Lebanon had by-election voting yesterday. Partly due to “two assassinated [Pierre Gemayel and Eido] anti-Syrian lawmakers in the latest showdown between the government and its opponents.” The Christian candidate, Michel Aoun, won, but the official count has not been announced as of yet. Read the whole story at Bahrain Tribune. If that link does not [...]
Archive for August 6th, 2007
Christians win opposition seat in Beirut in by-elections
Posted in Christians, ME, News, newspapers, victory, vote on August 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Opposition declares victory in by-election
Posted in Christians, ME, News, newspapers, victory, vote on August 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
BEIRUT (Reuters) Test of strength weeks before electing new president.
A Maronite Christian opposition candidate won a by-election to Lebanon’s parliament yesterday, an opposition leader said, dealing a blow to the country’s Western-backed ruling coalition.Tens of thousands of Lebanese voted to choose successors to two assassinated anti-Syrian lawmakers in the latest showdown between the government and [...]
The Iranian Threat
Posted in SE Asia, free speech, freedom, otb, pics on August 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This map links to a different map. I goofed when I added the extra link to make the map larger. Just so you know.As I was checking out who was reading my site, I was surprised to find that people from inside Iran are continuing find me. This is not a bad thing, I am [...]
Airmen train Iraqi firefighters at international airport
Posted in CentCom, IAF, ME, USAF, training on August 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
25 July 07by Tech. Sgt. Russell Wicke 447th Air Expeditionary Group Public Affairs.
NEW AL-MUTHANA AIR BASE, Iraq (AFPN) — Firefighters from the 447th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron are spending their spare time training firefighters from the Iraqi air force to make them an autonomous unit at New Al-Muthana Air Base. Airmen spend about one day [...]
NMCB-133 drilling wells, building schools in the HOA
Posted in Africa, CJTF-HOA, CentCom, Navy, children on August 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
26 Jul 07by MC1 Mary Popejoy CJTF-HOA Public Affairs.
The Seabees of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion-ONE THIRTY THREE Detachment Horn of Africa at Camp Lemonier have been deployed to the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa area of operation since Feb. 5 performing well drilling operations, school building projects and other quality of life projects throughout [...]
