Posted on 05/13/2003 9:14:28 PM PDT by null and void
Bush vs Leahy:
Good Morning.
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Ditching its last legal obligation to keep itself free of nuclear weapons, North Korea said yesterday that a 1992 agreement with South Korea not to deploy nuclear arms on the Korean Peninsula was "a dead document."
Indonesian Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir tries to control his supporters during his trial in a Jakarta court yesterday. An Indonesian court ruled that treason hearings against the alleged leader of a regional militant Muslim network should proceed, dismissing defense demands the case be thrown out.
Court throws out dismissal plea
A court yesterday rejected a plea to dismiss a treason trial against the alleged leader of an al-Qaeda-linked terror group in Southeast Asia who is accused of plotting to destabilize Indonesia through deadly bombings.
They also showed Shep's little mishap with JayLo (sp?) .. I still laugh over that one
OUTSTANDING ... ROFL!!!
Iran is stuck between Iraq and a hard place
Jolted by the swift collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq, the hardline clerics who rule Iran have been cracking down on dissent at home and talking discreetly to US diplomats abroad in an effort to stave off American pressure.
WASHINGTON, May 13 (UPI) -- The State Department Tuesday night issued a travel warning to U.S. citizens in Saudi Arabia following the car bombings in Riyadh that killed 29 people, including seven Americans.
The warning urged Americans in Saudi Arabia to "consider departing the country," and reminded "of the potential for further terrorist actions against U.S. citizens abroad."
Canberra, May 14 (Dow Jones) - Australia will join as a third party a U.S. case to be brought before the World Trade Organization aimed at ending a European Union moratorium on importing genetically modified food, Trade Minister Mark Vaile said Wednesday
WASHINGTON - Zacarias Moussaoui, the only defendant U.S. prosecutors have charged with complicity in the Sept. 11 attacks, contends he was not part of that day's hijackings but was preparing for a later operation outside the United States, court papers revealed Tuesday.
That would be a smart move for the clerics to shut the heck up
WASHINGTON - U.S. forces captured two men they believe were former officials in Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's administration, a regional Baath Party leader and the former culture minister, a Pentagon official said Tuesday.
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Despite three decades of hostility between the rival Baath parties of Syria and Iraq (news - web sites), the Syrian Baathists are watching with concern how the party that ruled neighboring Iraq under Saddam Hussein has been crushed and dissolved by the U.S. forces in Iraq.
"This is illegal. In principle and according to international law, an occupation force does not have the right to dissolve a country's political organizations," said Mehdi Dakhlallah, editor-in-chief of the Syrian state-run Baath newspaper and a member of Syria's ruling Baath party.
We did not liberate the Iraqi people so they can be ruled by another dictator .. just ain't gonna happen
'Just ain't gonna happen' is exactly how I feel.
I kept hearing Clinton say 'we'll get them and bring them to justice' - and it never happened.
President Bush says that (along with his supporters), and I believe him.
Thank goodness for that.
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