Published Friday May 03 2013 6:44 pm.
Israeli warplanes are reported to have stricken a weapons facility in Syria. The facility is not believed to be a chemical weapons facility. Bombs were dropped by the Israeli aircraft. Israelis warplanes recently attacked a scientific research center northwest of Damascus on Wednesday January 30, 2013. Hezbollah is also believed to have extensive stockpiles of [...]
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Published Monday November 19 2012 8:16 am. Tags: Gaza, Hamas, IDF, Israel, Israeli Defense Ministry
Israel’s Finance Minister told IDF radio the time left before Israel escalates its attacks can be measured in “hours, not days.” Israel is said to have issued a 36-hour ultimatum demanding that Hamas stops firing rockets at Israeli territory. Israel says it’s targeting Hamas militants in Gaza. An overnight Israeli airstrike killed four Palestinians as [...]
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Published Friday April 20 2012 1:36 pm. Tags: Black Hawk helicopter, Little Bird helicopter, MH-6, MH-6 Little Bird, MH-60, military training, military urban training, Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk
Arlington Heights and Rolling Meadows police provided perimeter security and staffed check-in points for military and/or security experts that were arriving to the former hotel high rise for the Sheraton Chicago Northwest on Thursday evening. All driveways to the property had police checkpoints. Arlington Heights police and Rolling Meadows police were friendly while guarding the [...]
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Published Wednesday January 25 2012 7:33 am. Tags: Navy Seals, Navy SEALs Team Six, Somalia
U.S. Navy Seal Team Six rescued two hostages overnight. American aid worker Jessica Buchanan and a Danish colleague were freed from kidnappers in Somalia during a U.S. military raid on Jan. 24, 2012. Members of SEAL Team Six – the same unit that killed Osama bin Laden – dropped into Somalia by parachute and were [...]
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Published Thursday October 20 2011 6:25 pm. Tags: Gadhafi, Libya, Sirte
President Obama says Moammar Gadhafi’s death heralds a new chapter for Libyans, and shows the world how allies working together can succeed in ending the rule of a tyrant. News broke about 6:00 a.m. CDT that Moammar Gadhafi had either been captured alive or killed. Warning, graphic video content. Moammar Gadhafi, who ruled Libya with [...]
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Published Monday March 21 2011 4:26 pm. Tags: 126th Air Refueling Wing, 906th Air Refueling Squadron, ANG, F-15, F-22, F15, F22, Illinois Air National Guard, Illinois ANG, KC-135, Libya, Operation Odyssey Dawn
The 126th Air Refueling Wing and the 906th Air Refueling Squadron fly the KC-135-R Stratotanker (a military Boeing 707) is headed to Libya to support the no-fly zone with the specialty of refueling aircraft in mid-air. The units are able to deliver almost 200,000 pounds of jet fuel to another aircraft while both travel more [...]
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Published Sunday March 20 2011 7:34 am. Tags: Barack Obama, Libya, Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam, Operation Odyssey Dawn
Louis Farrakhan with radio host Cliff Kelley on WVON-AM 1690 Chicago. Cliff Kelley asks Rev. Louis Farrakhan: “You told the president, you said be prepared because they will be coming to your door America, and your advice to Obama was to remember the words you are making to other nations.” Well today our dear brother [...]
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Published Tuesday June 01 2010 2:18 am. Tags: conflict, Israel
Tensions are running high in the Middle East after Israeli commandos attacked a fleet of ships headed to the Gaza Strip. President Obama has expressed “deep regret” over the raid. Chicagoan Fatima Mohammadi was on one of the ships that was part of a flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza Strip that was stormed by [...]
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Published Thursday November 05 2009 3:00 pm. Tags: Killen Texas, mass killing, mass murder, shooting
Video from FOXNEWS with siren alert tones from Fort Hood and medical evacuation operations. UPDATE: The shooting suspect at Fort Hood has been identified as Army Major Malik Nadal Hasan. Hasan, believed to be in his late 30s, was killed after opening fire at the base. ‘Effective immediately Fort Hood is closed.’ (The lockdown was [...]
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Published Wednesday October 28 2009 3:19 am.
At least 90 people killed and at least 200 injured by a large blast from a car bomb in a market in Peshawar, Pakistan. The blast comes as the latest of a wave attacks retaliating against Pakistan for its role in attacks against Taliban militants in South Waziristan. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was [...]
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Published Friday September 25 2009 8:45 am. Tags: arrest, demonstrator, G20, multiple arrests, protest
Arrest of protesters near Baum Avenue and South Millvale Avenue in Pittsburgh during G20 protests September 24, 2009 [GRAPHIC LANGUAGE]. View Larger Map Verified Google Street View with YouTube video (second from top). Police at the end of the video are transporting arrested subject northbound Enfield St. toward Baum Blvd with Pizza Hut on the [...]
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Published Sunday June 21 2009 9:01 am. Tags: civil rights, Democracy, Iran, Iran Twitter, Iran YouTube, Photo Featured, protest, Tehran, Tehran Twitter, Tehran YouTube
Supporters for Iranian civil rights protesters in New York City hold “Democracy for Iran” posters on June 20, 2009 in response to violence in Tehran, Iran.
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