Incident: Sun Express B738 near Thessaloniki on Jan 22nd 2010, bomb hoax in lavatory
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:52:12 AM
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| SNIPPET: "A Sun Express Boeing 737-800, registration TC-SUO performing flight XQ-973 from Stuttgart (Germany) to Izmir (Turkey) with 62 passengers and 6 crew, was enroute overhead Skopje (Macedonia), when a crew member found a note in one of the lavatories saying "Today we will die, boom"." SNIPPET: "Greek police detained a man carrying a marker pen of the same color as the note written on the lavatory's mirror, but later permitted him to continue the journey. After the airplane arrived in Izmir, Turkish police detained the man again and interviewed him. The man was released without charges after the interview." |
GERMANY'S NEW MERCEDES MUSEUM - From Horsepower to the Popemobile
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:52:12 AM
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| On Friday, Mercedes-Benz will open the world's largest museum dedicated to automobiles. The grand new museum will present the icons of the German automobile industry -- from the earliest cars right up to the Popemobile. The building couldn't be more German. It's equipped with incredible technology, and yet it looks a bit beat-up somehow. It almost resembles a dented can. On Friday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel will travel to Stuttgart to celebrate the inauguration of the city's new Mercedes Museum. The museum, located near the Mercedes-Benz factory in the Untertürkheim neighborhood, is meant to emphasize the German industrial giant's mythological... |
U.S. Moves Rwandan Civilian Police to War-Torn Darfur
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:52:12 AM
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| STUTTGART-VAIHINGEN, Germany, Aug. 8, 2005 – A U.S.-contracted commercial aircraft moved 49 Rwandan civilian police officers from Kigali, Rwanda, to El Fashir airfield in the war-torn Darfur region of Sudan Aug. 7. The move was in response to a request by the African Union to NATO. The movement of civilian police and AU peace monitors is part of an effort that began July 14, when 150 U.S. Air Force personnel from Germany and England deployed to provide logistical and airlift support of Rwandan forces as part of the African Union's expanded mission in Sudan, or AMIS II. The AU plans... |
Brigade Combat Team draws down, allows for STRYKER Stationing
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:52:12 AM
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| STUTTGART, Germany — To set the conditions for stationing a Stryker Brigade Combat Team in Vilseck, Germany, the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, now stationed there, will reduce to cadre strength beginning in summer 2005. Included in the 3rd BCT are a field artillery battalion and an engineer company in Bamberg, Germany and two company-sized units from the 1st Infantry Division, stationed in Wuerzburg and Kitzingen, Germany. The effective deployment of Stryker in and out of Germany remains one of our highest priorities as we proceed with our plans. We will be working over the coming months to... |
EUCOM Marines Give, Receive Key Insights in Georgia (Old Soviet Georgia)
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:52:12 AM
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| STUTTGART, Germany, June 29, 2005 – Sworn enemies during the Cold War, the Republic of Georgia - part of the former Soviet Union -- and the United States are brothers in arms now, forming friendships and training side by side. Gone are the Cold War days of mistrust and suspicion, replaced by feelings of cooperation and mutual respect, as U.S. forces work to prepare their Georgian counterparts for operations in Iraq and boost regional security in the Caucasus during the Georgia Sustainment and Stability Operations Program. Under U.S. European Command direction, two battalions of Georgian soldiers are training with U.S.... |
Special Forces Support Pan Sahel Initiative in Africa
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:52:12 AM
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| Soldiers assigned to the 1st Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) in Stuttgart, Germany, are training African soldiers along the outer reaches of the Sahara Desert in support of the global war on terrorism. Special Forces training teams from Special Operations Command Europe are in Bamako, Gao and Timbuktu, Mali; and Atar, Mauritania in northwestern Africa to provide foreign internal defense training for the Pan Sahel Initiative, a U.S. State Department security assistance program. "We're training basic platoon level tasks to one company of the 33rd Parachute Infantry Regiment in Bamako in order to enhance their capabilities to police their... |
German Police Raid Three Groups' Offices (islamic charity)
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:52:12 AM
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| BERLIN (AP) — Police in southwestern Germany raided three Islamic organizations Friday suspected of forging passports and other papers for use in extremist activities. Several people were detained. Thomas Schaeuble, the top security official in Baden-Wuerttemberg state, said the raids were a preventive measure. Islamic extremists have been known to use false papers during trips to countries such as Yemen, Pakistan and Afghanistan, he said. ``There was concrete information that certain Islamic meeting places were used to supply people with false papers,'' he said. ``We have to assume that these people were using these forgeries in order to operate in... |
Longtime science teacher found dead at Stuttgart's Patch High School
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:52:12 AM
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| STUTTGART, Germany — Robert Hanks, a longtime Patch High School science teacher, was found dead at the school Saturday around 6 p.m. The cause of death is under investigation, according to Department of Defense Dependents Schools spokesman Frank O’Gara. The school convened a crisis intervention team over the weekend. As school resumed Monday, the team members worked with faculty and students to deal with the death, O’Gara said. Hanks, 66, sold pretzels in the front lobby of the school each day to raise money to defray the costs of feeding the animals he kept that were part of his biology... |
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