It started with a routine domestic disturbance, except that the pair involved has recently been under investigation by federal terrorism officials.
Before the day ended, Arlington police had negotiated a six-hour standoff, their robot had been shot at with a paintball gun, and they had called in a bomb squad over four potentially explosive devices.
Kimberly Al-Homsi called 911 about 12:40 a.m. Monday. She said her friend, Aisha Hamad, had threatened her with a knife. The two are noteworthy because a few months ago, they were seen at Dallas Love Field, both dressed in camouflage pants under traditional Muslim robes, conducting what appeared to be surveillance, officials said.
The FBI is investigating an alleged human smuggling operation based in Chaparral, N.M., that agents say is bringing "Iraqis and other Middle Eastern" individuals across the Rio Grande from Mexico.
An FBI intelligence report distributed by the Washington, D.C. Joint Terrorism Task Force, obtained by the Blotter on ABCNews.com, says the illegal ring has been bringing Iraqis across the border illegally for more than a year.
Bosoms and things: That's not exactly a plot summary of "Tell Me," but it's not a bad place to start. Because that's where many viewers will start. Whatever else it may or may not be, "Tell Me," at least in its current form, will set a new precedent for prime-time TV when it has its premiere Sept. 9: No previous series, on pay cable or anywhere else, has dared show anything even close to this much skin; the climax, if you will, of the first episode finds a woman (Sonya Walger) in her 30s masturbating her husband (Adam Scott) to orgasm, with the entire act and all relevant body parts plainly visible. Even Jane Alexander — yes, that Jane Alexander, the snow-domed, regally poised 67-year-old former chief of the National Endowment for the Arts — drops trousers for some frisky senior sex.
During the campus convulsions of the late 1960s, when rebellion against any authority was considered obedience to every virtue, the film "To Die in Madrid," a documentary about the Spanish Civil War, was shown at a small liberal arts college famous for, and vain about, its dedication to all things progressive. When the film's narrator intoned, "The rebels advanced on Madrid," the students, who adored rebels and were innocent of information, cheered.
George Galloway raged at his fellow MPs after Parliamentary sleaze watchdogs ruled that he should be suspended from the Commons for a month.
In a damning report, the committee said there was 'strong circumstantial evidence' that the charity received cash diverted from the United Nations Oil for Food Programme 'with Mr Galloway's connivance'.
The only Iraqis we should be letting enter the US are Christians and people we have worked with and are in imminent danger of being killed, and we better be 100% sure of their allegiance...
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Al Qaeda will try to tap its allies and resources in Iraq in its efforts to exact another terrorist attack on U.S. soil, according to a top government intelligence report released Tuesday.
Officials have expressed concern in the past that the Iraq war is providing a theater for al Qaeda to train insurgents and test the terror network's capabilities.
Even after being held by the Army of Islam, the liberal/Islamist alliance remains strong...
Gaza - Ma'an - "It is lovely to remember and to be remembered, and tell your crew and students that I returned home with most beautiful memories of Gaza."
In recent years, films dubbed "torture porn" have been the darlings of many a Hollywood producer looking to make a quick buck. The latest such release, "Captivity," opened in theaters Friday. But the popularity of blood-and-guts thrillers appears to have waned, prompting some to wonder if the trend is on its way out.
The first unmanned attack squadron in aviation history will arrive in Iraq today looking to deliver 500-pound bombs and Hellfire missiles to the enemy - all from the comfort of a US Air Force base in Nevada.
Veterans of the Iraq War from across the United States will be on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, July 17, to urge Senators to support the mission in Iraq and to wait until General Petraeus reports to Congress in September on the progress of the "surge" before taking a defeatist position.
Australia's prime minister announced plans Thursday to ban pornography and alcohol for Aborigines in northern areas and tighten control over their welfare benefits to fight child sex abuse among them.
Some Aboriginal leaders rejected the plan as paternalistic and said the measures were discriminatory and would violate the civil rights of the country's original inhabitants. But others applauded the initiative and recommended extending the welfare restrictions to Aborigines in other parts of the country.
The 1/2 Hour News Hour aired a sketch Sunday showing that when confronted with a NO GUN ZONE sign, criminals will turn tail and flee. That kind of logic actually makes sense to some people. I have a higher IQ.
Fifty-one percent (51%) of American voters say that the United States should wait for the September progress report before making major policy changes in Iraq. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 38% disagree.
Man gets taken to court by IRS for not paying taxes. Gets acquitted. "The court could not find a law that makes me liable or makes my revenues taxable"
"The court could not find a law that makes me liable or makes my revenues taxable," Cryer said. "The Supreme Court has ruled that the government cannot impose an income tax on anything but the profits and gains. When you work for someone you give your service and labor in exchange for money, so everything you make is not profit or gain. You put something into it."
Tony Perkins, president of
the Family Research Council, noted that while the PPFA reported carrying out a
record number of abortions in 2005-2006, it "did not record a single
adoption referral."
In the previous year, PPFA reported 1,414 adoption referrals, which Sedlak said
amounted to one adoption for every 180 abortions.
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