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22 bombs explode in Thailand
Post Date: 2006-08-31 10:34:22 by TLBSHOW
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22 bombs explode in Thailand, killing 2 Nearly two dozen bombs exploded almost simultaneously Thursday inside commercial banks in southern Thailand, killing two people in a region bloodied by a Muslim insurgency, police said. The homemade bombs, which were triggered by mobile phone signals, were placed in garbage bins, at newspaper stands and near seats where customers wait for service in the banks in Yala province, said Maj. Gen. Paithoon Choochaiya who heads the provincial police. At least 28 people were injured. Authorities said two suspects were detained. A review of close-circuit video showed that some of the explosives were planted by women, police said. Some of the apparently ...
another bloody day in iraq for the lost war of george traitor bush
Post Date: 2006-08-30 22:23:47 by TLBSHOW
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66 more are dead today in iraq
Italy shifts back to the camp of Europe
Post Date: 2006-08-30 00:17:09 by A K A Stone
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Kofi Annan thanked Italy. So did George W. Bush. And on Tuesday, as he stood on a ship carrying the first Italian peacekeepers to Lebanon, Romano Prodi, the new prime minister, could take pride that his nation had played the key role in overcoming Europe's hesitation to put its soldiers at risk in the Middle East. "Bush was very warm, thanking me for leadership, for having pushed the European team," Prodi said in an interview Monday, recalling a recent telephone conversation. But for all the points Italy scored for bravery - pledging 3,000 troops to Lebanon last week when France made a first offer of just 200 - the nation's new leaders are also using the moment to declare a new ...
Iraq’s parties reach deal on oil-sharing
Post Date: 2006-08-30 00:12:18 by A K A Stone
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Iraq’s main political factions have hammered out an agreement on the sharing of oil and gas revenues but other contentious issues need to be resolved before a draft hydrocarbon law is completed, a senior Iraqi official said on Tuesday. Barham Salih, deputy prime minister in charge of the economy, told reporters in Washington by video link from Baghdad that the revenue sharing dispute had been settled during three days of intense talks at a “retreat” last week. ADVERTISEMENT “That contentious issue is out,” he said. The cabinet hopes to present the draft law to parliament by the end of the year, he added. Oil and gas revenues would be shared out at the federal ...
US in no hurry for sanctions on Iran at UN
Post Date: 2006-08-30 00:06:22 by A K A Stone
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With the UN deadline for Iran to halt sensitive nuclear work ending tomorrow, the US is trying to get the message across to Tehran that there is still time to comply with the Security Council resolution in this regard. Washington is also trying to make the point that the final goal is not sanctions but to "change Iran's behaviour". At the State Department, Deputy Spokesman Tom Casey refused to respond to a query on "division within the administration" on how to deal with Tehran. While some officials are reportedly pushing for a graduated stepping up of sanctions, others are favouring a more hardline approach. "We're first of all going to have a serious discussion ...
Vietnamese Farmers Protest Confiscation
Post Date: 2006-08-29 22:48:06 by A K A Stone
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HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - Hundreds of farmers camped out in front of a National Assembly building in the capital Tuesday in a rare protest of the seizure of their land for development, saying it threatens their livelihood. The farmers from Hung Yen province, many barefoot and wearing weathered conical hats, were angered by the developer, Viet Hung Co. Ltd., which originally offered to pay them $1,200 for 3,875 square feet of land without negotiation. "It was announced on the loudspeaker that this private company is taking that land to build a new residential area," said farmer Nguyen Van An, 40. "The villagers do not want to sell their land. They would be unemployed and go ...
Libya Seeks Death Sentences in AIDS Case
Post Date: 2006-08-29 22:45:35 by A K A Stone
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TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) - Prosecutors on Tuesday demanded the death sentence in the retrial of five Bulgarian medics and a Palestinian doctor accused of intentionally infecting Libyan children with HIV. The six are charged with intentionally infecting more than 400 children with the virus that causes AIDS at a hospital in the Libyan city of Benghazi. At least 50 of the children have died. "Infecting the children with the HIV virus is a savage and inhumane crime and a humanitarian catastrophe," prosecutor Omar Abdel-Khaleq told the court. The defendants have denied the charges and human rights groups have accused Libya of concocting them to cover up unhygienic conditions at Libyan ...
Sen. Barack Obama Electrifies Kenyans
Post Date: 2006-08-29 22:44:03 by A K A Stone
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During a visit to his father's homeland, Sen. Barack Obama electrified the thousands of Kenyans who thronged every stop of his tour. Some hoped for promises of largesse, others to bask in the glory of a successful African-American politician, but all wanted to see the man they consider a local kid made good. "Simply by coming here, he was making a very important statement. He was telling all Kenyans, and especially our youth, that the sky is really the limit," columnist Dominic Odipo wrote in Kenya's oldest newspaper, The Standard. This despite the fact that Obama never lived in Africa - he was born in Hawaii, where he spent most of his childhood raised by his mother, a white ...
40 dead in fierce Iraq street fighting [ 2006 election is around the corner ]
Post Date: 2006-08-28 20:10:26 by TLBSHOW
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Shiite militiamen drove back Iraqi forces in a city south of Baghdad today in fierce street fighting that killed 40 people. The fighting underlined the difficulties facing the government as it tries to rein in the sectarian forces of a radical anti-US cleric. In the capital, Baghdad, a suicide car bomber drove into a checkpoint outside the Interior Ministry, killing at least 16 people, most of them policemen. In one of the deadliest weekends for the US military in recent months, nine US soldiers were killed on Saturday and yesterday in and around Baghdad, eight of them by roadside bombs and one by gunfire. South of the city in Diwaniyah, gun battles broke out at about 11pm last night ...
JonBenet murder suspect's DNA doesn't match
Post Date: 2006-08-28 15:51:41 by TLBSHOW
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BOULDER, Colo. (Reuters) - A DNA sample taken from John Mark Karr, the schoolteacher who claims to have been with child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey when she died in 1996, does not match DNA found in her underwear, a Denver TV station reported on Monday. KUSA-TV cited two unnamed sources in the report, which comes hours before Karr was due for his first Colorado court appearance. Amid skepticism over Karr's account, legal experts have said that a DNA match was critical to the prosecution case.
Fox News VS Al Jazeera
Post Date: 2006-08-25 00:37:00 by TLBSHOW
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Now he’s writing for Al-Jazeera’s Web site, which seems like a perfect home for his defeatist rhetoric. David Asman - fox news http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,147717,00.html ... FoxNews v. Al Jazeera Well, Canadians can now enjoy Fox News but not Al Jazeera. Fox News has been approved by the CRTC. However, Al Jazeera was given a conditional approval that carries certain restrictions: distributors must retain an audio-visual recording of each Al Jazeera program for a period of four weeks (8 weeks is a complaint is launched), ensure that no "abusive comment" is broadcast, and alter or delete the service to comply with these restrictions. ...
Syria Doesnt want UN on THEIR borders(BOOOOOOHOOOOOO)
Post Date: 2006-08-23 23:29:18 by master_of_disaster
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BEIRUT, Lebanon - Syria on Wednesday opposed deployment of an international force along its border to prevent arms shipments to Hezbollah, and Israel called the situation in Lebanon "explosive." A cease-fire was further shaken by artillery shells and explosions that killed three Lebanese soldiers and an Israeli. Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora asked the U.S. to help lift an Israeli blockade on his country's coast and airport — something Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said would not happen until U.N. troops deployed along the Lebanon-Syria border to block the flow of weapons. Hezbollah's vast arsenal of rockets and other weapons, much of which is believed to ...
Iran Test-Fires 10 Short-Range Missiles
Post Date: 2006-08-20 17:32:42 by TLBSHOW
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TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran test-fired 10 surface-to-surface short-range missiles on Sunday, a day after it launched a series of large-scale military exercises throughout the country, state-run television reported. The Saegheh missile had a range of between 50 and 150 miles, the report said. It did not specify whether the missile was capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, but it was not believed to be. State-run television said the missile was built based on domestic know-how, although outside experts say much of the country's missile technology originated from other countries. Iran said it launched the new military exercises Saturday to introduce a new defensive doctrine. "We have to be ...
Al Qaeda threatening to blow up the Taj Mahal
Post Date: 2006-08-18 21:13:01 by TLBSHOW
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Police in northern India have heightened security around the Taj Mahal after receiving a letter threatening to blow up the monument, officials said Friday. Sandbag bunkers have been set up outside the towering entrance gates leading to the 17th century monument and soldiers belonging to an anti-terrorist squad have been posted on 24-hour duty, said Ashok Kumar, a senior government official in Uttar Pradesh state where the Taj Mahal is located. Police were investigating a handwritten letter purportedly sent by an Al Qaeda supporter, saying the terrorist group planned to carry out blasts at the Taj Mahal. Police were skeptical about the letter, but had begun investigations, Kumar said ...
Volcano Wipes Out 3 Villages in Ecuador
Post Date: 2006-08-17 13:33:31 by TLBSHOW
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QUITO, Ecuador -- A volcanic eruption in Ecuador's Andes mountains destroyed three villages, killed at least one man and left more than 60 others missing, the mayor of a village on the volcano's slope said Thursday. One body was recovered after the overnight eruption of lava from Tungurahua, in the country's high Andes, and four others were believed to be under the rubble, Penipe Mayor Juan Salazar said. Salazar told Channel 4 television that the villages of Chilibu, Choglontuz and Palitagua "no longer exist. Everything is wiped out." "This is an indescribable catastrophe," Salazar said. "The houses have collapsed. The rocks that fell caused injuries and burns in ...
'Intimidated, frightened, right-wing Republican thin-lipped b*tch'...
Post Date: 2006-08-15 17:43:41 by TLBSHOW
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Sandra Bernhard Commercial: 'Intimidated, frightened, right-wing Republican thin-lipped b*tch'...
Israel would face dire consequences if it "makes an iota of aggression against Iran [ BUSH IS ONE GIANT IDIOT ]
Post Date: 2006-08-15 10:05:57 by TLBSHOW
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- An Iranian hard-line cleric warned Israel on Tuesday that Iran's long-range missiles will land in Tel Aviv if the Jewish state attacks Iran, state-run television reported. Ahmad Khatami, a mid-ranking cleric, said Israel should bear in mind its monthlong war with Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas before considering any threats against Iran. Boasting that Hezbollah's 40-mile range missiles "turned Israel into a country of ghosts," Khatami declared that Israel would face dire consequences if it "makes an iota of aggression against Iran." "They must fear the day (Iran's) 2,000-kilometer (1,250-mile) range missiles land in the heart of Tel ...
LINDA RONSTADT has launched a blistering attack on US President GEORGE W BUSH, declaring she is embarrassed to be from the same country as him - 'I'M EMBARRASSED FOR IDIOT BUSH'
Post Date: 2006-08-15 00:46:03 by TLBSHOW
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RONSTADT: 'I'M EMBARRASSED FOR IDIOT BUSH' American singer LINDA RONSTADT has launched a blistering attack on US President GEORGE W BUSH, declaring she is embarrassed to be from the same country as him. The outspoken star was thrown out of a Las Vegas, Nevada casino in 2004 after praising MICHAEL MOORE for his anti-Bush movie FAHRENHEIT 9/11. Two years on she hasn't softened her views, echoing those of country music trio THE DIXIE CHICKS. She says, "The Dixie Chicks said they were embarrassed he was from Texas. I'm embarrassed George Bush is from the United States. "He's an idiot. He's enormously incompetent on both the domestic and international scenes." She also defends ...
Mammoths may roam again after 27,000 years
Post Date: 2006-08-14 23:55:45 by A K A Stone
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BODIES of extinct Ice Age mammals, such as woolly mammoths, that have been frozen in permafrost for thousands of years may contain viable sperm that could be used to bring them back from the dead, scientists said yesterday. Research has indicated that mammalian sperm can survive being frozen for much longer than was previously thought, suggesting that it could potentially be recovered from species that have died out. Several well-preserved mammoth carcasses have been found in the permafrost of Siberia, and scientists estimate that there could be millions more. Last year a Canadian team demonstrated that it was possible to extract DNA from the specimens, and announced the sequencing of ...
PUTIN CALLS U.S. A FORTRESS = RUSSIA SAYS THEY MUST BE STRONG AGAINST FORTRESS
Post Date: 2006-08-14 23:47:16 by A K A Stone
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MOSCOW -- Russia faces a growing arms race against a "fortress" United States that cares more about its own interests than democracy or human rights, President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday in his state of the nation speech. "It is premature to speak of the end of the arms race," Putin told both houses of parliament and other top officials in the nationally televised address. "It is in reality rising to a new technological level." Putin said that Russia was forced to react when the United States was spending 25 times more on defense. "In the defense sphere, this is called 'their house is their fortress'. Well done! But it means that we must build our ...
Israel warns foes despite truce
Post Date: 2006-08-14 23:39:13 by A K A Stone
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Israel will pursue Hezbollah leaders in Lebanon despite the ceasefire ending the month-long conflict, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has told parliament. During a stormy session, he defended his conduct of the war saying Hezbollah had been crippled. However the group's leader denied this and claimed victory. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said the ceasefire, which came into force early on Monday, seemed to be holding. Thousands of people are returning to southern Lebanon following the truce. Fighting ended at 0500 GMT, although Israel said it had killed at least four Hezbollah fighters in later clashes. Israeli officials told the AFP news agency that in each case soldiers had opened fire ...
Report: X-Rays Don't Detect Explosives
Post Date: 2006-08-14 22:51:37 by A K A Stone
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X-ray machines that screen airline passengers' shoes cannot detect explosives, according to a Homeland Security Department report on aviation screening. Findings from the report, obtained by The Associated Press, did not stop the Transportation Security Administration from announcing Sunday that all airline passengers must remove their shoes and run them through X-ray machines before boarding commercial aircraft. The shoe-scanning requirement was ordered as the government fine-tunes new security procedures since British police last week broke up a terrorist plot to assemble and detonate bombs aboard as many as 10 airliners crossing the Atlantic Ocean from Britain to the United States. ...
Our Man in Persia
Post Date: 2006-08-14 22:14:55 by A K A Stone
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When John Tchalenko's work took him to Iran, the last thing on his mind was the uncle whose decapitated head had been paraded in front of a marauding army. But his father's bedtime stories about the apocryphal relative resurfaced when Tchalenko unearthed a 1903 telegram sent by his great-uncle, an officer in Tsar Nicholas II's army, that would help him piece together a mysterious chapter of his family history. Now, Tchalenko -- a London-based earthquake geologist descended from emigres who fled Russia after the Revolution -- has told that story in a forthcoming book about his great-uncle, Alexander Iyas. Compiled from dozens of previously unpublished dispatches and photographs, the book ...
Men held in Michigan suspected of plan to attack Mackinac Bridge
Post Date: 2006-08-14 02:26:21 by A K A Stone
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Federal authorities helped with the investigation into a possible terror threat to the Mackinac Bridge. The FBI office in Detroit worked with local law enforcement authorities before the police arrested three men in Caro on Friday. Officers found about 1,000 pre-paid cell phones in their van. Police in Caro arrested the three Palestinian-American men after they allegedly bought 80 of the phones at a Wal-Mart store in Caro. A pre-paid cell phone can be economical and convenient. But, 22 year old Adham Othman, 23 year old Louai Othman, and 19 year old Maruwan Muhareb aroused suspicion when they allegedly bought 80 phones at the same time. Caro Police Chief Ben Page said they thought ...
Dixie Chicks manager, Simon Renshaw has a message for Freepers and George Bush
Post Date: 2006-08-10 01:01:46 by TLBSHOW
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I was recently reading General Wesley Clarks book "Winning Modern Wars," and the question was posed to him: "Who said freedom of speech was free?" I thought back to our illustrious leader (George II’s) remarks when asked for his thoughts on the Dixie Chick’s comments, to which he replied: "They shouldn’t have their feelings hurt because people don’t want to buy their records when they speak out. Freedom is a two-way street." While he didn’t directly address the issue of his feelings on the subject of resulting death threats and radio bans, it’s probably safe to assume that they too fell under the concept of "Freedom is a two ...
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