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"An Iraqi man with suspected links to terrorism had a computer disk containing crisis planning information for San Diego and other school districts when he was arrested by U.S. authorities in Iraq, 10News reported. The man's intentions were not known, and there was no indication that schools in San Diego or any other district were targets for terrorism, according to San Diego law enforcement officials ... .............

But giving evidence to the Senate armed services committee, he supported the military campaign. "The world is better off," he said He said Saddam had made "a lot of progress" in eroding sanctions to the point at which he could begin building such weapons again - in fact it was the terror attacks of September 11 that undermined his plans. Had they not taken place, "things would have taken a very different course for the regime". The Prime Minister, speaking in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, said he "welcomed the report". While accepting Iraq had "no stockpiles of actual weapons," Mr Blair...

Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to introduce the Liberty Amendment, which repeals the 16th Amendment, thus paving the way for real change in the way government collects and spends the people’s hard-earned money. The Liberty Amendment also explicitly forbids the federal government from performing any action not explicitly authorized by the United States Constitution. The 16th Amendment gives the federal government a direct claim on the lives of American citizens by enabling Congress to levy a direct income tax on individuals. Until the passage of the 16th amendment, the Supreme Court had consistently held that Congress had no power to...

KING COUNTY, Wash. — Residents of King County, Wash., will only be able to build on 10 percent of their land, according to a new law being considered by the county government, which, if enacted, will be the most restrictive land use law in the nation. Known as the 65-10 Rule (search), it calls for landowners to set aside 65 percent of their property and keep it in its natural, vegetative state. According to the rule, nothing can be built on this land, and if a tree is cut down, for example, it must be replanted. Building anything is out...

- "The must-see movie of the season...disturbing and deeply-moving...I found myself weeping" - Maggie Gallagher - NEW YORK POST "A brilliant effort...extremely well done." - Rush Limbaugh - The Rush Limbaugh Show “ A powerful portrayal of a critical point in history that exposes the intensity of the struggle against communism and President Reagan’s campaign for victory. As someone who had lived these times, I was very moved by the detail and emotion in which they were brought out on film. The lessons of our struggle against the evil empire are more relevant than ever in regards to the conflict...

Ten months after returning home from Vietnam, a young John Kerry strolled into the offices of The Harvard Crimson on Feb. 13, 1970 as an obscure underdog in the Democratic Congressional primary. The decorated veteran, honorably discharged after a tour of duty in the Mekong Delta, spoke in fierce terms during his daylong interview with The Crimson’s Samuel Z. Goldhaber ’72. But almost 34 years later, Kerry’s remarks on American military and intelligence operations vastly diverge from opinions expressed by the present-day Sen. John F. Kerry, D.-Mass., the leading candidate in the Democratic primary for president. “I’m an internationalist,” Kerry...

John Kerry Monsieur BLING!!!! Isn't it easy to talk about helping the "little guy" when you travel around in chauffeured cars, private jets and luxury yachts from one mansion to another? Let's face it, John Kerry has no idea what it's like to be the "little guy" and he never has. His Hair Kerry’s magnificent hair is handled by native French stylist Isabelle Goetz from the exclusive coiffure, Salon Cristophe in Washington. Cost $1,000 per styling His Transportation The Jet John Kerry travels on the deluxe model of the Gulfstream V private jet called the Flying Squirrel. Cost $35,000,000 not...

President Bush has taken a lead over Democrat John Kerry (search) among key groups such as Catholics and those with a high school education — largely because of voter doubts about Kerry, a poll suggests. Bush was backed by 48 percent and Kerry by 40 percent among registered voters in the poll by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press

In asking Louis Boccardi (search), the former head of AP, to help lead its investigation into those now discredited documents, CBS was calling on an old friend of Dan Rather (search), who sat with Boccardi at a party honoring his retirement last year and gave a glowing tribute to Boccardi at the event. People who know Boccardi, however, say he will be impartial in conducting the investigation.

Russian and Israeli officials are planning joint training courses for anti-terror forces, Russian news agencies reported Monday after a meeting between Russia's top police official and Israel's National Security Council chairman. Russia's Interior Ministry and the Israeli police service also plan regular workshops and meetings on the fight against international terrorism, the Interfax news agency reported following a meeting between Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's security adviser Giora Eiland

A jet bound for New York made an emergency landing at Stansted airport yesterday after repeated warnings that a bomb was on board. The pilot of the Olympic Airways flight, carrying 301 passengers and crew from Athens, diverted after a Greek newspaper received three telephone calls saying the plane would be destroyed in revenge for the invasion of Iraq. Two RAF Tornados were scrambled from Coningsby, Lincs, on a "detect, defer or destroy" mission and the Airbus 340 landed at 3.30pm

A jet bound for New York made an emergency landing at Stansted airport yesterday after repeated warnings that a bomb was on board. The pilot of the Olympic Airways flight, carrying 301 passengers and crew from Athens, diverted after a Greek newspaper received three telephone calls saying the plane would be destroyed in revenge for the invasion of Iraq. Two RAF Tornados were scrambled from Coningsby, Lincs, on a "detect, defer or destroy" mission and the Airbus 340 landed at 3.30pm. Once the passengers and crew had left flight 411, Army bomb disposal experts began a search expected to last...

/George Bush and I were fighter pilots. Lt. Bush flew F-102s in the Air National Guard (ANG) -- 111th Fighter Interceptor Squadron (FIS); / Lt. Bush flew hundreds of hours in the F-102 -- the world's first supersonic all-weather jet interceptor aircraft;/flying operational fighter jets is highly dangerous. People don't strap fighter jets to their backside if they are overly concerned for their future. While in F-105 training at McConnell AFB in early 1968, we lost five aircraft in six weeks /In November 1970, the Commander of the Texas Air National Guard, Lt. Col. Jerry B. Killian, called Mr. Bush,...