May 2, 2012 No Comments ›› American Infidel
Excerpted from Sky News: A hang-gliding instructor is accused of swallowing a memory card that may have recorded the lead-up to the moment a woman slipped to her death. Pilot William Jon Orders, 50, was taking 27-year-old Lenami Godinez, from British Columbia, Canada, on her first flight when she became detached from the tandem ride ...
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May 2, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from CNS News: The U.S. goal in Afghanistan "is not to build a country in America’s image, or to eradicate every vestige of the Taliban," President Obama told Americans Tuesday night in a prime-time address from Bagram Air Base in Kabul. Hours later, Taliban fighters -- reportedly disguised in burqas -- attacked a compound ...
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May 2, 2012 No Comments ›› Toro520
Excerpted from the Daily Mail: In a bloody battle between two warring neighbours in Australia today, one man's arm was almost severed with a chain saw, while another had a finger chopped off with a Samurai sword. Surgeons were later trying to save the arm of the chain saw victim, Mark Jorgenson, 29, while his neighbour Troy ...
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May 2, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from Gizmodo: This Treasure Hunter Says He Has Located Bin Laden’s Body That smiling guy is Bill Warren, the Californian treasure hunter who claimed he was searching for Osama Bin Laden's dead body back in June 2011. He didn't find him then, but now he claims he has located the cadaver. Talking to Spanish newspaper ...
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May 1, 2012 No Comments ›› American Infidel
Excerpted from NYT: — Cuba may just be the most feminist country in Latin America. It ranks No. 3 in the world when it comes to the political participation of women in Parliament, according to a United Nations survey on women in politics. And it’s the only nation in Latin America to rank in ...
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May 1, 2012 No Comments ›› American Infidel
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May 1, 2012 No Comments ›› Toro520
Excerpted from AFP: The United States has deployed sophisticated F-22 fighter jets to the United Arab Emirates amid deepening tensions between Iran and its pro-US neighbors, officials said Monday. The US officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, would not say how many F-22s would be sent to the Al-Dhafra air base in the United Arab Emirates. Military ...
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Apr 30, 2012 No Comments ›› American Infidel
Excerpted from PRESS TV: — The Iranian Foreign Ministry condemns burning of the Holy Quran by a US pastor, saying the measure is in line with the failed Western project of spreading Islamophobia. “Without doubt, these lowly measures by the US pastor will result in religious hatred and in the wrath and resentment of the ...
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Apr 30, 2012 No Comments ›› Toro520
Biden opposed Bin Laden raid Obama stalled approval of raid for several weeks All decisions and responsibilities of Bin Laden raid were transferred to military and intelligence officials Military and Intelligence officials planned to overrule Obama - contingency plans to take out Bin Laden already in place.
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Apr 30, 2012 No Comments ›› American Infidel
Excerpted from Daily Mail: Children were among spectators who watched in horror as a pilot died in a fireball when his plane crashed at an airshow. Martino Waller, 49, was flying in formation in a vintage Czech-built Zlin 226 aircraft built in the 1950s when he lost control. The aircraft plunged towards the ground and exploded ...
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Apr 30, 2012 No Comments ›› Toro520
Wall Street Journal: WASHINGTON -- Computer spies have broken into the Pentagon's $300 billion Joint Strike Fighter project -- the Defense Department's costliest weapons program ever -- according to current and former government officials familiar with the attacks. Similar incidents have also breached the Air Force's air-traffic-control system in recent months, these people say. In the case ...
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Apr 29, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The Daily Caller: The Islamic Republic of Iran said Tuesday that it has the ability to position a naval vessel within three miles of the East Coast of the United States. “The power of our naval forces is such that we have a presence in all the waters of the world and, if needed, ...
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Apr 29, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Here's a description that came with one of the versions of the video that was posted to YouTube: Gruesome video footage allegedly showing a Syrian activist being buried alive at gunpoint by soldiers loyal to President Bashar Assad's regime has gone viral on Thursday and is considered to be the most horrific video to have emerged ...
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Apr 27, 2012 No Comments ›› American Infidel
Excerpted from Foreign Policy: In "Distant View of a Minaret," the late and much-neglected Egyptian writer Alifa Rifaat begins her short story with a woman so unmoved by sex with her husband that as he focuses solely on his pleasure, she notices a spider web she must sweep off the ceiling and has time ...
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Apr 27, 2012 No Comments ›› American Infidel
Excerpted from The Daily Mail: Egyptian husbands will soon be legally allowed to have sex with their dead wives for up to six hours after their death, local media is claiming. The controversial new law is claimed to be part of a raft of measures being introduced by the Islamist-dominated parliament. It will also see the minimum ...
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Apr 26, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The Washington Times: Iran is recruiting a hacker army to target the U.S. power grid, water systems and other vital infrastructure for cyberattack in a future confrontation with the United States, security specialists will warn Congress Thursday. “Elements of the IRGC [Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps] have openly sought to pull hackers into the fold” ...
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Apr 25, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Deadspin: Look, I don’t know for a fact that 28-year-old Armands Skele of BC Kalev/Cramo Tallinn grew up idolizing one J.R. Rider, but this insane three-pointer from last night conjures up some “Play of the Decade” memories for those of a certain age. Sports Grid: You have to be a little skeptical when you see terms ...
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Apr 25, 2012 No Comments ›› American Infidel
Excerpted from WND: Despite the recent declaration by Iran that it does not want a nuclear bomb and statements by regime officials that they are willing to negotiate over the nuclear issue, indications from within Iran signal massive preparation for an all-out war as part of its destiny. Nine years ago a Revolutionary ...
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