The GOP's tactics to clamp down on 527s are shrewd. At first, a previously unknown Republican 527 called Americans for a Better Country asked the FEC to clarify if it could collect the kind of money Democrats were getting from people like Soros. The FEC took the bait and last month said it would examine such donations, causing real consternation in Democratic circles.

Mr. Acebes said the bomb, hidden in a gym bag, was made of a Spanish-made blasting explosive known as Goma 2-E that ETA has often used in the past. The bombers also used shrapnel to increase the impact of the bomb and a cellphone as a trigger, he said.
Privately, however, another Spanish antiterrorism official said Goma 2, a gelatinous, nitroglycerin-based explosive that is typically used in mining, has been linked to ETA only rarely since the Spanish authorities began to tightly guard supplies of it in the 1980's.
The detonator on the unexploded bomb, as Mr. Acebes disclosed yesterday, was the same as those found in the van.
The van also contained some documents in Arabic and an audiotape of readings from the Koran that one official said referred to the education of children.
Last December, the Spanish authorities intercepted two accused Basque militants who they said were headed to the capital with nearly 100 pounds of explosives that they planned to detonate on Christmas Eve at a train station in the northern part of the city. On Feb. 29, the police said they had arrested two other Basque suspects driving to Madrid with 1,000 pounds of explosives hidden in a truck.

The final investigatory report said the Justice Department inspector general confirmed Rumsfeld "has a piece of the airplane that flew into the Pentagon." The Associated Press obtained a copy of the report Friday.

mred - hmm - this is possibly very interesting.
"The final investigatory report said the Justice Department inspector general confirmed Rumsfeld "has a piece of the airplane that flew into the Pentagon." The Associated Press obtained a copy of the report Friday."

i never really bought into that whole idea that there was no plane at the pentagon - but a cynic mite question whether Dummy getting caught with a piece of the plane might be designed to 'prove' that there really was a plane. maybe they are getting nervous.