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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...