Who's Blowing Up Iraq? New evidence that bombs are being planted by British"The Iraqi security officials on Monday variously accused two Britons they detained of shooting at Iraqi forces or TRYING TO PLANT EXPLOSIVES." Washington Post, Ellen Knickmeyer, 9-20-05; "British Smash into Jail to Free Two Detained Soldiers"
In more than two years since the United States initiated hostilities against Iraq, there has never been a positive identificatio... (more)
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The occupation forces are the real perpetrators of bomb attacks in Iraq?Iran’s top military commander accused the United States and Israel of planning the non-stop bomb attacks that killed thousands of civilians in Iraq.
Brigadier General Mohammad-Baqer Zolqadr, the deputy commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), told a gathering of senior officials, that the U.S. needs those attacks to justify the continuation of its military presence in Iraq.
“The Americans blame weak and feeble groups in Iraq f... (more)
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Iraqi Police Detain Two British Soldiers in Basra: Car Packed With ExplosivesBAGHDAD, Sept. 19 (Xinhuanet) -- Iraqi police detained two British soldiers in civilian clothes in the southern city Basra for firing on a police station on Monday, police said.
"Two persons wearing Arab uniforms opened fire at a police station in Basra. A police patrol followed the attackers and captured them to discover they were two British soldiers," an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua.
The two soldiers were using a civilian car packed with explosive... (more)
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Potential Bush-CIA crisisGeorge Tenet is not going to let himself become the fall guy for the September 11 intelligence failures, according to a former intelligence officer and a source friendly to Mr. Tenet.
A scathing report by Inspector General John Helgerson criticized the former CIA director and a score of other agency personnel for their failure to develop a strategy against al Qaeda. The report, delivered to Congress this week, recommends punitive sanctions for Mr. Tenet, former Deputy Director... (more)
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Merkel aides admit plagiarising Reagan speechGermany's conservative leader Angela Merkel faced acute embarrassment last night after aides admitted that she had plagiarised a speech used by Ronald Reagan in a 1980 US presidential debate for her own television election duel with Gerhard Schröder, the Social Democratic chancellor.
Some 21 million Germans watched on Sunday night as Mrs Merkel and Mr Schröder slugged it out in their only live TV debate of Germany's election campaign.
Yesterday, though, Ms... (more)
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While You Were Watching Katrina: House Republicans derail probes of Plame affairRepublicans on three separate congressional committees this week derailed three formal "resolutions of inquiry" by Democrats that would have required the Bush administration to turn over sensitive information and records relating to the outing of CIA officer Valerie Plame.
Had the resolutions of inquiry been adopted, they would have led to the first independent congressional inquiries of the Plame affair, and perhaps even the public testimony of senior Bush administration aides su... (more)
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Bush aide arrested on corruption chargesWASHINGTON, D.C. - The Bush administration's top federal procurement official resigned Friday and was arrested Monday, accused of lying and obstructing a criminal investigation into lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
It was the first criminal complaint filed against a government official in the ongoing corruption investigation related to Abramoff's dealings with the government.
The complaint filed by the FBI alleges that David Safavian, 38, a White House official involved unti... (more)
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Arrest ties Pyongyang to counterfeit $100 billsNorth Korea's government is producing high-quality counterfeit $100 bills and is working with criminal groups in China to sell the fake U.S. money internationally, U.S. officials say.
Some details of the production of what federal officials call "supernotes" were disclosed after arrests last month in several U.S. cities of people linked to a major Asian crime ring trafficking in fake money, arms, drugs and cigarettes.
A senior Bush administration official sa... (more)
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Video shows London bombers staged practice runThe suicide bombers who carried out a devastating attack on London's transit system on July 7 staged a practice run just nine days before the bombings, police say.
The four members of the terrorist cell travelled from the northern city of Leeds and visited their targets on the capital's transit system.
Detectives managed to retrace their movements by studying tens of thousands of hours of CCTV footage.
The visit "might suggest the suspects were carry... (more)
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'Let 10-year-old read Bible at recess': Student's attorneys ask for immediate order from courtAttorneys for a 10-year-old student asked a federal court yesterday to order a Tennessee school district to allow him to read and study the Bible during recess.
Luke Whitson and his parents, represented by the Alliance Defense Fund, claim Principal Cathy Summa at Karns Elementary School in the Knox County district violated constitutional rights by stopping a playground Bible study.
Attorneys with ADF filed a lawsuit in June after Whitson and his parents were unable... (more)
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Journalist Murdered in Basra, 68th Killed in Iraq Since Start of WarSept. 19 - Reporters Without Borders voiced outrage today at the murder of Fakher Haydar Al-Tamimi, an Iraqi journalist who worked for several foreign news media including the New York Times. He was kidnapped and then shot in the head today in the southern city of Basra.
"We are very concerned about security in Basra, as two journalists have been killed there within two months," the press freedom organisation said. "It is becoming increasingly more difficult and dangerous for the ... (more)
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Immigration Nominee's Credentials QuestionedThe Bush administration is seeking to appoint a lawyer with little immigration or customs experience to head the troubled law enforcement agency that handles those issues, prompting sharp criticism from some employee groups, immigration advocates and homeland security experts.
The push to appoint Julie Myers to head the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, part of the Department of Homeland Security, comes in the midst of intense debate over the qualifications of depar... (more)
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Speed cameras issue over 1,000 erroneous tickets per monthJohannesburg motorists who have been caught speeding by camera should check their fines carefully.
In recent weeks two cases have been brought to the attention of The Star where motorists were fined R100 for travelling more than 80km/h on the M1 North between the Glenhove and Eleventh Avenue offramps.
The speed limit, in fact, is 100km/h.
Irate motorist Ronnie Frank said he was surprised when he received his ticket.
"I know the area wel... (more)
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Dressed As Arabs, U.K. Troops Nabbed For Setting Bombs & Shooting Iraqi Cops "Two U.K. military personnel have been detained and we are liaising with the Iraqi authorities on this matter."
An Iraqi official in Basra said the British military had informed him the detained men were undercover soldiers.
"They were driving a civilian car and were dressed in civilian clothes when a shooting ... (more)
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British Soldiers Clash With Iraqi Police in BasraBASRA, Iraq, Sept. 19 -- Heavy clashes erupted Monday between Iraqi police and British soldiers based in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, witnesses said.
The clashes are the latest in surging tensions in Basra, a Shiite-dominated city that had long been one of Iraq's calmest. Attacks have targeted Britons and Americans there.
Monday's clashes stemmed from the arrest by Iraqi police on Sunday of two British soldiers, whom Iraqi police accused of planting bombs. Ira... (more)
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I Have a Chip, but It's Not on My ShoulderCan a microscopic tag be implanted in a person's body to track his every movement? There's actual discussion about that. You will rule on that -- mark my words -- before your tenure is over.
-- Sen. Joseph Biden, to Judge John Roberts at his confirmation hearings, Sept. 12
I can't wait for the day when we all have microchips implanted in our heads. It's exciting to be so close -- pet owners are already implanting VeriChips in their animals to help track them ... (more)
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Gov. Bush & his mystical buddyAfter more than an hour of solemn ceremony naming Rep. Marco Rubio, R-West Miami, as the 2007-08 House speaker, Gov. Jeb Bush stepped to the podium in the House chamber last week and told a short story about "unleashing Chang," his "mystical warrior" friend.
Here are Bush's words, spoken before hundreds of lawmakers and politicians:
''Chang is a mystical warrior. Chang is somebody who believes in conservative principles, believes in entrepreneurial capitalism, believes in m... (more)
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Disaster relief? Call in the Marines: Bush suggests lifting the ban on using the military domestically.WASHINGTON – As Washington picks through the lessons learned from hurricane Katrina, there is a growing conviction that the only organization with the skills, expertise, and resources needed to respond quickly to a catastrophe of such magnitude is the American military.
President Bush suggested a larger disaster relief role for the armed forces in his national address last week, and Congress has indicated it will take up the issue this autumn. Though the topic has emerged at... (more)
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What has happened to Iraq's missing $1bn?One billion dollars has been plundered from Iraq's defence ministry in one of the largest thefts in history, The Independent can reveal, leaving the country's army to fight a savage insurgency with museum-piece weapons.
The money, intended to train and equip an Iraqi army capable of bringing security to a country shattered by the US-led invasion and prolonged rebellion, was instead siphoned abroad in cash and has disappeared.
"It is possibly one of the largest theft... (more)
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Mercenaries Are Prowling New Orleans: Like Baghdad, Soldiers of Fortune On Armed Patrol in LouisianaOne subject that both local authorities and federal officials have been reticent to discuss is the role that private armies and mercenaries played in providing security and law enforcement in Gulf of Mexico states hit hardest by Hurricane Katrina.
It now appears hundreds of former soldiers and law enforcement officers—possibly as many as 600 or 700—were hired by private individuals, companies and corporations to protect assets in New Orleans and other parts of the stor... (more)
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Nightmare Racism and Open Call for Revolution: Alex Jones Reports on Mexican Independence Day in Austin, TexasAlex Jones/Infowars.com | September 19 2005
I am extremely depressed and have the feeling of being struck by a thunderbolt. Words cannot describe what I witnessed. For that reason, as the pain of what I’ve seen will take some time to percolate and dissipate, this is going to be part one of a three part series.
First off, anyone who knows me and the body of my work knows that I stand up for the little guy. Whether it’s innocent black farmers in Tulia, Tex... (more)
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'I could have saved her life but was denied permission' Refugees from New Orleans died after private doctors were ordered to stop giving treatment because they were not covered by United States government medical liability insurance, according to two American surgeons.
Mark N Perlmutter, an orthapædic surgeon from Pennsylvania, was told by a senior US Coast Guard officer representing the embattled Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) that he must leave the overstretched disaster relief hospital at New Orleans airport.
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Teams track ticket holders' patterns electronicallySAN JOSE, Calif. - (KRT) - The phone rings.
It's the San Francisco Giants. They're calling season-ticket holders. The team wants to make sure they know all the options for reselling or donating seats they can't use. They ask if there's any interest in sharing seats next season with someone else who hasn't been making it to many games lately.
Wait a minute. The Giants know who isn't using their tickets?
Yes, they do. That and more.
Data ... (more)
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