Posted on 04/01/2008 8:13:21 PM PDT by nwctwx
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/zimbabwe
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Thanks to Clive for the ping to these threads:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2004323/posts
“MDC: There is a ‘war’ being waged in Zim”
AFP and Reuters via Mail & Guardian (SA) ^ | 2008-04-20 | Aderogba Obisesan
Posted on April 20, 2008 7:17:06 AM PDT by Clive
Johannesburg, South Africa
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2004319/posts
“Bob’s Mad Scramble For Weapons”
Sunday Times (SA) ^ | 2008-04-20 | Rowan Philp, Paddy Harper and Monica Laganparsad
Posted on April 20, 2008 6:57:32 AM PDT by Clive
SNIPPET: “The sinister truth behind this arms ship from China — After Zimbabwe polls, officers begged for new guns and bullets”
http://wtop.com/?nid=25&sid=1389944
“Arrests, fights break out at neo-Nazi march”
April 20, 2008 - 12:06pm
WASHINGTON -
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Police say almost 50 members of NSM participated in the rally. As they marched down Constitution Avenue Saturday, members shouted, “USA, USA, USA.””
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “In addition, some spectators booed the neo-Nazi group as they made their way towards the U.S. Capitol.”
Prayer Request:
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/192370.php
LittleGreenFootballs (http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com ) pointed to both these events. Hat Tip to LGF.
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Note: Photos included.
blog:
http://www.redcounty.com/rccampuswatch/2008/04/what-if-you-had-a-terror-fundr/
“What if you had a Terror Fund-Raiser and Nobody Showed up?”
Posted by: Jonathan Constantine | 04/19/2008 10:57 AM
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Note: Photos included.
blog:
http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/?p=13
“Marine Vets Give Code Pink a Taste of Their Own Medicine”
Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Police in the Miami area were on the lookout Friday for a missing piece of construction equipment that contains radioactive material.
The soil-density tester apparently fell off a truck in Coral Gables Thursday evening while being driven to a new destination.
College official convicted in Muslim school scam
A former head of adult education at Community College of Philadelphia was convicted yesterday by a federal jury of conspiracy and fraud in a $250,000 ghost-teacher scam in which the college funded nonexistent adult literacy classes at a West Philadelphia Muslim school.
THE BIG QUESTION: Where did this little boy learn to talk like this and think like this? I suspect more than just me would like to know the answer to this question.
Another question...could this be dubbed or could it be an adult who has manufactured a video using the same technology like those advertisements with talking/dancing babies?
Either way, this is garbage and I hope some answers will be forthcoming.
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www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshh1bv10u1Jvw9Is0M6
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blog:
http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2008/04/george-w-bush-will-die.html
blog:
SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 2008
““George W. Bush Will Die””
by Baron Bodissey
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “This is a very strange and disturbing video. According to Word Star Hip-Hop, where it is now posted, it was originally made up of three separate videos at YouTube, which have been taken down.”
Thank you MamaDearest.
Both interesting and news to me.
Updating your link in post no. 985, MamaDearest:
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2008/04/18/radiation_equipment_lost_in_miami_area/8060/
and while searching I found this (off topic, but interesting):
Note: Includes a photo gallery
http://www.miamiherald.com/home/story/499585.html
“For sale: House of spies
$22 million will buy a grand Coral Gables home used by the CIA — and an island outpost”
Posted on Sun, Apr. 20, 2008
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/04/20080419-1.html
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=49631
“Bush: U.S. Will Maintain Troop Levels in Korea”
By John J. Kruzel
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, April 20, 2008
Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=49632
Forces Kill, Capture Dozens of Enemy Fighters
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, April 20, 2008 – Coalition and Iraqi forces killed or captured dozens of terrorists and criminal militia members during multiple engagements in Iraq yesterday, military officials said.
In Suq Ash Shuyukh, southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, a combined force of more than 300 Iraqi Army, Iraqi Police and Iraqi Special Weapons and Tactics personnel, advised by U.S. Special Operations Forces, killed 40 criminal militia members and arrested an additional 40 after the Iraqi forces were attacked by the militia members.
Using assault rifles and automatic weapons, the criminal militia attacked Iraqi Security Forces in the morning. Regional police and Army forces on alert in the area responded in force, overwhelming the outnumbered criminal militia fighters.
Facing a combination of armored vehicles and suppressive fire, the criminals retreated to a building that contained the local Sadr Trend office. With Iraqi special weapons and tactics personnel providing support, additional security forces launched a counter attack, overrunning the remaining enemy defenses. The ISF entered the building and cleared it of the remaining criminals.
During the sweep of the building, ISF found a large weapons cache containing explosively formed penetrators, Katyusha rockets, rocket propelled grenade launchers and a large quantity of additional weapons and ammunition. An explosive ordnance disposal team also found several improvised explosive devices rigged to explode inside the building. All weapons were destroyed on site.
Many local Iraqis witnessed the fighting and thanked the ISF for their bravery and willingness to defend their town.
“The response of the combined ISF force represented an incredible leap forward by Iraqi Police and Iraqi Army to conduct joint operations,” said a U.S. Special Operations Forces advisor. “Iraqi police and Iraqi Army executed a counter attack against a determined enemy and quickly gained control of the situation.”
The operation was part of the Iraqi government’s continuing fight against terrorists, insurgents and criminals standing in the way of a safe and secure Iraq. In recent months, ISF personnel have assumed greater autonomy to plan and conduct these types of operations unilaterally or with Coalition forces.
In eastern Baghdad, a Multinational Division Baghdad aerial weapons teams, or AWT, killed seven criminals as ground forces seized weapons in separate incidents.
Around 6:30 p.m., the AWT located two criminals transporting weapons in Sadr City district, in the eastern section of the Iraqi capital. The AWT engaged them with a Hellfire missile, killing both criminals and destroying two machine guns.
About two hours later, criminals using small-arms fire attacked coalition forces. The troops returned fire, killing one.
Elsewhere in Sadr City around the same time, a separate coalition unit retaliated against another group of criminals mounting an attack. Troops killed one criminal in the engagement.
At around 9:40 p.m., a separate AWT identified four weapons crates in an open Sadr City field of the district. The AWT engaged and destroyed the crates.
In a separate incident about thirty minutes later, an AWT fired a Hellfire missile at three criminals with weapons, killing them.
Earlier in the day, during a morning raid in southern Sadr City, soldiers of the 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment seized a weapons cache in a fire station. The cache included more than a dozen AK-47 rifles with multiple loaded magazines, a machine gun with magazines, more than 3,000 rounds of ammunition, as well as various miscellaneous weapons parts.
“We are making a statement with these engagements,” said Army Lt. Col. Steve Stover, a spokesman for Multinational Division Baghdad and the 4th Infantry Division. “Criminals violating the Rule of Law by committing violent acts or with the intent of committing violence will be targeted.”
In eastern Baghdad around 3 a.m., an AWT was conducting an aerial surveillance patrol when the crew saw two criminals with a mortar tube. The AWT engaged them with a Hellfire missile, killed both criminals. The missile also demolished the mortar tube.
The successful operation came on the heels of numerous mortar and rockets attacks that originated from eastern Baghdad the previous two days, military officials said.
“Our primary mission is to protect the Iraqi people from terrorists and criminals,” Stover said. “This we will do in order to enforce the rule of law in full partnership with the Iraqi Security Forces.”
Elsewhere in Iraq yesterday, Operation Saulat al Fursan, or “Charge of the Knights,” began a new phase of operations around Basra.
Phase three of the operation focuses on the criminal militia strongholds within the Hyyaniyah district area. Iraqi Army soldiers of the 1st and 14th infantry divisions are conducting the deliberate clearance operation, military officials said.
The operation began at approximately 6 a.m., when British artillery and U.S. aircraft fired ordnance against known criminal rocket and mortar sites west of Hyyaniyah.
British and American Military Transition Teams are working alongside Iraqi Army units to provide leaders with advice, access to surveillance and the ability to “call for fire” and other support, if needed.
“As with the earlier phases of Operation Charge of the Knights, this remains an Iraqi-led, planned and executed mission,” said Maj. Tom Holloway, the British Army’s spokesman in southern Iraq. “Coalition troops are ready to provide support to Iraqi Security Forces as requested and required.”
Operation Charge of the Knights began on March 24.
During a recent reconnaissance patrol in the Jazeera Desert, coalition forces discovered and destroyed two al-Qaeda in Iraq weapons caches.
The caches included more than 125 improvised explosive device components, such as blasting caps, batteries, pressure plates, cordless phone chargers, IED trigger circuits, steel IED canisters, copper plates and springs.
These are the second and third weapons caches troops have found in the Jazeera Desert in less than a month. Explosive Ordnance Disposal teams destroyed both caches.
“We are continuing our efforts to disrupt AQI’s networks and degrade their ability to carry out attacks against innocent Iraqi civilians and Iraqi and coalition forces,” said Army Col. Bill Buckner, a Multinational Corps Iraq spokesman, referring to al-Qaeda in Iraq.
(Compiled from Multinational Corps Iraq news releases.)
blog:
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/04/al_qaeda_in_yemen_me_1.php
“Al Qaeda in Yemen: mercenaries or terrorists?”
By JANE NOVAK
April 19, 2008 8:50 PM
ON THE INTERNET:
www.ekhlaas.org
www.ekhlaas.org/forum/
www.swahl.com/up/m126/swahlcom_0d788.gif
Updating one url in post no. 993:
http://memriiwmp.org/content/en/report.htm?report=2657
“Open Meeting with Sheikh Ayman Al-Zawahiri”
No. 1887 - April 4, 2008 -
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/china
http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/searchb10.asp?search=china&searchtype=all&B1=Submit
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http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers27/paper2675.html
Paper No 2675
20-April-2008
“CHINESE LEADERSHIP UNABLE TO CONTROL NEO RED GUARDS”
By B.Raman
http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html
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Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18618&Itemid=21
Press Release A080420c
April 20, 2008
Coalition Forces capture suspected Iranian-trained Special Groups criminals
BAGHDAD, Iraq – Coalition forces captured a suspected Iranian-trained Special Groups commander and three other suspected criminals Sunday during operations in the Kadamiyah district of Baghdad.
The targeted individual allegedly conducted attacks against Iraqi security and Coalition forces and was involved in extra-judicial killings in Baghdad. Reports also indicate the wanted individual was an associate of several senior-level criminal element leaders involved in attacks on Coalition forces.
Intelligence led Coalition forces to the targeted individual’s location. En route, Coalition forces came under attack by small arms fire from unknown assailants. After arriving at the targeted individual’s location, Coalition forces came under attack from rocket-propelled grenades. Close air support was called to eliminate the hostile threat.
After successfully apprehending the targeted individual and three other suspected criminals, Coalition forces departed the area. As they departed, Coalition forces came under an enemy ambush by small arms fire. To eliminate the hostile threat, air support was called in again, killing three criminals.
“Coalition forces will continue to seek out and bring to justice criminals who ignore the rule of law and who terrorize the people of Iraq through their criminal activity,” said Cmdr. Scott Rye, MNF-I spokesman.
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Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18624&Itemid=21
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20080421-01
April 21, 2008
IA, Rakkasans find cache during combat patrol
Multi-National Division – Center PAO
BAGHDAD – Iraqi Army and Rakkasan Soldiers found a weapons cache during a combat patrol in Hakara, Iraq, April 19.
After receiving a tip from a local citizen, the cache was collected by Iraqi Army soldiers from 25th Brigade, 6th IA Division and Multi-National Division – Center Soldiers from 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault).
The cache contained 239 23 mm anti-armor rounds, two 62 mm illumination rounds, two DSHKA machine guns, one DSHKA receiver and one rocket launcher.
The munitions were taken to an IA compound in Mahmudiyah.
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Sadr’s forces are refusing to turn in their weapons. They are reaping the results.
“They are reaping the results.”
I agree.
Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3533944,00.html
Al-Quds, Salah a-Din Brigades claim mortar fire on Nahal Oz
Published: 04.21.08, 00:35 / Israel News
The Islamic Jihad’s al-Quds Brigades and the Salah a-Din Brigades, the Popular Resistance Committees’ military wing, claimed responsibility for Sunday’s mortar fire on kibbutz Nahal Oz.
Several mortar shells were fired earlier at framer working the fields of kibbutz Nahal Oz. No injuries or damage were reported. (Ali Waked)
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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3533935,00.html
Palestinians fire at Nahal Oz farmers
Published: 04.20.08, 23:53 / Israel News
Palestinian gunmen fired on framer working the fields of kibbutz Nahal Oz Sunday. No injuries or damage were reported.
IDF forces patrolling the area returned fire. (Yonat Atlas)
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