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Weekend Talk Show *Preview* for Saturday, June 10th and Sunday, June 11th, 2006 (not the live thread)The main message is the Sunday Shows on 6/11/006.  Message 1 will be the Saturday Shows and message 2 will be the show guest links post.  Then I'll post the ping list.ABC This Week (George Stephanopoulos) Meme: Yeah, yeah, a minor annoyance was murdered by the ruthless US military and Bushitler.  So what?Did you get a look at the hunk, Al Gore, with Steponallofus last week?  Talk about Presidential! Topics: Amb. L. Paul Bremer on al-Zarqawi's death and the fight for IraqRep. Reynolds vs....

WMD hunters ambushed in Baghdad By P. Mitchell Prothero Published 4/26/2004 1:32 PM BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 26 (UPI) -- An explosion that killed al least three U.S. personnel in Baghdad was an ambush of a top-secret unit detailed to search for weapons of mass destruction, United Press International has confirmed. The military initially claimed that a detail of U.S. Army soldiers were about to raid a suspected bomb making factory when two were killed after an explosion. Several Iraqis in the area at the time told UPI that the building exploded when the soldiers tried to enter the house. Although...

The discovery of an Iraqi artillery shell armed with nerve gas has the liberal community and mass media in a panic. The 155mm nerve gas shell was rigged to kill U.S. troops but it failed. U.S. Brig. General Mark Kimmitt confirmed the discovery during a news conference in Baghdad. Yet, the discovery of nerve gas was followed by a second revelation. A second shell, equipped with mustard gas was found two weeks ago. The mustard gas shell identified by the special WMD inspection team in Iraq appears to be one of 550 declared by Saddam to U.N. inspectors during the...

FORMER chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix said that a shell containing sarin nerve gas used in an attack in Iraq was most likely a stray weapon possibly from the first Gulf War. Blix said today that the discovery of the nerve agent was not a sign that Saddam Hussein's regime possessed weapons of mass destruction before the war last year. The US-led coalition used that claim to justify the invasion even though UN inspectors failed to make any significant finds before the war. The former Swedish foreign minister said the 155-mm shell used to attack a US military...

An Iraqi insurgent holds up a poster advertising a purported 'reward' of $15 Million US currency for the heads of either US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, coalition forces commander Lt. General Ricardo Sanchez, or military spokesman Brig. Genral Mark Kimmitt in the besieged city of Fallujah.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The top U.S. military spokesman in Iraq appeared to briefly lose consciousness during a news conference Saturday, bumping his face into a podium microphone. He left the room for a period but returned smiling and answered more questions. There was no immediate explanation for the apparent fainting spell suffered by Army Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, the deputy head of operations in Iraq, who delivers daily briefings to Baghdad-based journalists alongside the top U.S. coalition spokesman Dan Senor. Kimmitt had left the podium for a few minutes earlier in the press conference, which was broadcast live internationally. He...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - The top U.S. military spokesman in Iraq appeared to briefly lose consciousness during a news conference Saturday, bumping his face into a podium microphone. He left the room for a period but returned smiling and answered more questions. There was no immediate explanation for the apparent fainting spell suffered by Army Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, the deputy head of operations in Iraq, who delivers daily briefings to Baghdad-based journalists alongside the top U.S. coalition spokesman Dan Senor. Kimmitt had left the podium for a few minutes earlier in the press conference, which was broadcast live...

WASHINGTON, April 7 (Reuters) - U.S. forces dropped two 500-pound (227-kg) bombs and fired rockets at the wall of a mosque in the restive Iraqi city of Falluja on Wednesday after insurgents took refuge in the compound, a U.S. general said in television interviews from Baghdad. "My understanding is that we went after one set of insurgents that were hiding behind the outer wall of a mosque, not the mosque itself," Army Brig Gen. Mark Kimmitt, deputy director of operations for the U.S. military in Iraq, told CNN. "We understand there was a large casualty toll taken by the enemy,"...

I just heard this on Fox News Dayside program. Brigadier General Kimmitt stated that normally mosques are protected sites but when mosques are used to organize, incite or execute violence "mosques lose their protected status". He said they preferred that Iraqi forces be used in such circumstances but when necessary they will take the fight to the mosque. The audience applauded his statement.

Coalition Vows To Destroy Sadr's 'Mahdi Army' Militia By Gerry J. GilmoreAmerican Forces Press ServiceWASHINGTON, April 7, 2004 – U.S. officials in Baghdad today vowed to defeat insurgents and restore order in Iraq after a third day of countrywide attacks against Iraqi and coalition forces. Coalition Provisional Authority officials blamed outlaw Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and his "Mahdi Army" militia for many of the recent attacks. Iraqi officials have put out an arrest warrant on Sadr for his alleged role in the murder of a prominent Shiia cleric last year. "We will attack to destroy the Mahdi Army,"...

<p>BAGHDAD (AP) — A top U.S. general in Iraq vowed on Wednesday to "destroy" a Shiite militia led by wanted radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr that has launched a wave of attacks against coalition forces in southern cities.</p> <p>"We will attack to destroy the al-Mahdi Army," Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt told reporters. "Those attacks will be deliberate, precise and they will be successful."</p>

BAGHDAD (AFP) - The remains of four American security contractors ambushed in Iraq (news - web sites) were recovered as US officials vowed to exact vengeance for their gruesome murder. US Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, deputy head of coalition operations, said the remains were handed over to US forces Thursday. The four, employees of the private US firm Blackwater Security Consulting of North Carolina, were killed Wednesday in an ambush and their vehicles set ablaze in Fallujah, 50 kilometers (30 miles) west of Baghdad. Two of the charred bodies were then dismembered and publicly paraded as a gleeful mob cheered...

Insurgents targeting Iraqis are relying on the terrorist adage "Kill one, terrorize a thousand," but won't succeed in their efforts to derail freedom and stability, the deputy operations director for Combined Joint Task Force 7 said in a Baghdad news conference today. Army Brig. Gen. Mark T. Kimmitt explained the increased number of attacks are meant to show the Iraqi people that former regime elements still can "reach out and touch" them. "The purpose is quite simple," he said. "They are trying to convince the people of Iraq that they can't trust the coalition, that they can't depend on the...