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Inquiry and Analysis Series - No. 197 November 19, 2004 No.197 Anti-American Ba'th Activities in ParisBy: Dr. Nimrod Rapaheli* Introduction With the defeat of the Saddam Hussein regime on April 9, 2003, the Ba'th ruling party was outlawed and a committee for the de-Ba'thification of Iraq was established. [1] However, the Ba'th's propaganda machine appears to have found a new abode in Paris, France, whence threats to the U.S. are issued regularly in three languages - English, French, and Spanish. Not surprisingly, the Ba'thist propagandists use the word "resistance" (in French, "la resistance") to underscore the association with the...

Translation from Hebrew to English by me Mohamed El-Masry, a professor at a Canadian university and the president of the Canadian Islamic Congress will not be punished for his words against Israel, the university has said. El-Masry said during a TV program that every Israeli over the age of 18 is a legitimate target for terror. Prof and president of Islamic congress won't be disciplined: university http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2004/11/17/718908-cp.html WATERLOO, Ont. (CP) - A University of Waterloo professor who is also the president of the Canadian Islamic Congress won't be disciplined for controversial comments he made about Israelis, the university announced Wednesday....

As many as 1,600 insurgents in Fallujah were killed so rapidly that streets were littered with 'alarming' number of bodies...(no article linked yet)

The Israeli Cabinet has decided in principle to allow Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat to be buried in Ramallah. Three earthmoving trucks arrived at the Mukata on Wednesday afternoon to prepare for his burial. Interior Minister Avraham Poraz said Israel would permit a "respectful" funeral and be careful not to "upset" Palestinian feelings. "We have no desire to provoke the Palestinian street or the Arab world, or the rest of the world," Poraz said. "So when the man dies, we have to allow them to mourn him. In their eyes he's a hero." A farewell ceremony for Arafat will be...

Israel: Ramallah burial not ruled out, but Gaza preferred By KHALED ABU TOAMEH Although Palestinian Authority leaders insisted Tuesday night that Yasser Arafat was still clinging to life, PA officials have already announced their decision to bury the chairman in Ramallah. On Tuesday, officials said Arafat will be buried in his Mukata compound, expressing hope that he would later be reburied in Jerusalem. The choice of the Ramallah headquarters appears to defuse possible confrontation with Israel, as Israel had said in past days it would not allow a Jerusalem burial. Continuehttp://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1099973628375

In this very important time in the run-up to the election ... can I please have your dog food recommendations?

Family pet was eaten, police told BY MICHAEL FRAZIER Posted on Saturday, June 14, 2003 Police were looking for two men Friday in the gruesome killing of a 5-year-old dog that authorities suspect was grilled and eaten. Capt. Scott Roper of the Jonesboro Police Department would not confirm a police report that indicated a man ate the 50-pound chow, whose paws and other body parts were found simmering on a grill. "How could they be so cruel to an animal that we’ve had since he was a baby," said June Kemp, whose 20-year-old son, Jared, owned the rust-colored chow named...

Gore being interviewed (on tape) by Leslie Stahl, announces he will not run for the 2004 democratic presidential nomination.Those of you on the West coast, be sure to see the beginning when Bill Clinton is featured in a teaser for anothe story--the sore on his mouth is frightening!

<p>December 5, 2002 -- MAYBE it's just wishful thinking, but the December buzz among Dems is starting to be that maybe, just maybe, Al Gore will bow out of the 2004 presidential race and deprive Republicans of their dream race - a Bush-Gore rematch.</p>

<p>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) --  Al Gore harshly criticized President Bush's push for war against Iraq, saying Monday that it weakens America's effort to combat terrorism and forever could damage the nation's standing in the world.</p> <p>"After Sept. 11, we had enormous sympathy, goodwill and support around the world," Gore said. "We've squandered that, and in one year we've replaced that with fear, anxiety and uncertainty, not at what the terrorists are going to do but at what we are going to do."</p>

Al Gore. State election officials ultimately declared George W. Bush the winner by a margin of 537 votes, but during and after the election dispute, questions remained about the uncounted ballots of 175,010 voters, ballots that had been rejected by error-prone tabulating machines employed in many Florida counties. Confusion and conflict, much of it generated by partisan intrigue, prevented these ballots from being counted during the election controversy. However, in 2001 every uncounted ballot was carefully examined in a scientific study by the University of Chicago, which concluded that when all the votes were counted, more votes had been cast...

<p>SEN. JOE LIEBERMAN, D-Conn., is worried about former Vice President Al Gore. Lieberman thinks that Gore came across as too anti-rich when they ran for the White House in 2000. And he thinks Gore is overly hostile toward business now, as they're eyeing each other and a new bid for the White House in 2004.</p>