"This is the first empirical evidence I've seen that conclusively links al-Qaida with the drug trade," said Bruce Hoffman, a terrorism expert at RAND, a think tank that often does work for the Pentagon.
Military officials would not say Friday why they believed the boat, its cargo and some of its crew were linked to Osama bin Laden's terrorist network.

About 60 percent of the village's thousand or so men were arrested and questioned. "We had number 6's father, Saddam's first cousin, quite a cast of characters that are town elders," Lt. Col. Steve Russell of the Fourth I.D. told NEWSWEEK.

Adnan Pachachi, a leading member of the Governing Council, was engaged in a shouting match with Saddam when Pachachi was interrupted for a congratulatory phone call from President Bush on Sunday morning in Iraq.
mred - oh yeah.

The military must still capture Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri, Saddam's redheaded No. 2 (he is said to resemble Krusty the Clown)

In the aftermath of Saddam's arrest and the media-hype which followed, many in the Arab world believe that Saddam was not in fact arrested on Saturday, December 13, but at least ten days beforehand, and arguments raised in defense of this notion are surely worth mentioning.

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As New York Times columnist William Safire argued last December 7, "Iraqgate is uniquely horrendous: a scandal about the systematic abuse of power by misguided leaders of three democratic nations to secretly finance the arms buildup of a dictator."
Safire had been on the case since 1989, turning out slashing op-ed pieces. But readers of the Times's news pages must have wondered where Safire's body-blows were coming from, since the news columns contained almost nothing about Iraqgate for the longest time.And it emphasized the striking fact -- buried deep in a 1991 Washington Press piece -- that Secretary of State James Baker, after meeting with Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz in October 1989, intervened personally to support U.S. government loan guarantees to Iraq.

"At worst, that support was a frightening exercise in capitalistic opportunism (we made money both supporting and attacking Hussein). . . ."

Without notification to foreign media outlets, the immigration and customs people are arresting, detaining, and deporting journalists arriving here without special visas. This is so even when they come from nations whose citizens can stay for up to 90 days without a visa if they are arriving as tourists or on business.

Your drunk Uncle George just delivered to the citizens of the United States a lovely, but very expensive and unnecessary gift. And the bill is just beginning to arrive.

Everyone knows that when police officers pick up a suspect, the last thing on their minds is running a complex two-day DNA test to check his ancestry, or to see whether suspect whatshisname might allegedly be predisposed to Alzheimer’s or some other quasi-medical horror. Of course not! If there is the slightest doubt about identity, police officers fingerprint whatshisname, and then compare those prints with incriminating prints from various different crime scenes. Get sufficient identical characteristics or “points” with fingerprinting, and you have the perfect match.

The bottom line is that Cheney, Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld have taken the brakes off a giant million-man Shi’ite war machine called the Mehdi Army, and all Moqtada al-Sadr has to do now to start it rolling, is turn the ignition key. Remember, the Shi’ite Mehdi Army brackets all American exfiltration routes south towards Kuwait, which is the only way out for 110,000+ American servicemen.

The first White House claim of a “Saddam Hussein DNA match” was made less than twelve hours after whatshisname was taken into custody, which is absolutely impossible, but that no longer matters one way or the other. .
It is therefore impossible to believe that these three conspirators could have been unaware of the deadly danger posed by Moqtada al-Sadr’s vengeful million-man Shi’ite Mehdi Army, which has the easy ability to cut large chunks of the American military in Iraq to bloody ribbons, thereby severely “undermining U.S. military resistance” to the Zionist conquest of the Americas.
Put simply, the U.S. political leadership is deliberately undermining the U.S. military, in order to assist in the subordination and partial destruction of the American people.

(apart from baker) Other EDS board members include former congressman William Gray,
also on the J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. Board, and Ray L. Hunt of
Hunt Oil who also sits on the Halliburton Board. Still sitting
on the Halliburton Board after Dick Cheney left to become
Vice-President
is Lawrence Eagleburger former Secretary of State under Bush.
He also sits on the board of Phillips Petroleum along with former
Senator David Boren and Norman R. Augustine who also sits on
the Board of Lockheed Martin. Sitting on of Lockheed Martin is
Frank Savage a board of director on the CFR. The largest number
of members of the CFR from an Oil company come from Chevron.
Chevron has Board Members and CFR members in former Senator J.
Bennet Johnson who also heads the U.S. Pacific Economic Cooperation
Council. Carl Ware is also a member of both Chevron and the CFR,
along with Samuel L. Ginn and Carla Anderson Hills who is also
a CFR director, which brings us to also Richard Matzke who is
also involved in the U.S.-Kazakhstan Business Association. Let
us not forget until recently Condaleeza Rice, the National Security
Advisor, sat on the board of Chevron. It is also of interest
to note that Reagan Secretary of State, George Schultz, now is
in charge of J.P. Morgan's International Council, which is comprised
of international CEO's and makes recommendations on international
policy, George Schultz was also Condaleeza Rice's mentor. Another
among the Oil company former statesmen is Kenneth Duberstein
he was White House Chief of Staff under Reagan and now sits on
the board of Conoco and is a director at the CFR. Another Oil
company with several members in the CFR is Exxon-Mobil. Among
the Exxon and CFR members is Lee Raymond who also is a director
of the National Petroleum Concil. Additionally, we have Helene
Kaplan, James Houghton and Charles Heimbold. Some other interesting
corporate board members is former Sen. Sam Nunn who has a school
of international affairs named after him at Georgia Tech, he
also serves on the board of the Center for Strategic and
International
Studies but importantly serves on the Board of Directors of Texaco,
Coca-Cola and General Electric. And on the defense front we have
former Democratic congressman Vic Fazio who now sits on the board
of directors of Northrop Grumman Corporation, a leading defense
contractor, Vic was a member of the Armed Services Committee.
But even the CIA and Generals can get in on the action as John
Deutch former Director of the CIA now heads up Citigroup, CMS
Energy and Raytheon. And former Chairman of the Joint-Chiefs-of-Staff
General Shalikashvili is a director at George Bush and James
Baker's Carlyle Group owns United Defense Industries.


Recently, however, the government has purged the offending comments by Natsios from the agency's Web site. The transcript, and links to it, have vanished.
After the insurrection in Iraq proved more stubborn than expected, the White House edited the original headline on its Web site of President Bush's May 1 speech, "President Bush Announces Combat Operations in Iraq Have Ended," to insert the word "Major" before combat.

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and USAID have removed or revised fact sheets on condoms, excising information about their effectiveness in disease prevention, and promoting abstinence instead. The National Cancer Institute, meanwhile, scrapped claims on its Web site that there was no association between abortion and breast cancer. And the Justice Department recently redacted criticism of the department in a consultant's report that had been posted on its Web site.

For a while, the agency left telltale evidence by keeping the link to the transcript on its "What's New" page -- but yesterday the liberal Center for American Progress discovered that this link had disappeared, too, as well as the Google "cached" copies of the original page.