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A senior Hamas terrorist, involved in planning the 2002 suicide bombing of the Park Hotel in Netanya, was arrested overnight Monday in the West Bank, security officials announced Tuesday. IDF soldiers detain a... IDF soldiers detain a Palestinian man (illustrative) Photo: AP [file] SLIDESHOW: Israel & Region | World Muhammad Harwish, head of Hamas's armed wing in Tulkarm, was apprehended along with his personal aide, Adnan Samara. The two were being interrogated by security forces. A Duvdevan special forces unit, along with personnel from the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) and special Border Police forces, arrested the pair after encountering...

Note: The following SNIPPET is a quote: Head of English Language School Sentenced to Federal Prison for Immigration Fraud Conspiracy Songwoo Shim Obtained Fraudulent Certification for School and Used School as Front to Issue Fraudulent Immigration Documents to Illegal Aliens ATLANTA, GA—SONGWOO SHIM, 48, of Lawrenceville, Georgia, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Charles A. Pannell, Jr. to serve three years, 10 months in federal prison for conspiring to encourage and induce aliens to reside unlawfully in the United States and for manufacturing fraudulent visa documents. Acting United States Attorney Sally Quillian Yates said, “This defendant obtained approval...

Iraqi Police officers and their families from Kirkuk province, and 1st Cavalry Division Soldiers ride the rollercoaster together at the Iraqi Police Kids Night at the Kirkuk Amusement Park, Aug. 18. Photo by Pfc. Justin Naylor, 1st Cavalry Division. FOB WARRIOR — The high-pitched sound of children laughing and a rollercoaster's rumble were heard at the Kirkuk Amusement Park on the outskirts of Kirkuk City, Aug. 18. Iraqi Police (IP), their children, and U.S. Soldiers from 3rd Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, traveled in groups, wandering the park looking for the best rides.Weeks...

August 14, 2005 -- LONDON — The $21.3 billion United Nations oil-for-food scandal has now widened to include the brother of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Kobina Annan, the Ghanaian ambassador to Morocco, is said by investigators to be "connected" to an African businessman at the center of the scandal. The probe into Kobina's dealings are at an early stage and he has not been interviewed. However, investigators are understood to suspect that Michael Wilson, an African businessman, and Kobina had a business relationship at the time of the scandal. A source close to the investigation said: "We believe Kobina Annan...

Unique among the public lands of this country, national parks traditionally have banned the carrying of loaded firearms. National forests, wildlife refuges, preserves and other conservation areas have no such blanket rule. Neither should national parks, as Congress reluctantly recognized this month. For decades, Americans accepted the simplistic reasoning behind the firearm prohibition: Parks don’t allow hunting. Therefore, no one needs to carry a firearm within one. Advocates viewed the ban as a simple way of helping prevent poaching in parks, and it was. It dispensed with the complexities of actually showing some wrongdoing by a park visitor who carried...

Great Falls National ParkOver the last few years states have been moving aggressively to make parks safe for gun carry. The states have been going about this in two ways: First, by repealing state statutes and regulations which make gun carry in parks unlawful. And second, by preempting localities from regulating gun carry in any way. For example, in 2002 the Virginia Attorney General issued an opinion stating that the Virginia Department of Conservation's regulation forbidding the concealed carry of handguns in state parks, National Forests, and certain other lands was in conflict with state law. Virginia Governor (and now...

Washington — Take the freeway out of town and soon you’ll see the huge headquarters of the National Rifle Association just a short way away in suburban Virginia. The NRA moved here in 1994, the year the gun lobby helped Republicans win control of Congress in midterm elections. The group’s logo, in a power font, bears down with influence. The NRA exerts enormous sway over members of Congress. Lawmakers are reluctant to be at odds with the gun lobby. As much as this country may be shifting left on many issues, experts say voters remain solidly behind the Second Amendment....

The guys at Arkansas Carry are tonight reporting that the Sebastian County Quorum Court meeting went well. In fact they apparently voted unanimously to end the ban on guns in city parks! Arkansas Carry gets a big, "Bravo Zulu" for their work tonight. This could effect the rest of the state's rules on guns in city parks. Right now here's the update from their website, "The Quorum Court agenda tonight was really full, and they moved the Ben Geren gun ban repeal to the very last. The meeting started at 7 pm, but they didn't get to our subject until...

WASHINGTON -- A coalition of House Democrats, retired rangers and supporters of national parks called on House leaders Tuesday to kill a Senate-passed amendment by U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., to allow loaded guns in national parks. Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., chairman of the House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands, conceded the group faced an uphill battle. That did not stop Grijalva and other members of the coalition from describing the Coburn amendment and its consequences in stark terms. Grijalva warned the Coburn provision would be dangerous and accused the senator of hijacking a popular credit card...

Related ArticlesWe Must Keep Guns Out of National Parks Gun Owners Overturn National Parks Gun Ban Louisiana Student Fires Gun Over Teacher's Head, Shoots Self Students Rally to Keep Guns Off College Campus Get ready to pinch yourself. After eight years of clashing with anti-gun bureaucrats and congressional leadership hostile to gun rights, we have never been closer to victory in the battle to repeal the National Park Service (NPS) gun ban. As you are by now undoubtedly aware, NPS land is subject to a blanket gun ban. A Bush administration regulation partially reversing the ban was singlehandedly negated recently...

New legislation currently winding its way through Congress is forcing Democratic leaders to face the serious problem the party has when it comes to guns. At the heart of the matter is the question of packing heat in Yellowstone. The Senate voted overwhelmingly to attach an amendment to unrelated credit card legislation allowing people to carry guns in National Parks, something more liberal House Democratic leaders are determined to yank out of the bill. A similar thing happened with the DC Voting Rights Bill passed earlier this year by the House and Senate. The measure, a priority of Democratic leaders...

Arkansas Carry has contacted Sebastian County Judge David Hudson, asking him and the Sebastian County Quorum Court to repeal a county rule that bans firearms at Ben Geren Park, according to information provided by Arkansas Carry Vice Chairman Steve Jones. The Sebastian Code rule reads: “It shall be unlawful for any person to introduce or otherwise bring into the Ben Geren Regional Park any firearm or to have within his or her possession a firearm while within the Ben Geren Regional Park unless the person has been given express permission to do so by the administration of the Ben Geren...

Here's a timely story. Polihale State Park on the Island of Kauai, Hawaii, has been closed since December when flooding damaged a small bridge at the entrance to the park (for Wikipedia link on Polihale State Park see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polihale_State_Park). It would have taken $4 million and 2 years for the State to repair the bridge. But the State of Hawaii, like other states, is out of money. So when the bridge could be repaired and the park re-opened was anybody's guess. A bunch of the vendors and residents whose livelihoods depend on the tourist trade from the park got...

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South Park dares to say who REALLY should get credit for all the economic stimulus and budget spending. (Hint, it's not Obama). http://www.butasforme.com/2009/03/26/kids-will-pay/

I'll leave it to others to present statistical arguments refuting U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly's insane ruling that an environmental impact study has any relevance to real-world consequences if existing state laws regarding concealed carry are applied in national parks. The crux of her extremist position? The lynchpin of Defendants’ response is that the Final Rule has no environmental impacts–and that Defendants were not required to perform any environmental analysis–because the Final Rule only authorizes persons to possess concealed, loaded, and operable firearms in national parks and wildlife refuges, and does not authorize persons to discharge, brandish, or otherwise use...

This happened because I was looking at a picture of Australia from space and I said to myself, "What is that island off the coast from Adelaide?" Here's a map: So this island is Kangaroo Island, and it has a rock formation called Remarkable Rocks. I recommend a Google image search for them: if you include the name of the national park (Flinders Chase), you'll find quite a few. Below is one example This is probably the most photographed one:

BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, Oct. 10, 2008 – A new park is setting the stage for progress in one of Afghanistan’s most impoverished areas. A soldier from the New Zealand provincial reconstruction team stands guard while U.S. Army Capt. Eileen Stiffey, Task Force Warrior project purchasing officer, and John Weckera, political advisor to the New Zealand PRT, await access into the Woman’s and Family Park in Afghanistan’s Bamyan province, Sept. 25, 2008. U.S. Army photo  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Bamyan Valley has a rugged beauty unmatched by most of Afghanistan, but it remains one of the poorest and...

In a town once predominantly Eastern European but now mostly Mexican, there's a flag flap blowing in the wind. Cicero residents recently complained that the Mexican flag was flying at the town's new Cicero Community Park. Although the U.S. and Illinois flags, as well as a sports flag, are flown there, some longtime residents accused town officials of being un-American and demanded the Mexican flag be taken down. "We are at war and you're flying a foreign flag?" Susan Masek, 56, said at last week's town meeting. "We want that flag down. This is the United States. Only the American...

What if you decided to patronize the local neighborhood park and discovered that baseball, football, softball, wiffle ball, volleyball, basketball, soccer, kickball, handball, tennis, frisbee, kite flying, model airplane flying and ping pong were all banned there? Sounds like fun, no? (I’m not sure about go-fish or European-style tiddly-winks). And what if I also told you that if you were contemplating a nice bike ride through the park, you could just forget it? Bicycles, skateboards, roller skates, roller blades, shopping carts, golf carts or any other motorized-wheeled modes of transportation are also banned – although, to be fair, baby carriages,...