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  • Task Force Baghdad Delivers Tons of Food (Tissue Alert)

    06/30/2005 4:54:44 PM PDT · by SandRat · 21 replies · 525+ views
    Defend America News ^ | June 30, 2005 | U.S. Army Spc. Erin Robicheaux
    U.S. soldiers brought food and school supplies to residents of the Khadamiyah area in Baghdad. CAMP TIGERLAND, Iraq, June 30, 2005 — The 256th Brigade Combat Team Civil Affairs and the 256th Brigade Combat Team’s 199th Forward Support Battalion collaborated on June 25 to bring 15 tons of food, two tons of school supplies, and more than 2,000 Beanie Babies to the residents of the Khadamiyah area in Baghdad. The items were gifts from the Association of Korean Americans and Operation Iraqi Children. The local Government Information Center connected the soldiers with various charity organizations to help distribute the supplies...
  • In Sicily, Mob-Tainted Land Now Produces Spaghetti

    01/31/2003 1:16:30 PM PST · by Shermy · 24 replies · 537+ views
    AP ^ | January 31, 2003 | Tom Rachman
    CORLEONE, Sicily - This is bloodied land, stained by murder and torture during years as the private property of Sicily's most notorious Mafia boss, a man they call "The Beast." Today, however, after years of association with Italy's ugliest products, the Mafia, this turf yields one of its tastiest: pasta. Young farmers have taken confiscated mob land and turned it into fields of grain for pasta — finally harvesting good from towns such as Corleone and showing that Mafia culture can be defied. "Ten years ago, something like this would have been unimaginable, impossible," says the pasta project leader, Gianluca...