A U.S. Army reconnaissance helicopter went down in the northern city of Mosul Friday, killing its two pilots, and a senior officer said it may have been shot down. The armed OH-58 Kiowa was on a combat air patrol with another Kiowa when it went down. Lt. Gen. John Vines, chief of the Multi-National Corps Iraq, told Pentagon reporters that there were indications the crash was due to hostile fire. Soldiers on the ground had said there was some firing in the area when it crashed....
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 Bush rebuffs Merkel on Guantanamo |
Bush has rejected criticism over the Guantanamo Bay camp raised by German Chancellor Angela Merkel during talks in Washington. President Bush said it was a necessary part of protecting the American people. But the two leaders presented a united front over Iran resuming its nuclear programme, and commentators said they appeared to have got on well. It is her first official US visit since her election which, Mr Bush joked, much like his own, was not a landslide win. The two leaders discussed a range of subjects - from the Balkans and the Middle East to the Iraq war - which had strained relations between the US and Germany in recent years. "We openly addressed that there sometimes have been differences of opinion, and I mentioned Guantanamo in this respect," Ms Merkel told the press conference afterwards. ...
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| Today in History - Jan. 14 |
On Jan. 14, 1784, the United States Ratified a Peace Treaty With England, Ending the Revolutionary War. Jan 13, 2006 — Today is Saturday, Jan. 14, the 14th day of 2006. There are 351 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 14, 1784, the United States ratified a peace treaty with England, ending the Revolutionary War. On this date: In 1639, the first constitution of Connecticut the "Fundamental Orders" was adopted. ...
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| Available Housing for Katrina Evacuees Caught in FedVA Offered FEMA Thousands of Single-Family Homes; Deal Finalized Four Months After Storm Hit eral Red Tape |
Since Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast in August, evacuees have lived in shelters, trailers and hotels, desperate for long-term housing. ABC News has learned that housing that could have been provided almost immediately to those displaced was instead tied up in bureacractic red tape. Brazella Briscoe of New Orleans has resided in a cramped hotel room with his wife and son for months. "If you were on vacation, this would be lovely — like I said, the people are absolutely wonderful — but living here is another situation," he said. Two weeks after Katrina hit, ABC News has learned, the Department of Veterans Affairs offered the Federal Emergency Management Agency 7,000 government-owned, single-family homes. But those houses sat empty for three months while bureaucrats squabbled over paperwork. All the Bureaucrats where nice and comfortable while this was going on. Maybe they will get a pay raise and a good report for excelling in Bureaucracy above the call of duty...
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| Pellet Gun-Wielding Student Shot |
An eighth-grader was shot and wounded by a SWAT team officer in a school bathroom Friday after he pulled out a pellet gun that resembled a real weapon, authorities said. He was shot after raising the gun at deputies. Seminole County Sheriff Don Eslinger said the 15-year-old boy brought the gun to Milwee Middle School in his backpack. Eslinger said two students saw it and one persuaded the other to report it, causing a scuffle. The alleged gunman told one of the students to go into a closet, ran from the classroom and "traveled with this firearm throughout the campus," Eslinger said. Deputies eventually isolated him in a restroom, and the school was evacuated. It took a long time for the SWAT team to admit the gun was a pellet gun. But not to worry all the Cops are safe....
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| Pentagon grilled over database on war critics Senator demands information about program first disclosed by NBC News |
Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Thursday asked for answers on an obscure Pentagon agency that included reports on student anti-war protests and other peaceful civilian demonstrations in a database meant to detect terrorist activities.“Under what circumstances can peaceful protests at universities or by anti-war groups be monitored?” Feinstein, D-Calif., wrote in a letter to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.“What authorities, and under what regulations, do military counterintelligence units have to conduct investigations on U.S. persons?” she wrote. At issue is a classified database of information about suspicious people and activity inside the United States that’s maintained by a three-year-old Pentagon agency called the Counterintelligence Field Activity, whose size and budget also are classified....
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