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Poland Says It Has Agreed to US Shield 2008-02-01 08:49:28 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Poland
said Friday it has reached an agreement in principle with the United States on plans to install a missile defense system on Polish territory. Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski says that after meetings with U.S. officials, he is satisfied that the United States will deal with security problems that Poland wanted addressed as part of an eventual deal.The announcement should add momentum to a project the Bush administration has said it hopes to start building this year. The project, a major source of tension with Russia, had looked stalled since the Polish government of Donald Tusk sought new demands after taking office in November. Sikorski did not outline the terms of the deal, but in a joint appearance with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice after a worki Read more:Shield
Mentally Retarded Women Used in Bombings 2008-02-01 08:14:54 BAGHDAD (AP) -- Two mentally retarded women strapped with remote-control explosives - and possibly used as unwitting suicide bombers - brought carnage Friday to two pet bazaars, killing at 73 people in the deadliest day since Washington flooded the capital with extra troops last spring. The coordinated blasts - coming 20 minutes apart in different parts of the city - appeared to reinforce U.S. claims al-Qaida in Iraq may be increasingly desperate and running short of able-bodied men willing or available for such missions. But they also served as a reminder that Iraqi insurgents are constantly shifting their strategies in attempts to unravel recent security gains around the country. Women
have been used in ever greater frequency in suicide attacks. The twin attacks at the pet markets, howe Read more:Retarded
US military may not be ready for attack 2008-01-31 09:47:19 WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. military isn't ready
for a catastrophic attack
on the country, and National Guard forces don't have the equipment or training they need for the job, according to a report. Even fewer Army National Guard units are combat-ready today than were nearly a year ago when the Commission on the National Guard and Reserves determined that 88 percent of the units were not prepared for the fight, the panel says in a new report released Thursday. The independent commission is charged by Congress to recommend changes in law and policy concerning the Guard and Reserves. The commission's 400-page report concludes that the nation does not have sufficient trained, ready forces available to respond to a chemical, biological or nuclear weapons incident, an appalling
Feds sue more Cameron County landowners over border fence 2008-01-31 09:30:24 McALLEN — The Justice Department has sued more CameronCounty
property owners who have not volunteered access to their land for a survey of the border. The federal government sued six more landowners in U.S. District Court in Brownsville on Tuesday, bringing the total to 18 condemnation lawsuits in the county. The Department of Homeland Security is requesting temporary, 180-day access so contractors and survey and prepare for siting the fence
. Brownsville residents, including Mayor Pat Ahumada, have been among the most vocal critics of the planned 700 miles of steel and virtual fence along the Mexican border, which President Bush and Congress have ordered built to stop illegal immigration and smuggling. Ahumada denied surveyors access to city-owned land, noting early plans showed the
Al Qeada Car Bombs are so Last Year 2008-01-31 09:19:05 January 2008 was the first month that more suicide vests were used than car bombs in Iraq. There has dramatic drop from 80 car bombs in January 2007 to only three total car bombs this past month. However, there were 16 suicide bombers this January compared to 10 in December. Greg Smith, a spokesman for the U.S. military in Iraq. We think that because of our operations, al-Qaeda has moved into a much more defensive position, and they clearly have to physically move, Smith said. That's making their ability to conduct more lethal larger-scale bombings more difficult. USA TODAY () Read more:Bombs
December 10th, 1993: FBI Chief is Suspended After Lying in Interview 2008-01-30 19:25:38 James M. Fox, who supervised the World Trade Center bombing investigation, was suspended after making “inappropriate comments” about “a pending prosecution” . Fox’s comments were in a broadcast interview, after being asked about reports of Emad Salem giving the FBI
information that could have stopped the WTC bombing . “He gave us nothing,” Fox told the interviewer. “No one gave us anything. If we had information we would have prevented the bombing.” [New York Times 12/22/93 Read more:Chief
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Cheney wants surveillance law expanded 2008-01-23 09:32:44 Vice President Cheney
pushed Congress to extend and broaden a soon to expire surveillance
law, on Wensday. fighting the war on terror is a long-term enterprise that should not come with an expiration date. We're reminding Congress that they must act now, Cheney told the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. The law, which authorizes the administration to eavesdrop on phone calls and see the e-mail to and from suspected terrorists, expires on Feb. 1. Congress is bickering over terms of its extension. This cause is bigger than the quarrels of party and the agendas of politicians, Cheney said. And if we in Washington, all of us, can only see our way clear to work together, then the outcome should not be in doubt. Source: Yahoo News (;_ylt=AopDaSOycqFaanIl_p6ovvSs0NUE) Read more:wants
January 2008: Iraqi Forces Battle Shia Cult 2008-01-22 07:28:41 A battle in the streets of Nasiriya and Basra broke out between IraqiForces
and The Soldiers of Heaven. Though the cult was armed with machine guns and rocket propelled gernades, they were soon neutralized by Iraqi police and millitary. At least 15 people were killed in the battle, including a city police commander, seven officers, a woman civilian and three militants. [BBC 01/18/08 ()] Read more:Battle
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OPEC Refuses to Increase Oil Output 2008-01-21 21:26:37 After a Sam Bodman, the US energy secretary, urged OPEC and Saudi Arabia directly to raise supply on Saturday, OPEC, who produces more than a third of the world's oil, has stated that it will dismiss any further calls from the US in increase oil production. It's important there's an increase in supply, Bodman said on Saturday. The figures would indicate a call for increased supply. Abdullah al-Badri, OPEC secretary-general, said the Organisation was keeping a close eye on the market and would be ready to pump more when needed. If we reach the conclusion that fundamental data warrants an increase in production, then our oil ministers will not hesitate to decree this, But at present we see no need for this, he said. US crude oil prices settled at $90.57 a barrel on Friday, Read more:Output
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Antarctic volcanoes identified as a possible culprit in glacier melting 2008-01-20 19:34:27 n an article published Sunday on the Web site of the journal Nature Geoscience, Hugh Corr and David Vaughan of the British Antarctic
Survey report the identification of a layer of volcanic ash and glass shards frozen within an ice sheet in western Antarctica. This is the first time we have seen a volcano beneath the ice sheet punch a hole through the ice sheet in Antarctica, Vaughan said. Volcanic heat could still be melting
ice to water and contributing to thinning and speeding up of the Pine Island glacier, which passes nearby, but Vaughan said he doubted that it could be affecting other glaciers in western Antarctica, which have also thinned in recent years. Most glaciologists, including Vaughan, say that warmer ocean water is the primary cause of thinning.Antarctic volcanoes identi
White House missing CIA and Iraq e-mails 2008-01-20 19:14:23 What appear to be gaps in WhiteHouse
Email archives, may in fact coincide with negative press events during President Bush's term. A chart discolsed by Rep. Henry Waxman, CA Democrat, indicated that among the times for which e-mails have not been archived from Vice President Dick Cheney's office are four days in early October 2003, just as a federal probe was beginning into the leak of Valerie Plame's CIA identity. Also missing is a five-day span starting on Jan. 29, 2004, when the White House
was dealing with the possibility of an election-year probe by Congress into Iraq
intelligence failures. Can it be a mere coincidence that some of the missing e-mail correspond to a key period during the Valerie Plame investigation? asked Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens f
400 prominent scientist debunk man made global warming 2008-01-18 07:14:57 Over 400 prominent scientist
s from more than two dozen countries recently voiced significant objections to major aspects of the so-called consensus on man-made global warming. These scientists, many of whom are current and former participants in the UN IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), criticized the climate claims made by the UN IPCC and former Vice President Al Gore.Many of the scientists featured in this report consistently stated that numerous colleagues shared their views, but they will not speak out publicly for fear of retribution. Atmospheric scientist Dr. Nathan Paldor, Professor of Dynamical Meteorology and Physical Oceanography at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, author of almost 70 peer-reviewed studies, explains how many of his fellow scientists have been
Corrupt Government Officials are Allowing Pakistan and Other States to Steal Nuclear Weapons Secrets 2008-01-09 03:52:33 Sibel Edmonds, a 37-year-old former Turkish language translator for the FBI, told The Sunday Times that foreign intellgences agents have been enlistened to suport US officials in a network of moles spying on sensitive miltary and nuclear instutions. Edmonds, who has intercepted hundreds of sensitive conversations while based at the agency’s Washington field office, said she heard evidence that one well-known senior official in the US State Department was being paid by Turkish agents in Washington who were selling the information on to black market buyers, including Pakistan
.“He was aiding foreign operatives against US interests by passing them highly classified information, not only from the State Department but also from the Pentagon, in exchange for money, position and polit Read more:Corrupt
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Jan 6, 2008: U.S. weighs new covert push in Pakistan: report 2008-01-07 11:53:34 New Intelligent report
s indicate that Al Qaeda and the Taliban are gaining in there efforts to destabalize Pakistan
. Senior Us Officials are now considering expanind the authority of the CIA and military to conduct more cover operations there. After years of focusing on Afghanistan, we think the extremists now see a chance for the big prize -- creating chaos in Pakistan itself, the Times quoted a senior official as saying.Jan 6, 2008 Reuters ( feedName=topNews rpc=22 sp=true)
A cold spell soon to replace global warming 2008-01-03 11:44:28 According to Russian scientist Oleg Sorokhtin earth is at the peak of a passing warm spell
, and we should now be prepairing for global cooling. The real reasons for climate changes are uneven solar radiation, terrestrial precession (that is, axis gyration), instability of oceanic currents, regular salinity fluctuations of the Arctic Ocean surface waters, etc. There is another, principal reason—solar activity and luminosity. The greater they are the warmer is our climate. Astrophysics knows two solar activity cycles, of 11 and 200 years. Both are caused by changes in the radius and area of the irradiating solar surface. The latest data, obtained by Habibullah Abdusamatov, head of the Pulkovo Observatory space research laboratory, say that Earth has passed the peak of its warmer per
January 1st,2008: Iraqis party for 2008 2008-01-01 06:18:03 The 2008 newyear was celerbrated this year in a less-violent Baghdad, in what residents said was the first real party they had seen in years. Iraqi locals rang in the new year by firing there automatic rifles in to the sky as firework displays lit up the sky. The security has changed and it took us by surprise. We're very happy. Especially us young people, said al-Azzawi, a 22-year-old student taking a break from dancing to a traditional Iraqi band in the ballroom of the Palestine Hotel. I haven't seen a happy place like this in so long. I wanted to see if I could maybe meet a few girls! he said. I only hope the Iraqi people can enjoy more happy times like this. Salah al-Lami, 27, the singer who performed at the Palestine ballroom continued, This will be the year that Read more:Iraqis
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July 23/24, 1996: 2007-12-29 16:38:03 Ismoil told Scarpa, I told you this is going to happen. He was also referencing a conversation Scarpa and he hadmonths prior where Ismoil said that nothing would be left of New York just give it some time. [FBI 302s () , Scarpa―Yousef Intelligence Timeline ( ct=res cd=1 url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.forensic-intelligence.org%2FIntelTline.pdf ei=YS53R6WCBoLygAT8zZHBDw usg=AFQjCNFlei5a6rtSJdBOnZOGMtKvVcgtkw sig2=ZHBR1RcV180sh7NBTUfd2A) ]
Report: Hoover had plan for mass arrests 2007-12-27 10:19:35 Former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover
had a plan to suspend the rules against illegal detention and arrest up to 12,000 Americans he suspected of being disloyal, according to a newly declassified document. Hoover sent his plan to the White House on July 7, 1950, less than two weeks after the Korean War began. But there is no evidence to suggest that President Truman or any subsequent president approved any part of Hoover's proposal to house suspect Americans in military and federal prisons. Hoover had wanted Truman to declare the mass arrests
necessary to protect the country against treason, espionage and sabotage, The New York Times reported Saturday in a story posted on its Web site. The plan called for the FBI to apprehend all potentially dangerous individuals whose names were on a
December 29th, 2007: Iraq says most of Al-Qaeda network destroyed in 2007 2007-12-21 18:36:51 The Iraq
i interior makes the claim that 75 percent of Al-Qaeda
's network
s in the country had been destroyed in 12 months. Ministry spokesman Abdul Karim Khalaf also stated that there have been sharp falls in the numbers of assassinations, kidnappings and death squad murders. We have destroyed 75 percent of Al-Qaeda hide-outs, and we broke up major criminal networks that supported Al-Qaeda in Baghdad, he said. After eliminating safe houses in Anbar province, which used to be Al-Qaeda's base, we moved into areas surrounding Baghdad and into Diyala province. Al-Qaeda headed north and we are pursuing them, he said.Khalaf said kidnappings were down 70 percent and that an average of three to five people killed by death squads were being found each day in Baghdad compared with 15 to 20 Read more:December
December 29th, 2007: Iraq says most of Al-Qaeda network destroyed in 2007 2007-12-21 18:36:51 The Iraq
i interior makes the claim that 75 percent of Al-Qaeda
's network
s in the country had been destroyed in 12 months. Ministry spokesman Abdul Karim Khalaf also stated that there have been sharp falls in the numbers of assassinations, kidnappings and death squad murders. We have destroyed 75 percent of Al-Qaeda hide-outs, and we broke up major criminal networks that supported Al-Qaeda in Baghdad, he said. After eliminating safe houses in Anbar province, which used to be Al-Qaeda's base, we moved into areas surrounding Baghdad and into Diyala province. Al-Qaeda headed north and we are pursuing them, he said.Khalaf said kidnappings were down 70 percent and that an average of three to five people killed by death squads were being found each day in Baghdad compared with 15 to 20 Read more:December
MARCH 1, 2003: Capture of Khalid Shaykh Mohammed 2007-11-07 10:45:04 Counter-terrorism forces in Pakistan captured Khalid
Shaykh Mohammed
, an Al Qaeda operational commander and the man believed to have been the mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attack. Shaykh Mohammed is also believed to have played a role in a number of other attacks and planned attacks, including the 2002 bombings in Bali, Indonesia, the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen, and a 1995 plot to blow up multiple U.S. commercial airliners.
FEBRUARY 19, 2003: Arrests and Indictments of Palestinian Islamic Jihad Members 2007-11-07 09:00:51 On February 19, 2003 four members of the PalestinianIslamicJihad
(PIJ) terrorist organization—Sami Amin al-Arian, Sameeh Hammoudeh, Hatim Naji Fariz, and Ghassan Zayed Ballut—were arrested and charged with operating a racketeering enterprise from 1984 to 2003 in support of violence. The indictment, which was unsealed on February 20, 2003, also charged the individuals with “conspiracy within the United States to kill and maim persons abroad, conspiracy to provide material support and resources to PIJ, conspiracy to violate emergency economic sanctions,” extortion, perjury, obstruction of justice, and immigration fraud. Four other individuals were also charged under the same indictment—Ramadan Abduallah Shallah, Bashir Musa Mohammed Nafi, Mohammed Tasir Hassan Read more:Members
Global Warming and Science 2007-10-22 16:45:56 What about global warming? It's only brought up every three seconds on T.V. and the whole peace prize going to Gore for his efforts toward the prevention from this phenomenon that we as people are just beginning to understand seems a little off. As you may or may not have realized, the sciences are one of the studies that are mostly never fact. (With the exception of mathematical sciences, which even then is sometimes not completely exact.) Science
is the study, the theory and hypothesis based on gathered information that has been studied as a whole. A quick research will reveal that there are many revisions, and drastic changes that occur infinitely, every so often hitting a nail with at least very good accuracy, but never with complete perfection. One good example of this could be Read more:Global
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May 2007: Old Iraq Military Officer Intelligence Leads Significant Revolt Against Al Qeada 2007-04-30 18:00:00 One morning in late May, a former Iraq
i military intelligence officer working as an American double agent walked up to the al-Qaeda ruler of west Baghdad. The exchange of words, then bullets, that followed has transformed the most volatile neighbourhood of Baghdad into an unexpected haven of calm. It may, according to US officers, be one of the most significant gunfights since the 2003 invasion, and its ripples across Baghdad are bringing local Sunni and Shia men together to fight terrorists and militia in other neighbourhoods. The showdown went like this: “Hajji Sabah, isn’t it time you stopped already?” Abu Abed al-Obeidi, a diminutive 37-year-old with a drooping moustache, tired eyes and a ready smile, said. “You have destroyed Amariyah,” he added, referr Read more:Leads
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March 5, 1993 - 2002: WTC Bomber Given Sanctuary and Money by Iraq Government 2007-03-05 17:40:11 On March
5, 1993 Abdul Rahman Yasin, who helped make and plant the WTC bomb, boarded Royal Jordanian flight 262 to Amman, Jordan. From Amman Abdul Rahman Yasin went on to Baghdad [L.A. Times 10/12/01 (-101201wanted,1,3708212.story?ctrack=2 cset=true)]. Documents uncovered as result of the Iraq
war showed that Saddam's government provided monthly payments and a home for Yasin. [USA Today 09/17/03 (-09-17-iraq-wtc_x.htm)] Read more:Bomber
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April 1, 2005: FBI uncovers Nichol's hidden explosives cache 2005-03-31 17:00:00 After initially dismissing a tip that convicted bomber Terry Nichols had hidden explosives and they might be used for an attack coinciding with the 10th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing. The information that explosives had been hidden in Nichols' former home in Herington, Kan., turned out to be true. The tip came from imprisoned mobster Gregory Scarpa Jr., 53, an inmate in the same maximum-security federal prison in Florence, Colo., where Nichols is serving life sentences for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred Murrah federal building that killed 168 people.Scarpa learned about the explosives from Nichols, mainly through notes passed between them. Dresch gave the information to the FBI
in early March, but FBI agents didn't search the vacant house until March 31, 20 Read more:April
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APRIL 14, 2003: Plea Agreement for Earnest James Ujaama 2004-02-03 18:00:00 Earnest James
Ujaama plead guilty in Seattle federal court to conspiring to provide goods and services to the Taliban in Afghanistan. As part of the plea agreement, federal prosecutors dropped charges alleging that Ujaama had plotted to establish a terrorist training camp in Bly, Oregon. In return, Ujaama was sentenced to 24 months in prison. [Terrorism 2002-2005 (#page_9a)] Read more:Agreement
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