These past 17 months have been among the most exciting and eventful of my life. Together you and I delivered a message of freedom the likes of which American politics had not seen in decades. I wasn’t sure the country was ready for it. But it was a message, I discovered, that many Americans had been waiting for a long time to hear.Read the rest of this entry »

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A woman accused of abducting a 2-year-old girl from a day care center Friday afternoon has been charged with the toddler's kidnapping. Investigators say the suspect, 21-year-old Raeshala Rhylette Morris, had recently been hired at the day care and was working as a trainee. When another day care employee went to the restroom, the trainee left with the toddler, according to officers.Read the rest of this entry »

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My Heroic Friends In Iraqi Army Caught A Sunni Wahabi Insurgent From Alqaeda Dressing Like A Woman In Alwashash Area In Baghdad.

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Vice President Dick Cheney and Air Force Two left town with quite a blast and it was a force to be reckoned with. The Secret Service warned members of the media of the the jet blast. As...

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A suicide car bomber attacked a convoy of NATO forces in western Afghanistan on Tuesday, wounding a NATO soldier, officials said. The attacker detonated his explosives-filled vehicle near the convoy in the Delaram district of western Farah province, provincial governor Ghulam Muahidin Baluch told foreign news agency.
NATO`s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) also confirmed the incident while the extremist Taliban movement claimed responsibility.

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A Defense Department analyst and a former engineer for Boeing Co. were accused Monday in separate spy cases with helping deliver military secrets to the Chinese government, the Justice Department said. Additionally, two immigrants from China and Taiwan accused of working with the defense analyst were arrested after an FBI raid Monday morning on a New Orleans home where one of them lived. The two cases — based in Alexandria, Va., and Los Angeles — have no connection, and investigators said it was merely a coincidence that charges would be brought against both on the same day.The arrests mark China's latest attempts to gain top secret information about U.S. military systems and sales, said Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Wainstein.

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Security forces have arrested renowned Taliban commander Mullah Mansoor from the seminary of Maulana Noor Khan located in area of Gawal Ismail Zai, alongwith six of his associates. Dadullah, the brother of Taliban’s slain military chief in Afghanistan, had been in charge of operations against Nato and US-led troops in the southern Afghan province of Helmand. The military spokesman and the Balochistan police chief gave different accounts of his arrest.An Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) statement said Dadullah and his men were “trying to enter Pakistan” across the border. “He is in the custody of the security agencies along with five accomplices. They are all injured,” ISPR Director-General Maj-Gen Athar Abbas said.Read the rest of this entry »

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The Khasadar Force has arrested a suicide bomber in Tehsil Jamrod of Khyber Agency and recovered explosive material from his possession. Sources said that the suicide bomber identified as Abdul Rahim, an Afghan nationalist was coming from Jamrod to Peshawar and the Khasadar Force on suspicion searched him and found the explosive material. The Political Administration has shifted the accused to Peshawar where the Intelligence Agencies would investigate him.

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Eight people have been arrested in last week's shooting attack on the Israeli Embassy in Mauritania's capital that wounded three passers-by, a police official said Thursday. The eight were arrested individually over several days, said the police official, who agreed tell about the arrests only if given anonymity because was is not authorized to speak to the press. He said one is an Algerian national. Several witnesses to Friday's attack said a group of men gathered outside a restaurant near the embassy, then pulled weapons from their clothes and attacked the embassy while screaming "Allahu Akbar," or "God is Great." Three bystanders were wounded in the gunbattle with embassy guards.

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Police arrested two more suspects Thursday in the suicide attack that killed opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, and thousands of her followers gathered at her tomb to mark the end of mourning for her and launch her party's campaign for this month's parliamentary election. Officials briefed on the Scotland Yard inquiry into Bhutto's assassination told The New York Times that the probe found that she died from the impact of the suicide bombing, not the bullets fired at her as she left a political rally. Officials also said the attack was carried out by a single attacker who blew himself up after opening fire.

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Singapore arrested more than 5,000 foreign prostitutes last year but it is unrealistic to expect vice to be eliminated, the Home Affairs Minister has told parliament.Wong Kan Seng was responding to a question from an MP about efforts to curb "rampant gambling and prostitution" in Singapore's red-light Geylang district."The vice situation in Singapore is under control," Wong said in a written response released Tuesday.Read the rest of this entry »

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Details surrounding the weekend bust of 14 suspected Islamist extremists in Barcelona are giving European security forces reason for concern - even beyond the evidence suggesting the group was working toward an eventual terror strike. Whereas radicals of North African origin have long been the main jihadist threat in Europe, Spanish authorities say 12 of the 14 men arrested Saturday are Pakistani. The reason that's so troubling, counterterrorism officials believe, comes with the considerable risk of two different arching lines eventually crossing: the fast-growing size of Pakistani communities on the continent, and their close ties to a homeland where Islamist radicalism is rampant.

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An anti-terrorism court sentenced three Muslim militants to life in prison on Tuesday for attempting to kill Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf in 2002, a state prosecutor said.

The court found the three men guilty of plotting to kill Musharraf by setting off a car bomb as his convoy passed in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi.

However, the car did not explode because the remote control device used to detonate it malfunctioned, a judge at the Karachi anti- terrorism court said, according to state prosecutor Naimat Randhawa.

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80-year-old D.P.James from Shri Lanka has been released from prison after spending 50 years on delayed trial.

Arrested in August 1958 for attacking his father, he was sent to jail, than moved to mental hospital for treatment and finally went back to jail in mid-80’s, until the court had finally forgotten his case.

James, who was never put on trial, was a victim of prison bureaucracy in Sri Lanka explained his lawyer.

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A Canadian woman has successfully sued the dealer who sold her an illegal street drug that put her in a coma.

Sandra Bergen, 23, suffered a heart attack and spent 11 days in a coma after taking crystal methamphetamine.

Ms Bergen said Clinton Davey had known the drug was highly addictive and dangerous but sold it to make money.

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