Another Female Suicide Bomber Strikes Iraqi Province, Killing 15 Near Courthouse

Another female suicide bomber has struck in Iraq, this time killing 15 people."The latest in a wave of female suicide bombers killed 15 people and wounded more than 40 others on Sunday near a heavily fortified courthouse and government outpost in central Baquba, Iraqi...

53 Illegal Immigrants Held by Human Smugglers in Phoenix

Fifty-three illegal immigrants being held against their will were found by authorities in Phoenix, Arizona on Sunday after immigration officials received a tip. The immigrants were a group that had been smuggled into the US illegally and were being held in a fortified one...

U.S. Embassy in Baghdad complete

It's behind schedule and overbudget, but the heavily-fortified, 27-building embassy compound is now complete.The article mentions the new facility is "Vatican-sized." I wasn't sure what that meant so I checked it out. Vatican City is about half a square kilometre, or 0.17...

Maddie cops quiz pet cremator

"A DUTCH criminal who cremates dead animals in the Algarve told today how detectives had quizzed him about the Madeleine McCann case. Detectives repeatedly asked Eef Hoos, 61, who spent almost eight years in jail for planting bombs in the Netherlands, whether he had ever met...

In the Middle East, America’s Exit from Iraq Attracts Less Interest than Ga...

" In the Middle East, America’s Exit from Iraq Attracts Less Interest than Gathering War Clouds DEBKAfile Exclusive Military Analysis July 9, 2007, 10:09 PM (GMT+02:00) Since April 2007, George W. Bush has had on his desk an exit plan from Iraq, built around the...

Not to See the Fallen Is No Favor

"Not to See the Fallen Is No Favor * E-Mail * Print * Single Page * Reprints * Save * Share o Digg o Facebook o Newsvine o Permalink Article Tools Sponsored By By DAVID CARR Published: May 28, 2007 On this...

U.S. Embassy employees fearful over Green Zone attacks

"BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. Embassy employees in Iraq are growing increasingly angry over what they say are inadequate security precautions in the heavily fortified Green Zone, where recent mortar and rocket attacks have claimed the lives of six people, including two U.S....

A Democratic Sellout on Bush's Mercenaires by Jeremy Scahill and Tom Engelhar...

"Let's be clear about what it is – when it comes to "withdrawal" from Iraq – that the president will veto this Wednesday. Section 1904(b) of the supplemental appropriations bill for the Pentagon, H.R. 1591, passed by the House and Senate, mandates that the secretary of...

Smoke on the horizon

"Urgency In PakistanTaliban-al-Qaeda Alliance Grows Beyond 200,000 Men With Eyes On IslamabadBy Steve Schippert With the Taliban-al-Qaeda alliance fortified, well-established and growing in North and South Waziristan, the North West Frontier Province and several other...

Two Koreas exchange gunfire along fortified border (Reuters)

" By Jon Herskovitz 1 hour, 19 minutes ago SEOUL (Reuters) - North and South Korean troops exchanged gunfire across their heavily fortified border for the first time in about a year, a military official said on Tuesday, with the incident coming as once warming ties turn...

Immigration agents seeing increasing assaults in western Arizona

Immigrant smugglers are becoming more violent in their attempts to sneak their customers past this fortified stretch of border with Mexico.

Utah governor to visit Guard troops on border

The Utah soldiers were the first to deploy along the US-Mexico border.