By John J. Kruzel
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31, 2007 – An audio tape released by Osama bin Laden yesterday purports that al Qaeda does not kill innocent civilians, but the terrorist network’s actions contradict this claim, a coalition spokesman said yesterday.
During a news conference in Baghdad yesterday, Navy Rear Adm. Gregory J. Smith, director [...]

By Victoria Cavaliere
Voice of America
NEW YORK, Dec. 13, 2007 — A far-reaching investigation into the use of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball has implicated some of the sport’s most famous athletes, including Roger Clemens of the New York Yankees and Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants.
Former U.S. Senate majority leader George Mitchell led the 20-month [...]

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Dec. 9, 2007 — Space shuttle Atlantis’ STS-122 mission to the International Space Station now is targeted to launch no earlier than Jan. 2 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The liftoff date depends on the resolution of a problem in a fuel sensor system.
Early Sunday, one of the four engine cutoff, or [...]

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Suspended National Football League quarterback Michael Vick of the Atlanta Falcons has been sentenced to 23 months in prison for his role in an illegal dogfighting operation. He also received three years probation.
Vick had pleaded guilty in August to felony federal dogfighting conspiracy charges. In his written plea, he had admitted to helping [...]

By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service
MANAMA, Bahrain, Dec. 8, 2007 – Days after a new national intelligence estimate concluded that Iran has stopped its nuclear weapons program but could restart it any time, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates called on the international community to keep up its pressure on Tehran.
Gates told delegates at the Manama [...]

By Fred W. Baker III
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7, 2007 – It’s been 66 years, and tears still well up in the eyes of Robert Bishop when he thinks of that day.
He was a 20-year-old sailor aboard the USS Tennessee when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Dec. 7, 1941. Some images are burned [...]

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Dec. 7, 2007 — NASA is targeting the launch of space shuttle Atlantis no earlier than Sunday, Dec. 9, at 3:21 p.m. EST from the Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
Shuttle program managers made the decision after a meeting Friday to review data on a problem with a fuel cutoff sensor system inside the [...]

Special to HarpBlaster.com
WASHINGTON – A San Francisco grand jury returned a three-count indictment charging Bernard V. Ward with distributing and receiving child pornography, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division announced.
Ward, 56, a San Francisco resident who works as an AM radio station talk show personality on San Francisco-based KGO 810 NewsTalk, [...]

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WASHINGTON – Peter Kott, a former elected member of the Alaska House of Representatives and former Alaska Speaker of the House, has been sentenced to 72 months in prison in Anchorage, Alaska, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division announced.
Chief U.S. District Judge John W. Sedwick for the District of [...]

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WASHINGTON – Three Colombian nationals have pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring to provide material support to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a designated foreign terrorist organization, and alien smuggling, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division announced today.
Victor Daniel Salamanca, 64, Carmen Maria Ponton Caro, 38, and [...]