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"US Accuses Guinea-Bissau Military Officers of Drug Trafficking Two top officers are named as major players in cocaine shipment from Latin America to Guinea-Bissau" SNIPPET: "Na Tchuto denied the allegations on Friday and said that he will cooperate with the United States government. He also said the charges of drug trafficking do not make sense because he was in Portugal on June 29, 2008 when the cocaine shipment from Venezuela arrived. Na Tchuto said he did not return to Guinea-Bissau until July. Na Tchuto also pointed out that he was not arrested by Interpol when he was in Gambia or...

Today's NPR's Talk of the Nation hosted a call-in program for people affected by Hurricane Katrina. A woman who evacuated safely called to ask if anyone could assist her with getting hay and water to the carriage mules left behind in the evacuation. The caller said she was a carriage driver in the French Quarter and she was very concerned for the mules. She said three people stayed with the mules during the hurricane. They are stabled near the French Quarter. The woman thinks their supply of food and water must be gone by now. The NPR commentator responded that...

SINJAR, Iraq (AP) - When U.S. soldiers reached this stretch of Iraq's border with Syria, some expected to face off against foreign fighters they thought would be crossing into the country in trucks packed with weapons. Instead, they found caravans of mules crossing the border without their human masters, the clever tactic of smugglers in Syria who load contraband on dozens of mules or donkeys and set them free to amble down familiar paths. "They can just smack the mules on the rear and they'll meet them at a rallying point" across the border, said 1st Lt. Scott Weaver, of...

Ranger History: Gift to Ist Ranger Battalion from Merrrill's Marauders vets; threw the XO, MAJ Hudson, at Banner Day, April 1975. After that and other misdemeanors like biting horses and people at the Ft Stewart stables, the mule was sentenced to hard time at West Point. He liked the crowds a lot more than he did the Rangers and was a favorite. Believe he was kidnapped by some midshipmen before an Army Navy game but they sent him back after he kicked in a stall. Ranger 1973-2005 February 12, 2005 Burns, TN An old soldier answered his last roll call...

PARIS, Jen 5 (AFP) - An Italian woman trying to smuggle cocaine into Europe died on a flight arriving at Paris when one of 77 latex bags filled with the drug she had swallowed burst in her stomach, police said Wednesday. The middle-aged woman died of a lethal overdose on an Air France flight landing at Charles de Gaulle airport Saturday after the long flight from Santo Domingo, the capital of the Caribbean state of the Dominican Republic, despite the best efforts of the crew to save her, they said. An autopsy revealed the drugs hidden in her stomach. The...

The last of my grandparents just passed away. We had been keeping a vigil over my grandmother for the last couple of weeks knowing that her time was near. About 2 months ago she fell and broke her hip and leg as well as fracturing several vertebrae in her back. Since that time she had progressively deteriorated to the point we knew her death was inevitable. Interestingly enough - apparently this morning my uncle was sitting with my Grandmother and she sat up and asked him 'why won't you let me die?' He responded with 'mother, if that's what you...

Just a tiny break from the Swift Boat fun... Let's hear it for the mule!

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I stand here, musing at Germany, and Russia, and France, all of them up to their eyeballs in illegal dealings with the "Butcher of Baghdad", and trying to present high-minded ideas to the world why we shouldn't end his reign here and now. "More time," they bray! "He may get REALLY angry at us if we challenge him," cry the Liberals in their turn. But echoing in my ears is a far more ancient call, one made by Europe in the 1930's and beyond. "Appeasement!" echoes down the corridors of time. "For you know, he's only killing his own people,...

Ashleigh Bumfield did not have any finger slamed in a car door this evening while reporting other accounts of shamed women suffering the same fate. Many were punished for being caught showing the Western "finger" to the Prayer Towers, which Ashleigh taught to many of the women... Sahib Looney Banfield thought his wife got a "bad rap" even though her digits were in good hands. Her silly little glasses are intact, unlike her reports from Afghan "Bars-R-Mined" report, and all 12 of her training bras were stolen and unaccounted for, Sahib Banfield whined to ClintoonNN.