By Sgt. Armando Monroig 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment BALAD RUZ, Iraq -- The U.S. Army concluded a massive, nine-day assault Jan. 13, centered on a series of small villages in the Diyala province that for the past 18 months had been used as a safe haven for insurgents. During the operation, Soldiers from the 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment Reconnaissance, 82nd Airborne Division, killed more than 100 insurgents and detained 54 suspected of involvement with terrorism activities ...
I would like to refresh the writers of the TV series 24 with this post of mine from back when: Nuclear attack on US WILL happen.. Its just a matter of when... By ShadowWar Posted Thursday, July 08, 2004 on One Americans view....like it or not.. Discussion: Current Events Lets suppose a nation is developing nuclear weapons and material. Lets suppose a nation refuses to let UN (useless nations) inspect their program. Lets suppose that nation i...
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...
School children line the street to honor a young Marinegoing to his final resting place.. I received this e-mail today. I felt humbled and proud. It was extra special as today is my birthday. What a nice birthday present from a friend. The e-mail speaks of a young Marine who gave the ultimate sacrifice for us. And of the love and respect given him by others, especially the Sheriff of Leon County Florida, Sheriff Campbell. It was an honorable and special thing he did. As a 26+ year ve...
If the Dems win the next election does it make them a liar? By that I mean since they have been whining that the last two elections were frauds, and stolen from them by the Republicans, does that mean that if the Repubs lose this one then the Dems have been wrong all this time and all that whining about the elections was a bunch of crap? I mean if they can steal the election twice why not this next time, I mean if you’re going to commit fraud and steal an election why not do it three or four...
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, ...
What the Terrorists Forgot A couple weeks ago we were all thinking about where we were on September 11th. Personally, I was inbound to Reagan National Airport in Washington D.C. on an early flight. The flight would be diverted and it would be 6 hours before I would be able to get in touch with my family. It would take me almost another 24 hours to get home from the airport I was diverted to. In the years following the attack on the two Towers and the Pentagon, there's been many theori...
Untold Good News From Iraq - Prior to Saddam Hussein’s oppressive regime, Iraq was the second richest country in the Persian Gulf region. However, after 30 years of willful neglect and treasury-draining regional wars, Iraq’s once modern infrastructure lay in ruin. For the past three years solid progress has been made to rebuild Iraq’s critical infrastructure. All of Iraq’s industrial sectors—oil, water, electrical power, education, agriculture, buildings and facilities, and security—have...
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...
09/29/06 BAGHDAD - Multi-National Division - Baghdad Soldiers killed four terrorists, detained seven and confiscated six AK-47 assault rifles Wednesday after responding to a small-arms fire attack at a sewage treatment plant in Doura. The Soldiers arrived at the treatment plant and observed Iraqi National Police exchanging small-arms fire with terrorists located in a nearby palm grove. The policemen and MND-B Soldiers cordoned off the palm grove and cleared the area, killing four terro...
OK, I have a real problem here. I have been hearing since yesterday that a report from the Intelligence agencies say the War in Iraq has made terrorism worse instead of better. This was picked up of course by the anti-war groups and Left and hailed as proof positive that the Bush Administration has made yet another mistake. I have one question to ask though. If this is a classified report, that means secret. Who is crying about the leaking of the classified document? Who leaked it ...