Geoff Hoon, told the Royal United Services Institute that he intends to restructure the British armed forces. As "it is highly unlikely that the United Kingdom would be engaged in large-scale combat operations without the United States", the armed forces must now be "structured and equipped" to meet the demands of the wars fought by our ally. Our military, in other words, will become functionally subordinate to that of another nation.

He compared the two. The most recent photo showed a blazing corridor of light running the length of Kuwait, south to north, all the way to the Iraqi border. The image wasn't there on May 3. "

about 15 percent of students are sexually abused by a teacher, principal, janitor or other member of a school's staff. Some reports raise that figure to as high as 27 percent.


a letter that Benjamin Franklin wrote to Pennsylvania Governor Robert Norris:
How odious it must be to a sensible manly people, to find him who ought to be their father and protector, taking advantage of public calamity and distress, and their tenderness for their bleeding country, to force down their throats laws of imposition, abhorrent to common justice and common reason! Why will [he] make himself the hateful instrument of reducing a free people to the abject state of vassalage; of depriving us of those liberties which have given reputation to our country throughout the world?

Mr Hicks responded in Lahore by saying: "I wouldn't believe him, no. You know what Mr Howard's like, I think Howard is working an American trick here to get the population to believe what he says."
It was "ludicrous" for him to suggest that 19 months after Hicks was captured he had admitted to training with al-Qa'ida.