Reuters.com - US man in Bush murder plot gets 30 years

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (Reuters) - "A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced a U.S. man convicted of plotting to assassinate President George W. Bush and conspiring with al Qaeda to 30 years in prison. In November, Abu Ali was found guilty of all charges in a nine-count indictment, including conspiracy to assassinate Bush, conspiring to support al Qaeda and conspiracy to hijack aircraft."

AV Press: $4,334.33 for burgers busts bank account

"The charge to his debit card for two $1 Whopper Jrs. and two $1 Rodeo cheeseburgers at the drive-up window at the 2606 East Palmdale Blvd. restaurant was $4,334.33 instead of the $4.33 it should have been.
The fact the bank needed the full three days to reverse an electronic charge process that took only a split second left the couple with no money other than what they had in their pockets"

OpinionJournal - The Last Helicopter - by Amir Taheri

"Mideast dictators try to "wait Bush out." They may be miscalculating."

The American Thinker: Hugo Chavez Wants Your Vote

"Looking for something to be alarmed about? Forget Dubai. Try Venezuela’s potential takeover of the U.S. voting apparatus. A secretive, intransparent company called ‘Smartmatic’ that’s known to have ties to the Venezuelan government, has just bought a U.S. voting machine company called Sequoia. And the deal has gotten no scrutiny from federal regulators, who cite outdated criteria for national military security as their only watchpoint."

The American Thinker

More and more information is coming out on the extent of Russian perfidy in aiding Saddam’s WMD programs. Ray Robison posts documents showing Russians hid from UB inspectors on supposedly surprise inspections.

Saddam's Philippines Terror Connection

"SADDAM HUSSEIN'S REGIME PROVIDED FINANCIAL support to Abu Sayyaf, the al Qaeda-linked jihadist group founded by Osama bin Laden's brother-in-law in the Philippines in the late 1990s, according to documents captured in postwar Iraq. An eight-page fax dated June 6, 2001, and sent from the Iraqi ambassador in Manila to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Baghdad, provides an update on Abu Sayyaf kidnappings and indicates that the Iraqi regime was providing the group with money to purchase weapons."

Ray Robison: Saddam's WMD and terrorist connections all proven in one document!!!

The Arabic original shows the Falcon emblem of the Iraq Intelligence Service. A translation is provided if you scroll down. I highlight the key wording but there is more:

March 11, 2003

The al-Quds liberation army division supplied us with information....as follows.

1. The Iraqi government will distribute the same leaflets that the American forces are distributing but it will contain anthrax.

2. Iraq imports uniforms resembling American forces uniforms for the purpose of killing Iraqi citizens....

3. Dig trenches around Baghdad...oil...burning...cause mayhem.

Unless we see a translation that is different I think we have this:

Proof that Saddam had small amounts of anthrax.
Proof that Saddam would use non Iraqi terrorists to carry out a biological attack.

This is exactly the scenario that President Bush warned about, Saddam giving WMD to terrorists. This is the Mother of all Smoking Guns.

Update: Many of the new documents (released 3/20/2006) are marked PIR, Priority Information Request. Fedeyen Saddam was a PIR item in 2003, so many of them deal with that organization. It would seem Negroponte has switched from his plan to release the junk NIV and is now releasing the most important documents. Good for him!

WorldNetDaily: Agent: FBI warned 70 times of 9-11 plot

"An FBI agent testifying today at the death penalty trial of Zacarias Moussaoui says he warned senior officials about 70 times of fears that the confessed al-Qaida plotter planned to hijack an airliner."

WorldNetDaily: Socialism makes people worse

"As it happens, the whole point of the law was to encourage companies to hire young people. The unemployment rate among young people in France is 23 percent. And in many suburbs, it is double that. Meanwhile, French companies are understandably loath to hire 22-year-olds when they cannot fire them except "for cause," which under union rules means something like committing mass murder in the workplace."

Afghan man faces death for Christian conversion�-�World�-�The Washington Times, America's Newspaper

KABUL, Afghanistan -- "An Afghan man is being prosecuted in a Kabul court and could be sentenced to death on a charge of converting from Islam to Christianity, a crime under the country's Islamic laws, a judge said yesterday."

Chron.com | Chirac Urges Talks With Students Over Law

"The students' anger focuses on a new type of job contract that would make it easier for employers to fire workers in their first two years on a job."

AP Wire | 03/14/2006 | Scientists find big Afghan oil resources

WASHINGTON - "Two geological basins in northern Afghanistan hold 18 times the oil and triple the natural gas resources previously thought, scientists said Tuesday as part of a U.S. assessment aimed at enticing energy development in the war-torn country. Nearly 1.6 billion barrels of oil, mostly in the Afghan-Tajik Basin, and about 15.7 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, mainly in the Amu Darya Basin, could be tapped, said the U.S. Geological Survey and Afghanistan's Ministry of Mines and Industry."

BBC NEWS | Americas | Mexico discovers 'huge' oil field

"Mexican President Vicente Fox has announced the discovery of a new deep-water oil field, which is believed to contain 10bn barrels of crude. The field is in the Gulf of Mexico, and Mexico says it could be bigger than its largest oil field, Cantarell."

ABC News: Anti-Chavez reporter sentenced to house arrest

CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - "A Venezuelan judge on Wednesday sentenced a journalist critical of President Hugo Chavez to house arrest for defaming an army officer in a case her supporters denounced as political persecution."

Sudden Jihad Syndrome (in North Carolina) - article by Daniel Pipes

"In brief, Mr. Taheri-azar represents the ultimate Islamist nightmare: a seemingly well-adjusted Muslim whose religion inspires him, out of the blue, to murder non-Muslims. Mr. Taheri-azar acknowledged planning his jihad for more than two years, or during his university sojourn. It's not hard to imagine how his ideas developed, given the coherence of Islamist ideology, its immense reach (including a Muslim Student Association at UNC), and its resonance among many Muslims."

WorldNetDaily: Surprise, surprise! Saddam had WMDs after all

"By now, of course, you've heard of the verified audio tapes revealing Saddam Hussein in his palace meetings discussing his WMDs and ways to hide evidence and smuggle them over the Syrian border in the final weeks before the U.S. military came calling in earnest."

"What? No! Don't tell me you haven't heard! "

WorldNetDaily: Church arsonists tied to Satanism

"The trio was arrested last Wednesday in connection with a string of church fires in central and west Alabama. DeBusk had just signed on for the lead role in an independent film called "Work," which was to make its debut at a local festival in September. DeBusk and Moseley had a darker side, according to friends. They said they claimed to be Satanists, which, they explained, was "not about worshipping the devil, but about the pursuit of knowledge."

Iranian pact with Venezuela stokes fears of uranium sales�-�World�-�The Washington Times, America's Newspaper

BUENOS AIRES -- "A recent deal between Iran and Venezuela provides for the exploitation of Venezuela's strategic minerals, prompting opposition figures to warn that President Hugo Chavez's government could be planning to provide Tehran with uranium for its nuclear program."

Guantanamo 'better than Belgian jails' - World Breaking News - Breaking News 24/7 - NEWS.com.au

"At the level of the detention facilities, it is a model prison, where people are better treated than in Belgian prisons," said Mr Grignard. He served as expert on a visit to Guantanamo Bay last week by a group of politicians from the assembly of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).

BREITBART.COM - Some Gitmo Prisoners Don't Want to Go Home

"Fearing militants or even their own governments, some prisoners at Guantanamo Bay from China, Saudi Arabia and other nations do not want to go home, according to transcripts of hearings at the U.S. prison in Cuba.
Uzbekistan, Yemen, Algeria and Syria are also among the countries to which detainees do not want to return. The inmates have told military tribunals that they or their families could be tortured or killed if they are sent back."

Hamas Praises Russia for Being 'Completely Unlike the West'

"Hamas' leader hailed his Moscow talks as an end to the militant Palestinian group's international isolation and said Russia's position in negotiations differed from that of the United States and other Western nations, according to an interview published Monday."

FrontPage magazine.com :: Iraqi WMD Mystery Solved by Jamie Glazov

Ryan Mauro: "The tapes are extremely significant in that they prove, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that as of the year 2000, Saddam Hussein had a secret plasma program to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons, or "special bombs" as he calls them. The Duelfer Report previously concluded that this type of enrichment program ended in the 1980s, but here we have Saddam and his top advisors discussing using a power plant in the area of Basra for the program. The scientists involved in the program are not known to the UN, leaving Western intelligence clueless.

On the tapes, you hear Saddam discussing the assistance of Russia and Brazil in dealing with the United Nations. He laughs off inspections, as his son-in-law who later defects, Hussein Kamil, reports how as late as 1995 their chemical and biological programs were being hidden from the world. They also discuss keeping the ingredients for these weapons separate, so that should they be found, they will be looked at as innocent dual-use items. They were not destroyed in 1991 as the Duelfer Report concludes. There are even indications on the tapes that Iraq may have had a role in the 2001 anthrax attacks."

WorldNetDaily: Bush lied, people died?

General Georges Sada: "The chemical and biological weapons were available in Iraq before liberating the country, but Saddam Hussein took the advantage of a natural disaster that happened in Syria when a dam was collapsed and many villages were flooded. So Saddam Hussein took that cover and declared to the world that he is going to use the civilian aircraft for an air bridge to help Syria with blankets, food and fuel oil, and other humanitarian things, but that was not true. The truth is he converted two regular passenger civilian aircraft, 747 Jumbo and 727 ... all the weapons of mass destruction were put there by the special Republican Guards in a very secret way, and they were transported to Syria, to Damascus, by flying 56 flights to Damascus ... In addition ... also a truck convoy on the ground to take whatever has to do with WMD to Syria."

WorldNetDaily: Filmmaker: No doubt Saddam had WMDs

"Former real estate broker Brad L. Maaske interviewed dozens of Iraqis in producing his film "Weapon of Mass Destruction: The Murderous Reign of Saddam Hussein." He says it is absurd that prominent Democrats, including a former U.S. president, continue to say the former dictator did not possess WMDs."

WorldNetDaily: Top terrorist sighting raises no FBI interest

WASHINGTON – Two Americans believe they have spotted Adnan el-Shukrijumah, the al-Qaida operative identified as "the next Mohamed Atta" at a location near Bakersfield, Calif., but have been unable to get the FBI or Homeland Security to investigate.
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Chinese Police Detain 36 In Raid On Bible School,

"About 50 officers armed with electric cattle prods and backed by more than 10 police vehicles surrounded the school in the eastern province of Anhui, according to the Texas-based China Aid Association. Those inside, including students, teachers and leaders of the underground church, were taken away in police vans, the group said."