They are all children. They are not terrorists," shouted a relative. "Look at the children," he said as a morgue official carried a small dead child into a refrigeration room. USA Scores another 3 points.
Powerful Government Accountability Office report confirms key 2004 stolen election findings
Post Date: 2005-11-15 08:26:09 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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Powerful Government Accountability Office report confirms key 2004 stolen election findings by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman October 26, 2005 As a legal noose appears to be tightening around the Bush/Cheney/Rove inner circle, a shocking government report shows the floor under the legitimacy of their alleged election to the White House is crumbling. The latest critical confirmation of key indicators that the election of 2004 was stolen comes in an extremely powerful, penetrating report from the Government Accountability Office that has gotten virtually no mainstream media coverage. The government's lead investigative agency is known for its general incorruptibility and its ...
U.S. Trade Deficit Hits High on Storms
Post Date: 2005-11-10 14:20:17 by TommyTheMadArtist
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WASHINGTON -- The trade deficit soared to a record in September as the Gulf Coast hurricanes helped push America's foreign oil bill to an all-time high. The politically sensitive deficit with China also set a record. The Commerce Department reported Thursday that the deficit jumped to $66.1 billion in September, 11.4 percent higher than the $59.3 billion imbalance recorded in August. It was a far bigger increase than analysts had been expecting and reflected in part a record $23.8 billion in oil purchases as the price skyrocketed, reflecting widespread shutdowns of production facilities following hurricanes Katrina and Rita. So far this year, the deficit is running at an annual rate of $70 ...
THE DAY OF THE SNIPER: RAMADI, IRAQ
Post Date: 2005-11-07 12:30:46 by swarthyguy
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Please do not misunderstand your editor: his motto is the only good terrorist is a dead terrorist. But there is nonetheless something stomach-churning about the way terrorists are choosing to die in Ramadi. Read the account below, and you'll find yourself asking: are these men on powerful drugs? Are they cretins with IQ 60? What's going on here? Multi National Forces West press release, forwarded by Mike Thompson: "In the first incident, a sniper team observed an insurgent digging a hole along a street that historically contained a high number of improvised explosive devices (IEDs). The sniper team engaged the insurgent with one round and was able to confirm one enemy killed in ...
Anthrax Scare At Owings Mills MD
Post Date: 2005-10-27 18:29:18 by Hmmmmm
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Anthrax Scare At Owings Mills, Baltimore Ravens football practice was delayed nearly two hours today after a player reported finding an unknown white powdery substance on the practice field. Head Coach Brian Billick immediately suspended practice while police and federal investigators were called to investigate. After a complete analysis, FBI forensic experts determined that the white substance unknown to the players was the goal line. Practice was resumed after special agents decided the team was unlikely to encounter the substance again.
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Able Danger warned of attack on USS Cole
Post Date: 2005-10-25 18:15:26 by Zipporah
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NORRISTOWN - Senior Pentagon officials were warned not to let the USS Cole dock in Yemen two days before terrorists attacked the ship five years ago killing 17 sailors, according to Congressman Curt Weldon, who said the crucial intelligence was gleaned from the former secret defense operation, "Able Danger." Weldon, vice chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, revealed the information in a House speech last Wednesday evening that blasted the Defense Intelligence Agency's (DIA) attempts to discredit Army Reserve Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, a DIA employee who worked as a liaison with the "Able Danger" team. In June, Shaffer told The Times Herald during an ...
Looting Breaks Out in Mexico After Wilma
Post Date: 2005-10-23 19:42:11 by Flintlock
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CANCUN, Mexico - Mexicans and stranded tourists, hungry and frustrated after a two-day beating by Hurricane Wilma, stood in line to buy supplies Sunday or simply raided grocery or furniture stores, dragging goods from shops ripped open by the storm. The hurricane's steady march toward southern Florida meant an end here to two days of howling winds and torrential rains that shattered windows, peeled away roofing and sent the ocean crashing into hotel lobbies. The sun emerged over Mexico's sugar-white Caribbean beaches. But another kind of chaos took over, as police shot into the air to scare looters away from a shopping center, and looters responded by throwing rocks and chucks of ...
Terrorists in Mid-America (OU Bombing)
Post Date: 2005-10-19 00:39:12 by OKCSubmariner
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The October 1 suicide bombing outside the University of Oklahoma football stadium may have been the work of a terrorist cell, not simply the act of a disturbed student. Many of the 85,000 football fans at the Oklahoma University-Kansas State game on Saturday, October 1 thought they were hearing thunder. Others thought fireworks or a game cannon had been set off. But some in the packed Oklahoma Memorial Stadium were anxiously thinking "BOMB!" The loud explosive noise that erupted during the game's second quarter "was heard as far as five miles away," according to a report in The Oklahoma Daily, the university's student newspaper. It was indeed a bomb that had ...
A Pair of Yellow Eyes and a .44 (alligator hunters in Louisiana)
Post Date: 2005-10-08 14:43:26 by robin
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A Pair of Yellow Eyes and a .44In the still waters of a Louisiana swamp, alligator hunters face off with a prehistoric quarry. Modern fashion houses are waiting. By Ellen Barry Times Staff Writer October 8, 2005 GROSSE TETE, La. — There is no easy way to get to Smith Lake. The road ends half a mile away, beside a narrow channel dense with waterlilies. When the hunters slide their skiff into the canal, the whole swamp billows beneath them like a curtain at an open window. After that they enter a long corridor. The water is gray-brown, as thick as sauce, and the air has the sweet-foul smell of swamp gas. Around them, everything twitches: The wings of dragonflies tremble, spiders skitter ...
Public Works Digest: Several articles with first hand knowledge of the September 11, 2001 attacks
Post Date: 2005-10-08 00:49:19 by A K A Stone
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In This Issue..In This Issue.... A publication of the Directorate of Military Programs Volume XIII, No. 26 October/NovemApbreirl 2001 Energy Management Special Section: Facing Terrorism 2 Public Works Digest • October/November 2001 3 Letter from the Editor Facing Terrorism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Serving in War by LTG Bob Flowers 5 Corps recovery efforts in New York City and Pentagon 6-7 We stand strong by Bill Crambo 7 …Nothing but fireballs by Don Braswell 8 The entire building shuddered… by Steve Szyszka 9 ...
Angler recovers after freak accident
Post Date: 2005-10-08 00:32:38 by Dakmar
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An angler is recovering after a lead weight was left embedded in his face after a freak fishing accident. Darren Williams, 34, from Wrexham, north Wales, had to undergo a five-hour operation to remove the lump of lead, which shattered his cheek bone after flying into his face through his eye socket. Mr Williams was on a fishing trip with friends at Llyn y Gors lake, near Llandegfan, in Anglesey, when the accident happened on Saturday. Story continues Continue story It is thought his line had snagged, and when he flicked it to release it, the fishing line suddenly broke free and the weight shot out of the water and into his face. A spokesman for Llyn y Gors lake said: “One of our ...
Oklahoma bombing search warrant sealed--Justice Department requests action in case of 'jihad' student's suicide
Post Date: 2005-10-07 14:31:07 by gengis gandhi
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Oklahoma bombing search warrant sealed Justice Department requests action in case of 'jihad' student's suicide Posted: October 7, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Jayna Davis and Jon Dougherty © 2005 http://WorldNetDaily.com The warrant used to execute a search of Oklahoma University bomber Joel "Henry" Hinrichs III's apartment, where an undetermined amount of explosives were found, has been sealed by a federal court at the request of the Justice Department. Hinrichs blew himself up yards from Oklahoma Memorial Stadium Saturday night while tens of thousands of fans watched an OU-Kansas State football game. Bob Troester, first assistance U.S. attorney in Oklahoma City, said ...
Who's in Charge? Karl Rove!
Post Date: 2005-09-15 22:44:52 by justlurking
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All you really need to know about the White House's post-Katrina strategy -- and Bush's carefully choreographed address on national television tonight -- is this little tidbit from the ninth paragraph of Elisabeth Bumiller and Richard W. Stevenson's story in the New York Times this morning: "Republicans said Karl Rove, the White House deputy chief of staff and Mr. Bush's chief political adviser, was in charge of the reconstruction effort." Rove's leadership role suggests quite strikingly that any and all White House decisions and pronouncements regarding the recovery from the storm are being made with their political consequences as the primary consideration. More specifically: ...
Scottish team wins elephant polo match
Post Date: 2005-09-15 22:42:43 by Dakmar
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BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Straddled atop hulking pachyderms and wielding long mallets, the Chivas Regal Scotland team clinched their second King's Cup Elephant Polo title Sunday after scoring a golden goal in overtime to beat Thailand's Mullis Capital, 6-5. Some 1,500 spectators came to watch the fifth annual charity game to raise money for Thailand's National Elephant Institute in Lampang, northern Thailand. The tournament was held near Hua Hin, 80 miles southwest of Bangkok. The game is played on a field 330 feet by 200 feet, roughly one-third the size of a horse polo field. A game has two seven-minute halves - known as chukkas - with a 15-minute interval. Three elephants form a team. ...
Video of Cops Looting a Wal-Mart
Post Date: 2005-09-03 10:17:18 by Flintlock
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Check it out To Serve and Loot
The Voice of the White House 8/29
Post Date: 2005-08-30 15:57:33 by Eoghan
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“I have spoken several times about the strong possibility of a joint US/Israeli attack on Iran. This has not happened but understand that it has been on the drawing board for some time now waiting for events to “clarify” as the President says. Also being planned is a January, 2006, attack on Syria. This is not because Syria threatens the United States (to the contrary, seeing the destruction and slaughter of civilians the US troops are wreaking daily in their neighbor, they want nothing to do with us. The idea is that Kurdish oil from northern Iraq is wanted to ship, via a pipeline across Syria, to a shipping port in Haifa, Israel. At one stroke, Israel will gain access to ...
Hurricane Peels Holes in Superdome Roof
Post Date: 2005-08-29 10:10:39 by tom007
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Hurricane Peels Holes in Superdome Roof By MARY FOSTER, Associated Press Writer 1 minute ago NEW ORLEANS - Hurricane Katrina ripped away part of the roof on the Louisiana Superdome as thousands of storm refugees huddled inside Monday. ADVERTISEMENT Strips of metal were peeled away, creating two holes that were visible from the floor of the huge arena. Water dripped in and people were moved away from about five sections of seats directly below. Others watched as sheets of metal flapped visibly and noisily. From the floor, more than 19 stories below the dome, the openings appeared to be 6 feet long. "The superdome is not in any dangerous situation," Gov. Kathleen Blanco said. ...
NCAA to Crack Down on 'Hostile' Nicknames
Post Date: 2005-08-06 12:49:10 by robin
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Photos Not welcome (Ted S. Warren / AP) Florida State Seminoles Illinois Fighting Illini Louisiana-Monroe Indians NCAA to Crack Down on 'Hostile' Nicknames Many Native American logos and mascots will be banned at postseason college sports events. By Robyn Norwood Times Staff Writer August 6, 2005 The National Collegiate Athletic Assn. will ban the use of 18 Native American nicknames and mascots it considers "hostile or abusive" during its postseason tournaments beginning early next year, the organization announced Friday. The move drew praise from groups that oppose such depictions but stirred controversy with a banned list ...
A woman's guide to spotting bad men
Post Date: 2005-08-02 10:49:51 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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A woman's guide to spotting bad men By CECELIA GOODNOW SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER There are a lot of frogs in dating land -- and a lot of wack jobs, leeches, narcissists and other dangerous guys waiting to suck the life out of you. Counselor Sandra Brown spent 15 years trying to change their dangerous ways, only to burn out and flee to a North Carolina mountaintop. But she has one thing left to give - the sum of her wisdom about intractably pathological men and the women who seem to fall for them time and again. "Women just don't know how to gauge when someone is unfixable," said Brown, who hopes to clue them in with her latest book, "How to Spot a Dangerous Man ...
Monster catfish [photo]
Post Date: 2005-08-01 15:18:46 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Monster catfish Duncan Rooke (left) and Stephen Buss heft a record-breaking catfish in the River Ebro, near Barcelona, Spain. the photo of the giant fish was released Monday. The men caught the monster, which measured 7 feet 7 inches, on July 6. The female fish is the biggest freshwater catch ever made by a British angler and nearly pulled 32-year-old gas engineer Rooke back into the river once he had hold of her. After weighing the fish and burping her to get rid of the air in her stomach she was released.
Police: Coach Told Player to Harm Disabled 8-Year-Old Teammate
Post Date: 2005-07-15 17:39:06 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Police: Coach Told Player to Harm Disabled 8-Year-Old Teammate By Allison Schlesinger Associated Press Writer Published: Jul 15, 2005 PITTSBURGH (AP) - A T-ball coach allegedly paid one of his players $25 to hurt an 8-year-old mentally disabled teammate so he wouldn't have to put the boy in the game, police said Friday. Mark R. Downs Jr., 27, of Dunbar, is accused of offering one of his players the money to hit the boy in the head with a baseball, police said. Witnesses told police Downs didn't want the boy to play in the game because of his disability. Police said the boy was hit in the head and in the groin with a baseball just before a game, and did not play, police said. "The ...
No way: skater soars over Great Wall of China? Way!
Post Date: 2005-07-13 12:48:12 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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No way: skater soars over Great Wall of China? Way! CHINA - Skateboarder Danny Way has rolled his way into history. He's the first person to jump across the Great Wall of China without any motorized aid. According to sponsor Quiksilver, Way rolled down a massive ramp at nearly 50 miles per hour to perform the stunt. He blew the first landing. But he made the next three tries, even adding some 360 degree spins. He says the 61-foot jump had his heart pounding. Way adds that he's honored to have his skateboarding visions embraced by the people of China. He already holds skateboarding's height and distance jump records.
Rest of field racing for second now (Lance Armstrong, Tour De France)
Post Date: 2005-07-13 06:19:30 by Ferret Mike
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COURCHEVEL, FRANCE - Caution: falling hopes. One by one, the riders considered contenders to unseat six-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong cracked on the climb to this ski resort Tuesday, littering the roadway behind him like loose rock. Three riders stayed with Armstrong in the final few miles, and his trademark acceleration in the final half-mile couldn't quite shake bright young Spanish star Alejandro Valverde, who won Stage 10. Few men with the talent or the team support to chase Armstrong remain within realistic striking distance, and the yellow jersey he pulled on again after a two-day break is most likely what he will wear for his curtain call on the ...
Baseball, softball dropped for 2012 Olympics
Post Date: 2005-07-08 16:08:10 by Tauzero
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July 08. 2005 9:19AM Baseball, softball dropped for 2012 Olympics The Associated Press SINGAPORE (AP) - Baseball and softball were tossed out of the Olympics for the 2012 London Games on Friday. The action by the International Olympic Committee marked the first time it had dropped any sports from the Summer Games in 69 years. The committee then rejected the five sports wanting to get in. Each of the 28 existing sports was put to a secret vote by the IOC, and baseball and softball failed to receive a majority required to stay. The other 26 sports made the cut. IOC president Jacques Rogge said baseball and softball, two sports invented in America, would be eligible to win their way back ...
Body of Steelers Fan Viewed in Recliner
Post Date: 2005-07-06 21:09:46 by CAPPSMADNESS
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PITTSBURGH -- James Henry Smith was a zealous Pittsburgh Steelers fan in life, and even death could not keep him from his favorite spot: in a recliner, in front of a TV showing his beloved team in action. Smith, 55, of Pittsburgh, died of prostate cancer Thursday. Because his death wasn't unexpected, his family was able to plan for an unusual viewing Tuesday night. The Samuel E. Coston Funeral Home erected a small stage in a viewing room, and arranged furniture on it much as it was in Smith's home on game day Sundays. Smith's body was on the recliner, his feet crossed and a remote in his hand. He wore black and gold silk pajamas, slippers and a robe. A pack of cigarettes and a beer were ...
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