BERKELEY – Astronomy buffs who jumped at the chance to use their home computers in the SETI@home search for intelligent life in the universe will soon be able to join an Internet-based search for dust grains originating from stars hundreds of thousands of light years away. In a new project called Stardust@home, University of California, Berkeley, researchers will invite Internet users to help them search for a few dozen submicroscopic grains of interstellar dust captured by NASA's Stardust...
The Army will continue to improve body armor issued to soldiers, and will begin manufacturing side panel inserts to the Interceptor ballistic armor, officials said. The side panels, which weigh 3 pounds, will be made of the same material as the small-arms protective inserts. Army Col. Thomas Spoehr is in charge of fielding body armor. He said the Interceptor body armor now issued to servicemembers protects against most of the threats they face in Iraq and Afghanistan...
BAGHDAD — On the eve of Parliamentary elections, a fortuitous birth took place at the 10th Combat Support Hospital here. On the outskirts of Habbaniyah, 50 miles west of Baghdad near Fallujah, an expectant 38-year-old mother knew she needed help. Her water had just broken and election curfew restrictions were near, forcing her to make a tough decision. She knew her midwife could only provide limited care and that if she and her baby were to survive, she would need a miracle. “Di...
Jan. 20, 2006 Iraqi Sunnis who may have partnered with foreign terrorist groups in the past will abandon that practice because it's against their interests, the U.S. officer in charge of operations in northern Iraq predicted today. "I think we'll probably see fewer and fewer Sunni organizations aligned with terrorists and foreign fighters," Army Maj. Gen. Thomas R. Turner II, the commander of Multinational Division North, said to Pentagon reporters during a news conference via satellite...
Baghdad , Iraq , Despite insurgent activity, Iraqi workers completed repairs to two water treatment plants in south Baghdad after nearly four months of work. Due to their skill and bravery, an estimated one million Baghdad residents will benefit from the renovations that continued regardless of insurgent attacks. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Gulf Region Central (GRC) provided oversight for the restoration project. Local workers cleaned the large, 34-meter sedimentation basins...
NOTE** I have edited the original post to reflect the new information found here in this post. I finally found an unedited version of the full text at : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4628932.stm And may I say there is a lot more to this than was reported in most of the press. Here is the full transcript, very interesting: My message to you is about the war in Iraq and Afghanistan and the way to end it. I had not intended to speak to you about this issue, because, fo...
Jan. 18, 2006 – The American people must remind themselves every day that the United States is at war , a top Army general said today. Army Lt. Gen. Ray Odierno, speaking at the American Enterprise Institute here, said that 21st century warfare is more about "will and perception, than taking territory or enemies killed." The will of the American people and people around the world to confront the terrorists and defeat them is the center of gravity in what Pentagon officials a...
U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Neil Morrison, explosive ordnance disposal technician with the 710th Ordnance Company, packs a 1,000-pound bomb with plastic explosives, Dec. 16, 2005. Nearly 20,000 tons of munitions were destroyed in Area Echo, north of Baghdad, Iraq. The ammunition dump housed tons of ordnance stockpiled by former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's military. Racks of 1,000-pound bombs were housed in the Taji Ammunition Dump, known as Area Echo, north of Baghdad, Ira...
Today’s news from Iraq - Jan 14 th , a young girl phoned in a tip about a possible roadside bomb to coalition forces , after she saw a white bag in a hole on a road in southeast Baghdad . When coalition forces investigated, they found a man hiding in the grass by the road, four masked men in a car, a man carrying an AK-47 assault rifle and two suspected triggermen in the prone position. Coalition forces prevented the terrorism suspects from carrying out an attac...
RAMADI, Iraq - Once Marine Gunnery Sgt. Michael Burghardt realized he could wiggle his toes and fingers, he had one message for the insurgents who wounded him - defiance. Burghardt, of Huntington Beach , Calif. , started his third tour in Iraq trying to beat the insurgents to the IEDs - improvised explosive devices - and disarm them before the insurgents could set them off. As is often the case, Burghardt and his Explosive Ordnance Disposal team were accompanied to ...
I did not write this it was written by: By Maj. Mark Rasnake, US Army. I met a hero last night. I did not realize it at the time, but he is the closest thing to a hero that I likely will ever meet. This is a place (Iraq) where the word “hero” is tossed around day in and day out, so much so that you sometimes lose sight of its true meaning. His story reminded me of it. He was commanding a Bradley fighting vehicle that was struck with a roadside bomb, and then caught fire. The loading ram...
FRANKFURT (AFP) - The retrial of a German self-confessed cannibal has begun with prosecutors seeking a murder conviction for the man who killed and ate an apparently willing victim he met on an extreme fetishism website. In a lurid case that has shocked the country, Armin Meiwes was back in the dock after a federal judge dismissed a January 2004 verdict of manslaughter and an eight-and-a-half-year prison sentence as too lenient. The regional court in Frankfurt must now determine whether...
While looking for some good videos of Iraq I ran into these that were done by different U.S. Units and individual Soldiers. They vary in length and vary in content, take a minute and see it through the eyes of the men and women themselves. You may learn something. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2429702440603469880&q=iraq (I really liked this one, well done) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5858432572912318014&q=iraq (Good stuff from CNN raw footage) http://video.goog...
My take on how the news should be reported: In today’s news from Iraq (01/12/06), U.S. Forces along with the Iraq Defense Forces had a very successful yet varied day. Coalition forces made a grisly discovery at a local sewage plant in Rustimiyah. They discovered seven bodies that showed signs they had been tortured before being killed. The cause of death was not released or the method of torture. The bodies were recovered and turned over to the local Iraqi Police for investigation. ...
Why is it we hear of every single IED or bomb or shooting that kills a US or Iraqi Military or police officer, yet when these scum kill themsleves, or are killed there is not one peep from the main stream media?? I think it would be a great evening news piece and boost the Nations morale to hear this report: "Tonight on the Nightly news, from Samarra Iraq, today two terrorist were killed when they blew themselves up trying to plant a bomb aimed at killing or injuring our troops. Needless ...