Many people in the United States have no idea a special day approaches, one that honors many soldiers. One that honors more than 78,000 soldiers. This Friday, September 21st, 2007 is National MIA/POW Memorial Day. A day to honor and remember those that never came home, a day to honor those whose families still ask for answers and closure. There are men still missing in Iraq that have not been found. Four to be exact. Two of those are Pvt. Byron W. Fouty and Spc. Alex R. Jimenez. Captur...
Since you will not see this in the news, I'll post it here. July 13, 2007 - Coalition forces killed two terrorists and detained 19 suspects during combat operations in central and western Iraq today. Forces targeted al Qaeda in Iraq leaders during raids on several buildings in Tarmiyah. During the raids, coalition forces detained six suspects, including an alleged weapons facilitator in Anbar province with close ties to al-Qaeda senior leaders. ...
Asteroid collision course sends UN into frenzy By Alex Zaharov-Reutt Tuesday, 20 February 2007 The possibility that an asteroid will strike the Earth on Sunday, April 13 2036 has reverberated across the globe, with the world’s citizens wondering what anyone is doing about it with the UN at least two years away from version 1 of an anti asteroid plan. Is an asteroid really coming to hit the Earth and cause...
Feb. 19, 2007 - Iraqi and coalition forces captured 61 suspected terrorists, destroyed five improvised explosive devices and seized several weapons caches during operations across Iraq in the past four days. Today, special Iraqi army forces, along with coalition forces, destroyed a car rigged with an explosive device and captured seven suspected terrorists during a raid targeting foreign fighters east of Tikrit. Forces found the car bomb during a search for a suspected terrorist with ti...
By Fred W. Baker III American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Feb. 13, 2007 - Testing for some of the systems slated for the first "spin out" of the Army's Future Combat Systems program has gone well, except for one minor glitch: the soldiers testing them don't want to give the prototypes back. "They won't give me back my stuff," joked Army Maj. Gen. Charles A. Cartwright, program manager for the Future Combat Systems Brigade Combat Team, as he briefed reporters on the progress of th...
OK OK I am tired of hearing about the "illegal", "improper", or otherwise wrongly convicted Border Patrol Agents that were convicted by a jury in a court of law of having violated several laws. I am tired of people that seem to confuse the issue of Border Security and the actions of two Border Patrol Agents. This conviction in no way affects the other Border Patrol Agents. I have heard several people who are advocating the release or pardon or freeing of these agents say that this ...
Always an uplifting read, a hero's story.. If you like this one let me know I have more.. Jan. 12, 2007; Submitted on: 01/12/2007 02:56:20 PM ; Story ID#: 2007112145620 By Gunnery Sgt. Demetrio J. Espinosa , 24th MEU MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (Jan. 12, 2007) -- Acting boldly in the face of adversity is something all Marines are taught. Against an enemy loath to engage Americans directly, few Marines get to test their mettle in combat and fewer s...
Sector Overview: Current Status –Final Effects 3 * GRD-PCO Contribution (does not include impact of other agencies’projects unless stated otherwise) Source: Multiple GRD-PCO Management Reports Infrastructure SectorCurrent Progress Final Effects Electricity 1,420 MW capacity added*Increased power generation to 1.3 million homes*Improved Electricity Distributionto approximately 372K Homes*Hours of Power: 7.5 Iraq, 4.5 Baghdad (last week average)1,...
BAGHDAD, Jan. 29 — The gunmen who battled Iraqi and American forces near Najaf on Sunday were members of a Shiite cult that planned to storm the city during a religious festival and kill the nation’s top Shiite clerics, Iraqi officials said today. American and Iraqi forces battled militants for 15 hours near Najaf. About 200 members of the group, which called itself “Soldiers From Heaven,” died in the fighting, which lasted until about 4 a.m. today. Iraqi officials said that 60 othe...
New lobbying bill to criminalize political bloggers? One of the Democratic priorities for the new Congress was passage of a lobbyist reform bill, but the introduction of S.1 into the Senate has caused a veritable firestorm of controversy. That's because section 220 of the bill introduces disclosure requirements for "paid efforts to stimulate grassroots lobbying." The Traditional Values Coalition calls this section the "most expansive intrusion on First Amendment rights ever proposed in th...
DUBAI - Al Qaeda will continue to target the United States and other Western countries so long as Muslims are under attack, the militant group's second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri said in a video tape aired on Wednesday. "If we are attacked in our land we shall not stop attacking you in your countries, God willing," Zawahri said in the tape aired by Al Jazeera television. "The formula for your safety is: You will not dream of security until we live it as a reality in Palestine and all Muslim c...
Atlanta School Board Abandons Evolution Sticker Fight Tuesday , December 19, 2006 ATLANTA — A suburban Atlanta school board that put stickers in its high school science books that said evolution is "a theory, not a fact" abandoned the legal battle Tuesday after four years. The Cobb County board agreed in federal court never to use a similar sticker or to undermine the teaching of evolution in science classes. In return, the parents who sued over t...
ST. LOUIS, Mo. — A federal appeals court tossed out the 10-year prison sentence of a St. Louis, Mo., woman who rented her 9-year-old daughter out to a pedophile more than 200 times at $20 a session. (Can anyone say SICK, very SICK!) The court said the woman's punishment was too lenient. But until a court decides otherwise, the woman still faces a 10-year prison term. (I agree, maybe capital punshment would not be to much in this case) The woman, whose name is being withheld t...
Well the guy that shot the Polk County Deputy and killed him, and his K9 dog, and shot and wounded another Deputy was found hiding like the snake he was under a tree and brush and when failing to follow the orders of the SWAT team that fond was shot and killed. Good! I won't have to pay for his support in jail, his food, his air conditioning, his attorney or any of the other hunderds of thousands that would be spent on him. He got what was coming to him. Sorry if that sounds a little course, ...
FORT BRAGG, N.C.--On Sep.12, Capt. Bryan Ash, the anti-terrorism force protection officer for the 1st Sustainment Command (Theater) was driving back to Fayetteville, N.C. from Orlando, Fla. to attend a class he was taking in order to complete his master’s degree. Ash had been on vacation with his family at Disney World. While driving on I-95, somewhere south of Savannah, Ga., a life changing event occurred that would personally affect Ash and a complete stranger. “I was driving behind a va...