Archive for the ‘World Events’ Category
Friday, January 19th, 2007
Looks like we may be in for a renewed arms race in space. China has successfully destroyed one of it's own satellite in a test to see if it could hit and destroy similar types of objects. The NY Times has this:
China successfully carried out its first test ...
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Thursday, January 18th, 2007
Abu Usamah at-Thahabi is one scary dude. I had not heard of the New Jersey born Imam, who is a convert to Islam, before this report on FoxNews.
A New Jersey-born Muslim cleric with links to a suspected Al Qaeda operative who surfaced at a college not far from the ...
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Wednesday, January 10th, 2007
Yahoo News is reporting that Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, who was believed to be one of the planners for the 1998 Embassy bombings, was killed during U.S. airstrikes in Somalia.
The airstrike in which this terrorist was killed involved the use of AC-130 (Spectre/Spooky) gunship, destroying an al-Qaida training camp located in ...
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Sunday, January 7th, 2007
This is off of FoxNews:
Israel has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons, according to a report in the Sunday Times of London.
The paper cites several Israeli military sources saying that two Israeli air force squadrons are training to blow up an Iranian ...
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Saturday, December 30th, 2006
Saddam Hussein has been executed after U.S. Forces turned the mass-murdering former dictator over to Iraqi security forces. From FoxNews:
"Now, he is in the garbage of history," said Jawad Abdul-Aziz, who lost his father, three brothers and 22 cousins in the reprisal killings that followed a botched 1982 assassination attempt ...
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Wednesday, December 27th, 2006
Off of Spiegel International:
hundreds of Iraqis have inquired about the hangman's job. The adviser, Bassam al-Husseiny, told the US network ABC News that he received about eight to 10 phone calls a day -- and 20 to 30 e-mails -- by Iraqis who wanted to execute Saddam. The candidates came ...
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Tuesday, December 26th, 2006
Saddam Hussein's death penalty is upheld. FoxNews:
An Iraqi appeals court has upheld the death sentence imposed on Saddam Hussein at his first trial, Iraq's national security adviser said Tuesday, and a tribunal official said the verdict will be carried out even if the presidency doesn't ratify it.
Capital punishment has ...
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Tuesday, November 14th, 2006
For those on the Left who still believe that Iran's nuclear ambitions are peaceful (FoxNews):
Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency have found unexplained plutonium and enriched uranium traces in a nuclear waste facility in Iran and have asked Tehran for an explanation, an IAEA report said Tuesday.
This isn't the ...
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Sunday, November 5th, 2006
This in from FoxNews:
Saddam Hussein, the iron-fisted dictator who ruled Iraq for nearly a quarter of a century, was found guilty of crimes against humanity Sunday and sentenced to death by hanging.
This has been a long time in the making, and goes to show that justice will be done in ...
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Friday, October 27th, 2006
This in on the BBC News:
Iran has reportedly taken another step in its uranium enrichment programme, in defiance of international pressure.
The dictator running Iran has repeatedly called for the destruction of Israel, and has previously expressed a desire to use nuclear weapons to achieve that goal. Anybody out there ...
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Monday, September 11th, 2006
Today is a solemn day: it is September 11th, 2006, the Fifth Anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Along with the gallant heroes of UA Flight 93, who sacrificed their lives in an attempt to regain control of that aircraft rather than see ...
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Friday, July 14th, 2006
It's happening. Again. I've been trying to not write about the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, for a number of reasons.
I'll be brief. I have a number of Palestinian friends, in California and Minnesota. Good folks, and they all have family in the occupied ...
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