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Now you can support without guilt shooting of snipers of the American Occupation in Iraq.

Now you can support without guilt, with money and weapons, the shooting or beheading of US Occupation's snipers taking cue from a group of College Republicans. Republicans - this is the party of George Bush.

The students, representing a group called College Republicans, originally got permission to set up a table at the student union to raise money for U.S. troops in Iraq. The students then started selling bracelets bearing the motto "1 Shot 1 Kill No Remorse I Decide."They chose to promote a group called Adopt a Sniper, which says on its Web site it supports snipers deployed by the United States armed forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The group says it "helps real snipers get the real gear they need to help keep us safe." The brainchild of a Texas police SWAT officer Adopt a Sniper (www.adoptasniper.org) has raised thousands of dollars in cash and gear to supplement the kit of sharp shooters in U.S. combat platoons.

Among products sold on the site is a $15 coin with the imprinted phrase "Assistance From A Distance."

• There were no survivors among the 30 Marines and one Navy corpsman in the CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopter that crashed near Ar Rutbah, about 220 miles west of Baghdad. All but three of the Marines had been based in Hawaii, according to Sen. Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii.
• In three other incidents, four U.S. Marines were killed in action in western Iraq, a soldier was killed and two others were wounded when insurgents attacked an Army patrol near the northern town of Duluiyah, and a roadside bomb in the Baghdad area killed a soldier and wounded two others, the U.S. command said.

• The grisly video showed a man identified as Ibrahim Mohammed Ismail on his knees, handcuffed and blindfolded on an Iraqi street before a masked man shot him in the head.

On Friday, Zarqawi's group posted a video on an Islamist website showing the beheading of two Iraqis after they "confessed" to working at a US base in the country. Both called on those who work with US forces to desist or face death. "We advise those working for the Americans to stop doing so. Don't come to Ramadi, the city of the mujahedeen, otherwise you will be killed," they said.

• After making their "confessions" in front of a banner carrying the name of Zarqawi's group, the video showed each man having his head cut off.
• The severed heads were held aloft by the men's slaughterers and put on their backs to shouts of Allahu Akbar, or God is greatest.

Zarqawi attacked democracy as a springboard for "un-Islamic" practices, claiming that its emphasis on majority rule violated the principle that all laws must come from a divine source. There is some grain for truth here, because how could a mortal like George Bush be considered a virtual God in the United States - even his turd is analyzed with reverence in the United States Press and public - almost to the point of making a discerning person puke.

"Candidates in elections are seeking to become demi-gods, while those who vote for them are infidels," Zarqawi said.

The speaker reserved particular scorn for Iraq's Shia majority, whose parties are widely expected to win next Sunday's election. The Shia, it said, were poised to spread "their insidious beliefs" to Baghdad and Sunni-dominated areas of Iraq.

A message attributed to Zarqawi earlier this week accused the Shia of taking part in the US assault on the Sunni Muslim city of Falluja and described their spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ali Sistani, as "Satan". Falluja is to Iraq what My Lai was to Vietnam.

• U.S. general: Al-Zarqawi's days are numbered
• Al-Qaida ally in Iraq warned he will be caught 'sooner or later'

True Words: “I’d love to capture, detain or kill Zarqawi,” Brig.-Gen. Jeffrey Hammond told reporters. “I’m very optimistic that sooner or later we’re going to get him. "The bloodhounds are on him right now. They’re on his trail.” Bloodhounds. Pretty apt. Calling his own soldiers dogs.

Empty Threats: The U.S. commander also warned al-Qaida ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a driving force behind escalating attacks in the buildup to Iraq’s election, that American troops were on his trail and would capture or kill him "sooner or later." The occupiers have 150,000 strong force in Iraq, and he is still saying - "sooner or later." What is it - Sooner? Or Later? Or maybe you meant "Dead or Alive?"

Dumb Conclusion: Branding al-Zarqawi the “head of the snake,” Brig.-Gen. Jeffrey Hammond said on Friday that taking out the shadowy Jordanian Islamist leader, who tops America’s wanted list, would deal a crippling blow to Iraq’s insurgency. If you ever had any respect for the American Military, this is the time to wake up from your hallucination. They are now promising the end of the insurgency by the killing of just one man .... anybody remember what these same people were saying before Saddam was betrayed?

Al-Zarqawi — whose network seems to strike at will, targeting politicians and beheading foreign hostages despite a $25 million U.S. bounty on his head — eluded a manhunt during a major U.S.-led assault on his former Fallujah stronghold in November. An audio tape purportedly from al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden has backed al-Zarqawi as the network’s leader in Iraq and urged Muslims to wage holy war to drive out U.S.-led forces.

His group’s almost daily attacks across Iraq have raised fears of a bloodbath during the Jan. 30 election, the first ballot since a U.S.-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003.

• daring terrorists to "bring 'em on" and
• promising to capture Osama bin Laden "dead or alive."

" 'Bring it on' was a little blunt," Mr. Bush said on the ABC program "20/20." "I remember when I talked about Osama bin Laden. I said we're going to get him dead or alive. I guess it's not the most diplomatic of language."

• Al-Sistani's cleric Mahmoud al-Madaen was killed on Wednesday in Salman Pak, an ancient town south of Baghdad, along with his son and four guards.
• Another aide working in Sistani’s office in the holy city of Najaf was also found dead. No further information was immediately available.

Reports of mass resignations played down: Iraq’s Independent Electoral Commission had played down reports of mass resignations by electoral officials in Sunni Muslim provinces to the north and west.

• Top electoral officials told reporters on Tuesday that there had been individual resignations, but all those who had stepped down had been replaced. The Anbar team has been replaced by officials from Baghdad, they said.

• In a suggestion that the insurgents were looking for new ways to intimidate voters, a militant group posted threats in at least two towns warning it would deploy “highly trained” snipers around Iraq during the elections. The statement, signed by the previously unknown Secret Republican Army, said 32 snipers will operate in Wasit, a largely Shiite province south of Baghdad that includes Kut, Numaniyah and Suwaiyra.

Allawi is a candidate in the election and has been increasingly visible in recent days. The news conference was his second in as many days, and he stood before several Iraqi flags and signs that read “Security and Safety First.”

A boy looks at the bloodied interior of a vehicle after Baghdad's deputy police chief Amer Nayef and his son, also a police officer, were shot dead early Monday. (Sabah Arar / AFP-Getty Images)

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The deputy police chief of Baghdad and his son, also a police officer, were shot dead Monday. Brig. Amer Ali Nayef and his son, Lt. Khalid Amer, were assassinated in Baghdad’s south Dora district while traveling in a car on their way to work, said a spokesman for the interior ministry, Capt. Ahmed Ismail.

Gunmen sprayed machine-gun fire from two cars which were driving parallel with the police chief’s vehicle before fleeing the scene of the attack close to his home, police said. The two were alone in their car.

• Last week, gunmen shot dead the governor of Baghdad, Ali al-Haidari, and six of his bodyguards.

• An Associated Press photographer saw a number of bodies inside the courtyard that was cordoned off by police.

Residents gather around a house reduced to a pile of rubble, in the village of Aitha, Iraq, south of Mosul, Saturday.

Another reason why the uncivilized George Bush & American Military Power must be broken - it's defeat must start in the cradle of civilization that was Iraq. Today it is Iraqis being slaughtered, tomorrow it may be us. Four more years of Bush is a very long and dangerous time.

AITHA, Iraq - An explosion at a house south of Mosul killed 14 people and wounded five early Saturday, the owner said. The house owner, Ali Yousef, said the strike happened at about 2:30 a.m. in this village 30 miles south of Mosul and American troops immediately came and surrounded the area, blocking access for four hours. The brick house was reduced to a pile of rubble, according to an Associated Press photographer at the scene. By evening Saturday, all 14 dead -- including seven children -- had been buried in a nearby cemetery, Yousef said.

• The U.S. military confirmed that an air strike hit the building, but said five people died. During a cordon and search operation to capture an insurgent lead, a U.S. air force F-16 dropped a 500-pound guided bomb in the area south of Mosul on the house intended for search, a military statement said. "The house was not the intended target for the air strike. The intended target was another location nearby," the statement said. "Responding forces reported that five individuals died in the strike."

• Earlier Saturday, militants abducted three senior Iraqi officials, beheaded a man who worked for the U.S. military, and killed four people in a suicide car bombing south of Baghdad, officials said.