May 9, 2008

Carlos Mario Jimenez-Naranjo, a/k/a Macaco, has been extradited from Colombia to the United States to face drug trafficking charges, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher announced yesterday.
Jimenez-Naranjo faces drug-related charges in the District of Columbia and the Southern District of Florida. Jimenez-Naranjo made his initial appearance today in the District of Columbia before Judge [...]

A day after it was reported by Iraqi military spokesperson, Mohammed al-Askari, that Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Ayyub al-Masri was arrested, the United States says he was not.
Major Peggy Kageleiry, a spokesperson for the US forces in Iraq, said “neither coalition forces nor Iraqi security forces detained or killed Abu Ayyub al-Masri. This guy [...]

Some scam artists target rich widows. Some target the elderly. Rick Senninger, former executive producer and founder of the Intel Radio Network and “Outside The Wire”, targeted veterans.
He played up the whole patriotism thing, repeating “Thank you for your service” a few times, and then hit up veterans and their organizations. He regularly [...]

An Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman said that the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, was arrested Thursday. Al-Masri, also known as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, was reportedly arrested in the northern city of Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad.
There has been no official confirmation or comment from United States forces yet, but news of [...]

May 8, 2008

Robert Duvall, Gary Sinise, Hollywood Stars to Celebrate American GIs at Film Festival
by Jim Kouri, CPP
Gary Sinise and Robert Duvall will lead a star-studded festival to be held May 14-18, 2008 at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, DC.
Overall, the five-day festival will present both classic and premier films honoring the nation’s men [...]

May 7, 2008

Rick “Wright” Senninger, executive producer, and host of the radio program Outside The Wire was arrested and booked at the St. John’s County Jail in St. Augustine, Florida on a Larceny charge Wednesday.
According to a Florida state attorney fraud investigator, Senninger also has bench warrants issued in Michigan for non payment of child support.
Senninger [...]

After 1,581 consecutive days, David Witthoft of Connecticut has stopped wearing his #4 Brett Favre jersey.
The Ridgefield, Connecticut boy, 12, wore the No. 4 jersey every day since receiving it as a gift for Christmas in 2003. David’s father, Chuck, said Monday that his son’s last day wearing the jersey was April 23–his 12th birthday.
Witthoft [...]

Tuesday, voters in Indiana and North Carolina of the United States cast their votes in the tightly contested presidential primaries of the Democratic Party.
The Associated Press declared Barack Obama the winner in the North Carolina Democratic primary, based on exit-polling data, and CNN has also projected that Obama will win the North Carolina primary and [...]

May 5, 2008

No one was injured when one or more pipe bombs exploded outside the Edward J. Schwartz Federal Courthouse located in San Diego, California.
The bomb exploded around 1:40 a.m. Sunday morning on May 4, 2008 and was reported by guards patrolling the building. Debris from the blast was found across the street in the AT&T building [...]

At least 4,000 people have been reported dead after a tropical cyclone officially named “Nargis” struck Burma, which is also known as Myanmar. As a result it has been declared by the Burmese government that five states are currently disaster areas.
A diplomat in the area spoke to the Reuters news agency, giving them a description [...]