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US cannot account for 190,000 guns in Iraq

The US government cannot account for 190,000 weapons issued to Iraqi security forces in 2004 and 2005, according to an investigation carried out by the Government Accountability Office.

According to the July 31 report, the military “cannot fully account for about 110,000 AK-47 assault rifles, 80,000 pistols, 135,000 items of body armour and 115,000 helmets reported as issued to Iraqi forces.”

The weapons disappeared from records between June 2004 and September 2005, as the military struggled to rebuild the disbanded Iraqi forces from scratch amid increasing attacks from Sunni insurgents and Shiite militias.

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I never had the opportunity to watch Tom Snyder’s “Tomorrow Show,” but I did catch him when he had a show after Letterman and totally loved it.

This clip starts with a tribute from Conan O’Brien and highlights interviews with such people as:

• A young and beardless Stephen Spielberg
• Charles Manson
• Alfred Hitchcock
• Bono and The Edge with bad hair, and they even reference Lubbock, TX
• Howard Cosell
• Muhammad Ali

If you are moderating your caffeine intake – it’s worth noting that most diet soft drinks have as much (or sometimes even more) caffeine than their sugar-filled counterparts.

Diet Coke in particular has 30% more caffeine than regular Coca-cola.

Here is a list of the most caffeinated diet soft drinks.

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Not that all murder-suicides aren’t crazy, but this one has a little different element to it.  The mother shot her two children, her husband, and then herself; and left a note was left warning emergency that the bodies were infected with the AIDS virus. 

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And even though this is a very tragic story, I’m also left wondering what happened to the dog?