* "Pakistan has protested to the United States over what it says was an FBI sting operation involving a fake plot to kill Pakistan's UN envoy. Islamabad called the operation bizarre and mind-boggling. A spokesman said it had endangered the life of Munir Akram, Pakistan's permanent envoy to the United Nations.... Pakistani foreign ministry spokesman Masood Khan asked why the US authorities had not picked an American "target" instead." http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/081004Y.shtml

* "Unfortunately, bin Laden and al-Qaeda seem to have absorbed the lessons of Sun Tzu to a far greater extent than has the Bush administration." http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=827

* it sounds like kerry sez he would have gone to war anyway despite 'what we know now' - but (from what i can gather) he actually just said he'd have voted for the authorization. how did he fall for that one? so dumb.

* seems gwsyndrome is caused by anthrax shots - good to know that it wasnt the other things at least - bad to know that prolly everyone is still getting the same shots - i hope they arent getting ssris as well http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/
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* re aljaz in iraq "There is also possibly the more sinister motive of imposing a blockade on news reports while al-Sadr and the city of Najaf are "dealt with"." and "The struggle for the truth is one with which the majority of media organisations empathise, and they appreciate that al-Jazeera's plight today could easily become theirs in the future." http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1280442,00.html

* " It may be true that you can’t fool all of the people all of the time, but in America you only have to fool half of the people all of the time. We will learn on November 2 if Kansas’ death wish is America’s death wish." http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=829

* "Iran has issued an extraordinary list of demands to Britain and other European countries, telling them to provide advanced nuclear technology, conventional weapons and a security guarantee against nuclear attack by Israel." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;sessionid%20=EA02UAQFRWOTLQFIQMGCM54AVCBQUJVC%20?xml=/news/2004/08/11/wiran11.xml&sSheet=%20/news%20/2004/08/11/ixworld.html

* "A man shown in a videotape of landmarks in New York, Las Vegas and California has told investigators the tape was an amateur film and not surveillance as prosecutors portrayed at the trial of four suspected terrorists last year, Justice Department officials and lawyers said Wednesday night." indeed. http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4412770,00.html

* "The federal authorities are conducting a terrorism investigation into an illegal immigrant from Pakistan found with videotapes of downtown buildings and transit systems in four Southern states and of a dam in Texas... But they said they remained keenly interested in determining why he made the extensive videos, which included narratives in Arabic... The tapes included audio of someone speaking in Arabic, but investigators said they were awaiting a translation from the F.B.I. Officials could not explain the apparent delay... A second law enforcement official said that beyond the information in the court papers, the investigation turned up other details about Mr. Shaikh's activities that were considered suspicious, but the official refused to detail that information." call sibel. can these people all just fark off. its all so disgusting. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/11/politics/11terror.html

* "The Aspen Strategy Group, a bipartisan assortment of policy mavens, focused on nuclear risks at its annual meeting here last week, and the consensus was twofold: the danger of nuclear terrorism is much greater than the public believes, and our government hasn't done nearly enough to reduce it... And the C.I.A. had picked up Al Qaeda chatter about an "American Hiroshima." this is a most-odd article - i cant make my mind up about the journo http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/11/opinion/11kris.html