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To: Bill who wrote (708824)	10/26/2005 12:23:56 AM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Six Stabbed at 1-Year-Old's Birthday Party Oct 24 2005 AP EAST HARTFORD, Conn. Six people were stabbed early Sunday during a melee at a 1-year-old's birthday party, police said. It apparently started when a downstairs neighbor went upstairs to complain about the noise. The injured were taken to Hartford and St. Francis hospitals, where they were treated for stab wounds to their faces and necks. All were later released. Police said they received several 911 calls around 12:45 a.m. They arrived at a two-family home on Crosby Street to find dozens of people running around in a thunderstorm. Some were screaming and bleeding. Most spoke only Spanish, adding to the chaos. A Spanish-speaking officer from Manchester was eventually brought into translate. Four carloads of men showed up to join the fight and police said some may have been affiliated with a gang. Sgt. Ed Perkins said that as he arrived he saw one person in the road beating another person with a chair. Officers said they found a knife hidden under the child's birthday cake. No children or police officers were injured. Eight people were arrested. Two were treated for injuries at the hospital and released. Police detained so many people that they ran out of regular handcuffs. Then they ran out of temporary flexible restraining devices and had to call for more. East Hartford's emergency management director found housing at local hotels for at least eight children and 12 adults displaced when the apartment became a crime scene. Police were interviewing witnesses to find out what sparked the brawl.

To: Bill who wrote (708824)	10/26/2005 12:51:03 AM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Suicide Bomber Shortage Strategypage.com October 23, 2005 Excerpt: As Iraqi police and soldiers take over more security duties throughout the country, this allows a larger number of American troops to undertake offensive operations, and they are making more patrols and raids inside Sunni Arab areas. The Syrian border is particularly hot. Over the weekend, intelligence efforts discovered five terrorist safe houses, which resulted in attacks by smart bombs and ground troops. At least twenty terrorists were killed, and large quantities of weapons, bomb making materials and documents were captured. The documents, and interrogations of captured suspects leads to more information on where the terrorists have there safe houses, weapons caches, and travel routes across the Syrian border (the main source of suicide bombers, who are almost all foreigners, and cash.) The increased American offensives has led to increased casualties, with the rate up to the August level (close to three American deaths a day). >>>>>> The ones that leave Iraq, often do so out of frustration. ....... The men returning from Iraq carry with them stories of the slaughter of Iraqi civilians, and this leads to less enthusiasm for serving al Qaeda in Iraq. As a result, al Qaeda has increased its recruiting efforts in more distant areas. Thus foreign terrorist volunteers from Canada, Israel, Europe and Africa have been detected. The current drop in suicide bomb attacks is believed partly due to a shortage of foreign volunteers, and partly due to more attacks on terrorist safe houses (where the foreign volunteers are kept out of sight, lest local Iraqis hear that foreign dialect and call the cops) and bomb workshops. More at: strategypage.com