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MIDI - SOUND OF SILENCE Hello, Jamie, our good friend...you've got to cover my rear end 'Cause they'll discover Chinese money...voters won't think that is funny If we fail, we'll give up to the right wing...everything So build a wall of silence We'll use PDD 24...to be closing every door If they can't talk to each other...we will be shutting down this mother Our agenda is what is right for the USA...it's the way So build a wall of silence We know our enemies will yell...all those guys can go to hell They are evil, we all know it...in...

Homemade Bomb Found Near Energy Station Clinton Officials Investigate Discarded Chemicals POSTED: 6:31 am CDT April 26, 2004 UPDATED: 6:39 am CDT April 26, 2004 CLINTON, Iowa -- Authorities are investigating what may have been a homemade bomb found near an Alliant Energy substation in Clinton. Firefighters and police were called the substation Friday night after a report was received that discarded chemicals found at the site may have been a homemade bomb. The street was blocked off and investigators from the state fire marshal's office responded to the scene. Police say no additional information is available and that...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Lacking the detailed intelligence needed to strike directly at Osama bin Laden, Clinton and Bush administration officials fruitlessly sought a diplomatic solution to get the al-Qaida leader out of Afghanistan, a federal panel reported Tuesday. Not until the day before the attacks did U.S. officials settle on a strategy to overthrow the Taliban Afghan government in case a final diplomatic push failed. That strategy was expected to take three years, the independent commission investigating the attacks said in one of two preliminary reports. Separately, President Bush said he would have acted more quickly "had my administration had...