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Athens - A Cypriot Boeing 737 airliner with 121 people on board from Larnaca, Cyprus, crashed apparently pilotless on Sunday near Athens, a traffic controller at Athens international airport told AFP. Just before the crash, airforce crew observed the airline's pilots doubled up in the cabin, the controller said. A spokesperson for the Greek army chief-of-staff said hijacking "could not be ruled out". "An act of piracy is likely," said the spokesperson, Gerassimos Kalpoyannakis. The pilots of the two F16 fighters that were sent up to escort the airliner before the crash "saw a situation that was not normal in...

Time, August 23, 2004 v164 i8 p36 This Bud's For The U.S. Canada's relaxed drug laws may be fueling a boom in marijuana exports to America. (Society/Crime) Anita Hamilton. Full Text: COPYRIGHT 2004 Time, Inc. Byline: Anita Hamilton Reported by Ben Bergman/Blaine, Laura Blue/New York, Chris Daniels/Toronto, Deborah It was the bus driver who noticed something suspicious. According to school officials, a driver for Blaine High School in northwestern Washington State thought something was strange about students' carrying unusually full bags to school and then never taking them back home. He alerted U.S. authorities, who boarded the bus on the...

Last modified Friday, April 9, 2004 10:33 PM PDT Parody star's parents die in FallbrookBy: JO MORELAND - Staff WriterFALLBROOK ---- The elderly parents of parody recording star "Weird Al" Yankovic were found dead of apparent carbon monoxide poisoning Friday in their modest Fallbrook home. An investigator from the county medical examiner's office identified the couple as Nick and Mary Yankovic and said they lived in the house at 226 Foxfire Lane. A blaze had been in a fireplace in the hillside house when three family members discovered the couple about 1 p.m., said sheriff's Sgt. Conrad Grayson, a fire...

Campaign Photos Frustrated Howard Dean Loses It So much for Howard Dean and his non-bathing pack of latte drinking, anti-war, metrosexuals. How y'all feelin' today? Dean feeds Baby to Crocky Howard Dean's much talked about fits of anger have rarely been seen to such a level. To the surprise, shock and horror of attendees at an Iowa campaign rally, Democrats watched as an enraged Dean fed a baby boy to a hungry crocodile. Afterwards, Dean instructed the crowd to, "shut the f--k up when he's talking!" Following the ordeal, an aid to the campaign excused Governor Dean by telling...

Egypt Plane Crash Kills 148; Technical Fault Blamed By Ruben Sprich Reuters Saturday, January 3, 2004; 7:15 AM SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) - An Egyptian Boeing 737 airliner carrying 135 mostly French tourists crashed into the Red Sea off the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on Saturday and a rescue team member said there were no survivors. "The initial indications are that it was a technical fault, but that is only preliminary," Civil Aviation Ministry Secretary-General Hassan Abo Ghanima told Reuters. He had said earlier: "There is no sign of terrorism." The plane, operated by the Egyptian company Flash Airlines,...

Local news just flashed that an Egypt Airliner has crashed in Egypt... Reporting majority of ~135 passengers are French tourists....

explosions on Columbia This is a WorldNetDaily printer-friendly version of the article which follows. To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=31066 Sunday, February 16, 2003 CATASTROPHE IN THE SKYEarth monitors recorded explosions on ColumbiaExperts won't say if infrasound readings coincide with 'electrical zap' on camera Posted: February 16, 20039:47 p.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com As NASA continues its probe into the precise cause of the space shuttle Columbia disaster, government researchers are confirming the recording of explosions as the orbiter broke apart during its fatal descent. Falling space shuttle debris (Photo: nbc5i.com) According to a report in the Toledo Blade, some scientists...

I Have A Dream For The Republicans Today's Gadet Generation packs more smarts in the average PDA than the 1960s era computers running the shuttle by Tom Wiley Los Angeles - Jan 06, 2003 Republicans won a great victory last November, but they take the reins of a country in turmoil, trying to wage a global war on terrorism and suffering from the worse economy in nearly 80 years. This victory was not won on a clear campaign of issues like the 1994 Republican Contract with America, but by the failure of the Democratic Party to find a rallying cause...

ANTI-CAPITALIST CONVERGENCE  WASHINGTON, DC ACC HOMEPAGE Fall 2002 Protests The People's Strike: A Day of Non-Compliance and Resistance What's Happening: Friday, September 27 Autonomous Actions Starting between 6 and 7am - Form an Affinity Group, Plan an Action - Plug in at the welcome center and spokescouncil meetings! Shut Down Business as Usual! Take Back the Freedom to Control our Lives! ...or Attend one (or all) of the planned actions listed below Working scenario plan updated on September 8 Autonomous Actions On September 27 autonomous actions will occur all over the city as part of The People's Strike: A Day...

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Banner case heading to court ACLU to help JDHS student who says he's fighting for free speech Monday, April 8, 2002 By ANDREW KRUEGER THE JUNEAU EMPIRE ©2002 Joseph Frederick, the Juneau-Douglas High School senior suspended in January for displaying a banner reading "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" during the Olympic Torch Relay, is taking his case to court with the support of the Alaska Civil Liberties Union. Frederick and AkCLU Executive Director Jennifer Rudinger announced Saturday their plans to file suit against the school district - likely in federal court - to have the banner suspension expunged from Frederick's...

(12:10) IDF: Bodies of dead Palestinians booby-trapped April, 14 2002 Army forces are continuing mopping-up operations in the northern West Bank city of Jenin at this hour. There are reports of intermittent sniping at soldiers, Israel Radio said. IDF sources said many of the bodies of Palestinians killed in fighting over the last two weeks were booby-trapped and that was one of the reasons journalists and Red Cross teams were not allowed into the camp until this morning. The curfew has also been lifted for the time being so camp residents can stock up on foodstuffs. Reporters on the...

Farah 'making sense' on Keyes tonight To discuss Colin Powell's Mideast mission, Bush policy Posted: April 8, 20027:52 p.m. Eastern © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com Joseph Farah, CEO and editor of WorldNetDaily, will be a guest tonight on MSNBC's popular show, "Alan Keyes is Making Sense." Widely regarded as an expert on Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian agenda, Farah will discuss Secretary of State Colin Powell's trip to the Middle East and the current Bush policy. Farah will be joined by Ambassador Frank Wisner. Farah, an Arab-American journalist who has covered the Middle East for 25 years, long ago "broke ranks" with traditional Arab...

Bush Derides Clinton's Mideast Work The Associated Press CRAWFORD, Texas April 5 — President Bush says the Mideast summit sponsored by former President Clinton resulted in a "significant intefadeh," or uprising, repeating an accusation his press secretary got in trouble for uttering. "It wasn't all that long ago where a summit was called and nothing happened, and as a result we had significant intefadeh in the area," Bush told Britain's ITV network in an interview taped for his weekend talks with British Prime Minister Tony Blair.The Middle East crisis and Bush's decision to send Secretary of State Colin Powell on...

(06:30) Six Hamas killed; soldier killed in Jenin The Jerusalem Post Internet Staff April, 06 2002 The IDF said it has killed six Hamas terrorists, including the man behind the Netanya Seder Massacre, which killed 25. In other developments, Sgt. Marom Fisher, 19, of Moshav Avigdor,was killed in an exchange of fire in the Jenin refugee camp late Friday, the IDF Spokesman said. Two other soldiers received moderate injuries and another was slightly injured in the fighting, the IDF said. Also in Jenin, early Saturday, soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian who approached them wearing an explosive belt. Several...

(10:00) Muslim leaders discuss definition of terror By The Associated Press April, 01 2002 KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Palestinian suicide bombers should not be condemned as terrorists, said the Palestinian representative at an international conference of Muslim leaders. Delegates at the three-day conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, were trying to hammer out a definition of terrorism that could be used for UN discussions on the issue. Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, host of the meeting of the 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference, said his definition could apply to the September 11 hijackers, to Israel's military and to Palestinian...

Blame IsraelChristopher RuddyMonday, April 1, 2002 With the most recent spate of terrorist acts in Israel, Yasser Arafat and the Arab world continue to claim they are the victims of Israeli aggression. This weekend I listened to Yasser Arafat's interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour. Israeli tanks barreling through his offices must have flustered Arafat, but he seemed to think all of this has happened in a vacuum. Blaming Israel for his predicament was expected. Arafat doesn't want to assume blame for the wave of terrorist acts hitting innocent Israelis. The Isrealis insist Arafat is the mastermind behind the attacks....

Investigators: Terrorism behind fatal Amman car bomb By Jamal Halaby,The Associated Press March, 03 2002 AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - A car carrying the eight-year-old daughter of a senior Jordanian anti-terror official had pulled away minutes before a powerful time bomb exploded outside the family's home last week and killed two passers-by, an official close to the investigation said. The family's driver was taking the girl to school in her father's car, the official said Saturday on condition anonymity. Although the immediate target appeared to be at Ali Burjak of the General Intelligence Department's Anti-Terrorism Unit or a member of ...

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