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Evidence of WMD plotting found in IraqBy David Rennie and George Jones(Filed: 01/08/2003) The United States has found evidence of an active programme to make weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, including "truly amazing" testimony from Iraqis ordered to dupe United Nations inspectors before the war, the man leading the hunt said yesterday.David Kay, a former UN inspector and now the CIA's leading consultant who is joint head of the Iraq Survey Group (ISG), offered an unprecedentedly bullish assessment of the hunt for weapons of mass destruction.Although he called for patience, he predicted that doubters were in for a "surprise"...

FEATURES No flies on Bush Mark Steyn says the President’s anti-terrorist strategy is working, and that he is all but certain to be re-elected New Hampshire How do you feel about uranium from Niger? I was on a radio show the other day and some anti-war campaigner ...hang on, I should explain for visitors from Planet Zongo that, since the war in Iraq ended, the anti-war movement has massively expanded its operations. In advanced Western democracies, just because the war has stopped is no reason for the ‘Stop the War’ movement to stop. In Washington the other day, the Iranian...

[Poster's note: Telegraph news story and leading editorial on the subject.] Modern isn't the same as good, Prime MinisterBy Tom Utley(Filed: 14/06/2003) You can tell a lot about the sort of person you are from your reaction to the news that Tony Blair is to brush away the 1,400-year-old office of Lord Chancellor, with a flick of his wrist. Did you, like the Guardian, rub your hands together and think: "Yippee! That's one in the eye for the old fogeys! At last Britain will be able to hold up its head in the modern world"?Or did you, like me, feel...

HELL FREEZES OVER [Rod Dreher] "I'm trying to pick my jaw up off the floor," says an L.A. journalist friend who passes along this May 22 memo that Times editor John Carroll sent to some staffers:To: SectionEdsSubject: Credibility/abortionI'm concerned about the perception---and the occasional reality---that the Times is a liberal, "politically correct" newspaper. Generally speaking, this is an inaccurate view, but occasionally we prove our critics right. We did so today with the front-page story on the bill in Texas that would require abortion doctors to counsel patients that they may be risking breast cancer.The apparent bias of the writer...

<p>Just announced on Hannity and Colmes; also on FNC's website (headline only).</p>

Wed Apr 30, 3:23 PM ET David Chatham shows off his newly remodeled bathroom in Raleigh, NC Wednesday, April 30, 2003. Chatham believes he'll benefit from the work he's doing on his home in Raleigh, N.C. The bathroom decor, which dated to the mid-1980s, 'was really unattractive,' he said. So he and his fiancee recently removed the floral wall paper and had the pink tile replaced with tile in a neutral tone. (AP/Stan Gilliland)

THEY LOOTED THE MUSEUM? TOUGHOn our letters page last week, Douglas Anthony Cooper of Montreal chided me for my throwaway line about the anti-war crowd’s sudden interest in property crime: “Steal the photocopier from Baghdad’s Ministry of Genital Clamping and they’re pining for the smack of firm government.”“Some matters reside beyond the domain of comedy,” writes Mr Cooper. “The rape of the National Museum of Iraq and the torching of the National Library will be lamented by historians for centuries.” He concludes, “A man of Mr Steyn’s sensibilities – beneath the sneer I detect a partisan of Western civilization –...

Life of outrage Rant ... at anti-war demo in London last month By DAVID WOODINGWhitehall EditorGALLOWAY’S treachery has often been exposed by The Sun — but he sunk to his lowest depths when Gulf War II began.We revealed this month how the traitor urged the Arab world to rise up and KILL British troops in Iraq.He branded Blair and Bush “wolves” and Our Boys war criminals. And he called on Gulf states to cripple the West by cutting off oil supplies.Mr Blair branded his comments “disgraceful” in an exclusive interview with The Sun last week. Galloway, 48, first entered politics...

THE Labour MP George Galloway issued strenuous denials last night after documents were found in Iraq alleging that he had received regular, large sums of money from the regime of Saddam Hussein. Confidential papers found in Baghdad purported to show that Mr Galloway had been taking a cut of oil revenue meant for the people of Iraq under the United Nations oil-for-food programme. The documents, which were found in the Iraqi Foreign Ministry, by a reporter from The Daily Telegraph apparently showed that Mr Galloway had communicated with Saddam’s regime via a senior Iraqi spy chief. The MP had...

ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO BURYRemember Jo Moore? She was the British civil servant who on September 11th 2001, as she watched the twin towers burn, sent a memo round the Department of Transport saying, “It’s now a very good day to get out anything we want to bury.”Victory in war is also a very good time to get out anything you want to bury, so before they’re lost in the passing parade I would like to mention a couple of hasty interrments. If you’re a devoted New York Times reader, you may recall that, at the end of...

(CBS) A riot broke out at a Baghdad bank Thursday after thieves blew a hole in the vault and dropped children in to bring out fistfuls of cash. U.S. troops arrested the thieves and removed $4 million in U.S. dollars for safekeeping. Hundreds of people converged on the bank once the thieves blew the vault open, demanding that the thieves give them the money. Guns were fired, and a U.S. Army unit arrived, arresting a dozen men and youths inside the bank while many in the crowd chanted their approval. The U.S. soldiers recovered about $4 million in U.S. currency, which...

Eason Jordan October 25, 2002 BOB GARFIELD: After journalists were expelled from Iraq on Thursday, CNN head of news-gathering Eason Jordan, called the move "a Draconian measure that will sharply curtail the world's knowledge about what is happening in Iraq. Iraq is often displeased with CNN," says Jordan, "but especially this week when the network reported from the scene of that extraordinary protest in Baghdad." EASON JORDAN: The big beef was that we reported that gunfire was used to disperse the demonstrators which is absolutely irrefutable fact, but the Iraqi government sometimes denies the facts and refuses to acknowledge the...