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US monitored Muslim sites for radiation: report 5 minutes ago U.S. officials have secretly monitored radiation levels at Muslim sites, including mosques and private homes, since September 11, 2001 as part of a top secret program searching for nuclear bombs, U.S. News and World Report said on Friday. The news magazine said in its online edition that the far-reaching program covered more than a hundred sites in the Washington, D.C., area and at least five other cities. "In numerous cases, the monitoring required investigators to go on to the property under surveillance, although no search warrants or court orders were...

WASHINGTON - A classified radiation monitoring program, conducted without warrants, has targeted private U.S. property in an effort to prevent an al-Qaida attack, federal law enforcement officials confirmed Friday. While declining to provide details including the number of cities and sites monitored, the officials said the air monitoring took place since the Sept. 11 attacks and from publicly accessible areas — which they said made warrants and court orders unnecessary. U.S. News and World Report first reported the program on Friday. The magazine said the monitoring was conducted at more than 100 Muslim sites in the Washington, D.C., area —...

In search of a terrorist nuclear bomb, the federal government since 9/11 has run a far-reaching, top secret program to monitor radiation levels at over a hundred Muslim sites in the Washington, D.C., area, including mosques, homes, businesses, and warehouses, plus similar sites in at least five other cities, U.S. News has learned. In numerous cases, the monitoring required investigators to go on to the property under surveillance, although no search warrants or court orders were ever obtained, according to those with knowledge of the program. Some participants were threatened with loss of their jobs when they questioned the legality...

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A buffet of new, animated cartoons have one thing in common – a Christmas without Jesus, Mary or Joseph, notes Mark I. Pinsky. ------------------------------------------------------ THIS CHRISTMAS brings the customary buffet of animated holiday releases to screens large and small. Polar Express has drawn children and parents to US multiplexes for weeks, earning more than $50 million at the box office. Davey and Goliath's Snowboard Christmas, produced by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, will air on cable television systems and local stations. And from Disney, Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas DVD is destined for hundreds of thousands of stockings. Although...

Apartment Said to Have Been Scene of a Kerik Affair An apartment in Battery Park City that former Police Commissioner Bernard B. Kerik secured for his personal use after Sept. 11 was originally donated for the use of weary police and rescue workers who were helping at ground zero, according to a real estate executive who has been briefed about the apartment. After the cleanup had settled into a routine that fall, the executive said, Mr. Kerik, who was still police commissioner, asked to rent the two-bedroom apartment for his own use. During his use of the apartment, Mr. Kerik...

<p>An apartment near the World Trade Center site, that former Police Commissioner Bernard B. Kerik used to engage in an extramarital affair with publisher Judith Regan, was originally donated for the use of weary police and rescue workers who were helping after 9-11. One bedroom faced the pit of ground zero... Developing...</p>

Outrage over Pale Male's evictionHawk tries to rebuild Thursday, December 9, 2004 Posted: 9:50 AM EST (1450 GMT) NEW YORK (Reuters) -- He was a movie star who resided on Manhattan's tony Upper East Side, drawing a devoted crowd of followers who gathered daily to catch a glimpse of him...

Somewhere on the sprawling Chippewa Flowage in northern Wisconsin there's a pair of bald eagles that are mad as hell. A furry surprise awaited a pair of bald eagles when they returned to their nest at the top of a 45-foot aspen on the Chippewa Flowage. Bears usually prefer to hibernate in caves, hollow trees or culverts. It's just about time to lay eggs in their huge 4-foot-wide nest at the top of a 45-foot aspen. The nest is made of twigs, grass and moss and took them weeks to build. The only problem - there's a bear slumbering peacefully...

<p>Abdul Qadeer Khan We've not yet seen all the fallout from Pakistan's nuclear proliferation.</p> <p>PARIS--We observed the Abdul Qadeer Khan affair, the incredible story of this Pakistani nuclear scientist who delivered over 15 years--freely and with impunity--his most sensitive secrets to Libya, Iran and North Korea. Then we learned that President Musharraf in person, after an interview from which little or nothing has been divulged, ended up granting Khan his "pardon." Case closed? End of story? That's what the American administration, falling oddly in step with the official Pakistani doctrine, would have us believe. But knowing something of the case--and being the first French observer, to my knowledge, to have tried to alert public opinion to the extreme gravity of the situation--I believe that we are only at the very beginning this story.</p>

The U.S. and other world governments already have detailed secret plans for first contact.When UFOs land, a series of plans created to deal with nuclear emergencies and biological attacks will be activated. Within the scientific community, the question is no longer whether extraterrestrial life exists, but if ET is smart enough to do long division. Scientists are of two minds regarding the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence. Skeptics acknowledge simple life-forms might be found on other planets, but insist that intelligent life is unique to Earth. Their belief is based on the assumption that Earth possesses unique physical attributes, including a...

Dean Supporters Cheer Remark Calling for Fair Trial of Osama bin Laden Apparently pleased that their "foot in the mouth" candidate spoke what was on their minds all along, Howard Dean's supporters on the internet cheered and welcomed his insane remark that Osama bin Laden deserves a fair jury trial before his guilt can be determined. Speaking to a newspaper in New Hampshire today, Howard Dean came down strongly on the side of Osama, and insisted on a fair trial for him. He claimed to have not been convinced of Osama's guilt, although he had no problem believing in...

America stirs hornet's nest of revenge (Filed: 08/11/2003) Angry Iraqi villagers are supporting resistance to the occupying powers, writes David Blair It is unlikely that a Pentagon official will ever visit the Iraqi hamlet of al-Hussai on the western bank of the Euphrates river, but if he did he would find the views of 19-year-old Bashar Hashim Abdullah deeply troubling. As he gathered the maize harvest from a lush field lined with palm trees, Bashar expressed a settled opinion of the US soldiers who patrol near his mud-brick home in central Iraq. US soldiers clear up the remains of the...

New York, PAC News Service -- Police were called to a flat in the New York City neighborhood known as “Little Vermont” last night when strange noises were heard emanating from second floor windows, and a poster of Hillary Clinton folded into a paper airplane sailed across the street and speared an old tomato in Riggatoni’s Fruit Stand, which is located next door to the Wesley Clark campaign headquarters. Right behind the poster aircraft, Howard Dean, folded like a jelly roll, flew out the same window, dropped into a New York Sanitary System collection truck and was subsequently deposited in...

 HOT COMET: Comet NEAT (C/2002 V1), which is perilously close to the Sun, has entered the field of view of SOHO coronagraphs. The comet has grown spectacularly bright in recent days and its tail is many times bigger than the Sun itself. (continued below)Above: A SOHO coronagraph image of Comet NEAT and the Sun on Feb. 17, 2003. The horizontal line near the head of the comet is a digital imaging artifact caused by saturation of camera pixels. [more]On Feb. 18th, the date of closest approach or "perihelion," Comet NEAT will lie just 0.1 AU from the Sun--well inside the...

Defusing nuclear terror By Jeffrey T. Richelson On October 16, 1994, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) received word that one of its informants was being held hostage by a domestic terrorist group, the Patriots for National Unity, in a New Orleans safe house. The next morning, after overhearing plans to kill the hostage, a raid by the FBI’s hostage rescue team freed the informant. During a debriefing, the rescued informant revealed that members of the terrorist group were looking to obtain nuclear material and assemble several nuclear devices. The bureau also determined that one of the group’s members may...

<p>WASHINGTON — Within the last 2 months a U.S. government sensor detected an unauthorized shipment of radioactive material crossing from the Canadian border into the Detroit area, Fox News has learned.</p> <p>Radioactive material is key ingredient in a so-called "dirty bomb," a conventional explosive that when detonated contaminates an area with radioactivity.</p>

The above link is for an eagle nest web cam in the Kent, Washington area. They have 2 web cams with one operational today. It refreshes about every 5 sec. One of the chicks hatched today. It is possible to capture photos and I have included a few below.