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Alamo: The History of Leisure Traveling – Kiwi Car Hire

  • Posted on April 14, 2012 at 2:32 am

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Alamo is third-largest car Rental Company in the United States. And the St. Louis-based Enterprise Holdings owns and operates the Alamo brand in North America.

Alamo Rent a Car is an internationally recognized brand that provides the rental needs of airport leisure travelers. Alamo?s number 1 objective is to offer low rental rates and hassle-free customer service to its clients as they travel to the most popular destinations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Latin-America, Asia and the Caribbean.

Alamo started in 1974 with four locations in Florida. They were the ones who first introduced the concept of ?Unlimited Free Mileage? thus immediately making a mark in the car rental industry.

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After its founding, Alamo quickly became one of the largest holiday rental providers in the country.

In 1985, Alamo introduced a rental agreement the size of an airline ticket with the Instant Alamo Rent a Car, a program that stores the rental information of their customer for easy reference.

After a decade, Alamo became the first car rental company to have real-time booking services in the World Wide Web. And in 2002, the company started a partnership with the Walt Disney World Resort and Disneyland Resort.

In 2005, Alamo was the largest car rental provider to international travelers visiting North America. And at the same year, Alamo introduced the first and only online check-in system in the car rental industry.

In 2007, Alamo was acquired by the Taylor Family who are also the owner of the Enterprise Car Rental Company. The company also received the ?Extra Mile Award? from the Budget Travel Magazine.

Alamo has only been more than thirty years in car rental business yet it has excelled and is now one of the best rental companies that gives travelers fun and friendly service and at the same time low-cost, high-quality services.

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Iraq: Wave Of Car Bombings Hit Baghdad, Killing At Least 14

  • Posted on January 25, 2012 at 2:35 pm

BAGHDAD — A wave of car bombings hit the Iraq capital on Tuesday, killing 14 people and wounding more than 70 as violence surges in the country amid an escalating political crisis a month after the U.S. military withdrawal.

At least 170 people have died in attacks since the beginning of the year, many of them Shiite pilgrims attending religious commemorations. The last American soldiers left the country Dec. 18.

Suspected Sunni insurgents have frequently targeted Shiite communities and Iraqi security forces to undermine public confidence in the Shiite-dominated government and its efforts to protect people.

Tuesday’s first attack targeted an early morning gathering of day laborers in Baghdad’s Sadr City neighborhood. Police said eight were killed and another 21 wounded. Minutes later, an explosives-packed car blew up near a pastry shop in the same district, killing three people and wounding 26, police said.

Later in the morning, two more explosives-laden cars detonated, killing three and wounding 29 people.

A parked car bomb exploded near a high school at 10:30 a.m. in the predominantly Shiite neighborhood of Shula in northern Baghdad, killing two students and wounding 16 others, most of them also students, according to local police.

In the neighboring district of Hurriya, one person was killed when an explosives-packed car, parked along a busy commercial street detonated five minutes after the Shula blast, police officials said. Thirteen people were injured in that bombing.

Hospital officials in Baghdad confirmed the death toll. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.

While insurgents have carried out a number of deadly attacks in recent years, there is little indication so far that the country is slipping back toward the widespread sectarian bloodshed of 2006 and 2007.

Nonetheless, these recent attacks are seen as particularly dangerous because they coincide with both the departure of U.S. troops, as well as a political crisis pitting Shiite officials against the largest Sunni-backed bloc.

The political battle erupted last month after the Shiite-led government issued an arrest warrant against the Sunni vice president, Tareq al-Hashemi, on terrorism charges, sending him into virtual exile in the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq. In protest, al-Hashemi’s Sunni-backed Iraqiya bloc has been boycotting parliament and Cabinet sessions, bringing government work to a standstill.

Sunnis fear that without the American presence as a last-resort guarantor of a sectarian balance, the Shiite government will try to pick off their leaders one by one, as Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki tries to cement his own grip on power.

Last week, the leader of the Sunni-backed Iraqiya bloc, Ayad Allawi, accused al-Maliki of unfairly targeting Sunni officials and deliberately triggering a political crisis that is tearing Iraq apart. Allawi, who is a Shiite, said Iraq needs a new prime minister or new elections to prevent the country from disintegrating along sectarian lines.

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Associated Press writer Barbara Surk in Baghdad contributed to this report.

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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/24/baghdad-bombings_n_1225996.html

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