Police Chiefs Group Bolsters Policy on Suicide Bombers By Sari Horwitz The International Association of Chiefs of Police, which represents the heads of police departments in the United States and across the world, has issued new guidelines saying that officers who confront a suicide bomber should shoot the suspect in the head. The recommendations, the first from a major police organization to deal with the realities of a post-Sept. 11 world, take a more aggressive posture than t...

Secretary Rumsfeld COSCOM Town Hall Meeting in Balad, Iraq Here are a few excerpts from the meeting he had in Balad, Iraq. They are quite enlightening. Sir, my name is Sergeant Major [Pritsing] and I'm with the 1st Team. My question is of all the naysayers out there that think we need to pull out of Iraq, what can we do in the military to convince our public that we are making significant progress in both Iraq and in the global war on terrorism and that we have to remain committed to ...

I was challenged to find something positive the UN has done on another forum site. SO I went to Google and typed in "UN Positive Deeds" and Google in its infinte wisdom first thing asked me "Did you mean: UNPositve Deeds." Try it yourself.. I claim finders rights though.. LOL

I think I made a difference finally in all my letter writing and web blogging. On June 28th I posted this article: Link and also July 19th this one Link which clearly outline the misleading information that people were being fed by my local paper The Gainesville Sun ( Link ) I wrote letters to the Sun and to its parent paper, the New York Times. I also sent e-mails to the AP and its staff. I tried to find out why this misinformation was going on. Then today it happened. I was sitting an...

CAMP JUSTICE, Iraq — Breathing, squeezing the trigger and keeping the enemy in sight are just a few of the technical shooting techniques taught by 1st. Sgt. Amir Jabar Taleb of the 1st Iraqi Army Brigade, 6th Division, to some of the first female Soldiers inducted into the Iraqi Army. For the first time in Iraq’s history, Iraqi leadership at an Iraqi base conducted an allfemale IA basic training course. Over the past two weeks, 27 female recruits have had intensive training to learn the nece...

With the announcement now of possible large troop reduction in Iraq next year I would like to suggest it is time to start looking beyond the Iraq/Afghan war and start by following my list. I have listed what we need to do in order of urgency, but we should do all of them simultaneously. 1. Locate and kill terrorists using any means we have available. To include the Military, special forces and covert assassinations if need be. (we are doing this to some level, but I would like to see th...

OK I hate to say this, but I am going to anyway , This has got to drive the nay-sayers nuts. The fact there was no exit strategy from Iraq has been a huge crying point for the left. Now what are they going to say? This has got to have the Dems throwing up in the bathrooms all over the Capital. LOL. I can see it now: Dem. Senator #1: “What do you mean they said they may start bringing the troops home next year! They can’t do that!” Dem. Senator #2: “That’s what they said! What will we ...

Iraqi soldiers capture foreign fighters BAQUBAH – Iraqi and Coalition soldiers captured a high value individual during a raid July 21 north of Baghdad, according to a multinational forces report. Soldiers with the 4th Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 5th Iraqi Army Division, along with soldiers from Task Force 2-34, conducted a raid on short notice in Khan Bani Saad Thursday. The successful operation resulted in the capture of 11 suspected insurgents, six of whom were foreigners. Five Syrians an...

Now according to some this is propaganda, but hey it's pretty good propaganda if you ask me. Oh and the sources are cited in case some want to check out my sources. Iraqi soldiers capture foreign fighters BAQUBAH – Iraqi and Coalition soldiers captured a high value individual during a raid July 21 north of Baghdad, according to a multinational forces report. Soldiers with the 4th Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 5th Iraqi Army Division, along with soldiers from Task Force 2-34, conducted a ra...

The following was written by Staff Sgt. David Green in the current issue of "Scimitar", July 20th Edition. The Scimitar is a weekly publication of the Multi-National Force - Iraq. I read the following and found it to be both motivational and thought provoking. It goes along with all the discussions we have had in the recent weeks about what we should feel, or do about these attacks. Read this and see what you think: What man is a man that doesn’t make the world better?” This line from Ri...

With al the bombings going on in London and elsewhere, why no media coverage when one fo these animals is captured and the attack is thwarted? BAGHDAD — Iraqi Security Forces and Task Force Baghdad Soldiers wounded and captured a suicide bomber before he could blow himself up near a Coalition checkpoint in central Baghdad. “The actions of the Iraqi Police on the scene prevented an act of terrorism in Baghdad today along with the deaths of innocent Iraqi people,” said Col. Ed Cardon, 4th B...

FORWARD OPERATING BASE RUSTAMIYAH -- Since the July 13 car-bomb attack, which killed more than 30 children and one US Soldier in East Baghdad , many articles have been written about what was happening in the Iraqi hospital where most of the Iraqi children were treated. Iraqi doctors, however, were not the only ones working to save the lives of the young innocent victims of the terrorist attack that day. According to Task Force Baghdad officials, this is what happened at the U.S. medical...

July 23, 2005 – U. S. soldiers captured nine terrorists July 22 after they were seen placing an improvised explosive device, military officials in Baghdad reported today. The soldiers saw two vehicles pull to the side of a road north of Forward Operating Base Kalsu. Nine men armed with AK-47 assault rifles got out and began placing an improvised explosive device. The soldiers engaged the men with small arms fire and captured five wounded terrorists. Four others, one of them wounded, fled an...

Nuclear attack a real, if remote, possibility Just when you thought it was gone.. By ShadowWar Posted Monday, June 14, 2004 on One Americans view....like it or not.. Discussion: Current Events WASHINGTON - As the story goes, Osama bin Laden offered criminals in Chechnya $30 million and two tons of opium in return for 20 Russian nuclear warheads. The chilling account, contained in a 1999 Arab-language news report, may be apocryphal. But what is certain is that for most of the 1990...

WASHINGTON – Nine days after WND broke a story on the presence of al-Qaida nuclear weapons inside the U.S., a Democratic Party national security advisory panel charged President Bush was not doing enough to prevent terrorists from detonating a nuclear bomb in a U.S. city – calling it "the gravest threat facing Americans today." In a report issued yesterday, the group, headed by former Clinton administration Defense Secretary William Perry, said Bush is taking "insufficient actions" to cou...