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SANTA ANA — An Orange County woman said in an expose that aired last night that her ex-husband is a Muslim extremist who helped set up an al Qaeda sleeper cell in their Anaheim apartment complex in the 1990s. Saraah Olson told ABC-TV's "Primetime Live" that her ex-husband, Hisham Diab, beat her, turned a local teenager into a terrorist fanatic, and brought other terrorists into their home. Authorities say the couple's former neighbor, Khalil Deek, is considered a major al Qaeda figure, and is believed to have run the Orange County cell -- one of the first al Qaeda sleeper...

WASHINGTON - An American who has made al-Qaida propaganda videos is charged with aiding terrorists in a secret federal indictment expected to be unsealed soon, the New York Daily News has learned. Adam Yahiye Gadahn, a 28-year-old Californian who now calls himself Azzam al-Amriki, has appeared in four al-Qaida videos. In two of the videos, released since the July 7 anniversary of last year's bombings of London's transit system, he appears with his face uncovered. The federal indictment is expected unsealed in Los Angeles in the next few days, three sources said. It will likely charge Gadahn with giving material...

Published on Sunday, September 14, 2003 by the San Jose Mercury News Seeking Honesty in U.S. Policy by Joseph Wilson Note the following passage: At the request of the administration I traveled to the West African nation of Niger in February 2002 to check out the allegation. I reported that such a sale was highly unlikely, but my conclusions -- as well as the same conclusions from our ambassador on the scene and from a four-star Marine Corps general -- were ignored by the White House

UN probes Wheat Pool Payments of $23.15M made in oil-for-food scandal congressional hearing told Steven Edwards CanWest News Service Saturday, April 30, 2005 UNITED NATIONS -- The Saskatchewan Wheat Pool has emerged as one of the companies involved in Iraq oil-for-food deals now under investigation by a U.S. congressional committee probing the United Nations aid program, which Saddam Hussein manipulated to skim off billions of dollars for himself. The focus on the company comes as the UN announced Friday it had discovered a staff-rule violation by Canadian businessperson and international diplomat Maurice Strong, whose long record at the world body...

CANADIAN FARMERS JAILED FOR SELLING WHEAT Their reports from behind bars Jim Chatenay National Post http://www.nationalpost.com/search/site/story.asp?id=D3779E98-8948-40C2-9955-1C1205EE3521 Todd Korol, National Post Two guards had tears in their eyes, says Jim Chatenay, who turned himself in to authorities on Thursday. PRISONER'S ALMANAC: A REBEL WHEAT FARMER'S FIRST DAY IN JAIL: Jim Chatenay, with his cat Emily on his farm west of Penhold, Alta., went to jail this week to protest the Canadian Wheat Board's monopoly over Western grain growers.: (Photo ran on pg.A1.) Jim Chatenay is one of 13 Alberta farmers who went to jail on Thursday to protest the Canadian Wheat...

October 31, 2002 Trick or Treat? 13 Canadian farmers hauled off to jail in handcuffsby J. L. Jackson www.freedominion.ca It may be Halloween but it isn’t a trick and certainly no treat. On October 31st, thirteen political protesters were handcuffed and sent to jail in Lethbridge, Alberta. These weren’t your average run of the mill anti-globalism, Marxist, hippy type of protesters, however. Believe it or not, these were – farmers. Regular every-day kind of farmers who plant their grain, have coffee in the local coffee shop, buy farm supplies at the local farm supply store and who often buy their...

...for selling grain Farmers 'want to go to jail in the worst way' Wheat Board protest Robert Remington National Post Thursday, October 24, 2002 Dave Chan, National Post Farmers, from left, Jim Ness, Noel Hyslip and Rick Strankman, are prepared to go to jail for selling their wheat in the United States. ADVERTISEMENT CALGARY - In April of 1996, farmer Darren Winczura took a bag of grain across the Alberta border and donated it to a 4-H club in Montana. For that symbolic act of defiance against the Canadian Wheat Board, Mr. Winczura will go to jail next week rather...