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CAPTION THE PICTURE - Tips from the IMexPOTUS in Iowa Tonight, IMexPOTUS at Harkin's steak fry, Saturday, Sept. 13, 2003, in Indianola, Iowa. Clinton gave tips in the Democratic tradition.

NEWS RELEASEHEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND7115 South Boundary BoulevardMacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894 September 13, 2003Release Number: 03-09-10 IRAQI CITIZENS' TIPS AID COALITION FORCES MOSUL, Iraq - the 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the 101st Airborne Division detained an Iraqi man and his brother on Sep. 11 for violating Coalition weapons laws. A walk-in source said he knew where an individual lived who was hiding a weapons cache. Second Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment immediately sent a quick reaction force to the location of the house. The soldiers confronted the man, asking whether he...

US lays siege to suburb of Mosul after tip-off By Katherine Butler 01 September 2003 American forces backed by helicopters besieged a district in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul yesterday after receiving a tip-off that Saddam Hussein was hiding there. Al-Jazeera, the Qatar-based satellite channel, reported that soldiers backed by air support moved into the al-Arabi district after receiving intelligence that Saddam was in the neighbourhood. Witnesses said that soldiers in 15 armoured vehicles checked a batch of farms in the Hawwi outskirts of Mosul, 240 miles north of Baghdad, as helicopters flew overhead. "There is a heavy presence...

Hambali, the Islamic militant whose arrest has been hailed as a breakthrough in the war on terrorism, was betrayed after members of his Jemaah Islamiah network fell out over money, according to a senior official in Thailand's defence ministry. In a rare dispute within the tightly knit terrorist network, members of a JI cell in Singapore were angry that comrades in Thailand had frittered away a sizeable sum of money they had sent them to fund a suicide bombing team for operations in the kingdom. When the Singaporeans were later arrested, they opened up to investigators, according to the defence...

BAGHDAD, Iraq — A little baksheesh can go a long way in Iraq. At least, that is what U.S. military commanders hunting for Saddam Hussein and his loyalists are hoping. American troops began this month handing out rewards (such “tips” are known in Arabic as baksheesh) to anyone who gives them credible information on the whereabouts of the fugitive former Iraqi leader or any of his elusive supporters. With unemployment in Iraq around 70 percent, soldiers are turning to an incentive that has been successful since Mesopotamians settled on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers thousands of years ago. “The hope...

<p>TIKRIT, Iraq — U.S. forces captured a suspected leader of Saddam Hussein’s loyalist militia, nicknamed “The Rock,” after storming a workers’ hostel in a series of raids in Tikrit Thursday that netted four men suspected of plotting attacks, the military said. The man allegedly organized cells, paid guerrilla fighters and armed them with rocket-propelled grenades and AK-47 assault rifles for attacks on U.S. forces in Saddam’s hometown of Tikrit and surrounding areas, said Lt. Col. Steve Russell, commander of the 22nd Infantry Regiment’s 1st Battalion, which executed the raids.</p>

NEWS RELEASEHEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND7115 South Boundary BoulevardMacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894 August 6, 2003Release Number: 03-08-11 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE COALITION AND IRAQI PEOPLE WORK TO MAKE IRAQ SECURE BAGHDAD, Iraq – Support and cooperation from Iraqi citizens is enabling Coalition forces to seize weapons and detain former regime loyalists. Acting on a tip from a source about an extensive weapons cache stored at a former regime loyalist house in Baghdad, 1st Armored Division soldiers seized the weapons in a raid conducted on Aug. 4. Confiscated weapons and military gear included 31...

TIME learns who in the terrorist camp has been the source of U.S. intelligence on planned airline hijackings TIME has been told that the source for the tip that al-Qaeda leaders are attempting to mount another multi-pronged airline hijacking attack is Ali Abd al-Rahman al-Faqasi al-Ghamdi, aka "Abu Bakr," an al-Qaeda field commander who surrendered to Saudi authorities June 26. Two official sources report that al-Ghamdi is providing an intelligence windfall about potential a-Qaeda plots against the U.S., western and Saudi governments. The sources say Saudi authorities passed al-Ghamdi's allegations about what could be multiple airline hijackings to the CIA,...

In June, Marc Schultz, an Atlanta bookstore clerk, received a call at work from his mother. "The FBI is here," she said. "They say you're not in trouble; they just want to talk. They want to come to the store." Schultz said he was puzzled but could only guess the FBI was performing a routine background check on a friend who had applied for a government job. He was wrong. The FBI was after him. According to Schultz, two agents came to the bookstore and quizzed him about his brief stop at a coffee shop a few days earlier, asking...

The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. agents have reportedly found some evidence of a weapons program in Iraq, but the CIA refused to discuss any details with lawmakers. Democrats, critical of the searches that have thus far proved to be fruitless, questioned President Bush's reasons for ordering the U.S.-led invasion. "There was no imminent danger, and we should never have gone to war," said Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass. CIA adviser David Kay, who is serving as a special adviser for the weapons search, told lawmakers on Thursday that inspectors have found physical evidence of Iraqi activity on weapons...

The killing of Odai and Qusai Hussein has led to a surge of tips to occupying authorities, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Sunday, amid reports that an early-morning raid by U.S. troops in Tikrit missed seizing Saddam Hussein's security chief, and perhaps the former Iraqi leader himself, by a day. In an additional raid thought to have been aimed at catching the elusive Saddam, American soldiers searched a tribal leader's home in Baghdad on Sunday night but came up empty-handed. Iraqi witnesses said at least two civilians were killed when troops fired on two cars speeding...

SEATTLE - There's something missing from Playboy magazine's "Women of Starbucks" issue, and it's not just clothing. Of the 10 baristas shown in the issue that hits the stands Tuesday, none is from Seattle, the coffee retailer's home town and birthplace, magazine spokeswoman Theresa Hennessey said Wednesday. Half of those chosen for the eight-page spread are from California, including cover model Signe Nordli of Anaheim. Hennessey said the photography editor couldn't remember how many of the nearly 300 women who applied were from Seattle. Despite the lack of local participants, Playboy has scheduled a magazine signing with Nordli on Monday...

The FBI wants to hear from you. That’s what Tim Flynn, supervisory special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s field office in Wilmington, said Tuesday at the Pinehurst Community Watch block captain’s meeting held in the village hall. Citizen involvement is ultimately integral to homeland security, in these days: post-Sept. 11, 2001, he said. “You are the ones that are going to give us the information that’s going to prevent the next terrorist attack,” Flynn said. There’s probably not going to be an attack here, in Moore County or the rest of North Carolina, he said. But terrorists can...

Headline: Thousands Worldwide Protest War in IraqSub-head: Hundreds of Thousands Worldwide Open Day of Rallies Against Possible MilitaLead: Millions of protesters many of them marching in the capitals of America's traditional allies demonstrated Saturday against possible U.S. plans to attack Iraq.ry Action in Iraq

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Rape victim seeks reward for arrest tip 12/07/02 MAXINE BERNSTEIN The last alleged victim of Ladon Andre Stephens thinks she should receive the $10,000 reward for information leading to his April arrest and indictment in the Melissa Bittler slaying. But Crime Stoppers has given the money to a tipster who two months earlier gave police Stephens' name, even though that tip did not lead to his arrest. Stephens wasn't arrested until the April rape victim, Lakecia Banks, 24, reported her assault and identified him as her attacker. Once police arrested Stephens in April, they got a warrant to obtain his...

Every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine subscription you buy and medical prescription you fill, every Web site you visit and e-mail you send or receive, every academic grade you receive, every bank deposit you make, every trip you book and every event you attend — all these transactions and communications will go into what the Defense Department describes as "a virtual, centralized grand database." To this computerized dossier on your private life from commercial sources, add every piece of information that government has about you — passport application, driver's license and bridge toll records, judicial and...

Wednesday, September 11, 2002 The Lessons of 9-11 John W. Whitehead | Be aware of future attacks but don't surrender cherished freedoms in kneejerk response Who could ever forget the horrific images of 9-11? Between the media and our own memories, they have become imprinted on our minds. And although tribute and remembrance are expected as Americans observe the anniversary of that infamous day, if we do not soon learn the lessons of Sept. 11, then no amount of patriotism or nostalgia will benefit us. Our understanding of the word "terror" is derived from the Latin terrere, which means "to...

Our National NeighborhoodBy Tammy BruceFrontPageMagazine.com | August 20, 2002 You remember, don't you? The images of people jumping from the windows of the World Trade Center; the phone calls from loved ones on airplanes, doomed to die; Americans working in their offices, all slaughtered on September 11 by beasts who thought only of themselves. These Islamist thugs parasitically inserted themselves into this country with the sole goal of destroying their host. I remember, which is why I wholeheartedly support Operation TIPS (Terrorism Information and Prevention System), a part of the Citizen Corps, designed to enable the public to participate...

Operation TIPS Being Modified Following Criticism From Civil Liberties Groups FNC Saturday, August 10, 2002 WASHINGTON — A Bush administration proposal for a network of anti-terrorism tipsters is being revamped after civil liberties groups and some federal lawmakers said it would encourage Americans to peek into each other’s homes in the name of national security. The Operation TIPS (Terrorism Information and Prevention System) program being crafted by the Justice Department was scheduled to launch in 10 pilot cities this month. But administration officials said Friday the launch will be delayed until Congress returns in September. The move is being made...