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The world's nuclear weapons watchdog is hiding data on Iran's drive to obtain nuclear arms, senior Western diplomats and Israeli officials told Haaretz. The officials and diplomats said that the International Atomic Energy Agency under Director General Mohamed ElBaradei was refraining from publishing evidence obtained by its inspectors over the past few months that indicate Iran was pursuing information about weaponization efforts and a military nuclear program. ElBaradei, who will soon vacate his post, has said that the

Tucson, AZ -- The activist who recorded tapes of staff members at a Planned Parenthood abortion center in Arizona covering up a potential case of statutory rape have been turned over to local officials. Meanwhile, the abortion business is coming under fire for not apologizing or admitting any wrongdoing in the case.

Our friends at the NEFA foundation have released a translation of a communique from the "Shebaab al-Mujahideen Movement in Somalia" condemning al Jazeera for passing along false information that they condemned piracy off the coast of Somalia. The message from the Shabaab stops short of supporting piracy, but it goes to great lengths in saying that the official position of the al Qaeda affiliated group is that they have not condemned the hijacking of a Saudi oil tanker, which kind of speaks for itself, doesn't it?

According to Nicole Wallace of the McCain campaign, the American people don't care whether Sarah Palin can answer specific questions about foreign and domestic policy. According to Wallace -- in an appearance I did with her this morning on Joe Scarborough's show -- the American people will learn all they need to know (and all they deserve to know) from Palin's scripted speeches and choreographed appearances on the campaign trail and in campaign ads....

(IsraelNN.com) Dr. Wafa Sultan has been forced to go into hiding with her family following a fatwa (religious edict) from an Islamic scholar, according to Omedia. Sultan faces the fatwa following a recent debate on Al-Jazeera in which she challenged Egyptian Islamist Talat Rheim over Dutch cartoons of Mohammed, who Muslims revere as a prophet. Sultan argued that Denmark had the right to print the cartoons. Sultan joins a growing list of public critics of radical Islam facing death threats. Her supporters have asked the American public to join them in writing to the embassy of Qatar, the country which...

I've heard Reverend Wright went to Africa. I found it interesting that there was a big event going on in Uganda over the past week: the Gaddafi National Mosque opened and quite a few tyrants attended the event. There was also an Afro/Arab youth summit taking place at the mosque that gathered over 6,000 delegates from middle eastern nations. Gaddafi gave a few crazy speeches while he was there. I wonder if Wright attended?? Here are a few links describing what went on in Uganda: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7305641.stm http://allafrica.com/stories/200803210005.html http://en.ljbc.net/online/news_details.php?id=2863

The Danish cartoonist who drew Mohammed with a bomb in his turban has been on the move since an alleged plot to kill him was uncovered last year. Kurt Westergaard told the German magazine Der Spiegel that the arrest of three alleged assassins was a "great shock." Since then, he and his wife have changed locations at irregular intervals, staying with children, in vacation homes and for three weeks at a luxury hotel in Arhus. They were evicted after the management decided the couple was putting other guests at risk. The original drawing of the cartoon is in a safe...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders Osama bin Laden and Mullah Mohammad Omar and their top commanders are hiding in Pakistan, posing a "huge challenge" to the security of the country and neighboring Afghanistan, a senior US administration official said Friday. "There is no question that the iconic leaders of Al-Qaeda -- (Ayman al-) Zawahiri, bin Laden ... are in the tribal areas of Pakistan," the official said at a media briefing. "We believe that the Taliban's shura (consultation) council leaders led by Mullah Omar reside in Quetta in Pakistan," he said, referring to the capital of rugged Baluchistan...

The man wanted in the 2005 shooting death of an Army National Guardsman in Murrieta returned to California today after nearly two years hiding in Mexico. Fabian Cayetano Urrea, a 21-year-old Mead Valley man, arrived about 2 p.m. at Murrieta Police Department for questioning and booking on a murder charge for the June 2005 shooting death of Jorge Estrada. The nearly one-and-a-half year hunt for Urrea ended in January, when authorities in Culiacán, Mexico, arrested Urrea at a motorcycle shop at which he worked. "Justice has been delayed, but the victim, a brave American hero, and his family have not...

CAMP TAJI — Coalition forces thwarted an al-Qaeda plot to destroy the Huda Girls’ School in Tarmiyah, said U.S. military officials Thursday. As reconstruction efforts for school systems in Iraq continued, al-Qaeda extremists targeted the Huda Girls’ School in Tarmiyah twice in the past month using improvised explosive devices and building explosives into the school house. "[It was a] sophisticated and premeditated attempt to inflict massive casualties on our most innocent victims," said U.S. Army Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV, the Multi-National Force-Iraq spokesman. Recently, the al-Qaeda plan to destroy the school was disrupted when Soldiers of 2nd “Stallion”...

Sunday August 13, 8:09 PM N. Korea's Kim Jong Il tours stock farm (Kyodo) _ North Korea's reclusive leader Kim Jong Il made recently what many believe is his first public appearance since North Korea was condemned for a series of missile tests in early July. The Korean Central News Agency reported Sunday that Kim visited a stock-breeding center attached to the Korean People's Army Unit 757 and examined the rabbit-breeding and other facilities. "He went round various places of the farm, including rabbit hutches and food-preparing rooms built in a peculiar style to acquaint himself in detail with breeding...

Tehran, Aug. 13: One of Osama bin Laden’s sons, Saad, together with a number of top Al Qaeda commanders, including Seif al Adel, are hiding in Iran and are not in Syria as reported by several Western papers this week, a well informed source said. The source, a top Iranian intelligence official until a few months ago, said Al Qaeda and members of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard, the Pasdaran, are negotiating coordinated actions against the United States and Israel. The Al Qaeda members had been living for the past four years in a neighbourhood in northern Tehran under the surveillance...

/begin my summaryN. Korea: Kim Jong-il Going Underground Again? [Yonhapnews 2006-07-09] N. Korean media failed to report if Kim Jong-il showed up and paid respect at the 12th anniversary of Kim Il-sung's death. (Seoul=Yonhap News) Moon Sung-kyu = Did Kim Jong-il pay respect to his father, the late President Kim Il-sung at Kumsusan Memorial Palace on 12th anniversary of his father's death? N. Korean media reported on July 8th that top leadership of party, cabinet, and military, led by Kim Young-nam, the Chairman of Supreme People's Assembly, showed up at the Kumsusan Memorial Palace, but Kim Jong-il was not on the list of visitors. No news on his...

MALIBU, Calif. (AP) - A paparazzo was arrested Thursday after he was discovered hiding in bushes outside a daycare center attended by Angelina Jolie's adopted son, authorities said. Photographer Clint Brewer, 25, was trying to take pictures of 4-year-old Maddox Jolie-Pitt, according to Cindy Guagenti, a publicist for Jolie's partner, Brad Pitt. Brewer was detained by security shortly before 11 a.m. and the property's owner made a citizen's arrest, said sheriff's Lt. Crystal Miranda. Deputies arrested Brewer on suspicion of trespassing and he was later released on $1,000 bail, officials said. Jolie, Pitt and their children returned to Malibu two...

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is weighing responses to a possible North Korean missile test that include attempting to shoot it down in flight over the Pacific, defense officials told The Associated Press on Tuesday. Because North Korea has made it a practice not to announce its missile tests in advance, U.S. officials say they cannot be sure of the government's intentions. Under that circumstance, the Pentagon is considering the possibility that it might need to attempt an interception, two defense officials said. The officials agreed to discuss the matter only on condition of anonymity because of its political sensitivity....

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration is weighing responses to a possible North Korean missile test that include attempting to shoot it down in flight over the Pacific, defence officials said Tuesday. Because North Korea has made it a practice not to announce its missile tests in advance, U.S. officials say they cannot be sure of the government's intentions. Under that circumstance, the Pentagon is considering the possibility that it might need to attempt an interception, two defence officials told the Associated Press. The officials agreed to discuss the matter only on condition of anonymity because of its political sensitivity....

Iran accused of hiding secret nuclear weapons site By Con Coughlin, Defence and Security Editor (Filed: 12/06/2006) Fresh evidence has emerged that Iran is working on a secret military project to develop nuclear weapons that has not been declared to United Nations inspectors responsible for monitoring Iran’s nuclear programme. Nuclear experts working for the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna are pressing the Iranians to make a full disclosure about a network of research laboratories at a secret military base outside the capital Teheran. The project is codenamed Zirzamin 27, and its purpose is to enable the Iranians to undertake...

NABLUS, West Bank - A Palestinian woman was found Saturday hiding a hand grenade under her baby during a West Bank arrest raid, an Israeli army officer said. But the woman, Aziza Jawabra, said the grenade was in the pocket of her jacket and she did not know it was there. The grenade discovery was made while soldiers searched a house in the town of Assira a-Shimaliya, north of Nablus. Soldiers arrested five fugitives, including Jawabra's husband, Lt. Col. Arik Chen told The Associated Press. The troops also found 22 pounds of explosives hidden in a suitcase in the house,...

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I contributed a little acorn to the 2004 election. I use the acorn metaphor because the outcome of what I did seemed to take on a life of its own and grew beyond any of my expectations. In fact the ripples continue to this day. A brief history of my experience begins in August of 2004. A friend sent me an email about John Kerry’s Navy experiences. I am a Navy veteran so I took a look at the issue. It soon became obvious to me that John Kerry was hiding something about his military experience, so I decided to...

WESTERN IRAQ -- "These Marines are great. America ought to be very proud of its Marines, soldiers, sailors and airmen; they're doing great work out here." So Marine Col. Stephen Davis, the commander of Regimental Combat Team 2 (RCT-2), told me once we had a chance to talk near al Qaim, Iraq. Davis is in charge of Operation Matador, an effort to bring law and order to the bulk of Iraq's vast, western al Anbar province, which makes up one-third of the country. What these Marines are doing now near the Syrian border is what they did months ago in...

A recent Reuters article focused on judicial nominees. The basis of the article was that the liberals had decided to possibly renominate selected nominees to be confirmed provided votes on other selected nominees were not allowed. In other words, we have always been the majority parity, ran Washington, deserve to control, and this is no different. Clinton nominated 9 judges after Bush had been seated but before he left office, this was this first and only time in history any outgoing president had attempted such. Bush withdrew all and later renominated one who was confirmed. Clinton’s confirmation percentage in his...

The purpose of FreeRepublic.com's multiple message boards is to limit the topics for each board to particular topics. Posting the same message on all the boards defeats the purpose of multiple-boards for special topics. It is very annoying to see the same message on every bulletin board. PLEASE! DO THE READERS A FAVOR. STOP CROSS-POSTING YOUR MESSAGES!

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Mark Dayton claimed Wednesday that Republicans left him off a fact-finding trip to Iraq because of partisan politics. Dayton, D-Minn., said he suspected he was left off the Senate Armed Services Committee trip either because Republicans were targeting him for defeat in 2006, or because of his opposition to the war in Iraq.

I have had reports Bin Laden made a deal with China and had been hiding in Turkestan with an agreement to wipe out anti-Beijing rebels in exchange for sanctuary. Have also heard US Special Forces and Pakistani special ops soldiers have been waiting at the border just waiting to pounce after diplomacy arranges an okay to strike across the border. The ten-car convoy was spotted by a couple of cruising Indian Air Force jet pilots, who went in for a closer look. Between October 17 and October 19, an Indian air force reconnaissance plane picked him up in the Tibet-Laddakh...

Is Osama bin Laden alive or dead? And if Osama is alive, where is he? "President Bush knows damn well that (bin Laden) has been dead for quite some time," said former Navy SEAL Matthew Heidt, echoing the sentiments of many in the special operations community. "(Bin Laden) has not been heard from since Tora Bora despite developments in the Global War on Terror that make it unthinkable for him to remain silent," Heidt said in his web log, "Froggy Ruminations." The last audiotape purportedly from bin Laden (but not authenticated) was issued on May 7th of this year. But...

DEMOCRAT John Kerry today takes his quest for votes to the western states of Nevada and Colorado that polls show could be up for grabs in the US presidential contest, as incumbent rival George W. Bush stumps in three eastern battleground states. After addressing supporters in Milwaukee in the morning, Senator Kerry was to fly to Reno, Nevada, and Pueblo, Colorado, in hopes of energising minority voters, his core support base, ahead of the November 2 ballot. Mr Bush will campaign for a second day in Pennsylvania before moving on to Canton, Ohio and Saint Petersburg, Florida. Senator Kerry literally...

It has now been one month and four days since John Kerry last answered questions from a real reporter. Can he go all the way to election day without telling us whether his "searing" memory of being in Cambodia is true? Or why every eyewitness disagrees with his claims of enemy fire during the incident he used to obtain his first Purple Heart? Or why his Silver Star mysteriously has a V for valor, in contradiction to Navy regulations? Or why he won't file form 180 and release his military records? Or why he won't make his journals, which form...

Translation from Hebrew to English by me Arab diplomatic sources in Amman claim that the leadership of Hamas in Damascus have left the city, because of the harshing of the Israeli words coming after the terror attack in Beer-Sheva. Among the terrorist leaders who live in Damascus is Haled Mashal, the head of the political office of the terrorist organization. The newspaper "A-Sherek Al-Oset" reports that a group of Hamas officials have moved to living in Beirut, under the sponsorship of Hizbullah officials, and another group has moved to Qatar. Syrian sources said in response that "there has not been...

MY BROTHER, John Kerry, decided to volunteer to put his life on the line to serve his country in Vietnam. A lot of guys dodged service, but not my brother John. As Bill Clinton pointed out not long ago, when push came to shove, a lot of young men found other alternatives, but not my brother John. He volunteered for service and he went to Vietnam, and by every official US Navy account, he acquitted himself heroically. I watched my brother put his life on the line in service to our country as so many sisters and brothers, parents, and...

The classified reading room is on the 6th floor of the National Archives at College Park complex - the world's largest and most advanced archival facility in the world. The records vaults (each larger than most people's homes) for classified docs are also on that floor, as are the offices for the archivists and technicians who handle them. Employees can go up to that floor, but once there, everything is super-secured. You can't get out of the hall without the proper clearance and magnetic access badge that doubles as your ID badge. At the time, I had a Secret-level...

Cardinal offered sanctuary to admitted molester Cardinal Oscar Rodríguez could be the next pope. He also recently sheltered an admitted child molester. 09:20 AM CDT on Monday, June 21, 2004 By BRENDAN M. CASE and BROOKS EGERTON / The Dallas Morning News TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – A prominent candidate to succeed Pope John Paul II recently sheltered a priest who is an admitted child molester and now an international fugitive, The Dallas Morning News has learned. Cardinal Oscar Rodríguez, who heads the Archdiocese of Tegucigalpa, put the Rev. Enrique Vásquez to work in two remote parishes from last year until...

Why the Right Will Lose Conservative (right) or Liberal (left) are the terms given to the two opposing factions of society today. Neither one is accurate. The difference between the two sides is actually one of emotion. The left sees nothing as binary, except those who disagree with nothing being binary. There is no right and there is no wrong. There are no absolutes. The right sees nothing but binary, including those who disagree. There is right and there is wrong and there are choices every step of the way. Absolute choices. The reason for the difference is one of...

Iraqi police captured another of the 55 most wanted members of Iraq's former regime today in Baghdad. The police force's emergency response unit arrested Muhammad Zimam abd al- Razzaq al-Sadun, No. 41 on the Iraqi "Top 55" most wanted list, at about 2 p.m. local time (6 a.m. EST) in a home in Baghdad's Saydea district. He was hiding in an upstairs room, a Combined Joint Task Force 7 news release reported. The arrest followed an Iraqi police investigation and a series of coordinated raids. A former Baath Party regional chairman, al-Sadun was turned over to coalition officials and is...

<p>KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Osama bin Laden is alive and may be hiding somewhere along the Afghan border, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Saturday.</p> <p>Also, a statement purportedly from fugitive Taliban chief Mullah Omar accused the U.S.-backed Afghan government of destroying Islamic values in Afghanistan and said the hardline movement soon would triumph over U.S forces.</p>

VERY MOVING....prepare for TEARS.....Mohammed has been in hiding here in the US in Seattle area.....now can return to Iraq as the Lawyer he was trained to be.... http://www.komotv.com/qt/kvi/mohammed.mp3

ADWAR, Iraq - (KRT) - Saddam Hussein was known for his opulent palaces and his love for fine cigars. But the thick-bearded, disheveled ex-strongman that U.S. soldiers captured on Saturday was living in a small mud-brick hut, surrounded by date palm, orange and pomegranate trees, that faced a field of tall, wilted sunflowers. The yard on Monday was strewn with garbage and rusting tools. Chickens and turkeys clucked in a barbed-wire cage outside, and a lone dog sniffed around for food. Inside, the former dictator ate canned ham and tuna and processed cheese. By his bedside, he kept cans of...

Shin Bet chief Avi Dichter told the Cabinet at its weekly meeting Sunday that Hamas leaders are spending 90 percent of their time in hiding and only 10 percent on planning terror attacks against Israel. Dichter also told the Cabinet that the Shin Bet would be beefing up security at official Israeli institutions abroad due to the growing terrorist threat. Meanwhile, security routines and measures have been updated at embassies, consulates, EL AL branches and other "sensitive" sites, Army Radio reported. "Hamas chiefs spend 90% of their time hiding and 10% of their time planning attacks," Dichter said. "They are...

Media's Focus After Interim Report Surprises Top Arms Inspector By John D. Banusiewicz American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Oct. 5, 2003 – The man leading the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq expressed surprise here today that media reports focused mainly on what his team has yet to find and not on what it has turned up so far after his Oct. 2 interim report to Congress. David Kay, chief U.S. arms inspector, told host Tony Snow on the "Fox News Sunday" that while his team indeed has yet to find illicit weapons, "I'm sort of amazed that...

INDIANA — A high school senior was suspended and prohibited from participating in his graduation ceremony for hiding a vulgar word in a student newspaper article. Lawrence Central High School administrators handed down the punishment to Drew LaMar after he used the first letter of every paragraph in his May 20 column in the Cub Reporter to spell out a message directed at the newspaper adviser, Elizabeth Granger. School officials said the message, "F**k Granger," was not protected speech. According to Dennis LaMar, Drew's father, school administrators said they did not notice the message until they overheard a conversation between...

Saddam is hiding near Baghdad, says exiled spy chief By Patrick Cockburn in Samarra, Iraq 14 July 2003 Saddam Hussein and Ali Hassan al-Majid, also known as Chemical Ali, are hiding in an area of farmland and small villages on the Tigris river between Baghdad and the city of Samarra, says a former senior Iraqi intelligence officer. General Wafiq al-Samarrai, head of Iraqi military intelligence before he went into exile, is assisting American forces in the hunt for Saddam. He said the deposedleader had been able to escape capture because the area was heavily populated and had thick vegetation. "He...

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In the wake of the Saudi bombings, the United States has broken off talks indefinitely with Iran because of Intelligence indicating that Al Qaeda operatives have taken refuge in the Islamic Republic.Los Angeles Times report this morning (registration required)

Russia denies that he is in the building, but will not 'confirm or deny' to the cameras about whether they are helping Saddam in Baghdad..

From bugging inspectors to hiding papers in mosques, Iraq is said to be running rings round the UN, writes Nicholas Rufford Downing Street has assembled a document designed to paint a picture of Saddam Hussein’s regime systematically deceiving United Nations weapons inspectors. The unpublished briefing portrays an operation by Saddam’s security services that is running rings around United Nations inspection teams. It claims spies monitor the UN teams’ every move and conversation, enabling incriminating material to be moved from any facility about to receive a visit from the inspectors. In a phrase that seems to have been crafted more by...

PARIS - Jewish parents tell their sons not to wear yarmulkes. A rabbi is stabbed while preparing for a Sabbath service. Elderly women are frisked before entering synagogues - just in case. As the stresses of being Jewish in France multiply, some feel it safer to hide their religion. Others have decided the only solution is to pack up and leave. Statistics released this week by the Jewish Agency, the body that arranges immigration to Israel, show that 2,326 French Jews emigrated to Israel in 2002, more than double the number of a year earlier. French arrivals were a mere...

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUN JAN 05, 2003 19:25:38 ET XXXXX WHITE HOUSE ANGER AT BOOK BY BUSH 'AXIS OF EVIL' SPEECHWRITER; CONCERN MEDIA TOUR WILL MUDDLE MESSAGE; FRUM DESCRIBES PRESIDENT AS 'TART' **World Exclusive** Former Bush speechwriter David Frum -- credited with the phrase 'Axis of Evil' -- has infuriated top officials at the White House with his controversial new book, the first insider account of the W. Bush Administration, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. Frum helped make international headlines when President Bush's 2002 State of the Union address linked international terrorists to Iran, Iraq and North Korea. But...

Iraq accused of hiding truth about missing US pilot By David Usborne in New York 23 August 2002 The United States has accused Iraq of witholding information about a US Navy pilot who was declared killed in action on the first day of the Gulf War in 1991 but who has since been redesignated by the Pentagon as possibly still living and missing in action. The unexpected diplomatic attack, delivered by America's ambassador to the UN at a meeting of the United Nations Security Council, represents a new level for Washington's anti-Iraq rhetoric. Mystery has long surrounded the fate of...

Al-Qa'ida chiefs are hiding in Iraq, US claims By Andrew Buncombe in Washington 22 August 2002 A number of senior al-Qa'ida figures have taken refuge inside Iraq and are being sheltered by Saddam Hussein, the United States government claimed yesterday. The claim came as George Bush met his senior military advisers in Texas and said the removal of the Iraqi President was "in the interests of the world". Unnamed government officials said senior figures of Osama bin Laden's organisation had entered the country after the US-led military operation in Afghanistan and their presence had been noted in a series of...

FBI on the lookout for 2 Arab women ISLAMABAD, June 05 (PNS): A special team of United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is searching for two Arab women in the federal capital, who are believed to be wives of detained Al-Qaida men, who could provide useful information about Osama Bin Laden and other Al-Qaida fighters. Investigation carried out by PNS revealed that FBI had recently detained two fugitives of Al-Qaida from Chinese province of Sinkiang and Karghiztan. During investigation, both Al-Qaida men informed FBI about the presence of their wives some where in Islamabad. Well-informed sources disclosed that...