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UPDATE: Deadly Snake Still Missing In Onslow County Save Email Print Deadly Snakes On The Loose Deadly Snakes Still Missing There has been no progress toward catching the deadly snake that's on the loose in Onslow County. A resident on Mill Farms Road, that's off Piney Green Road, saw a Monocled Cobra under her back deck earlier this week. Officials said they believed the snake was released by a group trying to raise awareness in making it illegal for people to own exotic animals. But the public relations director for the Animal Protection Institute says her organization had nothing to...

Cobra Commander continues his campaign including his plan to kidnap Democratic superdelegates.

Vernon Byrd was on an all-terrain vehicle in a field off Johnson Road last Tuesday when he said an 8-foot-long snake reared up beside him – and the serpent's head was about shoulder high to him. "I caught something out of my eye, and this snake comes up beside me and looked at me," Byrd said. "I've seen every kind of snake in this part of the country, but I've never seen a snake like this." He called Freddie Mims, a licensed wildlife rescue agent, who said the description of the snake sounded like a king cobra, the world's largest...

NAIROBI (AFP) - A new giant species of spitting cobra -- about 2.6 metres long and with enough venom to kill up to 20 people in one bite -- has been discovered in Kenya, a study said Friday. The large brown spitting cobra, initially included under the black-necked spitting cobra species, was discovered at a snake farm in June 2004, but confirmed as a separate species this year. The black-necked species grows to a maximum two metres, with an average of 1.5 metres, scientists said, making the new species the largest in the world. The new Naja Ashei species, named...

Bob Drury and Tom Clavin's "Halsey's Typhoon" is man-against-nature drama at its best. It's an inspiring and thrilling read. It is a true story of heroism and hardship at war. It's also an account of the occasional cowardice, incompetence and cock-ups that occur in every military conflict. It's a story worth knowing and well told, with the pace and riveting immediacy of a good novel. In December of 1944, while supporting Gen. Douglas MacArthur's "I will return" invasion of the Philippine Islands, Adm. William "Bull" Halsey's 170-ship armada suffered a sneak attack from Typhoon Cobra, an unexpected enemy that did...

A one-year-old is forced to fight a neutered cobra during a shocking snake-charming rite of passage in India. The baby tries to protect itslef while being repeatedly hit by the animal, which has also had its mouth stitched up and its fangs removed.

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY: The crowd at Divisoria Plaza here was celebrating a hero but this was no warrior, no peace worker or anticorruption advocate.“Chief” died on February 12, saving two women from a cobra attack. He was a pit bull terrier. Chief saved 87-year-old Liberata la Victoria and her granddaughter Maria Victoria Fronteras, the wife of his master, from a cobra that snaked through an opening in the family’s kitchen shortly after 2 p.m. The snake struck twice at the women. Twice, the dog dashed from a corner and shielded them. Marlone Fronteras, the terrier’s owner, said Chief seized...

TAIPING: Malaysia’s snake king Ali Khan Samsudin, 48, died as he had lived – handling the reptiles that he loved. His eldest son Amjad Khan, 21, said his father had been performing at a show in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday when he was bitten by a King Cobra. Ali Khan, who regularly performs with his beloved snakes for charity and for a living, died at 1am yesterday at Kuala Lumpur Hospital where he had been recuperating. Amjad Khan related that when his father contacted him on Tuesday to tell him he had been bitten, the family had not been too...

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AL ASAD, Iraq (May 5, 2006) -- A distinctive beating is heard overhead as two attack helicopters circle ground forces patrolling the western Al Anbar Province of Iraq. The slim, grasshopper-like powerhouses and barrel-chested gunships belong to the pioneers of close air combat support, the Gunrunners of Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 269, Marine Aircraft Group 16 (Reinforced), 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing. Both the AH-1W Super Cobra and the UH-1N Huey, are organic to the squadron. The aircraft, as a team, are capable of distributing massive amounts of firepower to both ground and air opposing forces. The Gunrunners returned to...

FORWARD OPERATING BASE ISKANDARIYAH, Iraq, April 14, 2006 – Iraqi army soldiers are gradually taking the lead in all operations in Haswah and Iskandariyah, stabilizing the northern Babil province, military officials in Iraq reported. Soldiers from 4th Company, 2nd Battalion, 4th Brigade, 8th Iraqi Army Division, recently conducted Operation Cobra Strike with soldiers from Company B, 2nd Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division. "We are increasingly pushing the Iraqi army to the foreground while we stay in the background," said Capt. Colin Brooks, Company B commander. Cobra Strike was a mission intended to locate the...

TUZ, Iraq (Army News Service, Jan. 10, 2006) – The Iraqi Army assumed responsibility of Forward Operating Base Bernstein in the northern Sallah-Dihn Province Jan. 5, as part of the transfer of security in Iraq from coalition forces to the Iraqi Army. The “Cobra” 3rd Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 4th Iraqi Army Division took control of the base and responsibility for the security of the surrounding region from the “Balls of the Eagle” 2nd Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, 101st Airborne Division during a transfer of authority ceremony. 600 joint missions paved way The transfer took place after many months of...

I'm guessing I'm not alone among auto enthusiasts in having a special place in my heart for Shelby Mustang Cobras. I've driven a few examples over the years, with the most memorable an extremely rare and well preserved 1968 GT-500KR - KR being short for King of the Road. Such a title might seem more appropriate for Bill Ford and Carroll Shelby's latest Mustang, the Shelby Cobra GT500 Concept. Since the automotive businesses favourite octogenarian has been back with the blue oval gang he's been very busy. He oversaw the development of the reinvented Cobra roadster which debuted at last...

Hi... I'm sure there are a lot of outdoorsmen and women on FR... I'm looking to get some of those 2 way radios that are all over the place these days. However its hard to get decent reviews on shopping websites etc... I dont expect any of these radios to have the range they claim, even over open land or water. Beyond that, has anyone used some of these and have opinions on what is good or bad? thanks

ASAD, Iraq, Dec. 23, 2004 -- Instant decisions and decisive action led to two soldiers receiving the Soldiers Medal here Dec. 18 for heroism in a fight to save the lives of four Cobra AH-1 attack helicopter pilots March 29. Army Staff Sgt. Spencer A. Howell, medic, and crew chief Army Spc. Eric S. Burns of the 507th Air Ambulance Company each received the Soldiers Medal on Dec. 18 in recognition of heroics performed on March 29. Photo courtesy of Coalition Press Information Center(Click photo for screen-resolution image); high- resolution image available. Staff Sgt. Spencer A. Howell and crew chief...

Austrian man sees off police with cobras ... and gets bitten Mon Sep 20, 1:32 PM ET Add Offbeat - AFP to My Yahoo! VIENNA (AFP) - An Austrian man chased off policemen who had come to arrest him with two cobras, before being bitten himself by one of his venomous snakes, police in the southern city of Leoben said. The mentally unstable unemployed man of 40, who owned more than 50 venomous snakes, had holed himself up after threatening to kill himself by allowing the serpents to bite him. "When we broke down his door, accompanied by a doctor...

LITTLE ROCK — Little Rock police have essentially closed the case on the mysterious death of a Scotsman who picked up some poisonous snakes at the city airport that were later found abandoned at an intersection. "We're basically done with it," said Little Rock Police Department spokesman Terry Hastings. "This is not a criminal investigation, it was ruled an accidental death and it's handled the same way as someone falling off the roof of a house." Garrick Wales, a 48-year-old Scotsman, was found dead in a rented Chevy Blazer near Little Rock's airport May 13. Days later police found...

A TRANSEXUAL porn actress who had a close friendship with snakebite victim Garrick Wales told yesterday of the "different world" they secretly shared before his death in America. Joanna Jet, who describes herself as a "she-male" with a taste for champagne and sexual depravity, revealed how she enjoyed a "very special friendship" with the father of three - in a world far removed from his family life in Scotland. "I knew a completely different side to Garrick, the different lifestyle, the different likes and dislikes," she said, speaking by telephone yesterday. "How we came to meet was through similar...

AMERICAN police investigating the death of a Scottish businessman thought to have been bitten by a deadly snake said yesterday that an autopsy had found no sign of bite-marks on his body. Computer programmer Garrick Wales, 48, from Kilmacolm, was found dead surrounded by vomit in a hire car near Little Rock airport in Arkansas on 13 May. Four highly poisonous snakes he had earlier ordered from a supplier in Florida were found in a box about half a mile away from his car two days later. But yesterday, police said that earlier theories that he had been bitten...

American detectives have released more information surrounding the bizarre death of a Scotsman found half-a-mile from a box of deadly snakes. Detectives say Garrick Wales ordered the snakes over the internet from a “reptile dealership” in Florida before police found his body in a rented car near a local airport, Detective Eric Knowles, of the Little Rock Police Department, who is investigating the death, said tonight that the snakes were transported from Florida to Little Rock National Airport at Mr Wales’s request. He understood Mr Wales, 48, had also taken delivery of other snakes on previous trips to the...

Investigators have reportedly drawn a connection between a Scotsman found dead last week in east Little Rock and venomous African snakes discovered the next day in a wooden box about half a mile away. Though Little Rock police confirmed the Scotsman and the snakes were connected, they wouldn’t say how they were linked or whether the man died from a snakebite, said Scott Carter, spokesman for the city of Little Rock. Police interviewed Little Rock Zoo officials Thursday morning, asking questions about venomous bites and the four snakes taken to the zoo last week. "They wanted to know what...

Snakes to get home in Texas zoo LITTLE ROCK — Four venomous African snakes brought to the Little Rock Zoo after they were found in a box near a city intersection will be taken to a zoo in Texas later this week. The box was found Friday by a motorist, and zookeepers say they can't keep the snakes because they don't have the room or the antivenin for these particular reptiles. Randal Berry, the zoo's reptile keeper, said he will drive the snakes soon to the Ellen Trout Zoo in Lufkin, Texas. "I'll have them way in the back,...

Today: May 17, 2004 at 11:05:46 PDT Driver Finds Four Poisonous Snakes in Box ASSOCIATED PRESS LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - A curious pickup truck driver spotted a box in the grass marked "Live venomous reptile" east of downtown and stopped to take a look. "When you see something like that, you want to look and see what it is," Paul Mitchell of Little Rock said of his Friday afternoon discovery. "I went over and kicked the box." The electrician looked inside and found a cloth bag slithering into the form of a cobra ready to strike. "I was like,...

US marines pressing an offensive in this Iraqi town west of Baghdad bombed a central mosque and killed up to 40 insurgents holed up inside, a marine officer said. The bombing came after several hours of small arms and rocket-propelled grenades (RPG) fire from insurgents, which left three marines wounded, said Lieutenant Colonel Brennan Byrne. He said there were "as many as 40 rebels" inside the mosque. "We want to kill the people inside," he added. The officer said a Cobra helicopter gunship fired a Hell Fire missile at the mosque and then an aircraft dropped a laser-guided precision bomb....

Thailand's Boonreung Buachan, holder of the Guinness Book of World Records title for spending the most time penned up with snakes, was killed by a cobra that bit him during his daily show, a hospital doctor said on Monday. Boonreung, 34 and dubbed Snake Man, was rushed unconscious to Prai Bung Hospital near his home town, 350 miles northeast of Bangkok, Dr Wipa Praituan told Reuters. "He was brought here with no signs of life. He wasn't breathing and his heart didn't beat," she said. Boonreung was listed by the "Guinness Book of World Records" in 1998 after living with...

Several Marines of the Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 773 prepare an AH-1W Super Cobra helicopter for it’s next mission. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Lana D. Waters Marine Reserve 'Red Dogs' Support Ground Troops By U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Lana D. Waters BAGRAM, Afghanistan, Feb. 27, 2004 - For the last three months, the Reserve Marines of Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 773, Marine Aircraft Group 42, have had a new home in Afghanistan.The “Red Dogs,” who originate from Atlanta and Belle Chasse, La., packed up their bags, six AH-1W Super Cobra helicopters, and three UH-1N helicopters...

When the first jets tore through the sky, the crowds ducked, then cheered. Thousands of Liberians had gathered as Nigerian peacekeepers were deployed in rebel-controlled Monrovia under the cover of American air power last week. And neither the armed soldiers nor the low-flying Cobra helicopters would drive them away.   US marines arrive in Liberia "Usually, when we fly attack helicopters, people move," said Staff Sgt Jacob Reiff, 28, a recent veteran of the Iraq conflict and one of the handful of American marines to join the Nigerians as they crossed the front line. "In Iraq, they understood it meant...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two U.S. Marine pilots were killed when their AH-1W Super Cobra attack helicopter crashed in central Iraq early on Saturday morning, Central Command said. "Preliminary indications are that the crash was not a result of hostile fire. The cause of the crash is under investigation," the statement said. Names of those killed were being withheld pending next-of-kin notification.

Herald Correspondent Lindsay Murdoch, travelling with a Marines artillery unit, reports on one of the war's first battles on the Iraq-Kuwait border. There was little initial resistance as the United States Marines swept into southern Iraq early yesterday. One of the first encounters of the ground war was more like a massacre than a fight. The Iraqi gunners fired first, soon after United States President George Bush announced the attack on Saddam Hussein was under way. It was a fatal mistake. The Iraqi artillery unit, preparing for the American invasion, had tested the range by firing registering shots at a...

Laid off from his job at a computer software company in Philadelphia, Andy Szamody wondered where he would find health coverage. His firm told him it would offer a temporary policy that would cost $212 a month. But "when you're not making any money, that seems like a lot of money," Szamody said. The local unemployment office informed him of other options, but jobless benefits disqualified Szamody for the cheapest, a basic plan that covered doctor visits but not prescriptions for $30 a month. In the end, he opted simply to do without. "I find the whole insurance thing totally...

<p>Some Marine Corps aviators are saying the best performing choppers in Operation Anaconda were Marine Cobras, not the Army's front-line AH-64 Apaches.</p> <p>"I know they got a lot of press, but two days after we arrived, an AH-64 did not fly in that objective area again, and it became our show," said one Marine aviator. "We got credit for a lot of targets found and destroyed. We were able to find something new to shoot at every single time we went there and could still be killing targets if we had not come back to the boat."</p>

PHUKET TOWN: The managing director of Phuket Town’s famed Super Cheap emporium admitted to being furious about what he believed to be a venomous whispering campaign, probably inspired by business rivals. The story going the rounds on March 18 and 19 was that a 40-year-old woman shopping at Super Cheap went to take onions from a display in the vegetables section. As she dug around for good ones, she felt a sharp pain on the back of her hand. Thinking she had been bitten by a particularly nasty ant, the shopper went to buy some mentholated balm to alleviate the...

The Cobra Strategy-or Why W. is better on Domestic Policy than we ThinkStipulations1He doesn’t sign CFR. His failure to oppose it to this point is unfathomable. Signing it would be unforgivable. 2. He’s not as conservative as many here would like. We should not expect him to be. He did not campaign as a strict conservative. Compassionate Conservatism implies a more active role for government in solving social problems than most conservatives want. We entered that into our political calculus is choosing him over say Steve Forbes. Don’t bitch. As president Bush sees it as his role to represent all...