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In an attempt to link members of the Saudi royal family to the financing of Al Qaeda, lawyers for Sept. 11 families and their insurers have collected several hundred thousand pages of interview transcripts, government reports, financial records, court testimony and other material. Four of the documents, not entered in the court record but provided to the New York Times, are shown here. Lawyers for the Saudi royal family deny any connection to the financing of Al Qaeda and say the links claimed by the Sept. 11 families are tenuous and misleading. The Supreme Court is expected to decide this...

In a special meeting of the Security Cabinet it was disclosed that a group of 40 people on board the Mavi Marmara with no identification papers belong to Al Qaeda. The terrorists were equipped with bullet proof vests, night-vision goggles, and weapons.

Early this morning, IDF Naval Forces boarded six ships attempting to break the maritime closure of the Gaza Strip. This happened after numerous warnings from Israel and the Israeli Navy that were issued prior to the action. The Israel Navy requested the ships to redirect toward Ashdod where they would be able to unload their aid supplies which would then be transferred over land after undergoing security inspections.

Magnitude 6.7 - BERING SEA 2010 April 30 23:11:43 UTC * Details * Maps * Tsunami Earthquake Details Magnitude 6.7 (Preliminary magnitude — update expected within 15 minutes) Date-Time * Friday, April 30, 2010 at 23:11:43 UTC * Friday, April 30, 2010 at 02:11:43 PM at epicenter Location 60.370°N, 177.560°W Depth 10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program Region BERING SEA Distances * 486 km (302 miles) SW (221°) from Gambell, AK * 497 km (309 miles) SSW (208°) from Provideniya, Russia * 1500 km (932 miles) W (279°) from Anchorage, AK Location Uncertainty Error estimate not available Parameters...

Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh will not seek re-election this year, a decision that hands Republicans a prime pickup opportunity in the middle of the country. "After all these years, my passion for service to my fellow citizens is undiminished, but my desire to do so by serving in Congress has waned," Bayh will say.

Captain Phil Harris suffered a stroke yesterday at St. Paul Island in Alaska. He was medivacked to Anchorage and is currently at a hospital receiving treatment. I didn’t say anything earlier, so family can learn from us instead of through the internet. I know anybody who is reading this also cares about Phil, so we thought you should know as well. Phil is at a good hospital and receiving the best care possible. My mother, Cornelia Marie Devlin and Jake Harris are with him at the hospital. Josh is staying on the boat to help the new relief skipper who...

Magnitude 6.9 - SOUTHWESTERN RYUKYU ISLANDS, JAPAN 2009 August 17 00:05:49 UTC DetailsMapsAdditional Info   Earthquake Details Magnitude 6.9 (Preliminary magnitude — update expected within 15 minutes) Date-Time Monday, August 17, 2009 at 00:05:49 UTCMonday, August 17, 2009 at 09:05:49 AM at epicenter Location 23.570°N, 123.730°E Depth 33 km (20.5 miles) set by location program Region SOUTHWESTERN RYUKYU ISLANDS, JAPAN Distances 104 km (65 miles) SSW (207°) from Ishigaki-jima, Ryukyu Islands, Japan 223 km (138 miles) E (101°) from Hua-lien, Taiwan 223 km (138 miles) ESE (121°) from Su-ao, Taiwan1037 km (644 miles) NNE (16°) from MANILA, Philippines Location Uncertainty Error...

For the past two years I've been working on the Google Earth Outreach team, aimed at helping non-profits and public benefit groups use Google Earth and Google Maps to further their cause. In that time I've worked on so many cool projects, from training indigenous communities in Brazil on the use of internet and mapping technologies, to helping with Google's disaster response mapping efforts for the San Diego fires and Cyclone Nargis, to even working with NASA get a copy of Google Earth on the International Space Station (more on that later!). I'm also in charge of the Global...

LOS ANGELES — Bettie Page, whose magazine photographs in bikinis and see-through lingerie helped her become one of the most notable models of the 20th century, died at a Los Angeles hospital Thursday evening at age 85.

After hearing about Barack Obama’s ties to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Fr. Michael Pfleger, and the militant activists of ACORN (the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), it should be clear to everyone that his extremist roots run deep. But the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee has yet another connection with the world of far-Left radicalism. Obama has long been linked — through foundation grants, shared political activism, collaboration on legislation and tactics, and mutual praise and support — with the Chicago-based Gamaliel Foundation, one of the least known yet most influential national umbrella groups for...

A handful of inmates at Casa Grande had been convicted of identity theft-type crimes and were hired as canvassers by ACORN. Read the devastating affidavit at right. Read ACORN affidavit

I returned from vacation this morning and just had to share this with you guys. The first leg of our trip was a visit to beautiful Savannah, GA. While trying to get my bearings upon our arrival, I made a wrong turn and ended up in a neighborhood that ... I would not normally visit. However, we spotted this interesting sight and I made it a point to get a shot of it while leaving this area. This is located at the corner of Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd and Victory. Now, some might simply see this as just...

The hat tip for this post goes to LGF reader John Williams in Texas.The company that published Scott McClellan’s new Bush-bashing book is Public Affairs Books, and their Editor at Large is a guy named Peter Osnos: About The Century Foundation. The owner of Public Affairs Books is a company called Perseus Book Group. Here’s their ownership tree: Perseus Books Home.The firm is owned by Perseus Funds Group, (holding company Perseus LLC) a capital management firm that grew from about $20 million in 1995 to over $2 billion now. Big infusions of cash seemed to help it grow exponentially and...

Charlton Heston as Harry Steele in the 1954 film "Secret of the Incas," who has more than a few things in common with a popular film icon that will be returning to a theater near you next month. The recent passing of film legend Charlton Heston has had many a movie enthusiast mourning this loss. From the parting of the Red Sea, to chariot races, to finding the ruins of the Statue of Liberty, Heston played a wide variety of classic cinematic roles. Including Indiana Jones. Wait. Harrison Ford is returning next month to the classic role, right? Well,...

Bos Smith in front of Masjid At-Taqwa(Editor’s Note: If Bos Smith, who holds a law degree from Wake Forest University can be hauled away by an angry group of angry Muslims in Islamic garb to the basement of a mosque where a group of 20 “security guards” in karate suits all for taking a photo, what about a tourist taking pictures for his travelogue? The working man’s lament, “It’s a free country, isn’t it?” doesn’t seem to work anymore.) A tree grew in Brooklyn. No longer. It has been uprooted by the Masjid At-Taqwa and other radical mosques that...

Austin police said Thursday that they are leaning toward a ruling of suicide in the death of a middle school teacher and activist whose body was found Wednesday in Lady Bird Lake with his hands and legs bound and tape over his eyes. Police identified Riad Hamad, 55, at a news conference Thursday and said the binding of his limbs and the placement of the tape was consistent with Hamad having done it himself. Austin police homicide Sgt. Joe Chacon said family members told investigators that the Clint Small Jr. Middle School teacher had "several stressors" in his life and...

Last year they were sh*tting on a flag.This year they're calling for murder of military officials.Not just antiwar...Marooned in Marin, via LGF Quick Links, saw this photo from the Portland "antiwar" protest this week. The protesters were calling for soldiers to shoot their superiors. Indymedia later pulled this photo down. But these are still up:Here is another shot of the protesters "fragging" banner that is still posted at IndyMedia-Picasa. "Your noose is waiting"These photos were taken at the Wells Fargo building protest this week. (Indymedia-Picasa) Protesters celebrate at their protest-- Their fragging banner lays in front of them. (Indymedia-Picasa) Students...

A new book sure to be embraced by the Left argues that the pending doom of global warming requires that liberal democracy must give way to "a form of authoritarian government by experts" who can lead us to confront the climate crisis. The book also argues that humanity must give up its "loving marriage to economic growth." In other words, to save the planet we have to be poorer and live under tyranny. I never realized that China and the USSR were environmental utopias... [Hat tip: Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Facism blog] One of the book's co-authors actually points to China...

When a girl is taken — usually by her mother — to a free circumcision event held each spring in Bandung, Indonesia, she is handed over to a small group of women who, swiftly and yet with apparent affection, cut off a small piece of her genitals. Sponsored by the Assalaam Foundation, an Islamic educational and social-services organization, circumcisions take place in a prayer center or an emptied-out elementary-school classroom where desks are pushed together and covered with sheets and a pillow to serve as makeshift beds. The procedure takes several minutes. There is little blood involved. Afterward, the girl’s...

Hillary got a "surprise" visit from her Sunday School teacher from the Chicago area while she spoke in Donnellson, Iowa. It looks like Hillary's Jesus moment was likely another staged event for the Democratic front runner.