Archive for May, 2008

MNFI
COP TIMBERWOLF — It’s a trend seen more and more frequently around al-Anbar province; Marines packing up their gear and returning their positions to the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) so they can continue providing protection and security to the Iraqi citizens.
Combat Outpost Timberwolf, near Baghdadi, is one of the latest to continue that [...]

“We got to give them a chance.”
MNF-I:
KUTIMIYAH — As if the last day of school wasn’t enough to put smiles on Kutimiyah children’s faces, they also received a special surprise courtesy of 3rd Infantry Division Soldiers.
Soldiers of 1st Battalion, 9th Field Artillery, delivered school supplies to the children May 24, courtesy of Mrs. Casandra Hanson’s [...]

On track to 4 year low:
The Swamp:
The month of May is on track to be the least deadly month for troops serving in Iraq since February 2004.
As of late Friday, the Pentagon reported that 21 coalition troops–19 Americans and two Georgians–died in Iraq this month. Four of the American deaths were categorized as “non-hostile” incidents [...]

I just don’t know…I just don’t know…

Marine Corps Times:
The producers of a new game show for ABC are looking for military families to be contestants on the pilot episode of the show, which will offer “a huge cash prize.”
Families who want to apply to be contestants must submit their requests by July 3.
Information about the name of the show, how much [...]

VIENNA, Austria (AP) - Growing pressure on Iran to explain what could be secret nuclear weapons work has left Tehran increasingly defensive—and the U.S. and its allies hopeful they can exploit the situation to wrest concessions from Tehran. But it may be too late for that.
Even as it resists a strong push by the International [...]

CAIRO, Egypt — Muslim extremist women are challenging Al Qaeda’s refusal to include — or at least acknowledge — women in its ranks, in an emotional debate that gives rare insight into the gender conflicts lurking beneath one of the strictest strains of Islam.
In response to a female questioner, Al Qaeda No. 2 leader [...]

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The NY Slimes is at it again…
The article is about the stunning recent successes in Iraq, but the NYT editors feel this can’t be quite real, and at best only temporary.
How to make your own barf bag instructions are included with all NYT paper purchases.
Its all the paper is worth anymore..
MOSUL, Iraq — The [...]

Policitcal Correctness is the camel’s nose to so many evils and ills, they can not all accurately be described in just one article…
However, the motive here may not necessarily be acquiescence…hard to say…it is a strategy, no doubt, it’ll be interesting to see how it pans out.

WASHINGTON — Government officials should depict terrorists “as the [...]

Related: Bob Dole Goes Berserk On “Miserable Creature” Scott McClellan
The Swamp:
Karl Rove, the “architect” of President Bush’s elections, comes in for some post-Modernist criticism in Scott McClellan’s hot new book, What Happened. The former press secretary writes of a political genius who pursued political art like a science and pressed the craft of politicking [...]

Naharnet
Beirut, 31 May 08, The German mediator negotiating a prisoner swap between Israel and Hizbullah assumes the two Israeli soldiers seized by the Shiite group in 2006 are no longer alive, the Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot reported.
Gerhard Konrad has told the Israeli government that he believed Hizbullah was not holding any live soldiers, only dead [...]