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Al-Mustaqbal newspaper reports Lebanese security forces exposed network of 200 members which trained in refugee camps in Lebanon, planned to assassinate 36 senior Lebanese officials The Lebanese security forces exposed a network which planned to assassinate 36 senior anti-Syrian Lebanese officials, the Lebanese newspaper al-Mustaqbal reported Wednesday morning. The newspaper, which belongs to the family of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, who was assassinated last year, reported that the Lebanese security forces managed to arrest two of the network's key members. According to the report, the investigation revealed that the network trained in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon and...

Along Florida's Gulf Coast, water is everywhere. From the bay to the beach to the town of Clearwater, that is where we found Denny Klein. A man driven by water, literally. Klein has invented the world's first water powered car. It runs on what he calls "Aquygen." Aquygen is water or H2O, broken down and turned into HHO gas, something scientists once thought impossible. "Any PhD or library, they say you can't mix hydrogen and oxygen. And still to this day we get a lot of people who don't believe us because that's what they were taught," Klein said. But...

Political pundits have long speculated on the cause of the downturn of suicide bombings in Israel. Some have posited that the credit belongs to Ariel Sharon's iron fist. Others have claimed the cause was Arafat's death. However, a new theory has surfaced, and most of the public has accepted the idea as the most likely to be the proximate cause: there are no virgins left in heaven. "This is most devastating," said Allah during a sit-down interview. "There were so many suicide bombings that all the virgins were used up before I could generate more. I cannot keep up with...

A New Zealand woman who travelled to China for stem cell treatment died on Thursday night in the arms of her husband, Rein. She was 66. Willie Terpstra, a New Zealander, was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 2004.She left her home in Rotorua 18 months ago to have a foetal cell tansplantation operation in China. Motor neurone disease leads to the loss of voluntary muscle activity that aids speaking, breathing and swallowing. The Chinese operation involved the transplantation of around two million cells from an aborted foetus into Mrs Terpstra's brain and was performed by surgeons at Beijing West...

Dear Professor Gerald A. Honigman, We would like to thank you for your kind words regarding the Kurds in your open letter, dated 25 August 2006. Your letter should have been answered by the Kurdish leaders in southern Kurdistan (Iraqi Kurdistan) but we are writing a few lines to thank you and to include some brief comments. The tragedy of the Kurdish people lies in the fact they are Muslims colonised and suppressed by Muslim rulers; and they are not under one ruling state but four. For almost a century Kurdish identity has been forcibly torn and denied. While Kurdish...

Lebanese Interior Minister Ahmed Fatfat called the airport strikes a "general act of war," Thursday saying they had nothing to do with Hizbullah, but were instead an attack against the country's "economic interests," especially its tourism industry, CNN reported on its Web Site.

I believe Rory Johnson was one of the greatest visionaries of this century, and his operating Magnatron Fuel Cell motor was showing us the principle of attract-attract in motion - the nature of all physical substance. Rory Johnson designed and operated a 525 HP fuel cell motor without any of the hardware that is presently used in current state-of-the-art electric motors, such as AC Induction series or compound wound DC motors which use the accepted principle of attract-repel, an energy form that doesn't utilize the magnetic field to its greatest advantage. He capitalized on the magnetic field to its greatest...

Supercapacitor could make electric car viable Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology think they're on the verge of making traditional batteries obsolete. The researchers are working on a new device that uses carbon nanotubes to store and release electrical energy in a system that could carry as much power as today's lead or lithium batteries.

All three suspects in the disappearance of an Alabama teenager were released from jail Saturday in a setback for the prosecution and the biggest blow yet to Natalee Holloway's family. Joran van der Sloot, an 18-year-old Dutchman, and two Surinamese brothers, Satish Kalpoe, 18 and Deepak Kalpoe, 21, were released on condition they remain in Dutch territory and be available to police for questioning. The Kalpoe brothers emerged from prison dressed in jeans, carrying black plastic bags and accompanied by their lawyers. "It's a happy day for the Kalpoe family," said David Kock, an attorney for Satish. At his home...

One of the main squares in Jenin has been named after Yahya Ayyash, a Hamas bombmaker responsible for the deaths of dozens of Israelis. The square, which has been decorated with a large poster of Ayyash, is located in the western part of the city. Local residents said the decision to name the square after the Hamas bomb-maker was taken by local Hamas leaders and activists and approved by the Palestinian Authority. Residents of the city are planning a mass celebration in the coming days following the evacuation of four settlements in the area last week. Portraits of slain Hamas...

A leading Sunni Arab helping write Iraq's constitution said Tuesday that accepting Kurdish demands for federalism would have ``grave consequences'' for the nation and that the issue should be left for the new parliament. Saleh al-Mutlaq spoke as Iraqi political leaders prepared to resume talks Tuesday in a bid to finalize the charter, which parliament must approve by next week's deadline. A second round of talks was postponed by a severe sandstorm Monday. Al-Mutlaq said the Tuesday meeting will concentrate on federalism. He said the Sunni Arab bloc might formally submit a proposal to delay a decision on the contentious...

Bringing a microphone and camera crew to the gates of an Aruba landfill this past week, Greta Van Susteren returned to the island that her nightly Fox News Channel program has figuratively called home recently. Van Susteren's "On the Record" has relentlessly followed the mysterious disappearance of 18-year-old Natalee Holloway of Alabama while on a graduation trip to Aruba in May. Critics find it an obsession bordering on the bizarre, twisting traditional notions of news judgment and becoming Exhibit A in the media's fascination with missing people - as long as they happen to be young, white, female and pretty....

Beth Holloway Twitty went face-to-face Monday with a man who'd been detained briefly in the disappearance of daughter Natalee Holloway in Aruba, and challenged him to tell what he knows about the case. In telling of the tense encounter, she asserted Natalee was sexually assaulted before she vanished. Twitty says she was tipped by a member of the media that Deepak Kalpoe was working at a local Internet café, and wasted no time confronting him Monday. Kalpoe, 21, and brother Satish Kalpoe, 18, were among the last three people spotted in public with Natalee before the Alabama teen disappeared in...

Beth Twitty has returned to Aruba determined to turn up the heat on island authorities investigating the disappearance of her daughter. The Alabama teen has been missing on the island more than two months. Twitty says she wishes she could talk with Natalee: "She knows my message, that we are doing everything we possibly can, and we are determined to stay with this and to keep the pressure on." But Twitty has set a tentative date to leave Aruba again, September 4th, the day suspect Joran van der Sloot could be released if authorities fail to make their case. Twitty...

The self-professed purpose of South Korea’s Histostem Corporation is music to the ears of pro-life advocates waging a difficult war against deadly embryonic stem-cell research. According to its website, Histostem “is pioneering cell-based therapy with stem cells, free of ethical problems.” Hoon Han, CEO of Histostem, received his Ph.D. from the Catholic University of Korea in 1979. There are few who would argue that Histostem’s research and experimentation with treatments involving only stem cells isolated from the blood in umbilical cords collected after birth poses any notable ethical conundrums. The corporation claims numerous successful treatments to date for dozens of...

They came to Britain seeking sanctuary from famine and war in east Africa, receiving assistance, education and help from the state. But yesterday, Yasin Hassan Omar and Muktar Said Ibrahim were the subject of a massive police hunt ­ suspected suicide bombers who attempted to cause carnage in the country they had made their home. As police continued a fast-moving manhunt for the two men ­ along with two unknown accomplices ­ a contrasting picture of the pair emerged. Some friends said they were normal men who played football in the park every Sunday and, seemingly, both wanted to consider...

Since the killing of Shuana Kardi, a Kurdish activist, on Saturday July the 13th by the Pastaram in the city of Mahabad, Iranian Kurdistan, the people of this city have come every day to the streets in order to protest against the Iranian state’s oppressive policy towards the Kurds. They expressed their demands for democracy, their national and cultural rights but the suppressive forces of the regime have attacked these demonstrations and about 100 people have been killed, arrested or crippled. The city is surrounded by the military forces of the Islamic regime and people currently have no possibility to...

A victim has told the Princess Royal how she survived two bomb attacks in London in less than an hour. Louise Barry, 29, was evacuated from an Underground train hit by an explosion at Edgware Road station. She then boarded the bus that was blown apart in Tavistock Square. When Princess Anne was visiting victims of the terror attacks in University College hospital last week, she suggested that Barry might not remember much. Barry replied: “Unfortunately, I remember all of it.” The marketing executive, who was born in Sydney but now works in London, suffered a fractured neck, a puncture...

On 13 July 2005, it will be sixteen years since Dr. Abdurahm Qasimlou, the leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI), was assassinated in Vienna, Austria. For the last sixteen years the Austrian governments have shown a political apathy towards the issue. To the dislike of Austria, the assassination of Qasimlou has attracted a lot of international attention not because the Austrian government wants justice to be done but because one of the persons who were involved in the assassination has been “elected” to the Iranian presidency and he will take his position as the Iranian President in...