A senior administration official said that during a three-day pre-speech review, Powell rejected more than half of a 45-page assessment on Iraq?s weapons of mass destruction compiled by Cheney?s chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby, and based on materials assembled by pro-invasion hard-liners in the Pentagon and the White House. Powell also jettisoned 75 percent of a separate report on al Qaida, said the official.

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Ricin breeding and production projects at Texas Tech University raise questions

It is therefore hardly surprising to learn that President Bush and John Ashcroft, mindful that their own munchkins are tugging at the Wizard's obscuring curtain of lies, are now studying the brilliant coup d'?tat that spawned the Hutton Report.


"Anybody who has seen five pints of blood spurted forcefully out of a severed artery will know that there is one hell of a mess." He concludes that, "Either Kelly did not die of blood loss or it occurred at some place distant from where the body was found."

"Since 1976, Syria has been occupying Lebanon and stealing its resources and it is time for the world to order it to leave," Shalom told the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday.

"However, America is trying to portray al-Qaida as an omnipresent terrorist threat, as evil as it is widespread - from Bosnia to the Philippines, from Chechnya to Pakistan, from Libya to Yemen - thus legitimising any punitive action it might take anywhere at any time. This elevation of terrorism into a universal force institutionalises a permanent state of war across the globe."