What Liberal Media Won't Report11152007

What Liberal Media Won't Report

As the major networks ignore recent success in Iraq for fear of praising President Bush, Soldiers and GS Contractors have taken it on themselves to report the good news. Play the story to the right, see and hear how well it really is. You don't have parades where there is no security. LiveLeak.Com, MySpaceTV, and YouTube are among countless sites now becoming the new media outlet for getting the real news. Media left wing nuts who refuse to get on the net will be left behind in the next decade if they continue to refuse to report stories like this one. They don't because they are afraid the truth will keep Hillary out of the White House. Their subscriptions are showing decline as people move to new sources without liberal bias.

Dan Merrick Reporting 11/15/07

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Merrick also said that the initial costs are about half a million dollars in start up and construction to make the project work. Once the city approves the permits Merrick plans to apply with local economic development, state, and federal agencies for grants and loans to complete the project. Merrick's company has recently expanded internet efforts to raise some of the needed cash by pre-booking ads through the internet. Funds will be held in escrow for advertising until the sign is constructed and everything is up and running.

RDJC, Inc. has plans to create a call center after this project starts to generate income. The call center will be used to facilitate orders for corporate projects in sales and service marketed on the internet and on TV.

"I hope to have a central office here in Bradford from which to expand marketing efforts for RDJ nation wide." Merrick met earlier this week with finance executives to discuss plans and find private investors and bank financing. For more information on the billboard you can log online at www.PABillboard.com or at www.Billboard219.com

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Moderate Detainees Help to Identify Extremists in Iraq By John J. Kruzel American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4, 2007 - Moderate Muslims held in coalition detention centers in Iraq are turning in radical Muslim detainees on a daily basis, the deputy commanding general for Multinational Force Iraq detainee operations said yesterday.

Thousands of Muslim detainees identified to coalition forces as "extremists" have been siphoned from "moderate" populations and placed in separate confinement areas called modular detainee housing units, Marine Maj. Gen. Douglas Stone said during a conference call with Web journalists.

"What we had were moderates who said, 'Listen, you know, we don't want that (extremist) direction,'" he said. "The moderates will turn in the extremists, ... (and) now that we can physically do that, almost every day groups of 50 to 100 to 150 to 200 (detainees) will self-identify the guys, will pull them out."

Describing what he called a "moderate revolt," Stone described several instances where middle-of-the-road Muslims actively repudiated Islamic extremism inside the walls of coalition compounds.

"The fundamental messaging from the extremists outside who have been reporting about detention and inside is 'We've lost control; we're losing control,'" he said. "I think they genuinely believed that they had ideological recruiting and training control over the compounds inside the theater internment facilities, and they have genuinely lost it."

Helping to drive the shift away from extremist Islam are Iraq's provincial and tribal leaders, who Stone said set "the tone and tenor" that radical Muslims should no longer be tolerated in their respective of Iraqi societies. Stone expressed guarded optimism about recent detainee developments at Multinational Force Iraq, which currently holds 25,188 detainees, including 20,581 Sunnis and 4,562 Shiites.

Since July, coalition forces have released 3,305 detainees. None of those released have been re-detained, and only three have been recaptured for questioning unrelated to insurgent activity, Stone said. degree of security."

Furthermore, compared to five weeks ago when troops averaged 61 detentions per day, today the average has dropped to around 40. Detainee releases have remained "very constant" for the better part of the last two months at 49 a day, Stone added.

The steady flow of releases is in part the result of a new curriculum offered to detainees at coalition compounds, Stone said. The courses include offerings that reinforce basic Islamic tenets such as the sanctity of life and property, loving humanity and avoiding hatred, earning a living, and practicing respect and tolerance for humanity.

"It's embedded in its religion, so it needs to put things in the context of the Muslim faith, and that's how they do it," he said. "Each one includes in there a Quranic sort of reference to give these guys some reason why it has a lynchpin."

More than 7,000 detainees are enrolled in basic education courses. Roughly 1,000 others are participating in mixed Sunni and Shiite religious discussions led by imams hired by coalition forces, a course that will become mandatory for detainees who have been deemed ready for release.

"They are genuinely engaged in a conversation -- a Socratic conversation -- without our presence in there, about the Quran," Stone said of the religious course. "They come out understanding the difference between what the extremists have said, or what the extremists have made them memorize, vs. what's actually in the Quran."

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