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BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Al Jazeera is reporting that American and Israeli flags are being burned in London. Israeli and US flags being burned in London according to Al Jazeera. We know that the University of Texas has evacuated their campus after a phoned-in bomb threat from Al-Qaeda. No bombs were found. Fargo, North Dakota, state university has ordered all employees and students off campus after receiving a bomb threat. But everything's okay because I got an e-mail from the Obama campaign. Ambassadors are being murdered, former SEALs are dying, embassies are burning across the Middle East, but don't worry, we...

Baghdad leaders reveal that coup plot duped MI6 Julie Flint explains how rumours of Saddam's overthrow caused British intelligence to miss vital information about Iraq's weapons programme British intelligence took its eyes off Saddam Hussein's weapons programmes because it had been duped into believing a military coup would leave Sunni Muslims in power in Iraq. Sources in the country say what they missed was a push to convert chemical and biological organisms into dry agents that could be hidden until pressure on the regime was lifted. 'From the second half of 2000, the focus of the British was not on...

Austrians Doubt Schwarzenegger's Memories VIENNA, Austria (AP) - Historians criticized Arnold Schwarzenegger for telling the Republican National Convention that he left a ``socialist'' country when he moved away in 1968, noting that Austria had conservative leaders during the entire time he lived there.''

ByTimothy Noah Posted Friday, Sept. 3, 2004, at 3:56 PM PT When I was a boy, the Soviets occupied part of Austria. I saw their tanks in the streets. I saw communism with my own eyes. I remember the fear we had when we had to cross into the Soviet sector. Growing up, we were told, "Don't look the soldiers in the eye. Look straight ahead." It was a common belief that Soviet soldiers could take a man out of his own car and ship him off to the Soviet Union as slave labor. My family didn't have a car...

<p>WAYNE, N.J. — Roy Frank has a master’s degree in business and years of experience in the chemical and telecommunications industries. But these days, he sells men’s suits at Macy’s, earning less than half of what he used to before a small consulting firm laid him off earlier this year. And if you ask him, the tax cuts President Bush insists will jump-start the economy are no help.</p>