AFISWASHINGTON, Oct. 29, 2004 ‘ The assembly lines are moving 24/7 to keep up with the demand for up-armored vehicles in Iraq and for conversion kits to add extra protection to vehicles already there. Gary Motsek, director of support operations for the U.S. Army Materiel Command, said the effort to provide increased vehicle protection against [...]
October 30, 2004. A 9.0 earthquake strikes the San Francisco Bay area. Over 10,000 people known dead, fires raging out of control in many places. Aftershocks as strong as 7.0 strike up and down the coast, causing more deaths and destruction from Los Angeles to Seattle.Can California hold an election on November 2?October 30, 2004. [...]
An Election in Time of War
Oct 29th, 2004
A Presidential election is held during a war. The serving President is vilified, called all sorts of names. The Democratic party nominates a man who is a veteran, and runs primarily on that experience. The Party adopts a platform describing the conduct of the war to date as flawed, wrong, and calls for a negotiated [...]
U.S. ArmyFORT BRAGG, N.C. (Army News Service, Aug. 26, 2004) — In a fight, two against one is bad odds. Ten against one is a recipe for disaster. Yet those were the odds Sgt. Tommy Rieman and his squad faced and beat when they were ambushed by more than 50 anti-American insurgents near Abu Ghraib [...]
does it take?AFPA landmark bridge in Indonesia’s Sumatra island may collapse because too many people are fond of urinating on one of its steel pillars. Public works officials have found that the Ampera bridge, the landmark of Palembang city, the capital of South Sumatra province, has begun to lean on an angle and rocks slightly [...]
Estonia Mourns
Oct 27th, 2004
The Estonian military has lost its second soldier in support of the coalition liberating Iraq.MNFBaghdad, Iraq — One Task Force Baghdad Soldier died and five others were wounded Oct. 25, when an improvised explosive device detonated at about 11:15 a.m. in western Baghdad. A two-and-a-half-ton truck was also damaged in the blast. The injured were [...]
BBCThird-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) was 9.1%, down from 9.6% in the second and 9.8% in the first.[snip]Analysts said that China will be heartened by Friday’s data, which showed urban fixed-asset investment, a key indicator, slowing. It rose by 28% in the third quarter, less than the 30% increase seen in the previous six months.Separate [...]
Grandma…
Oct 26th, 2004
“He said, ‘Grandma, if anything is going to happen to any of us, make sure they continue with the war until it’s finished,’ ” she said.a href=”http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&e=1&u=/ap/cheney_grandmother” target=”blank”>APMore than a thousand American soldiers have been killed in Iraq, but few families have been as deeply affected by it as the Hobbses. Hobbs’ son, her daughter-in-law [...]
According to Sitemeter, I’m going to crash through the 200,000 views barrier sometime today or early tomorrow. Yay, me! I hope it doesn’t hurt…
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