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  • Village Leaders Hear About Security, Reconstruction Efforts

    04/28/2006 10:13:09 PM PDT · by SandRat · 1 replies · 179+ views
    American Forces Press Service ^ | Sgt. 1st Class Michael Pintagro
    FORWARD OPERATING BASE ASADABAD, Afghanistan, April 28, 2006 – Coalition, Afghan National Army and village leaders discussed regional anti-terror efforts, security and reconstruction at a meeting in eastern Afghanistan's Kunar province recently. About 50 village elders and townsmen from Ali Abad, Korangal, Arawara Bandeh and Babiel met with Afghan National Army Brig. Gen. Zamari, commander of the 3rd Brigade, 201st ANA Corps; Army Col. John Nicholson, Task Force Spartan commander; Army Lt. Col. Chip Bierman, Task Force Lava commander; and other Coalition leaders as part of Operation Mountain Lion. Coalition delegates vowed to defeat terrorists operating in the Korangal Valley...
  • Pier Construction Project to Help Djiboutian Village

    04/20/2006 4:01:06 PM PDT · by SandRat · 2 replies · 179+ views
    OBOCK, Djibouti, April 20, 2006 – A pier construction project sponsored by the United States will help bring income to this impoverished village and make access to the area easier for U.S. Navy ships fighting the war on terrorism. (From right) Navy Rear Adm. Richard Hunt, who commands Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa; U.S. Ambassador to Djibouti Marguerita Ragsdale; and Navy Secretary Donald Winter listen as Djiboutian officials speak at a groundbreaking ceremony for a new pier in Obock, Djibouti, April 20. Photo by Jim Garamone  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. The first thing you notice...
  • Iraqi village near airport gets clean, fresh water

    04/19/2006 4:07:50 PM PDT · by SandRat · 3 replies · 254+ views
    ARNEWS ^ | Staff Sgt. Kevin Lovel
    CAMP LIBERTY, Iraq (Army News Service, April 19, 2006) – The Iraqi residents of Airport Village, located near Baghdad’s International Airport, can now safely drink local water thanks to the completion of the Airport Village Water Tower and Pipeline project. The tower and pipeline were built by Al Fulq Ltd. Co., the firm awarded the contract for construction of the project, with the help of village resident workers and funded by the Overseas Humanitarian Disaster and Civic Aid program. Coalition Forces coordinated funding for the project at the request of the village leadership, said 1st Lt. Emily Siegert, civil military...
  • Wounded Troops, Disabled Vets Conquer Mountains at Sports Clinic

    04/05/2006 5:36:57 PM PDT · by SandRat · 2 replies · 418+ views
    SNOWMASS VILLAGE, Colo., April 5, 2006 – More than 350 severely wounded troops and disabled veterans are conquering emotional as well as physical mountains at the 20th National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic here. Participants in the 20th National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic prepare their gear at the base of Snowmass Mountain. Photo by Donna Miles  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. The participants, who range in age from 19 to 83 and served in every conflict since World War II, are joining together and showing the world they're not going to let an amputation or a spinal...
  • Top 25 Hillary! Quotes (Stinkin' VANITY)

    03/21/2006 9:03:32 AM PST · by subterfuge · 48 replies · 934+ views
    FRee Republic | 3/21/06 | subterfuge
    1. "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."---June 2004 2. "...and you know what I'm talkin' 'bout!!"---at the Rosa Parks memorial service, 2005.
  • Iraqi Police Escort Propane Delivery to Village

    03/06/2006 2:56:47 PM PST · by SandRat · 3 replies · 233+ views
    Defend America News ^ | Spc. Michael Pfaff
    U.S. Army Pfc. Erik Regalado, a medic with first platoon, B Company, speaks with children standing in line with their families to receive their propane, in Amal Shabi near Kirkuk, Iraq. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Michael Pfaff Iraqi Police Escort Propane Delivery to Village The Iraqi police escorted the propane to Amal Shabi, while coalition forces provided an additional security presence during the distribution of the propane. By U.S. Army Spc. Michael Pfaff 133rd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment KIRKUK, Iraq, March 6, 2006 — For several days, the Iraqi village of Amal Shabi had been denied their normal...
  • Khost Team Brings Medical Care to Afghan Village

    02/23/2006 9:37:17 PM PST · by SandRat · 2 replies · 200+ views
    Defend America News ^ | Feb 23, 2006
    Khost Team Brings Medical Care to Afghan Village The Khost Provincial Reconstruction Team sent doctors, a dentist and a veterinarian, as well as medical personnel and interpreters, to assist Kaskai Kalay residents and livestock. By Combined Forces Command-Afghanistan KHOST, Afghanistan, Feb. 23, 2006 — Afghan and coalition medical personnel treated hundreds of people and animals during a Medical Civil Action Program visit to the village of Kaskai Kalay Feb. 15. "[Medical Civil Action Programs] and humanitarian assistance are extremely important to the people of Afghanistan. Providing medical care to the people and their livestock ensures they’re on the right...
  • New water treatment plant brings hope to Iraqi village

    02/07/2006 3:53:07 PM PST · by SandRat · 3 replies · 501+ views
    ARNEWS ^ | Feb 7, 2006 | Pfc. Michael Molinaro
    Purified water is now a reality to local Iraqis with the opening of a new water treatment plant Feb 5. Capt. Brian McCarthy, commander, Troop B, 1st Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, and Hussein Jabor, mayor of Al Muhawil, listen to Numan Dahr describe the plant's capabilities. Pfc. Michael Molinaro • Printer-friendly version • E-mail this article • New water treatment plant brings hope to Iraqi villageBy Pfc. Michael Molinaro February 7, 2006 AL MUHAWIL, Iraq (Army News Service, Feb. 7, 2006) – In the Al Muhawil muhallah, located about 54 miles south...
  • Entire Darfur Village Of 55,000 Flees After Raids By Janjaweed Gunmen

    02/03/2006 5:59:51 PM PST · by blam · 13 replies · 453+ views
    The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 2-4-2006 | David Blair
    Entire Darfur village of 55,000 flees after raids by Janjaweed gunmen By David Blair in Menawashi (Filed: 04/02/2006) Exhausted refugees were building ramshackle shelters in a dry river bed yesterday after 55,000 people fled a raid mounted by the Janjaweed militia in the Sudanese province of Darfur. It was the biggest movement of refugees there so far this year. The victims, many of whom have fled attacks twice or even three times before, are camped around the town of Menawashi in southern Darfur. They abandoned the nearby town of Mershing after two attacks from the pro-regime militia in the space...
  • Boozing hubbies face wives' slippers

    02/01/2006 3:07:53 PM PST · by ConservativeStatement · 27 replies · 444+ views
    Ananova.com ^ | February 01 2006
    Men caught boozing by their wives in an Indian village now face being slapped across the face by their wives' slippers. A committee of women at Japalli, in Andhra Pradesh, introduced the punishment in a bid to 'curb the menace of liquor', reports the Press Trust of India. Any married man discovered drinking will be hauled up before village elders and slapped five times with his wife's leather slipper in front of local residents. They will also be fined the equivalent of £64. The fines will be handed over to the offenders' wives to spend as they see fit. The...
  • Ancient Find (30K Year-Old Village, Australia)

    02/01/2006 10:48:50 AM PST · by blam · 13 replies · 604+ views
    The Standard ^ | 2-1-2006 | Liz McKinnon
    ANCIENT FIND By LIZ McKINNON February 1, 2006 Damein Bell stands in the remains of an ancient stone house uncovered by a bushfire at Tyrendarra. Picture: LEANNE PICKETT THE bushfire at Tyrendarra last month has unearthed some of the biggest Aboriginal stone houses ever seen in Gunditjmara land. Undocumented sites have been uncovered including a village thought to be 30,000 years old. The Winda-Mara Aboriginal Co-operative made the discovery yesterday during an analysis of its Tyrendarra Indigenous Protected Area. On January 22 fire burnt 240 hectares, blackening 90 per cent of the property's rocky outcrop on the Mt Eccles lava...
  • My pal the psychopath

    01/25/2006 9:04:23 PM PST · by george76 · 22 replies · 1,401+ views
    The Sun ^ | January 25, 2006 | JAMES CLENCH
    CELEB Big Brother prat George Galloway is today exposed in his revolting true colours — fawning before Saddam Hussein’s murderous son Uday. An astonishing video shown in part on the Sun TV Bulletin depicts Galloway, 51, laughing and joking with the evil psychopath during a 20-minute meeting in an Iraqi palace. The Respect party MP, who Sun readers can boot off the Channel 4 show tonight, has sickened viewers with his antics in the BB house. Galloway’s crawling around the tyrannical old Iraqi regime was even more disgusting. He famously met dictator Saddam in 1994 and told him: “Sir, allow...
  • Home schooling a “Form of Child Abuse” says South Surrey Liberal Candidate (Canada)

    01/10/2006 4:17:33 PM PST · by wagglebee · 208 replies · 2,221+ views
    LifeSiteNews ^ | 1/10/06 | Hilary White
    SURREY, January 10, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – B.C home schooling parents are dismayed after discovering harsh comments about home schooling made by Jim McMurtry, Liberal party candidate for South Surrey, B.C., in the September/October 2003 edition of Teacher Magazine. McMurtry wrote that parents who educate their children at home are “condemning their children to an impoverished, friendless, and segregated learning environment.” Home schooling parents, he said, “participate in what can be perceived as a form of child abuse.” Paul Faris, Director of the Home School Legal Defence Association said, “Jim McMurtry has insulted every home schooling family in Canada,” Study after...
  • Soldiers, Iraqis Building Berm to Protect Village

    01/06/2006 4:59:32 PM PST · by SandRat · 6 replies · 320+ views
    TIKRIT, Iraq, Jan. 6, 2006 – In a combined effort to reduce insurgent violence in the village of Siniyah in the northern part of Iraq's Salah Ad Din province, community leaders, Iraqi security forces and coalition soldiers began construction yesterday on a berm around the village. Following the recent spike in insurgent roadside and car bombs, leaders of this small village near Bayji discussed what measures could be taken to improve the security situation. Local police, city council members, sheiks and religious leaders met with leaders from the 1st Squadron, 33rd Cavalry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), to discuss...
  • Post-Roman Ancient Jewish Village Discovered

    01/04/2006 11:24:58 AM PST · by blam · 28 replies · 729+ views
    Jerusalem Post ^ | 1-4-2005
    Jan. 4, 2006 13:27 | Updated Jan. 4, 2006 13:44Post-Roman ancient Jewish village discovered Discovery of an ancient village just outside Jerusalem has brought into question one of the strongest images of biblical times - the wholesale flight of Jews running for their lives after the Roman destruction of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem in 70 CE. Just beneath the main road leading north from Jerusalem, archaeologists have found the walls of houses in a well-planned community that existed after the temple's destruction. It might lead to rewriting the history books if it was really Jewish. But at least...
  • Afghan Village Gets Seed, Farming Equipment

    11/03/2005 3:50:34 PM PST · by SandRat · 3 replies · 193+ views
    Defend America News ^ | Nov 3, 2005 | Sgt. 1st Class Stephen Lum
    The Panjwaiyi village community leader encourages his fellow elders to continue to work with the coalition forces to build a better Afghanistan. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Stephen Lum Afghan Village Gets Seed, Farming Equipment Residents of rural Panjwayi received seed and farming equipment and also welcomed the completion of a wall to protect their village water tower. By U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Stephen Lum 117 Mobile Public Affairs Detachment PANJWAYI, KANDAHAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan, Nov. 3, 2005 — West of Kandahar City, residents of the village of Panjwayi, welcomed the delivery of 15,000 kilograms of wheat...
  • Airmen lend helping hand to enlisted village residents

    11/02/2005 6:00:38 PM PST · by SandRat · 2 replies · 282+ views
    Air Force Links ^ | Nov 2, 2005 | Lois Walsh
    11/2/2005 - EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (AFPN) -- Airmen here gave up their free time help their neighbors during Make a Difference Day Oct. 22 and 28. Residents of Bob Hope and Theresa villages and Eglin’s Thrift Shop benefited from these Airmen’s labors. The annual event is the most encompassing national day of helping others -- a celebration of neighbors helping neighbors. In 2004, three million people cared enough about their communities to volunteer on that day, accomplishing thousands of projects in hundreds of towns. Staff Sgt. Jeff Henson, 68th Electronic Warfare Squadron’s Intelligence Directorate, said Make A Difference...
  • Footsteps From The Past: The Ancient Village Of Skra Brae

    10/12/2005 5:23:11 PM PDT · by blam · 25 replies · 1,251+ views
    Scotsman ^ | 10-12-2005 | Caroline Wickham-Jones
    Footsteps from the past: the ancient village of Skara Brae CAROLINE WICKHAM-JONES SCOTLAND'S towns and settlements are proud of their roots, but few can boast the antiquity of Skara Brae on the Orkney Islands. Originally built around 3100BC to house a small group of Neolithic farming families, the abandoned houses with their stone dressers, beds and hearths provide a remarkable glimpse of a lifestyle that has long disappeared. Of course the village developed slowly, as any village today, but Skara Brae is notable for the quality of its remains. The historic site still provides a powerful message, even for the...
  • US Hits Al-Qaeda Village Stronghold

    10/01/2005 5:25:57 PM PDT · by blam · 5 replies · 665+ views
    The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 10-2-2005 | Adam Lusher
    US hits al-Qaeda village stronghold By Adam Lusher (Filed: 02/10/2005) About 1,000 US troops, backed by attack helicopters and fighter jets swept into Sadah, a village near the Syrian border, yesterday in an offensive to root out al-Qaeda militants and stem the violence that has shaken Iraq before this month's referendum on the new constitution. Air-to-ground missiles struck houses and cars as the force moved into the village of about 2,000 people on the banks of the Euphrates, eight miles from the border. The US military said that the offensive, named Operation Iron Fist, was mounted because al-Qaeda had taken...
  • Airmen Provide Light in the Night for Remote Alaskan Village

    08/22/2005 8:31:40 PM PDT · by SandRat · 10 replies · 525+ views
    American Forces Press Service ^ | Aug 22, 2005 | Petty Officer 3rd Class Gail E. Dale, USCG
    RED DEVIL, Alaska, Aug. 22, 2005 – Air Force engineers brought a gift of light to this remote Alaskan village last week. In the small village of Red Devil, 250 air miles west of Anchorage, air travel is the sole means to enter and leave the town. The 4,750-foot gravel airstrip lined with orange cones is essentially the town's lifeline to the rest of the state. This lifeline was significantly strengthened Aug. 17 when airmen from the 611th Civil Engineer Squadron, based at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska, installed a runway lighting system. Red Devil, along with 62 other communities,...