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Note: The following text is a quote: Terror Charges Unsealed in Minnesota Against Eight Defendants, Justice Department Announces The Justice Department announced that terrorism charges have been unsealed today in the District of Minnesota against eight defendants. According to the charging documents, the offenses include providing financial support to those who traveled to Somalia to fight on behalf of al-Shabaab, a designated foreign terrorist organization; attending terrorist training camps operated by al-Shabaab; and fighting on behalf of al-Shabaab. Thus far, 14 defendants have been charged in the District of Minnesota in indictments or criminal complaints that have been unsealed and...

Windows works for me. But I'd never recommend it to anybody else, ever.I admit it: I'm a bigot. A hopeless bigot at that: I know my particular prejudice is absurd, but I just can't control it. It's Apple. I don't like Apple products. And the better-designed and more ubiquitous they become, the more I dislike them. I blame the customers. Awful people. Awful. Stop showing me your iPhone. Stop stroking your Macbook. Stop telling me to get one. Seriously, stop it. I don't care if Mac stuff is better. I don't care if Mac stuff is cool. I don't care...

Obama opened with the greeting "salaam aleikum" in Arabic and immediately received a storm of applause. He spoke at length about the glories of Islam since the dawn of its history, relieving Muslims' concerns about America's attitude toward them. "I've come here to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims," he said. "As the Holy Koran tells us ... 'speak always the truth.' That is what I will try to do." After praising Islam and attacking al-Qaida, he moved on to the most charged issue as far as his audience was concerned - the Palestinians. He spoke...

A former FBI special agent told law enforcement and Homeland Security personnel that a network of Islamic organizations are working to incrementally implement Islamic law in the United States. During a presentation at the Bedford County Emergency Management Agency, former FBI agent John Guandolo briefed members about groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood, which he claims is working with other Islamic groups to slowly implement Shariah, also known as Islamic law, which encompasses all areas of life. Guandolo worked in the FBI since 1996, including nine years as a member of its SWAT team. After 9/11, he worked in the...

One week of every year is designated National Brotherhood Week. This is just one of many such weeks honoring various worthy causes. One of my favorites is National Make-fun-of-the-handicapped Week which Frank Fontaine and Jerry Lewis are in charge of as you know. During National Brotherhood Week various special events are arranged to drive home the message of brotherhood. This year, for example, on the first day of the week Malcolm X was killed which gives you an idea of how effective the whole thing is. I'm sure we all agree that we ought to love one another and I...

Local scouts donate to Little Sioux camp The Boy Scouts of Troop 66 on Fort Leavenworth were recognized Wednesday for donating $1,074 to help rebuild the Little Sioux Scout Ranch near Little Sioux, Iowa. The ranch was nearly destroyed when a tornado touched down in the camp on June 11, leaving at least four people dead and more than 40 injured. Lt. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV, commanding general of Fort Leavenworth, congratulated the scouts on a job well done. Lt. Col. Chip Bircher said his son, Brion Bircher, wanted to help the scouts affected by the tragedy after seeing...

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. That appears to be the strategy of GOP powerbroker Grover Norquist in his wicked project to dress Islamists up as patriotic Republicans so they can infiltrate the government. While he’s managed to get some of his Muslim proteges jobs in the Bush administration, getting them elected to public office has been another story. Voters aren’t buying their makeover.

(edit)Kelly, 61, who is also a retired Marine sergeant, was immediately tested to see if he was a match, and as luck would have it, he was.“It was really admirable to see these two men who had defied fear in battle and situations of severe adversity to come together,” Molmenti told FOXNews.com. “Now they’re fighting the biggest fight of their whole lives and they're helping each other with this precious gift.” (edit)

Original Free Republic LinkFree Republic:Pope Benedict XVI Pays Historical Visit To The Park Street Synagogue

Pope Benedict XVI paid a 22-minute visit to the Park East Synagogue — the first papal trip to a United States synagogue — on Friday afternoon. He presented the synagogue with a medieval Jewish manuscript from the Vatican library and received three gifts: a seder plate, a Passover haggadah and a box of matzoh. The pope offered warm remarks and was showered with praise and music, but in a brief, three-minute address, he did not address the Holocaust, anti-Semitism or historic tensions between Jews and the Catholic Church. The pope entered the temple As the choir sang “Sh’ma Yisrael,” a...

CAIRO, Egypt - The Egyptian state prosecutor on Wednesday ordered 147 detained members of the Muslim Brotherhood to be investigated on rioting accusations, a judicial official said, in the latest crackdown on the country's largest opposition group. The detainees, who have not been formally charged, are also accused of holding unauthorized demonstrations after a flurry of protests in northern cities, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media. Thousands of Muslim Brotherhood members demonstrated across the Nile Delta on Tuesday, accusing the government of preventing them from participating in...

CAIR, FBI looking into Tampa gas station explosion “We have lost a good young man” Yesterday afternoon I posted this story because it raised questions: a Muslim is involved in a fatal post-midnight explosion in a gas station, and the FBI is investigating -- I wrote that it was "one to watch." And now the plot thickens: CAIR's Ahmed Bedier is on the case, and there may even be a connection to the jihadists whom he notoriously dismissed as "naive kids." Perhaps in the same spirit, Bedier here says of Farid Karaka: “We have lost a good young man.” "FBI...

As noted in Cliff's post yesterday (relying on a Bill Gertz report in the Washington Times), the Pentagon has sacked an authentic, influential scholar of Islam, Stephen Coughlin, who evidently refused to lie about — er, I mean, "soften his views on" — Islamic extremism (which, like it or not, is rooted in Islamic scripture) at the insistence of one Hasham Islam, Army Chief Gordon England's Islamophilic factotum (one of countless such creatures now pervading the federal government). For more on this, check out this post on the new website of Andrew Bostom, another scholar of Islam. Andy knows Coughlin...

In a move subject to no publicity whatsoever, and so far not reported by the press, the UN Security Council today without explanation removed Ahmed Idris Nasreddin and 12 of his companies from the terrorist sanctions list, freeing them from sanctions on a global basis. The UN action followed a similar action by the United States dated yesterday. The move reflects a 180 degree change from previous assessments of Nasreddin, as articulated by the U.S. Treasury when he and his companies were designated as terrorist financiers by the G-7 on April 19, 2002 and by the UN a week later....

A 1991 strategy paper for the Brotherhood, often referred to as the Ikhwan in Arabic, found in the Virginia home of an unindicted co-conspirator in the case, describes the group's U.S. goals, referred to as a "civilization-jihadist process." "The Ikhwan must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions," it states. This process requires a "mastery of the...

Below and attached is a Joint Staff DD-WOT unclassified analysis of the Muslim Brotherhood STRATEGIC GOALS FOR NORTH AMERICA MEMORANDUM that was placed into evidence in the Holy Land Foundation Trial a copy of which I sent to you last Friday [but attached again] bundled with other important jihad doctrine and strategy documents. This assessment makes the point that the Muslim Brotherhood should be considered a threat organization and the affiliated US domestic Muslim NGOs and associations identified in the strategy document should likewise be considered part of the Muslim Brotherhood network, that these are “front” functional organizations operating as...

The recent putsch in the Gaza Strip by Hamas is shedding light on an organization exercising considerable influence on the entire Arab world -- the Muslim Brotherhood. As both a social movement and a militant Islamist political outfit, its power stretches from the Atlantic coast to the Indian Ocean. Young men with fuzz on their chins not yet thick enough for full beards stand on busy streets directing traffic. There are more on each corner of the congested Omar Mukhtar Street in Gaza City. They wear yellow and green t-shirts that enable everyone to know who they're working for long...

CAIRO, Egypt - Police arrested 14 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood as part of Egypt's ongoing campaign against the country's strongest opposition group, the interior ministry and the group said Sunday. The interior ministry said in its statement that the group was arrested Saturday for holding a secret organizational meeting in Sharqiyya Province, 50 miles northeast of Cairo. But the Brotherhood claimed in a statement on its official Web site that they were simply attending a course on making shampoo. The Brotherhood has been banned since 1954 but has continued to operate and is Egypt's most powerful opposition movement....

BUENA PARK, Calif. -- The white supremacist gang Public Enemy No. 1 began two decades ago as a group of teenage punk-rock fans from upper-middle class bedroom communities in Southern California. Now, the violent gang that deals in drugs, guns and identity theft is gaining clout across the West after forging an alliance with the notorious Aryan Brotherhood, authorities say. Police say the gang has compiled a "hit list" targeting five officers and a gang prosecutor -- a sign of just how brazen Public Enemy has become.

On May 14, 2005, PAX-TV's Faith Under Fire broadcast a debate that I took part in against Mahdi Bray, the executive director of the Muslim American Society's (MAS) Freedom Foundation. Bray had selected the debate topic in advance, and chose to argue about "The United States of Islam?" -- that is, whether American Muslims wanted to see Islamic law sharia) implemented in the United States. While I unwaveringly agreed that most American Muslims don't want to see the United States ruled by Islamic law, I nonetheless jumped at the chance to debate this topic against Bray. After all, the Chicago...

LOS ANGELES Attorneys who failed to get kingpins of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang acquitted on charges of murder, conspiracy and racketeering are trying a novel approach to save their clients from possible death sentences. The defense for Barry "The Baron" Mills and Tyler "The Hulk" Bingham have filed motions with a federal judge arguing that the government must present live witnesses during their clients' sentencing phase or nothing at all. The argument is based on the 2004 U.S. Supreme Court decision Crawford v. Washington, in which the high court found that defendants have the right to confront witnesses whose...

by Mary Kochan Other Articles by Mary Kochan America! America! God Shed His Grace on Thee 07/04/06 Today we celebrate our country’s 230th birthday. We find the U.S. of A. still free, more powerful than ever and prosperous almost beyond imagination. All of these things are reasons for celebration — and cautious pause. In This Article...Confirm Thy Soul in Self-ControlCrown Thy Good with BrotherhoodGod Mend Thine Every Flaw Confirm Thy Soul in Self-Control We celebrate these things because they are goods. They are blessings. That they are blessings means that they are received as gifts and with gratitude. There is nothing...

SANTA ANA Within the forbidding walls of the Supermax federal prison, where high-profile inmates live in heavily guarded isolation, a section was created in 1998 called "H Unit," where six special prisoners could mingle, use a computer and share information, a prison official testified Wednesday. The six men, dropouts from the notorious Aryan Brotherhood prison gang, were known as "cooperators" or in slang as "snitches." Danny Shoff, a Bureau of Prisons official now assigned to Washington, D.C., said he was one of the few staff members at the Florence, Colo., facility allowed entry to "H Unit" during the period that...

Since its foundation, the Muslim Brotherhood has adopted the educational methodology as its mechanism for attain the long-desired change. However, the group has undergone various stages since its fifth conference. The Brotherhood has attempted to bring about change through military coup when sponsored the Free Officers organization that has appeared in the Egyptian army. However, the Brotherhood disagreed with the organization which adopted views that did not correspond to the group. Outside Egypt, the idea of military coup obsessed the group for while. Virtually, all attempts of coup have been brought tragic consequences on the group. Since 1984, the Brotherhood...

SANTA ANA - After nearly eight years of investigation and trial preparation, the federal government opened its case Tuesday against the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang with a simple slide that read: "The Aryan Brotherhood: Blood in, Blood out." The phrase - borrowed from the gang itself - sums up most of the allegations against members of the highly organized and violent white supremacist gang accused in 32 murders and attempted murders in one of the largest capital punishment cases ever filed in U.S. history. Sixteen of the 40 members arrested four years ago after a lengthy investigation could face the...

A few Ukrainians, presumably activists of nationalist Student Brotherhood, have set today to filming and making photos of facilities of the RF Black Sea Fleet, in particular, of Mars-75 radio navigation station that is located close to Genichensk, said Four-Stripper Captain Igor Dygalo, who is the aide to commander-in-chief of Russia’s Navy. ”From around 8:50 a.m., MSK, a group of Ukrainians, presumably, from the nationalist Student Brotherhood, is making video filming/pictures of Mars-75 radio navigation station of the RF Black Sea Fleet,” Dygalo said as quoted by ITAR-TASS. “So far, there have been no attempts to enter the military facilities...

That the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) won 88 seats -- nearly a quarter of the total in parliament -- in the recent elections came as a shock to many, and a surprise to some, even those closely following Islamist movements. The most palpable reaction came from Coptic commentators; some even predicting that if the MB came to power, Copts would emigrate and the stock exchange suffer as a consequence.

Victory in war, and particularly in counterinsurgency wars, requires knowing one’s enemy. This simple truth, first stated by Sun Tsu more than two millennia ago, is no less important in the war on terrorism today. It has become almost common wisdom, however, that America today faces an enemy of a new kind, using unprecedented techniques and pursuing incomprehensible goals. But this enemy is not novel. Once the peculiar rhetoric is stripped away, the enemy America faces is a familiar one indeed. The revolutionary vision that undergirds al Qaeda’s ideology, the strategy it is pursuing, and the strategic debates occurring within...

The day after Hurricane Katrina ripped through the gulf coast, my husband sent me pictures of the devastation during and after the storm from Keesler AFB in Biloxi Mississippi. My heart ached as I thought of all those military families stationed at Keesler who were already under the strain of separation from the war. I felt an instant anxiety as if my own family members had suffered. Then I realized that is what many of us feel. The people in New Orleans, Biloxi, and all those places affected by this storm are our fellow Americans. They are our brothers and...

LTC Joseph Myers discusses Able Danger, Intelligence Oversight, and Colombia's Insurgency on The Right Balance. Interview restreams on your computer every 2hrs from 0930 EST [eastern time] onward through Monday. Former DIA Senior Military Analyst updates issues related to Congressman Weldon's charges of 9-11 hijackers identified inside the US in 2000 and issues related to Colombia's insurgency. He is the author of: "Are Plans in Place if Schools attacked?" "Proliferation Terror Time for a New Deterrence Strategy" http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/05/breaking2453439.html "Does al Qaida have nukes?" http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44251

Must hear... His interview will restream on your computer every 2hrs from 7:30 EST [eastern time] onward through Monday. "There should have been absolutely no hinderance in sharing that information with the FBI..." Former DIA Senior Military Analyst discusses the Intelligence Oversight issues related to Congressman Weldon's charges of 9-11 hijackers identified inside the US in 2000. He is the author of: "Are Plans in Place if Schools attacked?" "Proliferation Terror Time for a New Deterrence Strategy" http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/05/breaking2453439.html "Does al Qaida have nukes?" http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44251

Posted on 07/15/2005 8:02:26 PM CDT by Barbarian6 Former DIA Senior Military Analyst will discuss the Inteligence Oversight issues related to Congressman Weldon's charges of 9-11 hijackers identified inside the US in 2000. His interview will restream on your computer every 2hrs from 10:00 eastern time onward through Monday. He is the author of: "Are Plans in Place if Schools attacked?" "Proliferation Terror Time for a New Deterrence Strategy" http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/05/breaking2453439.html "Does al Qaida have nukes?" http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44251

Submariners in peril are saved by the 'brotherhood of the sea' By Nick Allen and Caroline Davies (Filed: 08/08/2005) Seven Russian submariners who were trapped for three days on the icy Pacific Ocean floor emerged dazed but elated yesterday after a Royal Navy-led rescue team freed them hours before their oxygen ran out. Looking shaken, the sailors climbed unaided from their stricken Priz AS-28 submersible as it resurfaced once the cables and fishing nets ensnaring it were cut by a diving robot operated by a British team flown out from Scotland. The crew of the Priz AS-28 submersible breath again...

30 July Update: The UK police statement Saturday, July 30, that Hussein Osman left London by Waterloo Station for a journey that ended in Rome indicates that he took the Eurostar to Paris and then crossed France to Rome by TGV. They claim to have tracked his route from London across France by his mobile phone. DEBKAfile’s counter-terror experts find this account hard to credit. While warning the British public that the four escaped terrorists had access to more explosives, the London police would hardly have let a dangerous suicide bomber slip out of their hands if they knew his...

He will discuss his articles on the WMD Commission report, US nuclear proliferation deterrence strategy, and thinking about al Qaida as an American insurgency...He will draw upon his experiences within the intelligence community and as a former DIA senior military analyst for Colombia. He is the author of: "Are Plans in Place if Schools attacked?" "Proliferation Terror Time for a New Deterrence Strategy" http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/05/breaking2453439.html "Does al Qaida have nukes?" http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44251

He will discuss his articles on the WMD Commission report, US nuclear proliferation deterrence strategy, and thinking about al Qaida as an American insurgency...He will draw upon his experiences within the intelligence community and as a former DIA senior military analyst for Colombia. He is the author of: "Are Plans in Place if Schools attacked?" "Proliferation Terror Time for a New Deterrence Strategy" http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/05/breaking2453439.html "Does al Qaida have nukes?" http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44251

LTC Joseph Myers, US Army, and former senior DIA analyst, offered some interesting ideas and comments on the Lodi case and al Qaida as a nascent insugency in the US, drawing lessons from Colombia's insurgency and the role of civilian subversive organizations and whether the FBI and our laws are ready to face this threat... Great Quote on the Farooqia Center: I would dissent from that view, and put it this way: "Seemingly legitimate organizations are created for sinister reasons, for insurgent activity" His interview will restream on your computer every 2hrs [+ or - 2hrs from 1845 eastern time]...

LTC Joseph Myers, US Army, and former senior DIA analyst, offered some interesting ideas and comments on the Lodi case and al Qaida as a nascent insugency in the US, drawing lessons from Colombia's insurgency and the role of civilian subversive organizations and whether the FBI and our laws are ready to face this threat... Great Quote on the Farooqia Center: I dissent from that view, and would put it this way: "Seemingly legitimate organizations are created for sinister reasons, for insurgent activity" His interview will restream on your computer every 2hrs [+ or - 2hrs from 1030 eastern time]...

His interview will restream on your computer every 2hrs [+ or - 2hrs from 1200 eastern time] onward through Monday. He offered some interesting ideas on al Qaida as an insugency in the US, drawing lessons from Colombia's insurgency and the role of civilian subversive organizations and whether the FBI is up to speed on the threat... He is the author of: "Are Plans in Place if Schools attacked?" "Proliferation Terror Time for a New Deterrence Strategy" http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/05/breaking2453439.html "Does al Qaida have nukes?" http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44251

His interview will restream on your computer every 2hrs from 10:00 eastern time onward through Monday. He offered some interesting ideas on al Qaida as an insugency in the US, drawing lessons from Colombia's insurgency and the role of civilian subversive organizations and whether the FBI is up to speed on the threat... He is the author of: "Are Plans in Place if Schools attacked?" "Proliferation Terror Time for a New Deterrence Strategy" http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/05/breaking2453439.html "Does al Qaida have nukes?" http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44251

His part will restream on your computer every 2hrs from 8:00 eastern time onward through Monday. He offered some interesting ideas on al Qaida as an insugency in the US, drawing lessons from Colombia's insurgency and the role civilian subversive organizations and whether the FBI is up to speed on the threat... He is the author of: "Are Plans in Place if Schools attacked?" "Proliferation Terror Time for a New Deterrence Strategy" http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/05/breaking2453439.html "Does al Qaida have nukes?" http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44251 This program will restream every 2hrs from 1006 EST until Monday morning, listen at your convenience.

Editor's note: The following letter is from Staff Sgt. Brett Ledfors, a U.S. Marine currently stationed in Ramadi, Iraq. Ledfors was born in Wheeling (W.Va.) and is serving in Iraq with Moundsville (W.Va.) resident Sgt. Daniel Ealy. As a Marine serving in Iraq and someone born at Wheeling Hospital, I'd like to take this opportunity to wish the citizens of West Virginia a Merry Christmas while sharing a true story. News we get from home sometimes seems quite grim as far as the war. When I initially considered writing to a newspaper about the war, I wanted to show the...

Background: In 1931 the Davis-Bacon Act was adopted to create a "prevailing wage," usually the union rate, for any construction contract over $2,000 funded in whole or in part by the federal government. The benefits of the "prevailing wage," however, go to a very few at the expense of taxpayers and the Act is a prime example of unfunded mandates and government waste. Davis-Bacon inflates the cost of federally funded construction projects by as much as 15%, discourages economic growth, and raises federal spending. In fact, Davis-Bacon Act wages cost taxpayers over $1 billion annually, in addition to the $100...

From Chapter 2: The Foundation of the New Terrorism Bin Ladin also relies heavily on the Egyptian writer Sayyid Qutb. A member of the Muslim Brotherhood11 executed in 1966 on charges of attempting to overthrow the government, Qutb mixed Islamic scholarship with a very superficial acquaintance with Western history and thought. Sent by the Egyptian government to study in the United States in the late 1940s, Qutb returned with an enormous loathing of Western society and history. He dismissed Western achievements as entirely material, arguing that Western society possesses “nothing that will satisfy its own conscience and justify its existence.”12...

  ~    ~   ~* Defense Officials Identify Casualties *~       WASHINGTON June 18, 2004   The Department of Defense announced today the death of three Soldiers supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.  They died on June 16 in Balad, Iraq, during a mortar attack when mortar rounds hit their camp.  Killed were:               * Maj. Paul R. Syverson III, 32, of Lake Zurich, Ill.*  Syverson was assigned to the Army’s 5th Special Forces Group, Fort Campbell, Ky.               * Spc. Jeremy M. Dimaranan, 29, of Virginia Beach, Va.*  Dimaranan was assigned to the Army Reserve’s 302nd...

    ~    ~   ~* Defense Officials Identify Casualties *~       WASHINGTON June 1,  2004   The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.              * Pfc. Cody S. Calavan, 19, of Lake Stevens, Wash.,* died May 29 due to hostile action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.  He was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.   The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.               * Lance...

  ~    ~   ~* Defense Officials Identify Casualties *~     WASHINGTON, May 18, 2004   The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Soldier supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.               * Sgt. James W. Harlan, 44, of Owensboro, Ky.,* died May 14 at Camp Anaconda, Iraq, when a suicide bomber detonated a car bomb next to his vehicle.   Harlan was assigned to the Army Reserve’s 660th Transportation Company, 88th Regional Readiness Command, Zanesville, Ohio.   The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.               *...

     ~    ~   ~* Defense Officials Identify Casualties *~       WASHINGTON, May 11, 2004   The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.               * Sgt. Rodney A. Murray, 28, of Ayden, N.C.,* died May 9, in Iraq, in a vehicle accident between Baghdad and Scania when a Bradley Fighting Vehicle and his military vehicle collided.  Sgt. Murray was assigned to the Army Reserve’s 351st Military Police Company, Ocala, Fla.     WASHINGTON, May 12, 2004   The Department of Defense announced today the death of...

~    ~   ~* Defense Officials Identify Casualties *~     WASHINGTON, May 6, 2004 The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.          * Pfc. Jesse R. Buryj, 21, of Canton, Ohio,* died May 5, in Karbala, Iraq, when his military vehicle was struck by a dump truck whose driver had been shot while trying to run through a control point. Pfc. Buryj was assigned to the 66th Military Police Company, Fort Lewis, Wash.The Department of Defense announced today the death of four Soldiers supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. They died...

~    ~  ~* Defense Officials Identify Casualties *~       WASHINGTON, April 27, 2004     The Department of Defense announced today the death of two Soldiers supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. They died on April 26, in Baghdad, Iraq, by a large explosion while performing site security. The two Soldiers were assigned to the Army National Guard and Army Reserve. Killed were:          * Sgt. Sherwood R. Baker, 30, of Plymouth, Penn.,* assigned to the Army National Guard’s Company B, 2nd Battalion, 103rd Armor Regiment, Tamaqua, Penn.          * Sgt. Lawrence A. Roukey, 33, of Westbrook, Maine,* assigned to the Army Reserve’s Detachment...