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Afghan people look at a burning police vehicle in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, May 29, 2006 Afghans Riot After U.S. Truck Accident Monday, May 29, 2006 7:34 AM EDT The Associated Press By RAHIM FAIEZ Listen to Audio KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A deadly traffic accident involving U.S. troops sparked a riot in the Afghan capital on Monday, with U.S. and Afghan security forces firing on protesters, police and witnesses said. At least five people were killed and 60 injured. Hundreds of protesters marched on the palace of U.S.-backed President Hamid Karzai in the city center after the incident, shouting "Death to Karzai! Death to America!" Gunfire was also heard near the U.S. Embassy. The staff was moved to a secure location within the heavily fortified compound, said Chris Harris, an embassy spokesman. Rioters ransacked several buildings, including a sprawling compound belonging to the international aid group CARE International. Computers were set on fire on the street outside and smoke billowed from inside the buildings, according to an Associated Press reporter. The reporter also said he saw several demonstrators pull a foreign man from a vehicle and beat him. The man escaped and ran to a line of police, who fired shots over the heads of the demonstrators. Afghan troops were deployed around Kabul, and two tanks of NATO peacekeepers drove at high speed through the city center. Rioters smashed police guard boxes and set fire to police cars. Col. Thomas Collins, a coalition spokesman, voiced regret for any deaths and injuries. He said a large cargo truck in a coalition convoy had suffered a mechanical failure and hit as many as 12 civilian vehicles at a busy intersection. He said the coalition was conducting an investigation. He confirmed there was gunfire at the scene, and that coalition personnel in one military vehicle had fired over the crowd. "This was a tragic incident and we deeply regret any deaths or injuries resulting from this incident," Collins in a statement. "We will determine the facts regarding the incident and cooperate fully with Afghan authorities." The U.S.-led coalition said at least one person was killed and six injured in the crash. Afghan Health Ministry spokesman Abdullah Fahim said five bodies were brought to hospitals in Kabul and 60 more Afghans were treated for injuries. He said there were no foreigners among the wounded or dead. He had no details on how the casualties occurred, and it wasn't immediately clear if the toll included people from the traffic accident. Witnesses said the incident began when a convoy of at least three U.S. Humvees came into the city from the outskirts and hit several civilian cars in rush-hour traffic jam. "The American convoy hit all the vehicles which were in their way. They didn't care about the civilians at all," said Mohammad Wali, 21, a shopkeeper. Three people were killed and 16 wounded in the crash, said Sher Shah Usafi, a Kabul police chief. U.S. forces then fired on the crowd, killing one person and wounding two, he said. A commander with the city's traffic police who was at the scene said he also saw U.S. forces firing on protesters. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media. AP Television News video showed hundreds of angry young men hurling rocks at what appeared to be three U.S. military trucks and three Humvees as they sped from the area after the crash, their windscreens cracked by the stones. A center-mounted machine gun on one of the Humvees was seen firing into the air over the crowd as the vehicle sped away. The video also showed an Afghan man apparently hurt in the riots lying on the ground, being comforted by others around him. An AP reporter said he saw about 10 Afghan police firing into a crowd of about 50 demonstrators, and that U.S. troops had already left the area. The protesters scattered when the firing erupted, but later regrouped. Two helicopters belonging to a NATO-led peacekeeping force hovered over the area. Phones in Kabul were only working sporadically. Repeated attempts to get through to the city's hospitals to get a casualty toll from the unrest were unsuccessful. State television cut transmission of a live broadcast of parliament when one angry lawmaker interrupted the proceedings to protest the incident. "I have seen the incident. ... I come from that area and I have to tell you," Taj Mohammed Mujahid shouted before the house speaker ruled him out of order and the screen went black. Transmission resumed minutes later and parliamentary speaker Yunus Qanooni called for calm. "We call on the people to be tolerant because there is the risk this could be exploited by our enemies," he said, referring to Taliban rebels who are waging a fierce insurgency in the country's southern and eastern regions. He said the Cabinet was discussing the matter. Afghans often complain about what they call the aggressive driving tactics of the U.S. military. Convoys often pass through crowded areas at high speeds and sometimes disregard road rules. The U.S. military says such tactics are necessary to protect troops from attack. ——— Associated Press correspondents Amir Shah, Daniel Cooney and Edward Harris contributed to this report. Quote Sounds like the Taliban wanted to do an ambush and were foiled, and then they did this to their own people.

I was just watching the laying of the wreath at the tomb of the Unknowns, does anyone else here immediatley stand and present arms when they hear the National Anthem and Taps? I do BTW I know many of you may not like this administration, war, or the military but do you remember those that have given their lives so that you can be free, and live to enjoy this holiday? If this post annoys or offends you good!, and please by all means relinquish all freedoms you have been the UNGRATEFUL recipient of

look its a telescope, no wait it has a mouse inside

SkyDekker is dead? he is the walrus

you're gonna be strip searched by the repost police.

I had a friend who was having an argument with a woman he was seeing. He was really pissed at her for some time and she did ALOT to warrant this. One day she was standing talking to friends and he walked up from behind where nobody could see and started rubbing her crotch and ass in public, she turned and smiled thinking all was forgiven. The really funny part is she had white shorts on(really short) and he had been using an melted reeses peanut butter cup to mark her with... Damn she looked like she shit all over herself... it went on for 3 hrs until her sister told her she had shitstains on her shorts

Iraqi Athletes Killed for Wearing Shorts By KIM GAMEL, Associated Press Writer 2 hours ago BAGHDAD, Iraq - An Iraqi tennis coach and two of his players were shot to death this week in Baghdad because they were wearing shorts, authorities said Saturday, reporting the latest in a series of recent attacks attributed to Islamic extremists. A U.S. Marine AH-1 Cobra helicopter, meanwhile, crashed Saturday and its two crew members were missing in Anbar province, a volatile area west of the capital where insurgents are active. Hostile fire was not suspected as the cause of the crash, the U.S. military said. A pair of bombs ripped through central Baghdad just after dawn Sunday, killing three people and injuring 21, police said. The bombs, designed to kill the maximum number of people, were planted next to each other and were detonated in succession in Baghdad's Tahariyat Square, police 1st Lt. Thaeir Mahmoud said. Many were injured as they rushed to the scene of the fist explosion. In the shooting, gunmen stopped a car carrying the Sunni Arab coach and two Shiite players, asked them to step out and then shot them, said Manham Kubba secretary-general of the Iraqi Tennis Union. Extremists had distributed leaflets warning people in the mostly Sunni neighborhoods of Saidiyah and Ghazaliyah warning people not to wear shorts, police said. "Wearing shorts by youth are prohibited because it violates the principals of Islamic religion when showing forbidden parts of the body(LEGS). Also women should wear the veil," the leaflets said. No one claimed responsibility for the slayings, which come amid worries that Islamic extremism is spreading in the war-torn country. Sunni cleric Eid al-Zoubayi denounced the attack. "Islamic religion is an easy religion and it allows wearing sport shorts as long as they don't show the forbidden parts of the body(LEGS), so the acts that are targeting the sport are criminal," he said. It was the second incident involving athletes in just over a week. Fifteen members of a taekwondo team were kidnapped in western Iraq while driving to a training camp in neighboring Jordan on May 17. More than 30 people were killed in attacks across Iraq on Saturday, including four who died when a bomb in a parked car exploded near a busy bus station in southern Baghdad. Seven people also were wounded in the blast, which bloodied passers-by and damaged a local restaurant. The Marine helicopter went down while on a maintenance test flight and search and rescue efforts were under way for the missing crew members, the U.S. command said in a statement. "We are using all the resources available to find our missing comrades," said a Marine spokesman, Lt. Col. Bryan Salas. The U.S. military also reported that a Marine was killed Friday by "enemy action" in Anbar province. The death raised to at least 2,466 the number of U.S. military personnel who have died since the Iraq war started in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. Iraqi politicians continued to bicker over candidates for the key defense and interior ministry posts, leaving Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government incomplete a week after it assumed office. "We hope the agreement will be reached within two or three days," Sunni politician Adnan al-Dulaimi told reporters. "I think that to linger and take some time in choosing the ministers is better than rushing into it." Filling the two posts is a contentious matter, especially after the recent surge in sectarian violence. Political parties have agreed that a Sunni will head the Defense Ministry, which controls the army, and a Shiite will run the Interior Ministry, which oversees police forces. But they are struggling to find a consensus on who should get the jobs. A senior Iranian official visited Iraq's Shiite holy cities of Karbala and Najaf, where he met with Shiite spiritual leader Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani and radical anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, who was wrapping up the second high-level visit by an Iranian delegation since the ouster of Saddam Hussein three years ago, praised al-Sistani for his efforts to maintain unity in Iraq amid rising sectarian tensions. Mottaki's trip to the southern cities after meeting with Iraqi leaders in Baghdad on Friday highlighted the warming ties between the two countries, both of which have Shiite majorities. Saddam's regime was dominated by Sunnis, and Iraqi Shiites were repressed during his reign. Also Saturday, a senior U.S. military official said coalition forces could begin transferring security control over some Iraqi provinces to civilian authorities and police by the end of summer, but Baghdad would not be handed over before the end of the year. The military official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, estimated that provisional control could be handed over to local governors in the relatively peaceful provinces of Najaf, Karbala and Babil by the fall. In other developments Saturday, according to police and hospital officials: _ Two roadside bombings in Baghdad killed four policemen and wounded five people. _ In four separate shootings in the capital, gunmen killed a garden store owner; a grocer; a taxi driver and his son; and the owner of a glass store. _ Gunmen and Iraqi soldiers fought at a checkpoint west of Baghdad, killing a teacher caught in the crossfire. _ Attackers ambushed the convoy of the office manager of the Diyala police chief south of Baqouba, wounding the colonel and killing five of his guards. _ A former Iraqi army colonel and his nephew also were fatally shot near Baqouba. _ In Baqouba, drive-by shooters killed four policemen and one civilian, while masked gunmen killed four workers and wounded another at a metalworking shop. _ A policeman was shot to death and two officers were wounded north of Tikrit. _ Gunmen stopped a minibus carrying college students from Mosul, killing one of the students. _ A man suspected of belonging to Saddam's former Fedayeen militia was slain west of Mosul. _ The body of a man who had been shot in the chest was found floating in the Euphrates river near Hillah.

OK np see what happens when write vs. speak? NP hey you should hear the response I got from the local police once when I called in shots fired in exchange. I was able to tell them two calibers were being used, they told me that I did not know that was gunfire as I am not a police officer. Too bad for the guy who bled to death after NOT BEING SHOT.[sarcasm] I guess like always someone in politics or government always thinks that NOBODY could possibly know anything more than they do. PS someone left shell casings unrelated to this incident at the shooters feet huh?[sarcasm]

I bet the three years old girl in night clothes was their leader. no but if she was in the same house she may have been killed in an exchange of fire or accidentally shot. I guess you are of the opinion these Marines are guilty without YOU having any proof they were intentionally shot in cold blood. Were they shot while cuffed or kneeling?...where are the wounds located?..what caliber bullets and weight?...or dont we even know?

Jamaican Ska Great Desmond Dekker Dies By Associated Press Fri May 26, 6:14 AM This is a July 21, 2001 Jamaican reggae star ... LONDON - Desmond Dekker, who brought the sound of Jamaican ska music to the world with songs such as "Israelites," has died, his manager said Friday. He was 64. Dekker, who lived in England, collapsed from an apparent heart attack at his home on Thursday, manager Delroy Williams said. "It is such a shock, I don't think I will ever get over this," Williams said. Dekker's 1969 song "Israelites," a Top 10 single in both Britain and the United States, was the first international hit produced by Jamaica's vibrant music scene. With its haunting vocals and irresistible rhythm, it introduced the world to ska, a precursor to reggae. "Desmond was the first legend, believe it or not," Williams said. "When he released 'Israelites' nobody had heard of Bob Marley _ he paved the way for all of them." Born Desmond Dacres in 1941, Dekker worked as a welder in Kingston before signing with Leslie Kong's Beverley's record label and releasing his first single, "Honor Your Father and Your Mother," in 1963. It was followed by Jamaican hits including "King of Ska." Some of his most popular songs celebrated the culture of violent street toughs, or "rude boys" _ "Rude Boy Train," "Rudie Got Soul" and "007 (Shanty Town)," which featured on the soundtrack of the seminal Jamaican film "The Harder They Come." He also had a hit with "You Can Get It If You Really Want," written by his label-mate Jimmy Cliff. The songs made Dekker a hero of British youth, and he moved to the country in the 1970s. Dekker's career suffered after the 1971 death of his mentor Kong, and he was declared bankrupt in 1984. But he retained a strong British following until his death and performed regularly. Dekker had been due to play across Europe over the summer, including dates in Ireland, Switzerland and the Czech Republic. Dekker, who was divorced, is survived by a son and a daughter. Funeral details were not immediately available.

Pa. Skydiver Slips From Harness and Dies By Associated Press 45 minutes ago STERLING, Ohio - A first-time skydiver slipped from her harness during a jump Saturday and fell to her death, authorities said. The 44-year-old woman from West Chester, Pa., was participating in a tandem jump, her first with the AerOhio Skydiving school near Sterling, about 40 miles south of Cleveland, according to the Wayne County Sheriff's office. The victim's name was withheld pending notification of her family. During tandem jumps, a novice skydiver is harnessed to the chest of an experienced jumper. When the parachute is deployed, the experienced skydiver guides the team to the ground. A preliminary investigation by the sheriff's office indicated the woman slipped from the harness after the parachute opened. It is not known how far the woman fell, and the sheriff's office did not release any further details. A message seeking comment was left Saturday night at AerOhio Skydiving. Quote I saw absolutley nothing about this on the incident reports or fatality database Is this a confirmed report or bullshit?

Analysis: U.S. Braces for Marine Scandal By ROBERT H. REID, Associated Press Writer Sat May 27, 8:18 PM BAGHDAD, Iraq - The U.S. military is bracing for a major scandal over the alleged slaying of Iraqi civilians by Marines in Haditha _ charges so serious they could threaten President Bush's effort to rally support at home for an increasingly unpopular war. And while the case has attracted little attention so far in Iraq, it still could enflame hostility to the U.S. presence just as Iraq's new government is getting established, and complicate efforts by moderate Sunni Arab leaders to reach out to their community _ the bedrock of the insurgency. U.S. lawmakers have been told the criminal investigation will be finished in about 30 days. But a Pentagon official said investigators believe Marines committed unprovoked murder in the deaths of about two dozen people at Haditha in November. With a political storm brewing, the top U.S. Marine, Gen. Michael W. Hagee, is headed to Iraq to personally deliver the message that troops should use deadly force "only when justified, proportional and, most importantly, lawful." Haditha is not the only case pending: On Wednesday, the military announced an investigation into allegations that Marines killed a civilian April 26 near Fallujah. The statement gave no further details except that "several service members" had been sent back to the United States "pending the results of the criminal investigation." Last July, Iraq's ambassador to the United Nations, Samir al-Sumaidaie, accused the Marines of killing his 21-year-old cousin in cold blood during a search of his family's home in Haditha, a city of about 90,000 people along the Euphrates River 140 miles northwest of Baghdad. The military ordered a criminal investigation but the results have not been announced. Together, the cases present the most serious challenge to U.S. handling of the Iraq war since the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, which Bush cited Thursday as "the biggest mistake that's happened so far, at least from our country's involvement in Iraq." "What happened at Haditha appears to be outright murder," said Marc Garlasco of Human Rights Watch. "It has the potential to blow up in the U.S. military's face." He said that "the Haditha massacre will go down as Iraq's My Lai," a reference to the Vietnam War incident in which American soldiers slaughtered up to 500 civilians in 1968. The Haditha case involves both the alleged killing of civilians and a purported cover-up of the events that unfolded Nov. 19. That day, Lance Cpl. Miguel Terrazas, 20, of El Paso, Texas, was killed by a roadside bomb in Haditha, a Sunni Arab city considered among the most hostile areas of Iraq. After the blast, insurgents attacked a joint U.S.-Iraqi patrol with small-arms fire, triggering a gunbattle that left eight insurgents and 15 Iraqi civilians dead, the Marines said in a statement issued the following day. That version stood for four months until a videotape shot by an Iraqi journalism student surfaced, obtained by Time magazine and then by Arab television stations. The tape showed the bodies of women and children, some in their nightclothes. Although the tape did not prove Marines were responsible, the military began an investigation. Residents came forward with claims that Marines entered two homes and killed 15 people, including a 3-year-old girl and a 76-year-old man _ more than four hours after the roadside bombing. It isn't clear if questions have been raised about the eight slain people that the Marines described as insurgents. In March, Lt. Gen. Peter Chiarelli, the No. 2 U.S. commander in Iraq, said about a dozen Marines were under investigation for possible war crimes in the incident. Three officers from the unit involved have been relieved of their posts. Such incidents have reinforced the perception among many Iraqis who believe American troops are trigger-happy _ a characterization U.S. officers strongly dispute. "America in the view of many Iraqis has no credibility. We do not believe what they say is correct," said Sheik Sattar al-Aasaf, a tribal leader in Anbar province, which includes Haditha. "U.S. troops are a very well-trained and when they shoot, it isn't random but due to an order to kill Iraqis. People say they are the killers." Ayda Aasran, a deputy human rights minister, said Iraqis should be allowed to investigate such cases _ something the U.S. command has refused to permit. Sunni political leaders will find it difficult to defend U.S. actions, even those aimed at establishing the truth, if they want to maintain their position as leaders of the Iraqi minority that provides most of the insurgents. Even if criminal charges are brought in the Haditha incident, Sunni insurgents are likely to claim the case is simply a charade and argue that the Marines will escape serious punishment. Haditha, site of a major hydroelectric dam, has long been considered a tough case. It is among a string of Euphrates Valley towns used by insurgents and foreign fighters to infiltrate from Syria to reach Baghdad and the Sunni heartland. Many Marines have complained to journalists that they conduct repeated sweeps through villages to drive out the insurgents, who then reappear when the Americans leave. That has bred a sense of frustration among troops fighting a difficult war with no end in sight. Reporters who embedded in Haditha several months before the alleged massacre said Marines considered the town as enemy territory, with frequent roadside bombings. During patrols inside the city, Marines treated inhabitants like terrorists, raiding their homes. An Associated Press journalist who traveled in Haditha last June with a Marine unit not involved in the November killings saw a Marine urinate on the kitchen floor of a home and on another occasion saw insults chalked in English on the gate of an Arab home. The reporter asked a Marine commander about the incident and was told it would be investigated. Last August, the British newspaper The Guardian reported that Haditha was under the control of religious extremists who enforced their own strict interpretation of Islamic law _ including decapitations of people suspected of collaborating with the Americans. "This is a war in which the distinction between killing the enemy and massacring civilians is not always completely obvious," said John Pike of GlobalSecurity.org. "Counterinsurgency operations are particularly prone to the killing of people who, in retrospect, are judged to have been innocent civilians, but who in the heat of battle seemed to be the enemy." Some analysts, however, say the killings of civilians also reflect frustration among young troops fighting a difficult war with no end in sight. They say these young fighters have been thrust into an alien culture for repeated tours in a war whose strategy many of them do not understand. "What we're seeing more of now, and these incidents will increase monthly, is the end result of fuzzy, imprecise national direction combined with situational ethics at the highest levels of this government," said retired Air Force Col. Mike Turner, a former planner at the Joint Chiefs of Staff. ___ Robert H. Reid is correspondent at large for The Associated Press and has reported frequently from Iraq since 2003. ___ Associated Press writer Jacob Silberberg contributed to this report.Quote Wanna make a bet that the ambasador is stirring the shit?... First prove thats his cousin, second grab phone records of the ambassador I bet it is filled with insurgents numbers. I still do not believe that marines for no reason whatsoever, went on a murder spree. One marine? maybe A whole squad or platoon? There is really flimsy evidence here if you consider they are not disputing that eight of the 23 killed were in fact insurgents in those houses.

Eh, I think I'd give them a pass on this one. The sounds are not all that dissimilar, especially to an untrained ear; and the complex of Congressional office buildings are not a place where that sound is heard very often. Small harm; minor foul. Better safe than sorry. where the fuck do you shoot? and what do you shoot that sounds like that?

Just remember to hoist a pint on july 17th

I think we both understand the greeting anyone else gets for being discovered in a country where you were not allowed in legally.

It is the worst fucking idea I ever heard, and will only serve to inspire others to become criminals by illegally sneaking into our country, to be rewarded with citizenship.

Some MexicanILLEGAL Migrants Turning to Bicycles Saturday, May 27, 2006 12:05 PM EDT The Associated Press By MARK STEVENSON SONOYTA, Mexico (AP) — Many illegal immigrants no longer hike. They bike. The 110-degree heat and rough terrain of the Arizona desert would exhaust the fittest of cyclists, but these migrants are often middle-aged housewives or farmers, riding battered second-hand bikes for 30 or 40 miles. The bikes also carry their supplies and belongings, so if rocks or cactus spines shred the tires, they get off and push. The prize? A chance at a low-wage job. "We've seen them going by on bicycles right by our offices ... in whole groups," said Mario Lopez, an agent for Mexico's Grupo Beta migrant aid agency, whose offices sit just a few hundred yards from the border. "They're usually old bikes because they're going to abandon them anyway." Most start their trip in Sonoyta, a Mexican border town where the bikes are sold for $30 in a dusty, vacant lot a few blocks from the chest-high, three-rail fence that marks the U.S. border. The fence has prevented vehicles from driving across into the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, but migrants can easily toss a bike over and slip through the rails. From there, it's a brutal ride over Organ Pipe's hard-packed terrain. Though the park prohibits off-road biking, sets of fresh mountain-bike tracks can be seen running down its foot trails, and the National Park Service often finds abandoned bikes with crumpled wheels and water bottles hanging off the handlebars. Fred Patton, the park's chief ranger, says "hundreds and hundreds and hundreds" of migrants bike through the park. No count is kept and he can't be precise, but he provides pictures of abandoned bikes. "It's a relatively common means of transport," he said. The aid group Humane Borders, which combs the Arizona desert for migrants needing help, says it often stumbles across abandoned bikes, their tires flat. Many migrants simply ditch the bikes when they get to a prearranged meeting point, where a smuggler is waiting with a vehicle to whisk them away to a nearby city. Some 500 deaths were reported last year of migrants who succumbed to heat and thirst while trying to cross the desert on foot. No evidence has turned up cyclists suffering the same fate. The off-road course proved too grueling for Alejandra Valenzuela, 27, who fell behind with another woman. "It was ugly, it was horrible," she said. "We were stuck in the park and nobody wanted to help us." Valenzuela and the other migrant woman eventually reached a highway where they waited for the Border Patrol to find them and send them back to Mexico. While bicycles may ease the journey through the 500-square-mile park, the ride is not for the faint of heart. "It's mostly impossible," Patton says. But migrants don't fall into the faint-of-heart category. "They tie their water and their possessions on top of the bikes, and just push them till the rims are square," said park ranger Viv Sartori. ——— Quote there I fixed it

WWII Hero Donald Rudolph Sr. Dies at 85 Saturday, May 27, 2006 1:15 AM EDT The Associated Press BOVEY, Minn. (AP) — Donald E. Rudolph Sr., who received a Medal of Honor for bravery for destroying two Japanese machine gun nests during World War II, has died. He was 85. Rudolph died Thursday of complications from Alzheimer's disease, said Itasca County Veterans Services Officer Marvin Ott, who spoke with Rudolph's wife, Helen, on Friday. He had been ill for several years. President Harry S. Truman presented Rudolph with the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military honor, on Aug. 23, 1945. On Feb. 5 of that year, the young Army sergeant crossed a battlefield on Luzon island in the northern Philippines alone — protecting himself with grenades — when the company that was supposed to be supporting his unit was pinned down. He destroyed two Japanese pillboxes before attacking and neutralizing six others. Then, when his unit came under fire from a tank, he climbed onto the tank and dropped a white phosphorus grenade through the turret, killing the crew. According to the U.S. Army Center of Military History, "Rudolph cleared a path for an advance which culminated in one of the most decisive victories of the Philippine campaign." Rudolph, who was struck by shrapnel, was promoted to second lieutenant. As a recipient of the prestigious medal, Rudolph and his wife attended several presidential inaugurations, where Rudolph met Presidents Kennedy, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton and George W. Bush. After retiring from the Army in 1963, he worked for the Veterans Administration as a veterans benefit counselor until retiring in 1976. Rudolph is survived by his wife, a son and three grandchildren.Quote Another great one is gone

If the wire from an IED ran to that house and those at the taxi stand were spotters, then what would you say?

Acclimatisation doesn't cure or prevent Soroche. It alleviates it to a small extent. Too little oxygen is still too little oxygen. It's just too shitty an environment to adapt to. As for help - lacing your own boots counts as a major achievement!.. One you'd save for after your morning O2 hit. Going to help just doesn't happen - this isn't wandering over to your neighbour tinkering under the bonnet of his car! It's just too much effort with too little higher brain function. Mike. But still enough to walk by and continue to climbe more than 1000 feet to the summit and then descend sucessfully? To me summiting would be of no joy whatsoever if I continued on, instead of trying to do something such as descend with him or stay with him until sherpas could render assistance. Does anyone truly enjoy going on the next load after someone goes in?...

Ooh! Ooh! I did! I did!! It was a M2 50-cal, does that count? How about an M249 SAW? Of course, those are bee-bees compared to the 155mm Arty round that went off under my HMMWV...talk about knock down/blow up power. That'll wake you up, believe me. Hehehehe

I'd love to see your grouping accuracy fired under pressure from 10metres, nevermind 25. I've worked with your professional's where they've been "under pressure." I'm lucky to be alive because your nation's professional's were "under pressure." This is actually winding me up now. So I won't let it! Fuck it. All the best. Come on don't be like that eh? You know we aren't all like some individuals

Oh is that the case with me?

I remember that game.