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Hello Lads, I don't know what sort of news coverage you're getting in the U.S, but I just thought I'd show you some pictures of London yesterday... 3 days after the terrorists struck: A Lancaster Bomber, escorted by a Spitfire and a Hurricane flies over Buckingham Palace to the Mall. Between 250,000 and 500,000 people are in the Mall. The Queen and the Royal Family are on the balcony of Buck House just as she was with Winston Churchill in 1945. The bomb doors open, and a million poppies fall to earth to commemorate those who made the ultimate sacrifice...

BAGHDAD (AFP) - A total of 147 foreign-born US military personnel serving in Iraq gathered inside a former Saddam Hussein palace to be granted US citizenship. In a mass ceremony the soldiers, sailors, and airmen, along with one marine and a navy medic, simultaneously raised their right hands and swore to "support and defend the constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic." US soldiers listen on during a swearing-in ceremony for citizenship, at Camp Victory in Baghdad. One hundred and forty seven foreign-born US military personnel serving in Iraq gathered inside one...

Listen While You Freep! All programs are replayed for 23 hours and again on weekends so tune in when it’s convenient for YOU! Call In Number - 866-884-TALK (8255) Heating the EDGE of a New Media! 12pm-2pm EST - VOICES OF SOLDIERS TOUR 2005!! BUZZ LIVE FROM BAGHDAD! Join Buzz as he broadcasts live from Camp Victory, Iraq. Lots of insightful interviews with our men and women in uniform from the front lines. The Buzz Cut! 2pm EST – “Breaking Free” with Kerri Houston and Peter Roff! 3pm EST - Live From Baghdad!!! Martha joins Buzz Patterson on the Voices...

  To begin 4th of July weekend, U.S. soldiers spend the afternoon around a swimming pool outside a former Saddam Hussein palace, which is now part of the U.S. military base Camp Victory in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, July 3, 2005. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed) AP - Jul 03 10:56 AM To begin the 4th of July weekend, U.S. soldiers spend the afternoon around a swimming pool outside a former Saddam Hussein palace which is now part of the U.S. military base Camp Victory in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, July 3, 2005. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed) AP - Jul 03 10:49 AMTo begin 4th of July weekend, U.S....

The U.S. Army launched a criminal investigation yesterday into the deaths of two New York National Guard officers who were killed while they were sleeping in one of Saddam Hussein's former palaces. The military initially reported that Capt. Phillip Esposito and 1st Lt. Louis Allen, both assigned to the 42nd Infantry Division, died late Tuesday as the result of an "indirect fire" attack on the palace in Saddam's hometown of Tikrit. Col. Bill Buckner, spokesman for the Multi-National Corps in Iraq, revised the record. "The evidence indicates that this was not indeed caused by a mortar attack," he said. A...

Man accused of throwing chair during Palace brawl pleads no contest 3/29/2005, 10:48 a.m. ET By SARAH KARUSH The Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A fan charged with throwing a chair during one of the worst brawls in U.S. sports history pleaded no contest Tuesday to one count of felony assault and one count of misdemeanor assault and battery. Bryant Jackson was the only one of the 13 Indiana Pacers players and Detroit Pistons fans charged with a felony for their alleged role in the Nov. 19 melee at The Palace of Auburn Hills. Oakland County Circuit Judge Rae...

CONSTRUCTION has been completed of Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe’s controversial £5 million mansion in Harare’s leafy northern suburbs. The 25-bedroom private house, built by a Serbian construction company Energoproject to a Chinese architectural design, has two lakes in its 44 acre landscaped grounds and is protected by a multi-million pounds radar system. Approach roads to the mansion, topped by a Chinese-style roof clad in midnight blue tiles from Shanghai, are off limits to the general public. THE PALACE MUGABE BUILT It is understood that some 50 police riot response officers guard the Mugabe palace on a 24- hour basis in...

While the decency wars continue to rage in Washington, the MPAAMPAA has okayed the most profane PG-13 pic ever. Palm PicturesPalm Pictures won its appeal Thursday of the original R rating given to Iraq war docudocu "Gunner Palace." Pic is the Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein-helmed docu following U.S. soldiers living in a bombed-out palace formerly owned by Saddam Hussein's son Uday. "Palace" was picked up by Palm last year at the Toronto Film Festival via the Submarine and Cinetic MediaCinetic Media sales banners. "Palace" contains no gory footage, but the docu does contain numerous instances of soldiers cursing, including...

WE HAVE TWO CANDIDATES WHO BOTH WANT TO BE PRESIDENT.  I HAVE THE PERFECT SOLUTION.  MR BUSH HAS BEEN PRESIDENT FOR FOUR YEARS, SO LET'S RE-ELECT HIM AND TAKE ADVANTAGE OF HIS EXPERIENCE AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF.

President Bush to visit The Palace on Wednesday 10/22/2004, 12:19 p.m. ET The Associated Press AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) — President Bush will hold a rally at The Palace on Wednesday evening, campaign spokesman John Truscott said Friday. The campaign hopes to begin handing out 15,000 tickets on Saturday for the event at the Auburn Hills home of the defending NBA champion Detroit Pistons. The visit will be the first of several the Republican president plans to make in the final week of the campaign. "There will be other stops in Michigan before election day, but we don't have those...

Donated Tackle Helps Troops Fish at Saddam's Private Lake By Spc. Andy Miller, USASpecial to American Forces Press Service BAGHDAD, Iraq, Sept. 29, 2004 -- The large man-made lake between Camp al-Tahreer and Camp al-Nasr here was once stocked with fish as part of Saddam Hussein's private hunting reservation, and has since become one of the largest overseas American military bases built since the Vietnam War. Army 1st Lt. Kevin Black (left), executive officer for 1st Cavalry Division's headquarters company, shows off a fish he caught at Camp al-Tahreer in Baghdad, Iraq, with Capt. Sean Tyson, headquarters company commander....

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Sept. 18 - Nine months after American troops pulled him disheveled and disoriented from an underground bunker near his hometown, Tikrit, Saddam Hussein is living in an air-conditioned 10-by-13 foot cell on the grounds of one of his former palaces outside Baghdad, tending plants, proclaiming himself Iraq's lawful ruler, and reading the Koran and books about past Arab glory. American and Iraqi officials who have visited the former Iraqi leader say he wears plastic sandals and an Arab dishdasha robe, eats American soldiers' ready-to-eat meals for breakfast, and is permitted three hours' daily exercise in a courtyard outside...

St. Poelten. Public prosecutors have reopened investigations into the mysterious death of a trainee priest from the seminary in St. Poelten at the heart of a recent child porn scandal. The body of 53-year-old Ewald S. was recovered from the Old Danube lake in Vienna in October 2003. The dead man was a former student from the seminary in St. Poelten but at the time police excluded possible foul play and closed the file as a suicide case. The head of the seminary at the time Ulrich Kuechl spoke of an “accident.” The case was reopened in February as a...

Earliest palace city discovered in Henan www.chinaview.cn 2004-07-25 09:57:20 The undated file photo shows part of the Erlitou site in Yanshi, central China's Henan Province. Archaeologists said that the palace city discovered last spring at the Erlitou site may be the earliest palace city ever discovered in China. (Xinhua Photo)> The undated file photo shows part of the Erlitou site in Yanshi, central China's Henan Province. (Xinhua Photo) The undated file photo shows relics unearthed from the Erlitou site in Yanshi, central China's Henan Province. (Xinhua Photo) ZHENGZHOU, July 25 (Xinhuanet) -- Archaeologists said that the palace city discovered last...

Australian troops in Baghdad spend their nights sleeping in a lavish and opulent shag palace. Well, that's what the soldiers say - and it may be true. The vast Presidential Palace North, now christened Camp Victory, features hundreds of ornate buildings with Aussie troops locating their headquarters and accommodation in buildings on the edge of a huge artificial lake. "You know what this used to be?" mused one soldier relaxing in the early evening outside what's called the round house. He's delighted to explain. The story goes that the round house was used for love trysts by Uday Hussein, the...

Priceless Picture: U.S. Troop in Iraq ... fishing

Curmudgeon Emeritus -- Francis W. Porretto March 18, 2004 "Those who have not swords may still die upon them." -- Eowyn of Rohan, in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord Of The Rings. They can do more, much more. And some of them do. Now and then, your Curmudgeon frets over his contribution to the security of the nation. A 52-year-old man isn't normally expected to take up arms and cross the seas to do battle with evil, regardless of the Left's repeated cries of "chickenhawk!" at those of us who have counseled all-out war but would not have to...

US troops demolish Saddam’s palaces Baghdad, Iraq Press, February 28, 2004 – US occupation forces have hired Iraqi contractors to level down at least ten magnificent mansions the ousted leader Saddam Hussein had built for his family. The villas, though not among the main presidential palaces Saddam built for himself, are unique in their architectural design. Experts say their demolition, expected to start soon, will be a great loss both from the artistic and financial point of view. Even the Iraqi contractors who won lucrative deals to bring the palaces down are said to be reluctant to go ahead. The...

<p>TIKRIT, Iraq (AP) -- There's a 24-hour gym with aerobic classes, an indoor swimming pool and even a driving range. And for troops who over exert themselves, a masseur is on hand to soothe aching muscles.</p> <p>U.S. soldiers stationed at a riverside palace complex here that once belonged to Saddam Hussein face constant danger from Iraqi insurgents whenever they leave the base.</p>

BAGHDAD, Iraq - On the grounds of Saddam Hussein's former presidential palace, near an ornamental pond and fountain, a few dozen Iraqi workers are engaged in one of the most crucial military undertakings in the country: putting armor on U.S. Army Humvees. Banging, sanding, welding and painting, laborers who earn $6 daily are creating from steel a lifesaving skin for American soldiers traveling in a dangerous country. The workers returned to the U.S. occupation headquarters less than a week after 16 of them were injured and one of their colleagues was killed in a Jan. 18 car bombing in front...