Mother of Arizona escapee arrested
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One of the three convicted murderers who escaped from an Arizona prison has been linked to the deaths of a couple found in a burned-out camper, police said. Forensic evidence links John McCluskey to the crime scene where two bodies were found in a camper near Santa Rosa, N.M., Arizona State Police Maj. Robert Shilling said, KOB-TV, Albuquerque, N.M., reported. McCluskey escaped July 30 from the Arizona State Prison near Kingman with fellow inmates Tracy Province and Daniel Renwick, who was caught in Colorado after a police chase and shootout. McCluskey's mother, Claudia Washburn, 68, was arrested Saturday at the...
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 04:27:14 PM
My week embedded with US Forces in Afghanistan (photos from Australian photojournalist)
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HIS has been one of the deadliest weeks on record for coalition forces fighting in Afghanistan. Two Australian soldiers were killed in Tarin Kowt on Monday; seven US soldiers and one contractor were also killed. Two more US Marines died the following day in Southern Afghanistan's Helmand Province, when seven Marines were brought down by an IED blast. Two of those casualties were later confirmed to be the result of ''angels'' - the call sign for friendly KIA (Killed In Action) incidents. The remains of one of the dead Marines were unable to be located. It is assumed that he...
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 04:27:14 PM
Security folders of Babel, Wassit to be received within two weeks – MOD
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 15 (VOI) – The official spokesperson for the Iraqi Ministry of Defense (MOD) on Monday said that Iraq's security forces will receive the two security folders of Babel and Wassit provinces from the Multi National Forces (MNF) during the coming two weeks. "Preparations are underway to receive the security folders of Babel (100 km south of Baghdad) and Wassit (180 km southeast of Baghdad) during the coming two weeks or on early October," Staff General Mohammed al-Askari told Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of Iraq – (VOI). "Receiving the security folders of those two provinces will be through official...
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 04:27:14 PM
Bolivia's Richest Province Votes For Autonomy
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Bolivia's richest province votes for autonomy By Jeremy McDermott, Latin America Correspondent Last Updated: 4:55PM BST 05/05/2008 South America's poorest nation is threatened with partition after the country's richest province voted for autonomy, threatening the rule of President Evo Morales, the first indigenous Indian president and close ally of Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Residents of Santa Cruz province celebrate the referendum result In the rich eastern province Santa Cruz, 86 per cent of voters opted for greater autonomy, with another three provinces preparing their own votes next month. Between them the four provinces account for 80 per cent of Bolivia's...
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 04:27:14 PM
Kosovo "will boost Karabakh recognition drive"
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YEREVAN (Reuters) - Kosovo's independence will strengthen a bid by the Armenian-backed breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh to be recognized as a state, Armenia's prime minister Serzh Sarksyan told Reuters in an interview. Sarksyan drew a link between the Serbian province which will declare independence on Sunday and Nagorno-Karabakh, where ethnic Armenian separatists broke away from Azerbaijan in a war in the 1990s but have failed to win international recognition. "We are getting a rather favorable position," said Sarksyan, front-runner in the February 19 Armenian presidential election. "Recognition of Kosovo's independence can be welcomed by us. "If countries recognize the independence...
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Violence down in northern Iraqi province (Ninevah)
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MOSUL, Iraq - Competent Iraqi security forces and a deluge of tips from residents have helped U.S. troops tamp down violence in northern Iraq despite an influx of al-Qaida fighters responsible for occasional spectacular attacks, U.S. officials say. But American commanders believe the key to lasting peace is to resolve the region's most vexing political problem — Kurds hold too much power in the local government at the expense of Sunni Arabs. The situation here is somewhat similar to that in Baghdad, where U.S. troops have managed to reduce violence but politicians have failed to reach agreements for long-term stability....
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 04:27:14 PM
Top Marine ‘Heartily Encouraged’ by Progress in Anbar Province
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WASHINGTON, July 21, 2007 – The Marine Corps’ top officer said yesterday he is “heartily encouraged” by the progress Iraqi and coalition forces are making in Iraq’s Anbar province. “We have seen large numbers of Sunni tribesmen, at the encouragement of their sheikhs and their imams, come forward to join the Iraqi security forces,” Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James T. Conway told an audience at the National Press Club here. “We see that as a very positive thing.” The general said the past six months have seen a 60 percent decline in attacks, a 400 percent increase in enemy weapons...
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 04:27:14 PM
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