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AL ASAD AIR BASE, Iraq (May 3, 2006) -- "Too many people died under Saddam," Kaleed said, as he turned to look at his brother, "We lost too many friends to him." Despite death threats to anyone who joins the Iraqi Security Forces, three brothers enlisted in the Iraqi army together, hoping their contributions will help bring freedom from the insurgency terrorizing their country. Ism'ael, Kaleed and Razak joined the army on the same day nine months ago seeking the same thing: financial freedom for their family and independence for their country. Razak, who serves in the same company as...

WASHINGTON, April 21, 2006 – U.S. soldiers from Task Force Band of Brothers scored successes in two operations this week. Soldiers from the task force caught seven suspected insurgents in the act of emplacing explosives yesterday. Soldiers on patrol with Battery B, 3rd Battalion, 29th Field Artillery Regiment, 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, observed the suspects digging. As the patrol approached, the suspects tried to flee in two vehicles. The soldiers stopped, searched and detained all the suspects. In one vehicle, a blue truck, soldiers discovered more than 120 mortar rounds, fuses and four missiles. At the site where the...

The Atlanta Roundtable held its second session on October 17, 2001 to discuss the future of North American integration in the wake of the terrorist attacks. Gordon D. Giffin, Vice Chairman of Long, Aldridge & Norman and former U.S. Ambassador to Canada, and Robert A. Pastor, Professor of Political Science at Emory University, led the discussion. [SNIP] A transformation occurred in Mexico with the election of Vicente Fox. He met with President Bush on September 4 and proposed a very broad agenda: legalizing anywhere from three to seven million illegal immigrants, expanding temporary migration from Mexico, increasing cooperation in law...

E-mail Author Author Archive Send to a Friend Version March 28, 2006, 7:22 a.m. Illegals vs. Enforcement The protesters in the street get it. Does Congress? Advocates for illegal immigration might have trouble ginning up much support for their cause if they didn’t have recourse to a handy expedient: constantly importing more supporters. Every day that more illegal immigrants arrive in this country is a day that the constituency for defying our immigration laws grows larger. Illegals demonstrated that last weekend when they swelled the ranks of anti-enforcement protesters in a Los Angeles rally estimated at 500,000, and in...

Click to Listen: Kerry Panders in Spanish - LOL! To: National Desk Contact: Federico de Jesus of the Office of Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid, 202-228-2939; or April Boyd of the Office of Sen. John Kerry, 202-224-4159 WASHINGTON, April 1 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Sen. John F. Kerry (news, bio, voting record) (D- Mass.) will deliver the Democratic Hispanic Radio Address this Saturday, April 01, 2006. Below is the English translation of his address. Sen. Kerry will speak about this week's immigration debate in the Senate and the urgent need for comprehensive immigration reform. The sound of Sen. John F. Kerry's...

Ex-president Bill Clinton offered a partial endorsement of President Bush's guest worker immigration reform plan Friday night, saying his successor had some "good idea[s]" on how to solve what he described as "an exceedingly complicated" problem. "I think the president has a good idea in terms of wanting to give people a path to citizenship and have increased border enforcement," Clinton told CNN's "Larry King Live." "That's also the idea behind the bill sponsored by Senator McCain and Senator Kennedy in the Senate," he added. Clinton criticized the Bush plan as too lax in one regard, saying: "I don't think...

CAMP AL ASAD, Iraq (March 20, 2006) -- After enlisting in the Marine Corps more than a year apart, two brothers from Canton, Mich., have crossed paths in Iraq, while deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Lance Cpl. Ian L. Eichel, a 23-year-old motor transportation mechanic with Regimental Combat Team 7, said he was pleasantly surprised March 17, 2006, when a gunnery sergeant drove his brother, 21-year-old Lance Cpl. Aaron J. Eichel to the motor transportation lot here to put the two brothers in touch. “I was just going on duty at the motor pool when he drove up...

Brothers, Senior Master Sgt. Gustavo III Egizi and Staff Sgt. Bruno Egizi are both in the Air Force, both are civil engineers and both are deployed to a forward operating location together supporting the Global War on Terrorism. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Doug Nicodemus U.S. Air ForceSenior Master Sgt. Gustavo Egizi IIIStaff Sgt. Bruno Egizi Brothers Deployed Together By Master Sgt. Scott King 40th Air Expeditionary Group OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM, March 14, 2006 — Gustavo III and his brother Bruno grew up in Atlantic City, N.J. with thoughts of beaches, boardwalks and seaside breezes. Now, they...

WASHINGTON, March 3, 2006 – Four brothers, all Army Reserve officers, are deploying to Iraq with the same division and are planning to chronicle their experiences in a forthcoming book. (Clockwise from top left) Army Reserve Maj. Matt Holbert, Capts. David and Carlton Holbert, and Lt. Col. Buddy Holbert pose together Feb. 28 prior to their mobilization. The four brothers will deploy to Iraq soon as part of the 108th Division. Courtesy photo   The book's working title is "An American Story -- The Holbert Family: Four Brothers Who Serve." Its publisher, Linda Dennis, hopes to tell the story of...

U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Gregory SellersU.S. Army Maj. Bradley Sellers Brothers Serve in Afghanistan By Air Force Staff Sgt. Marti RibeiroCombined Joint Task Force 76 Public Affairs BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, March 3, 2006 — In the small town of Lima, Ohio, 15 miles from astronaut Neil Armstrong’s house, three energetic boys dreamed of one day serving their country as an astronaut, a pilot or a soldier. These high aspirations came true for these three boys and two of them are currently deployed to Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. What’s different about this situation is that these brothers are from different...

Brother of Fallen Soldier Called To Iraq "Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends.," says Roy Velez. More than a year after burying his oldest son, Roy is dealing with a new heartache. He says, "Andrew called and said 'Dad, I've got some news you're not gonna like.' He said 'I'm going back Daddy.'"The U.S. Military once again called on the service of his son army specialist Andrew Velez. Roy says, "My reaction was, it sucks during his first tour of duty in Iraq Andrew had to bring home a...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Two brothers who had eluded a string of felony drug and weapons charges for 15 years have been captured and were found with stockpiles of drugs, weapons and gunpowder, a U.S. marshal said Saturday. A tip earlier in the week led authorities to a rented home in rural southwestern New Mexico, where the brothers were arrested Friday on weapons, explosives and other charges from a 1991 warrant in Merriam, Kan., officials said. Geoffrey Rose, 62, and Gregory Rose, 50, were taken into custody without incident, U.S. Marshal Gorden Eden said. The men were thought to be aligned...

Brothers, Brandon and Jeff Lloyd, both staff sergeants in the U.S. Army, re-enlist on their mother’s birthday in Baghdad, Iraq, Jan. 28. U.S. Army photo U.S. Army Staff Sgts. Brandon and Jeff Lloyd Brothers Re-enlist on Mom’s Birthday By Capt. James Lowe 506th Public Affairs Office BAGHDAD, Iraq, Feb. 2, 2006 — On a bright winter’s day in eastern Baghdad, two brothers re-enlisted for love of country, love of the Army … and love of their mom back home in Alabama. Staff Sgt. Brandon Lloyd, two years older than Staff Sgt. Jeff Lloyd, hosted his brother at Forward Operating...

CAMP AL QA’IM, Iraq (Jan. 23, 2006) -- A Marine is never alone because around them at all times are fellow Marines taking care of them, watching their back and making sure they get home. Every Marine is a brother or sister to another Marine. In the case of Lance Cpl.’s Michael and Brian Huber of Euless, Texas, not only are they brothers through the Marine Corps, they are brothers in life. “It’s nice to have family here,” said Brian. “It makes the deployment easier.” Both Marines are reservists with the 14th Marine Regiment. Michael, 21, is a ballistic meteorological...

CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq (Jan. 5, 2006) -- Life changed forever one month ago for two fraternal twin brothers serving in different units in Iraq when one suffered injuries from an improvised explosive device. As one brother heals himself to a full recovery at a medical center back in the states, the other remains determined to carry out his service in Iraq. Lance Corporals Jeremiah and Jeremy Pimental, 20, farm boys from Springfield, Ore., carry on a family tradition of military service going back to World War II. Both men joined the Marine Corps months after their high school graduation in...

Milpitas detectives were working Tuesday to get to the bottom of a blast of bullets at a nightclub near the Great Mall last weekend that left two friends dead and two brothers arrested. The killings were the city's first homicides since 2003. Dead are Trevor De Voe, 24, and Irwin Dillon, 20. The Santa Clara suspects, Nuuelva Sofara, 19, and his 16-year-old brother -- who has not yet been named because of his age -- are booked on homicide charges. The two may be members of a local subset of the violent Crips gang, according to prosecutor Dave Tomkins. ``This...

12/5/2005 - SOUTHWEST ASIA (AFPN) -- Families normally get together for holidays -- but at 25,000 feet? Not hardly. But two pilots from the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing found a way to accomplish a mission and have a family reunion at the same time. Capts. Greg Matthew Amig reunited in the skies over Southwest Asia, where Greg refueled his brother’s aircraft on Thanksgiving Day. The brothers are stationed together at this forward-deployed base. Greg is 340th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron KC-135 Stratotanker pilot. He is deployed from Grand Forks Air Force Base, N.D. Matthew is a 16th Expeditionary Airborne Command...

11/9/2005 - BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq (AFPN) -- Deployments often mean working long hours thousands of miles away from family and friends. But for two Airmen here, that is not the case. The Soto brothers are both deployed to the 332nd Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron. Tech. Sgt. Orlando Soto and Senior Airman Saul Soto deployed from the 156th Logistics Readiness Squadron at Muniz Air National Guard Station, Puerto Rico. The two are continuing a family tradition started by their father, who served in the Army for 25 years. "My father inspired me to join the service," Sergeant Soto said. "I...

TIKRIT, Iraq, Nov. 2, 2005 – Task Force Band of Brothers and the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) officially took command of military operations in north-central Iraq in a ceremony at Forward Operating Base Danger here Nov. 1. The ceremony marked the transfer of authority from Task Force Liberty and the 42nd Infantry Division, a National Guard unit from New York that has been deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom for a year, to TF Band of Brothers. TF Band of Brothers is composed of two brigade combat teams and a combat aviation brigade of the 101st Airborne Division,...

CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq (Oct. 11, 2005) -- After serving nearly 13 years in the Marine Corps respectively, two brothers with 8th Communication Battalion, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Headquarters Group, II MEF (FWD), have found themselves side-by-side in the same unit serving in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom here. Gunnery Sgt. Frank Ashworth and Staff Sgt. Nick Ashworth are brothers separated in age by 14 months, but seem more like best friends catching up on old times. Raised in Grants Pass, Ore., the brothers were raised by their mother. Their father, a Marine veteran who served three tours of duty in...