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A Smiling Bush: Chemical Weapons Found in Iraq UNMOVIC inspectors have discovered chemical weapons in Iraq. Everything going according to plan. The White House is gloating over the fact that that UNMOVIC team in Iraq has already discovered prohibited chemical weapons. It is yperite or mustard gas. The chemical weapons were found at an Iraqi base in the desert. Inspections team leader Demetrius Perricos says that the gas was stored inside shells. Baghdad in its turn followed the tested principle that the best defense is a good offence and immediately accused the UNMOVIC inspectors of spying. “The inspectors came to...

Israel Arrests Attackers' Relatives Fri Jul 19, 9:23 AM ET JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli soldiers arrested 16 relatives of two Palestinians suspected in bloody terror attacks this week, and in what would be a new policy, officials Friday were considering expelling some of the men to the Gaza Strip ( news - web sites). AP Photo AP Photo Slideshow: Mideast Conflict Israel Keeps Restrictions After Bomb (AP Video) Israel Radio said expulsion of the fathers and brothers reflect new harsh measures the Israeli government is considering to deter potential attackers. Israeli soldiers also destroyed the family homes of the two...

Report: Four Israeli Settlers Killed Thu Jun 20, 3:24 PM ET JERUSALEM (AP) - Gunfire was reported after nightfall Thursday in Itamar, a West Bank Jewish settlement near the Palestinian city of Nablus, settlers said. Israel TV reported four people were killed. The TV report said at least one infiltrator, apparently Palestinian, took over a house in the settlement. Rescue worker Neri Ketoa said soldiers were exchanging gunfire with the infiltrators. However, settlers said soldiers had broken into the house. The differing accounts could not be immediately reconciled. Police spokeswoman Ganit Wingrad said shots were heard inside the settlement. She...

ALL THE NEWS WE HEARD FROM A GUY AT HANDGUN CONTROL INC. Thu May 16,10:03 PM ET By Ann Coulter Having been cheerfully assured by "Handgun Control Inc." (aka the Brady Campaign) that the Constitution protects only kiddie porn and says absolutely nothing about guns, The New York Times has been viciously denouncing Attorney General John Ashcroft (news - web sites) for having the temerity to suggest that the Second Amendment protects the "right of the people to keep and bear arms." (In an eerie coincidence, the Second Amendment actually says, "the right of the people to keep and bear...

Six Months After Sept. 11, Flight School Receives Visa Approval for Hijackers Tuesday, March 12, 2002 MIAMI #151; Six months after two terrorists died in the World Trade Center attack, the Florida flight school where they trained has received their student visa approval forms from the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Huffman Aviation received the paperwork Monday acknowledging the INS approvals for Mohamed Atta, 33, of Egypt, and Marwan Al-Shehhi, 23, of the United Arab Emirates. Atta and Al-Shehhi trained at Huffman in Venice, Fla., in 2000 and early 2001, and were aboard the separate flights that struck the World Trade...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 — As everybody now knows, George W. Bush is a master delegator, handing off tasks he doesn’t have the time or the inclination to do on his own. As 2002 begins, he needs a list of New Year’s resolutions, but probably hasn’t drawn one up himself. So I’m volunteering right here to do it for him. And why not? I first interviewed him in 1987, and I’ve covered him regularly since 1994. So here goes: READ THE KORAN Last fall a group of Islamic leaders gave you a fancy, ceremonial copy. Aides tell me you haven’t cracked ...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (news - web sites) (AP) - Two U.S. transport planes on a nighttime flight saw muzzle flashes from celebrating Afghans firing their weapons and mistook them for missile attacks Tuesday, taking evasive action, military officials said. Initially, a Marine spokesman at Kandahar airport, Capt. David Romley, initially said the C-130s came under fire, possibly from shoulder-fired Stinger missiles of the type provided by the United States in abundance to Afghan militias fighting the Soviet occupation in the 1980s. But at Central Command headquarters in Tampa, Fla., spokesman Maj. Ralph Mills said it later was determined that the crew ...

Flight Delayed for Hours After Fake Grenade Rolls Out of Bag SAN DIEGO — A woman boarded a plane with a security screener's bag that held a fake grenade, which rolled onto the floor and delayed takeoff for hours. Authorities said they don't know how Lolita Austria got the bag Sunday and added that they were conducting a petty theft investigation. Austria, 57, of Rochester, N.Y., was questioned and released. "She made a big mistake one way or the other," said Port District spokeswoman Rita Vandergaw. "Whether it was inadvertent or not, she shouldn't have had that bag." Austria ...

By BRUSSELS/DAMASCUS (Reuters) - The United States and the European Union (news - web sites) both signaled on Thursday they will continue to deal with Palestinian President Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) despite Israel's decision to sever all ties with him. In almost identical comments, made after intensive overnight consultations between Washington and Brussels, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State William Burns and EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said Arafat remained their interlocutor. ``We consider President Arafat the leader of the Palestinian people and will continue to work with the Palestinian leadership as it must make very difficult choices ...

JOHN WALKER, 20, of Fairfax, Calif., who was captured with other Taliban fighters near Mazar-e-Sharif this month, told intelligence debriefers at a Marine base near Kandahar where he is being held that “Phase II” of al-Qaida’s war on the United States would occur at the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the report said. Ramadan ends Sunday. The third phase of al-Qaida’s war would lead to destruction of the entire United States, he told interrogators, the newspaper said. The first phase of that war came Sept. 11, when hijacked commercial jetliners plowed into the World Trade Center in ...

By Maggie Fox Reuters WASHINGTON (Dec. 10) - Racism is not hard-wired into the brain and a little coalition-building can help people lose their racist tendencies, researchers said on Monday. They said their findings offer hope for ending conflicts based on an ''us and them'' mentality as it relates to race. A simple, four-minute experiment could make people forget their notions of race, at least for a little while, Leda Cosmides, John Tooby, and Robert Kurzban of the Center for Evolutionary Psychology at the University of California Santa Barbara reported. ''Social psychologists had found that it seemed no matter what ...

'Ocean's Eleven' Stars Visit Troops The Associated Press Dec 7 2001 2:28PM ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Matt Damon, stars of the new film ``Ocean's Eleven,'' signed autographs, chatted and posed with American troops at a top security military base on Friday. Julia Roberts and Andy Garcia, who also star in the film, also made the trip to the Incirlik air base in southern Turkey. Staff Sgt. Steven Coppock of Roy, Utah, said he helped instruct Roberts as she drove a giant remote-controlled tractor, which is used to defuse bombs, around a parking lot. ``She was ...