Where are you lefties???
Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Sean Penn et al - not a word from you folks?
Here to gabble about topics important to me. Conservagab, Crimegab, politicsgab, terrorismgab, threatsgab
LISBON, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- Portuguese aviation authorities
intercepted a conversation Thursday on a possible attack against the Eiffel
Tower in Paris, France, local media reported Friday.
The Santa Maria aerial center intercepted the
conversation early Thursday on an attack against the Eiffel Tower through
short-wave radio, according to police sources.
Portuguese officials were immediately wary of the
situation and alerted their French counterparts, who are trying to identify the
suspects involved in the telephone conversation by the territory surveillance
services.
It was a "vague and confused" conversation
that have put Portuguese and French officials on alert because other similar
messages have been also intercepted on Internet in recent days on possible
terrorist attacks against Paris, the reports added.
After a two-year investigation into the killings of up to 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq, the Marine Corps has decided that none of the Marines involved in the incident will be charged with murder. Instead, two enlisted Marines and two Marine officers will face trial in coming months for the killings and for failing to investigate them.
The most serious charges have been leveled against Marine Staff Sgt. Frank D. Wuterich, who is scheduled to be arraigned on charges of voluntary manslaughter in California next week, the last step before the case officially moves to trial.
Initially called a massacre by Iraqi residents of Haditha
and later characterized as coldblooded murder by a U.S. congressman, the case has turned not on an alleged rampage but on a far more complex analysis of how U.S. troops fight an insurgency in the midst of a population they seek to protect.~SNIP~
Public attention to the Haditha case increased in the spring of 2006 when Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.) said after briefings from military officials that the Marines had killed civilians "in cold blood."
Where's the apology, "MY LAI" MURTHA????
Where's the apology, TIME "MASSACRE" MAGAZINE AND TIM MCGIRK???
Where's the SCREAMING above the fold headline, WaPo?
May you all have as many sleepless nights as our Marines and their families have had.
May God bless these Marines and all our troops.
Sweetness and Light "In a better world Mr. Murtha would be on trial."
We can hope, can't we?
"Nobody would be happier to see all this go away than us. But you can’t ask somebody who is at a breathtaking disadvantage in the information coming to the voters to ignore that disadvantage and basically agree to put bullets in their brains," he said.Huh? He keeps doing this.......this..... saying stupid things, thing.
The militant group Al Qaeda announced Thursday the imminent arrival of a new video message from American-born Islamist Adam Gadahn, making it the first message from the organization in 2008.
"Coming soon by the will of God, an invitation to reflection and repentance," read the banner produced by al-Sahab, Al Qaeda's media wing, and displayed on a militant Web site.
In November and December, women carried out three suicide bombings in Diyala province, one of Iraq's most violent areas, where al-Qaida in Iraq has a stronghold. The last female suicide bombing had been in July.
On Nov. 4, a woman detonated an explosives vest next to a U.S. patrol in Diyala's regional capital, Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, wounding seven U.S. troops and five Iraqis. On Dec. 7, a woman attacked the offices of a Diyala-based Sunni group fighting al-Qaida in Iraq, killing 15 people and wounding 35. Then, on Dec. 31, a bomber in Baqouba detonated her suicide vest close to a police patrol, wounding five policemen and four civilians.