Jack Wood Laid to Rest in Margraten

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Saturday May 07, 2005 · 2:40 PM PDT

2005/05/07 · 14:40

Answer to Sybil in diary - GWB visits Margraten in Limburg, the Netherlands!

Secret Service wanted to shut down about 50% of the Limburg province. Was unacceptable, in the end agreed to let GWB stay the night in beautiful small village of Valkenburg, near the Allied cemetery Margraten. I wrote about this in my recent diary: TODAY - Liberation Day - May 5th

I will provide some more INFO about the cemetery, created just inside the border with Germany near Aachen. During the 1944-45 battles as the Allied forces moved east toward Berlin, the Allied rule is that the soldiers cannot be laid to rest in enemy territory.

More to follow about the American Military Cemetery in Margraten --
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Berlusconi Disputes US Report on Agent ¶ Stays Friendly with No Consequences ¶ UPDATED

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Saturday May 07, 2005 · 12:43 AM PDT

2005/05/07 · 00:43

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Silvio Berlusconi --

the checkpoint wasn't properly marked
responsibility for the US troops can't be ruled out
absence of deliberateness doesn't indeed rule out blame
excessive and irresponsible use of force
lack of training and some recommendations.

ROME (AP) - May 5, 2005 -- Premier Silvio Berlusconi spoke before The Chamber of Deputies today, said he disagreed with some of the US military's conclusions into the March shooting death, of Italian agent Calipari in Baghdad. He also stated those differences won't affect Italy's friendship with Washington or its deployment of troops in Iraq.

Berlusconi differed with some of the major conclusions by US military investigators into the March 4 shooting death of Nicola Calipari by US soldiers. The premier contended that the checkpoint wasn't properly marked and that responsibility for the troops can't be ruled out.

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Netherlands ¶ City Centre of The Hague ¶ US Embassy Moves!

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Thursday May 05, 2005 · 12:26 AM PDT

2005/05/05 · 00:26

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Mayor Wim Deetman expressed great joy that an agreement has been reached between the Foreign Office and the US State Department, to move the US Embassy from its present location at Lange Voorhout near the Dutch Parliament Buildings, Offices of the Dutch Prime Minister Jan Pieter Balkenende and Mauritshuis museum.

Photo shows from left: Mauritshuis, Tower office of PM and to the right the buildings of Parliament

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The Bird ... an Ivory-billed Woodpecker ¶ with VIDEO link ¶ Natural Reserves

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Sunday May 01, 2005 · 10:46 PM PDT

2005/05/01 · 22:46

"The bird captured on this video can be
nothing other than an ivory-billed woodpecker."

John W. Fitzpatrick

Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Ivory-billed Woodpecker
(Campephilus principalis)

"Despite numerous unconfirmed sightings and much searching, including an extensive search in the bottomlands of Louisiana in 2002, the Ivory-billed Woodpecker is thought to be extinct. Once inhabiting the bottomland hardwoods and montane pine forests of southeastern US and Cuba, this large black and white woodpecker disappeared as its habitat was increasingly cleared for agriculture and lumber."
Audubon Society Watchlist

Thought to be extinct, the last confirmed sighting was 60 years ago in the Big Woods.

The Search for the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker
Timeline of the Ivory-Bill Search

VIDEO link to follow » »
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Budding Democracy in Muslim Middle-East ¶ Bush's Model States

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Sunday April 24, 2005 · 5:58 AM PDT

2005/04/24 · 05:58

Afghanistan
and Saudi Arabia TODAY!

Muslim adulterer stoned to death
Reuters - April 24, 2005

Faizabad, Afghanistan -- An Afghan woman has been stoned to death for adultery, police said today, the first such incident in Afghanistan since the Taliban's ouster from power.

Amina, a 29 year-old married woman, was publicly stoned to death on the basis of a district court's decision on Thursday in Argo district to the west of Faizabad, the provincial capital of Badakhshan, they said. "She has been stoned to death," provincial police chief, General Shah Jahan Noori, adding a team has been sent to the area to investigate the incident further.

Adultery is forbidden in the Muslim country and under Islamic sharia law the penalty can range from flogging to stoning to death.

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Ratzinger Innuendo - Not Based on Facts!

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Saturday April 23, 2005 · 3:24 AM PDT

2005/04/23 · 03:24

How False News Statements Linger On - Influencing How Catholics Voted in Election 2004

As usual, the MSM is doing a lousy job of reporting facts in the matter of Joseph Ratzinger and the US bishops at their USCCB Meeting in Denver, CO - June 2004.
[US Conference of Catholic Bishops - USCCB ]

Using small bits of facts, stretching it into a story that can be readily consumed by the agnost, and the reporter at AFP is satisfied to get enough readers who agree and lash out at the person of Joseph Ratzinger and the Catholic Church.

AFP headlines earlier this week:

New pope intervened against Kerry in US 2004 election campaign

Just spending some minutes to search for the facts on Internet, leads to a complete opposite view of what happened in Denver ...
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Iraqi girl's BIG secret - Lt C is a shill reporter!

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Tuesday April 12, 2005 · 5:15 AM PDT

2005/04/12 · 05:15

Bagdad -- March 22, 2005

"10,000 miles from home and in a war zone I found perfection..."

If I could, I would force everyone I know -and many I don't know- to read this post by Rusten Currie on a MilBlog called Sic Vis Pacem, Para Bellum.

.... March 16, 2005 was the single best day thus far of my time in Iraq.... We waived goodbye and headed further down the road, where we were greeted by about 8 children and their parents. The children were just an absolute joy. They made my month.

The little girl in the pics is named Adele, she was the most beautiful little girl in the world to me. Her smile just melted me, and the little guy in the pics with me was just so adorable, he walked up to me and said "Pleased to meet you mister." He offered me his hand, and well he got the other half of my heart. A picture is worth much more than a thousand words, they are moments in time, real time.