Iraq is free!
Month: April 2004
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Mon Apr 19,10:32 AM
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police have broken up a gang of deaf teenaged robbers who carried out a string of thefts on the orders of a brutal leader.
Leader Yang Song regularly beat members of his gang, or burned them with cigarettes. He even made them do headstands for up to three hours, Xinhua said.
Handicapped people suffer widespread discrimination in China and are often shunned by employers.
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Want a story? I was at the lake one day and they found a guy who'd fallen off a boat and drowned a few weeks earlier. The police came. No one knew how to get him out of the water, no one really wanted to touch the guy. Ew! So one of the cops found a length of wire fence, the kind that looks like XXXXXXX. They slid it under the dead guy and lifted him up out of the water, intending to put him on land.
Except the guy just ran through the holes in the fence, like a seriously over ripe melon.
From Hatchet_Bytch
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Man trapped for 10 days under organ
A man who spent 10 days trapped underneath an organ in his home, has been rescued.
Elex Pentorn Jr is said to be in a critical condition in hospital in Toledo, Ohio, following his ordeal.
"You could see the organ's indentation across his stomach when they picked him up.''
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25 YEARS AGO TODAY
Apr 20 1979
President Jimmy Carter is attacked by a Killer Swamp Rabbit, while on vacation in Plains GA. The rabbit swam menacingly towards him, and he had to repel the ferocious creature with a paddle. There were no injuries.
Press Secretary Jody Powell leaked the story to the press, and the White House had a lot of explaining to do.
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Four Jordanians detained in Kosovo over a gunfight between international police on Saturday are now being interrogated as potential suspects.
The incident began when Jordanian police fired on vehicles carrying US police. The US officers returned fire and two Americans and one Jordanian were killed and 11 others were wounded.
The shooting came a day after King Abdullah of Jordan said that the war in Iraq had created unprecedented animosity towards Americans across the Middle East.
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Document: Oklahoma City Bombing Was Taped
Monday April 19, 2004 9:16 PM
By JOHN SOLOMON
Associated Press Writer
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A Secret Service document written shortly after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing described security video footage of the attack and witness testimony that suggested Timothy McVeigh may have had accomplices at the scene.
'Security video tapes from the area show the truck detonation 3 minutes and 6 seconds after the suspects exited the truck,' the Secret Service reported six days after the attack on a log of agents' activities and evidence in the Oklahoma investigation.
The government has insisted McVeigh drove the truck himself and that it never had any video of the bombing or the scene of the Alfred P. Murrah building in the minutes before the April 19, 1995, explosion
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The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens into that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was a conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.
Carl Gustave Jung
--The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man
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Bush Wants More US Troops, Civilian Contractors in Colombia 3/26/04
Gen. James Hill told the House Armed Services Committee that the administration is asking Congress to raise the cap on the number of US military personnel and civilian contractors.
In an effort to forestall a gradual build-up of US forces in Colombia, Congress mandated limits on the number of personnel who could be deployed there at any one time. That limit is currently set at 400 military personnel and 400 civilian employees. The administration wants to double the cap on military personnel to 800 soldiers and increase the number of civilian contractors by 50% to 600.
US military personnel train and advise one of the sides in Colombia's four-decade-old civil war, the Colombian Armed Forces. The US State Department and other government agencies employ civilian contractors for a number of tasks related to counterinsurgency efforts, most prominently as pilots and crews for the aerial eradication campaign against coca crops.
Increasing the personnel caps is critical to the success of Plan Colombia, said Gen. Hill. The White House is seeking more than $700 million this year for its Andean Regional Initiative, the bulk of it destined for Plan Colombia.
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Dan Quayle Museum Becoming More Popular
(Fort Wayne, IN-WANE-April 12, 2004) The Dan Quayle Museum is becoming more popular. In 2004 there was 2,236 people and in 2003 there was 1,384 guests.
Now they have people coming in from schools further and further out. Plus, they've had a lot of churches and adult groups come in.
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