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Federal investigators have accused a Pennsylvania man of trying to conspire with al-Qaeda to blow up major U.S. oil and gas pipelines and wreck the economy. Attempted to provide material aid to al-Qaeda to disrupt the federal government, to change it
Shiite lawmakers chose incumbent Ibrahim al-Jaafari to be Iraq's new prime minister, endorsing the physician and longtime exile for a second term by a single vote, thanks in large part to support by a radical anti-U.S. faction.
New York city's ports, considered a major target of terrorists, are about to be taken over by a firm based in the United Arab Emirates, a country with financial links to the Sept. 11 hijackers. Dubai Ports World is set to complete a $6.8 billion
The US is helping Morocco to build a new interrogation and detention facility for Al-Qaeda suspects. Building was under way at Ain Aouda, above a wooded gorge south of Rabat’s diplomatic district. Run by the Moroccan secret police, adds to a substant
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff will announce wide-ranging changes to the nation's embattled disaster-response agency on the heels of a House report blaming government-wide ineptitude for mishandling Hurricane Katrina relief.
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Just how close was the relationship between the White House and disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff? The Bush Administration again faced questions about those ties after an e-mail Abramoff sent a journalist friend surfaced last week in which Abramoff wr
Prime Minister Blair held out a begging bowl towards dissenters in his own party, urging them to rethink their opposition towards ID cards and new laws which aim to ban the “glorification” of terrorism.
Nine months before the November midterm elections, the Republican campaign theme is already clear: It's the terrorism, stupid. The Bush White House has not been shy about its political use of an event, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which for a time
Chief police officers kept a controversial shoot-to-kill policy against suicide bombers secret from the public because they feared it would be "watered down". Barbara Wilding, one of the architects of the strategy known as Operation Kratos,
Of the 141 programs President Bush wants to cut or eliminate in his 2007 budget are survivors of past Bush hit lists. Of 91 programs proposed for termination, all but 13 have been on the chopping block before. Would save taxpayers 0.02% of the $2.77
“This is the first time in my 45 years judicial career where chivalry has been used as a defense,” Judge Faircloth quipped prior to issuing a guilty verdict and sentencing. “I don’t buy the chivalry defense. I consider this a grievous offense.”
The day before Michelle Kwan withdrew from the Turin Games and almost surely ended any hope of winning an Olympic gold medal, she was still fighting. "Michelle Kwan means more to the United States Olympic Committee than maybe any athlete that e
Iran is prepared to launch attacks using long-range missiles, secret commando units, and terrorist allies planted around the globe in retaliation for any strike on the country's nuclear facilities, according to new US intelligence assessments and
Strategists at the Pentagon are drawing up plans for devastating bombing raids backed by submarine-launched ballistic missile attacks against Iran's nuclear sites as a "last resort" to block Teheran's efforts to develop an atomic bo
The army was dragged into the new abuse scandal when it emerged yesterday that soldiers had been filmed beating prisoners and kicking a corpse.
The CIA’s top counter-terrorism official was fired last week because he opposed detaining Al-Qaeda suspects in secret prisons abroad, sending them to other countries for interrogation and using forms of torture such as “water boarding”, intelligence
"The vice-president didn't see him," she told the Associated Press news agency. "He picked out a bird and shot and, my God, Harry was in the line of fire and got peppered pretty good.
"It is my aim and it is my hope that we will witness a grand jury investigation with reporters present being asked to reveal who is leaking this information. I believe the safety of this nation and the people of this country deserve nothing less
Laura Berg, a clinical nurse specialist, wrote a letter to a newspaper criticizing how the administration handled Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq War. She urged people to "act forcefully" by bringing criminal charges against top administrati
While the world community scrutinizes Iran's nuclear plans, Latin America's biggest country is weeks away from taking a controversial step and firing up the region's first major uranium enrichment plant. That move will make Brazil the 9th
Dear Mr. Goss, the timing of your recent op-ed in the NY Times interestingly coincides with the upcoming congressional hearing by the House Subcommittee on National Security Whistleblowers. Consistent with the pattern of "preemptive strikes
After a winter that for the most part has been relatively mild, the storm that started late Saturday dropped as much as two feet of snow in some spots of the state. While the storm tapered off by late Sunday, officials warned that the wet weather and
The Anachist Writings of Mike Wasdin
Ending subsidised natural gas deliveries to neighbouring countries is justified under certain conditions, World Bank chairman Paul Wolfowitz said at this weekend's G8 finance meeting in Moscow.
The Internet industry needs to create "self-regulatory regimes" and come up with new technologies to battle online dangers such as spyware, said the chair of the Federal Trade Commission. Called for "appropriate" law enforcement a
The American general in charge of training the new Iraqi military says the Bush administration's strategy to use those forces to replace departing US soldiers was hobbled from its belated start by poor pre-war planning and insufficient staff and
The airbase at al-Asad is the biggest marine camp in western Anbar province. It is in the midst of the most rebellious region in Iraq. Get "inside the wire" and it resembles a slice of US suburbia rather than the front line in a war zone.
When Representative Heather Wilson broke ranks with President Bush to declare her "serious concerns" about domestic eavesdropping, she gave voice to what some fellow Republicans were thinking, if not saying. Now they are speaking up and gro
There is considerable disappointment that Bush has not tamed the federal deficit. His immigration plan has divided hard-line conservatives who oppose his guest-worker proposal. Even the administration's policies in the war on terrorism have creat
