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  • Air Force C-17s Deliver Supplies to Aid with Evacuation

    07/21/2006 5:00:24 PM PDT · by SandRat · 7 replies · 426+ views
    American Forces Press Service ^ | Tech. Sgt. Chuck Marsh
    WASHINGTON, July 21, 2006 – Air Force C-17 Globemaster III crews assigned to the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron operating in Southwest Asia have added another mission to their resume, providing humanitarian civil assistance to the effort to evacuate Americans from Lebanon. Airlift operations have responded quickly to the urgent needs in the Middle East, supporting U.S. citizens evacuating from Lebanon to Cyprus, U.S. Central Command Air Forces officials said. The 816th EAS is flying water and meals, as well as essential personnel and equipment, to Royal Air Force Base Akrotiri on the island of Cyprus. In the first four...
  • Firefighters from Marine base aid in combating wildfires

    07/20/2006 4:35:21 PM PDT · by SandRat · 3 replies · 214+ views
    Marine Corps News ^ | Cpl. Brian A. Tuthill
    YUCCA VALLEY, Calif. (July 18, 2006) -- After scouring more than 61,700 acres of arid desert, the flames of the Sawtooth Complex Fire have moved away from the High Desert as residents and local communities return to their lives. What began July 8 as a 700-acre fire from a lightning strike in the hills north of Yucca Valley, Calif., was whipped into a fast-moving inferno by strong easterly winds three days later. The Combat Center Fire Department received the call for assistance July 11 at 12:20 p.m., and by 12:40 four firefighters and one engine were dispatched to the scene,...
  • Justice seeks end to delays in review of documents seized in William Jefferson (D-La.) raid

    07/13/2006 5:48:49 PM PDT · by Libloather · 1 replies · 381+ views
    KPLCTV ^ | 7/13/06
    Justice seeks end to delays in review of documents seized in raid WASHINGTON The Justice Department today opposed further delays in the bribery investigation of Representative William Jefferson, saying the agency should be allowed to review documents seized in a search of the congressman's office. On Monday, Chief U-S District Judge Thomas F. Hogan rejected requests from Jefferson and fellow lawmakers seeking the return of the material from the May raid on Capitol Hill. Jefferson is now seeking to delay the judge's ruling while he appeals. Hogan dismissed arguments by Jefferson and a bipartisan group of House leaders that the...
  • Some question whether African aid helps

    07/10/2006 7:28:25 PM PDT · by libertarianPA · 16 replies · 545+ views
    AP via Yahoo! News ^ | 7/10/06 | Donna Bryson
    LONDON - When the world's richest nations promised to double aid to the poorest, most of them in Africa, at least one African was appalled. And not because he thought the pledges were too little or would never be realized. He thought they were too much. "The best thing the West can do is to do nothing for Africa," Andrew Mwenda, a Ugandan writer and radio host, said during a recent visit to Britain, which a year ago chaired the Group of Eight summit at which those ambitious aid pledges were made. "Throwing money at African dictators cannot be a...
  • S Korea Suspends North Food Aid

    07/07/2006 4:25:59 PM PDT · by blam · 18 replies · 772+ views
    BBB ^ | 7-7-2006
    S Korea suspends North food aid Pyongyang tested seven missiles South Korea is to suspend food aid to the North because of its controversial missile tests, reports said. Shipments of rice and fertiliser would be shelved until the missile "problem" was resolved, South Korea's Yonhap news agency quoted a top official as saying. The move came as Japan presented the UN Security Council with a binding draft resolution calling for sanctions against North Korea. Pyongyang has threatened more launches if it is subjected to foreign pressure. The resolution, which urges North Korea to immediately stop developing, deploying and testing ballistic...
  • N. Korea Holds onto Chinese Trains Bringing Aids(NK brazenly rips off China)

    07/04/2006 6:41:35 AM PDT · by TigerLikesRooster · 48 replies · 7,580+ views
    The Daily NK ^ | 07/04/06 | Yang Jung-a
    /begin my translation N. Korea Holds onto  Chinese Trains Bringing Aids Japanese Media, "(N. Koreans) say that trains are part of the aid package." [2006-07-04] Outdated N. Korean trains N. Korea refuses to return (Chinese) trains which brought aid supplies from China, even after the supplies were unloaded, leaving Chinese authorities increasingly frustrated, it has been revealed. Quoting sources inside China, Jiji Press of Japan reported in its July 4th dispatch,  "China is sending materials and goods to N. Korea, but, in recent days, N. Korea frequently refuses to return these trains, raising frustration of Chinese authorities." According to Jiji, the sources speculated, "N....
  • Foreign aid to Africa

    06/30/2006 6:43:55 AM PDT · by laotzu · 4 replies · 168+ views
    Jewish World Review ^ | 6/30/06 | Walter Williams
    British Prime Minister Tony Blair, along with other G-8 leaders, have called for the doubling of foreign aid to African nations by 2010. The idea that foreign aid is a route out of poverty and political instability is not only bankrupted but a cruel and evil hoax as well. (snip) President Robert Mugabe blames domestic and foreign enemies, particularly England and the United States for trying to bring about his downfall. Of course, according to Mugabe, and some of the world's academic elite, there's that old standby excuse, the legacy of colonialism and multi-national firms exploiting the Third World. The...
  • Air Ambulance soar to aid service members at Al Asad

    06/26/2006 10:16:28 PM PDT · by SandRat · 2 replies · 381+ views
    Marine Corps News ^ | Lance Cpl. Brandon L. Roach
    AL ASAD, Iraq (June 26, 2006) -- The thumping of helicopter blades beats over the noise made by service members scrambling to help a wounded person, and as the sound becomes clearer, they look up and see the dark silhouettes of two UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters drifting in to land. Smoke is popped and the 'Angels of Mercy' with the Army's 82nd Medical Company descend from the sky to take the injured to a hospital located safely inside the perimeter of Al Asad. The mission of the soldiers with the 82nd Medical Company is to provide aero medical evacuation operations throughout...
  • Charity in Entitlement Era: Speaking Truth to Paupers

    06/21/2006 7:32:11 AM PDT · by RightCanuck · 4 replies · 342+ views
    The American Thinker ^ | June 21st, 2006 | anonoymous
    I am very proud of my fellow volunteers. It was as much a privilege to serve with them as it was to serve in the armed forces. They were Americans at their best, Christians at their most lovely. They were and continue to be Christ made real. At any given time there are 30 to 75 volunteers staged in just one church, ready to lend back and body to the difficult task or restoring these clobbered homes, a story repeated all over the battered coastlines. Unfortunately I must report that I am far less impressed by those benefiting from the...
  • Rice says U.S. close to deal on EU's Palestinian aid plan

    06/16/2006 10:12:00 PM PDT · by Esther Ruth · 10 replies · 283+ views
    www.haaretz.com/ ^ | 04:20 17/06/2006
    Rice says U.S. close to deal on EU's Palestinian aid plan By The Associated Press WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Friday the United States was close to reaching a "substantial agreement" with the European Union on an international aid plan for the Palestinians. Earlier Friday, EU leaders endorsed a plan to channel aid payments to Palestinians focusing on health, social services and utilities such as heating and sanitation, while maintaining a funding freeze on the Hamas-led government. A final statement from the EU summit said the 25-member bloc "stands ready to contribute a substantial amount...
  • Coalition Forces Destroy Insurgent Vehicle; Marines Aid Wounded Iraqi Children

    06/11/2006 12:59:33 PM PDT · by SandRat · 6 replies · 354+ views
    WASHINGTON, June 11, 2006 – Coalition forces destroyed a truck used by terrorists to attack a patrol base southwest of Baghdad and uncovered multiple weapons caches last week, U.S. military officials reported. Four terrorists fired two 82 mm mortar rounds at the patrol base June 6. Soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, engaged the terrorists, wounding one. Coalition forces discovered a sniper scope, a complete 82 mm mortar system, several rifles, satchels containing unidentifiable ordnance, and two racks with four AK-47 magazines in the terrorists' truck. The vehicle was destroyed to prevent...
  • Giambastiani: Conventional Trident Missiles Will Aid Terror War

    06/08/2006 4:39:06 PM PDT · by SandRat · 20 replies · 507+ views
    ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 8, 2006 – Arming submarines with nonnuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles will give America a necessary quick-strike weapon in the war on terror, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said here yesterday. The proposal, part of the Defense Department's 2007 budget request, aims to remove two nuclear missiles from each of the Navy's 14 ballistic missile submarines, or SSBNs, and replace them with two conventionally armed Trident missiles, said Navy Adm. Edmund P. Giambastiani at the Naval Submarine League's annual symposium. The move would put about 22 such missiles into operational deployment, he said. "It's...
  • NY Squandered Billions in 9/11 Aid

    06/05/2006 7:17:55 AM PDT · by Carl/NewsMax · 38 replies · 1,913+ views
    NewsMax.com ^ | June 5, 2006 | Carl Limbacher
    New York politicians allowed up to one-third of the $20 billion in federal aid awarded to the city in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks to be squandered right under their noses, an analysis by the New York Daily News found last December. But that hasn't stopped some of the same politicians from complaining all weekend about a mere $80 million cut in New York City's federal anti-terrorism budget. Senators Hillary Clinton, Charles Schumer and Rep. Peter King say they're outraged over the new cuts, with Clinton and King teaming up to launch a post-card writing campaign against the Department...
  • Bird Flu Risk To Indonesian Quake Survivors, Aid Groups

    06/03/2006 5:49:04 AM PDT · by blam · 3 replies · 202+ views
    AFP/Yahoo ^ | 6-3-2006 | AFP
    Bird flu risk to Indonesian quake survivors: aid groups JAKARTA (AFP) - Some quake survivors on Indonesia's Java island have taken shelter in chicken sheds, exposing themselves to the risk of contracting bird flu and other diseases, a British aid group has warned. More than 100 people left homeless by the quake were sheltering in six large poultry sheds built from bamboo in Pundong in hard-hit Bantul district, said Yolanda Bayugo, health director of the London-based Merlin group in Indonesia. "We are concerned that people using poultry sheds as shelter are at risk from avian flu and possibly salmonella infection,"...
  • House votes to choke off aid to Palestinians

    05/23/2006 1:11:15 PM PDT · by LdSentinal · 25 replies · 617+ views
    CNN ^ | 5/23/06
    WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House voted Tuesday to further choke off the flow of U.S. aid to the Hamas-controlled Palestinian Authority, drawing the displeasure of the Bush administration and dividing the pro-Israel lobbying community. The measure, approved 361-37, would cut off aid to non-governmental groups working in the West Bank and Gaza except for health programs and would deny visas to members of the Palestinian Authority. It also would ban contacts with Hamas because of its classification as a terrorist organization and limit the president's authority to waive the aid bans. The administration believes the legislation goes too far. But...
  • The Newest Palestinian Crisis (Caroline Glick Slams Aid To Terrorist PA Alert)

    05/20/2006 1:58:11 AM PDT · by goldstategop · 4 replies · 424+ views
    Jerusalem Post ^ | 05/19/06 | Caroline Glick
    You have to give them credit. The Palestinians outdid themselves this week. In the framework of the maelstrom over the presumed financial crisis of the Hamas-led PA, the supposedly "moderate" Fatah organization, led by supposedly "moderate" PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, decided to threaten America and Europe. In a leaflet published by Fatah's Aksa Martyrs Brigades in Gaza, the group announced, "We won't remain idle in the face of the siege imposed on the Palestinian people by Israel, the US and other countries." They went on to threaten, "We will strike at the economic and civilian interests of these countries, here...
  • Ex-PA paymaster: Arafat used foreign aid to buy weapons

    05/17/2006 7:47:46 AM PDT · by Alouette · 20 replies · 502+ views
    Jerusalem Post ^ | May 17, 2006 | Yaakov Katz
    Former Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat ordered millions of dollars, taken from international aid funds, tax money transferred by Israel and from Arab countries, to be used to purchase weapons and ammunition, it was revealed on Wednesday These weapons were then provided to Palestinian terrorists from the Tanzim and al Aksa Martyrs' Brigades. The information came from the interrogation of Fuad Shubaki, the Palestinian official who was arrested by the IDF two months ago in a raid on the Jericho prison where he was held together with the assassins of former tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi. Prior to his imprisonment, Shubaki...
  • US Restores Aid To Palestinian Hospitals

    05/16/2006 6:51:00 PM PDT · by blam · 7 replies · 284+ views
    The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 5-17-2006 | Tim Butcher
    US restores aid to Palestinian hospitals By Tim Butcher in Jerusalem (Filed: 17/05/2006) America has reversed its ban on delivering medical supplies to the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority, which has caused severe shortages in public hospitals. The State Department was forced into a policy U-turn after weeks of adverse publicity, with Palestinian hospitals forced to cut back on dialysis due to shortages of equipment and supplies. The Daily Telegraph was the first to report that America had suspended its multi-million-pound supply programme to Palestinian public hospitals three months ago. Four kidney dialysis patients were reported to have died in Gaza because...
  • Abbas warns of 'explosion of anger' if Palestinian aid not restored

    05/16/2006 5:28:40 AM PDT · by Esther Ruth · 75 replies · 1,315+ views
    www.haaretzdaily.com ^ | 14:57 16/05/2006
    Abbas warns of 'explosion of anger' if Palestinian aid not restored By News Agencies Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas warned Tuesday of a Palestinian "explosion of anger" if international donors did not move fast to restore aid cut off in recent weeks. "Life will be frozen and there will be an explosion of anger and this would lead to a chaotic situation of which we cannot forsee the results," Abbas told a news conference after a speech to the European Parliament in the French city of Strasbourg. "I would like to adopt the mechanism as quickly as possible so the...
  • Civil Affairs Marines provide aid to combat-torn Iraqi families

    05/15/2006 4:35:19 PM PDT · by SandRat · 4 replies · 234+ views
    Marine Corps News ^ | Cpl. Antonio Rosas
    AL QA’IM, Iraq (May 15, 2006) -- A 28-year-old Iraqi woman has told Marines and sailors in region of western Al Anbar Province that all she wants is to be able to walk again. The woman from Karabilah, Iraq, is missing both of her legs. But the Marines of the 3rd Civil Affairs Group – a U.S. military unit responsible for assisting Iraqi communities with rebuilding local government infrastructure, commerce and economies – are doing something about it. They’re jumpstarting the lengthy process of finding aid for the woman, who lost both of her legs during combat operations conducted by...