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12:44 PM PT -- 9/5 -- TMZ has learned the names of the other two people who died from an apparent OD, alongside Fuquan Johnson -- and one is, indeed, another comic. Law enforcement tells us that the two other deceased victims are Enrico Colangeli (Rico Angeli) and Natalie Williamson, who were 48 and 33 years old, respectively. Meanwhile, it looks like Kate Quigley is going to pull through. As for who owns the place where this went down -- there's a few owners listed ... and we do know Quigley was a resident (and perhaps still is) at what...

El-Erian Explains Why Spain Desperately Needs To Avoid The 'Roach Motel' Of Outside Funding After months of resisting external aid, Spanish budget minister Cristobal Montoro said European institutions should help shore up the nation’s lenders. In fact reports suggest that there is a plan in place that would allow Spain to recapitalize its weakest banks with help from European partners. But in a Financial Times editorial, PIMCO's Mohamed El-Erian says there's a reason Spain had long avoided emergency European funding: "So far, emergency European funding has been impossible to exit, like a “roach motel”.

WASHINGTON, March 23, 2008 – Coalition forces in Iraq killed 12 terrorists today during an operation east of Baqouba targeting members of a suicide bombing network, military officials said. The ground force was attacked with small-arms fire as it approached the targeted building. Responding to the hostile threat, coalition forces engaged five armed men, killing them, officials said. The ground forces ordered the occupants to come out of the building. Some complied with the order, but others remained inside, according to officials. Coalition forces entered the building and were fired upon by several armed men. Seven more terrorists were killed...

"Situation critical." The young British bombardier spoke urgently into the handset of his radio above the crack of small arms around him and the heavier thud of rocket-propelled grenades. The radio antennae on the jeep beside him abruptly cartwheeled away and an RPG round sailed gracefully five feet overhead. "Incoming mortar and RPG rounds getting closer and more accurate. Situation critical," he repeated. As the bombardment continued, Bombardier Sam New from 7 Para Royal Horse Artillery, began to feed complex sets of grid references to the disjointed voices of American and British close air support pilots circling high above Helmand....

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AFP) - Afghan police said they had killed 25 Taliban in a fierce battle in southern Afghanistan. The fighting erupted in Uruzgan province after a band of rebels attacked a police post in the Chora district, General Mohammad Qasem -- the provincial police commander -- said Friday. A policeman was killed and five wounded in the attack. Police reinforcements were brought in, sparking renewed clashes. "During the fighting 25 Taliban were killed," Qasem said by telephone. Around 1,400 Dutch soldiers are based in Uruzgan, one of six provinces in southern Afghanistan that came under the command of a...

Taliban fighters in a pocket of Kandahar province in Afghanistan "paid a very heavy price" for going on the offensive against North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) forces, and the NATO response, called Operation Medusa, resulted in a Taliban retreat, General James Jones, commander of European Command and Supreme Allied Commander Europe for NATO, said during a Pentagon briefing on Wednesday. The arrival of 6,000 NATO troops in Kandahar was "a culture shock to the region," and the Taliban "decided to make a test case of this region," Jones said. While NATO forces were surprised by the level of violence, "what...

WASHINGTON (RTRS): Nato’s southern Afghanistan offensive this month killed 1,000 to 1,500 Taleban fighters, a large chunk of the entire force, passing a major test on the battlefield, its top operational commander said on Wednesday. Gen. James Jones, Nato’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe, also said alliance allies have committed to provide at least 2,000 of the roughly 2,000-2,500 extra troops he sought to bolster the 20,000-strong Nato force in Afghanistan. “There are some countries that I’m not free to announce that are going to make some contributions in the near future,” the US Marine Corps general told a Pentagon briefing....

Taliban in Panjwaii on verge of collapse: NATO Updated Sat. Sep. 9 2006 1:45 PM ET CTV.ca News Staff Insurgent fighters in a Taliban stronghold are being pounded by NATO forces and are on the verge of collapse, said the commander of Canadian forces in southern Afghanistan on Saturday. Backed by U.S. and British air power, Canadian and Afghan troops took turns moving through former insurgent outposts in the Panjwaii region, where Taliban are engaging in a "last stand," according to Lt.-Col. Omer Lavoie One U.S. soldier was killed Saturday in a rocket attack -- the first casualty alliance forces...

Dozens of insurgents reported dead KANDAHAR, Afghanistan NATO says dozens of Afghan insurgents have been killed in an operation by Afghan and NATO forces against Taliban fighters. Officials say the goal was to clear out those fighters from an area near the main southern city of Kandahar. An Afghan defense official cites intelligence reports as saying 89 suspected Taliban militants died during two days of fighting. He says an unknown number of civilians were also killed. NATO says its troops reported dozens of insurgents killed during fighting yesterday, the first day of the operation. It says many more were wounded,...

<p>Breaking news just announced - 200 Taliban fighters killed this morning in Afghanistan.</p>

IAF fighter jets dropped over 20 tons in bombs late Wednesday night on a Hizbullah bunker, possibly the hiding place of the group's leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, in the Bourj al-Barajneh refugee camp in southeast Beirut. It was still unclear who was in the bunker at the time and what their fate was, but IDF sources said the bunker was totally destroyed and that all that was left was a crater. The IDF obtained intelligence information late Wednesday night that Hizbullah leaders possibly including Nasrallah had taken refuge inside the bunker. A wave of aircraft immediately took to the air...

The Sunday Times June 04, 2006 British brigade of Islamists join Al-Qaeda foreign legion in Iraq David Leppard UP TO 150 Islamic radicals have travelled from Britain to Iraq to join up with a “British brigade” that has been established by Al-Qaeda leaders to fight coalition forces. Senior security sources say leaders of the Iraqi insurgency have set up a “foreign legion” composed entirely of westerners to fight alongside the insurgents in the war against British and American forces. Some are preparing to carry out suicide attacks while others have received basic combat training for attacks on western troops The...

HERE'S THE STORY - KABC's Al Rantel coined the term "the Roach Motel of Islam" MIDI - HOTEL CALIFORNIA (about a 50 second intro) Their religion is peaceful, or so they will proclaim But when they stop your breathing...it's done in Allah's name If you are a cartoonist, you better watch what you draw Or you could end up like some Clinton friends...below ground in Arkansas You can hear Muslims warning that we'd better convert Or you may just lose your head... that's a procedure that really does hurt Do not leave their religion...or you will die 'Cause Mohammed...

GAZA - Israeli artillery fire killed two Palestinians in north Gaza on Saturday after militants in the area fired a rocket toward Israel, Palestinian security sources said. A Palestinian witness said he saw three men on the outskirts of the town of Beit Lahiya, a militant stronghold, when artillery shells flew from the direction of Israel and hit them. An army spokeswoman said troops near the border fired shells at a group of Palestinian militants who had mounted a rocket launcher and had prepared to fire it toward Israel. Palestinian security sources said two of the men were killed and...

GAZA, Dec 30 (Reuters) - European Union monitors withdrew from Gaza's border with Egypt on Friday after Palestinian police imposed an armed blockade to protest the killing of a colleague in spiralling internal violence. Already busy searching for three Britons abducted nearby on Wednesday, officials scrambled to defuse the standoff at the Rafah border crossing, whose opening last month was hailed as a step to make Gaza a testing ground for Palestinian statehood. Unrest has been growing since Israel withdrew in September after 38 years of occupation. The power struggle among police, gangs and factions waging a 5-year-old uprising against...

United Nations human rights experts yesterday said they had reliable accounts of inmates being tortured at Guantanamo Bay and accused the United States of hindering their attempts to visit detainees at the US naval base in Cuba. The four independent experts said the US had not responded to numerous requests to check the condition of terrorist suspects at the camp. They said their request for a visit was "based on information, from reliable sources, of serious allegations of torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of detainees, arbitrary detention, violations of their right to health and their due process rights". The...

Tehran (AsiaNews/Agencies) – Mohammed Ali Samadi, spokesman for the Iran-based ‘Army of Martyrs', announced that his organisation would soon begin operations in Iraq against US troops in Iraq once training for the more than 20,000 volunteer suicide bombers recruited since June is completed. The first company named after Yahya Ayyash, a member of the Palestinian group Hamas killed by the Israelis, will begin operating in mid-December “in sympathy with the oppressed people of Fallujah”.Set up by the Committee for the Commemoration of Martyrs of the Global Islamic Campaign, the Army started recruiting terrorists in June of this year. Registration...