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"Sir, you have done India proud." That was how the anchorman of a television channel in Delhi addressed the Indian navy chief, Admiral Sureesh Mehta, on the victorious sea battle by warship INS Tabar with would-be hijackers as dusk was falling on Tuesday evening in the Gulf of Aden. Those words would have made Sir Francis Drake, the 16th-century British navigator and slaver-politician of the Elizabethan era, truly envious. Sir Francis had bigger claims to fame in a life cut short by dysentery while attacking San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1595. Unsurprisingly, the patriotic Indian media dutifully expressed its gratitude...

  Make Comment View Comments Printable Article Font Columbus' Hometown Jihad By Patrick PooleFrontPageMagazine.com | July 11, 2007 Last Monday, Ohio freshman US Senator Sherrod Brown (D) probably had no idea that when he met with a group of Columbus-area Somali leaders that they were being led by one of the most vocal Western supporters of the Somali al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group, the Islamic Courts Union (ICU). That oversight is forgivable, considering that Abukar Arman, one of my Hilliard, Ohio neighbors, regularly operates among the political elite of the state of Ohio, though as I discovered in my extensive investigation,...

HOUSTON --A U.S. citizen accused of working alongside al-Qaida members pleaded guilty Thursday to a charge of receiving training from a foreign terrorist organization, authorities said. During a court hearing, Daniel Joseph Maldonado, 28, a Muslim convert who grew up in New Hampshire and was also known as Daniel Aljughaifi and Abu Mohammed, admitted to traveling in December to a terrorist camp in Somalia, where he was trained to use firearms and explosives in an effort to help the Islamic Courts Union topple the government and install an Islamic state. Members of al-Qaida were present at the camp.

I'm punched in the gut with shock. I was just told that the 28 yr. old son, an only child, of one of my co-workers is in the ICU with terminal melanoma. One of his lungs is already filled with a tumor. I knew something was afoot, but we never found a moment alone for her to tell me the last time I saw her (I work from home and she's at the office). She kept it very private .. until she couldn't anymore. I would be most grateful for prayers for Mike and his family. Dear Lord, I just...

MOGADISHU, Somalia - A fundamentalist Muslim who is listed by the U.S. State Department as a suspected al-Qaida collaborator was named Saturday as the new leader of an Islamic militia that has seized control of Somalia's capital. The militia, which changed its name Saturday from the Islamic Courts Union to the Conservative Council of Islamic Courts, said in a statement it had appointed Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys as its new leader. The Bush administration says Aweys was an associate of Osama bin Laden in the early 1990s. The Islamic militia seized control of the capital Mogadishu and much of southern...

May 12, 2006 — Americans by nearly a 2-1 ratio call the surveillance of telephone records an acceptable way for the federal government to investigate possible terrorist threats, expressing broad unconcern even if their own calling patterns are scrutinized. Lending support to the administration's defense of its anti-terrorism intelligence efforts, 63 percent in this ABC News/Washington Post poll say the secret program, disclosed Thursday by USA Today, is justified, while far fewer, 35 percent, call it unjustified. Indeed, 51 percent approve of the way President Bush is handling the protection of privacy rights, while 47 percent disapprove — hardly a...

Ok folks - asking for your prayers for a fellow-coworker's mother. Z's mother, Francis, was admitted to the hospital over the weekend as a result of a severe asthma attack. She was taken off the respirator yesterday, and Z just got a call from the hospital that they've put her back on the respirator. Please - keep Z and her mother both in your prayers.

Our 20 year old daughter needs prayers. She is severely mentally and physically disabled and had to be rushed into the hospital this morning with pneumonia/respiratory distress. Her name is Stephanie.

Hello, my FRiends, You have been such a wonderful fellowship of friends, and have generously offered your prayers for people in need. A very dear friend of mine and his wife need your most loving and powerful prayers during this Christmas season. Dave has been in ICU for 16 days now, felled with pneumonia that has been unresponsive - doctors have been unable to grow a culture. (They are thinking it may be viral.) He has been intubated, and had unfortunately pulled it out twice. Been on a variety of very heavy drugs while in ICU. So, the doctors did...

Toronto — A dozen people who have cancer growing in their lungs need operations today, but they are still waiting: No intensive-care beds are available at the Scarborough Centenary site of the Rouge Valley Health System, where their surgeon has privileges. Six ICU beds are filled with people who have been transferred from other hospitals that are closed to new patients because of severe acute respiratory syndrome. The seventh is holding an actual SARS patient. It's a small example of a mountainous backlog of all types of operations that has grown over the past three months to what some surgeons...

<p>Just announced on FOX, he has been in there for a while-no word if his singing career is finished.</p>

<p>According to the Cable News Network ticker, Private First Class Jessica Lynch has been moved to intensive care as a precaution in Landstuhl, Germany to monitor fever, increased heart rate and any possible infection.</p> <p>Not mentioned whether her family did visit her in the ICU ward when thye came.</p>