Apr 26, 2010 6 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Militants from Somalia's al-Qaida-linked insurgent group have moved into the northern region where Somali pirates operate, forcing the gang that is holding a kidnapped British couple to flee, a self-proclaimed pirate chieftain and residents said Monday. Paul and Rachel Chandler were bundled into a car early Monday after militants neared the ...
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April 25: Joseph Sean McVey is seen in this mug shot provided by the Buncombe County Sheriff's Office
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Times Online: A suspected suicide bomber today attacked a convoy carrying the British Ambassador to Yemen. One person was killed but Tim Torlot, the ambassador, escaped unharmed after an explosion was reportedly set off near a convoy taking him to work this morning. The person killed is believed to be the bomber, according to reports. It is understood ...
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ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) -- An armed man spotted at a North Carolina airport parking lot just after Air Force One departed Sunday told an officer he wanted to see the president and had a car equipped with police gear, including a siren and flashing lights, authorities said. Joseph Sean McVey, 23, of Coshocton, Ohio, is charged ...
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Second episode of "Young Americans - The 'Unwinnable' Ramadi Episodes Debuts At Big Hollywood.
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(Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas urged the Obama administration on Saturday to impose a solution to the Middle East conflict that would give his people an independent state. "Mr. President (Barack Obama) and members of the American administration, since you believe in this (an independent Palestinian state), it is your duty to take steps toward ...
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BAGHDAD (AP) — A U.S. military judge on Friday cleared a Navy SEAL of any wrongdoing in the alleged beating of an Iraqi prisoner suspected of masterminding the grisly 2004 killings of four American contractors. The Blackwater contractors' burned bodies were dragged through the streets and two were hanged from a bridge over the Euphrates river ...
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - The message, very often, is sent with bloodshed. A suicide bombing last week on a fortified Kandahar guesthouse shared by Western contracting companies killed four Afghans and injured several Americans. An Afghan engineer was shot dead in March as he helped inspect a school not far from the Pakistan border. An ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Prosecutors say two al-Qaida leaders met with New York terror suspects in Pakistan and ordered them to conduct a suicide bomb attack on city subways. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Knox identified them as senior operative Saleh al-Somali and Rashid Rauf. Both died in strikes in the past year in Pakistan. Knox made the ...
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Politico: Vice President Biden will travel to Brussels and Madrid from May 5 to 8 and will give a "major address" to the European Parliament, the White House announced. "He will meet with leaders and representatives of the European Union institutions to discuss how the United States and the EU can improve cooperation on counter-terrorism and other ...
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Jerusalem Post: WASHINGTON – Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday that Israel would not attack Iran without consulting the United States and that Jerusalem clearly saw sanctions as the next step to deal with Teheran’s nuclear program. “Everyone from the Israeli prime minister straight through to the British prime minister to the president of Russia – everyone ...
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TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — NATO's top official said Friday the 28-nation alliance is on track with its new strategy for winding down the war in Afghanistan next year, despite security setbacks and a continuing shortage of foreign trainers for the fledgling Afghan police and army. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen offered a mostly upbeat assessment ...
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Minnesota Independent: Senate Republicans introduced a constitutional amendment Wednesday that would make Minnesota the first state to require a two-thirds majority vote in the legislature to approve federal laws affecting the state. “Minnesotans enjoy inherent, natural, God-given rights,†the bill states, and “Citizens of Minnesota are sovereign individuals, subject to Minnesota law and immune from any ...
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BAGHDAD (AP) — A U.S. military jury cleared a Navy SEAL Thursday of failing to prevent the beating of an Iraqi prisoner suspected of masterminding a 2004 attack that killed four American security contractors. The contractors' burned bodies were dragged through the streets and two were hanged from a bridge over the Euphrates river in the ...
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Press TV: Iraqi security forces have discovered a factory that specialized in making car bombs and other improvised explosive devices in the western province of Anbar. According to a report published by the Voices of Iraq news agency on Wednesday, the discovery near the district of al-Ratba in western Anbar was made following a tip-off from members ...
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The Washington Times: Iran is increasing its paramilitary Qods force operatives in Venezuela while covertly continuing supplies of weapons and explosives to Taliban and other insurgents in Afghanistan and Iraq, according to the Pentagon's first report to Congress on Tehran's military. The report on Iranian military power provides new details on the group known formally as the ...
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BAGHDAD (AP) - A U.S. sailor testified Wednesday he saw a Navy SEAL punch an Iraqi prisoner suspected of masterminding the killings in 2004 of four U.S. private security contractors, as the court-martial of another member of the elite unit allegedly involved in the incident opened at a military base outside Baghdad. Petty Officer ...
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Wall Street Journal: The Israeli security establishment is divided over whether it needs Washington's blessing if Israel decides to attack Iran, Israeli officials say, as the U.S. campaign for sanctions drags on and Tehran steadily develops greater nuclear capability. Some senior Israeli officials say in interviews with the Wall Street Journal that they see signs Washington may ...
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(CNSNews.com) – Law enforcement officials from the Arizona
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Fox News: The Obama administration's approach to dealing with Iran's growing nuclear program -- as well as its long-range missile development -- is increasingly rankling some lawmakers, as new reports show the rogue regime building its capabilities and the United States potentially unprepared to stop it. The beginning-of-the-year deadline for Iran to start cooperating has blown ...
Continue ReadingApr 19, 2010 13 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Baghdad (AP) - - Vice President Joe Biden called the killing of two top Al Qaeda leaders in Iraq a "potentially devastating" blow to the terrorist network and said the operation signals a significant improvement in Iraq's security and intelligence gathering. The U.S. military confirmed Monday that Al Qaeda in Iraq leaders Abu Ayyub al-Masri ...
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