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A big day in Iraq. Who cares? I suppose this is what every American died for.
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Anderson and Frankenstein the boy toy.
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The Release of al Zarqawi.
France seizes military arsenal in Zarqawi-tied probe
15 Dec 2005 18:56:49 GMT
Source: Reuters
(Adds details, background)
By Thierry Leveque
PARIS, Dec 15 (Reuters) - French police have seized large quantities of military weapons and explosives as part of a probe into an Islamic militant group said to have indirect links to al Qaeda's leader in Iraq, officials said on Thursday.
Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy told reporters the arsenal was discovered on Wednesday in a lock-up attached to a block of flats in the Clichy-sous-Bois suburb north of Paris.
Judicial sources said the haul included assault rifles, dynamite and TNT.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L15145920.htm
Tribal leader denounces Zarqawi
A senior member of the Jordanian tribe of Iraq's most wanted man says his family has severed all ties with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
The leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq angered his clan by ordering last month's triple bombing in the Jordanian capital.
Musa Khalayleh is a Jordanian MP and the second cousin of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq.
In an exclusive interview with the ABC, Mr Khalayleh says his family and his tribe have disowned Zarqawi after he masterminded last month's Amman bombings in which more than 60 people died.
He says the family has publicly proclaimed its loyalty to Jordan's ruling monarchy and to King Abdullah II.
While denouncing Zarqawi's murder of civilians, Mr Khalayleh says the insurgent leader has every right to resist the US occupation force in Iraq.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200512/s1531308.htm
I thought there might be an influence in those riots. I am sure the French believed the same and here it is. The French handled it all well.
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The Iraqis live euphemistically in the future. It isn't as though they are going to vote in an established country of freedom. They are voting under seige with a great deal of corruption in their country including the Bush/Cheney presence.
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Christiana Amanpour
About the vote. Fine.
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Nic Robertson. It's good to see you are still alive, Nic. Zarqawi. Hm.
As an Islamist militant, Zarqawi is violently opposed to the presence of U.S., Israeli and Western military forces in the Islamic world. In September 2005, he reportedly declared "all-out war" on Shia Muslims in Iraq [1], and has already sent numerous Al Qaeda in Iraq suicide bombers to target areas with large concentrations of Shia civilians.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Musab_al-Zarqawi
It wouldn't hurt if we lost your lousy program.
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Iraq Forces Captured Zarqawi A Year Ago - Released Him?
Posted on Thursday, December 15 @ 16:34:48 PST by Intellpuke (49 reads) -->Iraqi security forces caught the most wanted man in the country last year, but released him because they didn't know who he was, the Iraqi deputy minister of interior said Thursday. Hussain Kamal confirmed that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi - the al-Qaeda in Iraq leader who has a $25 million bounty on his head - was in custody at some point last year, but he wouldn't provide further details.
A U.S. official couldn't confirm the report, but said he wouldn't dismiss it.
"It is plausible," he said.
Thursday's news tops a list of reports of missed opportunities to capture the 39-year-old terrorist mastermind. An official said the military receives frequent reports of al-Zarqawi sightings, all of which are investigated.
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Tom Foreman - Katrina repairs. It's too late for next year !
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Col. Stephan Davis is sorry for the civilians deaths.
100,000 Iraqi civilians dead, says study
Sarah Boseley, health editor
Friday October 29, 2004
The Guardian
About 100,000 Iraqi civilians - half of them women and children - have died in Iraq since the invasion, mostly as a result of airstrikes by coalition forces, according to the first reliable study of the death toll from Iraqi and US public health experts.
The study, which was carried out in 33 randomly-chosen neighbourhoods of Iraq representative of the entire population, shows that violence is now the leading cause of death in Iraq. Before the invasion, most people died of heart attacks, stroke and chronic illness. The risk of a violent death is now 58 times higher than it was before the invasion….
… They found an increase in infant mortality from 29 to 57 deaths per 1,000 live births, which is consistent with the pattern in wars, where women are unable or unwilling to get to hospital to deliver babies, they say. The other increase was in violent death, which was reported in 15 of the 33 clusters studied and which was mostly attributed to airstrikes…
… "The remaining 58 killings (all attributed to US forces by interviewees) were caused by helicopter gunships, rockets or other forms of aerial weaponry," they write.
The biggest death toll recorded by the researchers was in Falluja, which registered two-thirds of the violent deaths they found. "In Falluja, 23 households of 52 visited were either temporarily or permanently abandoned. Neighbours interviewed described widespread death in most of the abandoned houses but could not give adequate details for inclusion in the survey," they write.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1338749,00.html
Explosion in house kills 28 in Baghdad
Mystery over blast that left 10 investigating police officers dead
Michael Howard in Sulaimaniya
Thursday December 30, 2004
The Guardian
At least 28 people - including 10 policemen - died in Baghdad yesterday in a huge explosion at a suspected militant safe-house that may have been booby-trapped.
The blast was one of the largest to hit the capital since the US bombing raids during the war to remove Saddam Hussein. US army experts estimated that 1,700lb to 1,800lb of explosives had been detonated.
Residents accounted for the majority of the fatalities and US soldiers and Iraqi troops worked through the night to pull potential survivors from the rubble.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1380792,00.html
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Blah, Blah, Blah.
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Alien Abduction. Blah, blah, blah…..
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The third brigade.
Corporal Jimmy L. Shelton, 21, of Lehigh Acres, Fla., on Dec. 3 in Bayji from a mortar attack. Army's First Squadron, 33d Cavalry Regiment, Third Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, Fort Campbell, Ky.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/12/14/american_deaths/
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Barbara Starr in Mississippi with General Honore.
Mississippi Soldiers Return Home From Iraq
POSTED: 7:53 am CST December 14, 2005
UPDATED: 8:24 am CST December 14, 2005
GULPORT, Miss. -- More than 300 soldiers from the 155th Brigade Combat Team will be home for Christmas.
The soldiers, who were in Iraq for almost a year, will spend the next few days at Camp Shelby before they return home. Some of them arrived Monday in Gulfport.
The troops are expected to return for training at their respective guard armories next spring.
Their homecoming is bittersweet because 14 members of the unit were killed in Iraq.
http://www.thejacksonchannel.com/news/5532842/detail.html
Minnesotans prepare for war
by Mark Zdechlik, Minnesota Public Radio
December 5, 2005
Cody Messner says he's looking forward to going to Iraq, serving his time and coming home. He says he's focused on the mission ahead but acknowledges the sobering reality that he'll soon be in a war zone where the targets shoot back. (MPR Photo/Mark Zdechlik)
The Minnesota Army National Guard's First Brigade Combat Team is preparing for deployment to Iraq. Of the brigade's 4,000 soldiers, 2,600 are from Minnesota. The men and women are expected to ship out to Iraq this spring. They're going through training in southern Mississippi at Camp Shelby.
Hattiesburg, Miss. — Had Cody Messner, 20, not been called up for duty in Iraq, he would be at home in the southern Minnesota town of Winthrop roofing and remodeling houses and doing other construction work.
Pasted from <http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2005/11/28_zdechlikm_guard/>
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Anderson and his boy toy, Frankenstein, the silent partner that can't take the show away from Andy.
Heeerrrreeeee's Hollywood Andy.
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Anderson and news items.
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Nic Robertson in Ramadi. Fine.
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At some point in time is there something other than 'juice' for the old stomping grounds of Tookie Williams? Between the tragets of the Inner City and Scientology I am sure the aliens are bring Santa Clause from the North.
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A segment on ONE of the many dynamics of Global Warming. If one is too look around the entire Earth you would find every possible 'unique' climate event that happens on 'occassional' basis. The issue is that with Global Warming they are all happening at once. The problem CNN is capable of is reiterating the information of the Atlantic Basin by the USA government because that is all the USA government is capable of being interested in.
I want to hear CNN explain the South Atlantic and South Pacific Oscillation. That can currently be understood with the Australian government.
Why not explain ALL the climate phenomina on Earth, CNN? Because you can't or you won't? Because if you did and then connected the dots you'd have a unique set of circumstances of climate change compliments of Global Warming. Jerks ! Better than that 'Chicken !' I love it when men only know what it is to have an ECONOMIC YELLOW STREAK UP THEIR BACKS !!
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We are getting lessons in STDs. Great.
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Anderson and some more stuff.
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John King
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I am so tired of this program. It's a nothing program. I haven't learned a thing.
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The No baby couple. CNN called them selfish. I don't think so.
The Baptist minister seems to think being a responsible person who does not want children in their family is actually not aspiring to grow up. According to the minister adults are supposed to replicate.
I always thought postponing the decision to bring children into a family was responsible. There is nothing wrong with being childless.
This minister is trying to intimidate people into having children. Hey, if the kids turned out like you it would definitely have been a mistake there, preacher.
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No babies on the commercials?
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IEDs and the Buffalo. The sporken arm that finds explosive devices if they don't explode when they are lifted by the "Sporken Arm."
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Michael Ware and his close encounter with insurgents.
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The baby saved from a fire.
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That's it ! Wasn't into it tonight. Of course, one has to have the material to begin with. Anderson should know that by now.
