AMERICA’S WAR ON TERROR – Day 319
The news as reported in The Washington Times:
[Note – All links go to The Washington Times’ website.]
1. Procurement agents of Iraq’s covert nuclear program were caught trying to obtain stainless-steel tubing used in gas centrifuges – a key component in the process of building a nuclear bomb.
[And Iraq says they have no WMD program.]
Iraq seeks steel used to make nukes
2. Both the House and Senate moved quickly to enact legislation cracking down on corporate fraud, as the Executive prepared to indict former WorldCom officials.
[Hopefully that will all help the stock market.]
Landmark bill enacted to stem corporate fraud
3. Maura Harty is the President’s pick to be the new visa division chief in the State Department; critics allege she didn’t do enough in previous positions to prevent women and children from being kidnapped in Mideast countries, such as Saudi Arabia.
[Based on the article, this lady may not be the wisest of choices. But then there may be some strategery involved.]
Bush pick for visa chief under fire
4. A Senate Committee cleared a bill creating the Homeland Security Department.
[A bill Ari Fleischer says is unacceptable to the Administration.]
Senate panel OKs homeland security bill
5. North Korea has made certain capitalist-like reforms to its economic system – they have instituted farmer’s markets and will allow food to transact on the market rather than with ration coupons.
[These reforms occurred because the black market had been so successful. Another triumph of capitalism over communism, despite the odds.]
Seoul sees Pyongyang flirt with capitalism
6. The DC Inspector General is investigating reports that two elected Adams Morgan officials conducted a shakedown on local bar establishments.
[These people are elected to what is called a Neighborhood Advisory Commission. This structure ought to be abolished. It serves no real function, other than to create mayhem and unnecessary bureaucracy in a city already straining under the load.]
D.C. bar owners complain of 'shakedown'
7. The Washington Redskins roster include some 39 players from southern schools, 6 from schools in Texas.
[Wonder if the President will watch them.]
Redskins take comfort in Southern exposure
We shall not rest until we have cut a swath 60-miles wide through the entire left - taking all that is before us with us as we go. We shall leave nothing to the enemy that may be of value to him. We shall show him that he may count on nothing and will be able to keep nothing, not his spirit, not his soul, not that upon which he shall feed. We shall not cease until the moment we have rent through their entire land and have arrived at the sea, with our glorious victory upon us.
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