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<p>JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia, Aug. 27 -- Two figures who have assumed critical roles in the al Qaeda hierarchy in recent months, including one reported dead by the Pentagon, are being sheltered in Iran along with dozens of other al Qaeda fighters in hotels and guesthouses in the border cities of Mashhad and Zabol, according to Arab intelligence sources.</p>

UPI - 'Seed Of Fire' By Gordon Thomas Has 'Explosive Implications' 1-30-2 (Note - You can hear Gordon Thomas' sensational 12-19-01 interview with Jeff in our program Archives.) United Press International has alerted the world's media that Seeds of Fire already a runaway Internet bestseller has explosive implications for U.S. relations with Israel. "Seeds of Fire is likely to doom new Israeli efforts to free spy Jonathan Pollard, the former U.S. naval intelligence officer serving a life sentence for betraying his country, UPI said Monday, January 28, in a major wire-service story. Said UPI: "Former (and probably next) Israeli Prime ...

Transcript Of Clinton And Barak Discussing The Marc Rich Pardon MSNBC.com Newsweek Magazine, August 27 http://www.msnbc.com/news/616125.asp 8-19-1 Three exchanges between former President Bill Clinton and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak on the Marc Rich pardon. The following are verbatim notes from conversations between former President Bill Clinton and former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak about the pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich. Other topics were covered by the two heads of state during their calls, but were edited out of the transcript. Dec. 11, 2000, 6:17 - 6:36 p.m. (in the Residence): Prime Minister [Ehud] Barak: Okay, thank you. One ...

Friday, March 16, 2001 MEMO TO BUSH: LET EUROPE HANDLE THE BALKAN MESS by Srdja Trifkovic Three years ago, in the May 1998 edition of Chronicles, we admonished that the U.S. policy of supporting Albanian separatists in Kosovo would cause “a destabilizing chain reaction throughout the Balkans” and that “its main victim will be the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia, where the restive Albanian minority comprises a third of the total population . . . By encouraging Albanians next door in Serbia to strive for full independence, the United States will have unleashed a revolution of rising expectations among Macedonia’s ...

Gross Media Deception And Iraq By Jeffrey Weiss The Associated Press released a story on June 19, written by Edith Lederer, that was published in many newspapers in the United States, alleging that Iraq was importing weapons despite economic sanctions. I conducted a brief study to find out the genesis of the article. The local Des Moines Register picked up the AP story from the wire and gave the title: "Iraq evades arms sanctions, U.N. reports say." The story was based upon findings by Gary Mihollin, director of the Washington-based Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control. According to the group, ...

Date of publication: 2001-06-20 John Paul II Meditates on Psalm 23 Three Conditions for Finding God VATICAN CITY, JUNE 20, 2001 (Zenit.org).- What are the conditions necessary for man to find God? John Paul II dedicated today´s general audience to answering this question. The Pontiff began by positing three conditions: purity of life and heart, purity of religion and worship, justice and rectitude. Addressing more than 10,000 faithful gathered in St. Peter´s Square, the Pope quoted the Bible and asked the question posed by every person who seeks God: "Who can climb the mountain of the Lord, and who can ...

AIDS Now 'Most Devastating Epidemic In History' - But Far Worse To Come By Mike Hutchings 6-5-1 CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - The United Nations marked the 20th anniversary of the first reported cases of AIDS with a warning that the epidemic, despite having claimed 22 million lives already, was just in its early stages. The U.N.'s joint program on HIV-AIDS, UNAIDS, said the disease had emerged as the most devastating epidemic ever and that the world had to act now to turn back the tide. ``AIDS has become the most devastating epidemic in human history. On a global scale we ...

Clinton's Forest Disaster by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. You've heard that government policies can cause unanticipated bad effects? My own opinion is that government is the source of just about everything wrong with the world. This view is confirmed many times over when you consider the current forest-fire fiasco. Government is the cause of the fires now raging out of control across the West, just as surely as if Clinton himself had spread the fuel and lit the match. On this, the Republican leadership is exactly right. Both Denis Hastert of the House and George W. Bush have put the ...

Bulge is discovered in Earth's crust May 9, 2001 BY WILLIAM McCALL ASSOCIATED PRESS PORTLAND, Ore. -- A significant bulge in the Earth's crust has developed over the past four years near volcanoes in central Oregon, although it's not clear whether it could mean a volcanic eruption any time soon, geologists said Tuesday. The bulge -- 9 to 12 miles across and about 4 inches high -- was detected by satellite radar, said Willie Scott, a United States Geological Survey scientist at the agency's volcano lab in Vancouver, Wash. "Because it's a volcanic area and there's been a long history ...

Kids play ball at the White House By Faye Fiore Times Staff Writer Posted May 7 2001, 10:43 AM EDT WASHINGTON -- George W. Bush began precisely on time his mission to bring Little League baseball to the White House and rekindle America's love for the national pastime. At 2:45 p.m. EDT Sunday, the Satchel Paige Memphis Red Sox and the Capitol City Rockies were lined up like soldiers on their respective sidelines, taking last-minute instructions from their T-ball coaches. "Don't sit on the chalk line!" "If the ball goes over the fence, that's a home run." "Everybody's going to ...

2 advanced Chinese destroyers near Taiwan TAIPEI, Taiwan, May 2 (UPI) -- China has deployed its two most advanced naval vessels near the Taiwan Strait, Japan's Kyodo news agency reported Wednesday. The Hangzhou, a Sovremenny-class destroyer, was commissioned in February to join the East China Sea Fleet, Kyodo quoted a Chinese military Web site as saying. It is the second of two advanced destroyers Beijing bought from Russia to be deployed near the Taiwan Strait, Kyodo reported. China commissioned Fuzhou, the other Russian-made destroyer, in January. At the time, Taipei confirmed that the Fuzhou passed through the Taiwan Strait ...

Eleven Other Americans Extracted From South Pole. From Sue bradford@globalserve.net Originally posted 4-24-1 PUNTA ARENAS, Chile (CNN) -- A new rescue flight left an Antarctic base for the South Pole on Tuesday to pick upan ailing American doctor at a research station there, officials said. The mission to retrieve Dr. Ronald Shemenski from the Amundsen-Scott Station left hours after a New Zealand air force plane retrieved 11 Americans from different outpost on the other side of Antarctica. The Royal New Zealand Air Force C-130 Hercules cargo airplane safely rose from the runway at the icy and windswept Pegasus airfield ...

European Parliament Assails Vatican Over Abuse Cases Measure Seen as Attempt to Impede Papal Visit STRASBOURG, France, APR. 6, 2001 (Zenit.org).- The European Parliament made an unprecedented attack on the Vatican, approving a motion blaming it for the rapes suffered by nuns in Africa in the 1990s. Some observers saw the nonbinding measure as an attempt to impede John Paul II's visit to this institution. The parliamentary motion, on the "Responsibility of the Vatican in Regard to the Violation of Human Rights by Catholic Priests," has no executive character but rather is intended as a "moral judgment." It "condemns all ...

Worried Greeks see Balkan domino fears coming true By Jeremy Gaunt ATHENS, March 19 (Reuters) - Ask a Greek what he thinks about the flare-up of ethnic violence in Macedonia, his country's northern neighbour, and chances are he will say: "We told you so." The fiercest European opponents of NATO's bombing campaign of Kosovo are watching in horror as Balkan turmoil approaches ever closer to their own border. Fears in Athens that the West, particularly the United States, does not understand the Balkans and that supporting ethnic Albanians against Serbia in the 1999 war would only aggravate the problem appear ...

Guess our national leaders didn't expect this. Darrell Scott, the father of Rachel Scott, a victim of the Columbine High School shootings in Littleton, Colorado, was invited to address the House Judiciary Committee's subcommittee. What he said to our national leaders during this special session of Congress was painfully truthful. They were not prepared for what he was to say, nor was it received well. It needs to be heard by every parent, every teacher, every politician, every sociologist, every psychologist, and every so-called expert! These courageous words spoken by Darrell Scott are powerful, penetrating, and deeply personal. The ...

Vietnam, China sign deals BEIJING: Vietnam and China signed agreements on Monday delimiting their border and fishing rights in the Tonkin Gulf while promising not to aggravate maritime disputes left unresolved by the pacts. The agreements underscored anew the solidly improving relations between the communist neighbours, who fought a brutal border war 21 years ago. The occasion was the opening of a Beijing visit by Vietnamese President Tran Duc Luong, the sixth high-level exchange since the countries resumed formal ties nine years ago. Luong stood alongside Chinese President Jiang Zemin, reviewing a military honour guard inside the Great Hall ...

Executive Sabotage Dr. James Hirsen Dec. 23, 2000 There is a blizzard going on in Washington, D.C., but it differs from the kind of winter snowfall that is expected at this time of year. The flurries that typically lend a sense of enchantment to the season have been replaced by an avalanche of legal blather, which has muscled its way into the Federal Register. Unprecedented in United States history, the onslaught of executive branch activity has added as many as 30,000 pages of government regulation to the books. It should not really surprise us. We have seen this pillage ...

Gore Reluctantly Does the Right Thing Neal Boortz Thursday, Dec. 14, 2000 It didn’t have to be this way. It should have ended five weeks ago, after the first recount in Florida. With all of this "coming together" going on right now – all of this "healing" – we shouldn't lose sight of just what Al Gore and his campaign did. After he lost an extremely close election in Florida, he lost a closer recount. At that point he should have gone away. Instead, he developed a plan to use the courts to try to gain the presidency by ...

A Nation Divided: If You Want Peace, Prepare for War By J.J. Johnson - Posted: 12.06.00 Since December 4, 2000, I have become ill witnessing conservatives gloating over the court room dramas in Florida and Washington. I can only think to myself as I watch, "Pride goeth before a fall." America, you are letting your guard down. This battle is far from over - it has only just begun. Have you forgotten who and what we are dealing with? Make no mistake - these people have NO intention of simply walking away. Have they shown you any intention of ...

George Washington President of the United States of America Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor; and Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me "to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of ...