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impressions of american troops by a french soldier. A little old (2008) but not what you are going to hear in the NYT.

" Berkeley's public library will face a showdown with the city's Peace and Justice Commission tonight over whether a service contract for the book check-out system violates the city's nuclear-free ordinance......"

TEXAS MONTHLY TALKS - TED NUGENT An eloquent statement of the right to defend ourselves.

September 2005, Marine Gunnery Sgt. Michael Burghardt, a 35-year-old native of Huntington Beach, California, who had served with the Marine Corps for 18 years (the last 15 of them in bomb disposal), was called upon to disarm some improvised explosive devices (IEDs) near Ramadi, Iraq. As a member of an Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) unit, Sgt. Burghardt was tasked with locating, identifying, disarming and disposing of the IEDs that Iraqi insurgents have increasingly been using as offensive weapons against U.S. troops. ... The Omaha World-Herald photograph of Sgt. Burghardt displayed above — taken in the aftermath of the bomb blast...

"WASHINGTON - Congress won't address the growing reach of the alternative minimum tax this year, leaving more than 15 million individuals and families subject to its bite for the first time next year. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R., Tenn.) told reporters yesterday that legislation addressing the alternative minimum tax would not be completed this year. Lawmakers can act next year to make retroactive changes that ensure taxpayers do not pay more in 2006, but millions will start the year in its grasp."

It was the video testament that shocked the world. Jason Burke, a leading expert on al-Qaeda, reveals what it tells us about terrorism.... Though analysis of the Khan tape continues, early indications are that it was made by al-Qaeda's in-house production team, al-Sahab. Al-Sahab, whose logo appears on the video, is a shifting group of individuals, not a single entity, who, over the last three years, have made a series of increasingly professional videos in different locations......

LEEDS, England, July 15 - At Beeston's Cross Flats Park, in the center of this now embattled town, Sanjay Dutt and his friends grappled Friday with why their friend Kakey, better known to the world as Shehzad Tanweer, had decided to become a suicide bomber.

Sirte, Libya — Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi told African countries to stop “begging” from the rich and to co-operate more in a blunt speech before a summit of the continents' leaders Monday ahead of a gathering the G8 countries due to focus on African debt relief