Posted on August 9, 2008 by williamamos
DW GERMANY
German federal police officials (BKA) have warned in a secret report that the Lebanese-based Hezbollah movement has the capacity to undertake damaging attacks in Germany, the news magazine Focus reported Saturday.
The militia had the logistics “to carry out wide-scale attacks on physical and human targets,” the weekly said in a report released ahead of [...]
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CBS 3 Philadelphia
McCain: Obama Put Personal Ambition Ahead Of Iraq
LAS VEGAS (AP) ― Republican John McCain on Saturday issued a scathing critique of Barack Obama’s judgment and readiness to be commander in chief, telling a veterans’ group his Democratic rival had tried to “legislate failure” in Iraq and placed his own [...]
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Sounds to me he is more like the dirty harry so gave him that name
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Bold Afghan cop inspires admiration, mistrust, fear
Bravery, bluster keep general on front lines in fight against terror
By Kim Barker | Chicago Tribune correspondent
August 10, 2008
KABUL, Afghanistan — The general pushed through traffic jams like a wrecking ball. His [...]
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Congress threatens to cut off funds for surge
Harry Reid on Surge
John Murtha on surge failing and then succeeding
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CAPE COD TIMES
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Early last Saturday, senior members of the Saudi royal family and religious establishment took up brooms and cloths perfumed with rosewater to wash the interior of the Kaaba, the sacred stone structure that Muslims face during their five daily prayers.
Barefoot and dressed in traditional long, white robes, the men [...]
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NEWSHERALD
VIEWPOINTS: Biased media easily entranced by Obama’s magic
August 09, 2008 08:00:00 AM
The writer, winner of the 1968 Ernie Pyle Award for war reporting, covered Vietnam, the Middle East and other conflicts for Scripps Howard Newspapers. He lives in Panama City.
By Don Tate
Few things are more worthy than journalism going into the heart of darkness and [...]
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WWLTV New Orleans
Lee Zurik / Eyewitness News
The Mayor’s Office and every member of the City Council received subpoenas Friday from the U.S. Attorney General’s Office, sources say.
The U.S. Attorney General’s Office wants all documents pertaining to NOAH, the New Orleans Affordable Homeownership — the embattled program that is at the center of a series of [...]
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PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE
Young Marines get marching orders
Kevin Walkup can order his younger sister around.
As a sergeant in the Keystone Young Marines, he outranks her.
“Swing that around,” barked Walkup, 16, of Whitehall as he pointed to the rifle resting on the shoulder of his sister, Brianna, 12, a lance corporal.
Dressed in military-style boots, camouflage pants and caps, [...]
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