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Date: Apr 9, 2009 11:32 AM
Subject: news articles for 4/9
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ISF recover two rockets after IDF attack on FOB Delta
FORWARD OPERATING BASE DELTA, Iraq – Iraqi Security Forces detained three individuals and recovered two rockets after an indirect fire attack on Forward Operating Base Delta April 7.
Rega School Receives Needed Supplies
COB SPEICHER — Iraqi Security Forces recently teamed with Coalition forces to donate supplies to the students of Al Rega school near Samarra. First Lt. Daniel Flynn, a platoon leader with the 25th Infantry Division, met with Maj. Adil Yusef Khalef, director general of Internal Affairs in the region, to coordinate the delivery of more than 200 backpacks filled with pens, pencils, paper and notepads.
Iraqi National Command and Control Exercise completed
BAGHDAD – The Government of Iraq completed its fifth command and control exercise with the Prime Minister’s National Operations Centre, the Ministry of Interior’s National Command Centre, the Ministry of Defence’s Joint Operations Centre, and several provincial military and police centres recently.
Medics turn FOB aid station into Afghan emergency room
KONAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan (April 9, 2009) – Every morning outside Forward Operating Base Blessing, 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment, combat medics comb through a crowd of sick or injured Afghans desperate for medical attention.
Face of Defense: Principal, Graduates Serve Together
MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C., April 9, 2009 – The Marine Corps is relatively small compared to the other branches of service. But for a former high school principal here, it couldn’t get any smaller.
More States Look to Raise Taxes
A free fall in tax revenue is driving more state lawmakers to turn to broad-based tax increases in a bid to close widening budget gaps. At least 10 states are considering some kind of major increase in sales or income taxes: Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oregon, Washington and Wisconsin. California and New York lawmakers already have agreed on multibillion-dollar tax increases that went into effect earlier this year.
Family Sues San Francisco Saying Sanctuary Law to Blame for Murder of Father, Two Sons
The family of a father and two sons allegedly murdered by an illegal immigrant last year reportedly is suing the city of San Francisco, claiming its "sanctuary city" policy contributed to their deaths.
Border deaths up despite apparent dip in crossings
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Illegal immigrant deaths along the U.S.-Mexico border have risen in the past six months despite a nearly 25 percent drop in arrests by the Border Patrol, according to patrol statistics.
Obama to Make Immigration Bill a Priority Despite Risks
While acknowledging that the recession makes the political battle more difficult, President Obama plans to begin addressing the country’s immigration system this year, including looking for a path for illegal immigrants to become legal, a senior administration official said on Wednesday.
White House Flexibility Signaled on Climate Bill
WASHINGTON -- The White House is open to compromise on certain key elements of its climate-change agenda, including whether businesses could get some emissions allowances for free, administration officials said Wednesday.
Obama to Look at Climate Engineering
WASHINGTON -- The president's new science adviser said Wednesday that global warming is so dire, the Obama administration is discussing radical technologies to cool Earth's air.
Obama's G20 plan kisses off Declaration of Independence
At the G20 meeting in London, President Obama agreed to create of an international board with authority to intervene in U.S. corporations by dictating executive compensation and approving or disapproving business management decisions, Jerome Corsi's Red Alert reports.
U.S. Navy Arrives at Scene of Hijacked American Ship
The U.S. is gearing up for a standoff with the band of pirates who hijacked a U.S.-flagged cargo ship off the coast of Somalia as a Navy warship reportedly arrived at the scene early Thursday.
Iran opens first nuclear fuel plant
Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, will inaugurate the country's first nuclear fuel production plant later today, Reuters news agency has quoted an official as saying.
12 Arrested In Very Serious Terror Plot In UK
British police Wednesday arrested 12 people in a counterterrorism operation, and locations were being searched, authorities said. A Scotland Yard official’s papers show details of the raid, which have been obscured in this photo.
E-bombs - New EMP Weapon Worries Counter-Terrorism Experts
Weapons experts and techno-thriller fans are familiar with the concept of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) — a supermassive blast of electricity, usually from a nuclear blast high above ground, that fries electronic circuits for miles around, crippling computers, cars and most other modern gadgets.
Crosses, Bibles banned from hospital chapel
Administrators at a hospital in Australia have thrown the crosses, crucifixes and Bibles out of their chapel to comply with new rules that followed the construction of a special prayer room for Muslims.
Survivor of war loses dog to random violence
All it took was the gunshot fired outside his Walker County home to trigger training ingrained in former Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell, the lone survivor of a dramatic battle in Afghanistan in 2005.
Here is today's break from all the serious stuff.
Woman finds $357,959 cashiers check and returns it
LOS ANGELES—As she walked from a post office, Talon Curtis thought she'd found one of those gimmicky sweepstakes offers on the ground that scream something like "$357,959.55" in big bold letters and "This is not a real check" in much smaller type. But just as she was about to do her part for a cleaner planet and deliver the paper from the parking lot to a trash can, she noticed it was a real cashier's check with a real signature.
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