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“Gates Tests Phone Connection with China”
By Fred W. Baker III
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, April 10, 2008
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“NorthCom, Homeland Security Refine Relationship”
By Army Sgt. 1st Class Gail Braymen
Special to American Forces Press Service
PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo., April 10, 2008
Well now, this is GREAT news.
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“Services See Strong Showing for March Recruiting”
American Forces Press Service
PRESS RELEASE SNIPPET: “WASHINGTON, April 10, 2008 – All military services met or exceeded their recruiting goals for March, Defense Department officials reported today.
This makes the 10th straight month the services have hit their recruiting marks. All of the services have surpassed their recruiting goals for fiscal 2008 to date.”
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“101st Airborne Takes Over for 82nd Airborne in Afghanistan”
By Army Pfc. Mary L. Gonzalez
Special to American Forces Press Service
BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, April 10, 2008
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Coalition Forces Detain Seven in Central, Northern Iraq
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, April 10, 2008 – Coalition forces detained seven suspected terrorists during operations targeting al-Qaida in central and northern Iraq today.
— In Taji, coalition forces detained two suspected terrorists during operations targeting associates of terrorist leaders in the Baghdad’s northern belt.
— Two additional suspects were detained in Mosul during a mission targeting an individual who allegedly oversees al-Qaida attack operations in the area.
— West of Baghdad, coalition forces targeted al-Qaida operatives in Abu Ghraib, detaining three suspected terrorists.
In yesterday’s Iraq operations:
— Soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division’s 3rd Brigade Combat Team manning a combined checkpoint with Iraqi national police were attacked by criminals with small-arms fire from a rooftop in northeastern Baghdad. Soldiers returned fire and killed one criminal.
— Members of the 101st Airborne Division’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team killed four criminals in northwestern Baghdad after they were attacked with rocket-propelled grenades at a checkpoint.
— An aerial weapons team engaged criminals who attacked soldiers with small-arms fire as they placed concrete barriers at a joint security station in northeastern Baghdad. The aerial weapons team fired two Hellfire missiles at the criminals, killing four.
— Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team killed four criminals after being attacked with small-arms fire from two different locations in northwestern Baghdad.
— A mission in Taji focused on a terrorist believed to work directly with terrorist leaders in Baghdad’s southern belt. He was identified while driving with another individual. Ignoring coalition attempts to stop the vehicle, the terrorists tried to evade capture. Coalition forces engaged the vehicle to stop it, killing the two terrorists inside.
— An operation in Mosul netted two suspects when coalition forces targeted a terrorist believed responsible for assassinations, kidnappings and the facilitation of suicide bombings. Coalition forces surrounded the area and cleared the targeted building, as well as several others in the neighborhood, detaining two suspected terrorists in the process.
— Members of the 4th Infantry Division’s 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, currently attached to the 1st Infantry Division’s 4th Brigade Combat Team, acted on a tip from a concerned Iraqi citizen and detained a suspect. The suspect, believed to be the leader of an improvised explosive device production cell, responsible for making armor-piercing explosively formed projectiles, was detained during a cordon-and-search operation in the Aamel Beladiya neighborhood of Baghdad’s Rashid district. The soldiers also discovered a homemade bomb.
In operations in Iraq on April 8:
— With the assistance of Karbala police, members of 33rd Iraqi Army Brigade conducted an intelligence-driven operation targeting a house in Husayniyah, south of Baghdad. The Iraqi forces discovered a large weapons cache and detained six criminal suspects. The cache included a homemade bomb, a 60 mm mortar tube, rifles, hand grenades, rocket-propelled grenades, mortars, and small-arms rounds. It also included blocks of C4 explosive, which were dated from 2007 and appeared to be Iranian-produced, according to an intelligence officer for Military Transition Team 33.
— Members of 3rd Company, 4th Battalion, 25th Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division, turned over a cache found in Arab Jassim that included 155 mm artillery rounds, empty pipes and 50 pipe caps.
— A local Iraqi turned in a cache containing a primer, various munitions rounds, and a 15-pound bag with a mixture of munitions pellets, diesel and fertilizer to Patrol Base Warrior Keep. Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division’s Company D, 1st Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, stored the munitions for inspection by an explosive ordnance disposal team.
In operations in Iraq earlier this week, Iraqi security forces and the local “Sons of Iraq” citizen security group discovered 11 weapons caches during operations spanning two days. Five caches were discovered in Diyala province, along with two caches each in Tamim, Ninevah and Salahuddin provinces. They consisted of rockets, mortars, projectiles of different sizes and hundreds of pounds of bomb-making materials.
(From Multinational Force Iraq and Multinational Corps Iraq news releases.)
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“State Dept to Jimmy Carter: Don’t Meet with Hamas”
Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:58:45 am PST
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“State Department: Carter should not meet Hamas chief
Former President Jimmy Carter advised to refrain from meeting Khaled Mashaal”
Reuters
Published: 04.10.08, 20:09 / Israel News
SNIPPET: “The US State Department said on Thursday it had advised ex-President Jimmy Carter against meeting the leader of Hamas in Syria next week, saying it went against US policy of isolating the group.
Carter has in recent days discussed with the State Department’s point person on Israeli-Palestinian issues, David Welch, his plans to meet Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal.”
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“U.S. Air Force sets up cyberspace command against continuing China attacks”
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“Pelosi’s War”
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Posted Thursday, April 10, 2008 4:20 PM PT
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“’Terror-Free’ Stock Index Has Market Potential, Analysts Say”
By Fred Lucas
CNSNews.com Staff Writer
April 10, 2008
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McCain advisers tied to foreign lobbying
By Jim McElhatton and Jerry Seper
April 11, 2008
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The firms of McCain senior adviser Charlie Black, who until recently was the chairman of Washington-based BKSH & Associates, and campaign co-chairman Thomas G. Loeffler, who heads the Loeffler Group in San Antonio, received millions of dollars lobbying the White House, Congress and others as agents of nearly a dozen foreign clients in recent years.
“At no time have I discussed my clients with John McCain, and there have been many occasions where he has voted against my clients’ interests, but that doesn’t change my belief that John McCain is the best candidate to lead our nation,” said Mr. Loeffler, a former Texas congressman, whose firm has received millions of dollars from Saudi Arabia.”
ARTYICLE SNIPPET: “Mark Penn, former top strategist to Democratic candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, recently resigned after consulting on a Colombian trade agreement that Mrs. Clinton opposed. Mr. Penn is chief executive of Washington-based Burson-Marsteller, which has lobbied for the Pakistan Peoples Party, the Colombian Embassy and the Mexico Tourism Board.
In addition, the Glover Park Group where top Clinton adviser Howard Wolfson previously worked, received more than $170,00 last year from the Colombian trade bureau and $250,000 from Dubai Aerospace Enterprises Ltd.”
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“Report: Secret Iranian missile development site revealed”
Ynet
Published: 04.11.08, 10:01 / Israel News
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The report said that the site, about 230km southeast of Tehran, and the link with Iran’s long-range program, was revealed by Jane’s Intelligence Review after a study of the imagery by a former Iraq weapons inspector.
Geoffrey Forden, a research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was quoted by The Times as saying that there was a recently constructed building on the site, about 40 meters in length, which was similar in form and size to the Taepodong long-range missile assembly facility in North Korea.
According to Forden, the examination of the launch site revealed that it was part of a large and growing complex “with very high levels of security and recent construction activity”. It was clearly “an important strategic facility”, he said.
Jane’s Intelligence Review claimed that the satellite photographs prove that the Kavoshgar 1 rocket was not part of a civilian space center project but was consistent with Iran’s clandestine program to develop longer-range missiles.”
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“Airport watch list now reviewed often”
By Audrey Hudson
April 11, 2008
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“Iran’s Busted Iraq Bid”
By Amir Taheri
New York Post | Friday, April 11, 2008
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “A GAMBLE that proved too costly.
That’s how analysts in Tehran describe events last month in Basra. Iran’s state-run media have de facto confirmed that this was no spontaneous “uprising.” Rather, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) tried to seize control of Iraq’s second-largest city using local Shiite militias as a Trojan horse.
Tehran’s decision to make the gamble was based on three assumptions:”
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Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Pakistani Hindu killed over blasphemy accusation
APMA Chief calls for redefining blasphemy laws
By Sheraz Khurram Khan
Special Correspondent for ASSIST News Service in Pakistan
KARACHI, PAKISTAN (ANS) — A Pakistani Hindu factory worker, Jagdeesh Kumar, 22 has been beaten to death by his Muslim coworkers in the port city of Karachi after he was accused of passing blasphemous remarks against Prophet Muhammad, ANS has learnt.
Regretting the brutal killing of Jagdeesh over an alleged blasphemy accusation, the Chairman of the All Pakistan Minorities Alliance, (APMA) Mr. Shahbaz Bhatti told ANS that the family of the deceased told him that he did not have anything to do with religion.
Earlier on Saturday, March 29, Mr. Bhatti urged the Pakistan Parliament to repeal all laws perceived as discriminatory by Pakistani religious minorities’ communities besides voicing other concerns of minorities in his maiden address to the Pakistan parliament.
Shahbaz heads APMA, a representative group of all religious minorities including Christians, Hindus, Sikhs and other religious minorities living in Pakistan, a predominantly Muslim country.
Citing the killing of the Hindu man as “yet another example of misuse of blasphemy laws”, Shahbaz said that the blasphemy laws were being exploited by the religious radicals as a weapon to lash, persecute, terrorize, victimize, subjugate and intimidate Pakistani religious minorities. He regretted extrajudicial killing of several blasphemy-accused in the past.
He took exception to the definition of the blasphemy laws and termed it as “open-ended and vague”.
“There should be a proper definition of the law. The killers of blasphemy accused should be brought to justice”, demanded the Christian member of the Pakistan parliament.
“The blasphemy-accused serving their terms in jails are vulnerable to attacks from the Muslim inmates. They are living in a situation of life-and-death”, he said, pointing to the odds that stack against people stigmatized with blaspheming.
Dubbing the incumbent government as “progressive and liberal”, he said it was “about time that the law was abolished”.
APMA, he said had been raising voice for repeal of the controversial laws for a fairly long time. “We back the demand of human rights and Christian rights groups who have been demanding that the law be scrapped.”
He told ANS that the judges have been reluctant to hear the cases of blasphemy accused in the past. The families of the accused are attacked and intimidated by the radical Muslims, he said.
Accentuating the post-trial trauma of the blasphemy-accused, Mr. Shahbaz said that even though they have been acquitted by courts the fear of attacks and intimidation keeps them from living in the locality they were living before they were implicated in blasphemy cases.
They (the blasphemy-accused) are forced to live as “refugees” in their own homeland, said Shahbaz, stressing the perpetual suffering the blasphemy accusation through all of their lives.
He said the APMA members had made an inflexible commitment to get the laws abolished. He said he was deliberating to move a bill in the parliament for either repeal of the laws or for introducing legislation with a view to stop the “misuse of the draconian laws”.
The Christian parliamentarian called for setting up of a judicial commission. The APMA, he said, would like the commission to review all cases of people who have been accused of blasphemy.
“We demand release of all innocent people who have been slapped with false blasphemy accusations by the Muslims to either settle scores or take vengeance”, he said.
Shahbaz Bhatti said he did not believe that a member of Pakistani minorities’ communities, who is already down-trodden, subjugated and oppressed, would dare to commit blasphemy against the Prophet Muhammad.
When ANS asked him what chance he saw in getting the legislation done regarding either the repeal or any amendment in the laws with a view to put an end to its misuse, Shahbaz Bhatti said he was mindful of the opposition to any such proposal by the opposition parliamentarians as well as by what he called as “radical-minded Muslims”.
“We will raise our voice for the repeal of the blasphemy laws”, he said “We will do all we can to ensure that the law is abolished”.
The Christian legislator described repeal of discriminatory laws as “mission” of his life. “The APMA is ready to pay any price to get the blasphemy laws repealed”, he said.
He said that he feared he could be attacked but vowed to continue advocating the case of Pakistani minorities. Shahbaz emphasized that the APMA would continue to wage struggle until Pakistani minorities have got equal and similar rights.
The APMA Chief called for absolute religious freedom for Pakistani minorities, social justice and human equality.
He expressed his optimism that all elected members of the APMA will mount concrete efforts to uplift Pakistani minorities. “We will assist and reach out to our persecuted brothers and sisters”, he concluded.
Sheraz Khurram Khan has been reporting from Pakistan for ASSIST News Service on Christian persecution and minorities’ situation since 2005. He is also a representative of the International Press Association (IPA), USA.
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Apr 11, 2008 11:48
Kassam rocket lands in w. Negev, causing no casualties or damage
By JPOST.COM STAFF
Palestinian terrorists launched a Kassam rocket at the western Negev, Friday.
The rocket landed in an open field and no casualties were reported.
The “Color Red” rocket alarm did not go off before the rocket landed.
Earlier, two mortar shells landed in the Nahal Oz area. No casualties were reported.
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