tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50305741193282493652024-03-25T02:14:55.378-07:0024 Hours News UpdateCURRENT NEWS UPDATES, WORLD CURRENT NEWS STORIES, WEATHER,Headerp solutions pvt ltd, BUSINESS, ENTERTAINMENT, POLITICS, SPORTSWilliams Stephanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18263442722604580221noreply@blogger.comBlogger194125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5030574119328249365.post-13450830050099762712011-05-11T06:17:00.000-07:002011-05-11T06:23:36.282-07:00OSAMA BIN LADEN TAPES SHOW 'PATHETIC' SIDE OF AL QAEDA LEADER: EXPERTS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">The U.S. government is running a full-court press to prevent </span><b><a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/05/osama-bin-laden-tapes-show-pathetic.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Osama bin Laden</span></a></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> from becoming a hallowed martyr by by means of what are essentially out-takes of videos made by bin Laden to paint him instead as a unsuccessful, pathetic old man, experts said today.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Of the five videos made public by the White House this weekend, perhaps the most outstanding shows bin Laden huddled under a blanket, inspection himself on television with a remote control in his supply, changing the channels whenever he sees pictures of </span><b><a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/05/osama-bin-laden-tapes-show-pathetic.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">president Obama</span></a></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">. "He's always been very careful about controlling his image and here was nurturing his image, watching himself on television in what was the nearly everyone revealing, most human, least proscribed moment of his entire career," </span><b><a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/05/osama-bin-laden-tapes-show-pathetic.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">Lawrence Wright</span></a></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">, Osama bin Laden expert and author of "The Looming Tower," said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Since the death of Osama bin Laden Sunday, <a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/05/was-killing-of-osama-bin-laden-legal.html"title="administration"><b><span style="color: red;">administration</span></b></a> officials have repeatedly said that the task to kill him complied with domestic and international law. "Let me make something very clear," Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress on Wednesday, "the operation in which Osama bin Laden was killed was legalized. He was the head of <a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/05/was-killing-of-osama-bin-laden-legal.html"title="al Qaeda"><b><span style="color: #274e13;">al Qaeda</span></b></a>, an organization that conducted the attacks of Sept. 11. He admitted his involvement."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">But as new details of the operation emerge, and some <a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/05/was-killing-of-osama-bin-laden-legal.html"title="Pakistani leaders"><b><span style="color: #660000;">Pakistani leaders</span></b></a> protest the U.S. incursion into their state, legal experts say the administration must more forcefully lay out its case. Law lecturer Kenneth Anderson, who specializes in legal issues related to war and terrorism, said that differing management accounts as to whether bin Laden was armed or invite to surrender or even involved in a firefight have muddled the legal discuss and left the administration open to <a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/05/was-killing-of-osama-bin-laden-legal.html"title="international criticism"><b><span style="color: #b45f06;">international criticism</span></b></a>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">He was a man of many names. Arshad, Ahmed, Abu Ahmed to name a few. To his neighbors within <a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/05/courier-hid-osama-bin-laden-well.html"tiltle="Abbottabad"><b><span style="color: red;">Abbottabad</span></b></a>, Pakistan, he was a friendly man from the country's tribal areas who worked as a money changer and built 12-foot walls to keep out the "many enemies" he'd acquired in the course of doing industry.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">What no one who lived near him in the sleepy, semi-rural enclave knew was that Arshad Khan was really al Qaeda operative Abu Ahmed al Kuwaiti, <a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/05/courier-hid-osama-bin-laden-well.html"title="Osama bin Laden's"><b><span style="color: #274e13;">Osama bin Laden's</span></b></a> most trusted courier, and his identity additionally location became the key to killing bin Laden. Little is known about al Kuwaiti, but interviews with neighbors, Pakistani officials and U.S. officials make clear that the Kuwaiti-born Pakistani was for several existence the second most-wanted terrorist during the world, if only because the CIA had become convinced he could led them in the direction of the al <a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/05/courier-hid-osama-bin-laden-well.html"title="Qaeda leader"><b><span style="color: #660000;">Qaeda leader</span></b>.</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span style="color: blue;"> </span><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/courier-hid-osama-bin-laden/story?id=13528409"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">{..Click to Continue..}</span></b></a></div>Williams Stephanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18263442722604580221noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5030574119328249365.post-66165317668745124512011-05-04T01:22:00.000-07:002011-05-04T01:36:35.308-07:00OSAMA BIN LADEN'S YOUNG WIFE, WOUNDED IN RAID, IDENTIFIED<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">U.S. </span><b><a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/05/osama-bin-ladens-young-wife-wounded-in.html"title="intelligence"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">intelligence</span></a></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> officials have been forced to reconsider many of their assumptions about Osama storage bin weighed down and his terror network with the discovery that he was living in relative luxury not far from Pakistan's capital in a house full of children. By the time bin Laden moved to his sprawling compound in </span><b><a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/05/osama-bin-ladens-young-wife-wounded-in.html"title="Abbottabad"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">Abbottabad</span></a></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">, he was down to only one of this five wives. He had divorced one and three others have moved to Syria.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;">"He married very young, first a cousin from Syria," said Steve Coll. author of the book "The </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;"><b><a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/05/osama-bin-ladens-young-wife-wounded-in.html"title="Bin Ladens">Bin Ladens</a></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;">." "Then a couple of very knowledgeable women from Saudi Arabia." The youngest and his supposed favorite, Amal Ahmed Abdul Fatah stayed with him. Pakistani says her passpoprt was found in the compound before the raid. She be 29 and had been given to bin Laden as a gift by a </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;"><b><a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/05/osama-bin-ladens-young-wife-wounded-in.html"title="Yemeni">Yemeni</a></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;"> family when she was only a teenager.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">"We have released a tremendous amount of information to date," </span><b><a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/05/skeptics-question-osama-bin-laden-death.html" title="Obama's"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">Obama's</span></a></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> top counter terrorism adviser John Brennan said. "At the same time we don't want to do anything with the intention of is going to compromise our aptitude to be as </span><b><a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/05/skeptics-question-osama-bin-laden-death.html" title="successful"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">successful</span></a></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> the next time one of these guys needs to be taken off the battlefield."</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 18.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">"I met repeatedly with my National Security team as we developed more information about the possibility that we had located Bin Laden thrashing within a compound deep inside Pakistan," </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b><a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/05/osama-bin-laden-operation-months-in.html"title="Obama">Obama</a></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> said in an address from the East Room of the White House Sunday night."in conclusion, last week I determined that we had enough cleverness to take action and authorized an </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b><a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/05/osama-bin-laden-operation-months-in.html"title="operation">operation</a></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> to get Osama bin Laden and bring him to justice," Obama said.</span></div><div style="line-height: 18.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">After weeks of seemingly staying on the sidelines, the GOP's 2008 vice </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><b><a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/04/quiet-for-while-palins-voice-is-back.html"title="presidential">presidential</a></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> nominee is back with public appearance, fiery criticism of President Barack Obama and a physically powerful defense of Donald Trump, the reality TV show congregation who has raised questions about the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><b><a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/04/quiet-for-while-palins-voice-is-back.html"title="president's">president's</a></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> background without offering any proof of his assertions.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/04/30/6559959-quiet-for-a-while-palins-voice-is-back">{..Click to Continue..}</a></b></span><o:p></o:p></div></div>Williams Stephanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18263442722604580221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5030574119328249365.post-43684347393446571322011-04-28T23:59:00.000-07:002011-04-29T00:02:26.518-07:00TORNADO AFTERMATH: SOUTHERN STORMS LEAVE MORE THAN 300 DEAD<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;">President </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;"><b><a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/04/tornado-aftermath-southern-storms-leave.html"title="Obama"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Obama</span></a></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> and the first lady determination travel to the south this morning, following the deadly storms that left more than 300 dead across six states this week. Obama will visit the hardest hit state, </span><a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/04/tornado-aftermath-southern-storms-leave.html"title="Alabama
"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><b>Alabama</b></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">, where at least 210 people were killed. Elsewhere in the region, Mississippi report 32 fatalities, Tennessee had 34, Georgia with at least 15, Virginia had 5 and Arkansas with 13.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">Parsing Rhetoric on Government Spending, Savings from Budget Deal</span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> Will the </span><b><a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/04/budget-2011-cutting-deficit-without.html" title="bipartisan"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">bipartisan</span></a></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> deal with the intention of shaved $38.5 billion as of the central budget for 2011 immediately affect the</span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">soaring deficit</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">so many Americans say they're worried about.</span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">As the high cost of gasoline takes a toll on <a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/04/obama-says-he-wants-oil-producers-to.html"title="politics"><b><span style="color: red;">politics</span></b></a> and pocket books, President Barack Obama said Tuesday he be calling on major oil producers such as Saudi Arabia to increase their oil supplies to help stabilize prices, warning starkly that lack of relief would harm the <a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/04/obama-says-he-wants-oil-producers-to.html"title="global economy"><b><span style="color: #274e13;">global economy</span></b></a>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div><div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">"We are in a lot of conversations with the major oil producers like <a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/04/obama-says-he-wants-oil-producers-to.html"title="Saudi Arabia"><b><span style="color: #660000;">Saudi Arabia</span></b></a> to let them know that it's not going to be good for them if our economy is hobbled because of high oil prices," Obama told a Detroit TV station. His annotations signaled a broad new appeal in the face of skyrocket gasoline prices in the <a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/04/obama-says-he-wants-oil-producers-to.html"title="United States"><b><span style="color: #b45f06;">United States</span></b></a> and they came as he reiterated a call for Congress to repeal oil industry tax breaks.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent> </m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">At least seven deaths have been reported in connection with a series of <b><a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/04/tornado-outbreak-severe-weather-in.html"title="tornadoes" style="color: red;">tornadoes</a></b> and severe weather with the intention of ripped through several states from Kentucky to Tennessee Monday, authorities said. Forecasters <b><a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/04/tornado-outbreak-severe-weather-in.html"title="anticipate" style="color: #274e13;">anticipate</a></b> more rain and storms today to slam across the Midwest, as the system moves east. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">In Arkansas, three people were killed in rising <b><a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/04/tornado-outbreak-severe-weather-in.html"title="floodwaters"><span style="color: #783f04;">floodwaters</span></a></b> and two died in a town where a possible tornado barreled through Monday, according to the Associated Press. In Vilonia, Ark., north of Little Rock, where a possible whirlwind killed two people, Caroline <a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/04/tornado-outbreak-severe-weather-in.html"title="Thompson"><b><span style="color: #660000;">Thompson</span></b></a> recalled taking cover seeing that the storm approached. "We all ended up in the closet. And then you possibly will just hear crashing and stuff being knocked around and blown around. And it tore us up," Thompson said. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Taliban militants dug a long-lasting tunnel underground and into the main jail in <a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/04/taliban-break-out-more-than-450-from.html"title="Kandahar"><b><span style="color: red;">Kandahar</span></b></a> city and whisked out more than 450 prisoners, most of whom were <a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/04/taliban-break-out-more-than-450-from.html"title="Taliban fighters"><b><span style="color: #274e13;">Taliban fighters</span></b></a>, officials and insurgent said Monday.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The massive overnight jailbreak in <a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/04/taliban-break-out-more-than-450-from.html"title="Afghanistan's"><b><span style="color: red;">Afghanistan's</span></b></a> second-largest city underscores the Afghan government continuing weakness in the south despite an influx of international troops, funding and advisers. Kandahar city, in particular, has be a focus of the intercontinental effort to establish a strong Afghan <a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/04/taliban-break-out-more-than-450-from.html"title="government"><b><span style="color: #783f04;">government</span></b></a> presence in former Taliban strongholds.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;">With no roads connecting remote coastal towns, storms and fog that can ground aircraft, no deepwater ports for ships and the nearest Coast </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;"><b><a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/04/drill-off-alaska-coast-gulf-mess-renews.html"title="Guard station">Guard station</a></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;"> about 1,000 miles away - it would be nearly impossible to respond on the scale that was needed last year to stop the runaway oil well and clean up the mess. That means the burden to respond would rest to an even greater degree on the company doing the drilling.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Prime Minister </span><b><a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/04/iraqi-pm-tells-mullen-iraqi-troops-can.html" title="Nouri al-Maliki"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">Nouri al-Maliki</span></a></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> made the remark during a late Thursday meeting with Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the U.S. combined Chiefs of Staff. Mullen’s visit comes as U.S. and Iraqi officials are trying to decide what, if any, U.S. troop presence be supposed to remain in Iraq subsequent to the end of this year.An agreement between both countries </span><b><a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/04/iraqi-pm-tells-mullen-iraqi-troops-can.html" title="stipulates"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">stipulates</span></a></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> that all American forces are to leave by Dec. 31.</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.aolnews.com/2011/04/22/iraqi-prime-minister-tells-adm-mike-mullen-iraqi-troops-can-tak/"> {..Click to Continue..}</a></b></span><o:p></o:p></div></div>Williams Stephanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18263442722604580221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5030574119328249365.post-64544695322078004152011-04-20T05:33:00.000-07:002011-04-20T05:36:33.994-07:00NEW AIRLINE PASSENGER PROTECTION RULES UP LOST BAGGAGE FEES, PENALTIES FOR CARRIERS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Requirements Designed to Help </span><b><a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/04/new-airline-passenger-protection-rules.html"title="Passengers"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Passengers</span></a></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">, Officials Say; Industry Groups Raise Cost Questions </span></span><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">For Americans who have had their</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">baggage lost</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">on flights, or who have spent hours stuck on the tarmac without creature allowed to use the bathrooms, a new set of rules the Department of </span><b><a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/04/new-airline-passenger-protection-rules.html"title="Transportation"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">Transportation</span></a></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> put in place today will come as a relief.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
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</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">The </span><b><a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/04/new-airline-passenger-protection-rules.html"title="Obama"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Obama</span></a></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> administration has introduced new</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">passenger protection measures</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">that would impose fines on airlines for losing baggage and kicking off travelers from overbooked flights. Under the new guiding principle, airlines would have to give money back baggage fees in the case of a lost bag, in addition to the </span><b><a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/04/new-airline-passenger-protection-rules.html"title="compensation"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">compensation</span></a></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> they already pay. There will be an additional incriminate for even-tempered delays in getting passengers their bags, though the DOT has not clarified what it considers unreasonable.</span></span></span></span></div><br />
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</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;">There are chances for the Republicans in next year's elections, with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Arkansas Gov. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;"><b><a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/04/2012-presidential-election-obama.html" title="Mike Huckabee">Mike Huckabee</a></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;">, in particular, nipping close to Obama in the latest News-Washington Post poll. Economic pessimism, its highest in two years amid high-ceilinged gab prices, raises serious political peril for the head. But he benefits from two factors: personal approval that, while down, still exceeds his job rating, and considerable doubts about the opposing party's lineup.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
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</span></span> <span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">They all made it out alive Saturday, thanks to quick action by Lowe's store administrator Michael </span><b><a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/04/heroism-at-hardware-store-staff-save.html"title="Hollowell"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">Hollowell</span></a></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> and his employees, who carried out an urgent situation response plan they had learned. They herd all and sundry to the </span><b><a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/04/heroism-at-hardware-store-staff-save.html"title="windowless"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;">windowless</span></a></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> rear area of the store, away from the through hit out front.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Pushed to the brink, Obama said, the two parties would find "a smart </span><b><a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/04/obama-congress-must-and-will-raise-debt.html" title="compromise"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">compromise</span></a></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">."</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">In an interview with The Associated bear down on, Obama also took pains to promote his long-term plan to cuts trillions of dollars from </span><b><a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/04/obama-congress-must-and-will-raise-debt.html" title="federal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">federal</span></a></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> deficits as a fairer, more concerned alternative to a Republican plan with the intent of surged to party-line passage Friday afternoon in the House.</span></span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: black;"><br />
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</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The answer is not really, according to the nonpartisan</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/04/budget-2011-cutting-deficit-without.html" title="Congressional Budget"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">Congressional Budget</span></a></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> Office</span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">, a group of accountants along with analysts who study the plans. The agency says the much-touted deal, approved Thursday, will only set aside $352 million through the end of the fiscal year a tiny </span><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/04/budget-2011-cutting-deficit-without.html" title="division">division</a></b></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> of the $1.4 trillion the U.S. has spent beyond its means.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
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</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;">A 3-foot </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;"><b><a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/04/japan-earthquake-tsunami-70-aftershock.html"title="tsunami">tsunami</a></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;"> warning was issued after the temblor hit the northeast coast 5:16 p.m. local time. All advisories and warning were later lifted about an hour later according to local Japanese TV. The aftershock was presently downgraded to a 7.0 by means of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;"><b><a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/04/japan-earthquake-tsunami-70-aftershock.html"title="Japanese">Japanese</a></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;"> officials and USGS calculates the quake to subsist closer to a magnitude 6.6.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Obama said he still hoped to </span><b><a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/04/times-up-obama-and-gop-scramble-to-halt.html" title="announce"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">announce</span></a></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> an agreement on Friday but did not have "wild optimism."In revealing nothing about what still divides them, Obama and the lawmakers, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and committee Majority organizer Harry Reid, D-Nev., all said another belatedly night of talks in the Oval </span><b><a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/04/times-up-obama-and-gop-scramble-to-halt.html" title="administrative"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">administrative</span></a></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> center had narrowed their differences over cutting federal spending and other matters.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Nuclear officials said Wednesday there was no immediate threat of explosions like the three that rock the </span><b><a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/04/preventing-blasts-focus-at-japan.html" title="Fukushima">Fukushima</a></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> Dai-ichi plant not long after a massive tsunami hit on March 11, but their plans are a reminder of how much occupation remains to stabilize the complex. Workers are racing to cool downstairs the plant's reactors, which have been overheating since power was knocked out by the 9.0-magnitude </span><b><a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/04/preventing-blasts-focus-at-japan.html" title="earthquake"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">earthquake</span></a></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> and tsunami that killed as many as 25,000 people along with destroyed hundreds of miles of coastline.</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><a href="http://www.aolnews.com/2011/04/06/japan-stops-radiation-leak-preps-nitrogen-injection-to-prevent/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">{..Click to Continue..}</span></a></b><o:p></o:p></span></div></div>Williams Stephanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18263442722604580221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5030574119328249365.post-5817607705768804682011-04-06T05:00:00.000-07:002011-04-06T05:04:49.548-07:00NO DEAL YET AS POSSIBLE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN LOOMS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">No deal yet but intensifying discussion as possible </span><a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/04/no-deal-yet-as-possible-government.html"title="government"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><b>government</b></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> shutdown looms</span><b style="color: blue;"> </b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Talks appear to be intensifying on Capitol Hill on reaching a deal on long-overdue legislation to finance the administration through the end of September and avoid a </span><a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/04/no-deal-yet-as-possible-government.html"title="administration"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><b>administration</b></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> shutdown. Whether a shutdown can be avoided in three days' time is another matter.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">A White House meeting Tuesday that included </span><a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/04/no-deal-yet-as-possible-government.html"title="President Barack Obama"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><b>President Barack Obama</b></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and governing body Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., failed to manufacture the hoped-for burst through, however, with a temporary solution government funding bill set to expire Friday at midnight.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;"><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=13306325"><b>{..Click to Continue..}</b></a></span></div></div>Williams Stephanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18263442722604580221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5030574119328249365.post-54180447190327436452011-04-05T03:40:00.000-07:002011-04-05T03:44:51.494-07:00IDENTITY THIEVES TARGET TAX REFUNDS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Tax Identity Theft Has More Than Tripled in the Past Five Years<b> </b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Tax day is less than two weeks away, and this year, for the first time ever, the Federal Trade </span><b><a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/04/identity-thieves-target-tax-refunds.html" title="Commission"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Commission</span></a></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> says tax refunds are the No. 1 target of identity thieves.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Tracey Cochran was anxiously </span><b><a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/04/identity-thieves-target-tax-refunds.html" title="anticipating"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">anticipating</span></a></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> this year's tax refund, because money was tight."I had been unemployed and just started temp work .She expected to receive a $2,400 check from the Internal Revenue Service. Instead she received a notice that something was wrong. Somebody else had filed a return in her name, and a thief was trying to </span><b><a href="http://24hour-news-updation.blogspot.com/2011/04/identity-thieves-target-tax-refunds.html" title="intercept"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">intercept</span></a></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> her refund.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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