By Zachary Dyer
Special to American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, April 29, 2007 – The Marines of the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing Band have put down their instruments and picked up their rifles to become part of the security detachment for the Tactical Air Control Center here.
“All Marines are riflemen,” said Sgt. Austin Hunt, a trumpet player [...]

American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, April 29, 2007 – American and Afghan security forces teamed up to shut down a militant suicide-vehicle-bomb-making network during an operation in the Bati Kot area of Nangarhar province April 29, military officials reported.
As the raid began, coalition troops trying to enter the militants’ compound came under small-arms fire, officials said. [...]

American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, April 29, 2007 – Four U.S. soldiers were killed and three were wounded in Iraq April 28, while three U.S. soldiers and two Marines died April 27 during Iraq operations, military officials reported, and the Defense Department released the identities of two Marines killed recently in Iraq.
– Three U.S. soldiers were [...]

American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, April 29, 2007 – U.S. troops captured 21 suspected terrorists April 28 in Iraq during a series of raids across the country that targeted al Qaeda in Iraq, military officials said.
“We’re achieving a deliberate, systematic disruption in the al Qaeda in Iraq network,” said Lt. Col. Christopher Garver, Multinational Force Iraq [...]

By Gerry J. Gilmore
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, April 27, 2007 – President Bush today repeated his pledge that he’ll veto any congressional war-funding bills that stipulate a timetable for withdrawal of U.S. military forces from Iraq.
Earlier this week, the U.S. House, followed by the Senate, passed war-funding bills that call for a withdrawal of U.S. [...]

American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, April 27, 2007 – The Defense Department announced today that it has taken a senior al Qaeda operative into custody at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The detainee, Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, was transferred to Guantanamo this week from CIA custody and is now under the control of Joint Task [...]

By Tim Kilbride
Special to American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, April 26, 2007 – Iraq’s growing police force is technically competent and functioning as it should within the country’s legal system, a top U.S. police trainer said yesterday.
The operational problems they have experienced are primarily the result of an unusually tumultuous security situation in Baghdad and elsewhere, [...]

By Sara Wood
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, April 26, 2007 – Through interrogations of key detainees in the past month, the United States has learned a great deal about Iranian involvement in terrorist activities in Iraq, specifically the financing and training of insurgent groups, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq said here today.
The interrogation of [...]

Special to HarpBlaster.com
ATLANTA – Three Atlanta police officers pleaded guilty today to shooting to death a 92-year-old woman at her home during the execution of a search warrant in November.
Gregg Junnier, 40, of Woodstock, Ga., and Jason R. Smith, 35, of Oxford, Ga., pleaded guilty in state court to voluntary manslaughter, violation of oath by [...]

PRNewswire-FirstCall
WASHINGTON, April 18 — Bob Dylan’s award-winning XM music show, “Theme Time Radio Hour,” will return to XM with all-new episodes in September.
The new season will feature the show’s signature eclectic mix of songs related to a specific theme, along with entertaining stories about the music and topics of interest. In addition, fans of “Theme [...]