Al -Qaeda’s Ultimatum

Al-Qaeda’s North African arm has threatened to kill a British hostage within 20 days unless Britain releases the extremist cleric Abu Qatada from a maximum security jail.In a message posted on a well-known jihadist website, the group demanded the release of the Palestinian preacher in return for that of a British hostage captured this year.

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1976: The Epidemic That Never Was

On the cold afternoon of February 5, 1976, an Army recruit told his drill instructor at Fort Dix that he felt tired and weak but not sick enough to see military medics or skip a big training hike.Within 24 hours, 19-year-old Pvt. David Lewis of Ashley Falls, Mass., was dead, killed by an influenza not seen since the plague of 1918-19,

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Soldier Disfigured in Blast Aims for Physical Recovery

SAN ANTONIO — Sgt. Darron Mikeworth's first glimpse in the mirror was largely a blur.He'd just come out of a drug-induced coma three weeks after a bomber blew up his Humvee in Iraq.Mikeworth awoke in a bed at Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio.

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The West Coast Plot: An "Inconvenient Truth"

Critics of the CIA program are desperate to convince Americans that no valuable information came from the interrogations of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) and other senior terrorists. They know that if our citizens learn the details of how enhanced interrogations stopped terrorist plots, most would support the CIA program.

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Flopping Aces » Blog Archive » Sunday Funnies

These are Funny Enjoy your Sunday...

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Vietnam vet from Ariel decorated for saving ship

I should have died. I shouldn’t be here today, but for the grace of God I Go,” Allardyce told me a few weeks ago. “This is the first time I ever told this story to anybody. I want to tell it before I die of cancer.”

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Legion leader accepts apology from Napolitano

"[Ms. Napolitano] said the report was not worthy of the department or the veterans of this country," Mr. Rehbein said. "She gave us some explanation of how the report went out before it should have been released, before it was properly vetted by the senior leadership of the department."She was very sincere. She used the words 'I'm sorry'

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Somali Pirates Form Unholy Alliance with Islamists

Warships have done little to deter Somalia's pirates. But now it seems that terror on the High Seas is making an unlikely alliance with Islamic terror inland. It's a terrifying alliance: The pirates supply money and arms, while the Islamists have troops and the power on land.

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Bush Saved 100,000 ++ Iraqis From Sadam & Clinton Embargo

So how do Bush's numbers compare to the slaughter during Saddam Hussein's reign or the deadly embargo kept in place during the Clinton years? The numbers have been crunched and you will be amazed.....

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John Rich’s powerful video about the loss of American Manufa

How Wall St and The Bankster's are shuting down and destroying American middle class lives.

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Platoon Fights for its Life in Taliban Ambush

A Soldier caught in an ambush - looking for safety while returning fire, with ears ringing and skin pouring sweat - can feel utterly alone, trapped in a box of crisscrossing lead and terrifying sound, with death an instant away.He is actually part of something more complicated. Bullets flew down into the river bed from three sides.

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In One Battle, Nine Earn Valor Awards

"When we went to enter the house, all hell broke loose."McCaffery was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for Valor for what he did as bullets whizzed around him.His entire unit, 10th Group's 3rd Battalion was honored with the Army's Valorious Unit Award for their collective actions that helped turned the tide in Iraq during the 2007 surge

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Tea Party Spin:The Story Inside The Story

It's funny and quite telling how the various news agencies seem so eager to cover up in lieu of providing legitimate coverage for the event. Either they are looking away because the story did not involve six women wearing pink boas or quite possibly someone is afraid that not all is well in Obamaland-and that just won't do.

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Army Sharpshooters to Get SEAL Sniper Rifle

It's not just elite Navy SEALs who get to plink their sniper targets with a new high-speed semi-auto rifle designed to replace their Vietnam-era, bolt-action predecessors. Soon even Joes scanning mountain redoubts in craggy Afghanistan will have the same tools to take out insurgents that elite Frogmen do.

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Information Overload: How do you know what to trust nowadays

We on the Right have several problems, but a big one is that crazy stuff can come in mainstream packages and trick all of us.The latest escapade - and I don’t even know what to believe myself, I’m just reading the sources and pretty much withholding judgment - involves a Department of Homeland Security report

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Murtha immune from Marine's defamation suit

Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) is immune from a defamation suit filed against him by a U.S. Marine, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday.Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich filed suit against Murtha, claiming that the veteran lawmaker damaged his reputation when he told the press that Wuterich's squad in 2005 killed civilians in cold blood in Haditha, Iraq.

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Surviving in a post-American world

Somewhere between apologizing for American history — both distant and recent; genuflecting before the unelected, bigoted king of Saudi Arabia; announcing that he will slash the US's nuclear arsenal, scrap much of America's missile defense programs and emasculate the US Navy; leaving Japan to face North Korea and China alone...

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Thomas Jefferson and Barak Obama - Dealing with Pirates

The Navy’s efforts are highly commendable, but Presiden's orders are troubling and present us with questions. Did Obama’s administration plan to negotiate and pay a ransom? Mr. Obama is well acquainted with the Qur’an in its original, is his knowledge of America’s history just as embarrassing as his many faux pas at the the recent G20 Summit?

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American captain rescued, pirates killed, U.S. official says

(CNN) -- The captain of the Maersk Alabama was freed Sunday after being held captive by pirates on a lifeboat off Somalia since Wednesday, a senior U.S. official with knowledge of the situation told CNN.

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Flopping Aces » Blog Archive » Easter Sunday Funnies

Hoppy Easter. Every one

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Blogger becomes casualty of Iran cyber-wars

2.5 years after asking what is freedom in his first blog post, blogger Omidreza Mirsayafi has dies in an Iranian prison. Bloggers and social networks are the major outlets for free speech activists in Iran and the Islamic regime is striking back hard.

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Iran Praises Obama for Admitting Defeat

FTA: Presidential Strategic Studies Center Ali Reza Zaker Isfahani of Iran said, "This has led to the acceptance of Iran's nuclear energy right by the new US president, Barack Obama." when speaking about their nuclear accomplishments.

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PIRATES TAKE ANOTHER ONE: U.S.-owned, Italy-flagged tugboat.

NAIROBI, April 11 (Reuters) - Pirates seized a U.S.-owned and Italian-flagged tugboat with 16 crew on Saturday in the latest hijacking in the busy Gulf of Aden waterway, a regional maritime group said.

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2 Scams You Can't Report

You can't report these scams because there is no one to report them to. The scammers are the highest people in the land.

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Three Presidents and a Hijacking at Sea

Hijacked at sea.President Barack Obama has just joined an exclusive club of three modern presidents of the United States who were all faced with a version of the same problem: what is the right response for the United States when an American ship, or a ship with American passengers, is hijacked at sea?

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Beware of The Veteran - Penn State's Gratitious Slur

"What if it was 'Oh, the gay one,' or 'Oh, the Asian kid?' " asks Maggie Kwok, head of the Penn State Veterans Organization in an interview with the Daily Collegian, PSU's student newspaper. She is referring to a "training video," prepared by the university's Counseling and Psychological Services office, depicting "worrisome student behavior."

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Breaking: US Crew Tosses Pirates Overboard, Retakes Ship

The crew of the Maersk Alabama has overpowered the pirates, threw three of them overboard, and took one of the men into custody, according to military sources. The 20 American crewmembers are reportedly back in control of the ship.

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BLACKFIVE: Unicorn 6 this is COB6, WTF? Over.

White House officials travelled to France at the start of March to discuss a visit by Mr Obama to Omaha Beach, the site of the American Cemetery, established in 1944 just after D-Day and where 9,387 American personnel are buried.But even before their trip, the White House had decided that Mr Obama would not travel there this week.

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Revisiting the Carter Years

Yesterday I asked the question, how do you think Obama handled this North Korean missile launch. And with the exception of one candyass moonbat who exhibited an intense hatred of the U.S. military, most of you agreed that he failed the test.

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All ABOARD!! Next Stop.......

When thinking of the "s-word," I also fear that it is merely a temporary stop for America. Don't get me wrong. It's not because I prefer socialism to have a permanent place in my country. No, I simply fear that there is something far more sinister awaiting us on the horizon.

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FOUND !! Barack Obama's Severe Consequences For North Korea

President Obama's Severe Consequences for North KoreaA nasty letter from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. To make the punishment even more severe the letter will be placed in their permanent record.The entire country of North Korea will be forced to go to bed without dinner. Wait most of them already do.Fire Kim Jong-il.

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Mortgage Fraud Epidemic: How the FBI Blew It and Why There

n the wake of the bursting of the housing bubble, you'd think there'd be a significant number of investigations into criminal wrongdoing and accounting fraud, similar to what occurred after the S&L crisis and bursting of the stock bubble in 2000.But two years into the crisis the FBI doesn't have a single major conviction or indictment of anyone

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President Obama Doesn’t Speak For Me

When you go to Europe and say that Americans are “arrogant, dismissive and derisive” of our allies, you don’t speak for me. When you pander to foreign leaders, presuming to speak on behalf of all Americans, apologizing for the actions of President Bush, you don’t speak for me.When you desperately try to surrender to the French and the Germans

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Introducing Government-Backed DMV Automotive Repair Center!

from ReasonTV: Stop worrying about the warranty on your GM or Chrysler automobile.President Obama has announced that your warranty will be backed by the US Government. Now, getting service will be as easy as a trip to your local DMV officeIntroducing the Department of Motor Vehicles Automotive Repair Center!

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Hill's Lie: 90% US Guns Used In Mex-Crime

Despite US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s insistence that 90% of guns used in Mexican gang violence come from America, only 17 percent of guns found at Mexican crime scenes have been traced to the U.S.

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Blast your Pro-Amnesty Congressman for Harming Disabled Amer

Blast your Pro-Amnesty Congressman for Harming Disabled AmericansThis new fax has been posted in your Action Buffet based on your answers to the Interest...

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Army Creating Database of Personal Firearms

ACTIVE DUTY MEMBERS - HEADS UP - "I was ordered to fill out a list containing my firearm information. This included make, model, caliber, and serial number of all firearms I currently posses. In addition, I was also required to list registration information, location of all weapons individually, and information regarding any CCW permits I possess."

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