Current Events - August 2007

These soldiers are young and can tend to misbehave. The age they send them there is the time when most are partying the most, and they lose they're opportunity to party here in this homeland, and go to some other country and do something like this. As the years go by its getting clear to me, that terrorists are caused through acts of these disgusting soldiers. He raped the daughter, and killed the family, four accounts of murder, and rape! I get information from other news networks about this stuff happening allover iraq that most US news networks will not show. Rape/slaying is the sickest, sickest of all crimes. And the soldier gets possibility of parole after ten years, I bet if he were a man of color this government would have him in at life w/o possiblity of parole! I am outraged! These acts will produce more and more terrorists/guerrillas, and i am getting more and more upset! IS THIS JUSTICE? Anyone feel how I feel, or are u too patriotic to be a human being!?

2007-08-04 16:37:26 · 9 answers · asked by qwertyman 3

Take a look at this... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6930845.stm

2007-08-04 15:23:39 · 21 answers · asked by Nikita 4

Ten times that amount would be a good start. They cry about having to prospect for new fields, while pocketing billions and billions. Boo Hoo for big oil!!

2007-08-04 14:51:04 · 11 answers · asked by Jerry T 1

In Sol on August 4, 2007:

A report by Felicia Cabrita with Margarida Davim
translation

Looking for Maddie’s body

The investigations have returned to their initial course. Portuguese and British police search for the body of the child in the surroundings of Praia da Luz. “There are strong signs” that Madeleine, the English child that disappeared from Praia da Luz almost one hundred days ago, “is dead”, police sources have told Sol. The 180º turnaround that the investigation by the Policia Judiciaria (PJ) from Portimao seems to have done in the past few days, even led the Attorney General, Pinto Monteiro, to postpone the making of an interview that had been requested by British media chain BBC – an interview that would be focusing on the fact that, so long after Maddie’s disappearance, the authorities still remain without real clues concerning her whereabouts. Although an official source from the PGR justified the postponing of the interview with “agenda issues”, the moves by the PJ and some elements from the British police during these last days – accompanied by two dogs, in Praia da Luz – seem to indicate that the investigation is now centred on the McCann family and their group of friends. Sol could find out that the English dogs are trained for different tasks. One, to detect human remains originating from dead flesh, and the other one to detect human blood or fluids. A specialist that was contacted by Sol explains that the technique of these animals rests on scientific bases, and that while “one of the dogs can distinguish between natural death or death by accident that does not involve bloodshed, the other one can diagnose whether someone died a violent death, with bloodshed or other spilled fluids”.

Tuesday night, a black and white cocker spaniel that is trained to detect death, spent several hours in the apartment that the McCann family occupied in the Ocean Club resort, and from where Maddie disappeared on May 3. According to sources within the investigation, the dog marked the death of the child inside the apartment.

On the dogs’ trail

The English dogs do not contradict the clues that were detected by the sniffer dog that GNR sent to the location, on the day following the English girl’s disappearance. It’s an animal that only follows odours, and that “detected the movement of the child from the room to another point inside the apartment”, according to a source with the Guarda. The same source said that “based on that signal, it was not possible to conclude whether the child was alive or dead – because a sniffer dog will smell both the living and the dead”.

Yet, outside the house, both through the windows that faced the Tapas restaurant – where the McCanns had dinner with their seven friends – and through the main door, “the dog lost the trail, as if the child had exited, for example, rolled up in a blanket”, that source said. A team from Sol, on the terrain for the last two weeks, could observe the work of the cocker spaniel from the British police, performing several diligences along the water in Praia da Luz and in a nearby valley.

The animal’s path, on Wednesday night, seemed to test the deposition from several witnesses that were heard by the PJ in late May – namely an Irish family that have been living in Luz, and who, on the day that Maddie vanished, reportedly crossed ways with a man that carried a child that seemed to be asleep. According to their deposition to PJ, Martin Smith, his wife and his children, after leaving the Kelly bar, which is located approximately 400 metres from the Ocean Club, around 9.50 / 10.00 p.m., saw an individual described as Caucasian, measuring 1.70 – 1.75 m, walking towards the beach. The Irish man told Sol that he knew Robert Murat (the only arguido in the process) visually for years – and also remembered seeing the Anglo Portuguese man in a bar that evening, “already a bit intoxicated”. Therefore, the Irish dismissed the possibility that the person he saw carrying a child could be Murat: “If it was him, I guarantee to you that I would have recognized him”.

Concerning the clothes the man he saw on that night was wearing, Smith only refers the “beige trousers”, given the fact that his upper body was hidden by the child’s body, which was not covered. It is curious that one of the elements that formed the group of Maddie’s parents’ friends, guaranteed to PJ several days before Smith was heard, that - at a moment when she left the table to check on the group’s children - she had crossed ways with a man that was wearing trousers that fit the description that was also made by the Irish man.
That individual was also carrying a sleeping child. And the witness, who even managed to see what pyjamas the child was wearing, just “thought it was strange that the child was barefoot and uncovered”. This witness said it would be 9.15 p.m.

Direct access to the PM

According to the course the PJ from Portimao is now conducting the investigation, and considering the trail that the British police’s cocker spaniel tracked along the sea shore, the individual would have descended to Praia da Luz, where he could have disposed of Maddie’s body. Sol knows that the English team contacted Joao Alveirinho Dias, a professor at the University of Algarve and a specialist in oceanography, in order to collect information about the sea’s dynamics and the beach area where everything may have happened. The investigator, who was not briefed about the context of the police inquiries, told Sol that he was consulted on “the sand movements, where they come from and where they go to”. The police investigation has therefore, and according to our sources, returned to its initial course, and it becomes increasingly clear, as Sol had reported previously, that there is no proof against Murat.

Yet, the British media continue to point a finger at the Anglo Portuguese man, although the criminal investigation has returned to clues that relate to the group of friends of Madeleine’s parents. A journalist with the Daily Express – who has repeatedly contacted Sol searching for new information on this case – recognized this week that it is “difficult for an English newspaper to adopt a critical tone concerning Madeleine’s parents”. The Daily Express cited, in one of its last reports, the news that has been published by Sol, describing them as a “hate campaign” against the McCanns. The same journalist ended up confessing, “It’s the only way we can transmit your data”.

Sol knows that Gerry McCann has regular contact with Gordon Brown, the British Prime Minister. Clarence Mitchell – who was the first spokesman for the McCanns and is now in the press cabinet at Nr. 10, Downing Street – confirms those contacts. “I know there is a communication line between Gerry and Gordon Brown. I know they talk. But I don’t know what they talk about, because those are informal conversations”, he clarified, further adding: “The Madeleine case is treated whenever there are bilateral meetings between Portugal and the United Kingdom. Gordon Brown is sensitive to the case and wants it solved quickly”.

2007-08-04 14:33:25 · 7 answers · asked by dteacher1uk 5

2007-08-04 14:19:48 · 9 answers · asked by eldude 5

He is an 84 year old whom I met the other day.
He introduced himself, told me about his life in Hitlers Youth army, showed me his scrap book, photo's from the war.
He was captured in France.
How would you have reacted?
I am 0zzy, my family is British, i't's hard not to have a bit of resentment. My Grandad was Bayonetted by a German Soldier. He shook Hitlers hand and was very proud of it.

2007-08-04 14:01:36 · 14 answers · asked by iamaustralian 4

This is so sad.
Don't judge them until you've been in their shoes!

2007-08-04 13:52:09 · 7 answers · asked by iamaustralian 4

What happened to all the relief efforts and monies donated?

2007-08-04 13:33:46 · 12 answers · asked by Phillies 2008 WS Champions! 3

accuses the rest of us of hiding behind our q and as? How many believe that he is the true coward, who having stirred up a great deal of trouble, scutlles away like a rat up a drainpipe?

2007-08-04 13:11:18 · 12 answers · asked by Beau Brummell 6

It's been going on for months now.
What day is it?
Can someone tell me the correct time.
I'm a Virgo, and apparently we are very punctual people, i'd hate to miss out tomorrow.

2007-08-04 12:59:28 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

I live 30 minutes SE of the bridge location, and it seems like considering the handful of lives that were lost, that a lot of money and attention is being thrown at this, from the media and the federal government. Besides being a huge local traffic hassle, I don't see how this is a bigger deal than Hurricane Katrina, or the countless other bridge collapses in American history, or the countless lives that have been lost for numerous other reasons. Is $300 million federal dollars really needed to reroute traffic and reconstruct a single bridge in this midwestern battleground, gop convention-hosting state?

2007-08-04 12:30:30 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-04 11:05:14 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Aside from your brother's, friend's, uncle's 1st grade teacher who just escaped the towers...has the threat had any specific affect on you. What exactly are you afraid of when it comes to this threat and what is your response to the threat?

2007-08-04 11:02:54 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22190113-2,00.html

"ORGANISERS hope an official day of celebration for Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin will become a public holiday.

The first annual Steve Irwin Day, on November 15, will attract the interest of millions of people worldwide.

Irwin family spokesman John Stainton encouraged all Australians to take a day off for Steve and do something in his memory."

At the risk of alienating everyone on here since I know speaking ill of Steve Irwin is punishable by death to a lot of people (ok slight exaggeration) but a call for a public holiday for Steve Irwin?

Get real, I don't really mind the guy, but all he did was torment animals to get a reaction out of them so he could run around saying 'Crikey! He's an angry fella!'

Besides being Australian myself I know the real reason is just another excuse to get a day off work because we are a lazy bunch of bastards! lol.

2007-08-04 11:00:32 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-04 10:57:31 · 7 answers · asked by theo c 6

include how you felt and what you wore underneath. For research purposes only.

2007-08-04 10:44:02 · 7 answers · asked by cd1019fan 2

here are two articles about it

http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9808/28/armchip.idg/

http://www.tldm.org/News4/MarkoftheBeast.htm

what are your thoughts on having these chips put into people?
personaly i think it is discusting and to think the goverment is thinking of making a law where you have to have one. (they are going to start with puting them in your IDs)

2007-08-04 10:02:52 · 8 answers · asked by Gypsy 3

He met with hugo chaves to dicuss President Bush?
This is one more reason when it comes to politics celebrities are clueless

2007-08-04 09:53:16 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

When American celebrities like Danny Glover, Sean Penn, and other travel to Venezuala and fraternize with Hugo Chavez, are they or are they not commiting treason against this country. Treason is defined as follows: " a citizen's actions to help a foreign government overthrow, make war against, or seriously injure the parent nation." Wether they agree with the current administration are not this is certainly an attempt to seriously injure the United States. What say you like minded liberals out there.

2007-08-04 09:33:34 · 9 answers · asked by Den_Rode_Bjornen_Losener 5

http://omg.yahoo.com/sean-penn-takes-back-seat-on-chavez-tour/news/1472

2007-08-04 09:16:56 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

It annoys me on here, some people are so horrible and nasty yet they are always the ones who wont allow IM or emails.
If they can not say anything nice then they should keep there mouths shut especially if they not prepared to take as good as they give.

2007-08-04 08:35:53 · 40 answers · asked by Anonymous

i have soon the mess of the bridge but i havent seen the video of the moment it came down

he said it was very dodgy looking the two ends came down at the same time

how come whenever anything happens their is always someone on hand to video it (perhaps a diffferent question)

do you think it was a accident

how can people testing the bridge structure miss this kind of thing

what do you think


xxx


vici

2007-08-04 05:58:05 · 18 answers · asked by vici 4

Is it not interesting timing that the Russians do a manoeuvre that appears a threat to Canada just two weeks before the spp meeting of Bush, Harper and Calderon...go figure..."we have to defend you Canadians from the evil Russians...is anyone else getting tired of orchestration of events to make the public demand what is planned anyway at the meeting...is anyone else curious how deep the cooperation goes to create a fear that will make the lemmings demand protection.

2007-08-04 04:59:06 · 7 answers · asked by bruce b 3

I guess the latest is that the caregiver died of a heart attack...that his wounds were not life threatening. But why did Rhames need a caregiver anyway? Especially, since Rhames was apparently out of country when the "accident" happened.

2007-08-04 04:55:50 · 6 answers · asked by kathy_is_a_nurse 7

still maintain its War against Terror in Iraq and Afghanistan by providing all of the freebies that the people there are getting? - Like free health care and free college educations?

2007-08-04 03:51:56 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-04 02:42:03 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

This guy spent a good portion of his show on Thursday slamming Obama for actually talking about DOING something about the terrorist camps in Pakistan, yet he offered no solution, one can only speculate the Hannity plan is to either A)Let them go about their business B)Just keep "fighting them in Iraq"

But I wouldn't expect a brilliant solution from a guy who actually thinks we are "hated for our freedoms" rofl

2007-08-04 02:17:10 · 3 answers · asked by trumph 3

OK, there has been ALOT of anymosity with regards to how people feel re the Mc Cann sunject, why dont we turn it into a positive, all of us for and against whast been happening and do the London Marathon next year, raising money for other children who have been abducted? The peole who are against what the McCaans have done cant say this isnt a good idea as the money wont be going to their existing fund, so all might be happy? We are all able(most of us im sure, ) that we could train all year, and come together as a unit not a group of people who have gotten carried away with this all. I know I am guilty of it, lets get together and turn this into something good?! Anyone with me? We could all get this registered so that the money is def going ot where it should be, there are alot of smart peole on both siodes who coopuld give us advice.... Am I too much of a dreamer or can it be done?

2007-08-04 01:18:47 · 23 answers · asked by brunelscooby 4

UK question. Americans can answer if they want.

2007-08-04 00:47:09 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

There are lists of our service men and women that have lost there lives in Iraq. But where can I find a list of construction men and women that have been killed? I would think that those people that have gone over there to help re-build Iraq and have lost there lives would be listed somewhere?

2007-08-04 00:21:50 · 2 answers · asked by Robert M 1