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‘American Taliban’ in the custody of US Special Forces. November 2001

John Philip Walker Lindh (born February 9, 1981) is an American convicted felon who was captured as an enemy combatant during the United States’ invasion of Afghanistan in November 2001.

A convert to Sunni Islam in California at age 16, Lindh traveled to Yemen in 1998 to study Arabic and stayed there for 10 months. He later returned in 2000, then went to Afghanistan to aid the Taliban in fighting against the Afghan Northern Alliance. He received training at Al-Farouq, a training camp associated with al-Qaeda, designated a terrorist organization by the United States and other countries. While at the camp, he attended a lecture by Osama bin Laden. After the 9/11 attacks, he remained with the Taliban military forces despite learning that the U.S. had become allied with the Northern Alliance.

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15 Useful Tips And Tricks For Dog Owners

1. If you’re taking your animal to the vet for an ailment, get video of them coughing, breathing strangely, limping, etc. Animals may not show the ailment at the vet’s office and the video can help the vet diagnose your furry friend.

My dog has had epilepsy for over six years but because she also has a heart murmur every time she had an episode, our old vet would want expensive ekg’s and start talking about heart meds.

We take one video of her episode and immediately the new vet says that has nothing to do with cardiovascular ailment, that’s neurological. And she’s been fine since on the right meds.

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Georgia sheepdog faced off 11 coyotes and killed 8 of them.

John Wiierwille of Decatur, Georgia, has about 300 sheep. He keeps some of them on his farm. Two Pyrenean Mountain Dogs, Casper and Daisy, watch over the sheep in the backyard.

In early November, the first of them had a fight with a herd of coyotes. When it happened, Wiierwille ran outside because he heard two-year-old Casper barking. There were 11 coyotes running around. During a hard fight, the dog killed eight of them and disappeared.

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