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Posted on 04/18/2006 11:09:45 PM PDT by nwctwx
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Thanks to nw_arizona_granny for pointing to this article:
http://www.blackfive.net/main/2006/05/we_all_lost_a_b.html
"We all lost a Brother Today"
(May 2006)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1632340/posts?page=3#3
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1632340/posts
"Severe Weather Drill Highlights The Importance of Ham Radios."
Courier Press ^ | 12 May 2006 | unknown
Posted on 05/15/2006 12:37:43 AM PDT by Lurker
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=NKorea
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=NorthKorea
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http://reuters.myway.com/article/20060515/2006-05-15T012432Z_01_SEO280265_RTRIDST_0_INTERNATIONAL-NUCLEAR-KOREA-NORTH-DC.html
"N.Korea appears to restart nuclear reactor - report"
May 14, 9:24 PM (ET)
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea appears to have resumed operations at its atomic reactor suspected of producing fissile material for the communist state's nuclear weapons program, an online U.S.-based media service covering security issues said."
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1631833/posts
"North Korea - Yongbyon satellite photos indicate reactor is in operation"
Yonhap News (South Korea) ^ | May 13, 2006
Posted on 05/13/2006 5:39:17 PM PDT by HAL9000
WASHINGTON, May 13 (Yonhap)
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http://www.dailybreeze.com/business/articles/2799991.html
THE MAGIC CARD
"Mexico's maricula consular opens numerous doors for immigrants. But critics say the document is misused."
By Karl-Erik Stromsta
DAILY BREEZE
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Each weekend Pablo, a stolid, second-generation Mexican immigrant, stands near the colorful southeastern corner of Los Angeles' MacArthur Park whispering "IDs" at pedestrians as they saunter past.
But his brazenness is mostly unnecessary, since for the most part he doesn't need to worry about soliciting business. His customers come to him seeking fake IDs.
His hottest seller is fraudulent copies of the matricula consular, a simple picture ID issued by Mexican embassies to citizens outside Mexico.
"Everything else comes and goes, in terms of selling it," said Pablo, 29. "But the matricula card, that one is a lock. You know that every weekend you'll have people looking to buy that one."
As it becomes mired in debate and demagogy, two things remain certain about the matricula consular. It has become increasingly popular in recent years -- and increasingly controversial.
The card grants undocumented immigrants de facto economic amnesty in the United States, allowing them to open savings accounts, take out loans, buy cell phones, board airplanes and qualify for government-subsidized housing."
http://mensnewsdaily.com/2006/05/14/is-the-national-guard-prepared-for-border-security-operations/
"Is the National Guard Prepared for Border Security Operations?"
May 14, 2006
Jim Kouri
by Jim Kouri, CPP
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20060514-113922-3564r.htm
"9/11 group seeks to fight MVA lawsuit"
By Shaun Waterman
UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
May 15, 2006
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=/ForeignBureaus/archive/200605/INT20060515c.html
"S. Korean Leader Hopes for Summit With Kim Jong-il"
By Patrick Goodenough
CNSNews.com International Editor
May 15, 2006
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "(CNSNews.com) - Risking fresh policy differences with Washington, a senior South Korean government minister has voiced the hope that his country's liberal president would hold a summit with North Korea's Kim Jong-il.
Unification Minister Lee Jong-suk, whose portfolio centers on relations with the communist North, told the KBS national broadcaster the government was "firmly determined" to see a summit take place before the end of President Roh Moo-hyun's tenure. His term expires in early 2008.
At a time the standoff over North Korea's nuclear weapons remains unresolved, such a summit would be considerably more controversial than the last and only time the leaders of South and North Korea met -- in Pyongyang in 2000.
That time the leaders were Kim Jong-il and Roh's predecessor, Kim Dae-jung, who subsequently won the Nobel peace prize for his "sunshine" policy of engagement with the North. There was talk of Kim Jong-il at some point paying a reciprocal visit to Seoul.
Since then, however, Pyongyang has been found to have violated a key nuclear agreement with the U.S.
Kim Jong-il went on to defy the international community by resuming formerly frozen nuclear programs, expelling International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors, and withdrawing from the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
The U.S. and four other countries -- South Korea, Japan, China and Russia -- have held five rounds of talks with North Korea since August 2003, but attempts to negotiate a shutdown of the nuclear programs have been unsuccessful."
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[Does this include the twenty million illegals already residing in this country?]
Senate Immigration Bill Would Allow 100 Million New Legal Immigrants over the Next Twenty Years
The Heritage Foundation ^ | May 15, 2006 | by Robert Rector
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1632495/posts
(5/15/06 - ST. JOSEPH, MO) - A high school teacher has apologized for asking students to write about who they would kill and how they would do it, and officials said he will likely keep his job.
"I made a horrible mistake that I regret," Maxwell said. "I want to apologize to my students, my colleagues and to the community."
The April 21 writing request, which Maxwell said was not a formal assignment, came to the attention of administrators when a parent of one of the students filed a complaint with Principal Barton Albright.
Albright expressed regret and apologized for Maxwell's "lapse of judgment."
"He's an exemplary person ... this is very out of character," the principal said.
St. Joseph School District spokesman Steve Huff declined to discuss possible disciplinary measures because the matter is considered a personnel issue. But he said the incident probably isn't serious enough to cost Maxwell his job.
About 25 to 30 students from ninth through 12th grades were in the class, Albright said.
Little humor..
Bird Flu Epidemic Strikes Florida Trailer Park
ChronWatch ^ | 5/15/06
Posted on 05/15/2006 10:49:46 AM EDT by areafiftyone
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1632455/posts?page=1,50
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Albright expressed regret and apologized for Maxwell's "lapse of judgment.""
OPINION: There are so many worthy topics/important events to write about.
Writing about "who they'd kill" just isn't one of them -- nor should it be.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1632339/posts
"Florida teen's massacre called 'gift from Allah'"
WorldNetDaily ^ | 5/15/06 | Aaron Klein
Posted on 05/15/2006 12:37:24 AM PDT by LibWhacker
"Terror leaders threaten Americans, hope boy, 16, 'goes directly to hell'"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "TEL AVIV – The death yesterday of Daniel Wultz, a Florida teenager critically injured last month in a suicide bombing at an Israeli restaurant, is a "gift from Allah" and revenge against American Jewish support for Israel, Abu Nasser, a leader of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, one of the groups responsible for the deadly blast, told WorldNetDaily.
Abu Amin, a leader of the Islamic Jihad, which also took responsibility for the April 17 bombing in which Wultz was injured, told WND last night his terror group may target Americans in the near future."
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UPDATE:
http://www.internet-haganah.com/harchives/005606.html
15 May 2006
"And then there was one...
The active site of Palestinian Islamic Jihad as of today, Naqba Day, 15 May 2006:
Name: qudsway.net"
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1632626/posts
Kanal 5: Radical Islam is Spreading in Macedonia
Focus News Agency ^ | May 14, 2006
Posted on 05/15/2006 12:50:31 PM PDT by joan
14 May 2006 | 11:55 | FOCUS News Agency
Skopje. Radical Islam is spreading in Macedonia, the Macedonian TV Kanal 5 reports. Fundamental groups from BiH and from Kosovo are gradually making their way through several regions in the country. A report of the intelligence services, which has been submitted to Kanal 5, shows that Islamic groups have already penetrated Lipkovski region. Besides often meetings between Macedonian Islamists and the Imam from Prizren who is considered as the spiritual leader in the region take place. According to the report there is a great number of Radical Islamists in the region and they are mainly in Gazi Baba quarter where group lectures are organized lead by people who have studied in Saudi Arabia and Jordan.
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"Financing terror"
Townhall ^ | May 15, 2006 | Diana West
Posted on 05/15/2006 11:47:42 AM PDT by Sabramerican
Financing terror By Diana West
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ICC-CCS.ORG - THE WEEKLY PIRACY REPORT
http://www.icc-ccs.org/prc/piracyreport.php
REPORT SNIPPET - QUOTE:
Weekly Piracy Report
2-8 May 2006
The following is a summary of the daily reports broadcast by the IMB's Piracy Reporting Centre to ships in Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean Regions on the SafetyNET service of Inmarsat-C from 2 to 8 May 2006.
ALERT
Somalia - NE and Eastern Coast
Forty two incidents have been reported since 15.03.05. Heavily armed pirates are now attacking ships further away from the coast. Ships not making scheduled calls at Somali ports are advised to keep at least 200 nm from the Somali coast.
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/May2006/20060515_5132.html
Guard Likely to Support Border Patrol, National Security Adviser Says
By Steven Donald Smith
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 15, 2006 – Placing U.S. National Guard troops along the U.S.-Mexican border will bolster the nation's security, the president's national security adviser said yesterday.
"This is not about militarizing the border. The president is looking to do everything he can to secure the border," Stephen Hadley said on CBS's "Face the Nation."
It has been reported that about 10,000 National Guard troops will be placed along the southern border to support U.S. Border Patrol agents in stopping the flow of illegal immigrants. President Bush is scheduled to make a nationally televised speech tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern Time regarding the illegal immigration issue.
The U.S.-Mexican border stretches 2,000 miles and includes the U.S. states of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, and the Mexican states of Baja California Norte, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas.
Hadley said the American people want a secure border and the president is listening to their concerns as he consults with members of Congress and state governors.
"He's listening to and getting a lot of good advice," Hadley said. "He's had good consultations with the Congress. He will be talking to the governors. He's looking at a number of ideas, and a number of folks have suggested greater use of the National Guard."
Some National Guard troops have already been used in support functions along the border, he said. "They have been used in support functions to help the border patrol. Things like intelligence, training and that sort of thing," he said. "And I think that's the kind of thing people have in mind."
When asked if the additional National Guard troops will be armed and used in a law enforcement fashion, Hadley reiterated that their job function is still being examined. "Again, there are a number of ideas out there," he said. "The president is taking a look at them."
But Hadley stressed that safeguarding the border is the job of the Border Patrol and that National Guard troops would most likely continue to function in a support manner. "It's the support function we're talking about," he said. "It's something we are doing as both we and our neighbors try and cooperatively strengthen our borders."
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Coalition Forces in Iraq Kill, Detain Dozens of Terrorists
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 15, 2006 – Coalition forces killed more than 40 terrorists and detained 13 suspected terrorists in various raids May 13 and yesterday throughout Iraq, military officials in Iraq reported.
Coalition forces conducted a coordinated ground and air attack against an enemy safe haven in Yusifiyah yesterday, killing more than 25 terrorists, detaining four, and destroying three safe houses and a vehicle loaded with weapons and ammunition.
Upon initiating the attack in the afternoon, coalition troops immediately killed two terrorists in response to hostile activity from a suspected safe house and an associated vehicle. Once the threat was suppressed by an air strike on both the car - resulting in secondary explosions - and the structure, ground troops searched the targeted areas. The troops found two dead terrorists, detained four suspects and provided medical treatment to three injured civilians.
One adult female and one teenage female were treated for wounds and medically evacuated with their uninjured maternal escort via helicopter to the 10th Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad. Additionally, one girl was treated on-site for a superficial wound to the head. She required no further medical care and remained with her mother.
The terrorists fired at the departing helicopters, including the transport carrying the injured civilians. The ground forces called in close-air support to suppress the threat, and several sorties of fixed and rotary wing aircraft attacked enemy positions and killed about 20 terrorists.
During the fighting, terrorists in a truck tried to penetrate the security perimeter and were engaged by the ground troops. The three enemies who occupied the vehicle were killed. One was wearing a suicide vest and detonated it after he was shot by the ground troops, injuring no one and killing himself.
Elsewhere, coalition forces conducted a series of raids May 13 and yesterday near Latifiyah, killing known terrorist Abu Mustafa and 15 other suspected al Qaeda associates and detaining eight suspects. Abu Mustafa was wanted for his involvement in the shooting down of an AH-64 helicopter earlier this year.
In the evening on May 13, coalition forces initiated four associated raids. The initial raid resulted in the killing of Abu Mustafa and an unknown affiliate, who were located near Latifiyah, a village about 25 kilometers southeast of Baghdad.
Intelligence officials identified several other areas connected to Abu Mustafa's cell members. Coalition troops assaulted three of those sites, located about six kilometers north of where Abu Mustafa had been killed the day before. Upon arrival at the first site, coalition forces engaged more than 15 al Qaeda terrorists who were attempting to establish defensive positions or escape. Coalition forces confirmed 14 suspected terrorists were killed and also discovered Abu Mustafa's body, which had been moved to this new site.
Coalition troops also found several women and children inside the house. Two women and two children were inadvertently wounded by shrapnel. The troops immediately treated the injured. One of the women and one child required no further treatment. After initial treatment for a wound to her abdomen, the second woman, who is pregnant, was medically evacuated to the 10th Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad for additional medical care. The other child, 20 months old, was also evacuated to the hospital with her uninjured mother. All evacuated to the hospital are in stable condition.
(Compiled from Multinational Force Iraq news releases.)
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