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'Kill Americans' plot: Syrian held - CNN.com

2007-06-08T09:25:00.000-06:00

MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- 'Police in Spain and Romania have arrested three men wanted by the United States for conspiring to sell millions of dollars worth of weapons to a Colombian terrorist organization, the U.S. Embassy in Madrid says.'
[...]
"Kassar and his co-defendants are accused of conspiring to sell surface-to-air missile systems (SAMs), rocket-propelled grenade launchers (RPGs), thousands of machine guns and millions of rounds of ammunition to the FARC," the embassy said.'
[...]
'Kassar was also implicated in the 1985 hijacking of the "Achille Lauro" cruise ship in the Mediterranean, in which four Palestinian terrorists took control, killing wheelchair-bound American Leon Klinghoffer the anti-terrorism source said.'

Document: Iran Caught Red-Handed Shipping Arms to Taliban

2007-06-07T09:25:00.000-06:00

'NATO officials say they have caught Iran red-handed, shipping heavy arms, C4 explosives and advanced roadside bombs to the Taliban for use against NATO forces, in what the officials say is a dramatic escalation of Iran's proxy war against the United States and Great Britain.'

Purple frog among 24 new species found in Suriname | Science | Reuters

2007-06-05T10:02:00.000-06:00

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - 'A purple fluorescent frog is one of 24 new species found in the South American highlands of Suriname, conservationists reported on Monday... The discovery of so many species outside the insect realm is extraordinary and points up the need to survey distant regions, said Leeanne Alonso of Conservation International, which led the expedition that found the new species.'

Report confirms terror dry run - Washington Times

2007-05-30T11:57:00.000-06:00

'A newly released inspector general report backs eyewitness accounts of suspicious behavior by 13 Middle Eastern men on a Northwest Airlines flight in 2004 and reveals several missteps by government officials, including failure to file an incident report until a month after the matter became public.'

American Thinker Blog: The Caracas connection

2007-02-07T13:36:00.000-07:00

'It seems that the ever so efficient Venezuela Connection keeps sending thousands of kilograms of cocaine to airports and ports all around the world. Nearly a year ago, on April 11 2006, Mexican authorities seized 5.5 tonnes of high purity cocaine in Ciudad del Carmen's airport. Today Mexican daily El Universal reports that nearly a ton of cocaine was seized aboard a plane arriving from Venezuela in Mexico City's International Airport: 25 pieces of luggage -from flight 374 of Mexicana de Aviacion- were detected containing the drugs.
But this is not the first instance where drugs coming from Venezuela -in that very flight- have been seized in Mexico City's airport.'

courant.com | Soldier's Mother Defiant

2007-02-07T13:30:00.000-07:00

'The last letter from the Stoughton Ridge Condominium Association arrived in January, notifying her that the American flag, along with her Blue Star flag hung by mothers of soldiers, will be tolerated until Labor Day weekend. Every day after that, she will be subject to a $25 fine.
But Richard is standing firm and vows not to lower her flags after Labor Day, or any other day'

kgw.com - Governor seeks to remove Climatologist who doesn't believe Global Warming is Man-made

2007-02-07T13:27:00.000-07:00

'In the face of evidence agreed upon by hundreds of climate scientists, George Taylor holds firm. He does not believe human activities are the main cause of global climate change.
Taylor also holds a unique title: State Climatologist.
Hundreds of scientists last Friday issued the strongest warning yet on global warming saying humans are "very likely" the cause.
“Most of the climate changes we have seen up until now have been a result of natural variations,” Taylor asserts.
Taylor has held the title of "state climatologist" since 1991 when the legislature created a state climate office at OSU The university created the job title, not the state.
His opinions conflict not only with many other scientists, but with the state of Oregon's policies.
So the governor wants to take that title from Taylor and make it a position that he would appoint.'

WorldNetDaily: Campaign launched on behalf of German teen

2007-02-07T13:22:00.000-07:00

'Homeschool students and their families across America are being urged to flood the German embassy with e-mail, telephone calls and letters in support of a German teen who was taken by police to a psychiatric ward because she was being homeschooled.
WND reported late last week on that situation, when a German organization working in support of homeschooling, even though it's illegal in Germany, contacted the news site.
According to the new announcement, the Home School Legal Defense Association is urging its members to act.
"Many families who have had their children forcibly taken from their home each day and taken to government school have since fled Germany, but there are still some homeschoolers. The latest incident involves 17-year-old Melissa Busekros, the girl sent to the Nuremberg psychiatry unit. What is being done to this sensitive girl – just to set an example of enforcing the compulsory schooling at all costs – is reprehensible and causing trauma to unassuming and lovable Melissa," the group said.'

Two New Books Confirm Global Warming is Natural; Not Caused By Human Activity

2007-01-30T13:11:00.000-07:00

'Two powerful new books say today’s global warming is due not to human activity but primarily to a long, moderate solar-linked cycle. Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1500 Years, by physicist Fred Singer and economist Dennis Avery was released just before Christmas. The Chilling Stars: A New Theory of Climate Change, by Danish physicist Henrik Svensmark and former BBC science writer Nigel Calder (Icon Books), is due out in March.'

Throngs in Venezuela protest Chavez plan - Yahoo! News

2007-01-24T11:55:00.000-07:00

CARACAS, Venezuela - 'Blowing whistles and waving flags, hundreds of Venezuelans protested Tuesday against a congressional measure that would grant President Hugo Chavez the power to pass laws by decree in areas from the economy to defense.
Some 400 to 500 protesters stood in a Caracas plaza and shouted in unison: "Faced with authoritarianism, more democracy!"
The protest came as lawmakers in the entirely pro-Chavez National Assembly announced they would postpone until next Tuesday a session to grant final approval of a so-called "enabling law" allowing Chavez to enact laws by decree during an 18-month period. Chavez is seeking special powers to quickly push through changes from nationalizing electrical companies to imposing new taxes on the rich.'

Salt Lake Tribune - Utah Imam is fired amid allegations of domestic violence, shirked duty

2007-01-22T15:28:00.000-07:00

WEST VALLEY CITY - 'Imam Shuaib-ud Din has been terminated from his position as religious leader of the Islamic Society of Greater Salt Lake amid allegations of domestic violence.
Contacted by phone, a relative of the imam said he was in Chicago now but would not comment on the allegations. The relative acknowledged that Din and his wife were having marital problems but said the imam was driven out of town by disgruntled members of the society's board.'

WorldNetDaily: The secret for which Sandy risked his all

2007-01-18T11:22:00.000-07:00

'A logical deduction from existing evidence is that Clarke put the "planes-as-bombs" talk on hold for the five or six years after the TWA Flight 800 disaster lest such talk evoke unanswered questions about that fateful crash. Berger's task, I surmise, was to make sure all references to Bojinka, planes-as-bombs, and/or TWA Flight 800 were rooted from the Archives, especially any documents with handwritten notes that led back to co-conspirators Berger, Clarke and Clinton.'

WSJ.Com - OpinionJournal - The Berger Files

2007-01-15T09:46:00.000-07:00

'One incident is particularly suggestive. By his fourth and final visit to review documents and prepare for testimony before the 9/11 Commission, the Archives staff had grown suspicious of how Mr. Berger was handling the documents, so they numbered each one he was given in pencil on the back of the document. When one of them--No. 217--was apparently removed from the files by Mr. Berger, the staff reprinted a copy and replaced it for his review. According to the report, Mr. Berger then proceeded to slip the second copy "under his portfolio also." In other words, he stole the same document twice.'

WorldNetDaily: Kwanzaa: Holiday from the FBI

2006-12-28T10:44:00.000-07:00

'Kwanzaa itself is a lunatic blend of schmaltzy '60s rhetoric, black racism and Marxism. Indeed, the seven "principles" of Kwanzaa praise collectivism in every possible arena of life – economics, work, personality, even litter removal.
Coincidentally, the seven principles of Kwanzaa are the very same seven principles of the Symbionese Liberation Army. . .'

The Blotter: London Braces for Attack

2006-12-21T12:54:00.000-07:00

'British intelligence and law enforcement officials have passed on a grim assessment to their U.S. counterparts, "It will be a miracle if there isn't a terror attack over the holidays in London," a senior American law enforcement official tells ABCNews.com.'

How an Ex-Aide to President Clinton Stashed Classified Documents - December 21, 2006 - The New York Sun

2006-12-21T12:50:00.000-07:00

" Mr. Berger exited the archive onto Pennsylvania Avenue," the report says, recounting the story the former national security chief told investigators. "He did not want to run the risk of bringing the documents back in the building. … He headed toward a construction area on 9th Street. Mr. Berger looked up and down the street, up into the windows of the archives and the DOJ, and did not see anyone. He removed the documents from his pockets, folded the notes in a ‘V' shape, and inserted the documents in the center. He walked inside the construction fence and slid the documents under a trailer."

WorldNetDaily: Government declares war on homeschooling families

2006-12-21T12:23:00.000-07:00

'The German government, in a throwback to its National Socialist Workers Party heritage, has declared war on homeschool families, promising to bring those with banned "religious convictions" into alignment with the state regulations.'

lgf: Dutch Muslim Faces US Terror Trial

2006-12-20T14:23:00.000-07:00

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - 'A court on Tuesday rejected a last-ditch attempt to block the extradition of a Dutch citizen charged with terror attacks on American troops in his native Iraq in 2003. Wesam al Delaema, 32, is set to become the first suspect tried in a U.S. court for alleged terrorism in Iraq’s bloody insurgency. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of life in prison.'

Jihad Watch: UK Police Killer Escapes in Veil

2006-12-20T14:17:00.000-07:00

'A SUSPECTED police killer escaped capture by fleeing Britain disguised as a Muslim woman. Asylum seeker Mustaf Jama hid beneath a full-face niqab veil to sneak through Heathrow posing as his sister. Jama, who is wanted for the murder of policewoman Sharon Beshenivsky, also wore a flowing head-to-toe jilbab as he fled to Somalia.'

Hitler's Mideast helpers - Los Angeles Times

2006-12-20T13:53:00.000-07:00

'POINTLESS though it may be to argue with a madman, it is worth noting that Muslims were not as blameless in the genocide of the Jews as Ahmadinejad and his ilk would have it. Arabs were, on a small scale, cheerleaders and enablers of the Final Solution. The most famous example was Haj Amin Husseini, the grand mufti of Jerusalem (and uncle of Yasser Arafat), who took refuge in Berlin in World War II. A rabid Nazi, he personally lobbied Hitler to kill as many Jews as possible and even helped out by recruiting Bosnian Muslims to serve in the Waffen SS.

'Robert Satloff, one of the world's smartest Arabists, reveals other links between the Arabs and the Holocaust in his groundbreaking new book, "Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach Into Arab Lands." He shows how the Nazis set up the machinery of death in North Africa. Although "only" 4,000 to 5,000 Jews died before the Allies liberated the area in 1943, many more were consigned to forced labor camps in hellish conditions.

"Arabs played a role at every level," Satloff wrote. "Some went door to door with the Germans, pointing out Jews for arrest. Others led Jewish workers on forced marches or served as overseers at labor camps."

OpinionJournal - Best of the Web Today

2006-12-20T13:50:00.000-07:00

"U.S.-led forces captured a senior al-Qaida leader who was responsible for hundreds of civilian deaths and housed foreign fighters who carried out suicide bombings, the U.S. military said Wednesday," the Associated Press reports from Baghdad:

The leader, who was not identified, was arrested in a raid in Mosul on Dec. 14, the military said in a statement.

It said the suspect served as al-Qaida's military chief in Mosul in 2005, and then took up the same job in western Baghdad.

"During that time, he coordinated car vehicle-borne improvised explosives device attacks and kidnap for ransom operations in Baghdad," the military said. It cited reports that said he organized an attempt to shoot down a U.S. military helicopter in May this year."

Florida professor admits he was Cuban spy - CNN.com

2006-12-20T12:44:00.000-07:00

'Alvarez acknowledged Tuesday he had worked as a Cuban covert intelligence agent on behalf of the Havana government for nearly three decades. Alvarez said he had gathered and transmitted information about Cuban exile groups to Cuban intelligence agents.'

Jungle secrets: 52 new species found in Borneo's 'Lost World' | the Daily Mail

2006-12-19T09:53:00.000-07:00

'More than 50 new species of animals and plants that have never been seen before have been discovered in a 'Lost World' on the island of Borneo in just 18 months, say scientists. Among them are two tree frogs, a whole range of plants and trees and 30 brand new types of fish including a tiny one less than a centimetre long and a catfish with an adhesive belly that allows it to stick to rocks.'

WorldNetDaily: Jimmy Carter plagiarized book, professor claims

2006-12-08T15:19:00.000-07:00

"Jimmy Carter plagiarized book, professor claims
'Palestine Peace Not Apartheid' also has 'simply invented segments'

American Thinker Blog: A Norwegian tip-off

2006-12-04T13:44:00.000-07:00

'Craig Whitlock of the Washington Post reports very disturbing news from Oslo about a terror suspect eluding the CIA, thanks to an apparent tip-off by a Norwegian official:

Shortly after the agents arrived in the spring of 2003, an Islamic militant living in Oslo known as Mullah Krekar received a warning from an anonymous Norwegian official, according to Krekar's lawyer. The message: Krekar, then head of a Kurdish insurgent group, was a CIA target and should watch his back.'