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EDMONTON -- Corrections Canada won't let guards at maximum-security prisons wear stab-proof vests because it sends a confrontational "signal" to prisoners, says a department spokesman. "If you have that kind of presence symbolized by (a stab-proof vest), you're sending a signal to the prisoner that you consider him to be a dangerous person," said Tim Krause. "It interferes with what we call 'dynamic security.' We want staff to talk to prisoners, to see how they're doing." At Stony Mountain Institution only guards in the emergency response unit are allowed to wear the stab-proof vests, said unit manager Linda Garwood-Filbert. The...

BOSTON, MA (March 21, 1995) - Soil samples taken in 1992 from bomb craters near a Kurdish village in northern Iraq by a team of forensic scientists contained trace evidence of the nerve gas GB, also known as Sarin. This is the same lethal chemical agent identified in the Tokyo incidents of March 19. In 1988, shortly after the ceasefire that ended the Iran - Iraq war, the government of Saddam Hussein launched a major military offensive against the Kurds in northern Iraq, sending tens of thousands of refugees fleeing into southeastern Turkey. Six weeks later, in October 1988, a...

Viet Vet charges urges Kerry to come clean Vietnam Veteran Larry J. O'Daniel has today challenged former fellow officer and veteran, John Forbes Kerry to come clean with charges Kerry has made in the past. O'Daniel, a decorated combat veteran from Vietnam and Phoenix says that the issue is one that the Senator himself has brought on. Senator John Forbes Kerry is attempting to be our generation's Vietnam War hero, much the same way his avowed idol, John F. Kennedy was of that generation. Kerry falls short in many ways. I do not deny his heroism under fire. His Silver...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House has provided documentary evidence that President Bush completed his National Guard service during the Vietnam War, but Democrats are still demanding proof he reported for duty as ordered in Alabama. "The president recalls serving both when he was in Texas and when he was in Alabama," White House spokesman Scott McClellan said Tuesday, holding up a 13-page packet of military records. "We have provided you these documents that show clearly that the president of the United States fulfilled his duties and that is the reason that he was honorably discharged from the National Guard."...

<p>PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — NASA's Spirit rover traveled 300 million miles to search for evidence that frozen, dry Mars was once a wetter planet capable of supporting life. But scientists now say their best chance for finding that evidence may be out of the robot's range.</p>

What Weapons of Mass Destruction Evidence Have We Found In Iraq? Excerpts from David Kay's Report by Dan Masterson October 4, 2003 If your where to listen to the talking heads on the various mainstream media outlets, or read the commentary and reporting in the mainstream newspaper, it would seem that Saddam had repented of his previous weapons of mass destruction sins and had begun to emulate the life of Mahatma Ghandi. The following are excerpts from David Kay’s testimony to the House and Senate Committees. They may not have found a “Fat Man” sitting in Saddam’s kitchen (neither Saddam...

Seems the American news media is groping in the dark as to whether or not the sudden Presidential visit to Iraq was nothing more than grand-standing and, at best, a dishonest, misleading adventure. However, their attempts in this effort seem to be rather subjective and clearly based on political biases.I hereby propose the establishment of clear 'performance parameters' as to whether in fact this sudden and historic 2003 Thanksgiving Day trip by the President of the United States was a 'success' or not. Objective parameters lie solely in whether THE TRIP HAD A POSITIVE, A NEGATIVE OR A NEUTRAL...

"When I left office, there was a substantial amount of biological and chemical material unaccounted for. That is, at the end of the first Gulf War, we knew what he had. We knew what was destroyed in all the inspection processes and that was a lot. And then we bombed with the British for four days in 1998. We might have gotten it all; we might have gotten half of it; we might have gotten none of it. But we didn't know. So I thought it was prudent for the president to go to the U.N. and for the U.N....

Police expert claims Bigfoot 'proof' Much bigfoot evidence turns out to be fake A forensic expert in the US believes he has some of the strongest evidence yet that the Bigfoot, or sasquatch, creature exists. The creatures are real enough to those who say they have spotted them - but most scientists remain sceptical about their existence. Investigator Jimmy Chilcutt of the Conroe Police Department in Texas, who specialises in finger and footprints, has said he believes he is certain around six footprints found - claimed to have been made by Bigfoot - are genuine. He added that one 42...

...That is why is important to remember why we fight in Iraq -- and who we fight. Indeed, many of those sniping at U.S. troops are al Qaeda terrorists operating inside Iraq. And many of bin Laden's men were in Iraq prior to the liberation. A wealth of evidence on the public record -- from government reports and congressional testimony to news accounts from major newspapers -- attests to longstanding ties between bin Laden and Saddam going back to 1994. Those who try to whitewash Saddam's record don't dispute this evidence; they just ignore it. So let's review the evidence,...

Evidence of Iraq's pre-war weapons of mass destruction program would emerge, John Howard maintained yesterday, despite a new report that found no trace of chemical or biological weapons. The Prime Minister was responding to a BBC report that suggested the body searching for evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq had so far found little or no evidence. An interim report by the Iraq Survey Group, which involves 1400 weapons inspectors, found no evidence of weapons laboratories, any means of delivering WMD and little infrastructure, according to the BBC. This is despite pre-war claims that Saddam Hussein could deploy...

Dead scientist revealed Iraq dirty bomb By Nicholas Rufford / The Sunday Times London - David Kelly, the British weapons expert at the centre of the Iraq dossier row, had amassed firm evidence to show that Saddam Hussein built and tested a "dirty bomb." Designed to cause cancer and birth defects, the radiological weapon could have been used by terrorists to create panic and widespread contamination in a crowded city. Kelly, who committed suicide last month, presented evidence of the bomb to the government in 1995 and recommended to Foreign Office officials that it feature in the government's intelligence dossier...

Even though far worse things are routinely shown on network television, as the Washington Post's Tom Shales notes, CBS anchorman Dan Rather turned squeamish about showing the photos of Uday and Qusay Hussein's bodies. "We've had three discussions today about this," a rattled Rather told the Post. "We will put some of the pictures on, not all. "I don't feel good about it, but I don't see how we could meet our journalistic responsibility and meet the competitive aspects of what we do and not put them on." In other words, "journalistic responsibility," something that never before mattered to lefty...

A U.S. military official said "facial reconstruction" was used to repair wounds, particularly to the face of the elder son Uday, which had disfigured the bodies shown originally to the public in photographs taken by soldiers after the battle. An uncharacteristic beard on the body of Qusay, seen in those U.S. pictures, had been shaved off, leaving a mustache. Inside the tent, U.S. officials said it was standard practice to use morticians putty to prepare bodies for viewing and was not intended to fool the Iraqi people. But while it may be common in the United States, the move is...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Striving to convince fearful Iraqis that Saddam Hussein's sons are dead, U.S. officials showed Reuters and other journalists two bodies Friday that Washington says it is certain are those of Uday and Qusay. But unlike grisly, blood spattered photographs published by the U.S. military earlier, the faces had been touched up and shaved to make them more closely resemble the brothers in life -- a U.S. official insisted the aim was not to deceive. About 15 journalists saw two corpses laid out in a tented military morgue. They did look like the two brothers, whom U.S. troops...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- The U.S. military showed reporters the bodies of Odai and Qusai Hussein on Friday and said each body contained more than 20 bullet wounds. The faces had been partly reconstructed to appear as lifelike as possible. The display of the bodies, seen by an Associated Press reporter, came after still photographs released Thursday failed to convince many Iraqi civilians the brothers were really dead. Odai's beard had been trimmed to the length he had worn it in life. Qusai's beard was shaved off and he had only a mustache -- his trademark. The faces appeared waxy...

<p>The Bush administration released photographs yesterday of the mangled corpses of Uday and Qusai Hussein in a blunt message to the Iraqi people that the brutal brothers &#8212; and their regime &#8212; are indeed dead.</p> <p>After debating the issue Wednesday inside the administration, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said yesterday that he took the extraordinary step based on one important calculation: convincing Iraqis that Saddam Hussein's regime is not coming back may ease the fears of people willing to turn in insurgents who are attacking U.S. troops.</p>

<p>Vice President Dick Cheney yesterday said critics of the U.S.-led war in Iraq, now at a safe distance from the danger posed by Saddam Hussein, are trying to cast doubt on the effort by ignoring years of intelligence that proved the dictator was a present danger to America.</p>

Unless the ghosts of Uday and Qusay Hussein walk hand-in-hand through Baghdad, many Iraqis will refuse to believe they are dead. On the streets of the capital, the release of macabre photographs of the two corpses was greeted with deep scepticism. After suffering decades of propaganda under Saddam Hussein, many people refuse to believe anything they learn from any news media. Instead, they believe reliable information comes only from word of mouth, passed on from friends and relatives. This provides fertile ground for the wildfire spread of rumour and conspiracy theory. Less than 48 hours after the deaths of the...

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