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Che Guevara is more than just a sleazy tee shirt on an aging leftwinger's food-dribbled chest. Che Guevara is a live emblem of hemispheric terror, kidnapping and murder. And not just in the 1960s but happening right now. Today! The news, still in only Spanish, has just come out this afternoon. Colombia's government just released a tape proving, without a shadow of a doubt, that filthy Marxist narcoterrorist FARC and ELN guerrillas are operating a string of working terrorist camps inside Venezuela. And not just inside Venezuela in the way we thought they were, as Hugo Chavez-hosted recreational guerrilla spas,...

... Zeta's Editor Rafael Poleo says that Chavez’ main problem ... may be that he has so many crises burning simultaneously, that he has no time to worry about ... running the state. Poleo is right and he is wrong. He is right because even if Chavez is really the night owl that he is supposed ... it will be hard for him to juggle all ... he is trying to handle today. He has conflicts about land interventions, company confiscations, the image of hero Danilo Anderson being destroyed, and now the Granda affair. But Poleo is also wrong because...

Should Chávez Be on the List Of Terrorism Sponsors? Recording reveals 100 FARC guerillas in Caracas for Chávez event. DISIP (Intelligence) report reveals Venezuelan frontier overrun by ELN, FARC and ELP guerrillas.

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An exhibition in Geneva devoted to Soviet forced labour camps is bringing home the horrors of Stalin’s Gulag. For one Swiss woman who spent five years in a camp in Soviet Kazakhstan, the memories of her imprisonment are still vivid. Else Rutgers, now 92, was one of around 200 Swiss Communists who emigrated to Moscow after the Russian Revolution of 1917 - and one of the few to survive the Gulag. Rutgers was 19 years old when she left Zurich for Moscow with her husband, Wim, a Dutch Communist. It was to be 25 years before she would return home....

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A widely expected rate hike by the Federal Reserve (news - web sites) turned quickly to campaign fodder as President George W. Bush (news - web sites) and presumptive Democratic nominee John Kerry (news - web sites) used the move to highlight their economic views. White House spokesman Scott McClellan, speaking just before the quarter-point boost by the Federal Open Market Committee (news - web sites), said such a move would be a sign of a reinvigorated economy. "It's not unexpected that as the economy continues to grow stronger that interest rates may rise some, and that's...

MOSCOW - Survivors marked the 50th anniversary of a revolt in a Stalin-era prison camp Tuesday, recalling how troops crushed the rebellion with tanks and machine guns . . . and urging society to face up to Soviet atrocities. The Kremlin sent in soldiers to suppress the 40-day rebellion in the Kengir camp in the then-Soviet republic of Kazakhstan in 1954. According to prisoner accounts, up to 600 people were killed and many more injured, although official statistics acknowledged only several dozen victims. "They crushed us with tanks, with guns and machine guns, and because the crowd was thick, a...

Violations alleged in Senate race Mike Madden Argus Leader Washington Bureau published: 05/13/2004 Thune, Daschle camps trade accusations about breaking campaign law WASHINGTON - Forget about lawn signs and television commercials. The latest weapon in the South Dakota Senate race is a law book. With new campaign finance rules in place for the first time in almost three decades, political strategists hope to exploit alleged violations by their rivals to gain an edge in the contest, which may be the tightest Senate race in the nation. Now, aides to Republican candidate John Thune say fliers mailed to advertise this month's...

<p>RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Saudi authorities have discovered a number of camps outside Saudi cities used for training al-Qaida militants to carry out terror operations, an Interior Ministry official said Thursday.</p> <p>Two militant figures killed in terror sweeps last year - Turki Nasser al-Dandani and Yosif Salih Fahd Ala'yeeri - commanded the camps, the official told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. More camp leaders are being sought, the official said.</p>

Australia watches as death looms in Nauru asylum camp By Kathy Marks in Sydney 16 December 2003 Two years after Australia introduced its so-called "Pacific Solution" for asylum-seekers, eight Afghans on the remote island of Nauru were taken to hospital yesterday after refusing food and water for almost a week. The eight are among 284 people, including 93 children, being held in a detention camp on the South Pacific island in conditions condemned as deplorable by refugee advocates. Campaigners claim that several protesters are urinating blood, and fear they may be close to death. Twenty-four men - 23 Afghans and...

RISHKHOR, Afghanistan - From Bali to Istanbul, New York to Casablanca, the ferocious chain of terror that has choked the world since Sept. 11 has stemmed from a single source — camps like this one just south of Kabul, where thousands of young men were indoctrinated in Osama bin Laden (news - web sites)'s brutal vision. An Afghan link can be traced to nearly every major terrorist attack since the 2001 strikes in New York and at the Pentagon (news - web sites), although not all have been carried out directly by bin Laden's al-Qaida, U.S., European and Asian officials...

<p>Leaders of the al Qaeda terrorist network have franchised their organization's brand of synchronized, devastating violence to homegrown terrorist groups across the world, posing a formidable new challenge to counterterrorism forces, according to intelligence analysts and experts in the United States, Europe and the Arab world.</p> <p>The recent attacks in Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Chechnya and Iraq show that the smaller organizations, most of whose leaders were trained in al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan, have fanned out, imbued with radical ideology and the means to create or revitalize local terrorist groups. They also are expanding the horizons of groups that had focused on regional issues.</p>

DUESSELDORF, Germany (Reuters) - A Jordanian who said he served as a bodyguard to Osama bin Laden has told a German court how he and others returned from military camps in Afghanistan fuelled by hatred for Israel and the West. Shadi Mohammed Mustafa Abdalla said on Thursday he later rejected violence, bringing him to admit to belonging to al Tawhid, a Palestinian group the United States says has links to al Qaeda, and planning grenade attacks on Jewish targets in Germany. "You lived in the desert," Abdalla told the court in Arabic, speaking of his 18-month stay in Afghanistan. "They...

Families isolated in holiday camps as killer virus spreads By Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor, in Hong Kong 02 April 2003 More than 100 families were moved out of a tower block in Hong Kong yesterday and interned in two government "holiday camps" on the fringes of the city to contain the pneumonia virus that threatens to paralyse the region. Four camps have been prepared with space for more than 1,000 people as the number in hospital with severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) topped 600. The residents from the 33-storey Block E at Amoy Gardens, which was quarantined on Monday, were...

Seven Western men were among 50 Indonesians who attended training camps organized and financed by al-Qaida in 2001 on the central Indonesian island of Sulawesi, an intelligence official said Friday. Muchyar Yara, a senior intelligence official, said al-Qaida provided an undisclosed amount of money, along with weapons and explosives expertise, for at least 10 camps in the jungles near Poso in Central Sulawesi province. The camps operated between March and November 2001, he said. He said each camp had two or three trainers, one of whom was the son-in-law of the late Indonesian Abdullah Sungkar, the alleged founder of Jamaah...

Here's my situation: Within the next year I will be getting and making a PCS move. I am considering a bunch of different bases at this time, and trying to figure out what my top choices should be. Could some of you vets or military family members please tell what you think about the following locations:1. Colorado Springs, CO2. Fairbanks, AK3. Anchorage, AK4. El Paso, TX5. San Antonio, TX6. Ft. Drum, NY7. Ft. Irwin, CA8. Fayetteville, NC9. Columbia, SC10, Ft. Stewart, GA11. Ft. Hood, TX

How To Silence the War Drums on the Potomac!  by Ron HollandThe Bush Administration plans to topple the government's of Iraq, Iran and Saudi Arabia (in that order) to establish an American controlled oil cartel of Middle Eastern puppet states. Maybe a win-win opportunity for Bush's "oil buddies" & Israel but it could spark Armageddon in the Middle East, again all for oil!   How to stop the war? The irony is neither public pressure in the US, foreign government mediation or the military of Iraq or Iran can halt the attack, surprisingly, it all depends on Saudi Arabia. To stop...

Government sets up camps for Kashmir refugee crisis By David Bamber, Home Affairs Correspondent (Filed: 09/06/2002) Three disused military bases in rural England are being prepared to accommodate the huge influx of refugees expected from Pakistan and India in the event of war breaking out over Kashmir. The Home Office has drawn up contingency plans to house up to 5,000 from the first wave at two former RAF camps and a former Army centre, which are all in the north of England. If the emergency escalates, ministers plan to use 10 other government properties as emergency holding centres. These would...