"Bush, fortify your targets, tighten your defense, intensify your security measures," the voice warned, "because the fighting Islamic community ? which sent you New York and Washington battalions ? has decided to send you one battalion after the other, carrying death and seeking heaven."

By turning on France in an audiotape broadcast on Dubai-based Al Arabiya television, Zawahri -- identifiable by his voice and rhetorical style -- went beyond now familiar tirades against the United States, Britain, Gulf Arab states and other supporters of last year's U.S.-led invasion of Iraq

MOSCOW -- Russia has successfully tested a hypersonic anti-Star Wars weapon capable of penetrating any prospective missile shield, a senior general said Thursday.
The prototype weapon proved it could maneuver so quickly as to make "any missile defense useless," Col.-Gen. Yuri Baluyevsky, the first deputy chief of the General Staff of the Russian armed forces, told a news conference.

LONDON (AFP) - A secret report prepared by the Pentagon warns that climate change may lead to global catastrophe costing millions of lives and is a far greater threat than terrorism. The report was ordered by an influential US Pentagon advisor but was covered up by "US defense chiefs" for four months, until it was "obtained" by the British weekly The Observer.

Trey Ditto, spokesman for Rep. Mark Foley, Florida Republican and deputy majority whip, said the State Department has advised a delegation of congressmen from South Florida and members of Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's office that Southern Command had begun military exercises for a refugee crisis, including a contingency plan to house 15,000 to 20,000 Haitians at Guantanamo.
"Over two months ago, Mr. Foley was at Guantanamo and noticed there were 15,000 to 20,000 temporary spaces available and it was his feeling that was not enough room if there was a Haitian crisis," Mr. Ditto said.

But Trey Ditto, a spokesman for U.S. Rep. Mark Foley, R-Florida, said a State Department official told a delegation of South Florida congressmen and a representative from Gov. Bush's office that SouthCom had already begun military exercises to plan for a refugee crisis. He said the information was given at a meeting with Mary Ellen Gilroy, director of the Office of Caribbean Affairs, who assured the group that the National Security Council was developing a contingency plan and Guantanamo Naval Station could accommodate 15,000 to 20,000 refugees.

Shocking new details about the death of Dr David Kelly emerged today exclusively on the Alex Jones radio show. Michael Shrimpton, a UK national security lawyer who was a guest on the show, revealed that sources within MI5 and MI6 are `furious' that Kelly was murdered.
Shrimpton spoke in depth about the details of Kelly's murder on 17th July 2003, information which has been withheld by the British press.
With apparent backing from the organisations whose members he claims to speak for, Shrimpton presented their view that Dr Kelly had been murdered by a team of assassins and the charade of an apparent suicide was then played out to cover this up.

Apparently at ease to discuss these explosive disclosures, Shrimpton explained that there was advance knowledge of Kelly's death in Whitehall, but that the deed itself was most likely carried out by the French external security organisation, DGSE. There was no indication that anybody in MI5 or MI6 had been involved. He went further by suggesting that the hit squad itself was composed of Iraqis from the former regime's Mukhabarat intelligence organisation, recruited from Damascus with the help of Syria's own intelligence apparatus.

"George Tenet no doubt has a little computer disc with the 27 or so warnings that he gave the president starting in spring and going right up until September 2001," says McGovern. "The president and his advisers in the White House, knowing this, didn?t dismiss Tenet after Sept. 11 because it was too much of a risk. Were they to have dismissed Tenet on Sept. 12, they could not have been sure that he wouldn?t have said, ?Wait a second. Let me print off some of these warnings. Let me show you what I told the president in the President?s Daily Brief on Aug. 6, 2001.? So that?s reason No. 1.

"Reason No. 2 is that Tenet is simply too useful of a guy to have around," McGovern continues. "He does what he?s told. If he?s told to do an estimate and told to make sure the conclusions come out the same as a Dick Cheney speech from the month before, he?ll do it.

"If I?m sounding a little angry here," he says, "well, there?s no word to describe it." There?s a silence. "Outrage is just too pale a word to describe how we intelligence officials feel about George Tenet being so willing to prostitute our intelligence product, to cook it up to the recipe of high policy. That is the unpardonable sin of intelligence, and he?s still doing it."