 Two Iraqi insurgent groups, one linked to al Qaeda, have vowed to step up attacks on U.S. and Iraqi forces to avenge the alleged rapes of women by members of the security force, according to Web statements purportedly posted by the organizations on Thursday."The office of our emir condemns the assaults on our sisters' honor," the Islamic State of Iraq said at the top of its statement, posted on an Islamic Web site known for hosting extremist material.The Islamic State of Iraq is the name that a group of militant organizations, including al Qaeda in Iraq, adopted when they declared the establishment of an Islamic state in Iraq last October. The "emir" is the group's leader, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi.The statement went on to say it would not tolerate "these violations of our people."...
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 U.S. troops clash with insurgents in Ramadi At least 12 killed in firefight; 2 suspects held in attacks on U.S. choppers |
US troops battled insurgents in fierce fighting that killed at least 12 people in the volatile Sunni city of Ramadi, the military said Thursday. Iraqi authorities said the dead included women & children. The 6-hour firefight began after the US troops were attacked by insurgents with small-arms fire & rocket-propelled grenades Wed evening in eastern Ramadi, said Marine spokesman 1st Lt. Shawn Mercer. The fighting ended after “precision guided munitions” damaged a number of buildings being used by the insurgents, he said. 12 insurgents were killed & 3 were wounded, adding that there were no civilian casualties. However, Dr. Hafidh Ibrahim of the Ramadi Hospital said 26 people, including 4 women & children, were killed when 3 houses were damaged in the fighting. Photographs made available to The AP showed the bodies of 2 small boys wrapped in one blanket, one with a bloody face, the other ashen & with mud on his mouth, his hands crossed on his chest. Other photos showed 4 or 5 bodies...
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| U.S. can't stay for long in Afghanistan |
An Afghan warlord on a U.S. wanted list has said the United States does not have the capacity to stay for long in Afghanistan and he predicts it will pull out at the same time as it withdraws from Iraq. Denouncing the United States as "the mother of problems," Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a former prime minister whose forces operate in southeastern areas near Pakistan, said Afghanistan's turmoil would not end until U.S. forces left the region. "As long as America remains in Afghanistan and in the region, war and problems will continue," he said in a copy of a video tape obtained by Reuters on Thursday. "I can say with full assurance and confidence that America does not have the ability to stay for a long period in Afghanistan...," he said. Wearing a black turban, the bespectacled and heavily-bearded Hekmatyar said America's allies had sent troops to Afghanistan and Iraq out of fear of Washington....
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| Karzai pleads with Italy on mission |
President Hamid Karzai urged Italy Thursday not to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan, after the Italian government resigned because of a parliamentary defeat over its plan to keep its 2,000 forces in the volatile country. Karzai, whose own shaky grip on Afghanistan is under threat from resurgent Taliban rebels, also urged another key contributor to the 35,000-strong NATO security force, Canada, to stay the course. "My message to the countries helping us in Afghanistan, to Canada, to Italy, is that the Afghan people, the Canadian people and the Italian people are in the same fight, a fight for the security of our lives today and tomorrow," Karzai told reporters after meeting NATO's Secretary-general, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer in Kabul. Italy's Prime Minister Romano Prodi stepped down Wednesday after his government lost a parliamentary vote over its foreign policy program, including plans to keep Italian troops in Afghanistan. Most of the 2,000 forces are deployed in the ...
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-02-22-karzai-italy_x.htm?csp=34
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| A Study in North American Union |
Just when you thought you had a grip on the NAU (North American Union) and its scope, more disturbing news arrives indicating that this horrendous project isn't half-baked, but ready to be forked. The NAU first began gaining the attention of average American citizens in 2005, with the signing of the treacherous Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) and the release of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) report Building a North American Community (BNAC). The recentness of these eye-opening actions led many to believe that the NAU would be a long time in coming, but information continues to surface regarding the plethora of clever devices employed to sell the NAU to Americans and speed its arrival. For those readers who are still completely in the dark about the NAU, it is, simply put, the transformation of NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Agreement) into a full-blown economic and political merger of Canada, the United States, and Mexico. ...
http://www.thenewamerican.com/artman/publish/article_4468.shtml
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| No Safe Place |
Imagine hiking across Antarctica, through ice, cold and bitter wind, enduring months of hardship, and finally arriving at the doorstep of the South Pole itself. At that moment you get hit by a Sahara sandstorm.That's the analogy scientists are using to describe what happened to the ESA-NASA Ulysses spacecraft last December. "Ulysses was approaching the South Pole of the sun when it was 'sandblasted' by a cloud of high-energy particles—protons, electrons and heavy ions," says Arik Posner, Ulysses Program Scientist at NASA headquarters. The cloud was as foreign to the sun's South Pole as a Sahara sandstorm would be to Antarctica.The strange tale begins on Dec. 5, 2006. ...
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/22feb_nosafeplace.htm?list184039
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