"THE bus carrying the United States football team in the World Cup will not carry the Stars and Stripes flag because of fears of an al-Qaeda attack.as someone noted in the comments when i first mentioned this story - "'So the bus to blow up is the one with no flag....right got it."
The other 31 teams taking part in the tournament will have huge flags painted on their coaches which will transport them from their hotels to practices, games and airports.
German officials liaised with the US Embassy and it was agreed that it would be "sensible" for the American team to be low profile.
The decision has sparked anger in the States. More than 95 percent of people in polls insisted that the Stars and Stripes should go on the bus." (link)
* Straw was pushed by bush
"Two London papers have speculated this weekend that complaints by President George W. Bush forced a British minister from his post because of his opposition to the use of nuclear force against Iran.
The Independent suggests that a phone call from the U.S. president to British Prime Minister Tony Blair led to the removal of Foreign Secretary Jack Straw Friday.
The newspaper reports that friends of Straw believe Mr. Bush was extremely upset when Straw pronounced any use of nuclear weapons against Iran "nuts."
Both The Independent and the Guardian write that Straw's "fate was sealed" after a White House phone call to Blair." (link)
when will they stop meddling? and what does it mean for iran? i shudder to think,
* "Bush had already gotten an earful from Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte on the shortcomings of Goss, but the final push came from the "very alarmed" President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, intelligence and Congressional sources said.
Alarms were set off at the advisory board by a widening FBI sex and cronyism investigation that's targeted Kyle (Dusty) Foggo, the No.3 official at the CIA, and also touched on Goss himself." (link)
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