Weapons were found on an Iranian cargo plane forced to land in southeast Turkey on Saturday, Turkish media reported Tuesday. According to reports, the arms plane left Tehran with military ammunition for Syria. Several crates containing weapons and ammunition were removed from the aircraft. Turkish media reported that the plane was forced to land in [...]
Border Patrol agents recently arrested 13 illegal immigrants disguised as U.S. Marines and riding in a fake military van, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Tuesday. The illegal immigrants were clad in Marine uniforms when they were apprehended at the Campo Border Patrol Westbound I-8 checkpoint at 11 p.m. on March 14 near Pine Valley, [...]
The good news is that no one died from the first allied mishap over Libya. The crew of an F-15 Strike Eagle ejected over northeast Libya after their jet experienced an “equipment malfunction” late Monday night. Ken Fidler, a spokesman for the U.S. Africa Command, tells Danger Room that recovering the pilots “continues to be [...]
WASHINGTON — Sen. Claire McCaskill said Monday that she owes nearly $300,000 for four years’ worth of back taxes on a private airplane that has become a political headache. McCaskill said she’d pay the bill immediately and has told her husband to “sell the damn plane.” “I will never set foot on the plane again,” [...]
Cairo/Washington: The US and UK have launched Tomahawk missiles on Libyan defence targets in Tripoli and along the Mediterranean coast, shortly after French warplanes flew over Benghazi to enforce the no-fly zone in the strife-torn African nation. More than 110 Tomahawk missiles, fired from American and British ships and submarines, hit about 20 Libyan air [...]
RawStory.com The US House of Representatives on Thursday rejected a resolution calling for the withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan, a war that is facing growing public opposition. The proposal was defeated by a vote of 321-93, but it showed increased opposition compared with March 2010 when a similar bill was defeated by 356-65. The [...]
A minuscule amount of radiation from the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor in Japan was detected in Sacramento but at such a low level that it posed no threat to human health, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Friday afternoon. One station in Sacramento detected “minuscule quantities” of a radioactive isotope, xenon-133, that scientists said [...]
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says the federal budget deficit would be $2.3 trillion — yes, trillion — higher than the Obama administration predicted for the plan the White House submitted to Congress last month. The difference, the CBO says in a report released Friday, stems from vastly different projections about the effect of current [...]
I suppose the 11 yr old girl should have been dressed in a Burka so she was properly modest… It is never acceptable to blame the victim. But what this woman is saying is it ok to rape an 11yr old for how she is dress but not a 20 yr old. This little girl [...]
BRITISH, FRENCH and US military aircraft are preparing to protect the Libyan rebel stronghold of Benghazi after the UN Security Council last night voted to establish a no-fly zone over Libya and “all necessary measures” to protect its citizens from harm at the hands of Col Muammar Gadafy’s forces. Ten of the council’s 15 member [...]
TOKYO (AP) – Japan declared states of emergency for five nuclear reactors at two power plants after the units lost cooling ability in the aftermath of Friday’s powerful earthquake. Thousands of residents were evacuated as workers struggled to get the reactors under control to prevent meltdowns. A single reactor in northeastern Japan had been the [...]
Politico: Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska has come out in opposition to the House’s attempts to defund Planned Parenthood, making her the first Republican senator to do so. “I believe Planned Parenthood provides vital services to those in need and disagree with their funding cuts in the bill,” Murkowski wrote in a letter to Senate [...]
Mediaite: Yesterday, an analysis was done on the NPR sting video from James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas group. By comparing the unedited footage with the version widely circulated, the analysis concluded that that Project Veritas’ editing of the tapes was “questionable” and “deceptive” enough to be “unethical” by journalism standpoints. This really shouldn’t be surprising to [...]
