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D.C. Council members have long distributed to family and friends special license plates that have accrued more than $20,000 in city parking fines, which the plate owners likely will not have to pay. Since the early 1970s, council members and the mayor have bestowed the license plates -- which feature low numbers -- as political prizes. The 13 council members have exempted themselves from parking restrictions and fines since 2001. When lawmakers leave office, the plates they have distributed are supposed to be returned to the city to be reassigned to new officials. However, the tickets owed on those plates...

State hiring altered amid U.S. probe June 5, 2006 BY CHRIS FUSCO AND DAVE MCKINNEY Staff Reporters Shortly after federal investigators launched a probe into Gov. Blagojevich's hiring practices, his administration overhauled the way it awards state jobs, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned

The trio of Muslim men in a Washington, D.C., hotel room never noticed the tiny camera hidden by the FBI. As their conversation in 2002 turned toward raising money for their group -- which agents suspected of promoting fundamentalist Islam in Iraq -- a New York doctor mentioned a friend, a poor but devout Muslim always coming up with money-making schemes. "One of the brothers from Toledo, Marwan El-Hindi, called me several times and told me that you are able to get federal grants," the doctor, Rafil Dhafir, said. "And it is large grants..." ...The pudgy, bushy-bearded father of seven...

Bin Laden and Iraq FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | July 14, 2003 | Anonymous Posted on 07/15/2003 8:43:03 PM EDT by Mia T Bin Laden and Iraq By Anonymous FrontPageMagazine.com | July 14, 2003 I decided to look back to 1999 to see what links there may have been between Saddam and OBL. I found hundreds of articles. Here are condensed summaries of some of the more relevant ones.ÝÝI wonder why no one is talking about these articles and links today. - - - - - The Herald (Glasgow, Scotland), December 28, 1999. Iraq tempts bin Laden to attack West Exclusive. By:...

1999 ABC News Report : The Osama - Hussein Connection Radio America ^ | January 1999 | ABC News 1999 ABC News Report : The Osama - Hussein Connection http://www.radioamerica.org/audio/MR_ABC-Osama-Hussein-connections.mp3 Here is a transcript of the linked MP3 file. -- Sheila MacVicar, ABC News, January 14, 1999 '". . . [Mamdouh Mahmud] Salim, alleged to be a key military advisor and believed to be privy to bin Laden's most secret projects, is also apprehended. The US government alleges that he was under secret orders to procure enriched uranium for the purpose of developing nuclear weapons. These are allegations bin Laden...

VATICAN CITY, JUNE 17, 2005 (Zenit.org).- Thanks to a recent connection to the European research and education network, the Vatican Web page is now faster and able to support more visitors at the same time. The Vatican page now has a 100-megabits-per-second direct connection to GARR, the Italian information network, which is connected to GÉANT2, the Pan-European high-speed Internet research and education network. By this agreement, the material of the Vatican Library and of pontifical university libraries will be easily accessible to the research and education community. Father Fernando Vérgez, director of the Holy See's Internet office, told ZENIT that...

During the 9/11 congressional hearings a year ago, there was a common question that the commissioners seemed to enjoy asking: Why was the U.S. not on “war footing” when the 9/11 attack occurred? If the government truly wanted to seek all information regarding intelligence failures leading up to 9/11, the Commission should have asked one of its own members about the Oklahoma City bombing that killed 171 lives a decade ago on April 19, 1995. In one of the biggest cover-ups in the history of the U.S., the federal government purposely avoided investigating incriminating evidence of a plot that pointed...

Americans are so busy keeping up with events in the Middle East that we do not realize how much things have been changing in our own "neighborhood." That would be a grave mistake on our part because – in the long run -- the Caribbean and South and Central America are as important to our national interest and even to our winning the War on Terrorism. A Latin America led by Cuba's Castro and Venezuela's Chavez and Brazil's Lula appears ready to plunge that continent back into the mayhem and socialism that made life there so miserable. Given that the...

John Ashcroft has resigned as Attorney General, under fire in the media for supposedly violating the human rights of terror suspects. But perhaps he didn't crack down hard enough and fast enough. Consider the case of a "well-respected" leader of the Muslim community, a scholar who befriended Jews, a peacemaker who worked for years towards inter-faith understanding and a better community. On January 13, 2003, however, Cleveland cleric Fawaz Damra was arrested by the FBI at his Cleveland area home and charged with lying on his citizenship application by not disclosing a previous arrest and ties to terrorist groups. Damra...

Why Won’t Kerry Release Military Record? Written by JB Williams ©2004-10-26 John Kerry and his minions say Bush won’t own up to his “bad decisions”, but its becoming glaringly obvious that this perverted mantra is nothing more than a feeble attempt to cover up the fact that John Kerry won’t own up to his despicable life! The mainstream press has sheltered Kerry from questions surrounding his self-proclaimed hero status from day one, so many in America are left to speculate about John Kerry’s traitor status… Despite repeated demands for John Kerry to authorize the release of his military records by...

Connecting the Dots: Saddam Hussein and 9/11 Gregory Borse October 18, 2004 - Let us stipulate that investigators in Iraq, whether under the auspices of the United Nations or the United States, have faced an uphill battle in getting accurate information regarding Saddam Hussein’s compliance with the resolutions imposed upon his regime following the Gulf War in 1991. The Duelfer Report has made clear that Hussein’s early efforts were to play hide-and-seek with weapons inspectors, in the belief that the sanctions would not last. By 1996 it seems to have become clear to the dictator that the sanctions were not...

Kerry said on 9/21 during a campaign speech that we now know there were no connections between Al Qaeda and Iraq. He must not have read the Senate Intelligence Committee Report or the 9/11 Commission Report, both of which cited the many connections between Iraq and AQ. A high ranking Iraqi fedayeen soldier attended at least one pre planning 9/11 meeting with AQ. Saddam knew 9/11 was coming and where we were going to be hit. Even the Clinton Justice Department was able to obtain an indictment against OBL which cited the terrorist's ties to Iraq. A federal judge has...

Rather of See BS delivered the “Bombshell” of proof that the Presidents National Guard documents are indeed authentic. Rather said this morning, “it’s almost funny, the evidence is right on the document itself.” He is referring to the date that is type on the National Guard documents. Rather follow with, “don’t get lost in the minor details like the font, addresses, or witnesses that deny the letters are legit. Just look at the date printed on the paper it proves that President Bush is a republican liar, the Kerry campaign is backing me up on this. After all, think about...

Putin: Russia Gave Bush Iraq Intelligence NewsMax Wires Friday, June 18, 2004 ASTANA, Kazakhstan -- Russia gave the Bush administration intelligence after the September 11 attacks that suggested Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq was preparing attacks in the United States, President Vladimir Putin said Friday. Putin said he couldn't comment on how critical the Russians' information was in the U.S. decision to invade Iraq. He said Russia didn't have any information that Saddam's regime had actually been behind any terrorist acts. "After Sept. 11, 2001, and before the start of the military operation in Iraq, the Russian special services, the...

In an effort to put in one place all the reasons why I/we think that Saddam Hussein worked actively with Osama Bin Laden, I am starting a thread which can be saved and added to over time. We know Saddam worked with the PLO and other terrorists, he funded them. He at LEAST knew that 9/11 was coming. less than two months before 9/11/01, the state-controlled Iraqi newspaper “Al-Nasiriya” carried a column headlined, “American, an Obsession called Osama Bin Ladin.” (July 21, 2001) In the piece, Baath Party writer Naeem Abd Muhalhal predicted that bin Laden would attack the US...

http://www.virtualinformation.com/ebay_images/ctv1lg.jpg I'm trying to connect my PC to my TV. I can't get that to work unfortunitly. If there are any PC experts, can anyone explain what that bottom right connector (next to the audio jack connector) goes to? It looks like it would go to something like what a mouse/keyboard uses, but I don't see anything spare like that on my PC. Many thanks for your help.

DoD Statement on News Reports of al-Qaida and Iraq Connections News reports that the Defense Department recently confirmed new information with respect to contacts between al-Qaida and Iraq in a letter to the Senate Intelligence Committee are inaccurate. A letter was sent to the Senate Intelligence Committee on October 27, 2003 from Douglas J. Feith, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, in response to follow-up questions from his July 10 testimony. One of the questions posed by the committee asked the Department to provide the reports from the Intelligence Community to which he referred in his testimony before the Committee....

<p>March 28, 2003 -- Al Qaeda fighters may be in southern Iraq, coordinating grenade and gun attacks on British forces in a town near Basra, it was reported last night.</p> <p>The information we have received from POWs today is that an al Qaeda cell may be operating in Az Zubayr. There are possibly around a dozen of them," a British military source in Iraq told a reporter for The Scotsman.</p>

Mid Section of the contry is forceast for a foot of snow or more for tomorrow, the second biggest travel/shopping day of the year.Could play havoc with flights and car transportation, looks like it will be worst around Oklahoma and Missouri

It's now official: The PA's Preventative Security Service is a terrorist organization. IDF Gaza Commander Brig.-Gen. Yisrael Ziv said as much today after the IDF raid on the organization's Gaza headquarters last night. In addition to much ammunition and weapons, the Israelis found there large amounts of intelligence information on Jewish communities and IDF army bases in the region. Defense Minister Sha'ul Mofaz, congratulating the army this morning on its success, emphasized that it has proven once again the strong link between the Palestinian Authority security services and terrorist organizations such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad. The attack in Gaza...