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Dutch archaeologists have recently completed the rescue excavation of a unique treasure hoard dating to the beginning of the 5th century AD, from a field in Limburg... According to the Byzantine historian Zosimus, Constantine III tried to re-secure the entire Roman Rhine frontier against Germanic invaders... The historians Orosius and Zosimus tells us that Constantine III solved the problem of the invading Germanic groups by liberal use of the money bag along with developing close alliances to Germanic warlords on both sides of the Rhine... The Echt hoard would therefore have belonged to a Germanic officer in Roman service –...

MIAMI (Reuters) - Guantanamo war crimes prosecutions of five prisoners charged with plotting the September 11 hijacked planes attacks will be delayed by two months because of lost files caused by Pentagon computer problems, U.S. military officials said on Wednesday. A weeklong pretrial hearing had been set to begin on Monday in the death penalty case against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the accused mastermind of the attacks, and four alleged co-conspirators. The judge overseeing the case postponed the hearing until June 17 at the request of defense lawyers who said three to four weeks' worth of their confidential work files had...

Abd al Rahim al-Nashiri, according to the 9-11 commission report, was the mastermind of the Oct. 12, 2000, attack on the U.S.S. Cole that killed 17 U.S. sailors. Nashiri was also the target of an "unauthorized" CIA interrogation technique (that had not been legally vetted by the Justice Department) that is described in a May 7, 2004, CIA inspector general's report that was partially declassified by the Obama administration this week. CIA officers blew smoke in Nashiri's face, according to the report, and they used cigars. The IG's office described this smoke-blowing as one of several "unauthorized or undocumented techniques"...

These Limburger Tie-Priests have done nothing else their whole lives long, than attempt to destroy the Church. Five minutes before their retirement they rebel one last time against their Bishop, who they fear, will institute necessary reforms.

Saudi Wealth Fuels Global Jihadism Posted Oct. 27, 2003 By Kenneth R. Timmerman Generations of Muslims in the Middle East have been raised on the anti-Western, anti-Semitic theologies of Ayatollah Khomeini and in the Saudi Wahhabi system of madrassas (religious schools). This foundation set the stage for the rise of Osama bin Laden. Doaa 'Amer is a professional TV anchor who hosts Muslim Woman Magazine on IQRAA TV, a satellite channel broadcasting throughout the Arab world. As she tells it, her job is to educate the next generation of children to be "true Muslims." Readers accustomed to hearing Islam described...

SANAA (AFP) The appeals court in Sanaa upheld the death sentence against a Yemeni and sentenced to death another who had been jailed over the 2002 bombing of the French oil tanker Limburg and other attacks. Huzam Saleh Mejalli death sentence of last August was confirmed, while Fawaz al-Rabei, who had been given a 10-year jail term, was condemned to death. Both were also convicted of killing a policeman. They are among a group of 15 Yemenis sentenced in August for the Limburg bombing and a series of other attacks. One Bulgarian crew member was killed and 12 other crew...

— MUKALLA, Yemen (Reuters) - A French inspector said after examining the tanker holed and gutted by an explosion off Yemen said on Thursday debris from what could be an attacking boat had been found on the ship. "We found debris of a boat which obviously does not belong to the tanker," Jean-Francois Perrouty told Reuters, noting the debris was made of fiberglass. He said the French foreign ministry will be issuing a communique about the result of the first day of the investigations on Friday morning into what happened to the French-flagged tanker Limburg on Sunday. Asked if the...

WASHINGTON - The blast that punched a hole in a French supertanker off the coast of Yemen on Sunday appears to have occurred within the ship, a senior US State Department official has been quoted as saying. The vessel, carrying 397,000 barrels of crude oil, was set afire by the blast in the Gulf of Aden. 'Indications were that it was an explosion from inside the vessel,' said Mr Richard Boucher, according to CNN. He added that a 'variety' of sources, including French and Yemeni investigators, had drawn that conclusion from the way the vessel looked after the explosion. However,...