Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has accused the country's president
of covering up a vast scandal involving the leaking of nuclear secrets to Libya, Iran and North Korea.

Thomas Jefferson once wrote that "[T]he man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors."
When Bush made a highly publicized November speech about America's commitment to the spread of democracy, it was greeted with intense skepticism. Soon after the speech, U.S. troops arrested an Iraqi man for criticizing the coalition, sealing his mouth with duct tape.

Coverage of the FCC rulings was limited indeed. In an article in American Journalism Review, Charles Layton notes that : 'In February, with the FCC debate in full flower, a survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press found that 72 percent of Americans had heard "nothing at all" about it... The survey also found that the more people did know, the more they tended to oppose what the FCC was doing. In other words, Big Media had an interest in keeping people uninformed.'


"These people are overly reaching, overly aggressive, overly secretive, and just plain corrupt. I don't trust these people." - Ronald Reagan Jr., on the current Bush administration http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/04/14/ron_reagan/index_np.html

Operation Mockingbird, the CIA's plan to infiltrate America's newsrooms, was such a success that former CIA director William Colby boasted, "The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any major significance in the major media." Carl Bernstein substantiated this, telling Rolling Stone that hundreds of journalists and news organizations were involved in this subversion.

British newspaper the Sunday Express reported that bin Laden and a small band of bodyguards had been pinned down in a 15sqkm area of the inhospitable border region. The paper, quoting two US sources -- one intelligence and the other a senior Republican -- said US spy satellites were monitoring the area.

Mr Straw said: ?This is another terrible outrage perpetrated by rejectionist terrorists."