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Posted on 02/24/2004 3:19:05 AM PST by Revel
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:19:43 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
February 24, 2004 -- WASHINGTON - The Pentagon has dispatched the elite commando force that hunted down Saddam Hussein to Afghanistan for a new operation aimed at getting Osama bin Laden, officials said yesterday. Military sources confirmed that members of the shadowy Task Force 121, the unit that conducted the high-tech search for Saddam and his henchmen, have recently begun operating in the remote mountainous region along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border where bin Laden and key al Qaeda and Taliban fugitives are believed to be hiding. The Task Force is made up of highly trained Delta and SEAL commandos, as well as CIA paramilitary operators. It operates outside normal military channels.
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Iraqi policemen survey the scene of a mortar attack at a mosque in the town of Mosul, some 390 km (235 miles) north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, March 4, 2004. Guerrillas launched at least five mortar rounds on a police station and mosque in the northern Iraq city of Mosul, injuring three people including a police officer, police said. Officers at the station in central Mosul said the attackers fired a volley of rounds, hitting the station, the street in front and an adjacent mosque, before fleeing by car. REUTERS/Namir Noor-Eldeen
3 Injured in Attack on Mosul Police Station
Laurie Kassman
04 Mar 2004, 14:14 UTC
Iraqi authorities say at least three people were injured when a police station was attacked in the northern city of Mosul. Meanwhile, in the predominantly Sunni city of Ramadi, hundreds of residents demonstrated to protest Tuesday's attack on Shi'ite worshipers in Baghdad and Karbala.
Authorities have cordoned off the police station in Mosul, and launched a manhunt for the attackers. They say several mortar rounds hit the police station and an adjacent mosque, injuring several people.
A senior coalition official says such attacks are targeting security forces and infrastructure, which are key elements of Iraq's reconstruction.
The official says foreign terrorists who have infiltrated the country are also targeting key political leaders to disrupt their efforts to build a democratic government. Officials also say the suicide attacks Tuesday on Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims in Baghdad and Karbala are aimed at fomenting civil war.
But that campaign appears to have backfired. Sunni, Shi'ite and Kurdish leaders have called for calm and national unity. And residents of the mostly Sunni town of Ramadi marched in the streets to protest the attacks on Iraqi Shi'ites, and to call for unity. The town has been considered a stronghold of Saddam Hussein loyalists.
... Purim only begins Saturday night, Israel's security forces will be on high alert...
Full Moon Saturday March 6
This is now on Fox news.
It would be great if someone on this thread was a private eye or in Homeland Security so they could follow some of these guys around and check up on them.
They should be allowed to have their wish come true - take them to some deserted location and let that bomb rip that car apart - just like they wanted. Another day innocent lives have been spared thanks to the Iraqi police - great work they did today!
Cameras rolled as couple wanted for child rape in U.S. arrested in Toronto
ANDREW FLYNN
TORONTO (CP) - The police search for an American couple wanted in the sex abuse of a handicapped four-year-old girl ended Thursday in dramatic fashion with the fugitive pair taken into custody as TV cameras rolled.
John Stoneman, 39, and Patricia Kelley, 39, of Kipling, Ohio were arrested after an investigation by teams from the Toronto Police fugitive squad, provincial police and the Canada Border Services Agency. "This is a pretty good day for everybody," said Det. Mike McGivern of the provincial police Repeat Offender Parole Enforcement squad.
"These two committed some pretty horrible crimes down in Ohio."
Kelley, a former homecare nurse, and her boyfriend Stoneman are wanted for terrorizing the severely handicapped child, who is blind and suffers from spina bifida, hydrocephalus, diabetes and seizures.
Police apprehended Kelley at a Toronto restaurant where she was working as a waitress. She then led police to an apartment, where they arrested Stoneman.
A tip on her whereabouts was called in to provincial police just as a film crew from the crime-busting TV show America's Most Wanted was interviewing officers about the case.
"So, while America's Most Wanted is doing some film clips with me of my investigation . . . we get a tip and, I mean, when does that ever happen?" McGivern said in an interview.
The show may use the footage of officers receiving word of the tip and the subsequent capture in a story to be aired Saturday night, McGivern said.
Police were trying to obtain a search warrant Thursday for the couple's west-end apartment and the investigation will involve the child exploitation unit. Further charges could be laid against them, Givens said, though he stressed no evidence has yet been found linking them to a crime in Canada.
If they do face charges in Canada they would likely stay to face them, otherwise they will probably be extradited to the United States, said Givens.
An employee at the restaurant where police arrested Kelley, who was working under the alias Denise Griffin, said staff were shocked when police arrived to arrest her.
"She was very trustable, very faithful and I thought (she and Stoneman were) very loving, caring people - we all thought," said the employee, who asked not to be named.
"I thought it had to be a mistake or something."
He said there had been no problems with Kelley during her part-time employment, begun last fall.
"We run a very peaceful ship and never had any problems in the 30 years we've been here."
Police began looking for the couple in Ontario after a car in which they fled was found at an Orillia pawn shop, about 130 kilometres north of Toronto.
When the owner tried to transfer the vehicle ownership into Canada, police discovered the couple was wanted.
Stoneman and Kelly were originally arrested in the United States after images found in a child porn case in California were linked to an Ohio computer.
Police then found a tape, which allegedly showed the couple with the young girl and a two-way mirror and a camera used to videotape children changing their clothes.
The couple fled after posting bail.
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