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After a humiliating defeat in Syria and Iraq, thousands of European jihadis are set to return home. Western governments seem set to roll out the red-carpet for them as if they were heroes rather than turncoats. The UK has launched an integration program, Operation Constrain, for its homecoming jihadis to provide them with assistance in finding a job and living a "normal" life. Such theatrics, however, are not expected to deter determined terrorists, unless the authorities are equally determined with brutal honesty to see what is being said extremist mosques and seminaries and know their sources of funding. When...

Remains of Illinois soldier, missing since 1969, coming home By Len Wells Evansville Courier & Press, Ind. (Tribune News Service) Published: January 9, 2016 ALBION, Ill. The remains of an airman listed as "missing in action" during the Vietnam War have been recovered. Officials with the U.S. Department of Defense confirmed the remains of Pfc. Kenneth Leroy Cunningham of Ellery, Illinois. He had been missing since Oct. 3, 1969. He was 21 at the time. Cunningham's remains will be flown back to the United States later this month, arriving at the airport in Louisville, Kentucky on Jan 19. His remains...

Marcus Grodi’s pun for life could be “Done Roman” because when he was received into the Roman Catholic Church the former Protestant pastor had found his spiritual home and was finally “done roamin’.” Grodi was brought up in a nominally Christian home, trained as a chemical engineer and eventually, after a profound adult conversion experience, trained to be a Presbyterian pastor.However, his experience welcoming new members from other Protestant denominations to his church began to disturb his Presbyterian certainties. Protestant pastor Grodi explained his Presbyterian beliefs from the Bible, but the other Protestant Christians responded by quoting the Scripture...

Ireland’s prime minister has appealed to emigrants who left the country after its economic and financial crash to return home, as the government steps up efforts to woo investors and skilled expatriates and capitalise on the tentative Irish economic recovery.

NEW YORK (AP) — Campaign politics shadowing every word, President Barack Obama on Tuesday will challenge the world to confront the root causes of rage exploding across the Muslim world...

This is absolutely unbelievable. Americans were yet again the victims of terrorist actions in Libya, and it is clear that attacks were coordinated and calculated. But now we learn that another terrorist, the one responsible for the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center is a candidate for possible release by the Obama administration. He is known as the Blind Sheikh, but his real name is Omar Abdel-Rahman. If that name sounds vaguely familiar, it should. Here's the report from The Washington Times: The Obama administration is reportedly in talks with Egypt's government to transfer convicted terrorist Omar Abdel-Rahman back...

It’s the Fourth of July in Washington D.C.. Do you know where your President and First Lady are? That’s right! Enjoying themselves at the traditional picnic for military heroes and their families on the lawn of the Big White. Just one look at their faces and you can tell just how much they’re enjoying it too. ...Meanwhile, over at Bruno’s Homeland Security agency, we’ve finally discovered where to direct our anti-terrorist forces: at you... Americans who are “suspicious of centralized federal authority,” and “reverent of individual liberty” as “extreme right-wing” terrorists...

Wow, this show just gets better. I can hardly stand to watch it anymore, I always cry, I can't stop it. A man is not supposed to cry, but stuff like this just cuts me in half. Thank you Lifetime Channel, you can continue to cut my guts out, I don't mind. I'll watch, and I'll drain my eyes every time I guess.

The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the group remains of six U.S. servicemen, missing from the Vietnam War, are soon to be buried with full military honors. They are Maj. Bernard L. Bucher, of Eureka, Ill.; Maj. John L. McElroy, of Eminence, Ky.; 1st Lt. Stephen C. Moreland, of Los Angeles, Calif.; and Staff Sgt. Frank M. Hepler, of Glenside, Pa., all U.S. Air Force. These men will be buried as a group on Dec. 18 in Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, D.C. Two other servicemen, who were individually identified in October 2007, are also...

The space shuttle Endeavour left the International Space Station (ISS) a day ahead of schedule and has started its journey home to get the jump on what looks to be a diminishing threat from Hurricane Dean. The spaceship, which launched on August 8, is set to land at Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on Tuesday (US time), a day earlier than planned. NASA had ordered the early return on fears Dean could turn toward the Texas coast and Johnson Space Centre, home of Mission Control, in Houston. But forecasters say the storm is instead on a collision course with Mexico....

After 40 years, Marine Cpl. Jim Moshier’s remains are coming home from Vietnam to be buried between his father and the son he never saw. For the past four decades Moshier’s sister George Ann DeMarco and other members of his family have brought flowers to a bench at Hillcrest Cemetery, the only memorial the family had. Moshier’s helicopter crashed in Vietnam on June 11, 1967. When DeMarco learned her brother’s dogtags were found she pushed for a DNA test. Months later, the results were positive, and her hopes were fulfilled — her brother was coming home, in body if not...

Dad arrives in port after a long cruise. How good is this?

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