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Air force jets, artillery kill 17 guerrillas
KHAR: Pakistani jets and artillery killed 17 people, including some Uzbek commanders, as they pounded suspected Taliban and Al Qaeda hideouts in a tribal area, officials said yesterday.
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:14:46 GMT - (Gulf Times)

Pakistan: 24 militants killed in air and artillery strikes
Islamabad - At least 24 Islamic militants, including al-Qaeda-linked Uzbek fighters, were killed as Pakistani jets and artillery pounded their hideouts in the restive north-western tribal district of Bajaur, an intelligence official said Thursday. Th...
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:40:17 GMT - (EARTHtimes.org)

Welcome Home the Troops Sunday
After nine months in Iraq members of the Evansville-based 163rd Field Artillery will return to their hometown this weekend. Hundreds of Indiana National Guard members arrived at the Indianapolis International Airport Monday night and another group came in the next morning.
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:19:23 GMT - (FOX 7 WTVW Evansville)

Taliban, al-Qaida hit with artillery
KABUL, Afghanistan - U.S. troops in Afghanistan launched a barrage of artillery at insurgents attacking their position from inside Pakistan's volatile tribal region, in a cross-border strike coordinated with Pakistan's military, U.S. and NATO officials said yesterday.
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:08:43 GMT - (Worcester Telegram & Gazette)

Russia marks Missile Force and Artillery Day
1945. Soviet artillery shelling the enemy during the Great Patriotic War.
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:13:49 GMT - (Russian Information Agency Novosti)

Warplanes, troops kill 40 militants in Bajaur, Swat
Pakistan - Bajaur Security forces killed 40 militants on Thursday as artillery and jet fighters backed ground troops fighting in the Bajaur, and an air strike hit militants in Swat, officials said.
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:06:42 GMT - (Islamic Republic News Agency)

NATO admits firing artillery rounds at Taliban inside Pak territory
Kabul, Nov 19 : The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan has reportedly admitted that NATO troops in eastern Afghanistan fired 20 artillery rounds at Taliban inside Pakistan after co-ordinating with Islamabad.
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:51:54 GMT - (New Kerala)

U.S., Pakistan strike at insurgents
Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan ? U.S. troops in Afghanistan launched a barrage of artillery at insurgents attacking their position from inside Pakistan?s volatile tribal region, in a cross-border strike coordinated with Pakistan?s military, U.S. and NATO officials said Tuesday.
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:24:07 GMT - (New Haven Register)

163rd's welome stands at the ready
Members of the Indiana National Guard's 163rd Field Artillery are scheduled to arrive in Evansville at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, ending the unit's yearlong call-up to active duty and deployment to Iraq.
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:41:06 GMT - (Evansville Courier & Press)

What happens when they come home?
Col. Richard C. Knowlton, commander of the 115th Field Artillery (Fires) Brigade, talks during a troop deployment preparation community meeting Thursday at the Laramie Recreation Center.
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:28:37 GMT - (Laramie Boomerang)

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the ever rising number of child soldiers at Guantanamo
Last week the U.C. Davis Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas reported that, despite Defense Departmen t claims to the UN that only eight juveniles had been held at Guantanamo, the true number was at least 12 and possibly much higher. The DoD then admitted their '�error'� and revised their UN report Andy Worthington reports today
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blog: Psyche, Science, and SocietyI'm Back....Here's A Little Something About Women & Flirting....Guys Should Read As Well!
We all want to know how to do it just right '� flirt, that is. It's the vivid image of the slam-dunk, rejection that sends many of us into the kind of social paralysis in which we either impress others as extremely shy or somehow snobby. How can we read the signs and learn how to avoid coming off like an over confident, over zealous,
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blog: Kitty KattrallMars in November
"Scorn not the Gods: Despite their non-existence in material terms, they're no less potent, no less terrible. The one place Gods inarguably exist is our minds where they are real beyond refute, in all their grandeur and monstrosity. What's Mars but mankind's violent attributes personified? Or Aphrodite, save mankind's desires?
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No Filleting: An Anthology of African Diaries [21 Nov 1922/1899/1976/2008] November 21st, 2008 by Alex [ no-filleting-21st-nov.] 1922 November 21 ... shots from the thinner artillery and 30 or 40 that number of Mauser rounds in what we call a quiet day
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I came across this ad for Yahoo! Search on Weather Underground, and, I don't know, I just found the name in the sample search box to be sort of... random. Not "barack obama" or "holiday recipes" or "homemade artillery"? But "braylon edwards"? Goofy.
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blog: Yellow Chair Sports - The Worldwide Leader in Sports FanalysisOIF Summary; Nov. 21, 2008: Troops in Iraq Kill Suspected Terrorist, Nab 17
[ Dispatches from the Front] Dispatches from the Front: WASHINGTON, Nov ... to a cache of mortar and artillery rounds Nov. 19 in Samarra. Iraqi soldiers seized a weapons cache that included 130 mm rounds and 155 mm artillery rounds in the Lutifiyah area Nov. 18. (Compiled
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blog: Miriam Bickes A My Lai a Month
RG mail TruthOut 13 November 2008 A My Lai a Month by Nick Turse, The Nation By the mid-1960s, the Mekong Delta, with its verdant paddies and canal-side hamlets, was the rice bowl of South Vietnam and home to nearly 6 million Vietnamese. It was also one of the most important revolutionary strongholds during the Vietnam War
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blog: DarwinianaThe enemy, seeing the explosion and violence of the fires, which
The enemy, seeing the explosion and violence of the fires, which November 21st, 2008 made a wonderful flame and thundering, ... ; and when the sappers had finished their work, and their artillery was fired, all the castle shook under ... of artillery, which they had placed on a little hillock, so as to have us from behind when we were
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It's a good thing our steel mills, shipyards and auto manufacturers didn't go belly up in 1940, ... , artillery, bombs, planes, ships and landing craft for our own 12 million men under arms, but also sent
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