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Republican Presidential Candidate Debate #12 – Johnston, Iowa 12/12/07 - Official Discussion Thread Live at 2PM EST on Iowa Public Television, CNN, C-SPAN3, Fox News Channel, C-SPAN Radio, and Fox News Radio Candidates participating: Rudy Giuliani Mike Huckabee Duncan Hunter Alan Keyes John McCain Ron Paul Mitt Romney Tom Tancredo Fred Thompson Live streaming at desmoinesregister.com

Selma — An intruder who police say was pinned between a car and a fence has died at the hospital. John Reid said he pulled into his driveway near the intersection of Hawkins Road and U.S. Highway 301 between Micro and Selma Thursday afternoon when he noticed two men getting into a brown sedan outside a gate on his property. Reid, whose property had been burglarized several times in the past year, said he did not want the pair to escape.

BBC reporter's freedom 'really staged for movie' WorldNetDaily, OR - Jul 4, 2007 http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56515 Rabbo charged Hamas was in "cahoots" with Johnston's kidnappers...

"['Palestinian'] Army of Islam clearly had a jihadi agenda," Johnston said. "They described me as a prisoner in the war between Muslims & non-Muslims. Freed BBC reporter compares captivity ‘to being buried alive’Canada.com, Canada - "The Army of Islam clearly had a jihadi agenda," Johnston said. "They described me as a prisoner in the war between Muslims and non-Muslims. http://www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html?id=a13ca489-8f28-49af-b731-083b61057605&k=18163

Amish release BBC reporter Hooterville (Reuters) - Alan Johnston, the BBC journalist held hostage by the Amish , was freed early on Wednesday after a late-night deal between the ruling Amishists and the Mennonite-inspired clan group that kidnapped him in March. "It is just the most fantastic thing to be free. It was an appalling experience," he told the British public broadcaster from the home of local Amish leader Johannes Schwartz after his 114-day ordeal at the hands of the shadowy Army of Amos. Johnston, the only Western correspondent based full-time in the troubled Hooterville, said he sensed his captors...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - A video recording released Monday shows kidnapped British journalist Alan Johnston wearing an apparent explosives belt of the type suicide bombers use and warning it will be detonated if an attempt is made to free him by force. The video, about one minute, 42 seconds long, was posted on a Web site that has been used by militant groups in the past. It opens with the title "Alan's Appeal" in both English and Arabic and features the logo of the Army of Islam, a shadowy group that has claimed responsibility for snatching Johnston, a British...

Text of report by Iranian Fars News Agency website Tehran, 17 June: The representative in Tehran of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) of Palestine, who visited Fars News Agency today, said: Alan Johnston, the abducted BBC correspondent in Gaza, will be freed in a few hours. According to Fars News Agency, Abu-Usamah Abd-al-Mu'ti, speaking at a news conference held this morning at Fars News Agency around the axis of "an examination of Palestinian developments", added: In view of the new situation in Gaza and the flight of Fatah leaders to the West Bank, the clan that has abducted Alan Johnston...

senior Palestinian official said on Saturday that a military operation to release abducted BBC journalist Alan Johnston would be justified if peaceful means fail. "The government should acquire the release of Johnston," chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat said of the reporter who was captured in the Gaza Strip over 80 days ago. "Should they fail through dialogue and peaceful means, in my opinion, a security operation will be justified," Erakat told AFP. Those who hold Johnston on Friday released the first video footage of Johnston, in which he said he was in good health and being well treated.

Palestinians in Gaza say they have slain kidnapped British journalist The Associated PressPublished: April 15, 2007 http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/04/15/africa/ME-GEN-Palestinians-Kidnapped-Journalist.php GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip: A previously unknown Palestinian group said Sunday it had killed a British journalist kidnapped over a month ago by gunmen in Gaza City, but the claim could not be confirmed. In a statement sent to news organizations, "The brigades of Tawheed and Jihad" said it killed BBC Gaza correspondent Alan Johnston, 42, to support demands for the release of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. However, the BBC and the Palestinian government both said there was no evidence to back...

Enter the Shooter Alley strip club in Doraville, Ga., and you'll find plenty of naked young women entertaining their male clients, writhing and shaking only inches away from their faces. It was there that two dancers, Ashley Miller (known as "Adrienne") and Heather Johnston (who went by "Charlie"), met recently and became fast friends. The pairing proved ill-fated. Both were reportedly on a destructive tear. Johnston, 19, was heavily using drugs, according to a fellow stripper at the club. And Miller, 18, had struck up with a reputed drug dealer. The two reached a nadir last week when they robbed...

Democrats seek to curb attack ads... Dukakis heads watchdog panel... The state Democratic Party has created a four-member panel, headed by former governor Michael S. Dukakis, that will review campaign advertisements and publicly rebuke candidates who use negative attacks. Party chairman Philip W. Johnston created the panel and will serve on it, along with Dukakis and Cameron F. Kerry, brother of US Senator John F. Kerry; and Katherine M. Clark of Melrose, a former state Senate candidate who is chairing a statewide campaign effort for the Democratic Party. Johnston, elected party chairman in 2000, said he believes that a major...

Today marks the anniversary of the battle of Shiloh (or as some Southerners refer to it - Pittsburgh Landing) that took place on April 6-7, 1862. The Confederate Army of Mississippi launched a large dawn attack along the Union encampments, catching them off-guards. The Confederates pressed steadily as the Union army conducted a fighting retreat towards the banks of the Tennessee River. Only a determined stand by some hastily put-together Union troops (at the Hornets Nest) allowed Grant to put together a strong defensive line. The death of Confederate General A.S. Johnston threw the Rebel attack into disarray and the...

I. Lewis Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, first learned about the C.I.A. officer at the heart of the leak investigation in a conversation with Mr. Cheney weeks before her identity became public in 2003, lawyers involved in the case said Monday. Notes of the previously undisclosed conversation between Mr. Libby and Mr. Cheney on June 12, 2003, appear to differ from Mr. Libby’s testimony to a federal grand jury that he initially learned about the C.I.A. officer, Valerie Wilson, from journalists, the lawyers said. The notes, taken by Mr. Libby during the conversation, for the first...

<p>BATON ROUGE - U.S. Sen. John Breaux, once the youngest member of Congress, will announce Monday whether he will run for a fourth term.</p> <p>The 59-year-old has scheduled lunch with his staff Monday to discuss his decision then will hold a press conference at 1:30 p.m. in Baton Rouge to announce it to Louisiana.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON - If one of the Senate's most effective moderates decides not to seek re-election, action on issues from Medicare to taxes could be in jeopardy.</p> <p>Seniors might never see their prescription drug bills drop. Workers might be without health insurance between jobs. Welfare moms might not get training for work.</p>

<p>Take an intimate look at Kathleen Blanco Kathleen Blanco: ''She is always the calm at the center of the storm''</p> <p>NEW ORLEANS - Kathleen Blanco is the quiet eye in the storm around her.</p> <p>Dressed in her trademark blue suit, the jacket open to the two-string costume pearl necklace she has used this year because it's large enough not to misplace or leave behind, Blanco is serene, seeming to ignore the undulating semi-circle of television cameras and still photographers whirling about her, some walking backward, others dropping back and swooping back around in front like birds fighting to be in front of a flock. Behind her is a mass of supporters.</p>

<p>BATON ROUGE - Not since 1971 have we had such a long list of gubernatorial candidates.</p> <p>That was the year there were 17 candidates on the Democratic Party primary ballot and two on the Republican primary ballot. Conducted in the same polls at the same time, one had to be a Republican to vote in the Republican primary and vice versa.</p>

DEVENS Wearing a gray Civil War soldier's cap, Allen McRae examined a short oak box containing the remains of New England's last known Confederate prisoner of war. "Once a Southerner, always a Southerner," said McRae, 64. The North Carolina native was talking about himself, but could have been speaking about Lt. Edward Kent Johnston, whose boxed bones were draped with the Confederate flag, the Bars and Stars. In an unusual send-off yesterday, relatives and Civil War buffs began escorting Johnston's remains from the cemetery at the former Fort Devens, where the ship's boiler operator has lain for 63 years, to...

BOSTON, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- At long last, Confederate Navy Lt. Edward J. Johnston will be making his final voyage, home to a hero's welcome. Johnston is believed to be the last Confederate prisoner of war buried in New England. But thanks to the efforts of veterans groups and Civil War re-enactors in the North and South, his remains are to be moved from Massachusetts to Florida for reburial this month with full Confederate military honors, 139 years after his death. This will be Johnston's fifth -- and final -- grave. This one, however, is special. It will be with...

<p>FERNANDINA BEACH -- Nearly 140 years after he died in a Union prisoner of war camp in Massachusetts, Lt. Edward John Kent Johnston is coming home.</p> <p>Johnston, believed to be the last Confederate prisoner of war buried in New England, will be reinterred in October in Bosque Bello Cemetery at the feet of his wife.</p>