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Video showing the arrest of liberal 'talk show host' (lol) formerly of 'Air America' (lol), Nicole Sandler. She and some other idiot libs were heckling a speech by Alan West and Sandler refused to leave quietly. Bummer for her. The best part of the vid begins at 3:35...........................Video is here Another article is HERE

It's the political equivalent of a roadside ambush — and Republican U.S. Congress hopeful Allen West has, of all things, a uniform to blame. West, 46, is running for Boca Raton incumbent Democrat Ron Klein's seat but has spent the past two years training military officers in Afghanistan.Still, just because he's been 8,000 miles away doesn't mean that West hasn't had to watch out for what he deems "dirty politics." Example: He tells Page Two by phone from Kabul that last week he received an unsettling call from an investigator at the 82nd Airborne Inspector General's Office. Someone lodged a...

<p>Baghdad - An Army commander who threatened to kill an Iraqi detainee for refusing to answer questions avoided court-martial when his superior decided to let him retire and pay a $5,000 fine, the Army said yesterday.</p>

Republican lawmakers are standing behind a lieutenant colonel who has been threatened by the Army with early retirement or criminal prosecution for his use of an unconventional interrogation technique. In a letter to acting Army Secretary Les Brownlee, Reps. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., and John H. McHugh, R-N.Y., said they were "highly disturbed" the Pentagon was considering leveling criminal charges against Army Lt. Col. Allan West, Copley News Service reported. The Army is considering charging West, an artillery unit commander, with aggravated assault, under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, for his dramatic interrogation technique against an Iraqi policeman suspected of...

I recently wrote an article an published on FreeRepublic entitled Colonel West...you've got my back anytime. That article haas received a lot of attention and became a very good thread with people inside and outside the military analyzing and commneting on the episode in Iraq where this fine Lt. Colonel acted on his own volition in a time-sensitive, combat environment to extract information from an enemy spy within the coalition fomred and supported Iraqi Police Force. The method of intimidation Colonel West used to extract the information has become the center of controversy and is leading to military legal proceedings...

Letters To Leaders All messages are published with permission of the sender. The general topic of this message is Defense/Military: Subject: Lt. Col. Allen B. West To: Sen. Charles Schumer November 6, 2003 Sir, With all due respect, this is the very first time I have ever written to a Senator. With regards to this fine officer and the plight he is in. I have attached the article below if you are unaware of his situation. As an American, and as a veteran myself, I am utterly disgusted, shocked, and ashamed that our Army is harassing this man and is...

<p>A Web site called "PatriotPetitions" has begun collecting signatures for a letter to President Bush, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and congressional leaders on behalf of accused Army Lt. Col. Allen B. West.</p> <p>The West case has stirred anger across the country among pro-military people. It is a daily topic on talk radio. The 4th Infantry Division is moving to court-martial Col. West on a charge of assault for scaring an Iraqi detainee into talking. Col. West admits he violated the rules of interrogation by firing his 9 mm pistol twice to frighten the Iraqi. He has asked to retire at the 20-year mark rather than face a trial.</p>

The following is Lt. Col. Allen B. West's own candid comment regarding the situation he faced in Iraq, as reported by the Washington Dispatch on November 5, 2003: "I have never denied what happened and have always been brutally honest," said Col. West. "I accept responsibility for the episode, but my intent was to scare this individual and keep my soldiers out of a potential ambush. There were no further attacks from that town. We ... apprehended two other conspirators (a third fled town) and found out one of the conspirators was the father of a man we had detained...

OPERATION: IRAQI FREEDOM 'Heroic' officer clings to faith Facing charges after foiling ambush plot, 'devastating' to be regarded as a criminal Posted: November 5, 2003 5:00 p.m. Eastern By Art Moore © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com A U.S. Army officer facing assault charges for frightening an Iraqi into disclosing details of an impending ambush plot says his faith in God has kept him from falling apart amid the severe pain it has caused him and his family. "Without God and my Savior Jesus Christ, I would have cracked a long time ago," Lt. Col. Allen B. West, a battalion commander with the...