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When Zaynab Khadr slipped quietly into Toronto on February 17, officials seized her pictures, papers, laptop and cellphone. What they couldn’t seize was whatever the 25-year-old daughter of the Prime Minister Jean Chretien-rescued Ahmed Said Khadr carries about in her head. The late Ahmed Said Khadr, officially identified as Canada’s highest-ranking member of Al Qaeda, was set free from a Pakistani prison, when Prime Minister Jean Chretien intervened on his behalf. During a 1996 state visit to Pakistan, Chretien "aggressively sought guarantees" from the country’s then Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto that Khadr would receive due process and fair treatment. When...

... Zeta's Editor Rafael Poleo says that Chavez’ main problem ... may be that he has so many crises burning simultaneously, that he has no time to worry about ... running the state. Poleo is right and he is wrong. He is right because even if Chavez is really the night owl that he is supposed ... it will be hard for him to juggle all ... he is trying to handle today. He has conflicts about land interventions, company confiscations, the image of hero Danilo Anderson being destroyed, and now the Granda affair. But Poleo is also wrong because...

A dialogue between two important members of the FARC (Colombian revolutionary Armed Forces), appears to be among the evidence submitted by the Colombian authorities to the Venezuelan Government according to Colombia’s Radio Caracol. Here is the translation of the only written report I have seen on the issue, which suggests that more than one hundred members of the FARC guerillas were in Caracas in early December for the II People’s Bolivarian Congress, financed and organized by the Chavez Government.. I had talked to two reporters who had mentioned this to me, but said they could not talk about it and...

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KERRY'S (clinton's*) ENDGAME WHY JOHN KERRY IS DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA   *either, one for the price of two, I say by Mia T, 9.28.04 (viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE) "Iraq is now what it was not before the war--a haven for terrorists.  George Bush made Saddam Hussein the priority.  I would have made Osama bin Laden the priority." John KerryTemple University September 24, 2004   "Iraq... [is] increasingly a magnet for terrorists from all over the world." Susan RiceKerry campaign Senior Advisor for National Security Affairs Rice replaced Sandy 'dox in sox' Berger(scandal-ridden clintonites both) "Well,...

IRAN admitted yesterday that some al-Qaeda operatives behind the 11 September attacks may have passed through the country from Afghanistan - but dismissed as "fabrications" reports from the United States that Tehran may have facilitated the 2001 attacks. "It’s normal that five or six people may have crossed the border within a couple of months without our knowledge ... Our borders are long and it’s not possible to fully control them," Hamid Reza Asefi, a foreign ministry spokesman, told reporters. Mr Asefi was responding to an 11 September Commission report - expected on Thursday - that says Iran may have...

Canada - Terrorist Haven By Stephen Brown FrontPageMagazine.com | December 9, 2002 Bali is closer than we think. The Washington Times reported last week that anti-terror agencies are concerned about the presence of Hezbollah in Canada. America's northern neighbor, they believe, is a "stronghold" for the Islamic terrorist group that is responsible for more than 300 American deaths, including the 1983 attack on the Marine barracks in Beirut. Unbelievably, Hezbollah is not banned in Canada. The Liberal government of Prime Minister Jean Chretien refuses to proscribe this murderous organization because it does social work among Lebanon's poor and has representatives...

<p>Bob Goff, who moved to Nevada seven years ago, may soon be joined by more Californians who want to escape higher taxes.</p> <p>INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. -- Bob Goff made the switch to Nevada seven years ago, leaving behind Silicon Valley for semiretirement in a land of tranquility and natural beauty.</p>

<p>With major corporate responsibility legislation passed, elected officials are turning to a new target -- business tax evaders -- in a scramble to convince voters they are cracking down on corporate wrongdoing.</p> <p>Senate hearings today will touch on the topic, but House members got a head start last week. First, they overwhelmingly approved a corporate responsibility bill drafted largely by Senate Democrats. Then, while debating a less-noticed provision in the president's homeland security proposal, 110 Republican members defied their party's leaders to confront another brand of questionable corporate behavior: companies locating overseas to escape U.S. taxes.</p>