[HipShot]

From the "holiest of holys, now holier than ever" department:

Smoke Billowing from Imam Ali Mosque!

CNN producer says area around Mosque has been decimated.

Moqtada Al Sadr may not be inside mosque after all, damage for now has been restricted to the two minarets. (long pole like thingys on the outside)

US Marines now 'ringing' the mosque.. (dont know if that means a telephone call or bullet wise)

Could be a final warning telephone call

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1194722/posts

[jerseygirl]

Incident near Harrisburg PA:


Train Carrying Hazardous Material Derails

POSTED: 11:37 am EDT August 19, 2004

ENOLA, Pa. -- A Norfolk-Southern freight train derailed early Thursday morning at the Enola rail yards in Cumberland County.

A Norfolk-Southern spokesman said four cars jumped the tracks.

Two of the cars were carrying the hazardous materials chlorine and potassium hydroxyl, but no leaks were found, officials said.

Norfolk-Southern said the cars should be back on the tracks Thursday afternoon.

Copyright 2004 by TheWGALChannel.com.

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From the "computers DO know what they're doing" Department:

Clerical error puts Kennedy on "no fly" list

CAPITOL HILL The Senate Judiciary Committee has heard this morning from one of its own about some of the problems with airline "no fly" watch lists.

Massachusetts Democrat Ted Kennedy says he had a close encounter with the lists when trying to take the U-S Airways shuttle out of Washington to Boston.

The ticket agent wouldnt let him on the plane. His name was on the list -- in error. After a flurry of phone calls, Kennedy was able to fly home, but then the same thing happened coming back to Washington.

Kennedy says it took three calls to Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge to get his name stricken from the list. The process took several weeks, in all.

And Kennedy asks -- what about the little guy?

http://www.whbf.com/Global/story.asp?S=2195545