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Ottawa officials tight-lipped about deal with Saladin Security, a British firm with long history of secretive operations ...

Iran's top nuclear negotiator resigns ALI AKBAR DAREINI Associated Press Latest comment posted at 4:48 PM EDT 20/10/07 Move seen as win for hardline leader Ahmadinejad....

"Palestinians run as a rocket falls at them....."

Curtis is a political science professor whose most recent publication is on the politically correct topic of multicultural education. Over recent years, her behavior has been a caricature of an academic radical: shortly after 9/11, she wildly (and, of course, without any evidence) condemned an alleged attempt “to silence professors who encourage students to probe the history of U.S. foreign policy in the effort to understand the September 11th attacks.” She protested efforts to remove from the ranks of the nation’s faculty those “who feel shame, fear and anger over the violent suppression that the United States has undertaken in...

Strong explosion in Madrid airport...

More than 1,000 members of the British military have deserted the armed forces since the start of the 2003 Iraq war, the BBC has discovered. It comes as Parliament debates a law that will forbid military personnel from refusing to participate in the occupation of a foreign country. Some 900 have evaded capture since the Iraq war started, official figures say.

Harper wants fixed dates for federal elections Updated Fri. May. 26 2006 9:22 PM ET CTV.ca News Staff Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Friday he plans to introduce a bill to set fixed dates for federal elections, as part of a wider movement towards democratic reform. "Fixed election dates stop leaders from trying to manipulate the calendar," Harper told reporters in Victoria, B.C. "They level the playing field for all parties." The bill will be introduced next week and proposes to set fixed election dates every four years.

Harper says he'll avoid national media because they're biased against him 2 hours, 58 minutes ago By Alexander Panetta OTTAWA (CP) - Stephen Harper says journalists on Parliament Hill are biased against his government so he'll be avoiding them. The prime minister says the parliamentary press gallery seems to have decided to become the opposition to his Conservative administration. He told a London, Ont., TV station on Wednesday that he is having problems with reporters in the capital that a Liberal prime minister would never face. So Harper says he will take his message out on the road and deal...

Al Qaida on Sunday claimed responsibility for an assassination attempt on the chief of the Palestinian Authority General Intelligence Services Tarek Abu Rajab on the previous day. In one of its internet sites the Palestinian branch of the international terrorist organization also issued threats against PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and other senior Fatah officials.

I know this is old news and therefore "irrelevant". But kudos to the Iraqies for taking one more step towards democracy in a very short period of time by historical standards. http://massgraves.info/

New Norad deal approved in House of Commons Updated Mon. May. 8 2006 11:35 PM ET Canadian Press OTTAWA -- The House of Commons has voted to renew and expand the Norad pact, a keystone of Canada's defence for half a century. Both the Conservative government, which signed the latest renewal agreement, and the Liberals, who oversaw the renewal process, supported the deal.

BLOGS DOWN: HACK ATTACK By Michelle Malkin · April 28, 2006 11:51 AM Many Hosting Matters-hosted blogs are down--including Instapundit, Power Line, and tons of others large and small. Hosting Matters' own website is also down. Blogger Chuck Simmins e-mails: Denial of service attack on Hosting Matters. Most, if not all, their hosted sites are down. Attack is originating internationally. Haven't been able to confirm. But stay tuned.

<p>Y’all want to hear somethin’ funny? I recently had a revelation. I don’t have to vote Republican. In fact, I’m leaning towards voting straight Dem in the Fall. Once the Republicans get done f@cking up immigration reform, so that we have full amnesty coupled with no enforcement and greatly increased illegal immigrant rights, I think I’ll be done voting for them for a while.</p>

A year ago, I blogged about a controversial, Pulitzer Prize-winning photo taken by an unidentified Associated Press stringer in Iraq. More background from the blogosphere here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. Do take the time to re-read them all. The context is important. One member of the Pulitzer-winning AP team was AP stringer Bilal Hussein. Hussein's photos have raised serious, persistent questions about his relationship with terrorists in Iraq and whether his photos were/are staged in collusion with the enemy. I've learned of an intriguing news development that strengthens those lingering suspicions. This afternoon, in response...

A Letter from the only magazine of Canada to reprint the cartoons: Dear Western Standard reader, By now you have probably heard about our decision to publish the Danish cartoons -- those same cartoons that have been the excuse for riots around the world. We believe that reprinting the cartoons is essential to properly telling that news story, which is why we did it. We also published them as a symbol of our freedom of the press, and in defiance of those around the world who would censor us through threats of violence. I've never been more proud of our...

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London, Aug. 14 - The nomination of a veteran commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps as the new defence minister has been greeted with calls for an investigation into his possible ties to the suicide bombing of the U.S. Marines compound in Beirut airport in October 1983, which killed 241 Americans.

WASHINGTON -- The government is still financing research to create powerful tools that could mine millions of public and private records for information about terrorists despite an uproar last year over fears it might ensnare innocent Americans. Congress prevented the Pentagon from developing the terrorist tracking technology because of the outcry over privacy implications. But some of those projects from retired Adm. John Poindexter's Total Information Awareness effort were transferred to U.S. intelligence offices, according to congressional, federal and research officials. In addition, Congress left undisturbed a separate but similar $64 million research program run by a little-known office called...

House wants to know about data-mining WASHINGTON, July 24 (UPI) -- The Bush Administration is now opposing part of the anti-terrorism legislation it had been lobbying Congress to reauthorize. A recent amendment to the USA Patriot Act requires the Justice Department to give an annual report to Congress about its data-mining efforts -- attempts to use existing databases to hunt for characteristic behavior of terrorists. Officials in the department say it would take away valuable time.