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LAHORE, Pakistan - Pakistanis freed from Guantanamo Bay claimed Monday they saw American interrogators throw, tear and stand on copies of Islam's holy book, and one former detainee said naked women sat on prisoners' chests during questioning.

FYI - Beginning @ 12:41 EST on Tuesday 6-7-05 XM Radio's Channel 4 (that's the 40's channel) is doing a full, real time replay of the radio coverage of D-Day. Did a search and didn't see this posted and figured someone else here might also want to check this out. Sounds kinda interesting.

Eason Jordan, chief news executive at CNN, said there had been only a "limited amount of progress", despite repeated meetings between news organisations and the US authorities. "Actions speak louder than words. The reality is that at least 10 journalists have been killed by the US military, and according to reports I believe to be true journalists have been arrested and tortured by US forces," Mr Jordan told an audience of news executives at the News Xchange conference in Portugal.

"Let's call the whole thing off" Does the bin Laden tape signal an approaching end game? Bin Laden can't prevail against "the Chicago way." This morning, reviewing the transcript of Osama bin Laden's videotape appearance this week brought to mind a scene from 1987's hit crime drama, The Untouchables: Police Officer Jim Malone to Eliot Ness: "If Capone comes at you with a knife, you go after him with a gun. If he sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way! And that's how you get Capone!" I am...

I read on FR last night the MSM has "agreed" not to call the election until the polls close on the east coast. This made me wonder if the MSM plans to not call the race - just say too close to call - in order to give Kerry the political cover he needs to file his legal challenges. The Mason-Dixon polls don't look good for Kerry, and it appears he will need legal help to win. Were it not for the CBS fraud memo & NYT/CBS missing munitions stories I'd dismiss this as far-fetched. But given what the MSM...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Following is a transcript of a conference call with Greenberg, Devine, Donilon and Lockhart: Opening Statements Saturday, October 30, 2004 GREENBERG: Ok, I'm going to talk about the Democracy Corps polling, but I also want to talk about the public polls this week and the public polls that have come out today. Because I think it's very important that we understand where the race is, as we get into final weekend and the final days, particularly where there are serious events taking place in the world. There is a temptation, I think, to jump...

President Bush deqonstruqts Qaqaagate today on the stump in Pennsylvania: "After repeatedly calling Iraq the wrong war, and a diversion, Senator Kerry this week seemed shocked to learn that Iraq is a dangerous place, full of dangerous weapons..." If Senator Kerry had his way...Saddam Hussein would still be in power. He would control those all of those weapons and explosives and could share them with his terrorist friends. Now the senator is making wild charges about missing explosives, when his top foreign policy adviser admits, quote, 'We do not know the facts.' Think about that: The senator is denigrating the...

I saw this on Bloomberg, which attributes it to the NY Post. Don't see it on the post website yet. Here is some of the text from Bloomberg: Page 1 of 2 BN 12:17 UN Chief's Son Is Under Scrutiny of Grand Jury, N.Y. Post Says By Jesse Westbrook Oct. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Kojo Annan, the son of United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, is among people and companies under investigation by a federal grand jury looking into Iraq's $64 billion oil-for-food program, the New York Post reported, citing UN officials. The grand jury in Manhattan is reviewing $11 billion in...

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Results based on likely voters (as opposed to all registered voters) give Bush the edge, with Bush-Cheney pulling 50 percent of the vote and Kerry-Edwards drawing 44 percent in a three-way race (Nader still gets 1 percent).

P>(FULL DISCLOSURE: Dave serves on the Board of Directors of TeamGOP and TeamGOP is supporting his candidacy) Dave Dahl condemned the outragious flyer that is included below. Craig Fitzhugh and the Democrats have gone beyond the scope of even their own hatred by accusing Bush voters of being less intelligent and in their words "retarded," but more importantly using mentally challenged kids as political fodder. Dyersburg, TN- Today, Republican nominee for State House District 82, Dave Dahl, denounced a flyer distributed by Democrat State Representative Craig Fitzhugh that attacks Bush voters and mocks those who are mentally challenged (flyer included)....

Kerry appears to be claiming that he will bring back old allies and that these allies will help the U.S. maintain the security of Iraq. Unless he is talking about bringing in countries that didn’t provide support for either Operation Desert Storm or Operation Iraqi Freedom, we can assume he is referring to the coalition members who sent ground troops during the first Gulf War. Those countries, listed by the number of troops they provided and their type of government, are: Saudia Arabia.....118,000.....Monarchy Egypt...............40,000.......Republic UAE.................40,000.......Federation Oman...............40,000......Monarchy France..............18,000......Democracy Syria................17,000......Military regime Bangladesh.........6,000........Democracy Canada..............4,500........Democracy Niger................500...........Democracy Bahrain............. 400...........Monarchy *Kuwait ............11,000......Monarchy During the primaries, Kerry...

The meeting, however, was not a secret. Kerry, a leading antiwar activist at the time, mentioned it in testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in April of that year. "I have been to Paris," he testified. "I have talked with both delegations at the peace talks, that is to say the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and Provisional Revolutionary Government," the latter a South Vietnamese communist group with ties to the Viet Cong. Kerry's campaign said earlier this year that he met on the trip with Nguyen Thi Binh, then foreign minister of the PRG and a top negotiator at...

ABC Evening News continues to chase down its competitor, CBS, on the Killian forgeries. Tonight, they broadcast an expose that alleges that CBS ignored the advice of several document experts who tried to warn them that the Killian memos were faked: ABC's Brian Ross interviewed the two experts who CBS hired to validate the National Guard documents and reports they ignored concerns they raised prior to the CBS News broadcast. "I did not feel that they wanted to investigate it very deeply," Emily Will told Ross. "I did not authenticate anything and I don't want it to be misunderstood that...

Just go to the link, it's very visual so not easy to snip & paste. Best I've seen yet.

When I first heard back from Gerry, I felt a little bad for having bothered him. He'd been fielding calls and letters all day, he told me, including an inquiry from CNN. But he was a trouper, willing — enthusiastic even — to help out. I asked Gerry, in a fit of hubris, if he wouldn't mind trying to reproduce a sample from one of the CBS memos on his Selectric Composer. Just over an hour later, he emailed me back a sample, typed up on his Composer using the 11-point Press Roman type ball and scanned into his computer....

Continuing on our theme of, "Hey, why is there only outrage when someone questions a Democrat's war record?" we turn back to the archives of the New Republic. Thanks to some assistance from Dorothy McCartney and Kathryn Lopez, we blow off the dust of the October 12, 1992 New Republic (sorry, not online). A familiar name, Sidney Blumenthal, is examining President George Herbert Walker Bush's war record. This is a long excerpt, with a few of Blumenthals' extraneous thoughts about Clinton, Vietnam, and Bush on the campaign trial omitted: Since the first day of the Republican convention there has been...

Did Kerry Admit To Falsifying His First Purple-Heart Report? CQ Reader Amelia picked up this intriguing report on World Net Daily, which may not be the most reliable resource on the Internet. However, this should be rather easily cross-checked, and would be if the mainstream media would ever get off its duff and started doing its job. According to Art Moore, Kerry's account of taking incoming fire as the reason for his first Purple Heart injury is disputed by his own journal: A previously unnoticed passage in John Kerry's approved war biography, citing his own journals, appears to contradict the...

August 18, 2004 TOM HARKIN, FAKE WAR HERO: In an update to an earlier post, I noted some comments by Donald Sensing about Sen. Tom Harkin, most recently seen attacking the patriotism of Dick Cheney. Sensing observed: "Harkin himself claimed to have battled Mig fighters over North Vietnam while a Navy pilot. He was a pilot, but never went to Vietnam." A reader emailed to say that he didn't think Sensing's sourcing was good enough for a charge of that magnitude. It seemed to me that I remembered some Harkin truth-stretching from back then, and I trust Sensing, but in...