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BAGHDAD — Baghdad is a city of checkpoints, manned mostly by Iraqi security forces (ISF) and ‘Son of Iraq’ (SoI) volunteers throughout the capital city. They are also a major concern of Command Sgt. Maj. Daniel Dailey, senior enlisted advisor for the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Multi-National Division – Baghdad, the brigade responsible for a large section of northern Baghdad. “The most important thing for me is to take care of Soldiers,” said Dailey, a native of Palmerton, Pa. “In reality this is saving Soldiers lives. If we can get Iraqis to secure this place, on their...

Feds to Toughen Meat, Poultry Inspection Sunday February 18, 2007 6:46 PM By LIBBY QUAID AP Food and Farm Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The first major changes to food inspection in a decade will increase federal scrutiny of meat and poultry plants where the danger from E. coli and other germs is high or where past visits have found unsafe practices. The new policy will result in fewer inspections at plants with lower risks and better records for handling meat and poultry. ``We're just putting resources where the risk is greatest, and those plants that demonstrate excellent control will get...

Kim Jong-il Sighting Kim Jong-il is inspecting KPA Unit No.1174. The date and location of this event is unknown(reported in S. Korean media on 12/01/06.) Kim Jong-il inspecting Heung-bong Youth Power Plant in Hamju County, S. Hamkyong Province (reported in S. Korean media on 11/20/06.) At Ryong-sung Machine Factory(reported in S. Korean media on 11/15/06.) At Wonsan Ranch, Dochan-ri, Bupdong County, Kangwon Province(reported in S. Korean media on 11/10/06.) Female soldiers from 'Threefold Three-Major Red Revolution Flag' 'Persimmon Tree' Company of KPA Unit No.595 welcomes Kim Jong-il(reported in S. Korean media on 11/08/06.) At KPA Unit No.1112 watching soldiers'...

Excerpt - Japan and the United States will discuss ways to cooperate on inspecting vessels that enter or leave North Korea as part of the international effort to punish Pyongyang for its nuclear test. Kenichiro Sasae, head of the Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, and Christopher Hill, U.S. assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, met in Tokyo on Monday and confirmed that the two countries will collaborate on cargo inspections and other measures against North Korea. ~ snip ~

N.Korea Must Come Clean About Uranium Program: Hill The next thing North Korea needs to do is to tell the international community where its nuclear arms facilities are, the U.S. chief negotiator in six-party denuclearization talks Christopher Hill said Wednesday. Hill also told reporters there could be trouble ahead if North Korea in the next round of talks refuses to admit to a uranium enrichment program Washington alleges it operates. Hill told the Chosun Ilbo the U.S. was seeking not just a confirmation that materials needed for the enrichment program went into the country but clarification what exactly became of...

September 20, 2005 Yes, Parallel Tracks to North, but Parallel Tracks Don't Meet By DAVID E. SANGER WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 - After four years of bitter arguments over whether to negotiate with North Korea or try to engineer its collapse, the accord President Bush grudgingly approved Sunday evening provided the bare minimum - an agreement in principle that the North would end a five-decade pursuit of nuclear weapons, the only card the erratic nation has to play to get the world to pay attention to its demands. But even to get that, Mr. Bush had to blink slightly, acknowledging that...

Posted on Fri, Sep. 16, 2005 St. Louis seminary to be among first evaluated in gay inquiryAssociated Press ST. LOUIS - A Catholic seminary in St. Louis will be among the first in the country to be visited by Vatican officials seeking evidence of homosexuality.Bishop Michael Burbidge of Philadelphia will lead a five-member team that will visit Aquinas Institute of Theology Sept. 25-29, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Friday. The purpose, according to the Vatican, is to "examine the criteria for admission of candidates and the programs of human formation and spiritual formation aimed at ensuring that they faithfully...

The International Committee of the Red Cross is granted a privileged status to inspect the conditions of prisoners of war and other detainees in return for confidentiality. But in recent years it has demonstrated a habit of selective media leaks damaging to American purposes. This is the backdrop for two recent incidents that make us think the U.S. should reconsider the ICRC's role. The first concerns a story we heard first from a U.S. source that an ICRC representative visiting America's largest detention facility in Iraq last month had compared the U.S. to Nazi Germany. According to a Defense Department...

/begin my translation Kim Jong-il Inspects a Military Unit N. Korean Central TV reported on Wednesday(04/20/05) that Kim Jong-il inspected a company under N. Korean military unit No. 2040. While looking around a soldier's living quarter, he is checking the uniform of a soldier. /end my translation

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North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il is shown (obviously alive) on North Korean last night, (Korean time), on 17 November 2004, recently inspecting (date unclear) the North Korean Peoples Army "Unit 754".However, as South Korean TV reporters from YTN-TV in the voice-over in this clip note, the traditional Korean-language title of "Great Leader" is absent from the usual script. This is the first time that such an honorific title is missing, when describing Kim Jong-il, in their national press.The video clip starts with the South Korean TV female announcer for 30 seconds who introduces a very short file clip showing...

Since new CIA Director Porter Goss blocked the October Surprise agency left-wingers had prepared against Bush (discussed in “Porter At The Pass” last week), they desperately rigged another one, working with Mohammad ElBaradei at the UN. What nobody is focusing on in Al Qaqaagate is that the CIA is behind it. The anti-Bush lefties are now known as the “Rogue Weasels” at Langley, and they are frantic to do whatever they can to elect Kerry. They cooked up this entire phony “tons of missing explosives” scandal, sweet-talked the head of the UN’s nuclear inspection agency, ElBaradei, to carry their water...

N Korea allows blast site visit South Korean media has been full of speculation about the blast A British diplomat is to be allowed to visit the site of a huge explosion in North Korea that raised fears of a nuclear test, a British minister says. The UK's Foreign Office minister Bill Rammell requested acccess to the site during a visit to North Korea. Pyongyang said the explosion was in fact the demolition of a mountain as part of a huge hydro-electric project. In an unusual concession, North Korea said Britain's ambassador could visit the site to see forhimself. Mr...

FOXBORO, Mass. (AP) - The NFL has learned its lesson from the Super Bowl "wardrobe malfunction." In order to avoid a repeat of the crotch-grabbing, breast-baring halftime show from Houston, the league is tightly controlling the concert that will be broadcast before Thursday night's season opener. The league picked the acts, which include Elton John, Lenny Kravitz and Destiny's Child. They'll be performing from Gillette Stadium, where the New England Patriots will play the Indianapolis Colts. There will also be a 10-second delay on the broadcast to give the NFL and ABC a chance to pull the plug on anything...

Democratic Convention Media Area Not Ready Fri Jul 9,11:12 PM ET By JENNIFER PETER, Associated Press Writer BOSTON - A pavilion for working news organizations at the Democratic National Convention is not up to city codes and requires about $300,000 worth of work just two weeks before the event begins. "The building is not ready to be occupied," Lt. Richard Powers, a member of the fire department's public information office, said Friday. "They have certain standards which they haven't met." The pavilion is next to the FleetCenter sports arena, site of the convention. Several news organizations, including The Associated Press,...

Media's Focus After Interim Report Surprises Top Arms Inspector By John D. Banusiewicz American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Oct. 5, 2003 – The man leading the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq expressed surprise here today that media reports focused mainly on what his team has yet to find and not on what it has turned up so far after his Oct. 2 interim report to Congress. David Kay, chief U.S. arms inspector, told host Tony Snow on the "Fox News Sunday" that while his team indeed has yet to find illicit weapons, "I'm sort of amazed that...

Arsenal Of The Axis North Korea already supplies missiles to rogue states. Now it poses a new threat: nuclear proliferation BY JOHN LARKIN AND DONALD MACINTYRE / SEOUL Sunan Airport on the outskirts of North Korea's capital city, Pyongyang, is one of the world's bleaker transportation hubs, a collection of featureless concrete buildings distinguished only by a giant portrait of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il gazing beatifically over shabby tarmac. Though unpicturesque, Sunan has been providing U.S. spy satellites with plenty of photo opportunities of late. On at least six occasions between April and early July, satellites spotted Iranian...

<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Columbia accident investigators urged NASA on Friday to develop an inspection and emergency repair plan for astronauts in orbit before space shuttle launches resume.</p> <p>It was the third preliminary recommendation issued by the investigation board in advance of its final report, due out in a month. NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe said Thursday he hopes to resume shuttle flights by April.</p>

<p>U.S. military specialists in Iraq have inspected about 12 possible chemical, biological and nuclear weapons sites in Iraq and have a list of 1,000 sites to be checked in the coming days now that organized Iraqi military resistance has collapsed.</p>

Gazi George, a consultant for Titan in Quincy, says 39 rods of uranium were hidden in a specially built swimming pool. A former Iraqi scientist says Iraq is hiding materials that could be used to make nuclear weapons. He knows this because he helped hide some of the materials more than 20 years ago. Gazi George, who lives near Detroit, Mich., and does consulting work in Quincy, fled Iraq in 1981 after helping to hide 39 rods of enriched uranium — enough to build two nuclear bombs. At the time, George was working for the Iraq Atomic Energy Commission. He...