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US Launches New Attacks Against Suspected Al Qaeda Members In Somalia…
U.S. helicopter gunships launched new attacks Tuesday against suspected al-Qaida members, a Somali official said, a day after forces launched airstrikes in the first offensive in the African country since 18 U.S. troops were killed there in 1993.
Monday's attack was the first overt military action by the U.S. in Somalia since it led a U.N. force in the 1990s that intervened in Somalia in an effort to fight famine. The mission led to clashes between U.N. forces and Somali warlords, including the "Black Hawk Down" battle that left 18 U.S. servicemen dead.
Obama Comments On His Beach Body: "Stop Looking At It"…
Some pecs that Obama has. Now stop looking. That's an order from himself.
Sen. Barack Obama is sensitive about...getting kidded for his ears. Now, courtesy of paparazzi staking him out on his recent Hawaii vacation, some of the rest of him is available for public inspection.
50 Killed As US, Iraqi Troops Battle Insurgents In Baghdad Streets…
American and Iraqi troops, backed by helicopter gunships and F-18 warplanes, battled insurgents in downtown Baghdad for several hours this morning, military officials said.
American and Iraqi troops, backed by helicopter gunships and F-18 warplanes, battled insurgents in downtown Baghdad for several hours this morning, military officials said.
Kennedy: "The Best Immediate Way To Support Our Troops Is By Refusing To Inject More And More Of Them Into…A Civil War"…
President Bush is telling lawmakers he will send thousands more U.S. troops to Iraq's two most troubled regions, in a plan that Democrats are resisting as a major escalation of a 31/2-year-old war.
Bush on Wednesday will announce a new war strategy and is expected to call for as many as 20,000 additional troops, according to several senators briefed by the president on Monday.
Murtha: We Have The Power Of The Purse…
Rep. John Murtha (D-PA), appearing just now on Hardball and gifted as always with the ability to speak plainly, couldn't have been clearer on the controversial issue as to whether Democrats have the ability to restrict the Bush administration's funding of a troop increase in Iraq.
Yesterday, Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) confused the issue by claiming that it was "constitutionally questionable" whether Congress could preempt funding of Bush's desired "surge."
Sacha Baron Cohen: Being Borat Was "Exhausting…Even If I Went To The Bathroom…I Went As Borat"…
From The LA Times:
Most comics get to drop the act when the movie finishes. But for months last fall, wherever he went, Cohen arrived in full Borat drag, taking the Toronto Film Festival by storm, holding a news conference outside the Kazakh embassy in Washington and, while accepting a magazine award, praising Mel Gibson, saying, "It is you, not me, who should receive this GQ award for anti-Jew warrior of the year"…
…"It was exhausting," he recalls, slumped in the booth, fighting off a nagging cold. "I had to be that way all day and all night, because even if the tiniest detail had gone awry, it could've made them suspicious. I mean, even if I went to the bathroom, I had to make sure I went to the bathroom as Borat."
Wildfire Rips Through 8 Seaside Mansions In Malibu…
A wildfire fanned by Santa Ana winds destroyed eight seaside mansions and damaged five others Monday as it spread over more than 10 acres in this celebrity enclave, authorities said.
Flames boiled furiously out of the skeletons of million-dollar beach homes as palm trees bent in winds blowing at 21 mph.
US Submarine Collides With Japanese Merchant Vessel…
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