"John Karr himself sincerely believes he killed JonBenet Ramsey so I have no sympathy for him," Lacy said.
"Because he believed it himself and continues to believe it his (confession) had all of the emotional impact that you would expect (from the killer)."
Associated Press reported today Karr told University of Colorado professor Michael Tracey by email Johnny Depp could play him in a movie which he thought would make $US1 billion ($NZ1.58 billion). He explained that he liked little girls as long as they were no older than 10.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10398830
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Bunch of Sickos.
1000
You know Frankenstein, you and Anderson have sunk your own boat. You made a scandal of the Ramsey case and now you've been proven to be the worst news agency possible. What did you all think you were doing? First you tell the public there is a murderer found and now it's a bunch of hocum. The American cable media is nothing but inflammatory troublemakers. There is NOTHING truthful about this exploitation. NOTHING. It's all tabloid press. Who needs it !
You know, Anderson, you did it this time. As far as I am conccerned this is the 'confrontational' emotional environment that 'derails' the legitimacy of the news business. I am assuming the DNA evidence wasn't 'fudged' by Boulder and they acted in 'good faith.' Now, the 'plug into the public hook' Anderson Cooper 360 news team IS THE PROBLEM and NOT the answer !!! It's all spin and only spin. Now the 'proof' is under scrutiny.
This is a nothing show and doesn't come close to the definition of news worthy subjects with credible information. The damage done to this country. They all need to be shut down. They aren't credible.
NEXT !
1002
C. Ray Nagin doesn't need Anderson Cooper to keep him honest. Try looking at Bush for a change. How is the blow dryer, bud?
Hope for a brighter future is enough to keep us going
http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/viewStory.cfm?recID=16565
Looking forward is so much more fun than looking back today one year after Hurricane Katrina blew us all off our life’s courses.
But it’s impossible not to look back this week. It’s also useful to gain perspective on how far we’ve come and continue to gauge how long this recovery will take.
That’s the question I was asked more than any other during the first months following Katrina’s passage. As editor of CityBusiness, I guess I was expected to have a better grasp on a recovery timetable than most but who really knew?
You know Frankenstein, you and Anderson have sunk your own boat. You made a scandal of the Ramsey case and now you've been proven to be the worst news agency possible. What did you all think you were doing? First you tell the public there is a murderer found and now it's a bunch of hocum. The American cable media is nothing but inflammatory troublemakers. There is NOTHING truthful about this exploitation. NOTHING. It's all tabloid press. Who needs it !
You know, Anderson, you did it this time. As far as I am conccerned this is the 'confrontational' emotional environment that 'derails' the legitimacy of the news business. I am assuming the DNA evidence wasn't 'fudged' by Boulder and they acted in 'good faith.' Now, the 'plug into the public hook' Anderson Cooper 360 news team IS THE PROBLEM and NOT the answer !!! It's all spin and only spin. Now the 'proof' is under scrutiny.
This is a nothing show and doesn't come close to the definition of news worthy subjects with credible information. The damage done to this country. They all need to be shut down. They aren't credible.
NEXT !
1002
C. Ray Nagin doesn't need Anderson Cooper to keep him honest. Try looking at Bush for a change. How is the blow dryer, bud?
Hope for a brighter future is enough to keep us going
http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/viewStory.cfm?recID=16565
Looking forward is so much more fun than looking back today one year after Hurricane Katrina blew us all off our life’s courses.
But it’s impossible not to look back this week. It’s also useful to gain perspective on how far we’ve come and continue to gauge how long this recovery will take.
That’s the question I was asked more than any other during the first months following Katrina’s passage. As editor of CityBusiness, I guess I was expected to have a better grasp on a recovery timetable than most but who really knew?
http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/viewStory.cfm?recID=16565
Flood protection plans lacking
Changed standards mean new strategies
Monday, August 28, 2006
By Mark Schleifstein
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-6/115674455612300.xml&coll=1
Although the Army Corps of Engineers has spent more than $352 million to bring levees, floodwalls and drainage systems in the New Orleans area back to where they were before Hurricane Katrina hit a year ago, crucial improvements aimed at upgrading the system to the level long ago authorized by Congress are barely past the planning stages.
At a mid-August open house attended by more than 500 building contractors, corps managers Tom Podany and Rick Kendrick unveiled dozens of levee, levee wall and pump station projects that will begin construction during the next four years. The projects will eat up a considerable chunk of the $5.7 billion already appropriated by Congress for levee and pump repairs.
But even as it puts major projects out to bid, the corps is struggling to identify the increased level of protection needed to meet the congressional requirement that the New Orleans area be protected from the effects of a "100-year hurricane" by 2010.
You want to know where the real story of New Orleans is? To know the fear that still exists in the minds of these people !!! This is from "The Times Picayune."
The radio broadcast monitoring the storm can be found on this newspapers website. They trust no one in the federal government and neither do I
http://www.nola.com/ (Click on for 'Launch Desktop Alert' just to the right of the main page picture.)
Ernesto nears northern Cuban coast
At 7:00 p.m. the center of Tropical Storm Ernesto was still located inland over Cuba. Ernesto has weakened since moving over Cuba, however tropical storm warnings have been issued for coastal parts of Forida. Threats of flooding and heavy rains persist.A tropical storm warning and a hurricane watch remains in effect for Florida from Vero Beach southward on the east coast, from Chokoloskee southward on the west, as well as Lake Okeechobee and all of the Florida Keys from Ocean Reef to the Dry TortugasAs of 7:00 p.m. CDT, the center of Ernesto is located at latitude 21.4 north, longitude 77.4 west, over southeastern Cuba, and is moving to the west-northwest near 11 mph. Tropical storm force winds extend outward up to 105 miles from the center. A more northwestward motion is expected to resume later tonight when Ernesto may emerge off the coast of Cuba. Maximum sustained winds have dropped to 40 mph, with higher gusts. The estimated minimum central pressure ios 1007 mb. Ernesto could dump 5 to 10 inches of rain across southern and eastern Florida through Wednesday.
http://www.nola.com/newslogs/weather/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_weatheralert/archives/2006_08.html#176633
enough !!!!!
Friday, August 25, 2006
Your welcome to talk about pedophiles all you want. You can talk about journalism, too. As long as the dialogue is open.
1000
Just the facts, please. Circumstantial evidence seems to be where this scandelous journalism lives.
More blahs.
1008
"The mug shot was lite from beneath, not very flattering." He should have called Tom DeLay for pointers. I don't believe this mess.
1015
This article at Forbes only verifies what is already known about Mr. Karr. So, people should feel better at least one more monster is behind bars. Reputation and previous behavior which seems to pervade anything about this man matters in court.
Costa Rica Landlord: Karr Was a Pervert
http://www.forbes.com/entrepreneurs/feeds/ap/2006/08/24/ap2971548.html
John Mark Karr bragged to his landlord's wife that sexually, he was "like a wolf," and said he "liked little boys and girls" when he worked in Costa Rica as an English teacher, his former housemates told The Associated Press. Karr, now jailed in the United States after his arrest in Thailand, faces a Colorado warrant for the 1996 murder of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey. Karr traveled around the world in recent years, including brief stays in Honduras and Costa Rica, where he rented a room in 2004 from Canadian John Hall, who now teaches at a private university in the capital of San Jose. "I had to kick him out, because he was obviously a pervert, and I was worried about the safety of my wife and my stepdaughters," Hall told The Associated Press.
1018
This is interesting. Evidently, saving animals when Katrina became a habit.
Powerful oilman T. Boone Pickens joins effort to save horses from slaughter
http://www.ntxe-news.com/artman/publish/article_35799.shtml
GLENVILLE, PA – The mom and pop horse rescue groups received a big shot in the arm recently when Texas oilman and rancher T. Boone Pickens lent his muscle to the battle to convince Congress to enact the Horse Slaughter Prevention Act.
Pickens, who owns a ranch in West Texas, entered the national spotlight after Hurricane Katrina by airlifting 800 abandoned dogs and cats out of New Orleans with 70% ultimately being reunited with their owners.
Pickens, founder of BP Capital and Mesa Petroleum, was emotionally driven to act upon learning that more than 100,000 horses are slaughtered in the U.S. every year to be eaten as a “delicacy” by diners in France, Belgium, and Japan. The oilman was persuaded to enter the fray by his wife, Madeleine, who raises thoroughbred horses.
“I was thrilled and deeply touched that someone as powerful and influential as T. Boone Pickens feels so strongly about our cause,” says Jo Deibel, President of the Angel Acres Horse Haven Rescue, Inc. http://www.saveahorsenow.org/. “I, too, share Mr. Pickens’ feelings of horror about the horrible treatment given thoroughbreds auctioned off to kill buyers and processed as horseflesh to be eaten.”
1024
Jill Carroll is home. The past is her legacy. The knowledge she had about the subject she wrote more than likely helped save her life. Then again, it might have been luck or a whim of men who see killing as a pre-curser to the after life.
I think her experience is her experience. But. I doubt seriously it is a strategy for survival after capture. It would seem as though these aren't issues of hate so much as politics.
1039
Tribe can't serve defendants
By HINA ALAMThe Lufkin Daily News
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
It has been a little over a month since the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas made history by filing a case against disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his associates Michael Scanlon, Jon Van Horne, Neil Volz and Ralph Reed.
But defendants Van Horne and Reed are making it difficult to serve them with a copy of the lawsuit "by making themselves unavailable," according to one of the attorneys of the tribe, Fred Petti. "It's like they've gone underground."
So now, it is a waiting game, with patience as the main player.
The tribe is in the process of serving the defendants with copies of the lawsuits, Petti said.
Scanlon, Volz and Abramoff were already served, he said. "We still have to serve Jon Van Horne and Ralph Reed."
Once they are served, they have 20 days to either answer it or file a motion to dismiss the lawsuit. All in all, Petti said, it would take another 30 to 45 days to know what happens next.
"They all know they've been sued ... because of the media attention," Petti said. "But you have to physically give them a copy of it."
http://www.lufkindailynews.com/news/content/news/stories/2006/08/23/case_update.html
1045
No one has 'moved on' Anderson. Put your ego away ! The UN peacekeeper force is taking place, but, Hezbollah is an issue. The UN does not want a return to the killing of their personnel that occurred when Israel was shelling the sites Hezbollah used to send missiles to Northern Israel.
Israel gives up on disarming Hizbullah
Israel has essentially given up hope of Hizbullah being disarmed, and instead is now concentrating on ensuring that an arms embargo called for in UN Security Council resolution 1701 be implemented, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
Furthermore, senior Israeli officials have made it clear in recent days during talks with foreign governments that Israel realizes a Hizbullah presence south of the Litani River is unavoidable, if for no other reason than because the organization is so well rooted there that the only way to get rid of Hizbullah would be to evacuate the entire region.
What Israel does expect, however, is that the Lebanese Army and the international force that will deploy there ensure that Hizbullah doesn't have offensive weaponry to attack Israel, and that if they do try to attack, there will be someone there to stop them.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1154525940768&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
ISRAEL needs to take them to the next level. They need to take a case to the World Court and have Ahmadinejad remanded for trial. He is willing to allow his own countrymen to die to achieve genocide of Israel's people. He's a Jihadist. He's not a president. He was elected because the USA invaded Iraq and killed so many peole. He has an agenda of a man determined to kill with the power of a nation with a hatred that is penetrating. Before tragedy strikes Israel and Iran the world needs to stop this madman.
'Ahmadinejad would sacrifice half of Iran to wipe out Israel'
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1154525940677&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, if he ever became the supreme decision maker in his country, would "sacrifice half of Iran for the sake of eliminating Israel," Giora Eiland, Israel's former national security adviser, told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday.
At present, Eiland stressed, the ultimate decision maker in Iran was Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 67, whom he said was "more reasonable." But, Eiland went on, "if Ahmadinejad were to succeed him - and he has a reasonable chance of doing so - then we'd be in a highly dangerous situation."
The 49-year-old Iranian president, he said, "has a religious conviction that Israel's demise is essential to the restoration of Muslim glory, that the Zionist thorn in the heart of the Islamic nations must be removed. And he will pay almost any price to right the perceived historic wrong. If he becomes the supreme leader and has a nuclear capability, that's a real threat."
1055
Just the facts, please. Circumstantial evidence seems to be where this scandelous journalism lives.
More blahs.
1008
"The mug shot was lite from beneath, not very flattering." He should have called Tom DeLay for pointers. I don't believe this mess.
1015
This article at Forbes only verifies what is already known about Mr. Karr. So, people should feel better at least one more monster is behind bars. Reputation and previous behavior which seems to pervade anything about this man matters in court.
Costa Rica Landlord: Karr Was a Pervert
http://www.forbes.com/entrepreneurs/feeds/ap/2006/08/24/ap2971548.html
John Mark Karr bragged to his landlord's wife that sexually, he was "like a wolf," and said he "liked little boys and girls" when he worked in Costa Rica as an English teacher, his former housemates told The Associated Press. Karr, now jailed in the United States after his arrest in Thailand, faces a Colorado warrant for the 1996 murder of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey. Karr traveled around the world in recent years, including brief stays in Honduras and Costa Rica, where he rented a room in 2004 from Canadian John Hall, who now teaches at a private university in the capital of San Jose. "I had to kick him out, because he was obviously a pervert, and I was worried about the safety of my wife and my stepdaughters," Hall told The Associated Press.
1018
This is interesting. Evidently, saving animals when Katrina became a habit.
Powerful oilman T. Boone Pickens joins effort to save horses from slaughter
http://www.ntxe-news.com/artman/publish/article_35799.shtml
GLENVILLE, PA – The mom and pop horse rescue groups received a big shot in the arm recently when Texas oilman and rancher T. Boone Pickens lent his muscle to the battle to convince Congress to enact the Horse Slaughter Prevention Act.
Pickens, who owns a ranch in West Texas, entered the national spotlight after Hurricane Katrina by airlifting 800 abandoned dogs and cats out of New Orleans with 70% ultimately being reunited with their owners.
Pickens, founder of BP Capital and Mesa Petroleum, was emotionally driven to act upon learning that more than 100,000 horses are slaughtered in the U.S. every year to be eaten as a “delicacy” by diners in France, Belgium, and Japan. The oilman was persuaded to enter the fray by his wife, Madeleine, who raises thoroughbred horses.
“I was thrilled and deeply touched that someone as powerful and influential as T. Boone Pickens feels so strongly about our cause,” says Jo Deibel, President of the Angel Acres Horse Haven Rescue, Inc. http://www.saveahorsenow.org/. “I, too, share Mr. Pickens’ feelings of horror about the horrible treatment given thoroughbreds auctioned off to kill buyers and processed as horseflesh to be eaten.”
1024
Jill Carroll is home. The past is her legacy. The knowledge she had about the subject she wrote more than likely helped save her life. Then again, it might have been luck or a whim of men who see killing as a pre-curser to the after life.
I think her experience is her experience. But. I doubt seriously it is a strategy for survival after capture. It would seem as though these aren't issues of hate so much as politics.
1039
Tribe can't serve defendants
By HINA ALAMThe Lufkin Daily News
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
It has been a little over a month since the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas made history by filing a case against disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his associates Michael Scanlon, Jon Van Horne, Neil Volz and Ralph Reed.
But defendants Van Horne and Reed are making it difficult to serve them with a copy of the lawsuit "by making themselves unavailable," according to one of the attorneys of the tribe, Fred Petti. "It's like they've gone underground."
So now, it is a waiting game, with patience as the main player.
The tribe is in the process of serving the defendants with copies of the lawsuits, Petti said.
Scanlon, Volz and Abramoff were already served, he said. "We still have to serve Jon Van Horne and Ralph Reed."
Once they are served, they have 20 days to either answer it or file a motion to dismiss the lawsuit. All in all, Petti said, it would take another 30 to 45 days to know what happens next.
"They all know they've been sued ... because of the media attention," Petti said. "But you have to physically give them a copy of it."
http://www.lufkindailynews.com/news/content/news/stories/2006/08/23/case_update.html
1045
No one has 'moved on' Anderson. Put your ego away ! The UN peacekeeper force is taking place, but, Hezbollah is an issue. The UN does not want a return to the killing of their personnel that occurred when Israel was shelling the sites Hezbollah used to send missiles to Northern Israel.
Israel gives up on disarming Hizbullah
Israel has essentially given up hope of Hizbullah being disarmed, and instead is now concentrating on ensuring that an arms embargo called for in UN Security Council resolution 1701 be implemented, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
Furthermore, senior Israeli officials have made it clear in recent days during talks with foreign governments that Israel realizes a Hizbullah presence south of the Litani River is unavoidable, if for no other reason than because the organization is so well rooted there that the only way to get rid of Hizbullah would be to evacuate the entire region.
What Israel does expect, however, is that the Lebanese Army and the international force that will deploy there ensure that Hizbullah doesn't have offensive weaponry to attack Israel, and that if they do try to attack, there will be someone there to stop them.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1154525940768&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
ISRAEL needs to take them to the next level. They need to take a case to the World Court and have Ahmadinejad remanded for trial. He is willing to allow his own countrymen to die to achieve genocide of Israel's people. He's a Jihadist. He's not a president. He was elected because the USA invaded Iraq and killed so many peole. He has an agenda of a man determined to kill with the power of a nation with a hatred that is penetrating. Before tragedy strikes Israel and Iran the world needs to stop this madman.
'Ahmadinejad would sacrifice half of Iran to wipe out Israel'
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1154525940677&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, if he ever became the supreme decision maker in his country, would "sacrifice half of Iran for the sake of eliminating Israel," Giora Eiland, Israel's former national security adviser, told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday.
At present, Eiland stressed, the ultimate decision maker in Iran was Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 67, whom he said was "more reasonable." But, Eiland went on, "if Ahmadinejad were to succeed him - and he has a reasonable chance of doing so - then we'd be in a highly dangerous situation."
The 49-year-old Iranian president, he said, "has a religious conviction that Israel's demise is essential to the restoration of Muslim glory, that the Zionist thorn in the heart of the Islamic nations must be removed. And he will pay almost any price to right the perceived historic wrong. If he becomes the supreme leader and has a nuclear capability, that's a real threat."
1055
Former Bush Official Wants New Trial
The Associated PressThursday, August 24, 2006; 9:29 PM
WASHINGTON -- A former Bush administration official convicted of lying about his relationship with lobbyist Jack Abramoff asked a judge Thursday to overturn the verdict or grant him a new trial.
David Safavian, former chief of staff of the General Services Administration, was convicted in June of making false statements and obstruction. His attorneys argued Thursday that the charges didn't meet the legal standard for conviction.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/24/AR2006082400917.html
1101
Dover mayor drops out of race to replace Ney, backs Padgett
Associated Press
DOVER, Ohio - One of seven candidates who hoped to replace scandal-scarred U.S. Rep. Bob Ney on the November ballot dropped out Tuesday and threw his support behind Ney's hand-picked successor.
Dover Mayor Rick Homrighausen announced he would withdraw from the Sept. 14 Republican special primary election and support state Sen. Joy Padgett, who is backed by Ney and most of the 18th District's GOP leadership.
Homrighausen's endorsement gives Padgett, of Coshocton, a base of support in the Dover-New Philadelphia area, in Tuscarawas County. It's the most populous county in the district and the home of the Democratic nominee, Dover law director Zack Space.
Padgett said she and Homrighausen plan to campaign together. The mayor said he decided to stay in charge in Dover to oversee a new water treatment project and a fiber optic network for the city.
Ney quit the race last week, citing the strain of an intensifying corruption investigation that had focused for months on his dealings with disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Ney denies wrongdoing and has not been charged.
1107
Calendar says State official met with reporter during CIA leak case
WASHINGTON -- Richard Armitage, then the deputy secretary of state, met with Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward in mid-June 2003, the period during which the reporter has testified an administration official talked to him about CIA employee Valerie Plame.
Armitage's official State Department calendars, provided to The Associated Press under the Freedom of Information Act, show a one-hour meeting marked "private appointment" with Woodward on June 13, 2003.
Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has investigated whether Bush administration officials intentionally revealed Plame's identity as a one-time CIA covert operative to punish her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, for criticizing the administration's march to war with Iraq. Knowingly identifying an undercover CIA operative can be a crime.
When contacted at home Monday night, Woodward would not discuss his meeting with Armitage or the identity of his source in the CIA leak case. Instead, he referred to his statement last year that he had a "casual and offhand" discussion about Plame with an unidentified administration official in mid-June 2003.
A person familiar with the information prosecutors have gathered, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the material remains sealed, said Woodward met with his confidential source was June 13, 2003.
http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/international/news/20060822p2g00m0in004000c.html
1112
Haven't heard much about Natalee lately.
The Worth of a Child: Missing Children
Does One Child Really Matter?
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/53120/the_worth_of_a_child_missing_children.html
Natalee Holloway was an 18 year old honor student with a scholarship to the University of Alabama waiting for her when she disappeared on May 30, 2005. She was enjoying the paradise that is Aruba with her senior class when she walked out of a bar one night and into international headlines....
... I saw her on television explaining that young girls go missing on Aruba and are sold as sex slaves. I was wondering where she got her composure and understanding her hope that Natalee was still alive somewhere – anywhere—and hoping she would just be found and could go home again.
1120
Study: Millions wasted in Katrina contracts
70% of contracts awarded without full bidding, Democratic report says
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14502390/
WASHINGTON - The government awarded 70 percent of its contracts for Hurricane Katrina work without full competition, wasting hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars in the process, says a House study released Thursday by Democrats.
The report, a comprehensive overview of government audits on Katrina contracting, found that out of $10.6 billion in contracts awarded after the storm last year, more than $7.4 billion were handed out with limited or no competitive bidding.
In addition, 19 contracts worth $8.75 billion were found to have wasted taxpayer money at least in part, costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, according to the report. It cited numerous instances of double-billing by contractors and cases of trailers meant as emergency housing sitting empty in Arkansas.
1121
Grapefruit-size hail reported as storms hit North Dakota
http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/news/state/15350798.htm
BISMARCK, N.D. - A storm system brought funnel clouds, heavy rain and large hail to North Dakota on Thursday.
The National Weather Service posted various watches and warnings throughout the day, for severe storms, tornadoes and flash flooding.
In Mercer County, officials reported hail the size of grapefruit in Stanton and flooding of low-lying areas from Beulah to Hazen.
"I've never seen hail that big," Stanton City Auditor Rick Honeyman said. "It didn't really hail all that much, but what it did hail was big."
Mercer County Sheriff's Deputy Terry Ternes said the storm pounded holes in siding and dents in vehicles, but no injuries were reported. Reports of a tornado in the county were not confirmed, he said.
1123
Storms, possible tornadoes batter NW Indiana
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/indianastorm24.html
A one-two punch of powerful storms, accompanied by tornado reports, battered northeastern Porter County, much of LaPorte County and parts of Lake County in Northwest Indiana on Wednesday evening.
Emergency management crews worked late into the night clearing roadways, marking downed power lines and checking for injured residents.
The hardest hit areas in Porter County included Dune Acres, Beverly Shores and Pines. Washington Park in Michigan City was wracked by tornado-like winds that whipped boats around at the In-Water Boat Show set to begin today, and winds of 106 mph were reported by meteorologist Tom Skilling.
1128
A timeline of the rise and fall of Tom DeLay
McClatchy Newspapers
A timeline of the rise and fall of Tom DeLay:
November 1984 - Tom DeLay, a Sugar Land exterminator and member of the Texas Legislature, is elected to Congress from the 22nd District.
November 1994 - After Republicans sweep the congressional elections and take control of the House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years, DeLay is chosen to be majority whip, the chamber's third-ranking Republican.
September 2001 - DeLay spearheads the creation of the Texans for a Republican Majority Political Action Committee, aimed at ending more than a century of Democratic rule in the state House, an impediment to a pro-Republican redistricting plan.
November 2002 - DeLay is elected U.S. House majority leader; Texas Republicans take control of the state House for the first time in more than 130 years.
October 2003 - Texas Gov. Rick Perry signs into law a redistricting plan that DeLay had pushed through the Legislature, producing six new Republican seats in Congress.
Sept. 28, 2005 - DeLay steps down as majority leader after a Texas grand jury indicts him on charges of campaign-finance violations tied to Texans for a Republican Majority. Delay denies wrongdoing.
http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/nation/15327737.htm
Courts Erred, DeLay Says
(August 24, 2006)--Former US House Majority leader Tom DeLay said Thursday he never thought the courts would prevent the GOP from replacing him on the November ballot.
DeLay, in an interview with KTRK television in Houston, also said he's "very disappointed" with the justice system and adds there doesn't seem to be justice.
The ex-congressman says he won't become a lobbyist and will never again run for political office.
DeLay also told KTRK he's helping with a book about his career and how the last 22 years helped advance the conservative cause.
The embattled Republican from Sugar Land won the March primary, but quit Congress in June and moved to Virginia.
DeLay faced scrutiny over ethical troubles, including state money laundering charges.
The Texas GOP declared DeLay ineligible and prepared to choose a replacement to face Democrat Nick Lampson.
But Democrats sued to stop the effort and won.
So DeLay recently withdrew from the ballot.
The GOP is backing Houston City Councilwoman Shelley Sekula-Gibbs as a write-in candidate.
1131
You know it was actually Jean Meserve that got the ball rolling on the tragedy of New Orleans when she went to the back streets of the Ninth Ward to find people on roofs crying out for help.
1132
The views of the extreme right is that of religous dogma and not constitutional law in the USA. It should not interfer with women's right to choose. Plan B is part of that strategy against unwanted pregnancy. Yes, unwanted pregnancy. If it were up to the extremists of the USA every act of intercourse would result in a pregnancy and birth or miscarriage. This is the year 2006? Could have fooled me.
1140
Suri Cruise spotted
Thursday, 24th August 2006, 12:29
LIFE STYLE EXTRA (UK) - Tom Cruise's "normal" daughter has been seen again, by an unwitting member of the public.The man, who has asked to be identified only as "Frank", went on a tour of stars' mansions in Beverly Hills and accidentally gained entry to Tom's Hollywood home.Frank told Los Angeles radio station KROQ that while he was outside Tom's house one of the actor's friends pressed the buzzer and the gate to the property just opened.Frank and his three friends drove through and were waved on by security.When they reached the top of the drive they saw Tom playing with two children on the lawn, while his fiancée Katie Holmes craddled baby Suri.Frank said: "Suri looked cute and perfectly normal."When Tom's security team realised the car was not meant to have been granted access they surrounded the vehicle and emanded to see some identification.Frank explained: "The drive was too narrow to turn so once we'd gone through the gate we had to drive up to turn back."My friend refused to show her driving licence and said we had the right to leave."They kept us for about half an hour and then ordered us off the property."So far, Suri has been kept hidden from the public eye.Only three people claim to have seen the tot, actress Jada Pinkett Smith, Tom's ex-lover Penelope Cruz and 'King of Queens' star Leah Remini.Both Jada and Leah are Scientologists like Tom.However, pictures of Suri are due to be published in the autumn issue of Vanity Fair magazine.
1142
Tom Cruise's Firing: Anti-Scientology Religious Bigotry
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/russell-shaw/tom-cruises-firing-anti_b_27878.html
Tom Cruise, whose last few movies have not reached the prestigious creative and box-office level of some of his earlier work, has just been told by Viacom's Paramount Pictures that his contract would not be renewed.
Earlier this week, HuffPo blogger and L.A. Weekly showbiz correspondent Nikki Finke went over the numbers and made the case that the non-renewal does not make economic sense.
I think there is too much made of this. Cruise was due for another 14 year contract. 14 years of an aging superstar is a long time. Cruise is currently 44 years old. Paramount doesn't want to have to 'cater' to a star that may not be able to deliver on his 'athlete-performer' demands. It's all math. Tom will be a wonderful addition to the independant film producers. We all look forward to his next film, perhaps a chance to show his versatility rather than just more of the same.
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Thursday, August 24, 2006
Gail Shister | Ex-anchor will not yet attend any 9/11 movies
Aaron has yet to compromise his principles. He constantly strives to find justice in his journalism and is chronically humble all along the way. I don't think of Aaron as insecure. I think of him as resolved but willing to look at whatever might be shortcomings to his ability to find the justice he wants most at the forefront of any news he tenders.
I think it wonderful he can have this time with his daughter. Time flies and to get to know your children and the accomplishments a parent has rendered in their success is the most gratifying experience one can invest in. He is fortunate at this time in Gabby's life he can realize the young woman she has become under his tutelage/mentoring as a father. I know all too well what it is to say good-bye to children that are now adults when they have achieved a standard of living that will sustain them. It's a pride and yet a realization that 'the future' no longer belongs to you but to the young people that once depended on the loving home you provided for them.
Though clips of his 9/11 coverage are seen and heard throughout World Trade Center, CNN exile Aaron Brown says he has no plans to see Oliver Stone's acclaimed film.
No surprise there. Brown hasn't seen United 93, either. And the tapes of his own anchor marathon from September '01 have never left their storage container in his home in the New York suburbs.
"It's too soon," says Brown, 57, pushed out of CNN in November. "I wish I had a smart answer. I just know for me, I'm not ready to watch it.
"It's not like I'm the only person affected by 9/11. I did it. I lived it. I told the story as well as I could. I live in New York. I can look out at the skyline and see it. People died there. All our lives changed."
Brown finds it "odd" that none of the major anchors who covered 9/11 - ABC's Peter Jennings, CBS's Dan Rather, NBC's Tom Brokaw, and Brown - are working today.
"I didn't expect not to be working," Brown says. "It's the way things turned out. Nothing about TV surprises me. Ever. I did it too long."
Brown isn't exactly itching to work. Why should he be? He's collecting an estimated $2 million salary for not working until his CNN contract expires June 30.
"I'm not interested in working 15-hour days, 48 weeks a year. I've done it. I don't quite get why I'd do it again. Every now and then, I think of what I'd like to do."
He'd like to do a "newsy" five-day-a-week interview show, taped over three or four days. As for where, "there are millions of outlets," he says. "Maybe a Bravo-like show."
Aside from suffering a herniated disc, Brown has been having a ball this summer. The best part, he says, has been hanging with Gabby, his only child.
"We do stuff. Sit around watching TV together, going to movies, sometimes just talking. She's a 17-year-old girl. It's not like she's waiting to see what my plan is for the night."
Brown sees his time with Gabby, a high school senior, as "a kind of bonus" and says he's developed a much better sense of her character.
"I watch how comfortable or uncomfortable she is with people she thinks lack character - people who have to do all their shopping at Saks, girls who can't just have cars, they have to be Beamers."
Brown and his wife, Charlotte, are building a house in North Scottsdale, Ariz., where they plan to live seven months a year after Gabby heads to college.
"I like the West. Neither one of us wanted to be in a place like Palm Springs, where there's nothing to do but count the days until you die."
After Jan. 1, he'll join Arizona State University as the John Rhodes chair of American Public Policy, doing a few major speeches and talking with students at the Cronkite School of Journalism.
Like Jennings, his former ABC colleague, Brown is acutely aware that he lacks a college degree. (Brown says he "stopped by" the University of Minnesota for about a year.)
"I'm sort of embarrassed that I don't have a degree. It's the only thing in my life I think I regret... . There's not a day that I don't think, 'I wish I knew that.' I'm not dead, either. I've got time to learn stuff."
Brown says he and Jennings used to discuss their mutual insecurity over their lack of formal educations.
"We talked about the fact that both of us were stupid and didn't know stuff, and how it impacted how we did our work. Peter was a voracious reader of serious stuff. I'm a less serious person.
"I've sort of blithely gone through my life. I'm constantly amazed at how it turned out... . I've lived most of my life fooling people. Is there any reason to stop now?"
With the fifth anniversary of 9/11 approaching, Brown says he wishes he had a TV platform to express his feelings.
Until his contract runs out, CNN must approve all his speeches, public appearances and job offers. He'll do a speech Sept. 8 in Washington before a pair of major think tanks.
"There are a lot of questions I'd like to ask," Brown says. "Have we honestly done the things we should have done in the post-9/11 era? The administration tried to sell 9/11 as a bumper sticker - 'They hate us for our freedom.'
"That's ridiculous. They hate us for very specific policies. Some should change, some shouldn't. We need to understand that, and we don't want to challenge ourselves to really understand anything."
I think it wonderful he can have this time with his daughter. Time flies and to get to know your children and the accomplishments a parent has rendered in their success is the most gratifying experience one can invest in. He is fortunate at this time in Gabby's life he can realize the young woman she has become under his tutelage/mentoring as a father. I know all too well what it is to say good-bye to children that are now adults when they have achieved a standard of living that will sustain them. It's a pride and yet a realization that 'the future' no longer belongs to you but to the young people that once depended on the loving home you provided for them.
Though clips of his 9/11 coverage are seen and heard throughout World Trade Center, CNN exile Aaron Brown says he has no plans to see Oliver Stone's acclaimed film.
No surprise there. Brown hasn't seen United 93, either. And the tapes of his own anchor marathon from September '01 have never left their storage container in his home in the New York suburbs.
"It's too soon," says Brown, 57, pushed out of CNN in November. "I wish I had a smart answer. I just know for me, I'm not ready to watch it.
"It's not like I'm the only person affected by 9/11. I did it. I lived it. I told the story as well as I could. I live in New York. I can look out at the skyline and see it. People died there. All our lives changed."
Brown finds it "odd" that none of the major anchors who covered 9/11 - ABC's Peter Jennings, CBS's Dan Rather, NBC's Tom Brokaw, and Brown - are working today.
"I didn't expect not to be working," Brown says. "It's the way things turned out. Nothing about TV surprises me. Ever. I did it too long."
Brown isn't exactly itching to work. Why should he be? He's collecting an estimated $2 million salary for not working until his CNN contract expires June 30.
"I'm not interested in working 15-hour days, 48 weeks a year. I've done it. I don't quite get why I'd do it again. Every now and then, I think of what I'd like to do."
He'd like to do a "newsy" five-day-a-week interview show, taped over three or four days. As for where, "there are millions of outlets," he says. "Maybe a Bravo-like show."
Aside from suffering a herniated disc, Brown has been having a ball this summer. The best part, he says, has been hanging with Gabby, his only child.
"We do stuff. Sit around watching TV together, going to movies, sometimes just talking. She's a 17-year-old girl. It's not like she's waiting to see what my plan is for the night."
Brown sees his time with Gabby, a high school senior, as "a kind of bonus" and says he's developed a much better sense of her character.
"I watch how comfortable or uncomfortable she is with people she thinks lack character - people who have to do all their shopping at Saks, girls who can't just have cars, they have to be Beamers."
Brown and his wife, Charlotte, are building a house in North Scottsdale, Ariz., where they plan to live seven months a year after Gabby heads to college.
"I like the West. Neither one of us wanted to be in a place like Palm Springs, where there's nothing to do but count the days until you die."
After Jan. 1, he'll join Arizona State University as the John Rhodes chair of American Public Policy, doing a few major speeches and talking with students at the Cronkite School of Journalism.
Like Jennings, his former ABC colleague, Brown is acutely aware that he lacks a college degree. (Brown says he "stopped by" the University of Minnesota for about a year.)
"I'm sort of embarrassed that I don't have a degree. It's the only thing in my life I think I regret... . There's not a day that I don't think, 'I wish I knew that.' I'm not dead, either. I've got time to learn stuff."
Brown says he and Jennings used to discuss their mutual insecurity over their lack of formal educations.
"We talked about the fact that both of us were stupid and didn't know stuff, and how it impacted how we did our work. Peter was a voracious reader of serious stuff. I'm a less serious person.
"I've sort of blithely gone through my life. I'm constantly amazed at how it turned out... . I've lived most of my life fooling people. Is there any reason to stop now?"
With the fifth anniversary of 9/11 approaching, Brown says he wishes he had a TV platform to express his feelings.
Until his contract runs out, CNN must approve all his speeches, public appearances and job offers. He'll do a speech Sept. 8 in Washington before a pair of major think tanks.
"There are a lot of questions I'd like to ask," Brown says. "Have we honestly done the things we should have done in the post-9/11 era? The administration tried to sell 9/11 as a bumper sticker - 'They hate us for our freedom.'
"That's ridiculous. They hate us for very specific policies. Some should change, some shouldn't. We need to understand that, and we don't want to challenge ourselves to really understand anything."
The CNN Rant is Meaningless, It's obviously a journalist that sold out for his own goals. The immorality of that itself is such a violation of trust.
The West doesn't have anything to worry about. The Brits are making headway into this entire set of circumstances Bush keeps spinnig his wheels over.
'Substantial material' gathered in British terror investigation
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html?id=e856a23f-a266-41c1-8b9a-fd6678346d2a&k=65483
LONDON -- British police probing an alleged terror plot to blow up U.S.-bound airliners have gathered "substantial material" in their investigation, Home Secretary John Reid said Sunday.
"The police and the security authorities are content that their investigation is rewarding substantial material which would allow them to take forward the judicial process," Reid said in an interview with ABC-TV's This Week, refusing to reveal details of the evidence.
"The police and the authorities are convinced that there was an alleged plot here. They have intervened. And in the course of the next few days, we'll wait and see what happens in terms of charges."
The Brits have stated they have so much information that it takes the investigation globally. I don't doubt. I also anticipate many nations are involved and the implications of that is just too much for most of Arabia to allow. For that reason it is better countries beware of each other than trusting of each other, especially at port security, for the individual it is the airliners, trains and basically transportation infrastructure, public or private.
When the Brits finish they will have accomplished more than Bush was ever WILLING to accomplish. After all who wants to insult Arabia and risk the loss of oil? Right? Or is it the oil and it's vast income to nations unwilling to care about The West that is the real enemy?
The fallout of London. The fallout of Hezbollah. It's going to end. The fact of the matter is Arabia is on fire from internal conflict over the power of oppression. It will come to pass and Islam will be safe but the people will have a peaceful presence on Earth and not the false pretense of a justified jihad/fatwah.
The fact of the matter is, Hezbollah has pulled the plug on what is 'owed' them. It's getting sticky for the nations of Arabia.
Embattled Liberal critic resigns over Hezbollah statements
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=8b76dda1-4ef9-4438-8f68-a39c26b14525&k=20904
Meagan Fitzpatrick, CanWest News ServicePublished: Wednesday, August 23, 2006
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Liberal MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj has resigned as associate foreign affairs critic for his party after controversial comments he made about the conflict in the Middle East.
Wrzesnewskyj offered his resignation Tuesday night, he told CanWest News Service, and it was accepted by Liberal Leader Bill Graham.
Wrzesnewskyj, who will meet with reporters this afternoon, came under fire earlier this week for suggesting he favoured removing Hezbollah from Canada’s list of terrorist organizations. In some media reports, the MP was quoted as saying that Israel was responsible for "state terrorism" in the conflict with Lebanon. He later denied saying that Hezbollah should be taken off the list and released a statement saying he believes it is a terrorist organization and should remain on the list. What he meant, according to the MP, was that Canada needs to evaluate its anti-terror legislation so it can have dialogue with groups like Hezbollah in order to implement a peace process.
But even that suggestion raised the ire of both the government and some of Wrzesnewskyj’s own colleagues in the Liberal party.
The Lessons Arabs Should Learn From the Lebanese DevelopmentsMuhammad Salahuddin, Arab News
There is nothing innovatory or new in the lessons that Israel has been continuously teaching the Arabs since the very establishment of the Zionist state in 1948. It is the same old story in relation to the latest barbarian and bloody reminders of those lessons. Arabs and Muslims globally have become used to the daily scenes of blood spilling in Palestine; the Israeli air, land and sea attacks; and the daily demolition of houses and live burying of innocent people under the debris. To be quite honest, the Arabs don’t really care much for what Israel has done and still continues to do. Perhaps the enemy wants to weaken the Arabs and it is with this aim that Israel initiated a bloody and savage attack on Lebanon and coordinated a massive plan of death and destruction to destroy the infrastructure of the country.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=86169&d=24&m=8&y=2006
Editorial: Nuclear Row24 August 2006
THE UN Security Council has directed that Iran suspend its nuclear enrichment program within the next seven days. It now looks almost certain that Teheran will do no such thing. On Monday, Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, stated that his country would not stop its development program. Yet 48 hours later, the country’s chief nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, offered “serious talks” with the five permanent council members — China, France, Russia, the UK and the USA — plus Germany. Larijani said that the six had been sent detailed proposals. Almost immediately, however, the French said that the document offered absolutely nothing to talk about.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=86171&d=24&m=8&y=2006&pix=opinion.jpg&category=Opinion
Called on to Walk the Walk, EU Prefers Chaise LoungesJonathan Freedland, The Guardian
Insults are not predictions: They’re not meant to come true. But the leading nations of Europe seem bent on proving that every word of abuse rained down on them from across the Atlantic over the past few years was justified. To call the French “cheese-eating surrender monkeys” once appeared no more than a neocon slander. The American insistence that Europe was a continent of limp-wristed wusses, who were fond of fancy oratory but ran from the first sign of trouble, could be written off as mere Texan bluster.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=86172&d=24&m=8&y=2006&pix=opinion.jpg&category=Opinion
ARABIA continues to report on 'the mistakes' of the British but not the conviction. They seem to think one by one it will be proven that the British are bigoted story tellers rather than a country with sincere problems.
Assad rejects UN Peacekeepers. WHO ASKED HIM?
Bashar rejects UN troops
AP
Dubai: Syria's President Bashar Al Assad was quoted on Wednesday as rejecting the deployment of UN troops along the Lebanon-Syria border, saying such a move would create animosity between the two countries.
"This is an infringement on Lebanese sovereignty and a hostile position," Assad told Dubai Television. The TV station's anchor quoted Bashar without showing video of the interview, which would air later last night.
Bashar also urged the Lebanese government to adhere to its responsibilities and not embark on anything that could sabotage relations with Syria.
http://www.gulfnews.com/region/Lebanon/10062372.html
All the anger over Hezbollah and all the hate against Israel over it, yet, be the 4 millionth visitor to "Wild Wadi" and win a trip to New York City. HUH?
http://www.wildwadi.com/
Osama should try to be the 4 millionth visitor. New York City would put out the red carpet for him. Arabia would do us the favor of picking him up.
Money going to the Lebanese or Hezbollah. Is there a difference in Southern Lebanon?
Indians urged to donate relief material and cash
Staff Report
Muscat: Oman Charitable Organisation (OCO) is reaching out to the largest expatriate community in Oman Indians to generate relief material for the Lebanese.
The cash and relief material drive is picking up momentum in the country, with the OCO issuing appeals through advertisements in the local media.
The OCO has asked two of its Indian volunteers, S.N. Gopakumar and Ruchika R.S., who are also volunteers of the ad-hoc voluntary body Helpline, to spread the appeal among Indians for contributions.
http://www.gulfnews.com/region/Oman/10062374.html
The Jordan Times
Syria, Israel in showdown over UN force mandate
BEIRUT (AP) — Syria hotly opposed deployment of an international force along its border to prevent arms shipments to Hizbollah, and Israel on Wednesday called the situation in Lebanon “explosive”, as the ceasefire was shaken by artillery shells and explosions that killed three Lebanese soldiers and an Israeli.
Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora asked the US to help lift an Israeli blockade on his country's coast and airport — something Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said would not happen until UN troops deployed along the Lebanon-Syria border to block the flow of weapons.
Hizbollah's vast arsenal of rockets and other weapons, much of which is believed to originate in Iran, reaches the fighters across the Syrian border.
http://www.jordantimes.com/thu/news/news1.htm
This one is beautiful. Still another terrorist network wants sainthood rather than prison. The ONLY thing the Islamic Brotherhood did was to sympathize with Chechen rebels. That's all. No big deal, just some people dead.
House urges Russia to take Brotherhood off ‘terror’ list
AMMAN (Agencies) — The Lower House on Wednesday urged Russia to remove the Muslim Brotherhood from a list of 17 groups declared “terrorist organisations” by the country’s supreme court.
The House said in a statement the decision was “unjust and groundless”, stressing that the movement is “a respectful charity organisation that has nothing to do with any terrorist activities”, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.
The group is “an integral part of the Jordanian national fabric and a key component of the state”, the statement said. “The Lower House call on Russia to reconsider its decision and bolster relations with the Arab and Muslim worlds.”
News reports said the Muslim Brotherhood’s sympathy with the Chechen fighters promoted the move. The Muslim Brotherhood was founded in Egypt in the late 1920s and has since become a worldwide Islamist movement boasting two million members and the support of three million more people around the globe,
http://www.jordantimes.com/thu/homenews/homenews2.htm
Putin knows, just as Blair does what the issues are within Arabia. The West, Russia and China have to keep the pressure on Arabia, without it they will never come to terms with it's own internal governmental turmoil over these violent regimes that inhabit their streets and dominate them through the threat of violence. It has to come to pass that Arabia is taking an inventory of it's own best interests and it is not handing over control to infiltrated terrorist netoworks like Hezbollah or the Islamic Jihad.
Starting to get the picture?
There is Arabia that exist and then there is Arabia of promise yet to exist. Whether you believe it or not, Israel has done a great thing by taking on Hezbollah and forcing these issues to the surface. They are saving the world from further knuckling under to terrorist warlords such as Osama bin Laden. Arabia needs help in straightening this out. It will come to pass, but, in the meantime, it gives Bush lots of political rhetoric for his politics that does nothing to assist peace so much as prolong the angry turmoil that is the Middle East.
enough
'Substantial material' gathered in British terror investigation
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html?id=e856a23f-a266-41c1-8b9a-fd6678346d2a&k=65483
LONDON -- British police probing an alleged terror plot to blow up U.S.-bound airliners have gathered "substantial material" in their investigation, Home Secretary John Reid said Sunday.
"The police and the security authorities are content that their investigation is rewarding substantial material which would allow them to take forward the judicial process," Reid said in an interview with ABC-TV's This Week, refusing to reveal details of the evidence.
"The police and the authorities are convinced that there was an alleged plot here. They have intervened. And in the course of the next few days, we'll wait and see what happens in terms of charges."
The Brits have stated they have so much information that it takes the investigation globally. I don't doubt. I also anticipate many nations are involved and the implications of that is just too much for most of Arabia to allow. For that reason it is better countries beware of each other than trusting of each other, especially at port security, for the individual it is the airliners, trains and basically transportation infrastructure, public or private.
When the Brits finish they will have accomplished more than Bush was ever WILLING to accomplish. After all who wants to insult Arabia and risk the loss of oil? Right? Or is it the oil and it's vast income to nations unwilling to care about The West that is the real enemy?
The fallout of London. The fallout of Hezbollah. It's going to end. The fact of the matter is Arabia is on fire from internal conflict over the power of oppression. It will come to pass and Islam will be safe but the people will have a peaceful presence on Earth and not the false pretense of a justified jihad/fatwah.
The fact of the matter is, Hezbollah has pulled the plug on what is 'owed' them. It's getting sticky for the nations of Arabia.
Embattled Liberal critic resigns over Hezbollah statements
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=8b76dda1-4ef9-4438-8f68-a39c26b14525&k=20904
Meagan Fitzpatrick, CanWest News ServicePublished: Wednesday, August 23, 2006
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Liberal MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj has resigned as associate foreign affairs critic for his party after controversial comments he made about the conflict in the Middle East.
Wrzesnewskyj offered his resignation Tuesday night, he told CanWest News Service, and it was accepted by Liberal Leader Bill Graham.
Wrzesnewskyj, who will meet with reporters this afternoon, came under fire earlier this week for suggesting he favoured removing Hezbollah from Canada’s list of terrorist organizations. In some media reports, the MP was quoted as saying that Israel was responsible for "state terrorism" in the conflict with Lebanon. He later denied saying that Hezbollah should be taken off the list and released a statement saying he believes it is a terrorist organization and should remain on the list. What he meant, according to the MP, was that Canada needs to evaluate its anti-terror legislation so it can have dialogue with groups like Hezbollah in order to implement a peace process.
But even that suggestion raised the ire of both the government and some of Wrzesnewskyj’s own colleagues in the Liberal party.
It's upto the British to lead the way to global oppression of al Qaeda and the terrorist movement spawned by Hezbollah. They are the only ones who can. They have the determination without the corruption.
The Arab NewsThe Lessons Arabs Should Learn From the Lebanese DevelopmentsMuhammad Salahuddin, Arab News
There is nothing innovatory or new in the lessons that Israel has been continuously teaching the Arabs since the very establishment of the Zionist state in 1948. It is the same old story in relation to the latest barbarian and bloody reminders of those lessons. Arabs and Muslims globally have become used to the daily scenes of blood spilling in Palestine; the Israeli air, land and sea attacks; and the daily demolition of houses and live burying of innocent people under the debris. To be quite honest, the Arabs don’t really care much for what Israel has done and still continues to do. Perhaps the enemy wants to weaken the Arabs and it is with this aim that Israel initiated a bloody and savage attack on Lebanon and coordinated a massive plan of death and destruction to destroy the infrastructure of the country.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=86169&d=24&m=8&y=2006
Editorial: Nuclear Row24 August 2006
THE UN Security Council has directed that Iran suspend its nuclear enrichment program within the next seven days. It now looks almost certain that Teheran will do no such thing. On Monday, Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, stated that his country would not stop its development program. Yet 48 hours later, the country’s chief nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, offered “serious talks” with the five permanent council members — China, France, Russia, the UK and the USA — plus Germany. Larijani said that the six had been sent detailed proposals. Almost immediately, however, the French said that the document offered absolutely nothing to talk about.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=86171&d=24&m=8&y=2006&pix=opinion.jpg&category=Opinion
Called on to Walk the Walk, EU Prefers Chaise LoungesJonathan Freedland, The Guardian
Insults are not predictions: They’re not meant to come true. But the leading nations of Europe seem bent on proving that every word of abuse rained down on them from across the Atlantic over the past few years was justified. To call the French “cheese-eating surrender monkeys” once appeared no more than a neocon slander. The American insistence that Europe was a continent of limp-wristed wusses, who were fond of fancy oratory but ran from the first sign of trouble, could be written off as mere Texan bluster.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=86172&d=24&m=8&y=2006&pix=opinion.jpg&category=Opinion
ARABIA continues to report on 'the mistakes' of the British but not the conviction. They seem to think one by one it will be proven that the British are bigoted story tellers rather than a country with sincere problems.
Scotland Yard Releases One SuspectMushtak Parker, Arab News
LONDON, 24 August 2006 — Scotland Yard yesterday released without charge one of 11 suspects still in detention but not yet charged with any offense in connection with an alleged terror plot to blow up nine trans-Atlantic airliners out of major UK airports en route to US cities.
A total of 24 suspects were detained in early morning raids on Aug. 10, of whom one was released without charges after a few days. Police stressed that the alleged plotters intended to “commit mass murder on an unimaginable scale”.
At the time of writing, police were at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in central London asking a High Court judge for more time to question the remaining 10 suspects, who were participating in the proceedings via video link from the high security police cells at Paddington Green in Edgware Road. Police, according to local media reports, want to continue holding the 10 suspects for a longer period.
Lebanese Soldiers Die Clearing ShellsAgencies
BEIRUT, 24 August 2006 — Three Lebanese soldiers were killed yesterday while clearing unexploded Israeli shells in southern Lebanon, underscoring the dangers of a region awaiting the deployment of thousands of UN peacekeepers.
The three men were the first Lebanese troops to die since the army began moving south last Thursday to bolster a UN-backed truce that halted a 34-day war between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas.
The Lebanese are due to send around 15,000 soldiers to the area to work alongside a similar number of UN troops.
Some 2,000 UN soldiers already serve in Lebanon with a force called UNIFIL but recruiting another 13,000 has proved difficult, with few nations ready to provide big contingents.
Assad rejects UN Peacekeepers. WHO ASKED HIM?
Bashar rejects UN troops
AP
Dubai: Syria's President Bashar Al Assad was quoted on Wednesday as rejecting the deployment of UN troops along the Lebanon-Syria border, saying such a move would create animosity between the two countries.
"This is an infringement on Lebanese sovereignty and a hostile position," Assad told Dubai Television. The TV station's anchor quoted Bashar without showing video of the interview, which would air later last night.
Bashar also urged the Lebanese government to adhere to its responsibilities and not embark on anything that could sabotage relations with Syria.
http://www.gulfnews.com/region/Lebanon/10062372.html
All the anger over Hezbollah and all the hate against Israel over it, yet, be the 4 millionth visitor to "Wild Wadi" and win a trip to New York City. HUH?
http://www.wildwadi.com/
Osama should try to be the 4 millionth visitor. New York City would put out the red carpet for him. Arabia would do us the favor of picking him up.
Money going to the Lebanese or Hezbollah. Is there a difference in Southern Lebanon?
Indians urged to donate relief material and cash
Staff Report
Muscat: Oman Charitable Organisation (OCO) is reaching out to the largest expatriate community in Oman Indians to generate relief material for the Lebanese.
The cash and relief material drive is picking up momentum in the country, with the OCO issuing appeals through advertisements in the local media.
The OCO has asked two of its Indian volunteers, S.N. Gopakumar and Ruchika R.S., who are also volunteers of the ad-hoc voluntary body Helpline, to spread the appeal among Indians for contributions.
http://www.gulfnews.com/region/Oman/10062374.html
The Jordan Times
Syria, Israel in showdown over UN force mandate
BEIRUT (AP) — Syria hotly opposed deployment of an international force along its border to prevent arms shipments to Hizbollah, and Israel on Wednesday called the situation in Lebanon “explosive”, as the ceasefire was shaken by artillery shells and explosions that killed three Lebanese soldiers and an Israeli.
Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora asked the US to help lift an Israeli blockade on his country's coast and airport — something Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said would not happen until UN troops deployed along the Lebanon-Syria border to block the flow of weapons.
Hizbollah's vast arsenal of rockets and other weapons, much of which is believed to originate in Iran, reaches the fighters across the Syrian border.
http://www.jordantimes.com/thu/news/news1.htm
This one is beautiful. Still another terrorist network wants sainthood rather than prison. The ONLY thing the Islamic Brotherhood did was to sympathize with Chechen rebels. That's all. No big deal, just some people dead.
House urges Russia to take Brotherhood off ‘terror’ list
AMMAN (Agencies) — The Lower House on Wednesday urged Russia to remove the Muslim Brotherhood from a list of 17 groups declared “terrorist organisations” by the country’s supreme court.
The House said in a statement the decision was “unjust and groundless”, stressing that the movement is “a respectful charity organisation that has nothing to do with any terrorist activities”, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.
The group is “an integral part of the Jordanian national fabric and a key component of the state”, the statement said. “The Lower House call on Russia to reconsider its decision and bolster relations with the Arab and Muslim worlds.”
News reports said the Muslim Brotherhood’s sympathy with the Chechen fighters promoted the move. The Muslim Brotherhood was founded in Egypt in the late 1920s and has since become a worldwide Islamist movement boasting two million members and the support of three million more people around the globe,
http://www.jordantimes.com/thu/homenews/homenews2.htm
Putin knows, just as Blair does what the issues are within Arabia. The West, Russia and China have to keep the pressure on Arabia, without it they will never come to terms with it's own internal governmental turmoil over these violent regimes that inhabit their streets and dominate them through the threat of violence. It has to come to pass that Arabia is taking an inventory of it's own best interests and it is not handing over control to infiltrated terrorist netoworks like Hezbollah or the Islamic Jihad.
Starting to get the picture?
There is Arabia that exist and then there is Arabia of promise yet to exist. Whether you believe it or not, Israel has done a great thing by taking on Hezbollah and forcing these issues to the surface. They are saving the world from further knuckling under to terrorist warlords such as Osama bin Laden. Arabia needs help in straightening this out. It will come to pass, but, in the meantime, it gives Bush lots of political rhetoric for his politics that does nothing to assist peace so much as prolong the angry turmoil that is the Middle East.
enough
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Andy and all the angles.
1001
I am not interested in the gossip. That is all that is in the news media. There are little to no facts. Boulder still has no case prepared against even this man. I doubt if they were looking for anyone other than the parents. Here we are with a possible suspect of the killing of Jon Benet and Colorado is standing in the spotlight saying, "Dah."
I want the facts. The charges. And the trial.
NEXT.
1021
Blah, blah, blah. When are you getting to Andrew Yonng"
1032
I don't care about bin Laden. Bush failed the USA and the families of September 11, 2006. I tend to agree that Mr. Young was under undo pressure in his capacity. And. What was Wal-mart trying to do in separating 'interests' of minorities from that of whom? Caucasians? Wal-mart has that much to offer WHITE FOLKS over BLACK FOLKS? I don't get it.
I want to hear Mr. Young and his views of all this WITHOUT apologizing. What lead him to make such remarks?
1036
The Problems of the Poor in our Central Cities and they don't have the same access.
It's about deprivation .... compared to the good fortune of so many others in this country.
Complex social issues and Diversity are different subjects. Leave the ethnic labels behind when discussing complex social issues.
I resigned because I goofed and lost my cool with that reporter. "Almost hate speech." "It was getting close." "A new demagoge on the rise."
I think the New York Times needs to invite Mr. Young for an interview about his views, especailly now. This interview was not complete. He has a lot more to say. It would be not only a shame to refuse to let him say it, but, a lose if he didn't get it all down on the record. Shame on everyone. They failed the people that still face the impossible task of living day to day.
1041
Come Anderson, what kind of hate are you going to level about Iran?
1108
I already said all this. The fact there was a party. Someone stayed in the house and was familitar with the house and the family. I stated that as soon as I heard the mention of this guy.
I'm not surprised about any of it. Wealth attracts some shadey characters.
1121
I am sure Iran does have a defensive doctrine they didn't have before. There is reason for them to. Bush invaded Iraq illegally. He invaded Iraq before the final vote of the United Nations Security Council vote and long before the UN Inspectors finished their work. The atomic inspectors under al Baradai weren't going to be finished for another six months.
See, I don't see Iran as feeling powerful so much as feeling helpless against a huge American invasion force in Iraq. They are conducting these 'exercises' because they want to show everyone how far they have come. They still have a long way to go and they are in no way a threat to the USA. Before a country launches a nuclear weapon they have to fire 'trials' to those explosions, otherwise they could be blowing up their own country. Or delivering missiles back on their own cities. I don't want to dismiis the brevity of the issue. Having an Iran with a nuclear weapon is a grossly irresponsible act by any authority in the world. Iran is inherently dangerous to the area AND untrustworthy. I just can't resolve the 'idea' that some Iranian Ayatollah will decide Allah will protect them from any harm and throw caution to the wind and launch thinking they will get away with it. Even if they are a good amount of time from launching a first strike, it is time to cool the 'atomsphere' in the Middle East when it comes to the border concerns of Iran.
Anderson did not even discuss the options of the EU in seeking a productive relationships through economic mutual interests and hence actually and possibly and eventually finding itself amoung some sincere friends in Europe. These Shi'ite nations, as Iraq now is, are very much alone in their existance. They naturally would seek to find autonomy and a National Defense that would defend against the world. Why wouldn't they? I think there is great potential in this time of Iranian militarization for The West to make a huge impression to deter Iran from being isolated. This is an opportunity for Iran. It is a greater opportunity for The West to actually build bridges that can't be torn down or HATED. The people of Iran need to come to understand they are safe. They don't need nuclear weapons to deter Bush and his illegal wars.
1138
What happened to the news secretary? Anderson jealous of him/her, too? I know he didn't like another human voice. Right?
enough
I am not interested in the gossip. That is all that is in the news media. There are little to no facts. Boulder still has no case prepared against even this man. I doubt if they were looking for anyone other than the parents. Here we are with a possible suspect of the killing of Jon Benet and Colorado is standing in the spotlight saying, "Dah."
I want the facts. The charges. And the trial.
NEXT.
1021
Blah, blah, blah. When are you getting to Andrew Yonng"
1032
I don't care about bin Laden. Bush failed the USA and the families of September 11, 2006. I tend to agree that Mr. Young was under undo pressure in his capacity. And. What was Wal-mart trying to do in separating 'interests' of minorities from that of whom? Caucasians? Wal-mart has that much to offer WHITE FOLKS over BLACK FOLKS? I don't get it.
I want to hear Mr. Young and his views of all this WITHOUT apologizing. What lead him to make such remarks?
1036
The Problems of the Poor in our Central Cities and they don't have the same access.
It's about deprivation .... compared to the good fortune of so many others in this country.
Complex social issues and Diversity are different subjects. Leave the ethnic labels behind when discussing complex social issues.
I resigned because I goofed and lost my cool with that reporter. "Almost hate speech." "It was getting close." "A new demagoge on the rise."
I think the New York Times needs to invite Mr. Young for an interview about his views, especailly now. This interview was not complete. He has a lot more to say. It would be not only a shame to refuse to let him say it, but, a lose if he didn't get it all down on the record. Shame on everyone. They failed the people that still face the impossible task of living day to day.
1041
Come Anderson, what kind of hate are you going to level about Iran?
1108
I already said all this. The fact there was a party. Someone stayed in the house and was familitar with the house and the family. I stated that as soon as I heard the mention of this guy.
I'm not surprised about any of it. Wealth attracts some shadey characters.
1121
I am sure Iran does have a defensive doctrine they didn't have before. There is reason for them to. Bush invaded Iraq illegally. He invaded Iraq before the final vote of the United Nations Security Council vote and long before the UN Inspectors finished their work. The atomic inspectors under al Baradai weren't going to be finished for another six months.
See, I don't see Iran as feeling powerful so much as feeling helpless against a huge American invasion force in Iraq. They are conducting these 'exercises' because they want to show everyone how far they have come. They still have a long way to go and they are in no way a threat to the USA. Before a country launches a nuclear weapon they have to fire 'trials' to those explosions, otherwise they could be blowing up their own country. Or delivering missiles back on their own cities. I don't want to dismiis the brevity of the issue. Having an Iran with a nuclear weapon is a grossly irresponsible act by any authority in the world. Iran is inherently dangerous to the area AND untrustworthy. I just can't resolve the 'idea' that some Iranian Ayatollah will decide Allah will protect them from any harm and throw caution to the wind and launch thinking they will get away with it. Even if they are a good amount of time from launching a first strike, it is time to cool the 'atomsphere' in the Middle East when it comes to the border concerns of Iran.
Anderson did not even discuss the options of the EU in seeking a productive relationships through economic mutual interests and hence actually and possibly and eventually finding itself amoung some sincere friends in Europe. These Shi'ite nations, as Iraq now is, are very much alone in their existance. They naturally would seek to find autonomy and a National Defense that would defend against the world. Why wouldn't they? I think there is great potential in this time of Iranian militarization for The West to make a huge impression to deter Iran from being isolated. This is an opportunity for Iran. It is a greater opportunity for The West to actually build bridges that can't be torn down or HATED. The people of Iran need to come to understand they are safe. They don't need nuclear weapons to deter Bush and his illegal wars.
1138
What happened to the news secretary? Anderson jealous of him/her, too? I know he didn't like another human voice. Right?
enough
Friday, August 18, 2006
I'm reluctant to watch the program tonight
Believe it or not it takes some pains these days to watch what is coming out of the media and especially this one. I find it a darn shame cable news even exists. Between FOX, CNN and MSNBC there is about 2 million viewers at any given time. Because of that small populous, the USA has something like 350 million people living in it's borders LEGALLY, every time there is a change in the direction of the wind each news agency seeks to mimic it in someway.
About the Ramsey case - I haven't changed my mind. I find it a strange case with a strange suspect. But, the murder of a child on Christmas Day when she should be playing with her gifts from under the tree is about as strange as it comes. For the mishandling of the case that took place under the direction of the Boulder, Colorado police force the case should be moved to a different venue. Who knows what's going to happen this time.
Israel - Awaiting peacekeepers. They are coming. I think the world learned a lot about terrorists and how they operate to have entire governments knuckle under to their extremism. It's gratifying to realize Israel is more a liberator and I know that won't be taken well because of all the deaths involved on both sides of the recent war, but, I really feel that way. Israel opened the eyes of many people. There is a far stronger UN resolution now and the Lebanese military is being deployed for the first time in 20 years. That is a huge. Absolutely huge. The Lebanese legislature did not cower when it came time to vote on moving their troops but decisively acted to exert their sovereignty. With time, Lebanon will be a much stronger nation and Syria will foloow and Iran will return to it's democratic pursuits. I truly feel that way today. I hope those nations don't disappoint us all.
Iraq - It's a civil war. There is no doubt in my mind. While the central government needs to operate to carry out international affairs and internal affairs of the continued 'Oil for Food' program the towns/hamlets of Iraq need to feel secure. How they define that security isn't enhanced by invading and powerful USA troops or Brits. This country desperately needs to hear without retribution from it's Holy Men. Those Holy Men need to put forward an agenda of peace that includes the fear of long term occupation by the USA.
There is a huge danger to the world in leaving a USA deployment in Iraq. Bush and Cheney have itchy trigger fingers when it comes to Iran and I am completely confident they were hoping to exacerbate the Israeli-Hezbollah war into a confrontation with Iran. Our military poses too much of a threat to the entire region. It is grossly destabilizing. I dearly don't want any country with a nuclear capacity. I think the world is ready to be Nuke Free, except for Bush and Cheney and Powell's Doctrine of Overwhelming Force. But, at the same time Bush is making too much of the Iranian potential. While it would take only one Anti-Semite to launch against Israel with a nuclear weapon, that same nation and others in the region would never know the result as they would have a retaliatory strike that would be annihilate them within minutes of such aggression. It was just this past week or so that an article seeking a Nuclear Free Middle East by the Saudi King appeared in the Arab News.
Bush/Cheney - They have broken the law. High crimes and misdemeanors. A court ruled that today and of course it will end up before the Robert's court and who knows what will happen there. Scalia's rubber stamp has Bush's initials carved in it. But in many venues of privacy this administration has overstepped it's bounds without any significant results and many times in error. They were 'mining' telecommunications for something other than terrorists. If they remember the murderers of September 11th were primarily Saudis. Immigrant Saudis taking lessons in flying big airliners. There were reports from the FBI and CIA about them BEFORE it happened. Those reports were generated BEFORE anyone was spying illegally on Americans. They were generated THE OLD WAY.
So, if there is any other news tonight it will only serve to sensationalize the airwaves while distracting from the fact Joe Lieberman was actually defeated by his own piers.
I suppose the business men could try to sue but Lebanon was harboring terrorists that were firing rockets at Israel while killing their citizens. Maybe the Israeli citizens need to sue the businessmen of Southern Lebanon that harbor Hezbollah among the shops and in their economy.
Businessmen to Sue Israel Over Losses in Lebanon
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=6§ion=0&article=76445&d=18&m=8&y=2006
And get this. Prime Minister Abbas whom is still alive is working on a peace plan. How about that? Abbas is. Not Hamas. Sovereignty at work.
Abbas Working on Peace Plan
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=78002&d=18&m=8&y=2006
VERY NICE PICTURE. Lebanese children showing affection to the sovereign nation's soldiers. Respect for their country and not Hezbollah. Sorry folks but if that isn't progress than I don't know what is.
Lebanese Troops Move Into South
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=78061&d=18&m=8&y=2006
And the Lieberman distraction could literally cause a real lack of knowledge of the underhanded tactics of USA military recruters. We've been here before. Promise the moon and deliver you to Iraq in nine short weeks.
Parents of Recruit Claim Army Made False Promises, Forged Documents
John Hollenhorst / KSL5-TV
The Army has launched an investigation into claims, by the parents of a young soldier from Utah, that recruiters used false promises and forged documents to enlist him.
The 17-year-old was recruited from a youth prison in Ogden.
In a coincidence of timing, a Congressional report was released today detailing hundreds of complaints of recruiting irregularity and fraud.
In the Utah case, is it fraud? Or just a homesick kid who wants to come home?
To take the oath and join the military, a 17-year-old must have parental approval in writing. Steve Price of Brigham City was barely 17 when he enlisted last January. He was recruited while serving time at a youth prison in Ogden.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=7671
As Keith Oberman would say, good night and good luck. I liked his blow dryer hairstyle better without the grey actually.
enough
About the Ramsey case - I haven't changed my mind. I find it a strange case with a strange suspect. But, the murder of a child on Christmas Day when she should be playing with her gifts from under the tree is about as strange as it comes. For the mishandling of the case that took place under the direction of the Boulder, Colorado police force the case should be moved to a different venue. Who knows what's going to happen this time.
Israel - Awaiting peacekeepers. They are coming. I think the world learned a lot about terrorists and how they operate to have entire governments knuckle under to their extremism. It's gratifying to realize Israel is more a liberator and I know that won't be taken well because of all the deaths involved on both sides of the recent war, but, I really feel that way. Israel opened the eyes of many people. There is a far stronger UN resolution now and the Lebanese military is being deployed for the first time in 20 years. That is a huge. Absolutely huge. The Lebanese legislature did not cower when it came time to vote on moving their troops but decisively acted to exert their sovereignty. With time, Lebanon will be a much stronger nation and Syria will foloow and Iran will return to it's democratic pursuits. I truly feel that way today. I hope those nations don't disappoint us all.
Iraq - It's a civil war. There is no doubt in my mind. While the central government needs to operate to carry out international affairs and internal affairs of the continued 'Oil for Food' program the towns/hamlets of Iraq need to feel secure. How they define that security isn't enhanced by invading and powerful USA troops or Brits. This country desperately needs to hear without retribution from it's Holy Men. Those Holy Men need to put forward an agenda of peace that includes the fear of long term occupation by the USA.
There is a huge danger to the world in leaving a USA deployment in Iraq. Bush and Cheney have itchy trigger fingers when it comes to Iran and I am completely confident they were hoping to exacerbate the Israeli-Hezbollah war into a confrontation with Iran. Our military poses too much of a threat to the entire region. It is grossly destabilizing. I dearly don't want any country with a nuclear capacity. I think the world is ready to be Nuke Free, except for Bush and Cheney and Powell's Doctrine of Overwhelming Force. But, at the same time Bush is making too much of the Iranian potential. While it would take only one Anti-Semite to launch against Israel with a nuclear weapon, that same nation and others in the region would never know the result as they would have a retaliatory strike that would be annihilate them within minutes of such aggression. It was just this past week or so that an article seeking a Nuclear Free Middle East by the Saudi King appeared in the Arab News.
Bush/Cheney - They have broken the law. High crimes and misdemeanors. A court ruled that today and of course it will end up before the Robert's court and who knows what will happen there. Scalia's rubber stamp has Bush's initials carved in it. But in many venues of privacy this administration has overstepped it's bounds without any significant results and many times in error. They were 'mining' telecommunications for something other than terrorists. If they remember the murderers of September 11th were primarily Saudis. Immigrant Saudis taking lessons in flying big airliners. There were reports from the FBI and CIA about them BEFORE it happened. Those reports were generated BEFORE anyone was spying illegally on Americans. They were generated THE OLD WAY.
So, if there is any other news tonight it will only serve to sensationalize the airwaves while distracting from the fact Joe Lieberman was actually defeated by his own piers.
I suppose the business men could try to sue but Lebanon was harboring terrorists that were firing rockets at Israel while killing their citizens. Maybe the Israeli citizens need to sue the businessmen of Southern Lebanon that harbor Hezbollah among the shops and in their economy.
Businessmen to Sue Israel Over Losses in Lebanon
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=6§ion=0&article=76445&d=18&m=8&y=2006
And get this. Prime Minister Abbas whom is still alive is working on a peace plan. How about that? Abbas is. Not Hamas. Sovereignty at work.
Abbas Working on Peace Plan
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=78002&d=18&m=8&y=2006
VERY NICE PICTURE. Lebanese children showing affection to the sovereign nation's soldiers. Respect for their country and not Hezbollah. Sorry folks but if that isn't progress than I don't know what is.
Lebanese Troops Move Into South
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=78061&d=18&m=8&y=2006
And the Lieberman distraction could literally cause a real lack of knowledge of the underhanded tactics of USA military recruters. We've been here before. Promise the moon and deliver you to Iraq in nine short weeks.
Parents of Recruit Claim Army Made False Promises, Forged Documents
John Hollenhorst / KSL5-TV
The Army has launched an investigation into claims, by the parents of a young soldier from Utah, that recruiters used false promises and forged documents to enlist him.
The 17-year-old was recruited from a youth prison in Ogden.
In a coincidence of timing, a Congressional report was released today detailing hundreds of complaints of recruiting irregularity and fraud.
In the Utah case, is it fraud? Or just a homesick kid who wants to come home?
To take the oath and join the military, a 17-year-old must have parental approval in writing. Steve Price of Brigham City was barely 17 when he enlisted last January. He was recruited while serving time at a youth prison in Ogden.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=7671
As Keith Oberman would say, good night and good luck. I liked his blow dryer hairstyle better without the grey actually.
enough
Thursday, August 17, 2006
It's about time CNN gave Kelly Arena a decent assignment, rather than being the terrorist queen, manipulated by information from the White House, not much different than Judith Miller was in regard to Iraq and the outing of a CIA agent. She did well with the legal aspects of the case. Does the White House/Rove drool over using women and their preception as vulnerable and easily believed to spin all this over intelligence leaks or is it just a general disregard for the safety of the American people to save their own political arses?
1010
There was a DNA match. Well, the military can DNA everyone they think they have killed that never turns out to be bin Laden, I am sure it's good enough to put the lousy pedophile in prison FOEVER and not just on a LIST !
1018
Extradiction isn't always so simple across national boundaries. In some countries people cannot be extradited to the USA because we have death penalty. I don't believe Thialand has that objection. I am not sure if Colorado has the death sentence either.
1023
I sincerely don't believe this is a revenge killing. It was simply a brutal rape of a child then killed to never reveal her attacker. I don't think it's more complicated than that.
1025
The drug arrest is exceptionally good news. They were in the USA waters just enough. The Coast Guard cutter crew should receive recognition. They bravely took on one of the most domestically dangerous encounters possible.
1030
Jon's eyes don't reveal a child with problems so deep that it would have resulted in her death at the hand of a parent. She was happy child. "Little Miss America" The Barbie doll every little girls seeks to find in herself. She was one of many siblings of a range of ages and she had all the attention a child could want. She never competed for attention, she commanded it. She was wonderful and just as adorable as a child strives to be in approval of her parents who loved her dearly. It's so easy to see. It's so difficult to find any claim to the ridicule of this family.
1034
I have desire to discuss Hezbollah. They are ciminal killers that have taken a nation hostage. The Lebanese military hasn't been deployed for over 20 years. They will need a lot of support and help in their expertise to accomplish their duty to their sovereign country. Israel's intelligence can be of service to the Lebanese military in 'orienting' them to their new role and reality. That is IF the Lebanese government acknowledges they have a strong ally in Israel !
enough
1010
There was a DNA match. Well, the military can DNA everyone they think they have killed that never turns out to be bin Laden, I am sure it's good enough to put the lousy pedophile in prison FOEVER and not just on a LIST !
1018
Extradiction isn't always so simple across national boundaries. In some countries people cannot be extradited to the USA because we have death penalty. I don't believe Thialand has that objection. I am not sure if Colorado has the death sentence either.
1023
I sincerely don't believe this is a revenge killing. It was simply a brutal rape of a child then killed to never reveal her attacker. I don't think it's more complicated than that.
1025
The drug arrest is exceptionally good news. They were in the USA waters just enough. The Coast Guard cutter crew should receive recognition. They bravely took on one of the most domestically dangerous encounters possible.
1030
Jon's eyes don't reveal a child with problems so deep that it would have resulted in her death at the hand of a parent. She was happy child. "Little Miss America" The Barbie doll every little girls seeks to find in herself. She was one of many siblings of a range of ages and she had all the attention a child could want. She never competed for attention, she commanded it. She was wonderful and just as adorable as a child strives to be in approval of her parents who loved her dearly. It's so easy to see. It's so difficult to find any claim to the ridicule of this family.
1034
I have desire to discuss Hezbollah. They are ciminal killers that have taken a nation hostage. The Lebanese military hasn't been deployed for over 20 years. They will need a lot of support and help in their expertise to accomplish their duty to their sovereign country. Israel's intelligence can be of service to the Lebanese military in 'orienting' them to their new role and reality. That is IF the Lebanese government acknowledges they have a strong ally in Israel !
enough
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
This is such garbarge. It's all inflammatory to defeat the peace accord.
1000
If the Southern Lebanon slime was able to get more monies from Israel than Hezbollah, they'd take it. I don't see the GOVERNMENT of Lebanon taking on the challenge of building cities without terrorists, do you?
More ammunition, should all the disarming and UN Forces fail. Israel is patiently waiting for it to fail. It's just matter of time. Always agreeable. Always first to move toward peace. But, also the first to point to failure when policy endangers Israel. This isn't over and the people of Southern Lebanon shouldn't be so anxious to rebuild.
1006
Listen to Bush, he actually likes yelling at Iran and Syria across the aire waves. He's such a sucker for verbal abuse to increase hostilities. You know Israel didn't inflame the circumstances that took them to war. They rose to the occassion to protect it's citizens and defend the nation's borders. Prime Minister Olmert never engaged in a shouting match with anyone. He didn't explain h's initiatives. He didn't explain away the objections the world held as important, he held to his insight as provided by Israeli intelligence and carried out a very successful campaign. I'm sorry, but, when cities are leveled because they were infiltrated by terrorists that is a victory.
Ask me a month from now if all the rantings of the public attention grabbing politicians on both sides of the Atantic really matter.
1011
When Israel left Gaza, it was Hamas that fired at the soldiers as they exited the territory. They always do this. The 'cowards' like to throw weapon fire at the IDF as if it's retreating rather than leaving. They feel strong throwing ammunition at an Israel force that can walk into their perverted lands and knock the hell of them when they kill with young people destroying their own potential contributions to their countries as suicide bombers. The IDF has always been a DEFENSE force.
Early this morning, Hezbollah guerrillas fired at least 10 Katyusha rockets that landed in southern Lebanon, the Israeli army said, adding that nobody was injured. The army said none of the rockets had crossed the border and so it had not responded.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1155592216114&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154&t=TS_Home
THE PICTURES OF Ahmadinejad is completely inflammatory as he continues to defy nuclear limitations of Iran. There ISN'T anything else to know about nuclear energy through research. Iran's president just likes to be contemptuous for the sake of it. Not to take it lightly, he couldn't care less if he drops bombs, EXCEPT, it might result in retaliation. He has no power. Ahmadinejad is a loud mouth punk. So is Nasrallah.
If the Southern Lebanon slime was able to get more monies from Israel than Hezbollah, they'd take it. I don't see the GOVERNMENT of Lebanon taking on the challenge of building cities without terrorists, do you?
More ammunition, should all the disarming and UN Forces fail. Israel is patiently waiting for it to fail. It's just matter of time. Always agreeable. Always first to move toward peace. But, also the first to point to failure when policy endangers Israel. This isn't over and the people of Southern Lebanon shouldn't be so anxious to rebuild.
1006
Listen to Bush, he actually likes yelling at Iran and Syria across the aire waves. He's such a sucker for verbal abuse to increase hostilities. You know Israel didn't inflame the circumstances that took them to war. They rose to the occassion to protect it's citizens and defend the nation's borders. Prime Minister Olmert never engaged in a shouting match with anyone. He didn't explain h's initiatives. He didn't explain away the objections the world held as important, he held to his insight as provided by Israeli intelligence and carried out a very successful campaign. I'm sorry, but, when cities are leveled because they were infiltrated by terrorists that is a victory.
Ask me a month from now if all the rantings of the public attention grabbing politicians on both sides of the Atantic really matter.
1011
When Israel left Gaza, it was Hamas that fired at the soldiers as they exited the territory. They always do this. The 'cowards' like to throw weapon fire at the IDF as if it's retreating rather than leaving. They feel strong throwing ammunition at an Israel force that can walk into their perverted lands and knock the hell of them when they kill with young people destroying their own potential contributions to their countries as suicide bombers. The IDF has always been a DEFENSE force.
Early this morning, Hezbollah guerrillas fired at least 10 Katyusha rockets that landed in southern Lebanon, the Israeli army said, adding that nobody was injured. The army said none of the rockets had crossed the border and so it had not responded.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1155592216114&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154&t=TS_Home
THE PICTURES OF Ahmadinejad is completely inflammatory as he continues to defy nuclear limitations of Iran. There ISN'T anything else to know about nuclear energy through research. Iran's president just likes to be contemptuous for the sake of it. Not to take it lightly, he couldn't care less if he drops bombs, EXCEPT, it might result in retaliation. He has no power. Ahmadinejad is a loud mouth punk. So is Nasrallah.
Iran's Ahmadinejad Defies UN's Call to Suspend Nuclear Research
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ajHBnmcs3WqQ&refer=worldwide_news
Aug. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad defied the UN Security Council over a demand that the country suspend its nuclear program, and accused the U.S. of encouraging the Lebanon conflict in order to shape a ``new Middle East.''
Some states ``believe that they can come up with a stick named `resolution' and tell us to accept the offer,'' Ahmadinejad said in a speech today in the town of Ardebil, in northwestern Ardebil province, which was aired live on
I don't find anything special about this issue of 360, it's just a lead up to Chris's report about al Qaeda to try to insight 'The CULTure of Fear."
1022
I don't find anything worthwhile in any of these political rantings. You're trying to bolster a president that has failing ratings for OVER a year. Don't you Neocons know when you're beaten? The ONLY reason Bush is stumping the vote from places that look 'kinda presidential although it looks more 'intElligence' to me. is because he and Cheney know for a fact there is a reason for censure and/or impeachment. THEY ARE SCARED. Completely.
1035
David Gergen - just say it, David. The Republican ? message ?/excuse is full of lies and the reason the Democratic Party is looking attractive is because they could never get away with a lie even if they tried.
1042
Finally, Chris makes a point worth noting. THERE WEREN'T ENOUGH USA TROOPS ON THE GROUND IN AFGHANISTAN TO END THE AL QAEDA NETWORK.
Thank you, Chris.
Bush never cared about the downed airliners, the destroyed towers or dead Pentagon employees and military. He cared about his ambitions to having Iraqi oil while Cheney desperately wanted to bail himself out of trouble with Halliburton which had already filed a lawsuit against him for fraudulent misconduct as CEO costing the stockholders dividend income. Gee, I wonder why this administration had a grudge against Class Action Suits.
1045
enough
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Let's hear the propaganda. Bush is full of it.
1004
It figures that Frankenstein keeps his job. It's so insulting. There should be live journalists introducing the news. Next we'll be hearing from the WB the reporting of the news. Tha', Tha', That's all folks.
1005
Bush is starting his rant about Iran. He's a jerk. This is a NEW resolution regarding the borders of Israel. 15,000 UN troops are going to be deployed. Bush is an idiot. There is no reason to invade Iran.
I tell you what. Why not concentrate on terrorist sponsors that ACTUALLY cause genocide rather than worrying about the 'potential' for invading a sovereign country that has done little to carry out genocide to date.
WHEN IS DARFUR FINALLY GOING TO STOP IT'S KILLING !!!!!!!
21 May 2002
Terror Report Identifies Sudan as State Sponsor of Terrorism, May 21, 2002
(Africa overview of 2001 Patterns of Global Terrorism Report)
The shock produced by the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States and renewed international cooperation to combat global terrorism are producing a "new readiness" on the part of African leaders to address the problems of international terrorism, says the Africa Overview section of the 2001 Patterns of Global Terrorism Report.
The report, which was prepared by the U.S. Department of State and released May 21, adds, however, that "international terrorist organizations with Islamic ties, including al-Qaida and Lebanese Hizballah, have a presence in Africa and continue to exploit Africa's permissive operating environment -- porous borders, conflict, lax financial systems, and the wide availability of weapons -- to expand and strengthen their networks."
Sudan, which is identified in the Africa Overview as one of the seven state sponsors of terrorism, is discussed in a separate state sponsorship section of the same report.
Following is the text of the Africa Overview of the report:(begin text)
Africa Overview
"The Organization of African Unity (OAU) expresses to the Government and people of the United States of America the full solidarity and the deepest condolence of the OAU and the entire people of Africa over this tragedy which affected not only the people of the USA but humanity as a whole." OAU Communique 20 September 2001
There was nearly universal condemnation of the September 11 attacks on the United States among Sub-Saharan African governments. These governments also pledged their support to the war against terrorism. In addition to bilateral cooperation with the United States and the global Coalition, multilateral organizations such as the Organization of African Unity and the Southern African Development Community have committed themselves to fighting terrorism.
The shock produced by the September 11 attacks and renewed international cooperation to combat global terrorism is producing a new readiness on the part of African leaders to address the problems of international terrorism. Africa's increased cooperation may help counter the persistent threat and use of terrorism as an instrument of violence and coercion against civilians. Most terrorist attacks in Africa stem from internal civil unrest and spillover from regional wars as African rebel movements and opposition groups employ terrorist tactics in pursuit of their political, social, or economic goals. Countries where insurgent groups have indiscriminately employed terrorist tactics and attacked civilians include the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
International terrorist organizations with Islamic ties, including al-Qaida and Lebanese Hizballah, have a presence in Africa and continue to exploit Africa's permissive operating environment -- porous borders, conflict, lax financial systems, and the wide availability of weapons -- to expand and strengthen their networks. Further, these groups are able to flourish in "failed states" or those with weak governments that are unable to monitor the activities of terrorists and their supporters within their borders. Press reports also indicate that terrorists may be using the illicit trade in conflict diamonds both to launder money and to finance their operations.
Sudan, one of the seven state sponsors of terrorism, is discussed in the state sponsorship section of this report.
Angola
Angola made strides in combating terrorism since the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States. In late November, the National Assembly passed a resolution calling for Angola to participate in regional and international efforts to combat terrorism, to include sharing intelligence, technical expertise, and financial information, and cooperating on legal issues. President dos Santos publicly backed U.S. military actions and supports the Organization of African Unity resolutions against terrorism.
For more than two decades, Angola has been plagued by the protracted civil war between the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) and the Angolan Government. UNITA is believed to have been responsible for several brutal attacks on civilian targets in 2001. Unidentified militants -- suspected of being UNITA rebels -- ambushed a train killing 256 persons and injuring 161 others in August. Later that month, armed men fired a missile at a passing bus, killing approximately 55 and wounding 10. UNITA rebels are also suspected of attacking a farm in May, killing one person, wounding one, and kidnapping 50 others.
During 2001, violence from the Angolan civil war again spilled over into neighboring Namibia. The Angolan Government, operating on the invitation of the Namibian Government, pursued UNITA rebels into Namibia. Border clashes resulted in several attacks. In May, rebels attacked a village killing one person and wounding one other. Earlier in the year, armed men entered a village, abducting eight persons who were taken to Angola and held hostage.
(On 4 April, 2002, shortly after the death of Jonas Savimbi, UNITA leaders signed a cease-fire agreement with the Government of Angola.)
Djibouti
Djibouti pledged early, strong, and consistent support for the U.S.-led Coalition in the global war on terrorism. Djibouti also hosts Coalition forces from France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Djibouti closed financial networks suspected of funneling funds for terrorist operations that operated there and issued a Djiboutian executive order that commits the country to cooperate fully with U.S. counterterrorist financial measures.
Ethiopia
Ethiopia has been another strong supporter of the campaign against terror. The Ethiopian response was immediate and vocal following the September 11 attacks. Ethiopia also has shut down terrorist financial networks operating in its territory. Ethiopia continues to cooperate in examining potential terrorist activity in the region, including in Somalia.
Kenya
Kenya already had suffered from an al-Qaida attack on the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi in August 1998. Kenya remained a key ally in the region, implementing new measures to impose asset freezes and other financial controls, offering to cooperate with the United States to combat terrorism, and leading the current regional effort toward national reconciliation in Somalia. Kenya is a party to 10 of the 11 antiterrorism conventions and is a signatory to the newest, the 1999 UN Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism.
Nigeria
Nigeria has strongly supported U.S. antiterrorism efforts around the world as well as the military action in Afghanistan. Nigeria led diplomatic efforts in the U.N. and the Economic Community of West African State (ECOWAS) and in the battle against terrorism. The Nigerian Government has drafted legislation -- the Anti-Terrorism, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Act -- that contains explicit criminal sanctions against terrorism and its financing. The Government of Nigeria is committed to preventing its territory -- home to Africa's largest Muslim population -- from becoming a safehaven for Islamic extremists.
Senegal
Senegal has been a leader in the African response to the attacks of September 11, with President Abdoulaye Wade's proposed African Pact Against Terrorism. President Wade stressed this issue with many of the continent's leaders during a two-day conference in Dakar in October 2001 and is energizing countries to join the fight via the Organization of African Unity/African Union. The Senegal Central Bank and regional banks based in Dakar have modified regulations to restrict terrorist funding. Senegal has also created a regional counterterrorism intelligence center, using assets of its security and intelligence services along with assistance from the United States. Senegal plans to ratify all remaining U.N. conventions against terrorism in the near future.
Somalia
Somalia, a nation with no central government, represents a potential breeding ground as well as safehaven for terrorist networks. Civil war, clan conflict, and poverty have combined to turn Somalia into a "failed state," with no one group currently able to govern the entire country, poor or nonexistent law enforcement, and an inability to monitor the financial sector. Some major factions within Somalia have pledged to fight terrorism. However, one indigenous group, al-Ittihad al-Islami (AIAI), is dedicated to creating an Islamic state in Somalia, has carried out terrorist acts in Ethiopia, and may have some ties to al-Qaida. AIAI remains active in several parts of Somalia. In July, gunmen in Mogadishu attacked a World Food Program convoy, killing six persons and wounding several others. In March, extremists attacked a Medecins Sans Frontieres medical charity facility, killing 11 persons, wounding 40, and taking nine hostages. The hostages were later released. The need for cooperation among Somalia's neighbors in the Horn of Africa is obvious, given the long borders shared with Somalia by Djibouti, Ethiopia, and Kenya. These countries have -- individually and, in cooperation with the United States -- taken steps to close their ports of entry to potential terrorists, deny use of their banking systems to transfer terrorist-linked assets, and to bring about the peaceful reconciliation and long-term stability that will remove the "failed-state" conditions currently found in Somalia.
South Africa
South Africa expressed its unreserved condemnation for the 11 September terrorist attacks on the United States. The Government has offered its support for U.S.-led diplomatic efforts to fight terrorism. South Africa also supports the Organization of African Unity's counterterrorism resolution. South Africa continued to experience some incidents of urban terrorism in 2001.
Uganda
President Yoweri Museveni publicly condemned the 11 September attacks and called upon the world to act together against terrorism. Two insurgent groups -- the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in Northern Uganda and the Allied Democratic Forces in Western Uganda -- continued military operations aimed at undermining the Kampala government in 2001 -- resulting in several terrorist attacks that injured foreign nationals. In June, three bombs exploded simultaneously in public areas in Kampala killing one and wounding 19 persons. Suspected LRA rebels ambushed a Catholic Relief Services vehicle in September, killing five persons and wounding two others.
Alternate Means of Terrorist Funding? Diamonds and Tanzanite
Several media reports made the claim that the al-Qaida network has made millions of dollars from diamonds mined by rebels in Sierra Leone, either by trading them or using them to launder money. Revolutionary United Front (RUF) officials were alleged to have sold millions of dollars in diamonds to Usama Bin Ladin's al-Qaida terrorist network.
Similarly, allegations were made linking the sale of tanzanite to al-Qaida financing. Press reports claimed that a former personal secretary to Bin Ladin kept a diary detailing al-Qaida's use of tanzanite to help finance its operations for the past several years.
A subsequent claim was made that other radical Islamic groups (including the Lebanon-based Hizballah) transferred millions of dollars made from Congolese diamond sales to their organizations back home.
We continue to investigate these claims. The US Government also is cooperating with the United Nations, diamond-producing countries, and diamond-importing countries to develop a certification system for diamonds to prevent "conflict diamonds" from entering the international trading system.
(end text)
REPORTS ARE PAPERWORK. How many people are dying that Bush couldn't care less about because they don't have oil wells to drill? Or a Caspian Sea to exploit and fight over?
1916
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1019
The Brits never was attacked by terrorists before they joined the USA in attacking Iraq.
Along with the U.S., Britain launched air strikes against Iraq in Dec. 1998 after Saddam Hussein expelled UN arms inspectors. In the spring of 1999, Britain spearheaded the NATO operation in Kosovo, which resulted in Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milosevic's withdrawal from the territory.
In Feb. 2001, foot-and-mouth disease broke out among British livestock, prompting other nations to ban British meat imports and forcing the slaughter of thousands of cattle, pigs, and sheep in an effort to stem the highly contagious disease. The episode cost farmers and the tourist industry billions of dollars.
In June 2001, Blair won a second landslide victory, with the Labour Party capturing 413 seats in Parliament.
Britain became the staunchest ally of the U.S. after the Sept. 11 attacks. British troops joined the U.S. in the bombing campaign against Afghanistan in Oct. 2001, after the Taliban-led government refused to turn over the prime suspect in the terrorist attacks, Osama bin Laden.
Blair again proved himself to be the strongest international supporter of the U.S. in Sept. 2002, when he became President Bush's major ally in calling for a war against Iraq. Blair maintained that military action was justified because Iraq was developing weapons of mass destruction that were a direct threat to its enemies. He continued to support the Bush administration's hawkish policies despite significant opposition in his own party and the British public. In March 2003, a London Times newspaper poll indicated that only 19% of respondents approved of military action without a UN mandate. As the inevitability of the U.S. strike on Iraq grew nearer, Blair announced that he would join the U.S. in fighting Iraq with or without a second UN resolution. Three of his ministers resigned as a result. Britain entered the war on March 20, supplying 45,000 troops.
In the aftermath of the war, Blair came under fire from government officials for allegedly exaggerating Iraq's possession of weapons of mass destruction. In July 2003 Blair announced that “history would forgive” the UK and U.S. “if we are wrong” and that the end to the “inhuman carnage and suffering” caused by Saddam Hussein was justification enough for the war. The arguments about the war grew so vociferous between the Blair government and the BBC that a prominent weapons scientist, David Kelly, who was caught in the middle, committed suicide. In Jan. 2004, the Hutton Report exonerated the Blair administration of any misconduct concerning the weapons inspections and concluded that it had not “sexed-up” the intelligence dossier, an accusation put forth by BBC reporter Andrew Gilligan. The report strongly criticized the BBC for its “defective” editorial policies, and as a consequence, the BBC's top management resigned.
In July 2004, the Butler Report on pre–Iraq war British intelligence was released. It echoed the findings of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee of the week before that the intelligence had vastly exaggerated Saddam Hussein's threat. The famous claim that Iraq's chemical and biological weapons “are deployable within 45 minutes of an order to use them” was especially singled out as highly misleading. But like the U.S. report, it cleared the government of any role in manipulating the intelligence.
On May 5, 2005, Blair won a historic third term as the country's prime minister. Despite this victory, Blair's party was severely hurt in the elections. The Labour Party won just 36% of the national vote, the lowest percentage by a ruling party in British history. The Conservative Party won 33%, and the Liberal Democrats 22%. Blair acknowledged that the reason for the poor showing was Britain's involvement in the war in Iraq, which was widely unpopular. A number of political analysts believe Blair will not serve out his new five-year term. Many expect him to resign in the next several years and turn over the reins of the Labour Party to Gordon Brown, the chancellor of the exchequer, whose policies many credit in creating Britain's strong and stable economy.
On July 7, 2005, London suffered a terrorist bombing, Britain's worst attack since World War II. Four bombs exploded in three subway stations and on one double-decker bus during the morning rush hour, killing 52 and wounding more than 700. Four Muslim men, three of them British-born, were identified as the suicide bombers. On July 21, terrorists attempted another attack on the transit system, but the bombs failed to explode. A leaked document by a top British government official warned Prime Minister Blair more than a year before the bombings that Britain's engagement in Iraq was fueling Islamic extremism, but Blair has repeatedly denied such a link, contending that the bombings were the result of an “evil ideology” that had taken root before the Iraq war. Blair proposed legislation that would toughen the country's antiterrorism measures, and suffered his first major political defeat as prime minister in November, when his proposal that terrorist suspects could be held without charge for up to 90 days was rejected.
In April 2006 the Blair government weathered a major scandal when it was revealed that since 1999 it had released 1,023 foreign convicts—among them murderers and rapists—into British society instead of deporting them to their countries of origin.
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0108078.html
YOU WANT to talk about security? Yeah? Then explain to me why after Lockerby there wasn't a 'terrorist' proof airline industry?
Could we have stopped it?
Regardless of whether or not the two named suspects are ever brought to trial, three key questions remain: Could the Lockerbie disaster have been prevented; Could it happen again; and can airliners be "hardened" sufficiently to make them bomb-proof?
Airports are stepping up securityThere is no doubt that in 1988 security procedures both at Frankfurt and Heathrow were sloppy. Reporters both in the UK and Germany gleefully went airside at both airports days after Lockerbie, when checks had allegedly been tightened-up. But it wouldn't be so easy now: controls over passes are much more rigid.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/special_report/1998/12/98/lockerbie/235632.stm
Riddle me that one ! Oh, wait. Commerialism, just like today when all the threat levels are rolled back and 'carry ons' are allowed again. I'll never fly. It's not safe. It's not terrorist proof and the industry doesn't care. Especially when it can be bailed out whenever an attack is buffered by big time government money. I mean for the monies the airline industry received after 9/11/01 it could have been said it is an incentive to allow it to happen again. And they will. That's why there is less protection today than since August 10, 2006. They are rolling everything back.
Dealing With Terrorism: Stick Or Carrot?
http://books.google.com/books?id=9hrJwYUZvowC&pg=PR6&lpg=PR5&dq=%22Frey%22+%22Dealing+With+Terrorism:+Stick+Or+Carrot%3F%22+&sig=LMespNJ4nrCPDYTm3WyJAuloZO8
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Man, CNN is really pushing fear, aren't they? Glen Beck is nobody. He's specializes in being nobody. I doubt he has the IQ to be anything but a Neocon.
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WE NEED NEW LEADERSHIP IN DC TO MAKE THE COUNTRY SAFE !!!!!N CNN continues to try to 'sell' the ability of the incompetents in DC as if they ever could.
Kick 'EM Out.
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Blah, blah, blah.... more of the culture of fear.. blah, blah, blah.... CNN creates it's own "Security Alerts."
It figures that Frankenstein keeps his job. It's so insulting. There should be live journalists introducing the news. Next we'll be hearing from the WB the reporting of the news. Tha', Tha', That's all folks.
1005
Bush is starting his rant about Iran. He's a jerk. This is a NEW resolution regarding the borders of Israel. 15,000 UN troops are going to be deployed. Bush is an idiot. There is no reason to invade Iran.
I tell you what. Why not concentrate on terrorist sponsors that ACTUALLY cause genocide rather than worrying about the 'potential' for invading a sovereign country that has done little to carry out genocide to date.
WHEN IS DARFUR FINALLY GOING TO STOP IT'S KILLING !!!!!!!
21 May 2002
Terror Report Identifies Sudan as State Sponsor of Terrorism, May 21, 2002
(Africa overview of 2001 Patterns of Global Terrorism Report)
The shock produced by the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States and renewed international cooperation to combat global terrorism are producing a "new readiness" on the part of African leaders to address the problems of international terrorism, says the Africa Overview section of the 2001 Patterns of Global Terrorism Report.
The report, which was prepared by the U.S. Department of State and released May 21, adds, however, that "international terrorist organizations with Islamic ties, including al-Qaida and Lebanese Hizballah, have a presence in Africa and continue to exploit Africa's permissive operating environment -- porous borders, conflict, lax financial systems, and the wide availability of weapons -- to expand and strengthen their networks."
Sudan, which is identified in the Africa Overview as one of the seven state sponsors of terrorism, is discussed in a separate state sponsorship section of the same report.
Following is the text of the Africa Overview of the report:(begin text)
Africa Overview
"The Organization of African Unity (OAU) expresses to the Government and people of the United States of America the full solidarity and the deepest condolence of the OAU and the entire people of Africa over this tragedy which affected not only the people of the USA but humanity as a whole." OAU Communique 20 September 2001
There was nearly universal condemnation of the September 11 attacks on the United States among Sub-Saharan African governments. These governments also pledged their support to the war against terrorism. In addition to bilateral cooperation with the United States and the global Coalition, multilateral organizations such as the Organization of African Unity and the Southern African Development Community have committed themselves to fighting terrorism.
The shock produced by the September 11 attacks and renewed international cooperation to combat global terrorism is producing a new readiness on the part of African leaders to address the problems of international terrorism. Africa's increased cooperation may help counter the persistent threat and use of terrorism as an instrument of violence and coercion against civilians. Most terrorist attacks in Africa stem from internal civil unrest and spillover from regional wars as African rebel movements and opposition groups employ terrorist tactics in pursuit of their political, social, or economic goals. Countries where insurgent groups have indiscriminately employed terrorist tactics and attacked civilians include the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
International terrorist organizations with Islamic ties, including al-Qaida and Lebanese Hizballah, have a presence in Africa and continue to exploit Africa's permissive operating environment -- porous borders, conflict, lax financial systems, and the wide availability of weapons -- to expand and strengthen their networks. Further, these groups are able to flourish in "failed states" or those with weak governments that are unable to monitor the activities of terrorists and their supporters within their borders. Press reports also indicate that terrorists may be using the illicit trade in conflict diamonds both to launder money and to finance their operations.
Sudan, one of the seven state sponsors of terrorism, is discussed in the state sponsorship section of this report.
Angola
Angola made strides in combating terrorism since the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States. In late November, the National Assembly passed a resolution calling for Angola to participate in regional and international efforts to combat terrorism, to include sharing intelligence, technical expertise, and financial information, and cooperating on legal issues. President dos Santos publicly backed U.S. military actions and supports the Organization of African Unity resolutions against terrorism.
For more than two decades, Angola has been plagued by the protracted civil war between the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) and the Angolan Government. UNITA is believed to have been responsible for several brutal attacks on civilian targets in 2001. Unidentified militants -- suspected of being UNITA rebels -- ambushed a train killing 256 persons and injuring 161 others in August. Later that month, armed men fired a missile at a passing bus, killing approximately 55 and wounding 10. UNITA rebels are also suspected of attacking a farm in May, killing one person, wounding one, and kidnapping 50 others.
During 2001, violence from the Angolan civil war again spilled over into neighboring Namibia. The Angolan Government, operating on the invitation of the Namibian Government, pursued UNITA rebels into Namibia. Border clashes resulted in several attacks. In May, rebels attacked a village killing one person and wounding one other. Earlier in the year, armed men entered a village, abducting eight persons who were taken to Angola and held hostage.
(On 4 April, 2002, shortly after the death of Jonas Savimbi, UNITA leaders signed a cease-fire agreement with the Government of Angola.)
Djibouti
Djibouti pledged early, strong, and consistent support for the U.S.-led Coalition in the global war on terrorism. Djibouti also hosts Coalition forces from France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Djibouti closed financial networks suspected of funneling funds for terrorist operations that operated there and issued a Djiboutian executive order that commits the country to cooperate fully with U.S. counterterrorist financial measures.
Ethiopia
Ethiopia has been another strong supporter of the campaign against terror. The Ethiopian response was immediate and vocal following the September 11 attacks. Ethiopia also has shut down terrorist financial networks operating in its territory. Ethiopia continues to cooperate in examining potential terrorist activity in the region, including in Somalia.
Kenya
Kenya already had suffered from an al-Qaida attack on the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi in August 1998. Kenya remained a key ally in the region, implementing new measures to impose asset freezes and other financial controls, offering to cooperate with the United States to combat terrorism, and leading the current regional effort toward national reconciliation in Somalia. Kenya is a party to 10 of the 11 antiterrorism conventions and is a signatory to the newest, the 1999 UN Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism.
Nigeria
Nigeria has strongly supported U.S. antiterrorism efforts around the world as well as the military action in Afghanistan. Nigeria led diplomatic efforts in the U.N. and the Economic Community of West African State (ECOWAS) and in the battle against terrorism. The Nigerian Government has drafted legislation -- the Anti-Terrorism, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Act -- that contains explicit criminal sanctions against terrorism and its financing. The Government of Nigeria is committed to preventing its territory -- home to Africa's largest Muslim population -- from becoming a safehaven for Islamic extremists.
Senegal
Senegal has been a leader in the African response to the attacks of September 11, with President Abdoulaye Wade's proposed African Pact Against Terrorism. President Wade stressed this issue with many of the continent's leaders during a two-day conference in Dakar in October 2001 and is energizing countries to join the fight via the Organization of African Unity/African Union. The Senegal Central Bank and regional banks based in Dakar have modified regulations to restrict terrorist funding. Senegal has also created a regional counterterrorism intelligence center, using assets of its security and intelligence services along with assistance from the United States. Senegal plans to ratify all remaining U.N. conventions against terrorism in the near future.
Somalia
Somalia, a nation with no central government, represents a potential breeding ground as well as safehaven for terrorist networks. Civil war, clan conflict, and poverty have combined to turn Somalia into a "failed state," with no one group currently able to govern the entire country, poor or nonexistent law enforcement, and an inability to monitor the financial sector. Some major factions within Somalia have pledged to fight terrorism. However, one indigenous group, al-Ittihad al-Islami (AIAI), is dedicated to creating an Islamic state in Somalia, has carried out terrorist acts in Ethiopia, and may have some ties to al-Qaida. AIAI remains active in several parts of Somalia. In July, gunmen in Mogadishu attacked a World Food Program convoy, killing six persons and wounding several others. In March, extremists attacked a Medecins Sans Frontieres medical charity facility, killing 11 persons, wounding 40, and taking nine hostages. The hostages were later released. The need for cooperation among Somalia's neighbors in the Horn of Africa is obvious, given the long borders shared with Somalia by Djibouti, Ethiopia, and Kenya. These countries have -- individually and, in cooperation with the United States -- taken steps to close their ports of entry to potential terrorists, deny use of their banking systems to transfer terrorist-linked assets, and to bring about the peaceful reconciliation and long-term stability that will remove the "failed-state" conditions currently found in Somalia.
South Africa
South Africa expressed its unreserved condemnation for the 11 September terrorist attacks on the United States. The Government has offered its support for U.S.-led diplomatic efforts to fight terrorism. South Africa also supports the Organization of African Unity's counterterrorism resolution. South Africa continued to experience some incidents of urban terrorism in 2001.
Uganda
President Yoweri Museveni publicly condemned the 11 September attacks and called upon the world to act together against terrorism. Two insurgent groups -- the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in Northern Uganda and the Allied Democratic Forces in Western Uganda -- continued military operations aimed at undermining the Kampala government in 2001 -- resulting in several terrorist attacks that injured foreign nationals. In June, three bombs exploded simultaneously in public areas in Kampala killing one and wounding 19 persons. Suspected LRA rebels ambushed a Catholic Relief Services vehicle in September, killing five persons and wounding two others.
Alternate Means of Terrorist Funding? Diamonds and Tanzanite
Several media reports made the claim that the al-Qaida network has made millions of dollars from diamonds mined by rebels in Sierra Leone, either by trading them or using them to launder money. Revolutionary United Front (RUF) officials were alleged to have sold millions of dollars in diamonds to Usama Bin Ladin's al-Qaida terrorist network.
Similarly, allegations were made linking the sale of tanzanite to al-Qaida financing. Press reports claimed that a former personal secretary to Bin Ladin kept a diary detailing al-Qaida's use of tanzanite to help finance its operations for the past several years.
A subsequent claim was made that other radical Islamic groups (including the Lebanon-based Hizballah) transferred millions of dollars made from Congolese diamond sales to their organizations back home.
We continue to investigate these claims. The US Government also is cooperating with the United Nations, diamond-producing countries, and diamond-importing countries to develop a certification system for diamonds to prevent "conflict diamonds" from entering the international trading system.
(end text)
REPORTS ARE PAPERWORK. How many people are dying that Bush couldn't care less about because they don't have oil wells to drill? Or a Caspian Sea to exploit and fight over?
1916
commercials
1019
The Brits never was attacked by terrorists before they joined the USA in attacking Iraq.
Along with the U.S., Britain launched air strikes against Iraq in Dec. 1998 after Saddam Hussein expelled UN arms inspectors. In the spring of 1999, Britain spearheaded the NATO operation in Kosovo, which resulted in Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milosevic's withdrawal from the territory.
In Feb. 2001, foot-and-mouth disease broke out among British livestock, prompting other nations to ban British meat imports and forcing the slaughter of thousands of cattle, pigs, and sheep in an effort to stem the highly contagious disease. The episode cost farmers and the tourist industry billions of dollars.
In June 2001, Blair won a second landslide victory, with the Labour Party capturing 413 seats in Parliament.
Britain became the staunchest ally of the U.S. after the Sept. 11 attacks. British troops joined the U.S. in the bombing campaign against Afghanistan in Oct. 2001, after the Taliban-led government refused to turn over the prime suspect in the terrorist attacks, Osama bin Laden.
Blair again proved himself to be the strongest international supporter of the U.S. in Sept. 2002, when he became President Bush's major ally in calling for a war against Iraq. Blair maintained that military action was justified because Iraq was developing weapons of mass destruction that were a direct threat to its enemies. He continued to support the Bush administration's hawkish policies despite significant opposition in his own party and the British public. In March 2003, a London Times newspaper poll indicated that only 19% of respondents approved of military action without a UN mandate. As the inevitability of the U.S. strike on Iraq grew nearer, Blair announced that he would join the U.S. in fighting Iraq with or without a second UN resolution. Three of his ministers resigned as a result. Britain entered the war on March 20, supplying 45,000 troops.
In the aftermath of the war, Blair came under fire from government officials for allegedly exaggerating Iraq's possession of weapons of mass destruction. In July 2003 Blair announced that “history would forgive” the UK and U.S. “if we are wrong” and that the end to the “inhuman carnage and suffering” caused by Saddam Hussein was justification enough for the war. The arguments about the war grew so vociferous between the Blair government and the BBC that a prominent weapons scientist, David Kelly, who was caught in the middle, committed suicide. In Jan. 2004, the Hutton Report exonerated the Blair administration of any misconduct concerning the weapons inspections and concluded that it had not “sexed-up” the intelligence dossier, an accusation put forth by BBC reporter Andrew Gilligan. The report strongly criticized the BBC for its “defective” editorial policies, and as a consequence, the BBC's top management resigned.
In July 2004, the Butler Report on pre–Iraq war British intelligence was released. It echoed the findings of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee of the week before that the intelligence had vastly exaggerated Saddam Hussein's threat. The famous claim that Iraq's chemical and biological weapons “are deployable within 45 minutes of an order to use them” was especially singled out as highly misleading. But like the U.S. report, it cleared the government of any role in manipulating the intelligence.
On May 5, 2005, Blair won a historic third term as the country's prime minister. Despite this victory, Blair's party was severely hurt in the elections. The Labour Party won just 36% of the national vote, the lowest percentage by a ruling party in British history. The Conservative Party won 33%, and the Liberal Democrats 22%. Blair acknowledged that the reason for the poor showing was Britain's involvement in the war in Iraq, which was widely unpopular. A number of political analysts believe Blair will not serve out his new five-year term. Many expect him to resign in the next several years and turn over the reins of the Labour Party to Gordon Brown, the chancellor of the exchequer, whose policies many credit in creating Britain's strong and stable economy.
On July 7, 2005, London suffered a terrorist bombing, Britain's worst attack since World War II. Four bombs exploded in three subway stations and on one double-decker bus during the morning rush hour, killing 52 and wounding more than 700. Four Muslim men, three of them British-born, were identified as the suicide bombers. On July 21, terrorists attempted another attack on the transit system, but the bombs failed to explode. A leaked document by a top British government official warned Prime Minister Blair more than a year before the bombings that Britain's engagement in Iraq was fueling Islamic extremism, but Blair has repeatedly denied such a link, contending that the bombings were the result of an “evil ideology” that had taken root before the Iraq war. Blair proposed legislation that would toughen the country's antiterrorism measures, and suffered his first major political defeat as prime minister in November, when his proposal that terrorist suspects could be held without charge for up to 90 days was rejected.
In April 2006 the Blair government weathered a major scandal when it was revealed that since 1999 it had released 1,023 foreign convicts—among them murderers and rapists—into British society instead of deporting them to their countries of origin.
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0108078.html
YOU WANT to talk about security? Yeah? Then explain to me why after Lockerby there wasn't a 'terrorist' proof airline industry?
Could we have stopped it?
Regardless of whether or not the two named suspects are ever brought to trial, three key questions remain: Could the Lockerbie disaster have been prevented; Could it happen again; and can airliners be "hardened" sufficiently to make them bomb-proof?
Airports are stepping up securityThere is no doubt that in 1988 security procedures both at Frankfurt and Heathrow were sloppy. Reporters both in the UK and Germany gleefully went airside at both airports days after Lockerbie, when checks had allegedly been tightened-up. But it wouldn't be so easy now: controls over passes are much more rigid.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/special_report/1998/12/98/lockerbie/235632.stm
Riddle me that one ! Oh, wait. Commerialism, just like today when all the threat levels are rolled back and 'carry ons' are allowed again. I'll never fly. It's not safe. It's not terrorist proof and the industry doesn't care. Especially when it can be bailed out whenever an attack is buffered by big time government money. I mean for the monies the airline industry received after 9/11/01 it could have been said it is an incentive to allow it to happen again. And they will. That's why there is less protection today than since August 10, 2006. They are rolling everything back.
Dealing With Terrorism: Stick Or Carrot?
http://books.google.com/books?id=9hrJwYUZvowC&pg=PR6&lpg=PR5&dq=%22Frey%22+%22Dealing+With+Terrorism:+Stick+Or+Carrot%3F%22+&sig=LMespNJ4nrCPDYTm3WyJAuloZO8
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Man, CNN is really pushing fear, aren't they? Glen Beck is nobody. He's specializes in being nobody. I doubt he has the IQ to be anything but a Neocon.
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WE NEED NEW LEADERSHIP IN DC TO MAKE THE COUNTRY SAFE !!!!!N CNN continues to try to 'sell' the ability of the incompetents in DC as if they ever could.
Kick 'EM Out.
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Blah, blah, blah.... more of the culture of fear.. blah, blah, blah.... CNN creates it's own "Security Alerts."
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Feeling Low? Turn off that television. A study from England's Nottingham Trent University finds that watching TV news triggers depression, confusion, irritation, anger and anxiety. I'll be darn, they create business for their advertisers. TURN IT OFF !
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