Posted on 06/10/2003 9:35:16 PM PDT by null and void
I'll type at you in a few hours. Have a great morning.
Honey, by my 3rd week, there was NO mistaking when I was pregnant with my first child. This is incomprehensible to me. How can you not know? The baby shifts, kicks, hiccups, somersaults.
Ditto for me (but then I had a 9 1/2 lb. baby). But for my 5' 10" aunt, she started wearing maternity clothes late in her 8th month, not that she needed to, but to show people she was pregnant. She really didn't look pregnant until the last couple weeks and then it was more like she was bloated from some gas. But she sure did know she was pregnant.
But this denial of pregnancy sounds more like a woman who'd end up abandoning her baby, one of those tragic situations. I'm just glad she let someone know she was giving birth and it ended up with a live baby and a live mother.
The German defence minister, Peter Struck, blames the al Qaeda terrorist organisation for the attack on German soldiers in Kabul on Saturday. He says the suicide bomber who killed four German soldiers and wounded 29 others had contacts to the group. Struck adds that the attack was financially and logistically supported by the militia leader, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, and former Taleban. Struck says these three groups are trying to drive the international peacekeeping force out of Afghanistan.
DOHA, Qatar June 11 —
OPEC ministers were expected to keep production levels the same during their meeting Wednesday, saying they were reluctant to reduce output while Iraq is still struggling to get its oil industry back on track.
Iraqi facilities, in disrepair and damaged by postwar looting, are just beginning to resume limited production. Iraq says it hopes to export 1 million barrels a day by the end of June, but analysts say that is too optimistic.
BAGHDAD, Iraq June 11 — At least 3,240 civilians died across Iraq during a month of war, including 1,896 in Baghdad, according to a five-week Associated Press investigation.Can you spot the bias?The count is still fragmentary, and the complete toll if it is ever tallied is sure to be significantly higher.
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranians demanding reform staged their biggest protest in months on Wednesday, chanting slogans against powerful Muslim clerics they accuse of limiting freedoms and the reformist government for failing to rein them in.
Some 3,000 protesters, many of them heeding a call from U.S.-based Iranian exile satellite channels, took part in the demonstration which began as a smaller, student protest against privatizing universities.
Rest in peace and may angels greet your coming.WASHINGTON - One U.S. Army soldier was killed and another was injured Tuesday when attackers fired rocket-propelled grenades at American troops in Baghdad, Central Command said.The soldiers were attacked at a collection point for illegal weapons in the southwestern part of the Iraqi capital, Central Command said in a statement. Names of the soldiers, who were from the 2nd Brigade Combat Team of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division, were withheld Tuesday until their relatives could be notified.
New Book Hails Glory of D.H. Rumsfeld, PoetLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - You might think that he's just Secretary of Defense, but Donald H. Rumsfeld is also a poet even though he doesn't know it.
In fact, says journalist, humorist and verse compiler Hart Seely, the man's poetry has been hidden -- embedded, if you will -- deep inside his numerous press briefings and it took round-the-clock perusals of Pentagon (news - web sites) transcripts to liberate the poems, free the verses.
Seely says there's gold to be mined in Rumsfeld's words as in the poem "The Unknown," which takes pride of place in the just-published book he edited, "Pieces of Intelligence: the Existential Poetry of Donald H. Rumsfeld" (Free Press):
"As we know,
"There are known knowns.
"There are things we know we know.
"We also know
"There are known unknowns.
"That is to say
"We know there are some things
"We do not know.
"But there are unknown unknowns
"The ones we don't know we know."
Hehehehe.Take for example this poem on a woman journalist that Seely titled "'Cheating woman" in a section in the tiny 118-page book called "Nine Poems for the Media":
"She said she had a question
"And she asked three
"I asked for an easy one
"And she gave me a tough three."
Seely said he even found a Rumsfeld poem that rhymed, which he titled "Flying, Too":
"Now that is not always true.
"Think of the B fifty-two.
"It's still flying just fine, thank you.
"And so am I ... thank you."
SEOUL (Reuters) - Efforts by the United States and its allies to stop suspected North Korean smuggling of drugs and fake money do not represent sanctions against Pyongyang over its nuclear ambitions, the U.S. envoy in Seoul said on Wednesday.
U.S. Ambassador Thomas Hubbard told reporters Washington shared Seoul's goal of resolving an eight-month-old dispute of North Korea (news - web sites)'s nuclear weapons programs, but retained the option of pursuing tougher measures.
But Hubbard said it was wrong to describe policing seas for smuggled goods as sanctions against the isolated state.
"We are disturbed by North Korea engaging in narcotics trafficking and dangerous missile exports and counterfeiting that has gone on for years," he told a news conference in Seoul.
"I'm really surprised to hear law enforcement equated with sanctions," Hubbard said, referring to media reports.
Rumsfeld Says Iran May Have Nuclear Weapons SoonGARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Wednesday Iran was fast approaching a point where it may have nuclear weapons, although it did not appear to have any at present.
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"The intelligence community in the United States and around the world currently assess that Iran does not have nuclear weapons," he told a meeting with students in the southern German town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
"The assessment is that they do have a very active program and are likely to have nuclear weapons in a relatively short period of time."
Iran has denied developing nuclear weapons but has been accused by Washington of violating the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty by using undeclared nuclear material to test a uranium enrichment system.
The International Atomic Energy Agency has also accused Tehran of failing to declare it had imported uranium in 1991 or to show where and how it was processed.
Rumsfeld, on a brief visit to Germany to attend an anniversary ceremony at a U.S.-German security policy center, also said the United States would not tolerate attempts by Iran to promote a religious government in neighboring Iraq (news - web sites).
"The efforts by Iran to try to make Iraq become a model of Iran with a small group of clerics taking over the country and controlling it, we're not going to let happen," he said.
JAKARTA (Reuters) - The alleged Singapore chief of the Jemaah Islamiah Muslim militant network told an Indonesian court Wednesday the group had planned to attack U.S. military facilities in the city state.
The plans were foiled, but the comments by Mas Selamat Kastari were the first public admission by any Jemaah Islamiah leader that the radical group had targeted Singapore.
He said the order came from an Indonesian preacher called Hambali, whom Jakarta has said is the former operations chief of Jemaah Islamiah and the region's most wanted terror suspect.
"In Singapore there was a plan to use violence -- to be precise destroy -- parts of American bases there," Kastari said during the treason trial of Indonesian Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, the alleged leader of Jemaah Islamiah.
The United States has a naval logistical base in Singapore.
Correction: non-fiction should read fiction.Albany, New York-AP -- A new poll says Americans aren't swayed much in their opinion of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton by reports of her memoir.But most voters surveyed say they've either read or heard about the book, called "Living History."
The poll says eight percent of those aware of the book think more favorably of her for writing it, while 18 percent view her less favorably.
The head of the Quinnipiac (KWIN'-ihp-ee-ak) University polling institute says the message from Americans is clear: "We're talking about your book, but it doesn't much change how we think of you."
One bookstore chain says sales of Clinton's book have set a one-day record for non-fiction.
Heavily armed child soldiers are just one of the perils facing a Canadian aid worker in eastern Congo struggling to help the thousands of starving, homeless people displaced by tribal violence."It's a scary place," Philip Maher said yesterday in a satellite telephone interview from the equatorial jungle near Beni in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The 47-year-old relief officer with World Vision is originally from Toronto, but now lives in Guelph with his family.
"There are two things you see as you move around ... thousands upon thousands of displaced people and soldiers, particularly child soldiers. They are armed with AK-47s (assault rifles) and rocket launchers."
Maher said the presence of United Nations soldiers — enforcing a ceasefire between ethnic Hema and Lendu militias battling for control of Bunia, capital of the mineral-rich Ituri province — has subdued the aggression of the child soldiers and their older colleagues.
However, he had to pass through five checkpoints in the 45 minutes it took him to make his way from where he slept to the area where aid was being dispensed.
The U.N. says 500 civilians have been massacred in inter-ethnic fighting around Bunia in the past month and 50,000 have been killed since 1999.
That is just a fraction of the dead in the long civil war that has killed an estimated 3 million people, mainly from disease and starvation, since 1998 in the former Zaire.
Maher said the current fighting has displaced close to 1 million people from the Bunia region. It took refugees, fleeing the fighting, two weeks to walk to Beni.
The baby shifts, kicks, hiccups, somersaults.
Exactly! What do they think is wrong with thier bodies?? Wouldn't thier symptoms alarm them enough to see medical attention? For some reason these "I didn't know I was pregnant" women always seem to give birth in odd places, too. Wal-Mart, Wendy's, gas station bath room, etc.
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