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[Punisher]

thats terrible to hear thats like an all time low

[the svrman]

dude thats wrong some obsention and it was over HALO lol man crazy stuff

[JohnCenaFan28]

That's nasty... I can't believe that would happen:o

[Black Widow]

nothing, .. well i was modding at the time.. thats my excuse

[Black Widow]

thats just wrong

[5be92]

crazy man.....he's probably pissed off that she was a better player than him

[5be92]

hmmm...interesting

[JohnCenaFan28]

Very interesting, thanks.

[OMEN]

WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush said on Thursday he strongly supports a Justice Department investigation into the destruction of CIA videotapes of interrogation of terrorism suspects.

The White House would cooperate, he said.

"I strongly support it. And we will participate," Bush said in a Reuters interview.

It was his first public comment since the Justice Department said on Wednesday it had launched a criminal investigation into the CIA's destruction of videotapes showing harsh interrogation of terrorism suspects.

Asked whether he had any concerns that the probe might raise questions about his counterterrorism policy, Bush replied: "See what it says. See what the investigation leads to."

The Central Intelligence Agency last month disclosed that in 2005 it destroyed hundreds of hours of tapes from the interrogations of two al Qaeda suspects, prompting an outcry from Democrats, human rights activists and some legal experts.

The CIA interrogations, which took place in 2002, were believed to have included a form of simulated drowning known as waterboarding, condemned internationally as torture.

Bush has said the United States does not torture but has declined to be specific about interrogation methods.
Bush also called on Congress to pass a new version of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which sets rules for electronic surveillance in terrorism cases.

The effort to renew the legislation is stalled amid battles over enhanced privacy protections some Democrats want and Bush's push to shield telephone companies from lawsuits if they participated in a program of domestic spying without warrants after the September 11, 2001 attacks.

"Speaking about that, the Congress needs to pass FISA, and they need to do it quickly," Bush said.

He reiterated his view that "FISA expires, but the threat to America doesn't."

In the case of the destroyed tapes, the Justice Department and the CIA's inspector general last month launched an initial inquiry into their destruction.

The CIA says it acted lawfully in destroying the tapes, but critics including some top congressional Democrats say the agency flouted court orders and investigators' requests that it hand over evidence in various terrorism cases.

A Justice Department official declined to specify what laws may have been violated.

Congressional intelligence committees, which are seeking testimony from senior CIA officials believed involved in the destruction, said they would continue their investigations despite the federal probe.

Reuters

[OMEN]

GAZA (Reuters) - The Israeli army killed at least four Palestinian gunmen and five civilians in air and ground strikes in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Thursday, witnesses and hospital officials said.

Hamas said one of its militants was killed and three were wounded by an Israeli missile in the central Gaza Strip after they had tried to fire mortar bombs into Israel.

Another militant with Hamas, an Islamist group, was killed and three were wounded by a missile attack on a militant training camp near the southern town of Rafah, Palestinian hospital staff and a Hamas official said.

An Israeli army spokeswoman confirmed there had been a missile attack on a gunman in the central Gaza Strip and said she was checking the report of the Rafah strike.

An earlier incursion by Israeli troops near the town of Khan Younis was a hunt for militants who fire short-range rockets into Israel, the Israeli army said.

One rocket fired on Thursday landed north of the Israeli city Ashkelon, 17 km (11 miles) from Gaza -- the furthest a Palestinian rocket has ever penetrated into Israel, the army said. A second landed in the garden of a house in Sderot, a police spokesman said.

After the Ashkelon attack, which caused no casualties or damage, Israeli warplanes bombed three buildings in the Gaza Strip, causing extensive damage.

Two of the buildings were linked to the militant group Islamic Jihad and the third to Hamas, an Israeli military spokeswoman said. Palestinian witnesses and medical officials said an Israeli tank fired at a house near Khan Younis, killing an Islamic Jihad militant outside. The shell also killed his mother, a sister and two brothers, who were in the house at the time.

An Israeli military spokeswoman said troops had come under attack by local gunmen. A tank fired at a building after gunmen were spotted taking shelter in it, she said.

Another shell wounded at least seven schoolchildren between the ages of eight and 10, hospital officials said. Medics said an Israeli tank fired the shell into a crowd. The Israeli army said it was checking the report.

The army killed two Hamas gunmen in separate incidents, both sides said, and wounded 22 Palestinians, most of them gunmen.

U.S. President George W. Bush visits the region next week to build on the November peace conference in Annapolis, Maryland, at which Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas pledged to pursue talks.

ROCKET WORRIES

The rocket attack on Ashkelon stirred concern in Israel, which says Palestinian factions are smuggling in military grade munitions from neighboring Egypt.

Islamic Jihad and another Palestinian militant group, the Popular Resistance Committees, claimed responsibility for the rocket. A rival claim, with a videotape claiming to show the rocket launch, was made by the militant Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine -- General Command.

"Until now it was only the population immediately adjacent to the Gaza Strip that was in the immediate firing line, (but) because of the extended range we could have as many as 250,000 Israelis in the firing line," said Olmert spokesman Mark Regev. Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip in June after routing Abbas's Fatah forces but Fatah runs the occupied West Bank.

Reuters