Daily Archives: June 4th, 2006 «

 

Soldier gives Purple Heart to seriously injured CBS reporter Kim Dozier

Posted by: ST on June 4, 2006 at 10:00 pm » 4 Comments

Via the AP: Kimberly Dozier, the CBS reporter wounded by a car bomb in Iraq, now has a Purple Heart at her bedside in a U.S. military hospital in Germany after a young American soldier gave her his medal, the network said. Dozier, 39, was seriously injured in a blast Monday while covering a story [...]

 

Spot-the-illegals cam

Posted by: ST on June 4, 2006 at 9:45 pm » 6 Comments

Now THIS is an idea long overdue: A US state is to enlist web users in its fight against illegal immigration by offering live surveillance footage of the Mexican border on the internet. The plan will allow web users worldwide to watch Texas’ border with Mexico and phone the authorities if they spot any apparently [...]

 

Will the ST blog hit 300K visits today?

Posted by: ST on June 4, 2006 at 11:25 am » 19 Comments

I do believe it will happen As of the writing of this post, the count stands at 299,949. My blog has been in existence since October of 2003. I didn’t do much with it until August of 2004, and floundered around a bit after that unsure of how to promote it until the spring of [...]

 

Mark Steyn on Haditha

Posted by: ST on June 4, 2006 at 11:11 am » 3 Comments

A must-read. He writes: For three years, coalition forces in Iraq behaved so well that a salivating Vietnam culture had to make do with the thinnest of pickings: one depraved jailhouse, a prisoner on a dog leash with a pair of Victoria’s Secret panties on his head and an unusually positioned banana. “Just look at [...]

 

British Islamic radicals to join AQ in Iraq

Posted by: ST on June 4, 2006 at 10:58 am » Comments Off

Via the Times Online: UP TO 150 Islamic radicals have travelled from Britain to Iraq to join up with a “British brigade” that has been established by Al-Qaeda leaders to fight coalition forces. Senior security sources say leaders of the Iraqi insurgency have set up a “foreign legion” composed entirely of westerners to fight alongside [...]

 

Canadian law enforcement arrest 17 – possible worldwide terror links

Posted by: ST on June 4, 2006 at 10:16 am » 4 Comments

Go Canada! Via the National Post: TORONTO – A Canadian counter-terrorism investigation that led to the arrests of 17 people accused of plotting bombings in Ontario is linked to probes in a half-dozen countries, the National Post has learned. Well before police tactical teams began their sweeps around Toronto on Friday, at least 18 related [...]