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ON THE NET...
http://littlegreenfootballs.com
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=19752_Gaddafi_at_Columbia_University
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=19752_Gaddafi_at_Columbia_University#comments
Planned protests in Italy prompt warning for Americans
Political demonstrations in Italy can reach fever — and sometimes violent — pitch, which has prompted the U.S. State Department to warn Americans traveling to or living in Italy to be cautious in light of next month’s national elections.
“There is a higher state of alert in Italy due to the run-up of political elections,” said Benedict Duffy, a spokesman at the U.S. Embassy in Rome.
“Demonstrations are planned in various parts of the country in anticipation of the upcoming Italian Parliamentary elections April 9 and 10, and municipal elections in May,” reads a portion of the State Department’s public announcement, posted Tuesday on the department’s Web site. The alert expires June 19.
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=35944
Thank you for the headsup JP.
US Troops Attacked After Saddam-Bin Laden Pact
U.S. forces in Saudi Arabia were attacked by al Qaeda twice in the months following Saddam Hussein's decision to approve Osama bin Laden's request for help in attacking "foreign forces" in Saudi Arabia.
An Iraqi intelligence document released last week states that bin Laden met in Sudan with senior Iraqi intelligence agents on Feb. 19, 1995, where he requested help in conducting "joint operations against foreign forces" in Saudi Arabia.
Saddam "was informed of the details of the meeting in our letter 370 on March 4, 1995," the Iraqi intelligence memo explains.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/3/23/95830.shtml
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Palo Verde water spills investigated
Feds probe tritium levels at nuclear plants
ROCKVILLE, Md. - Prompted by a string of accidental radioactive discharges, federal monitors said Wednesday that they have formed a task force to investigate the spills at several power plants across the country, including one at the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station in Wintersburg.
"It does appear that it's bang, bang, bang, one right after the other," Steve Klementowicz, a Nuclear Regulatory Commission senior health physicist, said of discharges of radioactive tritium-laced water at nuclear plants in Arizona, Illinois and New York.
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0323nuke-taskforce0323.html
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http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/js4134.htm
March 23, 2006
JS-4134
U.S. Designates Al-Manar as a Specially Designated Global
Terrorist Entity
Television Station is Arm of Hizballah Terrorist Network
The U.S. Department of the Treasury today designated pursuant to Executive Order 13224 al Manar, a satellite television operation owned or controlled by the Iran-funded Hizballah terrorist network. Additionally designated today were al Nour Radio and the Lebanese Media Group, the parent company to both al Manar and al Nour Radio.
Al Manar and al Nour
Al Manar and al Nour are the media arms of the Hizballah terrorist network and have facilitated Hizballah's activities.
"Any entity maintained by a terrorist group – whether masquerading as a charity, a business, or a media outlet – is as culpable as the terrorist group itself," said Stuart Levey, Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence.
Al Manar has employed multiple Hizballah members. One al Manar employee engaged in pre-operational surveillance for Hizballah operations under cover of employment by al Manar.
Al Manar and al Nour have supported fundraising and recruitment efforts by Hizballah. Al Manar raised funds for Hizballah through advertisements broadcast on the network and an accompanying website that requested donations for the terrorist organization. As recently as late 2005, Hizballah-affiliated charities aired commercials on al Manar, providing contact information and bank account numbers for donations. Moreover, Hizballah Secretary General Nasrallah publicized an invitation for all Lebanese citizens to volunteer for Hizballah military training on al Manar and al Nour.
In addition to supporting Hizballah, al Manar has also provided support to other designated Palestinian terrorist organizations, including the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, notably transferring tens of thousands of dollars for a PIJ-controlled charity. PIJ is listed as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist and a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the U.S. Government, and is also named on the European Union's list of terrorist entities.
Hizballah Secretary General Hasan Nasrallah, along with Hizballah's Executive Council, managed and oversaw the budgets of al Manar and al Nour.
The Lebanese Media Group
The Lebanese Media Group is the parent company of both al Manar and al Nour. Prominent Hizballah members have been major shareholders of the Lebanese Media Group.
Background on Hizballah
Hizballah is a Lebanon-based terrorist group. Until September 11, 2001, Hizballah was responsible for more American deaths than any other terrorist organization. Hizballah is known or suspected to have been involved in numerous terrorist attacks throughout the world, including the suicide truck bombings of the U.S. Embassy and U.S. Marine Corps barracks in Beirut in 1983 and the U.S. Embassy annex in Beirut in September 1984. Hizballah also executed the 1985 hijacking of TWA Flight 847 en route from Athens to Rome and assumed responsibility for the suicide bombing of the Israeli embassy in Argentina in 1992. It also attacked the Israeli cultural center in Buenos Aires in 1994.
On January 25, 1995, the Annex to Executive Order 12947 listed Hizballah as a Specially Designated Terrorist. The Department of State designated Hizballah as a Foreign Terrorist Organization in 1997. Additionally, on October 31, 2001, Hizballah was designated as a Specially Designated Global terrorist under Executive Order 13224.
Today's action prohibits transactions between U.S. persons and the designated entities and also freezes any assets they may have under U.S. jurisdiction.
The U.S. Department of State added al Manar to the Terrorism Exclusion List (TEL) in December 2004. For more information on this action, please visit: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2004/40081.htm.
ON THE NET...
http://www.internet-haganah.com/jihadi/hizballah.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=hezbollah
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=hizballah
Jim is raging on McCain, rightfully so, but it has to be sardonic humor
Is it humor?
Welcome Cindy...listening to a gangbanger shooting, happening in our 16th-17th districts in a few locations simultaneously, Kings and ??? Not all that far (5139 W. School) relatively good area, the banger who did the shooting seems to have an Escalade, drugs pay huh?
3/4 of Freeper's seem to hope so, we all pray so, what topic was it posted in Cindy?
OFF TOPIC:
DuPont's Teflon Coverup
Pg 1 of 3
Teflon® is in household products we use every day, from the coatings on our non-stick pots and pans to the stain resistant coating on the clothes we wear, but evidence is coming to light that this miracle chemical is not as safe as DuPont has lead us to believe. Court records and internal documents have shown that DuPont® has been covering up the true dangers of Teflon for decades.
http://environmentalchemistry.com/yogi/environmental/200603tefloncoverup.html
News.
TERROR'S U.S. BREEDING GROUND
March 23, 2006 -- IN Anaheim, Calif., last week, a banquet to raise money for a former Florida professor drew top officials from a host of "mainstream" Muslim-American civic groups - the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Muslim Public Affairs Council, the American Muslim Taskforce and the American Muslim Alliance.
The honored professor? Sami Al-Arian - who was indicted in 2003 for raising money for terror groups.
At a 1991 rally in Cleveland, Al-Arian was introduced as the head of the "active arm" of the Islamic Jihad in the United States. In 1996, federal agents testified that organizations he founded were "fronts for the purpose of fund-raising activities for the Islamic Jihad," which has launched scores of terrorist attacks in Israel.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5351
Prospects of Terror: An Inquiry into Jihadi Alternatives
~A Compelling Read
The first campaigns of the Long War are drawing to a close. The Jihadis have lost the opening rounds. What next?
There’s an unconscious conviction that what happens next is… nothing. We go back to everyday life, the way things were before all that unpleasantness in lower Manhattan and Washington those long years ago. We shut out the harmful, hateful world once again, go our own way, and forget about jihads, and suicide belts, and dirty bombs, and beheadings, and all the other nightmares that have filled our days since 2001.
Unfortunately, that doesn’t seem to be in the cards.
What happened on 9/11 was not an earthquake, over and done quickly, but a long, slow and complete reshuffling of the tectonic plates that comprise human civilization; something comparable to the deaths of empires and the passing of eras. Such events are not over in a day, or a year, or a decade. They take their time. And when it ends at last the world will be a different place, in ways that we now have no way of knowing. But the part we have played in it will, in some shape or form, match our position when it’s all over, American or European or Arab, Muslim or Christian or Secular.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5345
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http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5348
part 3 should be printed the 24th
Thank you JP.
Articles from The American Thinker are very well written.
Well, I'm hoping that knowing JR that he would post it as a popup like Freepathon or at least an annoucement on the home page, there is none. So I'm hopinh that being news is also activism he is rallying against McCain
Drug dealing may pay in the short-term, BUT IT NEVER PAYS in the long run.
This is like In gada davida baby, it just goes on and on...
U.S. Hiring Hong Kong Co. to Scan Nukes
WASHINGTON (AP) - In the aftermath of the Dubai ports dispute, the Bush administration is hiring a Hong Kong conglomerate to help detect nuclear materials inside cargo passing through the Bahamas to the United States and elsewhere.
The administration acknowledges the no-bid contract with Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. represents the first time a foreign company will be involved in running a sophisticated U.S. radiation detector at an overseas port without American customs agents present.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060324/D8GHKOIOI.html
LOL w/ tears in my eyes, him and Magilla Gorilla...
'Boola Boola': Yale's fight song
The recent discovery of documents from the song's author is helping put some of the mystery to rest.
Contrary to popular myth, "boola" doesn't mean anything in Hawaiian, and the song wasn't written by Cole Porter. The author was 1901 Yale graduate Allan M. Hirsh, who adapted the song from an 1898 song called "La Hoola Boola."
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