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WASHINGTON, Nov. 27, 2007 – Important progress the military is making in the war on terror would be derailed if Congress doesn’t pass a supplemental war spending bill “in short order,” Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates told the Killeen, Texas, Chamber of Commerce yesterday. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates addresses members of the Chamber of Commerce during a dinner reception for the Fort Hood community in Killeen, Texas, Nov. 26, 2007. Photo by Cherie A. Thurlby   (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Congress has passed supplemental measures, but each includes timetables for the withdrawal of American troops from...

BROOKS, Kentucky (CNN) -- A train derailed Tuesday morning just south of Louisville, Kentucky, sparking a huge fire and shutting down part of nearby Interstate 65 in both directions, the Bullitt County Sheriff's Office said.

Service on Norway's northern train line (Nordlandsbanen) wasn't expected to resume until Wednesday afternoon at the earliest, after a train collided with a moose and derailed. The train, designed to carry loads of iron ore, derailed after it hit the moose on the tracks Monday evening. "It must have been a monster moose," said Harry Korslund of the agency in charge of the rails, Jernbaneverket. "It all depends, of couse, on how the train hit the moose, but in this case it was enough that it derailed." The accident occurred between Dunderland and Mo i Rana. Passengers were being transported...

Federal officials have been squabbling in recent weeks over a proposal to give operations of some U.S. ports to a Dubai company, but in Texas, state officials don't appear to share the same concerns about a Spanish company operating portions of the proposed Trans-Texas Corridor. On Thursday, a state-owned Dubai company announced it was backing out of a deal to manage some terminal operations at six American ports, amid a political firestorm in Congress. President Bush supported the arrangement, but it was opposed by some in Congress who expressed concern about security issues arising from having a foreign company operating...

TOURS – Trans-Texas Corridor critics denounced the state's handling of the project on Tuesday and called on McLennan County residents to organize against the proposed transportation network. In a meeting at Tours Hall in eastern McLennan County, speakers urged the roughly 200 attendants to slow down or stop the Texas Department of Transportation's plan to build a network of tolled highways, railways and utility infrastructure from San Antonio to Dallas. “We have to raise the political cost, and how you raise political cost is you organize,” said Chris Hammel, chairman of the Bell County anti-corridor group Blacklands Coalition. The McLennan...

Freight Train Derails, Burns in Northwestern Wisconsin, Forcing Evacuations The Associated Press Apr 14, 2005 SOLON SPRINGS, Wis. (AP) - Nineteen cars of a freight train derailed Thursday, sparking a fire and forcing the evacuation of some nearby homes because of fears the flames could cause a pressurized tanker car to explode, officials said. No one was hurt in the derailment of a Union Pacific train just outside the Village of Solon Springs in far northwestern Wisconsin. Firefighters, however, had to back a half-mile away from the burning wreck until they could be sure the tanker containing petroleum residue wouldn't...

A shuttle train derailed this morning at Grand Central Terminal, injuring four of the seven passengers riding on board. New York City transit officials say the train was approaching the station at about 6 a-m. when it hit a bumper block causing it to derail. Four of the passengers sustained minor injuries and were treated at the scene. The train operator was not injured. The shuttle, which runs between Grand Central Terminal and Times Square, resumed service at 6:45 a-m.

A train derailed on a bridge as it pulled out of a southern Indian station Wednesday, and its engine and two coaches fell onto a fish market and parked three-wheel taxis, killing at least 18 people, officials said. The train cars fell onto a road, smashing taxis as well as motor scooters, said Nalin Prabhat, the police superintendent in Andhra Pradesh state, where the accident occurred. Police feared some people may have been killed in the crowded fish market under the bridge, as well as in the dangling coaches. A railway official said at least 18 people had been killed,...

Captured al-Qa'eda man was FBI spy By David Rennie in Washington (Filed: 23/06/2003) The American al-Qa'eda operative unmasked last week as having planned to bring down the Brooklyn Bridge was first detained in March, and has been used by the FBI for months as a double agent, it was reported yesterday. Iyman Faris US authorities waited until last week to announce a plea bargain struck with Iyman Faris, a Pakistani-born lorry driver ordered to scout out terror targets, including the New York landmark. They did not say that Faris, who was also ordered to study ultralight aircraft, and the possibility...

June 19 — An Ohio truck driver who lived a "secret double life" has admitted to meeting with Osama bin Laden and plotting with al Qaeda to launch new attacks in the United States, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced today. Iyman Faris, a U.S. citizen, has pleaded guilty to two counts of providing material support to terrorists, stemming from a variety of plots against targets in the United States, including the Brooklyn Bridge. "From late 2000 to March of this year, Faris worked in concert with al Qaeda, our enemies, to plot potential attacks against America and its citizens here...

<p>ALEXANDRIA, Va. — An Ohio truck driver worked directly with Al Qaeda (search) terrorists in a plot to derail trains in the United States and sabotage a bridge in New York City, believed to be the Brooklyn Bridge (search), Attorney General John Ashcroft said Thursday as he announced the man's guilty plea to two felony charges.</p>