tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80939202011-07-10T03:57:57.207-04:00With a decided focus on US National Security issues and a splash of Politics, The Word Unheard attempts to fill part of the void left in the wake of the dominant, credentialed mainstream media.USMC_Vethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17838786884664928267noreply@blogger.comBlogger841100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093920.post-1110693326375038572005-03-13T00:48:00.000-05:002005-03-13T01:00:31.973-05:00

The Sea Bag Drag is complete...The Word Unheard has recieved new orders and shipped out to:www.WordUnheard.comReport in and please remember to update your bookmarks, shortcuts and links.Cheers!

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Posting may be light. If all goes according to schedule (when does that really happen?), The Word Unheard will have a new home & a new look.For those who are tired of wearing out the scroll wheel on your mouse just to read a complete sentence...For those who can't take a Marine with flowers on his background...For those who have been patiently wondering, "When is this idiot going to start using

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The Word Unheard is migrating over to its own site this weekend.As a result, the pages will view irregularly and even uglier than Blogspot's usual look from time to time.Check back for the new link.New Link will be posted when New Site is fully functional.Thank you.USMC_Vet

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The Word Unheard out of Mexico City today is that Condolezza Rice has been infected with the State Logic Abandonment Malfunction, or SLAM. Seemingly immune from SLAM since her appointment as Secretary of State, she proved herself a mere mortal in Mexico City today, only to be outdone by Alistair Bell, Arshad Mohammed and their editors at Reuters.In an article headlined Rice Tries to Calm Troubled

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The Word Unheard out of Los Angeles today is that Michael Jackson......is still a freak.Why do you even care? Did you click on a link to specifically come in here and waste your time reading about meaningless, worthless garbage? Shame on you. If that's the case, keep your distance. I don't want you wasting my oxygen. Go buy your Happy Meal and watch Cable News. There's plenty of wasted airtime

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In an attempt to help represent New Jersey (a very Blue and as of yet relatively unmentioned State) at Brian Scott's The Blue State Conservatives, I have guest posted what was originally intended to be a New Jersey Governor Race 2005 Round-Up. You will see, it turned out to be more of an Outsider's Introductory Primer for New Jersey Politics than an actual Round Up of the candidates and the race

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The Word Unheard out of Washington, DC is that an unknown number of illegals from countries with known al Qaeda ties have been infiltrating the US with false identification through the border with Mexico. What’s worse, these undetected, untracked potential terrorists were officially termed “Special Interest Aliens” by FBI Director Robert Mueller before Congress on Tuesday. Well, isn't that

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Chrenkoff has photos up of the car used to collect Giuliana Sgrena from her hostage takers. For a car supposedly riddled with 300-400 rounds of ammo from troops and...let's remember...tanks, one has to look quite hard to notice the solitary bullethole in the windshield. Talk about American precision weaponry!From commenter davsun:This is sgrena's description of the car from BBC interview:"Did the

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The Word Unheard out of Langley, Virginia is that the United States Air Force is testing the US Military's newest implementation of personnel body armor... Kevlar shorts ...called Kevlar Tactical Outer Protective Shorts. The product of Marine Corps battlefield feedback is bound to allow stateside wives to rest a little easier....The shorts minimize fragment damage from the waistline to the knees

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The Word Unheard out of Beirut is that Tuesday could prove to be an important day as Hizballah takes to the streets in counter-protests today and is worthy of our close attention. In an effort to help make this Word a little less Unheard, what follows below is a montage of Lebanese bloggers reporting on events taking place with everything from situational analysis, cell phone photos posted from

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Bill Roggio at the fourth rail has written an excellent and supporting-link heavy analysis of Hizballah's so-called 'recent decision' to side with Syria. If you are following the Cedar Revolution in Lebanon, this should be required reading for the day. If you aren't following the Cedar Revolution, then you got here by mistake and should start now.the fourth rail's analysis is excellent and I only

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The Word Unheard (and I mean really Unheard) out of Indonesia is that a group called Terror Free Tomorrow conducted a poll of Indonesians to guage current public opinions of America. What the Terror Free Tomorrow Poll of Indonesians shows will astound you: In the world's most populated Muslim nation, more think favorably of America and America's War on Terrorism (40%) than oppose (36%).(The Word

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The Word Unheard out of Iraq today is that the car carrying Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena was fired on after it failed to slow down approaching an American checkpoint following her release from captivity. Sgrena was shot in the shoulder, two other occupants were injured and one Italian intelligence agent, Nicola Calipari, was killed as he shielded her from incoming rounds. Sgrena was

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The Word Unheard out of New York City today is that President Bush has given Syria an ultimatum, demanding a complete withdrawal of Syrian forces from Lebanon, not limited to military troops but also including all intelligence personel (Read: state terror masters and operational organizers)."When we say withdraw we mean complete withdrawal — no half-hearted measures," Bush said at an event in New

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The Word Unheard out of Washington, DC today comes from The Jamestown Foundation, where Michael Scheuer considers a very plausible probability:Al Qaida has completed the required warning cycle demanded by Islamist scholars and may now not only have the green light, but be armed and prepared to execute an attack on the Continental United States on a scale that could dwarf 9/11.Michael Scheuer's

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Worthy of your reading time today comes this from Max Boot via the Los Angeles Times, where he proclaims “Neocons May Get the Last Laugh”.Indeed, Maximus. Indeed.In 2003, more than a month before the invasion of Iraq, I wrote in the Weekly Standard that the forthcoming fall of Baghdad "may turn out to be one of those hinge moments in history — events like the storming of the Bastille or the fall

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Two absolute Must Reads in one night! The previous post recommended you visit Tom Carter's Notes and read his simply outstanding post on the Darfur Genocide.The second Must Read comes courtesy of BlackFive, one of the best MilBloggers you'll ever read. He notes a call recieved by a radio host from a wounded Marine returning from Iraq to recover. Click the link and read his complete words in

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Tom Carter (Col. US Army - Ret.) has written a fantastic post regarding the ongoing genocide in Darfur. He references a recent column by Nicholas Kristof which includes eyewitness accounts and experiences of former US Marine Brian Steidle who worked with the African Union Monitoring team.Please read:Tom Carter's Notes: Genocide in DarfurYou will be stunned in how you are moved in less than 3

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The Word Unheard out of Canada is that US officials informed them in April, 2003, that Canadian non-participation in the US-led Ballistic Missile Defense program would result in a Lack of Protection for Canada and its citizens. Yet still, the Canadian government has opted out of the BMD program, thus leaving its citizens unprotected from nuclear inter-continental ballistic missile attack in an

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Amid growing domestic pressure with massive protests in the streets of Beruit: Entire Lebanese Government Resigns!The boots in Damascus are a-quakin'!!!The Triangulation of Fire on Syria just got ratcheted up several notches. Read about the Triangulating Factors here:The Word Unheard: Triangulation of Fire: Syria in the Crosshairs

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The Word Unheard out of the Middle East is that there is forming rapidly a triangulation of interlocking fields of fire, with Syria in the crosshairs.As a result, reports are surfacing that Syria has 'captured' Saddam's brother along the border of Iraq and Syria. Syria 'capturing' and handing over Saddam's regime members is akin to an armed burgler, hearing the approaching sirens in the

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Welcome Adventures of Chester readers, especially to my brothers and sisters in uniform. Semper Fi, all.The Word Unheard out of Islamabad, Pakistan today is multi-faceted and troubling, but not wholly unexpected. Pakistan has never been a true ally, but rather an ally out of necessity and an ally that neither side was ever truly comfortable with.Today, the redrawing of the line of demarcation

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The Word Unheard out of Amman, Jordan, today is that the nine terrorists on trial for the thwarted attempt to blow up Jordan's Intelligence Headquarters with conventional/chemical truck bombs have demanded to be executed.“God, and no one else, is our master. We wish to be executed,” they shouted out in the state security court.“The verdict is ready so why put us on trial,” said the defendants,

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The Marine Corps Drill Instructor Creed(Read previous post, Perspective: Part I.)"These recruits are entrusted to my care. I will train them to the best of my ability. I will develop them into smartly disciplined, physically fit, basically trained Marines, thoroughly indoctrinated in love of Corps and country. I will demand of them, and demonstrate by my own example, the highest standards of

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To date I have not commented on nor am I now trying to minimize the recent tragedy on Parris Island where a Marine Recruit drowned during water survival training. My deepest sympathies and condolences go out to his family and friends. Their loss is our loss.At the same time...just for some military perspective...The Word Unheard from Moscow is that a Parents Group (unnamed in the article

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For an excellent summation of the Iraqi Election's effect on Lebanon and Syria as well as the entire Middle Eastern region, go to The Fourth Rail and read Bill Roggio's latest outstanding post:the fourth rail: The Syrian KeystoneBill includes outstanding supporting links and rightly concludes that freeing Lebanon from the dictatorial grip of Assad's Syrian rule is the next domino that should fall

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Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.He just doesn't live in the great state of Virginia (err...Commonwealth...but that just sounds socialist...so Virginia, henceforth you are a State) .Both chambers of the Virginia General Assembly voted yesterday and overwhelmingly approved a measure that would deny illegal aliens access to state and local public benefits, including Medicaid. The House voted

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The Word Unheard out of Yemen apparently is that there is a new agreement between France and Yemen for over 3000 tons of food, much of which is to be distributed by the UN's World Food Program.OK. So what? Yemen is a destitute and desolate country.Well, go see the Albawaba.com news link and watch/listen for the add:Yemen, France sign food supply agreement.Mercedes CLS Class??? Imagine parking one

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Yes, it still happens in the Middle East.UAE Court orders thief’s hand to be chopped offThe thief aparently told the judge that his right hand just didn't know what the other hand was doing.The judge apparently decided to keep it that way.

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The Word Unheard out of Managua, Nicaragua is that a Nicaraguan police raid assisted by US agents netted one of the Nicaraguan military's Russian-made SA-7 shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles. The suspect thought he was selling the weapon to a Colombian terrorist and is one of what the US believes to be 80 unaccounted for Nicaraguan SA-7's.From The Washington Times: February 22, 2005:The United

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The Word Unheard out of Damascus is that Syrian dictator Bashir Assad has told Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa that he will "soon" begin withdrawing Syrian troops from the occupied parts of Lebanon.What actually happens may be another thing, as the AP article cited some rather ambiguous quotes that do not neccessarily serve as reassuring:"Assad stressed more than once his firm

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The Word Unheard out of The Netherlands is that they call 'em like they see 'em. Dan Darling has just issued Part 2 of his report about the murder of Theo van Gogh. He provides a link to the official Dutch Report released detailing both the events and the clear and present danger.Winds of Change.NET: The Murder of Theo Van Gogh, Part 2From the Dutch Report:"There will be no mercy for the wicked,

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Chester over at The Adventures of Chester has an excellent post regarding President Bush's trip to Europe this week. It includes some links to interesting articles. One is quite amusing, with Denis Boyles of National Review offering up suggested "Talking Points" for the president to follow when addressing European leaders:1. Get a job . . .2. Clean up your mess . . .3. Stop taking bribes . . .4.

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The Word Unheard out of Ithaca, NY is that Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), at a conference he hosted called 'The Future Of Social Security', stated flatly and firmly that the fake memos used by CBS in the infamous 'memogate' flap were planted by Karl Rove. (Hat Tip: Little Green Footballs)(Could this be the first test for MSNBC and Connected Coast to Coast? Possibly. It is likely they will

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(Welcome to all from Winds of Change.NET, One Hand Clapping, Instapundit, Tapscott's Copy Desk, Confessions of a Political Junkie, Betsy's Page, Tom Carter's Notes, The Adventures of Chester, The Fourth Rail and MilBloggers from The Mudville Gazette...You are not going to believe what these guys are finally doing...)Coming Wednesday, March 2: MSNBC Finally Get's It: Suddenly, The Signs Are

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The Word Unheard's Blogger's Review of MSNBC's Connected Coast to Coast will be posted no later than 11PM-EST tonight .If you have come specifically to read the review, it is in the works and will be up soon, so please check back.If you have any last minute feedback, blogger observations or comments, please e-mail me at:USMCSgt at optonline dot Net.In the mean time, it's back to work...

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The Word Unheard from the Mainstream Media (via Secaucus, NJ) is that MSNBC's Connected Coast to Coast breaks new ground (and old barriers). What is Connected Coast to Coast? A new MSNBC (yes, MSNBC) news/talk show that incorporates blogs and bloggers into it's coverage. it is co-hosted by Ron Reagan and Monica Crowley twice daily at 12PM and 5PM (both Live & EST).Bloggers take note: Everything

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The Word Unheard out of North Carolina today is that a website was created in Pakistan depicting the beheading of Marine 2nd Lt. Ilario Pantano, suddenly under investigation for murder amid delayed allegations by a 'disgruntled' subordinate. When word got out about the website, retired Marines still living in the Camp Lejeune area immediately took Homeland Security into their own hands and set up

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What follows is a fantstic comment that appears in a discussion that ensued after a post by DJ Drummond at PoliPundit titled:“Be Afraid… Be Very Afraid", or Why Weasels WorryThe Drummond post is excellent, one of my favorite posts by anyone in recent memory and deals with the media's reaction to bloggers in general and The Wall Street Journal's editorial reaction to the bloggers' role in the

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The Word Unheard from Atlanta today comes in the form of Eason Jordan’s professional obituary in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (registration required). Current and former CNN executives abound lament the fall of Eason Jordan and predictably characterize his professional demise as the result of nothing more than a lynch-blog mentality.(Before the contradictions are dissected, it first should be

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Welcome PoliPundit readers! Thank you for stopping by The Word Unheard.The Word Quite Heard out of New York is that Eason Jordan has resigned as executive vice president and chief news executive of CNN. His statement to CNN staff is a real gem (Hat Tip: TVNewser):"After 23 years at CNN, I have decided to resign in an effort to prevent CNN from being unfairly tarnished by the controversy over

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Go to Easongate and sign the petition, which states: We the undersigned, request that Mr. Eason Jordan, Chief News Executive for CNN, release a transcript of his remarks while participating in a forum entitled, "Will Democracy Survive the Media?" at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on January 28th. Mr. Jordan has been reported to have charged the US military with intentionally

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I offer a reward: THE PRIZE: The Word Unheard will place you at the top of the Blogroll indefinitely and in addition is offering the choice of the following 3 : A.) The Word Unheard will thoroughly research and write at length on the topic of your choosing; B.) The Word Unheard will post a glorious and glowing review of your own blog, post it and shamelessly beg all bloggers known to post a

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Note: For the most comprehensive coverage of latest developments, be sure to visit Easongate. If you are not aware of Easongate, it is an outstanding collaborative effort spearheaded by bloggers Chester from The Adventures of Chester, Bill Roggio from The Fourth Rail, Blackfive from Blackfive and Brian Scott from The Blue State Conservatives. On reading Rony Abovitz’s conversation with Hugh

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The Word Increasingly Heard out of the Blogosphere (thanks to The Fourth Rail) is that Eason Jordan cannot hide from the scorn he has wrought upon himself and CNN with his unfounded, intentional and inflammatory statements at Davon that American military purposely targeted, engaged and killed journalists who did not report favorably on the war. If that were really the case, there would hardly be

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The Word Unheard out of Teheran is that Iran is still testing nuclear weapons and weapons manufacturing components, long after the signing of an 'agreement' between the EU/E3 and Iran's mullah regime. From two seperate Reuters reports today: A Western diplomat who follows the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) told Reuters on condition of anonymity Iran was performing quality

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The Word Unheard out of Tehran is that Ali Agha Mohammadi, spokesman of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, has stated that Iran never intends to forfeit their nuclear program. Ever. "We have the power to negotiate because we keep our (nuclear) achievements in our hands and we are negotiating to protect them," Mohammadi said Wednesday. "It's definite that we will protect our scientific

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Stunning. Simply stunning. Third-hand, via The Adventures of Chester...this video montage of the Iraqi Elections 2005 is an absolute must see. Must Be Seen To Be Appreciated Must Be Seen To Be Appreciated (Hi-Res Version) ABC, CBS, NBC: Are you watching? You cannot sit there with a straight face and tell us this wasn't worth it. You cannot sit there and proclaim this a miserable failure of a

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The Word Unheard out of Tripoli is that, (goaded naturally by TIME Magazine's Scott MacLeod and Amany Radwan) Libyan dictator Muammar Qadhafi is apparently becoming rather impatient as he awaits his big pay day for spilling the beans on his various Weapons of Mass Destruction programs, several of which were proxy programs for the oft-inspected Saddam Hussein. When the wording of this article is

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The Word Unheard out of Washington. D.C. is that a ten-member bi-partisan Congressional Delegation to China has returned, and they openly share their concern regarding China's aggressive military build-up and suspicions regarding China's true intentions. Democrats and Republicans alike have returned home un-persuaded by the Chinese (to their own surprise) and one Democrat Congressman (yes, a

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The Word publicly Unheard from The Word Unheard has been a word of 'Thanks'. I would like to correct that right now. I owe a debt of gratitude to Chester at The Adventures of Chester and Bill at the fourth rail for their support, encouragement and continued help in many ways. I cannot thank them enough. They are good men and have outstanding blogs. If you have not yet visited them and find the

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The Word Unheard out of Moscow is that Syria has finally inked a major arms deal with Russia for major upgrades in Syrian anti-aircraft and anti-tank capabilities. Exact terms of the deal including precise weapons types and numbers were not openly stated. $9.5 billion of Syrias $13 billion debt to the former Soviet Union has been forgiven, and Russia only expects 40% of the remaining $3.5 billion

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The Word Unheard out of Iraq is that over half of all Iraqis in the violent Sunni Triangle still plan to vote...and nearly half of all Sunnis in The Triangle. Peter Brookes has written an Op-Ed in the New York Post that is aimed at the 'oracles of doom' within the United States (MSM, that's you). THERE are those out there — and you know who you are — more interested in seeing the Bush

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The Word Unheard out of Germany today is that one of two al-Qaida connected terrorists arrested recently in that country attempted to purchase 48 grams of enriched uranium in Luxembourg. The Word Unheard has found no other reports in initial searches outside the Nuclear Threat Initiative report. Questions to be answered: How long was Ibrahim Mohamed K. in Germany?Why Luxembourg? What is the

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The Word Unheard out of Jerusalem is that Syria is looking for new arms deals from Russia and Israel feels betrayed by their new ‘partners’ in technology research. “Israel is fearing a double-cross by Moscow on arms deals that could make Syria a more serious strategic missile threat to the Jewish state, reports Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.” Double cross? How? The details can easily slip by the

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The Word Unheard out of Beijing (still) is that Zhao Ziyang, former Chinese Party Secretary has recently passed. It is sad commentary that likely 98% of Americans can not identify who Zhao Ziyang is and equally as sad that they would fail to recognize the error in tense. Surely the most courageous Chinese governmental figure of our lifetime, Zhao Ziyang died just days ago. Zhao was (and in death

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The Word Unheard out of Colorado is that NORAD has expanded their role to include maritime defense in response to President Bush's directive that a maritime defebse blueprint be created to defend against sea-borne terrorism. In a recent post I had asked a simple question: Has anyone heard a peep lately about al Qaida's 15 vessel 'armada'? A platform waiting for deployment. The Word Unheard is

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Recently I was reading comments for a post at Colonel Tom Carter's blog that dealt with political labels and the branding of 'liberal' or 'conservative'. One of the readers commented that he was astounded at the 'fans of Zell Miller'. After all, he said, didn't Zell Miller once give a glowing introduction of the very same John Kerry before he lambasted him at the Republican convention? Wasn't

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The Word Unheard out of Tehran is that the Iranian regime is threatening (already) to resume uranium enrichment in March and thus abandoning the agreement in place between the regime and the EU/E3 (France-Germany-Spain) and the IAEA. As previously noted, Iran was calling for the EU to 'comply' even before the ink had met the paper on what eventually became the signed agreement. When the text of

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Later tonight, The Word Unheard will revisit the Iranian nuclear dilemna as it appears they are back in business (in the event one ever seriously entertained the fiction that they had taken themselves out of business). It appears they are rattling the cages about returning to the enrichment process by March of this year unless the EU ponies up some cash in the form of favorable (read: Gift) trade

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And finally, we have it. Confirmation that the recent Yomuri Shimbun article is recycled information. See the original story from The Manila Times as reported by Karl Kaufman. An AFP commander actually held a press conference and discussed some details of the intelligence found in Buliok after the February 2003 operation that routed the MILF from their base there. The Yomiuri Shimbun article of

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NOTE: Due to Blogger errors when publishing this post, the majority of it is incomplete. Imagine a grown man screaming at 2:30AM when what appeared published was scarcely 1/3 of what was originally written. 3+ hours of work flushed from existence. (When will some people learn to back up their work before surrendering it to Blogger's publishing engine?) I will re-write Part II in its entirety soon

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The Word Unheard is researching the recent World Tribune report (attributed to the Japanese paper Yomiuri Shimbun) that a November 2004 AFP raid on a MILF compound in Buliok netted documents detailing $2.2 million (USD) in arms orders and transactions. A major operation was underway on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines to crush the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in February of 2003. While

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A newspaper from South Korea that references the same Yomiuri Shimbun article, reported much the same information but with a few more details. South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS), however, told The Korea Times it was not aware of the secret deal being struck between North Korea and the terrorist group in the Philippines. "Even though we have classified information on the North’s

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The Word Unheard out of the Philippines is that North Korea armed the Islamic terrorist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) with $2.2 million worth of M-16's (10,000), RPGs and ammunition (surely to include explosives). Ten THOUSAND M-16s! That's a hell of a lot of M-16s. Not AK-47s. Why not AKs? That's the question. Are the MILF terrorists intent on becoming professional marksmen rather than

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The Word Unheard from the Middle East is that a video tape has surfaced from the rubble in Iraq on which a former al-Jazeera manager, Mohammed Jassem al-Ali, meets with Uday Hussein and declares, "Al-Jazeera is your channel." A videotape found in a pile of documents in Baghdad following the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime shows a former manager of the Al-Jazeera satellite channel thanking

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Nassir Flayih Hasan is a poet. An Iraqi poet. He lives in Iraq and has lived life under Saddam Hussein, lived through the American-lead war to remove him, and lives in Iraq still today. He has written his stark observations of peace activists and anti-war journalists for Front Page Magazine in an atricle titled "How the Left Betrayed My Country - Iraq" and it is a must-read. He is stunned by the

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There is a tug-o-war going on between a "core group" of able nations and the United Nations over the administering of relief efforts in the tsunami-afflicted areas of Asia. It seems that George W. Bush is (gasp!) a little apprehensive about handing over hundreds of millions of dollars intended for relief over to Kofi & Company at the UN. The dumb Texan just might have figured out that when the

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The Word Unheard out of Mosul, reported by AP reporter Nick Wadhams, is that Iraqi terrorists have declared that democracy, namely the upcoming January 30 Iraq elections, are patently un-Islamic by their very nature: The radical Ansar al-Sunnah Army and two other terrorist groups issued a statement yesterday, warning Iraqis not to vote in the Jan. 30 election because democracy is un-Islamic. "

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The Word Unheard out of Jordan is that former LBJ US Attorney General Ramsey Clark has arrived to defend Saddam. This treachery should make Americans want to wretch. If you ever doubted the depths of The Bitter Left's intentions, this should serve to remove any doubts. Did the Communist Party-connected A.N.S.W.E.R. founder arrive with the full accompaniment of support from an ACLU staff, Noam

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While reading at The Adventures of Chester, Chester noted an entry at the Blogs of War that refers to a discussion at the Democratic Underground ripping venomously into Pat Tillman. (Again or still? I am not sure if I can discern which.) BeliefNet selected Pat Tillman as Most Impirational Person of the Year for 2004, even though he came in only fourth among on-line voters, behind Medal of Honor

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The Word Unheard breaking over the weekend is information regarding Iran's massive beryllium purchases. Beryllium is critical to the beginning stages of a detonation that causes shaped charges to explode inward, compressing enriched uranium or plotonium to the point that the uranium/plutonium itself explodes (nuclear detonation). Now, beryllium has other uses as well, such as for the manufacture

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Word out of Paris is the stunning text of the EU - Iran nuclear agreement. It is a laughable work of bureaucratic and diplomatic nuance. It is no wonder Iran calls it their 'most positive' nuclear resolution ever. The unbelievable text complete with The Word Unheard's analysis: The Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Governments of France, Germany and the United Kingdom, with

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The Word Unheard from Tehran is that Ayatolla Ahmad Jannati said in Friday prayers that he hoped Europe would comply with agreements triangulated by the the EU, the IAEA and the Tehran regime. He further said, "The atmosphere prevailing in the IAEA Board of Governors (since the deal) has been favorable to Iran and the possibility of a reference of its nuclear dossier to the UN Security Council

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A new report shows that nearly 28% of babies delivered in the US in 2003 were via Caearean section, even though the health of mothers is better than ever thanks to awareness of the dangers of smoking and drinking alcohol during pregnancies. Neither the report nor I can come up with a clear answer why. However, is it possible that mothers hoping to maintain their figures has a hand in such an

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[Posted simply in emphatic support of Chester's style in his Line Item Veto of a New York Times article today at The Adventures of Chester.](...from the archives...April 2004...before this blog was created...)Andy Rooney has so enraged me with his latest column “Our Soldiers in Iraq Aren’t Heroes” that I simply could not sit still. If you have not yet read his column of 12Apr04, hopefully you

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The Word Unheard has become The Word Unspoken as of late. For that I appologize. I will be back in form soon, I am quite certain. I have been spending much of my time reading other blogs rather than writing my own. One in particular... Allow me to let you in on a little (not so) secret (anymore): The Adventures of Chester is one of the best blogs I have ever visited and has quickly become my

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... ...but before long we will be examining the post-mortem commentary and speech currently seeping from The Left. For instance, NY's newly re-elected Senator Chuck Schumer just said in a speech (no joke), "I hope that Geroge Bush doesn't interpret this as a mandate, but rather as a call to come to the center." What? After all the venom and filth The Left spit at the president? That's NOT what

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I have been vascilating between 301 and 311 electoral votes for Bush over the past 3 weeks, with the on-again, off-again state being Minnesota (10 electoral votes). And tonight I run across this article...from Britain of all places. The excerpts I have posted echo each and every reason I have come to this conclusion (301 and not even close). If Bush Goes, I Go Mark Stein The Spectator Most

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The Word Unheard out of the West Bank is that Yassir Arafat is again under watchful care of physicians...because he is dying of AIDS. John Loftus stated in an interview on ABC Radio's John Batchelor Show (22OCT04) that American Intelligence has known this, which explains why the Bush Administration insisted that Israel not harm Arafat during their incursions into the West Bank. Reminding that

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More to come soon, as I am digesting this information as I write this... However, CNSNews.com has published an exclusive report with 42 internal memos and orders from Saddam Hussein's regime detailing definitive links and relationships with al Qaida dating back to the early 1990's. Select excerpts: ...One of the Iraqi memos contains an order from Saddam for his intelligence service to support

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The Word Unheard out of Iraq is that an Iraqi with suspected terror ties was arrested and had in his possession a copy of Practical Information on Crisis Planning, A Guide for Schools and Communities. This is a report that was until then available (and downloaded by the Iraqi terror suspect) from the U.S. Department of Education Web site. While the story reports that he had plans for 'San Diego

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I started looking for some reporting of positive events and developments in Iraq like school re-openings that are happening, power grid improvements that are being implemented, water treatment facilities work, etc. Call it a morbid curiosity. To my surprise, I found one rather quickly from my favorite fish-wrap, the New York Times. I braced myself…too good to be true. The New York Times??? No

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If there was ever a doubt in anyone's mind about bias at CBS, let this AP story put those doubts promptly to rest. Kerry advisor Joe Lockhart has said that CBS 60 Minutes producer Mary Mapes called him and suggested that he call Bill Burkett. Burkett is the infamous and discredited 'source' for CBS's long touted and undeniably discredited documents used as the basis for Dan Rather's attack on

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