Stormy Weather
July 15, 2006 | Leave a Comment
JERUSALEM — Elite Iranian troops helped Hezbollah fire a sophisticated radar-guided missile at an Israeli warship, Israeli officials said Saturday, describing an apparent surprise blow by militants who had been using only low-tech weapons. Iran denied that it had any troops in Lebanon. Israel initially believed that an aerial drone armed with explosives hit the [...]
A Bit of Good News…
July 4, 2006 | Leave a Comment
The legal battle over the Mount Soledad cross took another turn yesterday when a U.S. Supreme Court justice temporarily blocked a court order in which the city of San Diego must remove the La Jolla landmark by Aug. 1 or face a $5,000 daily fine. Both sides of the bitter debate predictably disagreed over the [...]
Immigration Enforcement
June 13, 2006 | Leave a Comment
An eerie quiet has descended over the past week on Fulton Street, a stretch of weather-beaten apartment buildings in eastern Linda Vista that is home to a large number of recent immigrants, some of them legal residents, others not. Some people have skipped work. Others have skipped doctor appointments. Children are walking to school more [...]
Haditha and “Collective Guilt”
May 31, 2006 | Leave a Comment
West Asia has a tough terrain with a different culture and civilization. It can bring out the best, or the worst, in a man who is sent to participate in an unending fight/war. Even the best soldiers can buckle under, notwithstanding their excellent training/arms. From heroic deeds to barbaric ones…This can happen if a soldier [...]
Handing Off a War, Dispatches From Iraq
May 25, 2006 | Leave a Comment
BAGHDAD, Iraq—First Lt. Yarub Altawee, 26, wandered in and out of the stores along bustling Palestine Street, the upscale shopping area in east Baghdad, asking, “How’s business?” In the late afternoon, the street was jammed with cars and people, many of the women dressed in chic, Western-style clothes. The small stalls displayed brightly colored goods [...]
One Juror Between Terrorist And Death
May 12, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Only one juror stood between the death penalty and Zacarias Moussaoui and that juror frustrated his colleagues because he never explained his vote, according to the foreman of the jury that sentenced the al-Qaeda operative to life in prison last week. The foreman, a Northern Virginia math teacher, said in an interview that the panel [...]
Moussaoui Sentenced to Life in Prison
May 3, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Al-Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui will spend the rest of his life in a maximum security prison for his role in the Sept. 11 attacks after a federal jury rejected the government’s four-year quest to secure his execution for the deadliest terrorist strike on U.S. soil. After weeks of listening to harrowing testimony from 9/11 family [...]
Violence in Vista
May 2, 2006 | Leave a Comment
VISTA – Law officers from around the county raced into Vista last night to help quell what sheriff’s officials called a riot, with crowds throwing rocks and bottles at deputies. Authorities estimated 800 to 1,200 people swarmed the streets after a rally to protest the proposed federal immigration bill had broken up at Wildwood Park [...]
A Grave Marker for Casey
April 20, 2006 | Leave a Comment
I am so tired of the Rovian, heartless, and ignorant smear machine attacking me and my family at every turn of my back. The latest abomination in their scrutiny of my life is the fact that Casey has no “tombstone.” As if it were anybody’s business but Casey’s family. I am sure every last person [...]
Task Force Quake
October 17, 2005 | Leave a Comment
They were wearing the woodland camouflage pattern BDU’s instead of the desert DCUs, but otherwise, there didn’t seem to be anything overtly different about the troops that arrived at Bagram on Sunday than any other soldier you might find in Afghanistan. Like every other soldier before them, they stepped off the C-17, shook off the [...]
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