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  • U.S., Iraqi Troops Detain 66 Suspects, Seize Weapons

    03/20/2006 3:32:25 PM PST · by SandRat · 6 replies · 366+ views
    WASHINGTON, March 20, 2006 – In the past week, U.S. and Iraqi forces detained more than five dozen suspected insurgents in Iraq, U.S. military officials reported. Soldiers from the 2nd Brigade, 5th Iraqi Army Division, captured 20 detainees and a small cache yesterday near Khalis, Iraq. The detainees and cache contents were turned over to authorities for further investigation. The original intent of the operation was to target 10 individuals believed to be associated with a local kidnapping and assassination cell. Elsewhere, soldiers from two battalions of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, in conjunction with Iraqi security...
  • Afghan, Coalition Troops Detain Suspects, Seize Weapons

    03/17/2006 3:23:48 PM PST · by SandRat · 4 replies · 287+ views
    WASHINGTON, March 17, 2006 – Afghan and coalition troops detained several suspects and seized weapons during two March 15 operations in Afghanistan, Combined Forces Command Afghanistan officials reported. A joint patrol detained nine armed men in the village of Khwazi in Qalat district, Zabul province after they were seen running into a mosque with weapons. Afghan National Army soldiers ordered the armed men out of the mosque. When they refused to leave, the patrol received permission from the mullah to enter and search the building. The men, who are suspected of being Taliban, were detained without incident. Coalition forces remained...
  • Bomb Kills Five Iraqis; Iraqi Troops Detain Suspects, Seize Weapons

    02/26/2006 1:48:05 PM PST · by SandRat · 1 replies · 214+ views
    American Forces Press Service ^ | Feb 25, 2006 | Multinational Force Iraq and Multinational Security Transition Command news
    WASHINGTON, Feb. 26, 2006 – A vehicle bomb killed five Iraqis today, and Iraqi and U.S. soldiers have continued to arrest suspected terrorists and find weapons, military officials reported. Two Iraqi adults and three children were killed in Hillah when a minivan, which had been used as a taxi, exploded. The minivan was traveling in the southern district of Hillah when it reportedly was stopped. An unidentified man left the vehicle, entered a red sedan, and drove away. Moments later, the minivan exploded. The minivan's occupants suffered minor injuries and were taken to the Hillah medical treatment facility, officials said....
  • Rebels Seize Oil Workers In Nigeria

    02/19/2006 12:00:44 PM PST · by blam · 4 replies · 389+ views
    The Guardian (UK) ^ | 2-19-2006 | Tom Ashby
    Rebels seize oil workers in Nigeria Tom Ashby in Lagos Sunday February 19, 2006 The Observer (UK) Nine foreign oil workers were kidnapped by armed militants in Nigeria yesterday in a series of attacks that also saw a tanker terminal bombed and two pipelines sabotaged. The raids came after the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta announced it was declaring war on all foreign oil interests in the region in response to helicopter gunship attacks on villagers last week. The militants stormed a pipe-laying barge operated by the US firm Willbros and abducted nine workers, including a Briton,...
  • Four Insurgents Killed, Three Detained; Troops Seize Weapo

    02/04/2006 7:13:47 PM PST · by SandRat · 6 replies · 348+ views
    American Forces Press Service ^ | Feb 4, 2006 | Multinational Force Iraq and Multinational Division Baghdad news releases
    WASHINGTON, Feb. 4, 2006 – A combined U.S. and Iraqi patrol killed four insurgents yesterday, and in separate incidents Feb. 2, a U.S. team seized a weapons cache west of Fallujah and Multinational Division Baghdad forces detained three suspected terrorists, Multinational Force Iraq officials reported today. The insurgents were killed after they opened fire on U.S. Marines and Iraqi soldiers patrolling along the Euphrates River south of Hit. The combined patrol was conducting a cache sweep when the insurgents attacked with small-arms fire, officials said. U.S. and Iraq troops returned fire, killing four insurgents and detaining three others for questioning....
  • Cars with loud speakers may be seized in the city

    01/30/2006 3:02:44 PM PST · by OnRightOnLeftCoast · 71 replies · 1,985+ views
    St. Louis-Post Dispatch ^ | January 27, 2006 | Jake Wagman
    St. Louis police will be able to seize cars blasting loud music under a bill passed today by the Board of Aldermen. The bill mirrors laws in other cities, prohibiting the use and even installation of some enhanced speakers. Alderman Craig Schmid’s proposal easily had enough votes to pass, but not after aldermen turned up the volume on their own concerns. Impounding a car for playing loud music is to severe, opponents said, and ripe for abuse.
  • U.S., Iraqi Forces Kill Terrorists, Detain Suspects, Seize Weapons

    01/10/2006 4:39:36 PM PST · by SandRat · 17 replies · 305+ views
    WASHINGTON, Jan. 10, 2006 – U.S. and Iraqi forces killed and detained suspected terrorists and uncovered various weapons caches yesterday and today, military officials in Baghdad reported. Iraqi soldiers from 8th Iraqi Army Division, supported by Multinational Division Central South soldiers, killed two terrorists and detained four others in a small village in southern Diwaniyah province today. One coalition soldier was wounded. He was taken to a coalition forces medical facility and was reported to be in stable condition. The detainees are suspected of murder, kidnapping and selling drugs, officials said. Task Force Band of Brothers soldiers uncovered weapons caches...
  • Troops Kill, Capture Terrorists, Seize Weapons Caches

    01/04/2006 4:14:31 PM PST · by SandRat · 2 replies · 328+ views
    WASHINGTON, Jan. 4, 2006 – U.S. soldiers killed and captured terrorism suspects in Iraq Jan. 2, and U.S. and Iraqi forces seized weapons caches, military officials reported today. Soldiers from the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, killed a suspected terrorist and captured another after an attack on a coalition base near Balad. The soldiers immediately captured one suspect, but chased the second for two hours. The chase ended when the soldiers cornered the suspect in a grove of palm trees and killed him with return fire, officials said. In another incident near Hawijah, soldiers detained two bombing suspects...
  • U.S., Iraqi Forces Thwart Prison Escape, Seize Weapons

    12/28/2005 5:01:47 PM PST · by SandRat · 7 replies · 383+ views
    WASHINGTON, Dec. 28, 2005 – U.S. and Iraqi forces thwarted a prison escape today and destroyed five weapons caches and seized money and passports yesterday, U.S. military officials in Baghdad reported. Four Iraqi prison guards, an interpreter and four prisoners died and a U.S. soldier and five prisoners were injured when 16 prisoners tried to escape after storming the armory and obtaining weapons. All prisoners are accounted for. The 101st Airborne Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team found nearly 400 mortar rounds, along with explosive propellant, artillery fuses, small-arms ammunition, an anti-tank missile and an anti-personnel mine near Hawijah in north...
  • Iraqi, Coalition Forces Capture Terrorists, Seize Weapons

    12/14/2005 6:35:07 PM PST · by SandRat · 18 replies · 485+ views
    WASHINGTON, Dec. 14, 2005 – Iraqi Army troops and coalition forces captured 11 insurgents and seized six caches Dec. 13 in operations southeast of Baqubah, Iraq, military officials reported today. The caches included eight anti-tank mines, six 155 mm artillery rounds, 48 assorted rockets, 48 mixed mortars rounds, 16 anti-personnel rocket-propelled grenades, 26 RPG boosters and a mortar tube assembly. Explosive ordnance disposal personnel were called in to destroy the munitions. The suspects are being detained pending further investigation. Also on Dec. 13, Iraqi army soldiers and coalition forces uncovered a cache hidden in a cave north of Husaybah. Troops...
  • Security Forces Nab 44 Terrorists, Seize Weapons Caches

    09/30/2005 5:41:38 PM PDT · by SandRat · 7 replies · 377+ views
    American Forces Press Service ^ | Sep 30, 2005 | unattributed
    WASHINGTON, Sept. 30, 2005 – Iraqi security forces and multinational forces from Task Force Freedom detained 44 suspected terrorists and seized a number of weapons during operations in northern Iraq Sept. 26-30, military officials reported. Iraqi police seized a weapons cache during a cordon-and-search operation in eastern Mosul on Sept. 28. The cache included artillery rounds, rocket-propelled grenades, rockets, and blasting caps. The weapons were confiscated for future destruction. During five operations in Tal Afar between Sept. 26 and 29, soldiers from the 2nd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, detained 17 individuals suspected of terrorist activity. Suspects are in custody....
  • Coalition, Iraqi Forces Detain Suspects, Seize Weapons

    09/29/2005 5:19:58 PM PDT · by SandRat · 3 replies · 192+ views
    American Forces Press Service ^ | Sep 29, 2005 | unattributed
    WASHINGTON, Sept. 29, 2005 – Iraqi and coalition forces detained 10 suspects and seized weapons and ammunition in operations across Iraq on Sept. 28, military officials reported. Iraqi soldiers from the 3rd Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 1st Iraqi Intervention Force, were conducting targeted raids in conjunction with coalition troops in Ramadi when they detained four men. The troops believed the men might have been involved with a previously discovered cache in central Ramadi. Elsewhere, Iraqi troops from the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 1st Iraqi Intervention Force, and coalition troops conducting combined entry-control-point operations detained a man with suspected false identification documents...
  • Coalition Forces Seize Terror Suspects, Bombs

    08/06/2005 3:13:33 PM PDT · by SandRat · 4 replies · 330+ views
    American Forces Press Service ^ | Aug 6, 2005 | unattributed
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 6, 2005 – Coalition forces in Iraq captured seven terror suspects, seized a car bomb being prepared for an attack, and foiled five roadside-bomb attacks during a series of combat operations conducted in Baghdad over the past two days. Just before 6 a.m. today, coalition forces seized a car bomb and three terrorists who admitted they were planning to use the car bomb in an attack later in the day. An explosive ordnance disposal team safely detonated the bomb, and the terrorists were taken into custody. At 3:30 a.m. Aug. 5, Task Force Baghdad soldiers approached a man...
  • Venezuela's Chavez lashes back at cardinal

    07/26/2005 4:01:05 PM PDT · by NickatNite2003 · 9 replies · 473+ views
    Associated Press via CNN ^ | Tuesday, July 19, 2005 | None attributed
    CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- President Hugo Chavez has denied an outspoken cardinal's allegation that he is leading Venezuela toward a dictatorship as tensions mounted between the leftist leader and the Roman Catholic Church. Chavez said anyone who thinks his "revolutionary" government is gradually turning into a dictatorial regime "is crazy enough to be tied up or just ignorant (and) doesn't know what's happening in Venezuela." The statements made by Chavez in Lima, Peru, where he was attending an Andean summit meeting, were released by his press office in Caracas on Monday. A day earlier, Cardinal Rosalio Castillo Lara said Chavez's...
  • Judicial Activism or Judicial Restraint? (vanity)

    06/24/2005 7:10:34 AM PDT · by Crush T Velour · 32 replies · 1,025+ views
    Here's the situation. Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that the elected governments of cities can't define "imminent domain" as land for a shopping mall. I don't think they should, but is it a question for the Supreme Court to involve itself? This is a policy issue. The legislature of Connecticutt should get involved and pass a law that says "the government can't seize private property for private use." Or maybe the Congress and Senate should. But the Supreme Court...finally had the restraint not to involve itself in policy decisions. And I think that's good.
  • Iran; A Secular Student in Tehran Committed to Change

    06/18/2005 5:57:45 PM PDT · by F14 Pilot · 6 replies · 411+ views
    Free Inquiry ^ | June 2005 | Soroush Danesh
    At around the age of eighteen, I became interested in politics. Prior to that, my attention was focused elsewhere due to my age, I believe. I did not understand the real meaning of political language, but I tried, mostly without success, to seek out sources to research and understand it. When I turned eighteen, in accordance with Muslim education, I completed an intensive program of Islamic study, which took four to five months. During this time, I began reading non-Iranian, secular books. While reading history, sociology, anthropology, and religious texts, it became clear to me that, when religion moves from...
  • Hillary-haters seize on trial of fundraiser in bid to smear Clintons

    05/10/2005 4:38:41 AM PDT · by Libloather · 31 replies · 1,109+ views
    Belfast Telegraph ^ | 5/10/05 | Andrew Gumbel
    Hillary-haters seize on trial of fundraiser in bid to smear Clintons By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles 10 May 2005 A former fund-raising director for Hillary Clinton goes on trial in Los Angeles today to face accusations of campaign finance irregularities that political opponents of the former first Lady turned US senator hope will help dent her chances of a successful run for the presidency in 2008. To the growing band of Hillary-haters who have set up websites and political action committees to try, again, to stop her political career in its tracks, the case has all the hallmarks of...
  • Police seize drug items, switchblades

    04/27/2005 10:38:06 AM PDT · by freepatriot32 · 20 replies · 1,923+ views
    ethruth.com ^ | 4 26 05 | Marshall King
    ELKHART -- Police confiscated items used to take drugs and 19 switchblades from a local convenience store last week. On April 18, the Elkhart County Prosecutor's office got a search warrant for the BP gas station at 935 N. Nappanee St., near Memorial High School and the Elkhart Area Career Center. The prosecutor's office has been leading an effort to make sure businesses are operating legally, said Bill Wargo, chief investigator. "We're visiting a number of legitimate businesses, verifying licenses and ownership," he said. Officers from the Elkhart Police Department and Elkhart County Sheriff's Department helped raid the convenience store...
  • Insurgents Seize 60 Hostages in Iraqi Town (Madaen)

    04/15/2005 4:50:56 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 5 replies · 546+ views
    Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 4/15/05 | Mariam Karouny
    BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Sunni guerrillas took at least 60 people hostage in an Iraqi town near Baghdad on Friday and threatened to kill them unless Shi'ites left the area, a Shi'ite official quoted residents as saying. The hostage-taking and three successive days of bombings which killed at least 34 people suggested insurgents had regrouped after a lull in violence since Jan. 30 elections. "People from the town called me begging the Iraqi government to save their relatives who are hostages. They told me there are at least 60 hostages," the official, who asked not to be identified, told Reuters in...
  • Swiss seize five suspected extremists (two released)

    03/04/2005 10:10:15 AM PST · by NormsRevenge · 8 replies · 334+ views
    Bakersfield Californian ^ | 3/4/05 | Bettina Stadelmann - AP
    BERN, Switzerland (AP) - Police have detained five Islamic extremists suspected of running Web sites that showed hostages being killed and gave details of how to make bombs and carry out attacks, authorities said Friday. The five, three of whom were still in custody, were detained Feb. 22 in anti-terrorism raids in the capital, Bern, and nearby Fribourg, the Federal Prosecutor's Office said. Police used force during the operation in Fribourg, the office said without elaborating. The prosecutor's office did not say where the killings took place, but Swiss media reports have said the high-profile beheading of an American in...