From www.VBS.tv series. Parts 1-5 up now on VBS.tv. In 2003, just after the US toppled the regime of Saddam Hussein, Vice magazine published an article on the only heavy metal band in Iraq, Acrassicauda. The Baghdad-based band was formed in the last few years of Saddam's rule and aside from the typical problems every band has, they also had to deal with the stigma of playing dark western music in an Islamic state under Baath party rule, while coming out of a decade of war, sanctions, and poverty. We found their story inspiring. When we interviewed the band they were excited to be living in a newly freed Iraq, and their future seemed limitless. They even talked of recording an album. Things took a turn for the worse, however. After a few months respite, the situation in free Iraq deteriorated quickly and by the end of the year, after a few key insurgent attacks-the bombing at the UN building, the massive strike at the grand Shi'a mosque in Najaf-Iraq started to unravel. We stayed in touch with the band through this time and in the fall of 2006, with the insurgency reaching a fevered pitch, VICE Co-Founder Suroosh Alvi and VBS Producer Eddy Moretti decided to visit them. For more go to www.vbs.tv

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http://www.yugloo.com/ Oscar De La Hoya was six years old when he first began to box. "My brother, Joel Jr., put a pair on me and the other pair on one of my cousins," Oscar recalled. " Then he yelled 'Time!' immediately, I covered my cheeks with the gloves." "The next thing I knew — wham — the first punch is a left jab that goes between my gloves and lands smack on my nose!" Oscar De La Hoya ran home, crying every step of the way. De La Hoya never pictured himself becoming a fighter. He was always found in the park playing baseball with the other kids. It was actually his older brother Joel Jr. who many believed had the potential to become a great fighter. Joel Jr. never pictured his younger brother as a fighter. "Oscar hated physical confrontations, he never had a street fight. He preferred to play with skateboards near the house and baseball in the park. Nothing violent." But boxing is in the De La Hoya tradition and blood. It goes back several generations when his grandfather, Vicente, a 126-pound amateur in the 1940s, and his father Joel, Sr., who fought as a lightweight in the professional ranks in the mid-1960s. Oscar was being pushed to go to the gym and learn to defend himself. He started going to the Eastside Boxing Gym in East L.A and began training and remembers that "every time I won a fight, my cousins, aunts and uncles would give me money. A dollar here, a quarter there, half a buck." It was there that this future world champion began his road to stardom. He quickly discovered the ingredient that would make him a devastating fighter, his powerful left hand. He began to train religiously. Oscar's first true test was at the 1992 Olympics. He waited anxiously and prepared his entire life for that moment. He promised his ailing mother, Cecilia, that he would bring back home the gold medal. There was no question in his mind that he would win it. He was going to win it for his mother! The road to the gold medal bout was not an easy one. As the Olympic tournament began he disposed of his first three opponents - knocking out the first. Then in his first medal round match, what should have been an easy victory became a close controversial decision. De La Hoya struggled against his opponent's awkward bull-rushing style, but Oscar would not be denied as he emerged with a tight one-point victory. De La Hoya was now in the gold medal bout. The very gold medal he promised his beloved mother and was eager to win since all the other U.S. boxers failed to bring home the gold. His final hurdle would come against Marco Rudolph, the fighter who had defeated Oscar one year earlier at the World Championships in Australia. It was De La Hoya's first loss as an amateur in four years. For Oscar, it would make the victory that much sweeter. De La Hoya, fighting at 132 pounds, dominated the fight from beginning to end. He controlled Rudolph for the entire three rounds. In the third round, he used his powerful left hand to knock down Rudolph. It was no contest and the referee stopped the fight. De La Hoya celebrated by dancing around the ring with a U.S. flag in one hand and a Mexican flag in the other. Oscar had accomplished his ultimate goal, he fulfilled his special promise to his mother -- one of the most emotional moments of the Olympic Games. During his amateur boxing career, De La Hoya's record was an outstanding 223-5 with 163 knockouts. After the Olympics, Oscar bought a big house in a nice neighborhood a few miles from East L.A. He wanted to share the success of winning the gold medal and the house with his mother, but she was already gone. His mother, Cecilia died of breast cancer. Oscar wanted to quit boxing because the pain of losing his mother was unbearable, but he realized that she wanted him to be a great fighter. So he continued and became a five-time world champion with explosive power and great boxing skills in the ring. Oscar has won world crowns at 130, 135, 140, 147 and 154 pounds beating some impressive boxers along the way. He stopped Wilfredo Rivera in eight rounds on the "Title Wave" championship card in Atlantic City, NJ and defeated a tough Hector Camacho in 1996 by unanimous decision. "He's a true champion," said Camacho. "He's the best I've ever fought and I've been in there with the best." De La Hoya's also fought against the legendary Julio Cesar Chavez in Chavez's 100th professional fight. Oscar defeated him soundly and cut Chavez's eye and broke his nose, but felt honored to be in the ring with such a true warrior and boxing legend. De La Hoya captured the welterweight title in his victory over six-time world champion Pernell Whitaker on April 12, 1997, in Las Vegas. It was a huge challenge for the Golden Boy who went up seven pounds (from 140 to 147) and took on a seasoned tricky southpaw who at times fought in a low crouch and fired from different angles.

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please use the follow Links for more Info! Police has ident the Gunman! http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=48858 http://www.vt.edu/ - VA Tech Univeristy http://cnn.com - CNN http://www.foxnews.com - Fox News http://abcnews.go.com/ - ABC News http://orf.at - ORF (Austrian TV, German) Two very interesting and informative articles on the Virginia Tech Shootings... from ( http://youtube.com/ConnectingEffect ) http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/april2007/160407blackop.htm http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/april2007/170407Problem.htm 33 dead in Virginia Tech shooting At least 33 people, including the suspected gunman, were killed in a shooting rampage at Virginia Tech university. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Virginia Tech students described the mayhem on campus on Monday and criticized officials for not shutting the university down quickly enough after 33 people were killed including a gunman. * Andrew Gisch, a second-year student, was walking across a quadrangle listening to his iPod when he heard "a big bang." "I recognized the sound of gunfire but was mostly confused .... I looked around at the other students on the drillfield, most of them confused like myself....it clicked in everyone's head immediately the sound we heard was a gun shot and everyone started running. I went back to the dorm, locked the door, and turned on the news." * Daniel Smith said he was aware of shootings at other schools but he never thought it could happen at this university It hits you in the heart. It's more of a shock to me because I'm an engineering major and when that list (victims' names) comes out, I know I'm going to see some friends on there and its scaring me inside right now." * Jason Piatt criticized the way university officials reacted after the first shooting. "I'm pretty outraged that someone died in a shooting in a dorm at 7 o'clock in the morning and the first e-mail about it had no mention of locking down the campus, no mention of canceling classes," Piatt told CNN. "They just mentioned that they were investigating a shooting," he said. "That's pretty ridiculous. Meanwhile, while they sent out that e-mail, 21 people got killed." * Matt Waldron, a student and football player, said one of the many calls of concern he had received was from Iraq. "He's a friend that called from Iraq and was putting out his concerns to everybody over here. He's a soldier over there, and was just wondering and making sure everybody's OK," Waldron told CNN. * Justin Merrifield said he noticed four police cars and a girl crying in front of West Ambler Johnston Hall, the dormitory where the first shooting occurred, at about 9 a.m. But he did not realize the magnitude of the crisis until he arrived at his 10 a.m. class. "We were inside the classroom maybe five or 10 minutes and our teacher never showed up," said Merrifield, 21, a senior majoring in animal science. "Somebody came in and said the place is on lock-down. And when the teacher never showed up and we found out we were on lock-down, we all took off running." Students were alerted by announcements over campus loudspeakers, he said. "There was a voice that just kept repeating, 'Gunman on campus, stay indoors, get away from windows,' over and over, basically," said Merrifield. ((Writing by Philip Barbara; editing by Chris Wilson; World Desk Washington 703-898-8457) Breaking News 16.04.2007 More about @ http://reuters.com ______________________ operation05.com Comment Pater noster, qui es in caelis: Sanctificetur nomen tuum: Adveniat regnum tuum: fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo, et in terra. Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie: Et demitte nobis debita nostra, sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris. Et ne nos inducas in tentationem. Sed libera nos a malo. NON NOBIS DOMINE NON NOBIS SED NOMINI TUO DA GLORIAM Amen. F, franz Die Taufe ward vor Höllenqual. Der schrieb der erste von dem Gral. Ein Heide war er vaterhalb, Flegetanis, der noch ein Kalb Anbetete, als wär es Gott. ???? ????? ???? veritas vos liberabit. V A M

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Soon after the death of Jim Henson, Sad Kermit the Frog turned to a life full of drugs, alcohol and sex. His fall to rock-bottom was quick and unrelenting. These songs document Sad Kermit's pain during these years...and years to come. SadKermit.com

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Drunk Beats up a Chick in the Street, Karma Catches up with him Quickly And A Cab Driver Give Him What He Had Coming.

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Some quick fingers allow this guy to lift any of your possesions from right under your nose.

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After a night having some fun she quickly changes the room around but after her kids came in there was still a man in a thong on her bed...oops!

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After removing the pin the policeman quickly managed to throw it away, accidentally throwing it at another cop.

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Well dad shouldn't be so quick to judge!

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This Audi is so quick off the line. 900 Horse Power will do that.

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