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Many of you may have noticed that there are not as many posts here as there were previously. I will be switching to a paid blog version with another blog-host, and this will happen over the next week or so, with all of the features you see here hosted at the other site.This site will remain open as archives. Please feel free to visit the site below, and revisit, as the features and links from

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Israel defiant on Lebanon raid, prepares for 'next round'yahoo.comby Yana DlugyIsrael warned that it would keep up raids against Hezbollah to prevent the Shiite militia from getting weapons from abroad and said it would prepare for the "next round" of war.Israel also said that it would not allow the Lebanese army to fully deploy along the volatile Israeli-Lebanese border until the arrival of an

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Andrew Sullivantimesonline.co.ukThe news was buried in a New York Times story last week but it confirmed what others in the Washington chattering classes have been observing lately.The context is that the White House has been inviting outsiders in to the Oval Office to discuss strategy in Iraq. The new chief of staff Josh Bolten has apparently been trying to pierce the intellectual cocoon in

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FUBARWomen assaulted, raped by military recruitersBy MARTHA MENDOZAAug 20, 2006, 04:26More than 100 young women who expressed interest in joining the military in the past year were preyed upon sexually by their recruiters. Women were raped on recruiting office couches, assaulted in government cars and groped en route to entrance exams.A six-month Associated Press investigation found that more

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Israel is committed to blocking arms and killing NasrallahBy Steven Erlanger The New York TimesPublished: August 20, 2006JERUSALEM Despite a cease-fire agreement, Israel intends to do its best to keep Iran and Syria from rearming Hezbollah and to kill the militia's leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, says a senior Israeli commander. International commitments to exclude the Hezbollah militia from

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International Herald TribuneIsrael raid violates cease-fire, UN saysAgence France-Presse, The Associated Press, The New York TimesPublished: August 20, 2006BOUDAI, Lebanon Israel's weekend commando raid on a Hezbollah stronghold deep in Lebanon has put the fragile Middle East truce to its biggest test so far, with Lebanon threatening to halt the deployment of its army to the south and the United

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by Maxim KniazkovSat Aug 19, 6:33 AM ETThe United States has named a special "manager" for its intelligence operations against Cuba and Venezuela, in effect putting the two Latin American nations on a par with "axis of evil" states confronted on multiple levels by the administration of President George W. Bush.North Korea and Iran are the only other countries that have been assigned so-called "

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Sat Aug 19, 9:36 AM ETIt might sound like a chocoholic's dream, but stepping into a vat of viscous chocolate became a two-hour nightmare for a 21-year-old man Friday morning. Darmin Garcia, an employee of a company that supplies chocolate ingredients, said he was pushing the chocolate down into the vat at Debelis Corp. because it was stuck. But it became loose and he slid into the hopper."It was

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A Shaken LandscapeWith a cease-fire in place between Israel and Hezbollah, it's in neither party's interest to resume the fight. The reasons why amount to a dangerous new reality for Israel.By Robert Padavick, Hot Zone senior producer, Thu Aug 17, 2:15 PM ETEditor's Note: To better understand what's next for the Mideast in the aftermath of the recent fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, Hot

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Friday Wingnut Roundup (Saturday Edition) Gee, do you suppose the wingnuts have anything to say about Judge Diggs Taylor's ruling on the Dear Leader's Terrorist Surveillance Program™? You know, the program that had absolutely nothing to do with the capture of the British terrorists? Count on it (bonus - which one is a quote?): Ace of Spades - it's all Jimmy Carter's

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Aug, 19/20, 2006 -- Personal data thefts continue unabated. The most recent thefts of personal data have been from the medical community. A regional office of Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), the firm in which Tennessee GOP Senator Bill First has a major financial interest, has reported the theft of 10 computers containing "thousands of files" on Medicare and Medicaid patients and

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Aug. 19/20, 2006 -- Additional clues point to U.S. attack on Iran. State Department sources report that State's Iran Desk Officer Henry Wooster has suddenly been transferred to another position. Meanwhile, Vice President Dick Cheney's office is assembling a group of neo-cons from the Pentagon, State Department, and the National Security Council to cook up intelligence and talking points that

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Summary: An ABC World News report on a federal district judge's ruling that the Bush administration's warrantless domestic surveillance program is unconstitutional featured only Bush administration officials and a senior research fellow from the conservative Heritage Foundation defending the "necessity" of the program. The report did not note that the program's effectiveness has been called into

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Israeli raid in Lebanon tests truceSat Aug 19, 2006 11:49 AM ETBy Nadim LadkiBEIRUT (Reuters) - Helicopter-borne Israeli commandos raided a Hizbollah bastion on Saturday in what Lebanon called a "naked violation" of the U.N.-backed truce that halted Israel's 34-day war with the Shi'ite Muslim group.Israel said the operation in Lebanon's eastern Bekaa Valley aimed to disrupt weapons supplies to

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It's a uExpress postcard!To: wrh@whatreallyhappened.comFrom: Charles EverettSubject: UComics PostcardMessage: Hezbollah to rebuild New Orleans? That would be cool!Ted Rall IF PEOPLE GET HELP, THE TERRORISTS HAVE WONWhy America Needs HezbollahNEW YORK--Surrender, already. For America's sake, let the terrorists win!Hours after a ceasefire halted a five-week war between Israel and Iranian-backed

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Capitol Hill BlueIsraelis raid Lebanon in cease-fire violationBy SAM F. GHATTASAug 19, 2006, 06:09Hezbollah fighters battled Israeli commandos who landed near the militants' stronghold deep inside Lebanon early Saturday, killing one soldier, in the first large-scale violation of the U.N.-brokered cease-fire between the sides.Hezbollah said its guerrillas foiled the raid after a gunbattle, and the

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NY Times, CNN, Fox News uncritically reported GOP suggestion that unwarranted surveillance helped foil U.K. terror plot http://mediamatters.org/items/200608180009 In an August 18 article on a federal judge's ruling striking down as unconstitutional the Bush administration's warrantless domestic surveillance program, New York Times reporters Adam Liptak and Eric Lichtblau uncritically quoted

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The Raw Story Larisa AlexandrovnaPublished:Friday August 18, 2006 The Bush administration continues to bypass standard intelligence channels and use what some believe to be propaganda tactics to create a compelling case for war with Iran, US foreign policy experts and former US intelligence officials tell RAW STORY One former senior intelligence official is

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Independent Online EditionPublished: 18 August 2006Now you see them, now you don't. Hizbollah weapons? None to be seen. And none to be collected by the Lebanese army. For when this august body of men crossed the Litani river yesterday, their officers made it perfectly clear that it would not be the army's job to disarm the Hizbollah. Nor was anyone in Lebanon surprised. After all, most of the

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New York TimesBush Vows to Fight Wiretapping RulingBy ADAM LIPTAK and ERIC LICHTBLAUWASHINGTON, Aug. 18 — President Bush said today that he is confident that a federal court ruling against his administration’s electronic surveillance program will be overturned, and he described those who hailed the ruling as naïve.“I would say that those who herald this decision simply do not understand the

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truthout.org NSA Ruling a Victory For the Constitution By Sarah Olson t r u t h o u t | Report Friday 18 August 2006 Judge Anna Diggs Taylor, of the US District Court in Detroit, Michigan, handed the American Civil Liberties Union and their supporters a stunning victory yesterday when she ruled the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping program was unconstitutional.

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Yahoo! News South Lebanon welcomes country's armyBy LAUREN FRAYER, Associated Press WriterThu Aug 17, 6:20 PM ETVillagers throwing rice and Hezbollah supporters holding banners welcomed the country's army to south Lebanon on Thursday after a nearly 40-year absence, and the first airliner landed at Beirut airport since fighting began more than a month ago.Four days into a cease-fire between Israel

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The New York Times Inquiry Suggests Marines Excised Files on Killings By David S. Cloud The New York Times Friday 18 August 2006 Washington - A high-level military investigation into the killings of 24 Iraqis in Haditha last November has uncovered instances in which American marines involved in the episode appear to have destroyed or withheld evidence, according to two Defense

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washingtonpostBy Colum LynchWashington Post Staff WriterFriday, August 18, 2006; Page A16...France on Thursday rebuffed pleas by U.N. officials to make a major contribution to a peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon, setting back efforts to deploy an international military force to help police a cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah, according to U.N. and French officials......France would

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WHATREALLYHAPPENED.COMTurkey and Iran have dispatched tanks, artillery and thousands of troops to their frontiers with Iraq during the past few weeks in what appears to be a coordinated effort to disrupt the activities of Kurdish rebel bases.Frustrated by the reluctance of the US and the government in Baghdad to crack down on the PKK bases inside Iraq, Turkish generals have hinted they are

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Newsday.comKing endorses ethnic profilingBY J. JIONI PALMERNewsday Washington BureauAugust 17, 2006WASHINGTON -- Declaring that airport screeners shouldn't be hampered by "political correctness," House Homeland Security Chairman Peter King has endorsed requiring people of "Middle Eastern and South Asian" descent to undergo additional security checks because of their ethnicity and

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World Net Daily Forced To Issue 9/11 Hit Piece Retraction"No such comments made by Jones," admits website as another attack exposed for baseless allegations and shoddy research Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | August 18 2006 Following a radio show debate yesterday in which a 9/11 hit piece article written by Jonathon Moseley for World Net Daily was exposed as containing numerous

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From Mania to DepressionFrom Mania to DepressionBy Uri Avnery08/17/06 "Information Clearing House" -- -- Tel Aviv. --- Thirty three days of war. The longest of our wars since 1949.On the Israeli side: 154 dead--117 of them soldiers. 3970 rockets launched against us, 37 civilians dead, more than 422 civilians wounded.On the Lebanese side: about a thousand dead civilians, thousands wounded. An

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Every airport traveller 'will be fingerprinted'BY GERRI PEEV POLITICAL CORRESPONDENTAirport biometric procedures to be extended after alleged terror plotSix out of ten believe government is not exaggerating terrorism threatReid reaction to terror has seen his public profile soar as Blair's successorKey quote"As we face the threat of mass murder we have to accept that the rights of the individual

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Former CIA Contractor Is Found Guilty By Estes Thompson The Associated Press Go to Original Thursday 17 August 2006 Raleigh, North Carolina - A former CIA contractor accused of severely beating an Afghan detainee with a flashlight during questioning was found guilty Thursday of assault. The beaten detainee later died, but David Passaro, 40, wasn't charged in his death. The federal jury found

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The Truth Will Set You Free Israel's current army chief, Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz, came under deep pressure to resign because of revelations he found time to call his broker and sell off his stocks to avoid wartime losses hours before launching Israel's largest military operation since 1982.Hmmm. Ring a bell?Below notice director Niv Harizman was with Alex. Brown (BT for

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AGITPROP: Version 3.0, Featuring Blogenfreude**don't airposrts piss a lot of people off anyway? Wouldn't a LOT of people simply look annoyed?**Anger Management We recently blogged on stuff you should be afraid of, like breast milk and toothpaste. Now, apparently, you should be afraid of people that look determined or angry (click image above to expand). Let's say you've had a

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Aug. 16, 2006 -- Another theft of personal data has been reported from the U.S. Department of Transportation Inspector General's office in Miami. A laptop computer containing several case files and sensitive personal information was stolen from a hotel room in Orlando. In April, an employee of the IG's office was attending a conference at the Wyndham Resort in Orlando and left her laptop in a

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Media Matters On the August 17 edition of MSNBC's Imus in the Morning, executive producer Bernard McGuirk said that John Mark Karr, the man who reportedly admitted to killing 6-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey in 1996, "looks like Ned Lamont, actually." McGuirk then asked: "Is that who you want representing you, Connecticut?" McGuirk's remarks were just the latest attack against Lamont,

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freep.comBush surveillance program violates Constitution, judge rulesAugust 17, 2006ASSOCIATED PRESSA federal judge in Detroit has ruled that the Bush administration’s warrantless surveillance program violates the Constitution.U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor in Detroit became the first judge to strike down the National Security Agency’s program, which she says violates the rights to free

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New York TimesAugust 16, 2006 Bush Said to Be Frustrated by Level of Public Support in Iraq THOM SHANKER and MARK MAZZETTIWASHINGTON, Aug. 15 — President Bush made clear in a private meeting this week that he was concerned about the lack of progress in Iraq and frustrated that the new Iraqi government — and the Iraqi people — had not shown greater public support for the American mission,

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Truthdig Molly Ivins: Osama Hearts LamontPosted on Aug 16, 2006By Molly IvinsIf you listen to Dick Cheney, Bin Laden & Co. were staying up late to hear the Lamont-Lieberman election returns from Darien, Conn.AUSTIN, Texas—The most cunning refinement yet in the administration’s plot to scare the liver, lights and onions out of us with Tales of Terror Plots is the Department of Homeland Security’s

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Another Day in the EmpireThursday August 17th 2006, 8:17 amLeave it up to the corporate media to ignore the obvious and continue to push the original Brothers Grimm fairy tale about liquid bombers taking out jetliners because they hate our freedoms.For instance, the chief patsy in the supposed terror plot—a plot sans any compelling evidence, or for that matter any evidence, period—Rashid Rauf, “

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The Truth SeekerControlling the News August 13, 2006TBR News.org – August 13, 2006Probably the most classic example of the iron control over the American media can now be seen in the frenzy over the alleged "Liquid Explosive Bombers" in England.From our Paris and especially, our London bureaus, we know for a fact that all of this was concocted by the British MI-6 with the grateful encouragement

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wluctv6.comUpper Peninsula, August 15No Plot To Bomb Bridge, FBI SaysA day after saying it was investigating a possible plot by three men to blow up the Mackinac Bridge, federal officials now say the men have no link to terrorism and there is no plot. The news on Monday made national news and captured the attention of many in the Upper Peninsula. "Naturally, when I heard it, I perked up and

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YnetIsraelis hack Ahmadinejad's blogIsraeli bloggers claim to have overloaded website of Iranian president, causing it to crashDudi GoldmanThe Iranian website ahmadinejad.com, in which Iranian officials claim the Iranian President publishes a daily journal , was down for a few hours on Monday. Following a report by Yedioth Ahronoth on Sunday about the site, Israeli hackers called for a joint

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Telegraph Prescott lets slip that some suspects won't face serious chargesBy Graeme Wilson and Philip Johnston(Filed: 16/08/2006)John Prescott let slip yesterday that some of the 24 people arrested last week over the alleged transatlantic terror plot will not face serious charges.The Deputy Prime Minister made the admission during talks with Labour's Muslim MPs on how best to tackle Islamic

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Reuters AlertNetCosta Rica to move Israel embassy out of Jerusalem16 Aug 2006 22:56:36 GMTSource: ReutersSAN JOSE, Costa Rica, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Costa Rica will move its embassy in Israel from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv, its new president said on Wednesday, in a move that pleases Arab nations and is a blow to the Israeli government.The decision will leave El Salvador as the only country in the world

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truthout Lebanese Army Sends Troops to Border By Edward Cody and Colum Lynch The Washington Post Thursday 17 August 2006 Compromise will allow Hezbollah to keep arms. Beirut - Breaking an impasse, the Lebanese government on Wednesday ordered army troops to deploy across southern Lebanon under a compromise arrangement that allows the Hezbollah militia to retain some of its arms

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informationclearinghouseBy Jonathan Cook in Nazareth08/16/06 "Information Clearing House" -- -- During Israel’s war against the people of Lebanon, our media, politicians and diplomats have colluded with the aggressors by distracting us with irrelevancies, by concocting controversies, and by framing the language of diplomacy. In the fragile truce that is currently holding while Lebanon waits for

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Independent Online Edition > Robert FiskPublished: 16 August 2006In the sparse Baathist drawing rooms of Damascus, reality often seems a long way away. But it was a sign of the times that President Bashar al-Assad was able to bring the great and the good of Damascus to their feet by the simple token of telling the truth - which no other Arab leader has chosen to do these past five weeks: that the

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Eric MargolisThe Lebanon Curse Strikes AgainAs a shaky cease-fire goes into effect in Lebanon, Israel’s generals and politicians are furiously blaming one another for what many Israelis are calling a major political and military defeat.After 31 days of fighting, Israel has nothing to show but world-wide condemnation (the US excepted), scores of dead soldiers and civilians, burned forests,

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The Associated Press FCC Cracks Down on "Fake News" The Associated Press Tuesday 15 August 2006 Owners of 77 TV stations queried on paid video stories. Washington - The Federal Communications Commission has mailed letters to the owners of 77 television stations inquiring about their use of video news releases, a type of programming critics refer to as "fake news." Video news

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**Israel has no intention of leaving** Haaretz - Israel NewsHalutz: Deploy Lebanon army to south or IDF will halt pulloutBy Gideon Alon and Yoav Stern, Haaretz Correspondents, and The Associated PressIsrael Defense Forces Chief of Staff Dan Halutz said Wednesday that the IDF would halt its withdrawal from southern Lebanon if the Lebanese army did not deploy in the area within days."The withdrawal

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counterpunchAugust 15, 2006Operation "Change of Location"?How Reports of the July 12th Capture of IDF Soldiers Soon Shifted From Lebanon to IsraelBy TRISH SCHUHA team of Israeli lawyers is now suing the Lebanese government for starting the war. The case, to be filed in US civil court, will sue for compensation and damages incurred by Israeli residents and businesses as a result of the war.

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AlterNet: BlogsFox guest promotes Yellow Stars for JewsBy Evan DerkaczPosted on August 16, 2006, Printed on August 16, 2006http://www.alternet.org/bloggers/evan/40413/Okay, it wasn't yellow stars, it was Muslim-only lines at the airport. But you get the point. Many will see a difference because it corresponds to a contemporary fear and tickles a certain logic.Or: racism is contextual.According to

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Justin Raimondo About Those 'Birth Pangs' They're really death throes… "What we're seeing here, in a sense," said Condoleezza Rice at a July 21 press conference announcing her trip to the Middle East, "is the growing – the birth pangs of a new Middle East and whatever we do we have to be certain that we're pushing forward to

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linkThe UK Terror plot: what's really going on?Craig MurrayAugust 14, 2006I have been reading very carefully through all the Sunday newspapers to tryand analyse the truth from all the scores of pages claiming to detail theso-called bomb plot. Unlike the great herd of so-called security expertsdoing the media analysis, I have the advantage of having had the veryhighest security clearances myself,

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Independent Online Edition > UK Politics Blair's 'frenzied law making' : a new offence for every day spent in officeBy Nigel Morris, Home Affairs CorrespondentPublished: 16 August 2006Tony Blair's government has created more than 3,000 new criminal offences during its nine-year tenure, one for almost every day it has been in power.The astonishing tally brought accusations last night of a "

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AlterNet: Stunned, Scared and SilentBy Molly Ivins, AlterNetPosted on August 15, 2006, Printed on August 16, 2006http://www.alternet.org/story/40371/We have nothing to fear but fear itself, especially since fear is now being fomented and manipulated for political purposes by a bunch of shameless hacks. Who is trying to make you afraid and why? This Karl Rove tactic is getting quite threadbare, in

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Capitol Hill BlueInvasion of the fear-mongersBy PAUL CAMPOSAug 16, 2006, 07:28When it comes to terrorism, much of our political leadership appears to have lost both its nerve and its mind. Consider this statement: "I'm worried that too many people, both in politics and out, don't appreciate the seriousness of the threat to American security and the evil of the enemy that faces us -- more evil, or

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Capitol Hill BlueSomething is lost when government calls you a terroristBy ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINSAug 16, 2006, 06:30The families of two men originally charged with supporting terrorism after buying large numbers of cell phones say they've lost a sense of belonging to the country they've long called home.Ali Houssaiky and Osama Sabhi Abulhassan, both of Dearborn, Mich., headed home from jail Tuesday

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What Does A Terrorist Preparing To Bomb 10 Airliners Do Beforehand? Buys CakesBehavior of liquid bomb suspects mirrors 7/7 patsies - no evidence of terror planning Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | August 16 2006 The characters and behavior of the few known liquid bomb suspects are completely inconsistent with any notion that they were preparing to kill themselves in acts of mass

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New Statesman Blood on his handsCover storyJohn KampfnerMonday 7th August 2006Blair knew the attack on Lebanon was coming but he didn't try to stop it, because he didn't want to. He has made this country an accomplice, destroying what remained of our influence abroad while putting us all at greater risk of attack. By John KampfnerMore from this section [Cover story]Browse all articles by John

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albawaba.com Israeli intelligence services planned to assassinate Khalid Meshaal, the head of the political wing of Hamas, sources in Gaza told Aljazeera.According to the report, Mossad, sent last month a team to the Syrian capital to carry out the killing, Hamas sources disclosed on Wednesday quoting "Western intelligence sources". Meshaal is operating from Damascus.Mossad agents allegedly posed

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The Los Angeles Times Pre-Election Terrorizing The Los Angeles Times | Editorial Tuesday 15 August 2006 The Republicans, again, play unseemly politics with terrorism. The Bush Administration is a past master at playing politics with terrorism, portraying critics of its various antiterrorism initiatives as naive or even accusing them, in the words of former Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft,

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Think Progress Yesterday on Fox News, Sean Hannity bashed Americans for Peace Now founder Mark Rosenblum for claiming that Hannity had suggested Israel should drop a nuclear bomb to destroy Hezbollah. “I never said drop a nuclear bomb,” Hannity responded. A few moments later, Hannity slipped and said, “It could have. They could obliterate them.” Hannity ended the segment by telling

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The Huffington Post And the Winner is... Yesterday I wrote about accountability -- and the lack of it -- in our media (as of this post, by the way, neither Chuck Roberts, nor CNN has issued an apology). Today, I'd like to take it one step further. Following is the first installment of the Orwell Awards for truth and lies in our political discourse. Nobody has written more

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Reuters.comLast of 11 missing Egyptian students rounded upMon Aug 14, 2006 12:38 PM ETCHICAGO (Reuters) - A nationwide search for 11 Egyptian students who failed to show up for an academic program in Montana has ended with the last two caught outside their rented apartment in Virginia, U.S. authorities said on Monday.Several of the missing Egyptian students apprehended around the United States

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The Times of India JERUSALEM: Israeli troops killed six Hezbollah fighters on Monday in southern Lebanon in four separate skirmishes that illustrated the fragility of an hours-old ceasefire.Despite the incidents, the UN-imposed truce ushered in a calm that the border region had not witnessed for more than a month, with the first tentative signs that people on both sides could begin rebuilding

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link August 15, 2006Olmert's War, and the Next Oneby Patrick J. BuchananWhen Israel answered the Hezbollah raid that captured two soldiers with air strikes on Lebanon's airport, runways, gas stations, lighthouses, bridges, buses, apartment houses, and power plants, we who questioned the wisdom and morality of what Israel was doing were denounced as anti-Israel or anti-Semitic.Turns out we were

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rawstoryUK to make new security rules permanentBy FT ReportersPublished: August 14 2006 22:04 | Last updated: August 14 2006 22:04Tough new restrictions coming into force on Tuesday at Britain’s busiest airports are set to become permanent, the Financial Times understands, changing the face of business travel for months and even years to come.Ministers have told BAA, the airports operator, they

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The Raw Story United States President George W. Bush late yesterday reiterated earlier statements that he believes Iran and Syria are responsible for the conflict between Hezbollah and Israel, before calling for the sealing of Syria's borders, RAW STORY has learned.In a joint appearance with Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Bush stated that the administration is

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AlterNet: Blogs By Evan DerkaczPosted on August 15, 2006, Printed on August 15, 2006http://www.alternet.org/bloggers/evan/40361/ The White House's press corps' digs are getting a long overdue makeover but several disturbing developments and statements caught my eye.All things being equal this would be idle chatter. But all things are not equal with this administration -- especially concerning

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washingtonpostBy Dan FroomkinSpecial to washingtonpost.comMonday, August 14, 2006; 1:36 PMBy insinuating that the sizeable majority of American voters who oppose the war in Iraq are aiding and abetting the enemy, Vice President Cheney on Wednesday may have crossed the line that separates legitimate political discourse from hysteria.Cheney's comments came in a highly unusual conference call with

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AlterNetBy John Sugg, Church and StatePosted on August 15, 2006, Printed on August 15, 2006http://www.alternet.org/story/40318/Two really devilish guys materialized in Toccoa, Ga., last month to harangue 600 true believers on the gospel of a thoroughly theocratic America. Along with lesser lights of the religious far right who spoke at American Vision's "Worldview Super Conference 2006," Herb

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Independent Online Edition > AmericasThere are two sides to every conflict - unless you rely on the US media for information about the battle in Lebanon. Viewers have been fed a diet of partisan coverage which treats Israel as the good guys and their Hizbollah enemy as the incarnation of evil. Andrew Gumbel reports from Los AngelesPublished: 15 August 2006If these were normal times, the American

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www.arabnews.comIsrael Must Pay the PriceLinda Heard, sierra12th@yahoo.co.ukMy 87-year-old mother-in-law used to sit up in bed armed with a red plastic fly swat. The problem was the flies almost always got away while friends and family bore the brunt of her flaying around. Her accuracy was hampered by dimming sight but what excuse does Israel have?It’s clear that Israel hasn’t played by the rules

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smh.com.au Jonathan Pearlman in Haifa, IsraelAugust 15, 2006A CEASEFIRE to end a month of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah lasted less than four hours yesterday before shooting broke out in the town of Hadata, in southern Lebanon.A spokesman for the Israeli Army said soldiers had shot and killed a Hezbollah militant. The spokesman said the soldiers opened fire at a group of militants who

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ABC NewsMilitary recruiting violations rise: GAOReutersWASHINGTON - Allegations of wrongdoing by U.S. military recruiters jumped by 50 percent from 2004 to 2005, and criminal violations such as sexual harassment and falsifying documents more than doubled, a congressional agency said on Monday.The Government Accountability Office, Congress' investigative agency, said the full extent of violations

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The Washington Post Governors Oppose Federal Control of Guard By Dan Balz The Washington Post Monday 14 August 2006 The nation's governors, protesting what they call an unprecedented shift in authority from the states to the federal government, will urge Congress today to block legislation that would allow the president to take control of National Guard forces in the event of a

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Bloomberg.com: Canada(Update1)Aug. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Canada's privacy commissioner is investigating whether a Belgium-based banking industry cooperative and the six largest Canadian banks broke privacy laws by sharing transaction records with foreign governments.Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart is investigating Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, or Swift, Stoddart

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By Rashid Khalidi, a professor of Arab studies at the Middle East Institute at Columbia UniversityPublished August 13, 2006President Bush recently said that it was necessary to get to "the root of the problem" in Lebanon. By this, Bush certainly did not mean Israel's 18-year occupation of south Lebanon that created Hezbollah following the 1982 invasion. Nor did he mean Israel's 39-year-plus

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British Intel Wanted To Bust Liquid Bomb Terrorists After AttackMI5 Had Agent Inside Bomb SquadPlot 'almost allowed to come to fruition' - putting 3,000 lives at risk - intelligence agencies wanted to arrest suspects after alleged date of mass attack Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | August 15 2006 According to news reports the British government and MI5 wanted to wait at least a week

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The Huffington Post Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted Saturday August 12, 2006 at 04:26 PM From the President's Radio Address, August 12, 2006: This plot is further evidence that the terrorists we face are sophisticated, and constantly changing their tactics... We're dealing with a new enemy that uses new means of attack and new methods to communicate. From the New York

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Aug. 14, 2006 -- There is an increasing body of evidence on both sides of the Atlantic that Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation has engaged in a pattern of news manufacturing and illegal activities to hype the "liquid bomb" aviation threat and influence political developments. As WMR reported on Aug. 11, the move that prompted Murdoch, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and George W. Bush to stage

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CounterPunchAugust 14, 2006By CHRISTOPHER REEDLondon.Just weeks ago a task force of British police, some armed and others in chemical protection uniforms, raided an East London working home and arrested two brothers -- shooting one. It was part of an alleged "terrorist plot" to use the deadly substance ricin on an unsuspecting citizenry. It was also a fiasco, with no terrorist plot, no ricin, and

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Independent Online Edition > UK PoliticsBy Nigel Morris, Home Affairs CorrespondentPublished: 14 August 2006John Reid has provoked anger by signalling he is likely to make a fresh attempt to push through 90-day detention without charge for terrorist suspects in the wake of the alleged transatlantic bomb plot.Last November the Government was forced to settle for a limit of 28 days in the face of

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Robert FiskPublished: 14 August 2006The real war in Lebanon begins today. The world may believe - and Israel may believe - that the UN ceasefire due to come into effect at 6am today will mark the beginning of the end of the latest dirty war in Lebanon after up to 1,000 Lebanese civilians and more than 30 Israeli civilians have been killed. But the reality is quite different and will suffer no

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Chertoff: No U.S. Terror Link SeenAs DHS Lowers Threat Level, Chief Calls for Continued VigilanceBy Josh WhiteWashington Post Staff WriterMonday, August 14, 2006; A09There is no evidence that terrorists were working within the United States as part of a plot to detonate explosives on airliners, but U.S. officials remain on guard after last week's arrests in Britain and Pakistan, Homeland Security

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Yahoo! News Truce will be Israel's last, Lebanon envoy declaresSun Aug 13, 8:54 PM ETLebanon's UN ambassador bitterly slammed Israel's month-long bombardment of his country ahead of a hard-won truce, and vowed that the treaty would be Israel's last with any Middle East country."Lebanon will be, I think, the last state to sign a peace treaty with Israel," UN ambassador Nouhad Mahmoud told CNN

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CNN.com Olmert: Campaign against Hezbollah will continueTYRE, Lebanon (CNN) -- Hours after a U.N.-brokered cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah took effect Monday morning, thousands of refugees poured back into southern Lebanon.Video showed one man kissing the ground as he returned home.Highways were packed with displaced civilians, driving through bomb craters with mattresses piled high on

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AlterNetBy William Greider, TheNation.comPosted on August 14, 2006, Printed on August 14, 2006http://www.alternet.org/story/40280/An evil symbiosis does exist between Muslim terrorists and American politicians, but it is not the one Republicans describe. The jihadists need George W. Bush to sustain their cause. His bloody crusade in the Middle East bolsters their accusation that America is out to

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Christopher Deliso August 14, 2006 The Real Losers in Britain's Great Anti-Terror Victory balkanalysis.com For starters, let's give them the benefit of the doubt. Let's assume that it was just a coincidence that the sensational British anti-terror operation occurred just as Israel was embarking on new ground offensives

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Justin Raimondo August 14, 2006 Israel, Defeated Round one: Lebanon, 1 – Israel, 0 We hear much about "the cycle of violence" in the Middle East, with liberals and conservatives wailing that it needs to be "broken," but never do they say who started this "cycle," or whose brazen coercion and outright viciousness keeps

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commondreamsPublished on Sunday, August 13, 2006 by the Inter Press ServiceUN Human Rights Council Condemns Israelby Gustavo Capdevila GENEVA - The United Nations Human Rights Council issued a strongly worded condemnation of Israel Friday for violating human rights and international humanitarian law in its military operations in Lebanon.The highest U.N. human rights body, which held a special

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Independent Online Edition > AmericasBy Andrew Buncombe in WashingtonPublished: 14 August 2006The Bush administration was informed in advance and gave the "green light" to Israel's military strikes against Hizbollah ­ with plans drawn up months before two Israeli soldiers were seized ­it has been claimed.The US reportedly considered Israel's actions as a necessary prerequisite for a possible

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Guardian UnlimitedThe future of Cuba should be decided by Cubans aloneAs the Castro era fades, the US should lift the 45-year-old blockade of the island and stop treating it like stolen US propertyDuncan CampbellMonday August 14, 2006The Guardian'It may be as the pages of history are turned, brighter futures and better times will come to Cuba," wrote Winston Churchill in 1895. "It may be that

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AOL News9/11 Detainee Released After Nearly Five YearsBy TOM HAYS, APTORONTO (Aug. 13) - The date was Sept. 12, 2001, but Benemar "Ben" Benatta was clueless about the death and destruction one day earlier.About a week before, Canadian officials had stopped Benatta as he entered the country from Buffalo to seek political asylum. On that Sept. 11, he was quietly transferred to a U.S. immigration

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MSNBC.comSource: U.S., U.K. at odds over timing of arrestsBritish wanted to continue surveillance on terror suspects, official saysBy Aram Roston, Lisa Myers, and the NBC News Investigative UnitNBC NewsUpdated: 5:13 p.m. PT Aug 12, 2006LONDON - NBC News has learned that U.S. and British authorities had a significant disagreement over when to move in on the suspects in the alleged plot to bring

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Yahoo! News Israel says it can target Hizbollah arms despite truceBy Adam EntousSun Aug 13, 2:40 PM ETIsrael believes it will be entitled to use force to prevent Hizbollah from rearming and to clear guerrilla positions out of southern Lebanon after a U.N. truce takes effect, Israeli officials said on Sunday.Israeli officials said such operations are "defensive" in nature and therefore permissible

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New York TimesNew York TimesAugust 13, 2006CiviliansBefore Attack, Mixed Messages on Convoy’s Right to GoBy SABRINA TAVERNISEHASBAYA, Lebanon, Aug. 12 — On a dark, narrow stretch of mountain valley road on Friday night, Israeli drones shot missiles at a long line of Lebanese fleeing in their cars. Six people were killed and more than 30 were wounded, eyewitnesses and officials said.More than a

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truthout The Frightened By William Rivers Pitt t r u t h o u t | Perspective Sunday 13 August 2006 "Weeks before September 11th, this is going to play big," an anonymous White House official was quoted as saying. There it is, in a nutshell. It would have been easy enough, at first blush, to mistake the GOP's reaction to the foiled bombing plot in London as one of joy. The

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NYTAugust 13, 2006LinksTerrorism Experts Cast Doubt on Qaeda Tie to London ArrestsBy SCOTT SHANEWASHINGTON, Aug. 12 — When American and Pakistani officials said this week that one conspirator in the foiled plan to bomb trans-Atlantic airliners was a “liaison” to Al Qaeda, they suggested that his arrest proved the group was linked to the scheme. Rashid Rauf, a Briton, had trained in the group’s

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BBC NEWS Bush links Hezbollah and 'plot'US President George W Bush says Hezbollah and alleged UK air plot suspects share a "totalitarian ideology" they are seeking to spread.Linking their actions with insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan, he said they all wanted to "establish safe havens from which to attack free nations".Mr Bush said the UK terror plot was a "reminder that terrorists are still

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