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He did the same thing with AIDS. Exaggerate threat and scare the crap out of everyone, push AZT and vaccine research over all other therapies, demonize the other therapies, and keep stirring the pot.

According to media and field sources, the Syrian regime withdrew its weapons from the villages of rural Suwaida province before the sudden "Islamic State" organization attack on the province, raising further questions about the extent of the regime's complicity in that event. The correspondent of the website of "Anab Baladi" reported that the regime forces asked the elders of the village "al-Matuna" days ago to hand over their weapons on the pretext that there is no longer a reason to keep weapons after the end of the "danger" of Daraa and military control, which was reiterated in Swimra on Tuesday....

Thieves have snatched a copper sword from the burial site of president Abraham Lincoln, one of the most revered leaders in US history, local media reported. The roughly three-foot (90-centimeter) sword was brandished by the statue of a Civil War artillery officer at the Lincoln Tomb State Historic Site, located in Springfield, Illinois. The sword was broken off at the handle, The State Journal-Register reported Friday. The theft was apparently the first since 1890, when the same sword was stolen from the statue, the newspaper said. At that time, the sword was made of bronze that largely came from melted-down...

Saddam Surat # 4 - Was 9/11 Modus Operandi the Same as 1980 Saddam Subterfuge? Excerpt from Con Coughlin, Saddam: His Rise and Fall (2005:187)---"The Iranian revolution had a dramatic impact internationally, particularly when Iranian revolutionaries were held responsible for incidents such as the storming of the American embassy in Tehran on December 17, 1979, when the Revolutionary Guards took six-six American diplomats hostage. The following year the mounting tensions between Iran and Iraq spilled onto the streets of London when a group of six pro-Iraqi rebels from Khorramshahr in Iran's Arab province of Khuzistan seized control of the Iranian...

Greedy scooter taxi drivers in southern Sri Lanka are laying nails on roads to disrupt cheaper bus service and are charging higher fare from commuters, a news report said Friday. Calling the scooter taxi drivers "three-wheeler mafia," the Island newspaper said that the drivers place nails on roads so that tires of buses are damaged and the vehicles remained non-operational. "Their modus operandi had been to place nails almost daily on the road so as to damage the tires," Island said quoting a local transport official in Kalutara, about 25 miles south of Colombo. With no buses, commuters turn to...