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I frequently pull “all-nighters” because I like to trade foreign currency. It occurred to me that there might be several of you that skipped the sack last night – as I did – because of the elections. Here are some things that I’ve found helpful in fighting off fatigue from lack of sleep. Some advise against large amounts of caffeine in this situation. I disagree. I actually have a feedbag of coffee on my shoulder at all times. Try not to get out of hand though because drinking too much will make you feel irritated rather than more energetic. Eat....

BOYS TOWN, Neb. — An Iraqi orphan credited with helping U.S. troops capture insurgents in Baghdad started a new life Tuesday at Girls and Boys Town, the storied home for troubled youngsters. Wearing a Girls and Boys Town windbreaker and holding a plastic American flag on a stick, “Johnny,” 16 — the nickname U.S. soldiers gave him — said he was happy to be in the USA. “Everything's OK,” Johnny said. “Real cool.” Soldiers in Baghdad encountered the boy living on the streets and discovered that he knew a lot about the people behind insurgent attacks in the city, said...

  Actionable Intelligence Prevents VBIED Attack Tikrit, Iraq -- Based on actionable intelligence received from an Iraqi informant and developed by the Forward Operating Base Speicher Force Protection Cell, Task Force 1-18 Scouts conducted a raid in Al Sequor to kill or capture a suspected vehicle-borne improvised explosive device maker. The units rapidly coordinated their efforts and moved to the scene. Once on site the house was cordoned off, the insurgent was detained, and the Scouts confiscated: 2.5 million Dinar, $3,000, a 9mm pistol, detailed strip maps of FOB Speicher, plastic explosives, and a car that was rigged to...

FORT CARSON, Colo. - First Sgt. Daniel Hendrex was getting ready to leave the war when he went to see the Iraqi teenager one last time. He roused the boy from sleep and gave him his floppy camouflage hat and a promise. Stay safe, Hendrex said. We will do what we can to get you out of here. The 13-year-old clutched the hat and held out his arms. They hugged, teary-eyed. And then Hendrex was gone. It had been four months since the skinny, street-smart Iraqi blurted out to American soldiers at a border checkpoint in Husaybah, Iraq, that he...

Iraqi colonel arrested as a rebel spy By Aqeel Hussein in Samarra (Filed: 26/09/2004) A colonel in the Iraqi National Guard has been arrested on charges of aiding insurgents by passing on tip-offs about planned raids on resistance safe houses. Samir Al-daraji led a unit of Iraqi troops that carried out raids around the rebel-held city of Samarra, north west of Baghdad. American troops arrested him last week after a series of operations went wrong and troops attacked empty houses that had previously been identified as resistance command centres. "It is true that Col Al-daraji gave information to the resistance,"...

September 4, 2004 -- Al Qaeda plans to use fuel-laden trucks to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge, the Empire State Building and one of the tunnels to New Jersey between Sept. 24 and Oct. 10, an anonymous tipster recently warned federal authorities. Homeland security officials took the tip seriously enough to pass it on to the Police Department and other government agencies this week, law-enforcement sources told The Post.

Iraqi teen turned in his father, faces dangerous future By MICHAEL M. PHILLIPS The Associated Press 6/14/04 9:18 AM The Wall Street Journal HUSAYBAH, Iraq -- One day in December, a smooth-chinned 14-year-old approached American soldiers at a checkpoint here and asked surreptitiously to be arrested. He told the soldiers that his father, an Iraqi Army officer under Saddam Hussein, led a 40-man cell of insurgents, and he agreed to show the troops where to find the men and their weapons. The soldiers put a sack over the teen's head, loosely cuffed his hands and led him away to a...

NEWS CREW IN IRAQ TIPPED OFF TO LOCATION OF ROADSIDE BOMB DID NOT RELAY INFORMATION TO COALITION CONVOY MOSUL, Iraq - Coalition soldiers questioned two news media cameramen and a reporter after a roadside bomb exploded near a Coalition convoy two kilometers north of Mosul June 3. The media, who were at the scene prior to the attack, told soldiers at the scene they had received a tip to be at that location prior to the attack and they had witnessed the explosion. There was minimal damage to a Coalition vehicle, a cracked windshield, and no serious injuries. 3rd Brigade,...

NEWS RELEASE HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND 7115 South Boundary Boulevard MacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101 Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- June 3, 2004 Release Number: 04-06-09 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE COALITION SOLDIERS QUESTION NEWS MEDIA FOLLOWING ROADSIDE BOMB MOSUL, Iraq - Coalition soldiers questioned two news media cameramen and a reporter after a roadside bomb exploded near a Coalition convoy two kilometers north of Mosul June 3. The media, who were at the scene prior to the attack, told soldiers at the scene they had received a tip to be at that location prior to the attack...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The FBI has received more than 2,000 tips from the public in the 24 hours after a news conference asking for help in locating seven people Attorney General John Ashcroft called al Qaeda operatives. "Many thanks for your help on locating those pictured below," the FBI Web site said Thursday. "Over 2,000 tips were sent by mid-afternoon today on tips.fbi.gov alone. Please keep them coming." Officials could not provide the number of tips that came in phone calls. Calls to numbers provided on the "Be on the Look Out" Web pages are being fielded by the Counterterrorism...

<p>May 22, 2004 -- WASHINGTON - Jordan's King Abdullah fueled the U.S. move against Iraqi leader Ahmed Chalabi by providing bombshell intelligence that his group was spying for Iran, The Post has learned. An explosive dossier that the Jordanian monarch recently brought with him to White House sessions with President Bush detailed Mafia-style extortion rackets and secret information on U.S. military operations being passed to Iran, diplomats said.</p>

  Information Leads to Capture Near Tuz TIKRIT, IRAQ - Task Force Danger soldiers from 1st Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment detained two suspected arms traffickers in a raid near Tuz at 3:30 a.m. March 25. The soldiers detained the suspects after an Iraqi citizen identified them. The two are suspected of transporting large quantities of weapons between Nasiriyah, Baghdad, Kirkuk and Hawija. The two were taken to a Coalition detention center. Release #040326ahttp://www.cjtf7.com/media-information/march2004/040326a.htm Information Leads 1-18 Infantry to Cache TIKRIT, Iraq – Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment located a weapons cache south of Bayji March 24 at...

<p>ROCKVILLE, Md. — Two men will share a $500,000 reward for providing information that led to the arrests of the Washington-area snipers nearly two years ago, officials said Saturday.</p> <p>Robert Holmes, of Tacoma, Wash., will get $350,000 for tipping authorities that his friend John Allen Muhammad might be the shooter. Whitney Donahue, of Greencastle, Pa., will get $150,000 for spotting the snipers' Chevrolet Caprice at a rest stop in Frederick County, Md., where they were arrested.</p>

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The informant who helped lead the U.S. military to ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's two sons has been paid most of a $30 million reward for the tip-off, the State Department said on Saturday. "The informant who gave us information on the whereabouts of Uday and Qusay Hussein has been paid the bulk of the reward within the last couple of days, and has control over payment of the balance of the reward," said State Department spokeswoman Joanne Moore. "The informant and his family have been relocated." Uday and Qusay Hussein were killed in a firefight with...

February 28, 2004 Release Number: 04-02-52 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Stryker Brigade soldiers collect weapons in northern Iraq MOSUL, Iraq - Soldiers from 1st Squadron, 14th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team), under the operational control of Task Force Olympia, recovered several caches of weapons in northern Iraq Friday. Members of the Coalition for Iraqi Unity, a concerned group of citizens in northwestern Iraq, approached 1st Squadron, 14th Cavalry Regiment and turned in 34 60 mm mortar rounds, five 82 mm mortar rounds, 15 120 mm mortar rounds, 520 14.5 mm rounds, one 60 mm...

Iraqi Citizens Keep Leading U.S. Forces to Weapons and Suspects American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Feb. 27, 2004 -- Iraqi citizens continue to point U.S. troops to sites where weapons and ammunitions are being found – even in some cases hand delivering turn-in of the deadly munitions. Over the past week there have been at least four incidents where Iraqi civilians have led U.S. troops to hidden stockpiles of weapons and ammunition, coalition officials report. In Mosul, a concerned group of citizens in northwestern Iraq, known as the Coalition of Iraqi Unity, led soldiers of the 1st Squadron, 14th...

Iraqi informer's family is marked for death Nawaf al-Zaidan earned $30m by leading the US to Saddam's sons. Now local tribes have sworn revenge Rory McCarthy in Mosul Saturday January 24, 2004 The Guardian (UK) The spot where Nawaf al-Zaidan's mansion once stood is now empty. Bulldozers flattened the building, leaving a neat square of red earth, as if to erase the memory of what happened here six months ago. Scrawled nearby in red paint are the words: "Houses and land for sale." On July 22 last year, Mr Zaidan left his home in the al-Bareed suburb of the northern...

After Slaying of Arabs, Residents Say They Will Not Tolerate Foreign Insurgents in Their MidstBy Nadia Abou El-Magd Associated Press WriterPublished: Jan 19, 2004 BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - For six months, the Arab foreigners lived quietly in a Baghdad neighborhood with their wives and children, until neighbors tipped off U.S. forces they could be insurgents. On Monday morning, American soldiers came to the door of a brown-brick house and - speaking in Arabic over a loudspeaker - ordered those inside to surrender. When the raid was over, three men were dead, a Syrian and two Yemenis. Two of the men...

Task Force Ironhorse Solders Get Assistance From Iraqi Citizens TIKRIT, Iraq – In two examples of how Iraqi citizens are taking responsibility for their country’s security and stability 173rd Airborne Brigade soldiers foiled an improvised explosive device attack and confiscated hundreds of rounds of mortar shells in the Kirkuk area. In Sulaymn-Bak, soldiers raided a building in the evening of Jan. 14 after they learned from an Iraqi citizen that men who used the building were planning to attack Coalition Forces with improvised explosive devices. They captured two men suspected of being involved in the planning of the attack....