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A leader of one of the major protest groups planning to disrupt the GOP convention said Monday she will not instruct her members to refrain from violent attacks against New York City police, delegates or city residents during a planned 250,000 person march on the night before the convention. Referring to planned protests as "a battle," Tanya Mayo, national coordinator for the protest group "Not in Our Name," told radio host Sean Hannity that her group alone has 30,000 members, but that other groups could swell that number by hundreds of thousands during a planned march up 7th Ave. to...

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NEW YORK -- A Queens man has been jailed secretly since April on suspicions he joined a Pakistani terrorism cell in a plot against targets in London, officials said Wednesday. The suspect, Mohammed Junaid Babar, was detained by the Joint Terrorism Task Force on April 10 as a material witness, according to two law enforcement officials. Babar has been in custody since then at the Metropolitan Detention Center in lower Manhattan. One of the officials, who both spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity, alleged Babar aided a plot to "blow up pubs, restaurants and train stations" in...

Terrorists turn to drug trafficking, forgery and credit card fraud after usual sources of funding are frozen LONDON - Al-Qaeda members are turning increasingly to criminal activities to fund their terror campaign. Faced with a crackdown on their usual sources of financing, they have turned to drug trafficking, counterfeiting, forgery and credit card fraud. Law enforcers are still uncertain how to tackle this new aspect of the terrorist threat. After the US-led war in Afghanistan overthrew the Taleban regime in late 2001, Al-Qaeda was forced to scatter. The freezing of about US$130 million (S$225 million) of alleged terrorist funds worldwide,...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi security forces and police surrounded a house in the capital Wednesday, Saudi security officials said, and intermittent gunfire was heard. Police surrounded the entire district of Al-Badeaa, in southwestern Riyadh, and officers at a checkpoint about a half-mile away diverted traffic to other routes. Gunfire could be heard late into the night and more security forces were seen arriving. The operation came as Saudi Arabia has stepped up the search for the kidnappers of Paul Johnson, an American who was taken hostage Saturday. Witnesses who had been diverted from the area by police speculated...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Al Qaeda had originally planned to crash hijacked planes into 10 targets in the United States and carry out simultaneous attacks in southeast Asia, the panel investigating the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks said on Wednesday. The commission issued a report saying that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, believed to be the main planner of the Sept. 11 attacks which killed nearly 3,000 people, had originally drawn up a more-extensive scheme in which he would also pilot a hijacked airplane. Al Qaeda had drawn up a list of targets that originally included the sites hit on Sept. 11 -- the...

President Reagan's death brought to the fore his outstanding accomplishment of ending the Cold War. Like American presidents before him he led the U.S. in the charge against the "evil empire" by forging alliances and sending troops to remote theaters at high cost in blood and treasury. What makes Reagan's vision for victory particularly remarkable is that it stemmed from the belief in the power of technology as both a force multiplier and a game changer. For the three and a half decades that preceded Reagan's presidency, Americans lived in the ominous shadow of a thermonuclear war that threatened to...

(snip) The proposed French law prohibiting the wearing of religious symbols in public schools was initially interpreted to include Islamic headscarves, Jewish yarmulkes and large Christian crosses. Those were the three items singled out last month in a speech by President Jacques Chirac and in a report by a blue-ribbon commission on religion and the state. Then the issue of the turban worn by Sikhs was raised, as France's tiny Sikh community protested that its boys would quit school before removing their turbans. Today, Luc Ferry, the Minister of National Education, went further. He told the National Assembly's legal affairs...

"...They promised perpetual peace. They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease. But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe..." As the British Empire declined so too did the reputation of Rudyard Kipling. A great story teller, he was, as George Orwell noted, the poet laureate of empire. Gradually Kipling came to be viewed as anachronistic and archaic. A more liberal and supposedly more tolerant view became the dominant one amongst English speaking wordsmith intellectuals, so that by the time Kipling died in 1936, socialism, communism...

David Duke To Speak Against Iraq War In Virginia This Saturday: Richmond Meeting Will Denounce Jewish Influence Over U.S. Foreign Policy By Overthrow.com Overthrow.com | February 17, 2003 2/18/03 10:28:15 AM EURO Press Release Richmond, Virginia -- David Duke to speak against Iraqi war in Richmond, Virginia, this Saturday. Says Israel, not Iraq, is a threat to world peace and American security. Richmond, Virginia, February 17, 2003 . European-American Unity and Rights Organization (EURO) National President David Duke will speak in Richmond, Virginia, Saturday, February 22, 2003 against the war with Iraq and the need to end support to Israel....

"Lib'rals!!" (To be sung to the Rolling Stones' "Some Girls") Lib'rals steal yer money...Lib'rals steal yer souls!! Lib'rals just crave Power...o'er lives that ain't their own!! Lib'rals love their "Programs"...Lib'rals love to TAX!! Lib'rals, we give most our bread to...We won't ever git it back!! Lib'rals they LOATHE Liberty...DemRATS, They Love POWER!! Lib'rals hide behind children...each time they beg fer MORE!! So give'em all YER money...Do Just What Yer Told!! Left takes more'n half of what I own... But it's Right who's doin' the Chores!! BigGuv'ment takes yer money...Leftists Corrupt Yer Souls!! Lib'rals tax the shirt off yer back...and tell...

Radical Islamists are in complete control of Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, and a handful of smaller states where a breakneck effort is underway to acquire chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. They have exported their radical revolution by supporting terror and propaganda in moderate Islamic states, insurgencies in Russi, China, the Philippines, the Balkins, and sub-Saharan Africa, and with the influence that huge worldwide financial investments bring to bear. The Islamists are aiding in the mass murder of innocent civilians in Israel, India, Pakistan, and Africa. Genocide against Christians has been going on for years in southern Sudan. Terrorists are lying...