Two U.S. soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division were killed and another wounded in an attack northwest of Tikrit on March 16, the U.S. military said in a statement on Saturday.It said the soldiers were killed and wounded in an "indirect fire attack" on Contingency Operating Base Speicher, which is northwest of ousted former President Saddam Hussein's hometown....
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 Iraq operation fails to find insurgents |
US and Iraqi forces have spent a second day hunting for insurgents in villages and fields north of the capital Baghdad. While troops have seized weapons, they have not encountered any insurgents.Completing the second day of Operation Swarmer, US and Iraqi soldiers seized mortar rounds, rockets, explosives, and high-powered cordless telephones used to remotely detonate roadside bombs. The US military says while 48 people had been detained, no insurgents had so far been found. But the deputy-governor of the Salaheddin province north of Baghdad says at least one key insurgent leader, named as Jaish Mohammed, had been captured. About 900 Iraqi and US troops are scouring villages and fields around the city of Samarra, which is regarded as an insurgent stronghold. A spokesman for the US military, Lieutenant Colonel Craig Collier, says it has been difficult to differentiate between insurgents and the local community....
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200603/s1594962.htm
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Editor - 00:28:00 03-18-06
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| Google Avoids Surrendering Search Engine Requests to Government |
A federal judge on Friday ordered Google Inc. to give the Bush administration a peek inside its search engine, but rebuffed the government's demand for a list of people's search requests potentially sensitive information that the company had fought to protect. In his 21-page ruling, U.S. District Judge James Ware told Google to provide the U.S. Justice Department with the addresses of 50,000 randomly selected Web sites indexed by its search engine by April 3. The government plans to use the data for a study in another case in Pennsylvania, where the Bush administration is trying to revive a law meant to shield children from online pornography. Ware, though, decided Google won't have to disclose what people have been looking for on its widely used search engine, handing a significant victory to the company and privacy rights advocates. ...
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=1739853
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Editor - 19:31:00 03-17-06
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| Protests planned for Iraq war's third anniversary Thousands expected in Australia, Japan; 100,000 in London |
Anti-war activists demanding coalition troops pull out of Iraq planned marches and rallies across the world Saturday to mark the third anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion.The Australian branch of the Stop the War Coalition said at least 1,000 demonstrators would march through central Sydney under banners reading "Troops Home Now" and "Peace and Justice for the Iraqi People.""Iraq is a quagmire and has been a humanitarian disaster for the Iraqis," said protest organizer Jean Parker. "There is no way forward without ending the occupation."Paddy Gibson of the pressure group Students Against War said the "deepening crisis" in Iraq would get worse if coalition troops stayed. ...
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/03/17/iraq.protests.ap/index.html?section=cnn_world
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Editor - 19:27:00 03-17-06
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| Road wantabe warriors: School bus drivers fight Boogieman by spying on everyone. Must be “for the Children” |
School bus drivers around the country are being trained to be the eyes and ears on the road and to watch for potential terrorists, in a program financed by the Homeland Gestapo Dept. Designers of the program, called School Bus Watch, want to turn 600,000 drivers into an army of observers. "We are going to teach you how to identify, evaluate, & record unusual activity," instructor Joe Van Aken tells his class of 20 school bus drivers in Brooklyn, New York. Aken, a bus driver himself, does not want these drivers to confront anyone suspicious but to call the authorities. The more eyes on the road the safer we will all be, he tells his pupils. It's not just bus drivers on the front lines in the fight against Boogieman. Bank tellers, ham radio operators & truckers also are being asked by Homeland Gestapo to be on the lookout. If you feel left out don’t worry they want every stool pigeon they can get, soon they will want kids spying on parents. I forgot, they already have that...
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/03/17/bus.terrorwatch/index.html?section=cnn_us
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Editor - 17:53:00 03-17-06
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| Police Memos Say Arrest Tactics Calmed Protest |
In five internal reports made public yesterday as part of a lawsuit, New York City police commanders candidly discuss how they had successfully used "proactive arrests," covert surveillance and psychological tactics at political demonstrations in 2002, and recommend that those approaches be employed at future gatherings. Among the most effective strategies, one police captain wrote, was the seizure of demonstrators on Fifth Avenue who were described as "obviously potential rioters." The reports provide a rare glimpse of internal police evaluations and strategies on security and free speech issues that have provoked sharp debate between city officials and political demonstrators since the Sept. 11 attack.The reports also made clear what the police have yet to discuss publicly: that the department uses undercover officers to infiltrate political gatherings and monitor behavior. ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/17/nyregion/17police.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
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