Video: SUV Owner Strikes Back and Tows a Tow Truck
Thursday 9th of September 2010 05:41:52 PM
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| Standing by while your car gets towed is terrible. This Shangainese Chevy owner used its car's remaining two wheels to counterattack. Note to Chinese tow companies: either get heavier trucks or remember to take them out of neutral. [Chinasmack] WATCH: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlLC1Iy1UkE |
14 Marines Killed; 10 Were Beheaded [Philippine Marines]
Thursday 9th of September 2010 05:41:52 PM
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| LAMITAN CITY [Philippines]-- They were returning to base in heavy rains after a fruitless search for kidnapped Italian priest Giancarlo Bossi when their trucks stalled in the mud. Then the firing began. In a 10-hour gun battle that turned into a carnage, 14 Marines were killed -- 10 of them beheaded -- and nine others wounded in one of the most shocking military debacles in years in the countrys southern islands. They were surprised when bullets rained on them, Brig. Gen. Ramiro Alivio told the Philippine Daily Inquirer, recounting Tuesdays daylong clash between 50 badly outnumbered Marines and some 400... |
Senator puzzled by state deal to tow cars
Thursday 9th of September 2010 05:41:52 PM
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| Senator puzzled by state deal to tow cars Firm's office flooded, vacant, phone off Thursday, March 30, 2006 By James Varney Staff writer The featured local company in a proposed $62 million state contract to remove abandoned cars from southern Louisiana lists a flood-ruined 9th Ward address as its headquarters and has a disconnected phone, according to public documents and a cursory investigation by a state senator. The Department of Environmental Quality contract remains unsigned, although the negotiations have apparently been completed between the state and TruSource Facility Services of Georgia and L&L Steel Builders Inc. of 1939 Desire St.... |
Third IED attack doesn't faze TOW sergeant
Thursday 9th of September 2010 05:41:52 PM
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| CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq (Sept. 28, 2005) -- Most Marines in Iraq consider themselves lucky when they walk away from one improvised explosive device attack, but two, or even three? Sergeant Matthew P. Dalrymple, team leader, 2nd TOW Platoon, 2nd Tank Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, is just like any other Marine in his unit. Except for the slight scarring on his right hand, the large bruises on the underside of his arm or the small, freshly bandaged shrapnel wounds, no one would guess he is recovering from his third IED attack. Its business as usual now for the Chillicothe, Ohio native.... |
Redstone-Developed Missile Unstoppable
Thursday 9th of September 2010 05:41:52 PM
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| Huntsville Redstone-Developed Missile Unstoppable Steve Johnson Reports, 7/25/03 It's called LOSAT, Line of Sight, Antitank. It's a missile that uses no explosives, but can take out any known tank, and any tank that can be foreseen. It has been developed at Redstone Arsenal. According to the Project Manager of Close Combat Weapons Systems, Col. Lloyd McDaniels, "It gives us the leap ahead in technology to actually be able to defeat anything a potential adversary can give us on the battlefield." LOSAT works by speed and mass. The 109 pound missile travels at mach five, and on impact releases enough kinetic... |
Saddam sons' bodies had "Facial Reconstruction" no evidence of suicide (Reuters)
Thursday 9th of September 2010 05:41:52 PM
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| 13:29 25Jul2003 RTRS-REUTERS SHOWN BODIES BY US OFFICIALS, CORRESPONDENT SAYS LOOK LIKE SADDAM SONS 13:32 25Jul2003 RTRS-BODIES HAVE UNDERGONE "FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION", U.S. MILITARY SAYS 13:33 25Jul2003 RTRS-U.S. OFFICIALS SAY NO EVIDENCE SADDAM SONS COMMITTED SUICIDE 13:37 25Jul2003 RTRS-Reuters sees Baghdad bodies, look like Saddam sons BAGHDAD, July 25 (Reuters) - Officials from the U.S.-led administration in Iraq showed independent journalists two corpses on Friday that Washington says it is sure are the bodies of Saddam Hussein's sons. "I've been shown the bodies and they do appear to be those of Uday and Qusay," Reuters correspondent Andrew Marshall said from a... |
TOW missiles fired on Hussein Bros./ Dept. of Defense photographs
Thursday 9th of September 2010 05:41:52 PM
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| Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division fire a TOW missile at a building suspected of harboring Saddam Hussein's sons. [View JPEG Photo, 701 KB] Soldiers of the Army's 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) fire a TOW missile at a building suspected of harboring Saddam Hussein's sons Qusay and Uday in Mosul, Iraq, on July 22, 2003. Qusay and Uday were killed in a gun battle as they resisted efforts by coalition forces to apprehend and detain them. DoD photo by Sgt. Curtis G. Hargrave, U.S. Army. (Released) 030722-A-3450H-043A TOW missile streaks toward a building suspected of harboring Saddam Hussein's sons... |
Seven charged with trafficking US missile, jet-fighter parts to China
Thursday 9th of September 2010 05:41:52 PM
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| The seven defendants were charged at the end of a five-year investigation into the illegal shipping of sensitive weapons, including parts used in surface-to-air missiles and fighter aircraft, prosecutors revealed. All seven, including two people of Chinese origin, were based in the Los Angeles area and allegedly attempted to export parts for weapons such as the AIM-9 "Sidewinder" heat-seeking anti-aircraft missile to China. "The investigation ... was launched in 1998 to stem the illegal flow of military and defense equipment in and out of the United States," Assistant United States Attorney Mary Carter Andrues said in a statement. The... |




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