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Almost a month ago, Chechen rebels sent an open letter to the European Parliament complaining that Russians/pro Russian Chechens have kidnapped Maskhadov's relatives: Last week, Russian special services and criminal gangs, supported by the Kremlin and led by the notorious Chechen Kvisling, Kadyrov the younger, took as hostage in Grozny and other cities and villages the family of the President of the Chechen Republic Aslan Maskhadov. Among them are his brothers Lechi Maskhadov, 76 years old, Lyema Maskhadov, 68 years old, his sister Dzhovzhan Abdu1kadyrova (Maskhadova), 69 years old, and also two cousins: Adam Reshiev, 60 years old, and lkhvan...

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BEERSHEBA, Israel (Reuters) - There were whispers in the Kremlin and salons of Europe for decades but it was never more than idle gossip until a team of Israeli doctors announced that they had solved an 80-year-old medical mystery. Reuters Photo   The posthumous diagnosis by two psychiatrists and a neurologist recently published in the European Journal of Neurology was that the great Russian revolutionary and Soviet icon Vladimir Lenin died an agonizing death from syphilis. "It's an amazing story, the degeneration of Lenin's mental and neurological state," said psychiatrist Dr Eliezer Witztum. The doctors' diagnosis of crippling neurosyphilis that...

One young man was in a wheelchair, paralyzed from the waist down. Another walked almost effortlessly on two prosthetic legs. Alex Presman, with a barely noticeable limp, joined them in a meeting with advocates as the three Iraq war veterans pondered their futures. Presman lost his left foot six months ago while in a convoy from Diwanya to Baghdad to pick up medical supplies. He stepped on an explosive device planted in the sand, and his foot was blown off and a baseball-size chunk of flesh was ripped out of his right calf. Shrapnel pierced his legs and arms. He...

<p>MEE-OWCH! Could a catfight be brewing between "Saturday Night Live" newscaster Tina Fey and right-wing pundit Ann Coulter?</p> <p>While presenting Al Franken with his comedy trophy at yesterday's New York Magazine Awards, Fey lauded the liberal author of "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right" for skewering the likes of Coulter and Bill O'Reilly, adding: "Have you ever seen Ann Coulter in person? It's like seeing a rat. It's like, ewwww!"</p>

<p>BETTE Midler is annoyed that America has no shame. When the notorious diva appeared on "Larry King Live" she ranted: "Shame has gone missing from our lives, and that's a goddamn shame . . . People used to be ashamed. Now . . . they just say any old thing, do any old thing. I mean, they put porn stars in videos. I mean, I can remember it was only a few years ago where people who were in porn were, you know, considered really fringe people. And now they're working so hard to move it into the mainstream. And I think it's a conspiracy, myself." Speaking of porn stars, when asked about the fame of Paris Hilton, the Divine Miss M sniffs the hotel heiress has done "absolutely nothing!"</p>

I am getting rid off my old tv, and planning to purchase a projector ( hopefully today/tomorrow). I'll mainly use it to watch movies and PC gaming. Dell 3200MP seems like the best deal out there. Native Resolution: 1024 by 768 1300 Lumens 1800 : 1 contrast Can get it for ~$1450. Any input appreciated. Thanks!

My friend just called me 10 minutes ago. There is something going on the city. They've evacuated couple of blocks??? I can't find anything online. Anybody?

MAVERICK director Larry Clark beat up the distributor for his movie "Ken Park" after the jerk declared that America deserved to get attacked on 9/11. Clark, who helmed "Kids" and "Bully," delivered a brutal beat-down to Hamish McAlpine after the screwy Scotsman started spewing anti-American and anti-Israeli sentiments during dinner at London's posh Charlotte Street Hotel Thursday night. An enraged Clark, 59, punched McAlpine several times in the face - breaking his nose - choked him, then overturned the dinner table on the bloodied big mouth. Clark was arrested by London police - and now McAlpine is pulling "Ken Park"...

BREAKING Automatic gunfire and explosions are heard inside the theater! A 30 strong russian swat is moving towards the buildling. Also, 2 more hostages were shot in the past 2 hours!

One US Marine Killed, One Injured in Shootout with Assailants Tuesday on Kuwaiti Gulf Island of Failaka First Reports of Two Men Who Fired at Marines from Civilian Vehicle Killed in Return Fire Island Sealed Amid News Blackout

<p>PARIS — The man suspected of stabbing Paris' openly gay mayor early Sunday told interrogators he did it because he disliked politicians and homosexuals, judicial officials said.</p> <p>Bertrand Delanoe is expected to remain hospitalized for at least week to recover from the single stab wound to his abdomen. His office had initially described the injury as minor. He had surgery for three hours after being rushed to Pitie-Salpetriere hospital.</p>

he neocons are up in arms – one of their own has been fired from his position as a "journalist" at the Voice of America and may be on his way to becoming the Mumia Abu Jamal of the War Party. The cause of Stephen Schwartz, a writer formerly known as "Comrade Sandalio," has been taken up by William Safire and Ronald Radosh. In a column berating the "accommodationist" US State Department supposedly in control of VOA – whose news director is under the illusion that he heads up a real news-gathering organization, instead of a propaganda arm of the...

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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - In a farewell videotape before Mahmoud el Abed embarked on a suicidal attack, he sat holding hands with his mother, who prayed for him to become a "martyr" as she conferred her blessing. "May every bullet hit its target," she said. When news arrived a day later that her son had died in an attack that killed two Israeli soldiers, Naima el Abed celebrated by ululating and clapping her hands, her friends said. Her son, age 19, was one of several armed Palestinians who launched a shooting attack against the Israeli community of Dugit in...

(April 14) - "To know the competitiveness, jealousies, chaos and blind chance that prevail in the news business is to realize that an all-media conspiracy is an impossibility. "Yet it is difficult to find a rational explanation for the almost total uniformity with which the media make decisions on the newsworthiness of Israeli events." - David Bar-Illan, "Eye on the Media" Sept. 1994 IT WAS not originally my intention to reprise the column made famous by my predecessor, David Bar-Illan. When you get this job, you get an office in which Jerusalem Post founder Gershon Agron's portrait gazes over you...

An extreme right-wing Israeli demonstrator waves an Israeli flag and holds up a poster reading "Peace with Bin-Laden First" during a protest against U.S. pressure on Israel to withdraw its troops from the West Bank, in Jerusalem on Tuesday, April 9, 2002. (AP Photo/Zoom 77)

Should Colin Powell meet with Yasser Arafat this week? Yes 62.4% No 37.6% Total Votes: 117 Freep it!

Do you think terror against Israelis would stop if there were a Palestinian state? Yes 13.5% No 86.5% Freep it!