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Evidence of Aliens Breeding in 1948!

Roswell, New Mexico -- Land of the Alien Crash...

I thought you would enjoy this little blurb of nonfiction: Many will recall that on July 8, 1947, witnesses claimed that an unidentified object with five aliens aboard crashed onto a sheep and cattle ranch outside Roswell, New Mexico.

This is a well-known incident. Many say the total truth of it was, and has long been, covered up by the U.S. Air Force and the Federal Government.

However, you may NOT know that in the month of March 1948 -- exactly nine months later:

Albert Arnold Gore, Jr.;

Hillary Rodham Clinton;

John F. Kerry;

William Jefferson Clinton;

Howard Dean;

Nancy Pelosi;

Dianne Feinstein;

Charles E. Schumer; and

Barbara Boxer

...were born.

See what happens when aliens breed with sheep?! This piece of information may clear up a lot of things.

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Norwegians express 'outright hatred' for high taxes...

Irritation grows over taxes

Norwegians have long accepted high taxes to finance their social welfare state, but a new survey indicates rising dissatisfaction and, in some cases, outright hatred of some taxes that are viewed as way too high and unfair.

Norwegians are among the most heavily taxed people in the world, and that in turn has made Norway one of the most expensive countries in which to live. Most accept the taxes they're ordered to pay on income and even net worth and property, but growing numbers are publicly complaining about sky-high taxes on everything from cars to fuel to consumer goods.

Norwegians differentiate between skatter (taxes) and avgifter (duties, fees or user taxes) and the latter is the most hated. They're what causes a glass of house wine at an Oslo restaurant to cost the equivalent of nearly USD 16, or a gallon of gas to cost nearly USD 9 at current exchange rates.

"It's clear that taxes are much too high in oil-rich Norway," Oslo resident Gro Pettersen told newspaper Aftenposten. "It's sick!"

The taxes placed on new cars, which can more than double the price of the car itself, are another bone of contention, even though most Norwegians support measures to protect the environment. "The car tax is much too high, but so are most all the other avgifter also," said Ernst Bendiksen of the northern city of Vadsø, where Norwegians are far more dependent on their cars than those living in cities with good public transit systems. "We certainly don't get anything in return for them."

A study conducted by research firm MMI for the Norwegian Tax Payers Association (Skattebetalerforeningen) showed that the most hated taxes are those on new cars and a transfer tax levied when real estate changes hands. The so-called dokumentavgift on real estate transactions, which implies that it's meant to cover the costs of property registration, costs homebuyers around 2.5 percent of the purchase price.

Three of four Norwegians believe that's too high, according to the MMI study, and absolutely no one believed it was too low. With even a modest flat in Oslo costing a few million kroner these days, the tax amounts to a fair bit of change.

Regressive inequality
The study also showed that 67 percent of the population think Norway's inheritance taxes are too high, while 63 percent think fuel taxes are too high. Norway's hefty 25 percent VAT (like a sales tax) on nearly all consumer items is considered too high by 53 percent of the population.

Only 32 percent, meanwhile, believed tobacco taxes are too high, while 44 percent believed liquor taxes are too high.

The user taxes, or avgifter, are also unpopular because they're largely regressive taxes that hit people with low incomes much harder than those with high incomes. Filling the car's gas tank, and paying the taxes that requires, is much more expensive for someone earning NOK 300,000 than it is for a car owner earning NOK 900,000.

The head of the tax payers' association, Jon Stordrange, said he thinks user taxes should be adjusted to reflect actual costs inflicted on society. "Then I think people would have more respect for the system," he said.

Aftenposten English Web Desk -- Nina Berglund
Aftenposten Multimedia, Norway ~ Nina Berglund ** Irritation grows over taxes

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Updated: Thursday, 19 July 2007 4:32 AM EDT

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Vegan Kucinich hospitalized for food poisoning

CLEVELAND -- Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, who is a vegan, has been hospitalized with "severe" effects of apparent food poisoning.

The 60-year-old congressman from Cleveland became sick Sunday night while flying to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to address the national Longshoremen's convention. He went ahead with the speech Monday but immediately returned home and was hospitalized in the Cleveland area.

The name of the hospital wasn't disclosed. Andy Juniewicz, a campaign spokesman, said Kucinich was improving Tuesday night and said no medical update was available Wednesday morning.

Kucinich, a former Cleveland mayor, typically polls in the low single digits.

On the Net: http://kucinich.us
Ohio.com ~ Akron Beacon Journal - AP ** Kucinich hospitalized with apparent food poisoning

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General Breck Girl Edwards:

50,000 Troops Should Leave Iraq Immedately

I wonder what military experts, intimately familiar with the AO’s, sit reps, and logistics in Iraq, he consulted with in order to reach his conclusion. No serious Presidential candidate would make such a definitive statement without exercising his requisite due diligence.

And, Edwards says he hasn’t decided whether community service should be mandated by the State.

MAQUOKETA, Iowa (AP) -- Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards said Saturday the U.S. needs help from Syria and Iran in stabilizing Iraq and he called the Iraqi prime minister a weak leader.

Edwards again said that if he were president today, he would immediately draw reduce the number of U.S. troops in Iraq by about 50,000.

“The Iraqis are going to have to take responsibility, and they haven’t,” he told about 200 people at a town hall-style meeting in eastern Iowa.

The prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, says his country’s army and police are capable of keeping security and that American troops can leave “any time they want.”

Edwards, a former North Carolina senator, told reporters that the U.S. “should be making our own evaluation about the circumstances in Iraq” and that al-Maliki has not proved effective in stopping violence.

“The Sunni leadership is very fragmented, al-Maliki is a weak leader, and there’s been very little progress made to reach a fundamental political comprise, which is the whole issue,” he said. “If that were to occur, there would be a much higher chance of stability in Iraq.”

Other countries in the region, including U.S. foes Iran and Syria, must become involved in Iraq’s future, Edwards said. “We need to engage them directly into helping to stabilize Iraq,” he said.

Later Saturday, Edwards joined Democratic rivals Joe Biden and Barack Obama at a workshop in Peosta. He told the hundreds of Democrats there that he thinks everyone in the United States should take part in volunteer work.

“The power in America, the capacity to change this country is out here,” he said pointing to the crowd, “It’s not just in the Oval Office.”

Edwards said he has not decided whether such service should be volunteer or mandatory. “I think all of us are going to have to take ownership and responsibility for what needs to be done in this country,” he said.

Edwards is on a three-day campaign swing through Iowa that began Thursday.

Pat Dollard.com ** General Edwards: 50,000 Troops Should Leave Iraq Immedately

Next headline should read...
160,000 Troops: Edwards Should Leave Presidential Race Immediately

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Updated: Thursday, 19 July 2007 3:54 AM EDT

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Obama Flak Compares Conservatives to Terrorists

By Dan Proft

Sunday evening on Bruce DuMont’s “Beyond the Beltway” nationally syndicated radio talk show broadcast from Chicago (and its flagship station WLS-AM 890), the country got a taste of the “new political discourse” emanating from Camp Barack Obama.

The roundtable discussion moderated by former NBC sports anchor Tom Shaer, filling in for the vacationing DuMont, featured a journalism professor from Columbia College in Chicago, Democrat strategist Pete Giangreco, and yours truly.

Giangreco is a hired consultant for the Obama campaign and his firm has been retained by Obama to do the campaign’s direct mail, as he mentioned on the show. Giangreco did direct mail work for John Edwards in 2004 and previously worked for Team Clinton as well.

Early into the first hour as a discussion about the War on Terror in Iraq was underway, a 92-year-old D-Day veteran called in to share his belief in the expansionist nature of radical Islamic jihadists to such an extent that he feared forthcoming attacks on American soil.

From there, Tom Shaer offered his take on the threat posed by radical Islam and summarily turned the discussion over for the panelists’ views.

Here, Pete Giangreco offered the following,

“There are multiple threats from within this country and some of them, you know, do come from the sources that you are taking about (radical Islam). But, you know, Muslims didn’t blow up the building in Oklahoma City or send anthrax through the mail. Those were, you know, some of Dan’s (referring to me) people here, unfortunately, political extremists. They were right-wingers.”

Welcome to Barack Obama’s fairytale land where there are no such things as “blue Americans” and “red Americans”, there are just “Americans” -- unless, of course, you disagree with them, and then you are a terrorist.

In the “new politics” we are promised from the Obama campaign, there is evidently no distinction between Timothy McVeigh and William F. Buckley -- they are just a couple of “right-wingers”.

But there is something disturbing in addition to the slanderous content of Giangreco’s statement.

Giangreco’s apparent belief -- and remember, this is a campaign professional who is advising a leading contender for President of the United States -- that a couple of deranged killers is comparable in scale to a global network of terrorists recruiting from a population of one billion Muslims is bereft of any even tangential connection to the reality of the world today.

To compare the Oklahoma City bombers to Islamofacists when discussing the threat of terrorist activity in the U.S. is so intellectually vacuous that it would be deserving of dismissive ridicule were the topic not so serious.

The slanderous aspect of Giangreco’s statement is insulting. The ignorance of it is frightening.

Mr. Proft is a Principal of Urquhart Media LLC, a Chicago-based public affairs firm and political commentator for the Don Wade & Roma Morning Show (5-9 a.m.) on Chicago's number one news talk radio station, WLS-AM 890. He can be reached at dan@urqmedia.com.
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Human Events ~ Dan Proft ** Obama Flak Compares Conservatives to Terrorists

Actually, the FBI says the biggest extremist group is radical islamics. The next biggest terrorist group is... take a guess... enviromental terrorist groups like ELF.

And by the way, reality alert for the libtard dumbass... MacVeigh was an anarchist, not a right winger.

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Obama: Sex Ed For Kindergartners 'Right Thing To Do'

ABC News' Teddy Davis and Lindsey Ellerson Report: Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., told Planned Parenthood Tuesday that sex education for kindergarteners, as long as it is "age-appropriate," is "the right thing to do."

"I remember Alan Keyes . . . I remember him using this in his campaign against me," Obama said in reference to the conservative firebrand who ran against him for the U.S. Senate in 2004. Sex education for kindergarteners had become an issue in his race against Keyes because of Obama’s work on the issue as chairman of the health committee in the Illinois state Senate.

"'Barack Obama supports teaching sex education to kindergarteners,'" said Obama mimicking Keyes' distinctive style of speech. "Which -- I didn’t know what to tell him (laughter)."

"But it’s the right thing to do," Obama continued, "to provide age-appropriate sex education, science-based sex education in schools."

Watch the video

Speaking to a young woman who asked a question about sex education, Obama said, "You, as a peer, can have enormous power over your age cohort but you’ve got to have some support from the schools. You certainly should not have to be fighting each and every instance by providing accurate information outside of the classroom because inside the classroom the only thing that can be talked about is abstinence."

"Keep in mind: I honor and respect young people who choose to delay sexual activity," Obama continued. "I’ve got two daughters, and I want them to understand that sex is not something casual. That's something that we definitely want to communicate and should be part of any curriculum. But we also know that when the statistics tell us that nearly half of 15 to 19 year olds are engaging in sexual activity, that for us to leave them in ignorance is potentially consigning them to illness, pregnancy, poverty, and in some cases, death."

When Obama's campaign was asked by ABC News to explain what kind of sex education Obama considers "age appropriate" for kindergarteners, the Obama campaign pointed to an Oct. 6, 2004 story from the Daily Herald in which Obama had "moved to clarify" in his Senate campaign that he "does not support teaching explicit sex education to children in kindergarten. . . The legislation in question was a state Senate measure last year that aimed to update Illinois' sex education standards with 'medically accurate' information . . . 'Nobody's suggesting that kindergartners are going to be getting information about sex in the way that we think about it,' Obama said. 'If they ask a teacher 'where do babies come from,' that providing information that the fact is that it's not a stork is probably not an unhealthy thing. Although again, that's going to be determined on a case by case basis by local communities and local school boards.'"

In addition to local schools informing kindergarteners that babies do not come from the stork, the state legislation Obama supported in Illinois, which contained an "opt out" provision for parents, also envisioned teaching kindergarteners about "inappropriate touching," according to Obama's presidential campaign. Despite Obama's support, the legislation was not enacted.

ABC News.com ~ Political Radar ** Sex Ed for Kindergarteners 'Right Thing to Do,' Says Obama
Related: Another Libtard Education Alert...
Maryland State School Board Advances 'Sexual Diversity' Above Children's Safety

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Updated: Thursday, 19 July 2007 3:23 AM EDT

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Obama, Edwards Promise Universal Coverage For Abortions...

Demented-crats pledge support

for wide access to abortion

WASHINGTON -- Elizabeth Edwards said Tuesday that her husband's health-care plan would provide insurance coverage of abortion.

Speaking on behalf of Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards before the family planning and abortion-rights group Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Edwards lauded her husband's health-care proposal as "a true universal health-care plan" that would cover "all reproductive health services, including pregnancy termination," referring to abortion.

Edwards was joined by Democratic candidates Sens. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Barack Obama (D-Ill.) at the group's political organizing conference in addressing issues at the core of the political clash between cultural liberals and conservatives, including abortion rights, access to contraception and sex education.

The recent 5-4 Supreme Court decision upholding a federal ban on a late-term abortion procedure that opponents call "partial-birth abortion" has increased anxieties among reproductive-rights advocates over the future of constitutional protections for abortion rights. All three of the Democratic campaigns used the forum to signal their determination to appoint Supreme Court nominees who would uphold the 1973 Roe vs. Wade abortion ruling.

Obama, who earlier gained the endorsement of Washington, D.C., Mayor Adrian Fenty, offered the group a vision of equal opportunity for women, tying a call for improved access to contraceptives for low-income women with a call for an "updated social contract" that includes paid maternity leave and expanded school hours.

Asked about his proposal for expanded access to health insurance, Obama said it would cover "reproductive-health services." Contacted afterward, an Obama spokesman said that included abortions.

Clinton has not yet released her health-care proposal. She provided a bruising critique of Bush administration policies and Republican conservatives on abortion rights and contraception policy.

She criticized cuts in contraception services for low-income women, lengthy delays in approving over-the-counter sales of the "morning-after" contraceptive pill and redirection of sex education funds to abstinence-only programs that do not include information on contraceptive use or condoms toto prevent the spread of AIDS.

mdorning@tribune.com
Chicago Tribune ~ Mike Dorning ** Democrats pledge support for wide access to abortion

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Demented-crat Slumber Party Bombed,

Senate Scuttles Troop Withdrawal Bill

Slumber Party in the Senate?

WASHINGTON -- In the dead of night, the Senate apparently turns into something other than the oft-cited greatest deliberative body in the world.

It becomes a "circus, a "mockery," "Kabuki theater," a "carnival" and a "charade," Democrats have said. Not only that, but "a colossal waste of time." And given the increasingly geriatric nature of the chamber as a whole, the Senate in all-night session amounts to "elder abuse."

Those were Democrats talking about the last all-night Senate session four years ago. Then, they were in the minority and forced by Republicans to make good on their threat to filibuster judicial nominations.

"We are having this all-night session in order to call to the attention of the public the fact that this unprecedented obstructionism is going on," declared then-Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky, in a 2003 interview on Fox News Network. "Most people think that in the world's oldest democracy if you can get a majority you are entitled to move ahead."

Nowadays, Democrats agree. And they run the chamber -- all night, as it turns out.

To be sure, the issue this time is literally about life and death for thousands of Americans and Iraqis. But such lofty debate isn't likely to give Democrats the 60 votes needed to advance troop withdrawal legislation blocked by Republicans.

"Tonight is not a stunt, it's a statement," said Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La.

And so, Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., directed Sergeant-at-Arms Terrance Gainer to retrieve the Senate's dozen or so cots and place most of them in the incongruously ornate room off the Senate floor named for President Lyndon Johnson, "for senators who wish to remain close to the floor and rest." Only senators were allowed to use those facilities, an official in Reid's office said.

As midnight approached, one senator dozed on an aforementioned cot in the dimly-lit LBJ room, and others began to get more comfortable.

A vote was called on whether to instruct the sergeant-at-arms to retrieve absent senators; Democratic Sens. Ken Salazar of Colorado and Chuck Schumer of New York briefly considered waking the snoozing senator, whose identity they declined to divulge. Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., appeared on the floor in loose black sweater and pants rather than the powder blue pantsuit she wore earlier in the day.

Elsewhere on the Capitol's second floor, a cot awaited Reid in a parlor adjacent to his office where Democratic leaders frequently hold news conferences. McConnell, now minority leader, had one at his disposal, according to his spokesman. Senators with enough seniority also had the option of sleeping in their hideaway offices, tucked into the building's myriad corners and hallways.

Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., said he had passed the time playing cards - "I play anything" - and was heading back to his office to use the comforter he said his staff had given him for just such occasions. Asked how she was keeping busy, Sen. Barbra Mikulski, D-Md., cracked, "Oh, I read the Federalist Papers."

Often, the very sight of the cots has had a way of prompting all parties to resolve their differences without a senatorial slumber party.

Not this time. Forced to make good on their filibuster threat, it was the Republicans' turn to describe the state of an all-night Senate.

A "political stunt," said Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn. "Petty kindergarten games."

"We were instructed to legislate, not to strut across a stage," lectured McConnell. "This isn't Hollywood; this is real life, the United States Senate."

Not everyone was complaining. To at least one senator, an all-nighter offered some excitement, and a challenge.

"I'm trying to find a bench around here that's long enough for me to stretch out," said Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., a 6-foot-4 freshman lawmaker. "It's my first all-nighter -- I'm excited."

Associated Press writers David Espo and Julie Hirschfeld Davis contributed to this report.
Breitbart.com ~ Associated Press - Laurie Kellman ** Slumber Party in the Senate?

Related: Senate sidetracked legislation ordering troops out of Iraq...

Senate Scuttles Troop Withdrawal Bill

WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans on Wednesday scuttled a Democratic proposal ordering troop withdrawals from Iraq in a showdown that capped an all- night debate on the war.

The 52-47 vote fell short of the 60 votes needed to cut off debate under Senate rules. It was a sound defeat for Democrats who say the U.S. military campaign, in its fifth year and requiring 158,000 troops, cannot tame the sectarian violence in Iraq.

"We have to get us out of a middle of a civil war" said Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., who chairs the Foreign Relations Committee. A political solution must be found "so when we leave Iraq, we don't just send our children home, we don't have to send our grandchildren back."

As members cast their votes, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice hurried between private meetings with lawmakers in their Capitol Hill offices to make the administration's case for the war.

The Democratic proposal, by Sens. Carl Levin, D-Mich., and Jack Reed, D-R.I., would have required Bush to start bringing home troops within 120 days and complete the pullout by April 30, 2008. Under the bill, an unspecified number of troops could remain behind to conduct a narrow set of missions: counterterrorism, protecting U.S. assets and training Iraqi security forces.

Breitbart.com ~ Associated Press - Anne Flaherty ** Senate Scuttles Troop Withdrawal Bill

Posted by yaahoo_ at 2:24 PM EDT

Updated: Wednesday, 18 July 2007 3:41 PM EDT

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Reuters / Zogby: Demented-crat Congress Rating Hits

All Time Low, 14% Approve..... 83% Disapprove...

Voters unhappy with Bush; Congress: Reuters poll

WASHINGTON -- Most U.S. voters think the country is on the wrong track and remain deeply unhappy with President George W. Bush and Congress, but still feel good about their finances and optimistic about the future, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.

Eighteen months before Bush leaves the White House, nearly two-thirds of Americans say the country is headed in the wrong direction and give the president negative marks for his job performance.

An even bigger majority, 83 percent, say the Democratic-controlled Congress is doing only a fair or poor job -- the worst mark for Congress in a Zogby poll.

But despite their dim views of government, majorities of Americans remain upbeat about their personal finances and security, and nearly two-thirds are very or fairly confident their children will have a better life than they do.

Pollster John Zogby said the split between voters' views of government and of their personal well-being has grown in recent years, particularly after the failed federal response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

"Americans feel their government is not accomplishing the people's business," Zogby said. "They feel the system is seriously broken."

In the national survey of 1,012 likely voters, taken July 12 through July 14, about 66 percent said Bush had done only a fair or poor job as president, with 34 percent ranking his performance as excellent or good.

That is up slightly from his low of 30 percent in early March and in line with other national polls showing Bush's approval ratings lingering at or near historically low levels amid continued chaos and bloodshed in Iraq.

But the marks for Congress, mired in gridlock over a series of partisan political battles after Democrats took power in the 2006 elections, continued to drop.

While 83 percent said Congress was doing a fair or poor job, just 14 percent rated it excellent or good. Last October, in its final days, the Republican-led Congress earned ratings of excellent or good from 23 percent of voters.

"There is a growing sense that people voted for change in 2006 and they aren't getting it," Zogby said.

The poll showed only 26 percent of Americans thought the United States was on the right track and 64 percent thought it was on the wrong track.

Americans also have little confidence in U.S. foreign and economic policy. Two-thirds of those surveyed, 66 percent, said the direction of economic policy was fair or poor, and 76 percent said U.S. foreign policy was headed in a fair or poor direction.

But on a personal level, Americans feel relatively secure and comfortable with their own finances and safety. Nearly 82 percent of Americans said they feel very or fairly safe from "threats from abroad," and nearly 70 percent feel very or fairly secure in their jobs.

While 14 percent rated their personal financial situation as excellent and 10 percent as poor, the vast majority found themselves in the middle. About 43 percent rated their finances as good, and 43 percent as fair.

"Americans have made a serious adjustment. Their expectations have been tempered," Zogby said. "With little faith in government, you feel you are pretty much on your own."

Several years of headlines about possible torture of U.S. detainees, treatment of prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention center and international anger over the Iraq war has not dented the pride of Americans.

About two-thirds of the likely voters surveyed said they were "very" proud of the United States, with 22 percent saying they were "fairly" proud and 8 percent saying they were not very proud of their country.

The national telephone survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.

Yahoo News ~ Reuters - John Whitesides ** Voters unhappy with Bush; Congress: Reuters poll
Related: Gallup: USA Today ** Confidence in Demented-crat Congress at all-time low: 14%
Gallup: 71% disapprove of way Demented-crat Congress is handling job
Seattle Post-Intelligencer ** Associated Press Poll: Congress Lower Marks than Bush

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Military says top al-Qaeda in Iraq figure captured...

US: Top al-Qaida in Iraq Figure Captured

The U.S. command said Wednesday the highest-ranking Iraqi in the leadership of al-Qaida in Iraq has been arrested, adding that information from him indicates the group's foreign-based leadership wields considerable influence over the Iraqi chapter.

Khaled Abdul-Fattah Dawoud Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, also known as Abu Shahid, was captured in Mosul on July 4, said Brig. Gen. Kevin Bergner, a military spokesman.

"Al-Mashhadani is believed to be the most senior Iraqi in the al-Qaida in Iraq network," Bergner said. He said al-Mashhadani was a close associate of Abu Ayub al-Masri, the Egyptian-born head of al-Qaida in Iraq.

Bergner said al-Mashhadani served as an intermediary between al-Masri and Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri.

"In fact, communication between the senior al-Qaida leadership and al-Masri frequently went through al-Mashhadani," Bergner said.

"Along with al-Masri, al-Mashhadani co-founded a virtual organization in cyberspace called the Islamic State of Iraq in 2006," Bergner said. "The Islamic State of Iraq is the latest efforts by al-Qaida to market itself and its goal of imposing a Taliban-like state on the Iraqi people."

Yahoo Asia News ~ Associated Press ** US: Top al-Qaida in Iraq Figure Captured
Related:
• This Blog *** Commander says Iraq surge operations have 'significant' impact

In other developments throughout Iraq:
• Marines from Company I, Battalion Landing Team 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit, discovered 500, one hundred-pound bags of ammonium nitrate July 11.

• An Iraqi citizen who has been working with Coalition Forces during the past week led them to two caches in Qarghuli Village, Iraq, a known terrorist safe haven.

Also: (.PDF File) • 50,000 Pounds of Ammonium Nitrate!, Confiscated in Iraq
U.S. Marines Ambush Insurgents In Ramadi, (...or how to wake-up Terrorist Tenants)
• Herald News Daily ~ AP - Charles J. Hanley ** Air Force quietly building Iraq presence

• American Forces Press Service ** Two Terrorists Killed, 21 Detained in Iraq Raids, Huge Weapons Caches Seized

• London Free Press ** 200 explosive belts seized at Syria-Iraq border

Posted by yaahoo_ at 9:24 AM EDT

Updated: Wednesday, 18 July 2007 9:37 AM EDT

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