Saturday, April 15, 2006

Images: Eyewitness Iraq, Sat. 15 Apr.

EASTER EDITION, 2006

Predator aircraft stationed in Iraq. Manchin has a message for Iraqi insurgents and others who kill Americans: 'Sending you to hell! From Almost Heaven W.Va.' (U.S. Air Force)

An Easter Egg for the insurgents.

In this photo made available by the US Marine Corps Saturday April 15, 2006, , an Iraqi soldier combs the sands near Al Assad in Iraq's Al Anbar Province April 11, 2006, during search and recovery efforts for several missing U.S. servicemembers who were involved in a vehicle accident earlier this month. More than 25 Iraqi soldiers from the Al Assad-based 2nd Brigade, 7th Iraqi Army Division, joined dozens of U.S. troops in recovering missing U.S. servicemembers near the site of a vehicle accident which occurred earlier this month when a seven-ton truck, part of a Marine combat logistics re-supply in Al Anbar Province, rolled over during a flash-flood near Al Asad, Iraq, according to Marine Corps officials.(SSgt. Jim Goodwin, US Marine Corps)

An Iraqi soldier combs the sands near Al Assad during search and recovery efforts for several missing U.S. servicemembers.

In this photo made available Saturday, April 15, 2006 by Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's office, front row from left: Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, W.V. Gov. Joe Manchin and Gov. Bush and unidentified members of their delegation arrive in Baghdad Friday night, April 14, 2006. Bush, joined by the governors of Indiana, Iowa and West Virginia, arrived in Kuwait on Friday, where he toured a military facility and had dinner with troops from throughout the United States stationed at Camp Virginia. Bush then traveled from Kuwait to Baghdad, and had breakfast Saturday with troops. He then traveled to Balad, Iraq, where he toured a hospital and had lunch with Florida troops. (Office of Florida Gov. Jeb Bush)

Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, W.V. Gov. Joe Manchin, the president's brother, Gov. Jeb Bush and unidentified members of their delegation for dinner with troops.

In this photo made available by the US Marine Corps Saturday, April 15, 2006, an Iraqi soldier holds up the pair of U.S. military-style goggles he found during search and recovery operations for several missing U.S. servicemembers, Monday April 10, 2006 near Al-Assad. More than 25 Iraqi soldiers from the Al Assad-based 2nd Brigade, 7th Iraqi Army Division, joined dozens of U.S. troops in recovering missing U.S. servicemembers near the site of a vehicle accident which occurred earlier this month when a seven-ton truck, part of a Marine combat logistics re-supply in Al Anbar Province, rolled over during a flash-flood near Al Asad, Iraq, according to Marine Corps officials.(AP Photo/Ssgt. Jim Goodwin, US Marine Corps)

An Iraqi soldier holds up the pair of U.S. military-style goggles he found during search and recovery operations for several missing U.S. servicemembers.

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Images: Combat Camera, Sat. 15 Apr.

The crew of a Coast Guard HH-65B Dolphin helicopter performs a patrol flight over a section of the overflowing Red River in North Dakota April 11, 2006. The crew is based out of Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City, Mich., and has been tasked to patrol the skies over the flood-ravaged areas of North Dakota and Minnesota. DoD photo by Tech. Sgt. James A. Williams, U.S. Air Force. (Released)
U.S. Army Cpl. Luke Waymon (center) and Spc. Kendal Cryblskey (left) administer IVs to simulated casualties during a cordon and search exercise at the Joint Readiness Training Center, Fort Polk, La., on April 12, 2006. The 14-day field training exercise is designed to prepare the troops for their upcoming deployment to Iraq. Waymon and Cryblskey are combat medics with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C. DoDphoto by Tech. Sgt. Cherie A. Thurlby, U.S. Air Force. (Released)
U.S. Navy Sailors assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion One Three Three return to Gulfport, Miss., April 11, 2006, following a six-month deployment to Iraq. DoD photo by Photographer's Mate 1st Class Shane T. McCoy, U.S. Navy. (Released)
A U.S. Navy MH-60S Seahawk helicopter assigned to the Saberhawks of Helicopter Squadron Light Forty Seven returns to combat stores ship USNS San Jose (T-AFS 7) for supplies during a vertical replenishment with USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) April 13, 2006. Lincoln and Carrier Air Wing Two are under way in the Western Pacific operating area. DoD photo by Photographer's Mate Airman Geoffrey Lewis, U.S. Navy. (Released)
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Friday, April 14, 2006

Regional Aspirations of Iran: Fri. 14 Apr.

INTERNATIONAL

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks during the opening ceremony of the International Conference on Al-Quds and Support for the Rights of Palestinian People in Tehran, Iran, April 14, 2006. Ahmadinejad said on Friday that the existence of the 'Zionist regime', Iran's term for Israel, was a threat to the Islamic world, days after declaring Iran had become a nuclear power by enriching uranium. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl COMMENTLINE
Ripped right from world headlines, Ahmadinejad speech inflames tension, and Tension between US and Iran on the rise, I couldn't have stated it better myself.

Without further adeau, presented once again for your inspection, a summary of the latest international tensions courtesy of Iran.

NEWSLINE
Israel will be 'annihilated,' says Iran's president.

[Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's] remarks, similar to those which provoked a barrage of international condemnation in October, are likely to increase tensions after Iran's announcement on Tuesday that it had enriched uranium in defiance of UN Security Council demands.

NEWSBYTES
Iran Leader: Israel Will Be Annihilated
TEHRAN, April 14 (AP) -- The president of Iran again lashed out at Israel on Friday and said the Jewish state was "heading toward annihilation," days after Tehran raised fears about its nuclear activities by saying it had advanced its efforts to enrich uranium.

Ahmadinejad speech inflames tension
(news.independent.co.uk) -- Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad launched a new attack on Israel yesterday, calling it "a rotten, dried tree" that could be knocked over by "a single storm."

Tension between US and Iran on the rise
(www.ft.com) -- Tensions between Iran and the US rose after Tehran refused to back down over plans to develop its nuclear programme. Responding to Iranian comments, Condoleezza Rice, US secretary of state, said the United Nations Security Council should take "strong steps to make certain that we maintain the credibility of the international community" and warned that "there should be some consequence" for Iran's defiance.

Iranian leaders hit out at US and Israel
(www.Aljazeera.Net) -- Iranian leaders have accused the US of trying to place the Middle East under Israeli control and predicted the "elimination" of the Jewish state.

US to pursue UN action on Iran
(www.Aljazeera.Net) -- The US secretary of state says her country "would look at the full range of options" available to the UN Security Council to respond to Iran's defiance of council resolutions on its nuclear programme.

Iran dismisses US call for strong U.N. action
TEHRAN (Reuters) -- The Iranian president on Friday dismissed remarks by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who said the United Nations must consider strong action to force Iran to comply with demands over its nuclear plans.

RELATED
Glance at Nuclear Weapons Countries

ALSO SEE
Chronology of the Iran Nuclear Standoff
Iran's key nuclear sites
Q&A: IRAN: Iran's Multifaceted Foreign Policy

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Images: Eyewitness Iraq, Fri. 14 Apr.

MIDDLE EAST

A US soldier secures the area around a police station damaged in a blast in Mosul. Nearly half of Americans believe their government should mind its own business internationally and only one third approves of how US President George W. Bush is handling Iraq, a USA Today/CNN/Gallup poll said.(AFP/Mujahed Mohammed) Iraqi men clean up the wreckage of a suicide car bomb after it exploded beside a British military convoy, in Basra, 550 kms south of Baghdad. Two Iraqis were killed and four British servicemen were wounded when a four-vehicle convoy of the British military was attacked by the suicide car bomber.(AFP/Essam al-Sudani)
An Iraqi policeman walks past the wreckage of a car after a bomb exploded on a man installing the explosives to be used as a car bomb, in a residential neighborhood in Baghdad.(AFP/Ali al-Saadi) A US Army Humvee carrying soldiers from the 1st Brigade of the 101st Airborne division guard the premises of Iraq's Northern Oil Company, outside Kirkuk. Somewhere underneath Kirkuk are an estimated 10 billion barrels of oil. Yet disintegrating infrastructure and a relentless campaign of sabotage has restricted the flow of the area's greatest resource to a trickle.(AFP)
An Iraqi boy stands, in the rubble of a small Shiite shrine destroyed by gunmen in the restive city of Baquba, 60 kms northeast of Baghdad. At least 42 Iraqis have been killed in attacks over the past 24 hours, security officials said, as politicians pressed four-month-old coalition talks amid the mounting sectarian unrest.(AFP/Ali Yussef) Iraqi men carry the coffin of a victim of a suicide bomb attack Friday April 14, 2006 in Baqouba, 60 km (35 miles) northeast of Baghdada, Iraq. Two roadside bombings near two Sunni mosques located about 2 kms (1 mile) apart in the city of Baqouba killed at least four civilians and wounded six, police said.(AP Photo/Mohammed Adnan)
US Soldiers and Iraqi police secure the site of a car bomb explosion Friday April 14, 2006 in Mosul, 360 km (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. A suicide car bomber attacked a police station in Mosul wounding at least seven people when he detonated his explosives. five civilians were among those wounded, police said.(AP Photo Mohammed Ibrahim) An Iraqi mourner shouts during a funeral procession for Mahmoud al-Hashimi, whose brother Tariq heads Iraq's largest Sunni Arab political party, Friday April 14, 2006, in Baghdad, Iraq. Hashimi was slain along with a companion Thursday as they drove through a mostly Shiite area, the Iraqi Islamic Party said. Tariq al-Hashimi is among the key players in negotiations over a new national unity government, which have stalled over the issue of who will be the next prime minister.(AP Photo/Mohammed Hato)

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Ground Zero: Moussaoui Trial, Fri. 14 Apr.

NATIONAL

In this image released by the U.S. District Court, a government exhibit shows a collection of photographs of those killed, except for 92 victims, in the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, that was introduced at the sentencing trial of admitted terrorist conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui. (AP Photo/U.S. District Court)
In this image released by the U.S. District Court, a government exhibit shows damage inside the Pentagon after American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the building on Sept. 11, 2001, that was introduced at the sentencing trial of admitted terrorist conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui. (AP Photo/U.S. District Court)In this image released by the U.S. District Court, a government exhibit shows a photo of the Pentagon after American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into it on Sept. 11, 2001, that was introduced at the sentencing trial of admitted terrorist conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui. (AP Photo/U.S. District Court)
In this image released by the U.S. District Court, a government exhibit shows a photo of air plane parts after American Airlines flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, that was introduced at the sentencing trial of admitted terrorist conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui. (AP Photo/U.S. District Court) In this image released by the U.S. District Court, a government exhibit shows a photo of the damage to the Pentagon after American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the building on Sept. 11, 2001, that was introduced at the sentencing trial of admitted terrorist conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui. (AP Photo/U.S. District Court)

COMMENTLINE
Presented in this post, recent developments and some images seen by the jury in the Moussaoui trial.

NEWSLINE
Yesterday featured more of the role reversals that have come to mark the proceedings. In the trial's first phase, defense attorneys portrayed their client as a liar after he testified about his planned attack on the White House, while prosecutors said he was telling the truth. Yesterday, prosecutors portrayed Moussaoui as perfectly sane -- he happily agreed -- while his attorneys, who had fervently opposed his testimony, tried to leave jurors with the impression that he is irrational and delusional.

NEWSBYTES
Moussaoui Tells Court 9/11's Toll Was Too Low
(www.washingtonpost.com) -- Zacarias Moussaoui proudly reaffirmed his involvement in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist plot yesterday and said his only regret was that more Americans didn't die.

Moussaoui scorns 9/11 victims
(www.Aljazeera.Net) -- September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui took the stand at his death-penalty trial and spouted off in a way that could eliminate any chance for mercy.

Moussaoui: 'No remorse' for 9/11
ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (CNN) -- Al Qaeda terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui told a jury deciding whether he should live or die that he is willing to kill Americans "any time, anywhere."

Moussaoui Details His Hatred of America
ALEXANDRIA , Va. (AP) -- Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui insists he does not want to be executed, but for the second time he took the stand at his death-penalty trial and spouted off in a way that could eliminate any chance for mercy.

Moussaoui says wants more 9/11s
ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (Reuters) -- September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui said on Thursday he had no regrets for those who died in the hijacked plane attacks and told jurors in his death penalty trial he wished "there would be more pain."

Moussaoui toys with defence team
(BBC) -- Lawyers began the struggle to save the life of Zacarias Moussaoui in a US federal court on Thursday - but they got little help from the confessed al-Qaeda plotter himself, who took the stand for much of the day.

ALSO SEE
Moussaoui Trial Documents
(www.findlaw.com)

RELATED
9-11 Commission Report
Department of Homeland Security
FBI: War on Terrorism
Counterterrorism Office

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Thursday, April 13, 2006

Regional Aspirations of Iran: Thu. 13 Apr.

INTERNATIONAL

Iran 's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, waves to his supporters in Gonabad in Khorasan Razavi province, 890 km (530 miles) north east of Tehran, Iran, Thursday, April 13, 2006. Hard-line President Ahmadinejad vows that Iran won't back away from uranium enrichment and says the world must treat Iran as a nuclear power. (AP Photo/Mehr news agency)
COMMENTLINE
Collected for your inspection, in no particular order, the latest international tensions courtesy of Iran.

NEWSLINE
"Using those 50,000 centrifuges [Iran] could produce enough highly enriched uranium for a nuclear weapon in 16 days,'' Stephen Rademaker, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation, told reporters today in Moscow.

NEWSBYTES
Iran Could Produce Nuclear Bomb in 16 Days, U.S. Says
April 12 (Bloomberg) -- Iran, defying United Nations Security Council demands to halt its nuclear program, may be capable of making a nuclear bomb within 16 days, a U.S. State Department official said.

Iran: No end to nuclear work
(www.Aljazeera.Net) -- Iran has said it will continue work on its controversial nuclear programme after initial talks in Tehran with the head of the UN atomic watchdog.

Iran Rebuffs Request to Suspend Enrichment
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran rebuffed a request by the U.N. nuclear agency chief in talks Thursday that it suspend uranium enrichment, and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad insisted his country will not retreat "one iota."

Rice says U.N. must adopt tough Iran resolution
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday the United Nations must consider strong action against Iran, such as a resolution that could lead to sanctions or lay the groundwork for force.

US in warning to 'defiant' Iran
(BBC) -- The US has warned Iran that it must face the consequences of its defiance over its nuclear programme.

Iran to clarify atomic plans: UN
TEHRAN (Reuters) -- The U.N.'s nuclear watchdog head said on Thursday Iran had told him it would step up efforts to answer questions on its atomic plans, while Tehran rejected calls to halt work the West says is designed to make weapons.

ALSO SEE
Iran plans second satellite launch
(www.Aljazeera.Net) -- Iran hopes to put a second satellite into orbit in two years, a senior telecommunications official has said.

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Images: Combat Camera, Thu. 13 Apr.

OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM

A U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft gets refueled by a KC-135T Stratotanker aircraft over Southwest Asia April 11, 2006. The F-15E is from the 336th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron, Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C., and the KC-135T is from the 340th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron, Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash. DoD photo by Staff Sgt. Joshua Strang, U.S. Air Force. (Released)
Light enhanced photography, fisheye lens view, showing US Army (USA) Soldiers assigned to Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment, boarding a High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV), as they prepare to move forward to enter a Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) building during a nighttime raid in Al Kut, Iraq, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. Location: AL KUT, WASIT IRAQ (IRQ) Camera Operator: SGT JOSE M. HERNANDEZ, USA
A view of an explosion resulting from the destruction of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED), located in the town of Dibbis, Iraq, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. The destruction of IEDs is vital to the safety of coalition forces in Iraq. Camera Operator: SGT APRIL L. JOHNSON, USA Date Shot: 9 Apr 2004
A US Army (USA) UH-60 Black Hawk Helicopter from Bravo Company 1-106th Aviation, 185th Aviation Brigade sits on the flight pad at Camp Anaconda, Balad Air Base (AB), Iraq, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. The setting sun silhouettes the image. Camera Operator: SGT TOM PULLIN, USA Date Shot: 14 Apr 2004
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Report: Democrats Likely to Favor Download Taxes

ENTERTAINMENT/TECHNOLOGY

HILLARY AND TIPPERCOMMENTLINE
Here' a minor tidbit for all you ultra-hip iPod lovers out there: someone may want to charge you more when you download. Enter the iTunes tax, taxes on digital purchases of songs and movies, reportedly favored more by Democrats than Republicans.

The notion isn't all that far out there, however, as Democrats have been known in the past for their ability to severely meddle around with recorded music. Folks often forget about the attack on musician's free speech spearheaded in the form of the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) by Tipper Gore and pals in the 1980s, which resulted in those little Parental Advisory stickers seen on so many CDs.

NEWSLINE
"I'm sure that state and local officials, given enough time, will come up with a sky-is-falling study saying that if they're not allowed to tax this, they'll lose a trillion dollars a year."

NEWSBYTE
Democrats more likely to favor iTunes taxes
(www.cnet.com) -- Democratic politicians in state capitols are more likely than Republicans to permit what critics are calling the "iTunes tax"--taxes on digital purchases of songs and movies.
ALSO SEE
The tax man cometh after iTunes

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Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Images: Combat Camera, Wed. 12 Apr.

OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM

04/08/06 - U.S. Army Pfc. Thaddeus Schoenemann, from 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division, relays his position during a combat patrol in Tall Afar, Iraq, April 8, 2006. DoD photo by Staff Sgt. Aaron Allmon, U.S. Air Force. (Released)
04/10/06 - Polish army soldiers refuel and clean a Polish army MI-24 Hind helicopter during a brief stop while carrying members from Multinational Division Central South, in Diwaniyah, Iraq, to Camp Zulu, an Iraqi army base, for an operations meeting with IA forces April 10, 2006. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Jason T. Bailey) (Released)
01/27/06 - U.S. Army Sgt. Maj. Osvaldo Colon waves hello to the Iraqi civilians in the city of Kirkuk, Iraq, while flying in a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter Jan. 27, 2006. Colon is giving a tour of the forward operating bases in Kirkuk to the U.S. Air Force deputy commander of Kirkuk Regional Air Base. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class JoAnn R. White) (Released)
03/31/06 - U.S. Army Soldiers from 3rd Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment along with Iraq army soldiers from 1st Battalion, 1st Brigade, 4th Division take a break on the outskirts of Monfia, Iraq, March 31, 2006. (U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 3rd Cass Shawn Hussong) (Released)
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Ground Zero: Moussaoui Trial, Wed. 12 Apr.

NATIONAL

This courtroom drawing shows avowed Al-Qaeda agent Zacarias Moussaoui testifying in Federal Court, in Alexandria, VA, in March 2006. US prosecutors aired a cockpit audio tape of a life-and-death passenger revolt on a doomed September 11 jet, in a compelling climax to their case for the execution of Moussaoui(AFP/File/Art Lein)

Government evidence from the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui released by the U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia shows a satellite photograph of the World Trade Center area in New York City before the attacks of September 11, 2001 (L) and after the attacks (R). The jury deciding whether Moussaoui should die heard dramatic cockpit recording on April 12, 2006 of passengers struggling to thwart hijackers in the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001. (U.S. District Court/Handout/Reuters) In this image released by the U.S. District Court, a government exhibit shows a photograph, introduced at the sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, of the debris found at the scene of United Airlines Flight 93 which crashed in Somerset County, Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001. The jury deciding whether Moussaoui should die heard dramatic cockpit recording on April 12, 2006 of passengers struggling to thwart hijackers in the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001. REUTERS/U.S. District Court/Handout
A box cutter found in a car that was left at Washington Dulles International Airport by September 11, 2001 hijackers is shown as evidence in the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui in Arlington, Virginia, April 12, 2006. (Handout/Reuters) In this image released by the U.S. District Court, a government exhibit shows a photo of an airplane part found at the scene in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, where United Air Lines Flight 93 crashed on Sept. 11, 2001, that was introduced at the sentencing trial of admitted terrorist conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui. (AP Photo/U.S. District Court)
In this undated image released by the U.S. District Court, a government exhibit shows a photograph, introduced at the sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. The jury deciding whether Moussaoui should die heard dramatic cockpit recording on April 12, 2006 of passengers struggling to thwart hijackers in the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001. REUTERS/U.S. District Court/Handout The 'Tribute in Light' memorial consisting of two shafts of light to represent the World Trade Center Twin Towers is lit in New York on the six month anniversary of the terrorist attack that destroyed the towers. Prosecutors laid out gruesome evidence and tales of heartbreak, as they metaphorically led jurors into the skin-melting flames of the Pentagon, and aboard a hijacked jet on September 11, 2001(AFP/File/Stan Honda) A knife attached to a lanyard is shown as evidence in the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui in Arlington, Virginia, April 12, 2006. (Handout/Reuters)
In this image released by the U.S. District Court, a government exhibit shows a photo of the cockpit voice recorder found at the scene in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, where Flight 93 crashed on Sept. 11, 2001, that was introduced at the sentencing trial of admitted terrorist conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui. (AP Photo/U.S. District Court) In this image released by the U.S. District Court, a government exhibit shows a photo of the flight data recorder found at the scene in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, where Flight 93 crashed on Sept. 11, 2001, that was introduced at the sentencing trial of admitted terrorist conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui. (AP Photo/U.S. District Court)
This photograph introduced in the trial of confessed Al-Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui shows an airplane part found at the scene in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed on 11 September 2001. US prosecutors aired a cockpit audio tape of a life-and-death passenger revolt on a doomed September 11 jet, in a compelling climax to their case for the execution of Moussaoui(AFP/HO) In this image released by the U.S. District Court, a government exhibit shows a photo of an airplane part found in a crater at the scene in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, where United Air Lines Flight 93 crashed on Sept. 11, 2001, that was introduced at the sentencing trial of admitted terrorist conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui. (AP Photo/U.S. District Court)

COMMENTLINE
Presented in this post, some images seen and transcripts of the sounds heard by the jury today in the Moussaoui trial as the government rested its case.

NEWSLINE
"Let's roll."

NEWSBYTES
Flight 93 Recording Played at Moussaoui Trial
(www.washingtonpost.com) -- The jury in the death penalty trial of Zacarias Moussaoui today heard the gruesome sounds of Sept.11 hijackers assaulting the crew of United Airlines Flight 93, followed by a life-or-death revolt by passengers as they attacked the cockpit and tried to wrest control of the plane.

Transcript of Flight 93 Voice Recorder
Associated Press

United Airlines Flight #93 Cockpit Voice Recorder Transcript (.pdf)
From www.findlaw.com.

Prosecuters play Moussaoui case tape
(www.Aljazeera.Net) -- Federal prosecuters on Wednesday played the tapes showing the final minutes of the doomed United Air Lines Flight 93 on September 11, 2001 to the jury trying Zacharias Moussaoui.

Moussaoui Jury Hears Flight 93 Recording
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- Jurors in the Zacarias Moussaoui trial listened Wednesday to a recording of terrified shouts and cries in the cockpit as desperate passengers twice charged panicked hijackers during the final half hour of doomed United Flight 93 on Sept. 11, 2001.

Jury transfixed by tape of 9/11 plane
ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (Reuters) -- In the last minutes before United Flight 93 crashed into a Pennsylvania field on September 11, a passenger urged others to help storm the cockpit and take on the hijackers because "if we don't we die," a jury heard on Wednesday.

Desperate last moments of hijacked jet cap Moussaoui prosecution
ALEXANDRIA, United States (AFP) -- US prosecutors aired a cockpit audio tape of a life-and-death passenger revolt on a doomed September 11 jet, in a compelling climax to their case for the execution of Al-Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui.

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Happy Anniversary Space Shuttle

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

STS-1 Mission Patch COMMENTLINE
April 12 marks the 25th anniversary of the first space shuttle launch and the 45th anniversary of the first person in space.

See a space shuttle gallery and a video of Yuri Gagarin's Flight.

Watch a video of Shuttle History, NASA Shuttle Anniversary.

Get Space News and Photos at space.aol.com.

NASA

NEWSBYTES
Story of the Space Shuttle

Space shuttle launches 25 years ago
(CNET) -- On April 12, 1981, the space shuttle Columbia lifted off from Kennedy Space Center, Fla., with Apollo moon walker John Young and Navy test pilot Bob Crippen aboard. The shuttle was the first reusable spacecraft and the two solid rocket boosters that launched it were the first to be reused. It was a very risky mission--the first time a manned spacecraft had launched without a test flight.

NASA Marks 25 Years, Preps for Sea Change
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- As NASA celebrates the 25th anniversary of its first shuttle flight this week, the agency also steels itself for the biggest upheaval
since the moon shot days of Apollo in the early 1970s.

American Astronautical Society Statement on the 45th Anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's Orbit of the Earth and the 25th Anniversary of the First Space Shut

Space station crew marks Gagarin's flight
MOSCOW (AP) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin chatted Wednesday with the U.S.-Russian crew on the international space station via a televised hookup marking the 45th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's flight to space, wishing them a successful mission and hailing international cooperation in the cosmos.

STS-1: 'A test pilot's dream'
Columbia astronaut recalls first shuttle flight on 25th anniversary
(CNN) -- Veteran commander John Young and his rookie pilot Robert Crippen faced a lot of uncertainties April 12, 1981, as they waited for the space shuttle Columbia to lift off from Florida's Kennedy Space Flight Center.

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