Archive for October 22nd, 2009

Women Marines want a chance outside the Afghan wire (Reuters)

Written by on Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 in 348261.

A Marine Corps carry team loads into a transfer vehicle a transfer case containing the remains of Marine Lance Cpl. David R. Baker Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009 at Dover Air Force Base, Del. According to the Department of Defense, Baker, 22, of Painesville, Ohio died Oct. 20 while supporting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)Reuters – U.S. Marine Lance Corporal Tiffany Jones chews tobacco, spitting the juice into the Afghan desert as she talks, and wears her M-16 automatic rifle slung across her chest just like her male colleagues.

Original post by Reuters and software by Elliott Back

Pakistan: Bomber kills 7 near nuke-linked complex (AP)

Written by on Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 in 348253.

A Pakistani soldier on patrol in Islamabad. At least six people have been killed and nine wounded in a suicide attack on a military base in the Pakistani town of Kamra, 80 kilometres (50 miles) west of the Pakistan capital.(AFP/Farooq Naeem)AP – A suicide bomber struck a checkpoint near a military complex reportedly linked to Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program Friday, killing seven people as the army pressed ahead with a major anti-Taliban offensive in the northwest.

Original post by AP and software by Elliott Back

Pie-splattered comedian Soupy Sales dies at 83 (AP)

Written by on Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 in 484067.

FILE - In this Jan. 27, 1967 file photo, Soupy Sales is embraced backstage by Hanne Bork after his Broadway debut in 'Come Live With Me' in New York. Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian whose anything-for-a-chuckle career was built on 20,000 pies to the face and 5,000 live TV appearances across a half-century of laughs, has died, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009. He was 83. (AP Photo/File)AP – Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian whose anything-for-a-chuckle career was built on 20,000 pies to the face and 5,000 live TV appearances across a half-century of laughs, has died. He was 83.

Original post by AP and software by Elliott Back



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