https://freerepublic.com/tag/by:blueheaven/ en-us Wed, 22 Feb 2006 02:42:23 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1583150/posts The Bush administration's pro-business domestic priorities look set to be mirrored in the reconstruction of Iraq. By Andrew Tait, ISN News Editor A US stevedoring company that was at the forefront of last year’s lockout at ports on the west coast of the US has been awarded the US$4.8m contract to manage Umm Qasr port in southern Iraq. The flow of food, medicine and other supplies through the port is considered by US war planners to be essential to their effort to win over the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people. Stevedoring Services of America (SSA) "will provide an... ISN News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1583150/posts#comment Wed, 22 Feb 2006 02:42:23 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1574958/posts US law enforcers had put him behind bars on charges of having a “long beard” snip .ISLAMABAD: Fifty-one Pakistanis deported from the United States for violating various laws reached Islamabad by a chartered flight on Wednesday. snip deportees were involved in several cases including fraud, forgery, burglary, drug smuggling, murder, illegal immigration, sexual assault, rape and possession of illegal weapons snip arrested them in Virginia and Texas. Up to 29 deportees was jailed for over 18 months while the rest of them had been in jail for over eight months snip Tanveer Khan, another deportee, said that Muslim prisoners in... daily times https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1574958/posts#comment Thu, 9 Feb 2006 10:07:17 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1574956/posts ISLAMABAD: A top Taliban commander on Wednesday offered a reward of 100 kilogrammes of gold to anyone who kills the artist responsible for cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) reported. If someone killed the cartoonist responsible for the cartoons in Denmark, the “Taliban will give 100 kilogrammes of gold,” Mullah Dadullah said in a telephone call to AIP from an unknown location. Dadullah also said that the Taliban would give five kilogrammes of gold to anyone who killed a Danish, Norwegian or German soldier, AIP said. AIP said that Dadullah was operating... Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1574956/posts#comment Thu, 9 Feb 2006 09:56:21 GMT