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CAMP BUCCA, IRAQ -- U.S. military police Friday thwarted a massive escape attempt by suspected insurgents and terrorists from this southern Iraq Army base that houses more than 6,000 detainees when they uncovered a 600-foot tunnel the detainees had dug under their compound. "We were very close to a very bad thing," Major Gen. William Brandenburg said Friday after troops under his command discovered the tunnel that prisoners had painstakingly dug with the help of makeshift tools. Within hours of the discovery on the first tunnel, a second tunnel of about 300 feet was detected under an adjoining compound in...

FORT HUACHUCA - It was early, it was dark and there was a cold bite in the air. But that didn't phase a small group of soldiers from the 18th Military Police Detachment. They had a mission to do Wednesday, and it wasn't associated with law enforcement. The soldiers were putting more miles on their boots, preparing for the Bataan Memorial Death March next month. "Each will have more than 100 miles on their boots," Capt. Randolph Morgan said. Morgan is included in that group. He is the captain of the MP detachment's five-man Military Heavy Division team that will...

An attorney for a U.S. Army soldier court-martialed in connection with the Abu Ghraib prison scandal says he's frustrated that he was not allowed in court to try to link the prison abuse to top-ranked military officials, including the incoming Fort Huachuca commander. Paul Bergrin, a New Jersey lawyer, said Monday that he will press his efforts to link the scandal with higher-ups to the Court of Military Review and, if necessary, the Court of Military Appeals. His client, Sgt. Javal S. Davis of Roselle, N.J., pleaded guilty to dereliction of duty, lying to investigators and battery last Tuesday as...

MP's wife introduced him to Saddam sympathiser, writes CAMERON SIMPSON and AARON HICKLIN GEORGE Galloway first met the shadowy figure of Fawaz Zureikat through his Palestinian wife. The fateful meeting was to propel the man who goes under the soubriquets of "Gorgeous George" and the "MP for Baghdad Central" into one of the biggest crises of his colourful career. Dr Amineh Abu-Zayyad, 36, a Jerusalem-born scientist who married Mr Galloway in a secret ceremony in London in February 2000, had gone to the same university in Jordan as Mr Zureikat. Mr Zureikat's name first surfaced in a letter from Mr...

A Jordanian business man, Fawaz Zureikat, whose name was revealed yesterday as an allegedly business intermediary between Labour member of Parliament George Galloway and Saddam Hussain's regime, has been detained in Amman. George Galloway MP, a familiar face to Arab public, is at the top of the news once again, but this time as having been, allegedly, on the pay-roll of Saddam Hussain's regime, at least since 2000. The allegations, claimed to have been uncovered in "secret documents" found by a reporter in two charred boxes at the first floor of the looted foreign ministry in Baghdad are many and...

FORT HOOD -- In his quarter century working in military courts, attorney Guy Womack can count on the fingers of one hand the times he has allowed a client to testify. "My knee-jerk reaction is never to do that," said Womack, an ex-Marine Corps lawyer based in Houston. "I've never regretted not doing that." But he may make an exception to his rule for Spc. Charles Graner Jr., the Army reservist accused of leading the much-publicized abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. He says Graner, whose trial begins with opening statements Monday, can explain better than anyone...

No one is indispensable. As we all know, MP Carolyn Parrish was booted out of the Liberal caucus after her vitriol, usually reserved for the "bastards" and the "idiots" to the south, was spewed at Prime Minister Paul Martin and his inner circle. And as nature abhors a vacuum, it was only a matter of time before a successor stepped up to the plate. In the wake of the horrific tsunamis that ravaged parts of South Asia, Acting Prime Minister Bill Graham (acting in the sense that Graham appeared to be the only relevant cabinet minister that felt that a...

OTTAWA -- Unhappy with RCMP answers about what was seen as excessive security during last week's presidential visit, members of Parliament are setting their sights higher up the Mountie chain of command. MPs hauled an inspector and a sergeant-major on the carpet Tuesday to explain why some members and senators had a hard time getting through security lines during the presidential visit. They weren't happy with the answers and decided to call Dwight McCallum, assistant commissioner and director of protective policing, and Line Carbonneau, chief superintendent for protective operations, to appear next week. A suggestion to call Commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli,...

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Carolyn Parrish was accorded a free ride for her anti-American tirades--until the Drudge Report checked in. Drudge prominently displayed the infamous picture of Parrish’s expensively booted foot crushing a George W. Bush doll over the story of her upcoming Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC) foot-stomping stunt. Today the Liberal MP’s debut on CBC’s This Hour Has 22 Minutes foot-stomping antics takes the backseat as a marginalized Parrish rendered her swan song from the abysmal ranks of the Canadian independent. Canada Prime Minister Paul Martin finally got around to firing his mean-mouthed backbencher yesterday–and that story is up on Drudge too. The...

The Prime Minister Paul Martin-led Canadian Liberal Government is about to have a good laugh on the rest of us. With the help of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) stooges, they’ve got it nailed down to a fine science. The controversy over their backbench MP Carolyn Parrish grinding her boot on a George W. Bush doll on CBC’s satirical This Hour Has 22 Minutes tomorrow, could not have been carried off without Liberal government approval. CBC is a Crown Corporation–bought, paid for and sustained with millions of tax dollars by the Liberal Government in Ottawa. The outrage of the government over...

It’s too bad Prime Minister Paul Martin doesn’t get to read the legions of letters that pour into Canada Free Press from angry Americans, fed up with the barrage of anti-American sentiment emanating from that heckling country next door. But it’s unlikely Martin even gets to read his meeting agendas, surrounded as he is by minions more interested in seeing that he always tows the politically correct line on which his nation has come to lean so heavily. You can depend that Martin reads every line that comes out of the prolific, politically correct United Nations. UN Secretary General Kofi...

We simply must find out what shoe store Carolyn Parrish patronizes (“matronizes”?). Her selections must be very tasty, considering the number of times she takes one out of her mouth for the sole purpose of replacing it with another. She is the Liberal Member of Parliament who made headlines some moons ago by calling Americans “bastards.” This was followed up with a speech at a political rally a few months later when she referred to U.S. President Bush’s “coalition of the willing” as a “coalition of idiots.” So, it would appear that her disdain encompasses Brits and Aussies as well...

From Canada Free Press newspaper today, One upmanship factor in "Coalition of Idiots" MP mail response shows the anti-American hatred by Canadian Liberal politicians. Here is the first bit of it: One upmanship seems more important than sincerity when Canadian Liberal Member of Parliament Carolyn Parrish responds to email and letter writers complaining about her anti-American rhetoric. In fact, people writing letters of complaint about her latest anti-American slurs get form letters in reply, Canada Free Presshas learned. Letters to Parrish are computer rated as "positive", "constructively critical" or "crude, vile or threatening" before writers get a response.

08-30-2004 I've been here a week, and it feels like a month. We're in a transition period because the company we're taking over for is leaving soon. This is the quiet before the storm. After the changeover, we'll be busy. Our company is spread all over Iraq. Our commanding officer and first sergeant went to visit some of our Marines stationed elsewhere, and they told us we have it really good down here. Have it really good?? I can only imagine the conditions those others are living in. It's hot here. I feel like I'm getting a tan inside my...

Why I Serve: The Memories Keep 'Sarge' Going By Master Sgt. Jack Gordon, USASpecial to American Forces Press Service LOGISTICS SUPPORT AREA ANACONDA, BALAD, Iraq, Sept. 20 2004 – "I've been taking taxpayers' money all these years, and I can't refuse duty. It would be like me telling my mom and dad 'thanks for the money' without giving them anything back for it." Army Sgt. Jack Cormack of the 362nd Military Police Battalion, Ashley, Pa., uses a speed gun to track speeders on Logistics Support Area Anaconda, Balad, Iraq. The bullet hole in the unit's patrol car –came from...

BG Karpinski, the EX-Commander of the 800th MP Bde cries "IT'S A CONSPIRACY!" snip------

Refugee who became Dutch MP defies Islam with film about Koran By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Brussels (Filed: 31/08/2004) After describing the Prophet Mohammed as a pervert, Ayaan Hirsi Ali already needs round-the-clock protection from the Dutch security services. Now the Muslim apostate and rising star of Dutch politics has pushed her luck even further with a film exhibiting verses of the Koran across the chest, stomach and thighs of an almost naked girl. Ayaan Hirsi Ali Mrs Hirsi Ali, who has risen from Somali asylum seeker to Dutch MP in 12 years, produced the film broadcast on Dutch television on...

American military police yesterday raided a building belonging to the Iraqi ministry of the interior where prisoners were allegedly being physically abused by Iraqi interrogators. The raid appeared to be a violation of the country's new sovereignty, leading to angry scenes inside the ministry between Iraqi policemen and US soldiers. The military police, who had been told of abuse, seized an area known as the Guesthouse just outside the ministry's main building. They disarmed the Iraqi policemen and at one stage threatened to set free prisoners whose handcuffs they removed, according to Iraqi officials. The arrival of a second group...

MAIN SUPPLY ROUTE TAMPA, Iraq — The radio inside Sgt. Jim Tomlinson’s armored Humvee chatters out details of a firefight along the road up ahead. The infantryman calls to Spc. Stephen Lord, the machine gunner up top, to be alert. “A unit is taking small arms fire, engaging the enemy on both sides,” Tomlinson yells. “51 Alpha.” Lord knows what that means. Tomlinson’s words, 51 Alpha, refer to an overpass along the highway just inside Baghdad’s North End. A roadside bomb that insurgents planted there recently earned Lord a Purple Heart when it exploded above the 19-year-old generator mechanic from...