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***Operation Infinite Freedom - Situation Room - 5 JUN 03/Day 78***
Everywhere TexKat goes, or Ragtime Cowgirl transcribes... | 5 JUN 03 | null and void

Posted on 06/04/2003 11:04:33 PM PDT by null and void

Operation Infinite Freedom


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Good Morning.

Welcome to the daily thread of Operation Infinite Freedom - Situation Room.

It is designed for general conversation about the ongoing war on terror, and the related events of the day. Im addition to the ongoing conversations related to terrorism and our place in it's ultimate defete, this thread is a clearinghouse of links to War On Terrorism threads. This allows us to stay abreast of the situation in general, while also providing a means of obtaining specific information and mutual support.


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: baghdadbob; bellygirl; freedom; iraq; saddam; warlist
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Dutch court acquits 12 on terrorist charges

A Dutch court has acquitted 12 men accused of plotting a holy war against the West and of helping to recruit Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters in the Netherlands.

The court found there was no evidence to convict the men.

The prosecution's case was damaged during the three-and-a-half week trial, when judges ruled evidence provided by the Dutch secret service inadmissible.

The court has also issued a rebuke to the prosecutors, accusing them of mistakes and carelessness.

The public prosecutor's office says it is planning an appeal.

It is the second major case lost by Dutch public prosecutors pursuing Al Qaeda-linked charges in the past six months.

A court in December cleared two men of plotting to bomb the US embassy in Paris, also due to insufficient evidence.

141 posted on 06/05/2003 5:23:54 PM PDT by TexKat
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Heads up: USS Ronald Reagan to be commissioned July 12
USS Ronald Reagan Official Website ^ | 6/5/03

Posted on 06/05/2003 8:15 PM EDT by Wolfstar

PHOTO CAPTION: AIRCRAFT CARRIER REAGAN RETURNS -- The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), returns to Northrop Grumman Newport News Thursday afternoon, May 8, after successful builder's trials. During builder's trials, the ship undergoes extensive testing in a variety of areas. Ronald Reagan is the ninth Nimitz-class ship built by Northrop Grumman Newport News. It will be commissioned by the U.S. Navy on July 12, 2003, at the Norfolk Naval Base in Norfolk, Va. Photo by John Whalen, Northrop Grumman Newport News.

Latest word on her home port is that it will be San Diego.


142 posted on 06/05/2003 5:55:42 PM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl ("It took us 11 years from the Articles of Confederation to a Constitution."-Rummy re. Iraq, 6-5-03)
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To: RightWingMama
Oh, I don't know....how bout The Bent One running for Gov. of California or New York???

And...how about a movie called Hillary's Choice on A & E.

143 posted on 06/05/2003 6:00:09 PM PDT by Carolina
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Okay folks what is up with these unstable individuals (are they just unstables or something more) in the Melbourne area and commercial airplanes. Did they just have a release of unstable individuals from mental institutions. This is the second distruption aboard a flight in that area in last week or so.

Security vehicles surround the Virgin Blue plane after a man allegedly threatened the flight.

Man in custody after flight scare. 06/06/2003. ABC News Online

Doctors will assess a Melbourne man at a mental health unit this morning, after an incident on a Virgin Blue flight at Melbourne Airport yesterday.

The flight to Brisbane with 144 people on board was preparing for take off yesterday afternoon, when a man was overheard making a series of threats.

Police boarded the plane and arrested the 30-year-old without a struggle.

He was not found to be carrying a weapon and police are refusing to reveal details about the nature of the threats he is said to have made.

After being questioned at the airport for several hours, the man was transferred to a mental health unit at an undisclosed location.

He is expected to undergo psychiatric assessment this morning, before police decide whether to lay charges against him.

144 posted on 06/05/2003 6:06:07 PM PDT by TexKat
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Top UNICEF official calls for legalized and unionized prostitution
Catholic World News ^| June 5, 2003

Posted on 06/05/2003 7:17 PM EDT by Canticle_of_Deborah

New York, Jun. 05 (C-fam.org/CWNews.com) - On Tuesday, a high-ranking UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) official called for the legalization of prostitution and for UNICEF to make condoms available "for everybody, everywhere and at all times." Speaking at the annual session of UNICEF's Executive Board, Urban Jonsson, UNICEF Eastern and Southern African Regional Director, said that UNICEF would need to pursue such "controversial ideas ... in the near future if we are to win the war against HIV/AIDS."

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Greg Kelly's troops found UNICEF supplies at Uday's palaces on Apr.9, didn't they?

Now we know why Halloween was UNICEF collection day. I feel so used.

145 posted on 06/05/2003 6:06:31 PM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl ("It took us 11 years from the Articles of Confederation to a Constitution."-Rummy re. Iraq, 6-5-03)
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Al-Arian loses bid for speedy trial, case scheduled for 2005

A former professor accused of terrorism lost his bid Thursday for an immediate trial and could spend the next 18 months jailed under what he calls inhumane and unfair conditions before his case is heard.

Sami Al-Arian and three other men indicted as the U.S. operatives of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad will not go to trial until January 2005, U.S. District Judge James Moody decided. That decision now sets the stage for a series of legal battles in the mammoth and complex case.

Al-Arian's co-defendants wanted the delay so their attorneys could wade through thousands of hours of recorded telephone conversations, the contents of 30 computer hard drives and cases of documents gathered in the nine-year investigation of Al-Arian's Islamic charity and academic think tank.

Prosecutors say Palestinian Islamic Jihad is a terrorist group responsible for 100 murders in Israel and its territories. Al-Arian, a computer engineering professor who was fired by the University of South Florida after his indictment, has denied advocating violence.

Al-Arian and his attorneys, frustrated by their lack of success in winning any concessions since his February indictment, are already striking back.

Al-Arian, who is being held in a federal prison 80 miles north of Tampa, refused Thursday to participate in a video conference of the hearing fearing the judge won't yield to his requests to be physically present during court. His defense attorneys are refusing to apply for security clearances to view some of the evidence in the case saying doing so would set them up for breaking the law when they share that information with Al-Arian.

"We are drawing a line in the sand," Al-Arian attorney Jeffery Brown said. "This has been Big Brother."

The attorneys said they also will push to have all the 21,000 hours of recorded telephone conversations the FBI gathered in its nine years of investigating Al-Arian declassified. They also intend to renew their efforts to have him moved from the federal prison in Coleman because of difficulties traveling there and communicating with Al-Arian.

146 posted on 06/05/2003 6:36:01 PM PDT by TexKat
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United States Suspects Government Role in Suu Kyi Ambush

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Thursday it suspected "government-affiliated thugs" of staging an ambush against Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

The State Department called on the Myanmar government to provide a full account of the incident last Friday, in which diplomats believe Suu Kyi may have been injured.

Soon after the incident in the north of the country the authorities took Suu Kyi into what they called "protective custody." She has not had access to visitors since.

US lawmakers seek Myanmar sanctions, say Aung San Suu Kyi in "grave danger"

Suu Kyi 'has head injuries'

India concerned over Aung San Suu Kyi detention

147 posted on 06/05/2003 7:01:52 PM PDT by TexKat
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TRICK OR TREAT

148 posted on 06/05/2003 7:36:58 PM PDT by TexKat
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Blix: Finding Iraq Weapons' Fate Improves

UNITED NATIONS - Chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix said Thursday the chances of discovering whether Saddam Hussein destroyed or concealed all illegal weapons are much better now because of "the new environment in Iraq."

With controversy swirling over the American and British failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, Blix appeared before the U.N. Security Council to present his final report on the search for chemical and biological weapons, with his inspection teams barred from returning to Iraq by the United States.

"I trust that in the new environment in Iraq, in which there is full access and cooperation, and in which knowledgeable witnesses should no longer be inhibited to reveal what they know, it should be possible to establish the truth we all want to know," Blix said.

Speaking to reporters later, he refused to criticize the Bush administration, though he said any inspectors working "under an occupation of a few foreign states cannot have the same credibility internationally as international inspectors would."

149 posted on 06/05/2003 7:42:51 PM PDT by TexKat
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Official DoD Releases:
 
*Background Briefing on IAEA Nuclear Safeguards and the Tuwaitha Facility - June 5
*Rumsfeld Prepared Testimony on National Security Personnel System - June 4
*DoD Briefing on Policy and Intelligence Matters - June 4

150 posted on 06/05/2003 7:45:35 PM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl ("It took us 11 years from the Articles of Confederation to a Constitution."-Rummy re. Iraq, 6-5-03)
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To: retrokitten
The Ducks aren't out of it yet... but they will need to get an early lead in game 6. New Jersey got MANY bounces tonight. It will be tough for the Ducks, but if they can get it to game 7 anything is possible.

The Hawks have the 14th selection in the draft... I know they need defensemen, but since NHL draftees are usually 3 years out, you really can't draft any needs. Any word on what the Hawks will do on draft day? If Thomas Vanek or Zach Parise can drop to the Hawks at 14, it will be a steal!!

151 posted on 06/05/2003 7:46:37 PM PDT by CurlyBill (Voter fraud is one of the primary campaign strategies of the Democrats!!!!)
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Bechtel Plans to Recruit More Iraqi Firms

The San Francisco-based company, which was awarded a $680 million contract to direct Iraq's reconstruction, announced last week it had hired its first Iraqi construction company and will hold a conference in Baghdad to invite Iraqi firms to bid for projects.

"Our goal is to ensure the maximum participation of Iraqis," said Valerie Kazanjian, a company spokeswoman. "We want to revitalize the economy. We want to make sure the money is going back to Iraq."

But a report Thursday by three watchdog groups criticized the company's record, alleging "environmental destruction, disregard for human rights and financial mismanagement" during its 100-year history building power plants, water systems and roads.

152 posted on 06/05/2003 7:49:17 PM PDT by TexKat
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To: TexKat
Trick of Treat...can I choose the goat behind door #2 instead? (^:

Q: How do you confuse a blonde?
A: Tell her that the same people who predicted hundreds of thousands of casualties and a massive refugee crisis are now condemning US intelligence for supplying inaccurate information about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.

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A philosopher responds to the legalists (a NON-wanker!):
By Keith Burgess-Jackson

153 posted on 06/05/2003 7:52:52 PM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl ("It took us 11 years from the Articles of Confederation to a Constitution."-Rummy re. Iraq, 6-5-03)
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Light reading for the end of the day:

Remember the Alamaut
Tech Central Station ^ | 6-05-03 | Russell Seitz

 
 TCS 
You have to hand it to the French - they produce some mighty interesting historians.

How would Fernand Braudel (whose long vu of history earned him the reputation of the mightiest hedgehog of them all) or a shrewd political observer like Raymond Aron construe the failure of the media to take a longer view of the problem of escalating terror?

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Night, all.

154 posted on 06/05/2003 7:54:26 PM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl ("It took us 11 years from the Articles of Confederation to a Constitution."-Rummy re. Iraq, 6-5-03)
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"Tens of thousands of rightist Israelis, many of them Jewish settlers, rallied Wednesday night in the center of Jerusalem and vehemently denounced the prospect of a Palestinian state as set out by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
And in the volatile Gaza Strip, militant Palestinian groups said they were not prepared to lay down their arms and strongly rejected the latest Middle East peace plan as an American concoction being forced upon Palestinians.."


So what else is new?
155 posted on 06/05/2003 7:55:07 PM PDT by Publicus (Come November, We'll Remember)
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To: Carolina
Yassir has had YEARS to resolve the situation and failed.

He should shut-up and give the others a chance now.
156 posted on 06/05/2003 7:58:01 PM PDT by Publicus (Come November, We'll Remember)
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To: Carolina
They FOUND at least TWO mobile weapons labs.

And I suppose the toxins that were found in the Tigris river were just mouthwash...
157 posted on 06/05/2003 7:59:52 PM PDT by Publicus (Come November, We'll Remember)
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Thanks for posting these!
158 posted on 06/05/2003 8:01:35 PM PDT by Publicus (Come November, We'll Remember)
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To: retrokitten
Thanks sooo much for posting the TERRIFIC photos!
159 posted on 06/05/2003 8:02:55 PM PDT by Publicus (Come November, We'll Remember)
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Arafat says Sharon offered "nothing on the ground"; four new deaths

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AFP) - Yasser Arafat charged that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon offered Palestinians nothing "on the ground" at a US-led summit, while four new deaths gave an internationally backed peace roadmap its first real test.

The veteran Palestinian leader's criticism came as hardliners on both sides indicated they could fiercely oppose the pledges made at Wednesday's Aqaba summit by the right-wing Sharon and his moderate Palestinian counterpart and Arafat rival, Mahmud Abbas.

But there was also a stark reminder that the summit offered no quick fixes to the bloody conflict as four people -- two young Israelis and two Palestinian militants from the Islamic group Hamas -- were killed.

"Until now, Sharon has done nothing on the ground," Arafat told reporters following a meeting with a UNICEF official in his battered compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

160 posted on 06/05/2003 8:03:32 PM PDT by TexKat
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