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Pakistan launches anti-Taliban crackdown near Peshawar Jun 28, 2008 By Ibrahim Shinwari LANDIKOTAL, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani security forces launched an offensive against Taliban fighters near the northwestern city of Peshawar on Saturday, prompting a militant commander to suspend peace talks and threaten retaliation. The crackdown in the Khyber tribal region followed a series of sorties by Taliban fighters into Peshawar to push people to observe their puritanical interpretation of Islamic law. "There has not been any resistance from any group or miscreants," according to a government statement in Peshawar. Major-General Alam Khattack, who is leading the offensive, said it...

WASHINGTON, May 22, 2008 – Coalition and Iraqi forces killed 13 enemy fighters, detained 79 suspects, and uncovered makeshift bombs and other weapons in recent operations in Iraq, military officials said. In Iraq yesterday: -- Multinational Division Baghdad soldiers killed 11 enemy fighters in an ongoing operation in the New Baghdad security district of the Iraqi capital. Military officials said troops killed the combatants either to defend themselves from immediate danger or to prevent the enemy from planting homemade bombs in the area. -- Coalition forces caught two individuals fleeing a mud hut near Beiji that was doubling as a...

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"If I get hold of the pope, I will hang him," Hafiz Hussain Ahmed, a senior MMA leader, told protesters in Islamabad, who carried placards reading "Terrorist, extremist Pope be hanged!" and "Down with Muslims’ enemies!" —AP News, Sept 22, 2006 “The violent reactions in many parts of the Islamic world justified one of Pope Benedict’s main fears . . . They show the link for many Islamists between religion and violence, their refusal to respond to criticism with rational arguments, but only with demonstrations, threats, and actual violence.” —Cardinal George Pell, Archbishop of Sydney; www.timesonline.co.uk, September 19, 2006 TODAY’S...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi security forces detained two suspected death squad leaders, one of them accused of torturing victims at a Shi'ite mosque, in a raid in southern Baghdad on Sunday, the U.S. military said. The two men "exercise control over all death squad cell activity" in three Baghdad neighborhoods, including the notoriously violent Doura district, the military said. "One of these individuals also allegedly controls a Baghdad husseiniya (Shi'ite mosque) where he tortures and kills Iraqi citizens," their statement said. Iraqi troops supported by U.S. advisers captured the men during a raid on a house in the southern Rasheed...

ALARM - a lawyer of Saddam Hussein killed BAGHDAD - One of lawyers of Iraqi president deposed Saddam Hussein, Khamis Al-Obeidi, was killed by "terrorists", announced Wednesday public television Iraqia.

BAGHDAD, Oct. 20 -- Two hours after the explosion, the fifth grade classroom was silent and deserted, the air still lightly tinged with smoke. Abandoned grammar books lay open to Thursday's lesson, which was also printed on the blackboard. At least one student was killed and four were wounded in the attack at the Tigris Mixed Primary School in the well-to-do Mansour neighborhood. In Baghdad, where even far larger death tolls can generate little notice these days, the bombing was a grim and unexplained twist of fate. "They are supposed to be safe here," said Ziad Nasseri, who was shopping...

Why Rove must kill the Internet By Wesley Pruden Published August 9, 2005 Conspiracy theories are the hors d'oeuvres for small minds. You could ask Howard Dean, the Rev. Jesse Jackson or even Oliver Stone (if you knew his e-mail address). The usual cause of evil in the world, as Dean Rusk famously explained to John F. Kennedy, is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.     Nevertheless, sometimes. ...     Why, for example, are we seeing a spike in the number of new studies purporting to show that nobody much reads Internet Web logs --...

Who's the villain in the Terri Schiavo case? (49%) Her husband (24%) The government (14%) Her parents (12%) The media

Passing Buck on Schiavo Cheats Public By JOYCE PURNICK Published: March 24, 2005 THE House of Representatives acted quickly over the weekend in the wrenching case of Terri Schiavo, so quickly that maybe those who opposed the special bill allowing the federal courts to take over the case might have missed the Senate's role - conspicuous for its silence. The debate was confined to the House, for nearly four hours late Sunday night and early Monday. In the Senate, home of Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein of California, and, of course, Hillary Rodham Clinton and...

Rumsfeld Speaks on Link Between Iraq, al Qaeda By Kathleen T. RhemAmerican Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Oct. 5, 2004 – The United States' understanding of the relationship between Saddam Hussein's Iraq and the al Qaeda terrorist network has changed over time, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Oct. 4. But, he added, U.S. officials have repeatedly said such ties did exist. "I have seen the answer to that question migrate in the intelligence community over the period of a year in the most amazing way," Rumsfeld said during a question-and-answer session following a speech in New York before the Council...

I know if I were there I would be picking teeth out of my knuckles. Way to go Kerry Democrats. You are really making Kerry look good..NOT!

A newly formed group encouraging political action on behalf of “Godless Americans” has announced that it is endorsing the Sen. John Kerry for president and Sen. John Edwards for vice president in the 2004 national elections.

NEWS RELEASEHEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND7115 South Boundary BoulevardMacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894 April 26, 2004Release Number: 04-04-22 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ANTI-COALITION FORCES ATTACK IRAQI CIVILIANS MOSUL, Iraq - Anti-Coalition forces conducted a series of attacks in Mosul against civilian targets killing and injuring Iraqi civilians and Iraqi Police April 25. At 9:25 a.m., a rocket-propelled grenade was fired at an Iraqi Police station in northern Mosul. There were no reported injuries in this attack. At 9:30 a.m., Iraqi Police reported the Shiddiq Rashan mosque in northeast Mosul, was attacked by mortars or...

<p>BASRA, Iraq (AP) -- A series of car bombs ripped through police stations and an academy during rush hour Wednesday morning, killing at least 60 people, including schoolchildren, and wounding scores in the bloodiest attacks to hit this mainly Shiite city since the U.S.-led occupation began a year ago.</p>

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Castañeda eyes run for Mexican presidency in 2006 By Jerry Kammer COPLEY NEWS SERVICE August 3, 2003 Washington ­ In a speech last week at a prominent think tank here, one of Mexico's most provocative, colorful and controversial political figures sounded very much like a man with a plan to be his country's next president. Jorge Castañeda, an urbane and admittedly arrogant Princeton University graduate fluent in English, French and Spanish, proposed a package of political, social and fiscal reforms that he says could transform the country in a decade. He said he wants to energize civil society and stanch...

To put it mildly, I’m ashamed that Tom DeLay is from Texas. I know, I know. I sound like Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks, but there you go. DeLay is one of the nastiest, most mean-spirited politicians around. His political philosophy is to take no prisoners, be they Democrats or recalcitrant moderates from his own party. Frankly, he is an embarrassment to Texas and to the Republican Party. If, as Republican leaders constantly spout, the GOP is to be a big tent, open to everyone — well except for those pesky gay Log Cabin Republicans — then the party...

Germany's intelligence services attempted to build closer links to Saddam's secret service during the build-up to war last year, documents from the bombed Iraqi intelligence HQ in Baghdad obtained by The Telegraph reveal. Documents recovered from Iraqi intelligence HQ in Baghdad They show that an agent named as Johannes William Hoffner, described as a "new German representative in Iraq" who had entered the country under diplomatic cover, attended a meeting with Lt Gen Taher Jalil Haboosh, the director of Iraq's intelligence service. During the meeting, on January 29, 2002, Lt Gen Haboosh says that the Iraqis are keen to have...

U.S. forces under fire in Afghanistan as they shift focus to reconstruction By PAULINE JELINEK WASHINGTON (AP) - Enemy rockets explode routinely near American military bases in Afghanistan, and snipers ambush troops on patrol, even as the Pentagon tries to focus less on combat and more on reconstruction of the war-shattered country. The campaign that started as a major mobilization last year against Osama bin Laden, his al-Qaida network fighters and their Taliban militia comrades has ground on for months as a low-intensity guerrilla conflict. But there has been a spike in hit-and-run attacks on U.S. forces in the past...