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This morning police in Washington D.C. arrested Yonathan Melaku, a Muslim, for suspicious activity near Arlington National Cemetery and the Pentagon. The twenty-two-year-old Melaku is a naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Ethiopia that also serves in the Marine Corp Reserves. He was found carrying ammonium nitrate fertilizer and other materials making reference to Al Qaeda and the Taliban. The first reports I saw came from the Drudge Report and neither made reference to Malaku’s religion. Then I remembered the stories about Asan Akbar who killed two members of his platoon and wounded fifteen more and Hasan Nidal who killed thirteen...

Dear Bravo friends and family, After months of preparation and hard work, the wheels finally went up at the airport. Team Battlehard soldiers are safe and sound in our area of responsibility and we are preparing ourselves to play an active part in the global war on terrorism. We are currently working on getting ourselves organized and unpacked in the basecamp and learning our way around the area. We are going to continue to train, and there are some elements of the team that will be heading out on missions very shortly. We are excited to be here and are...