Afghans say joint operation with US kills 7 Taliban
With all the rhetoric over Gitmo, the Koran, and of course Iraq -- I am afraid we are forgetting those honorably "fighting the good fight" in Afghanistan.
KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. and Afghan forces killed seven Taliban insurgents and detained 10 in an operation in southern Afghanistan aimed at containing rising guerrilla violence, a senior Afghan army officer said on Wednesday.
The militants were killed on Tuesday in a joint operation in Mian Nishin district of Kandahar province, said General Muslim Amid, the senior Afghan army officer in the southern region.
Spain arrests 16 suspected terrorists - Terrorism & Security - MSNBC.comWhere is Amnesty International -- this is possible abuse isn't it?
Of course, I am kidding! I am glad to see Spain taking an active role by capturing terrorist even though they wavered when threatened.
MADRID, Spain - Spanish police arrested 11 people linked to the Islamic terror network run by Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi, and another five suspects in the Madrid train bombings of last year, police said Wednesday.
Iraq 'military operation' frees Australia hostage - Iraq's New Chapter - MSNBC.com
To bad for liberals, but this hostage situation turned out for the best and with the HELP, got that HELP, of military members -- amazing what can be accomplished when you enlist the help or at a minimum notify the US military.
"Mr. Wood was recovered a short while ago in Baghdad in a military operation that I am told was conducted by Iraqi forces in cooperation in a general way with force elements of the United States," Howard said, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corp."
CNN.com - Oil-for-food memo raises questions for Annan
Well thank goodness this "Oil-for-Food scam" is not going away -- and I believe Annan is knee deep in it. He at a minimum knew what "sonny boy" was upto... I cannot help but remember this is the organization (The UN) and man that liberals wanted us to cater to and wait for their approval before moving forward with the "War on Terror" -- by the way, have they (The UN) agreed on the definition of terrorist yet?.
UNITED NATIONS (CNN) -- Investigators probing the United Nations' oil-for-food program said Tuesday they are reviewing an e-mail that suggests a communication between Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the company that won a lucrative contract and employed his son.
Kansas Preacher Announces Plans To Protest Idaho Soldier's FuneralThis is what hurts conservative Christians -- I grantee this will be a rally cry for many liberals and I will be lumped in with this ______, I don't like that one bit!
(BOISE - AP) - The Kansas preacher who tried to erect an anti-gay monument in a Boise city park says he's coming to Idaho this week to picket the funeral of a fallen soldier.
Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, says God killed Idaho National Guard Corporal Carrie French with an improvised explosive device. Phelps says God is retaliating against America for a bombing of his church six years ago.
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Phelps says there is no reason he is targeting French specifically. He says his church will protest any public funeral of soldiers killed in Iraq.
(Hat tip:
Mudville Gazette)
The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Pressure to close Guantanamo growsI think Senator Chuck Hagel needs to place some of the blame, if not all, on the media -- reporting every single incident as a negative even before any investigation is STARTED... Amazing the same people that "say"(?) they care so much about world opinion, the left, are the same ones that drag the US military and the country through the mud just to "get President Bush" (yet another example of the ends justifying the means in their minds and hate-filled hearts).
But Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb. said the situation in Guantanamo is one reason why the United States is 'losing the image war around the world,' and suggested closing the prison could help.
'It's identifiable with, for right or wrong, a part of America that people in the world believe is a power, an empire that pushes people around; we do it our way, we don't live up to our commitments to multilateral institutions,' Hagel told CNN's 'Late Edition.'
Just drive my point home --
32 successive New York Times front page articles on Abu Ghraib since May 1st, unbelievable. (Hat tip:
Little green footballs)
No plan to close Guantanamo prison: Cheney - Sify.com
Like I said last week,
here, "I am fine if Guantanamo is closed because it has run it's due course and we have found other means. However, to cave to pressures...." -- I am they/we are not caving.
Washington: The US government has no plans to close its prison at Guantanamo Bay, Vice President Dick Cheney said in an interview airing Monday, as controversy about the 'war on terror' detention camp flared anew over the latest revelation of detainee treatment.
'At present, there's no plan to close Gitmo. The president says we review all of our options on a continuous basis,' Cheney told Fox News, using a slang term for the site.
Mytob worm turns to phishing - ZDNet UK News
I know a few that were not fully protected and did not practice common sense with their e-mail and got 'hit' -- so I thought I would share this.
The emails masquerade as a legitimate email from the recipient's IT department or Internet service provider, and include references to the recipient's domain name and email address to give the message more legitimacy. Recipients are told that a security problem has been found with their account and they should click on the link to confirm the account.
Google it
Interesting way to get the message out.
Click on the picture to view the announcement.
Dean Pledges to Talk Tough - Yahoo! News
Well this is good news for future elections -- I continue to say "I hope he[Dean] continues to make asinine comments like this and insulting the very people he is charged with enticing to vote Democrat."
NO RETREAT: Howard Dean says positive responses from supporters have reinforced his determination to keep talking tough. Some congressional Democrats have suggested that the party chairman tone down his rhetoric.
CNN.com - Marines: 40 insurgents killed
Our men and women are continuing to do their job -- I hope all, weather you agree or disagree with the reasons for Iraq, remember they are doing their job, doing it well, and need our thanks, always.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- U.S. Marine airstrikes in western Iraq killed about 40 insurgents Saturday, the Marines said.
Durbin blames 'right wing'- Washingtonians.comHere we go again -- grab the tinfoil hats! Let's not blame Dean no it's a conspiracy.
The No. 2 Democrat in the Senate yesterday blamed 'the right wing' and elements of the press 'in service to it' for repeating Howard Dean's remarks about Republicans and inflating them out of proportion.
'I think we all understand what's happening with you all,' said Senate Minority Whip Richard J. Durbin, in remarks echoing Hillary Rodham Clinton's blaming a 'vast right-wing conspiracy' for her husband's legal-ethical woes.
Dean's Remarks Draw Fire From Both Sides of Aisle - New York TimesI truly like Dean in his current role -- as I said on
March 10th -- "Well I cannot tell you how excited I continue be of Howard Dean's DNC position! I hope he continues to make asinine comments like this and insulting the very people he is charged with enticing to vote Democrat"... Well I stand behind that statement and looks like some democrats believe I might be right and want him muzzled... Will he make it the mid-term election? That is the question.
WASHINGTON, June 9 - Just four months into his tenure as chairman of the Democratic Party, Howard Dean has found himself on unforgiving - if familiar - terrain. As he visited Capitol Hill on Thursday, he faced a growing number of critics and received a private scolding from leading members of his party for several derogatory remarks he has made about Republicans in recent weeks.
ABC News: Bush Open to Possibly Closing Gitmo Camp
I am fine if Guantanamo is closed because it has run it's due course and we have found other means. However, to cave to pressures from Amnesty International, Jimmy Carter, and liberals -- say it ain't so!
WASHINGTON Jun 8, 2005 � President Bush on Wednesday left open the possibility that the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, could be shut down following mounting criticism from former President Carter and others.
'We're exploring all alternatives as to how best to do the main objective, which is to protect America,' Bush said when asked in an interview with Fox News Channel's Neil Cavuto if he would close the detention center.
Don't raise taxes - Yahoo! NewsI also found this interesting today -- the effects that are sold as a gotcha to the "rich"(whoever defines that), by liberals, actually has a broader impact.
According to the Heritage Foundation, raising the payroll tax cap would directly raise taxes on 9.8 million American workers, including 3 million small-business owners. This would also reduce Gross Domestic Product by $33 billion per year, on average, over its first 10 years and reduce total employment by an average of 340,000 jobs per year over that period. For these reasons, House conservatives vigorously oppose proposals to 'reform' Social Security by raising taxes.
The American people now see a very clear choice before them: The president's bold vision for reform based on fiscal discipline and choice, and the Democrat vision for reform based on higher taxes. The cure for what ails Social Security is new ideas, not higher taxes.
Taxing the rich won't solve Social Security's problems - Yahoo! NewsThis is an interesting take on increasing the social security tax and it comes from people that have criticized the Bush tax cut. Note that it mentions the 'small business owner" that liberals supposedly care about and a segment they wish to grow... Well I thought it interesting anyway.
But as with a lot of things that seem easy, this tax-the-affluent-minority idea has real drawbacks. Any plan that would fix Social Security solely by taxing a relatively small number of wage earners would undermine its support. Social Security enjoys broad public backing because it is seen as a retirement savings and disability program, not a welfare program. Workers contribute while they work, then collect when they retire.
If the nearly 10 million people who make more than $90,000 a year are asked to pay in a great deal more than they will get out, that principle would be shattered. A 12.4% Social Security tax on all income, combined with other federal and state taxes, would result in affluent self-employed people paying more in taxes than they keep for themselves. That is hardly the way to bolster support for a program about which Americans are expressing increasing doubts.
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That fellow behind the tree isn't responsible for the problem. Making 6% of earners responsible for the whole solution would only show that the other 94% don't care enough about the program to make the necessary sacrifices to save it.
N.Korea seen buying time on nuclear talks-analysts - Boston.com - Asia - NewsMaybe some know the history of the game.
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea's signal to Washington that it is willing to return to nuclear talks could be a tactic to buy time and block Washington from referring the issue to the United Nations, analysts said on Wednesday.
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"This is probably a diplomatic tactic to stall while hanging on to its nuclear programs," said Lee Dong-bok, senior associate with the CSIS think-tank.
"North Korea basically is not going to give up its nuclear programs, so it will come to the talks with demands not acceptable to the United States," he said.
N. Korea agrees to 6-party talks - The Washington TimesWell we have them back on again, at least until the next round of the
game -- and as I have stated and proven when it is off again it will be blamed on the US by both North Korea and the media.
North Korea told the United States it would return to six-party talks on its nuclear weapons program but no date was set, U.S. officials said yesterday. China said negotiations are likely to resume in the next few weeks.
The Bush administration played down the message it received from Pyongyang, saying it lacked specificity.
The message was delivered in New York on Monday, but the administration kept silent about it until yesterday, when officials offered differing and confusing accounts.
BBC NEWS - Deserter Jenkins plans US visit
I prefer if this gentlemen stays out of the United States. He gave up mom, apple pie, and baseball four decades ago -- just my opinion.
A former US soldier who deserted to North Korea in 1965 is to visit the US for the first time in four decades.
Charles Robert Jenkins, who now lives in Japan after being given a dishonourable discharge from the US military, wants to visit his mother.
Guantanamo prison guards attacked - Webindia123.comThere are two sides to every story -- however, US media proves that they don't care... This is covered in one US newspaper as I write this (or at least I could only find it in one after searching Google News and Yahoo News).
Two U.S. Army guards have told of being attacked by a terror suspect at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Speaking with the Washington Times on the condition of anonymity, the soldiers said the attack came last month after they discovered a jagged rectangular piece of metal hidden in a cell while its occupant was taking a shower.
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It's an extreme slap in the face to me frankly that the American public is being led to believe that we're abusing, or mistreating detainees, said Col. Michael Bumgarner, the senior officer at the prison, which holds 585 enemy combatants on suspicion of working for the Taliban and al-Qaida.
