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Powerful quake jolts Indonesia's Sumatra Island
TheNews.com.pk ^ | December 1, 2006 (Indonesia date)
Posted on 11/30/2006 8:53:27 PM PST by annie laurie
A powerful earthquake shook buildings and panicked residents across a large swath of western Indonesia on Friday, officials and witnesses said.
There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.The quake had a preliminary magnitude of 6.6 and was centered underneath northern Sumatra province, said Indonesia's Meteorological and Geophysical agency. The temblor was felt in several towns and cities in the region and lasted around 5 seconds, witnesses told local radio.
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1 posted on 11/30/2006 8:53:30 PM PST by annie laurie
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To: annie laurie
USGS has it at 6.3 currently:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/usvtad.php
2 posted on 11/30/2006 8:54:01 PM PST by annie laurie (All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost)
ON THE NET...
http://www.cia.gov
www.claudiofava.it/
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http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=25751
"The Ghost of Philip Agee"
By Kenneth R. Timmerman
FrontPageMagazine.com | November 30, 2006
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The Ghost of Philip Agee rides again.
The former CIA operations officer who made a second career out of “exposing” CIA undercover operatives and operations in the 1970s and the 1980s may not be dead yet, but his legacy lives on.
It has been picked up by a left-wing European parliamentarian from Sicily named Claudio Fava.
Agee’s scandalous book, Inside the Company: CIA Diary, was published in 27 different languages and exposed the names of more than 250 covert operations officers. Agee was stripped of his U.S. citizenship in 1979 His actions prompted Congress to pass the Intelligence Identities Protection Act in 1982.
Soviet intelligence files published by former KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin and Christopher Andrew in The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB, revealed that Agee received help from the KGB and from Cuban intelligence in his efforts to undermine the CIA and expose CIA covert operations. Today, Agee lives in Castro’s Cuba.
Claudio Fava has not needed to go so far afield. His anti-CIA operation has been funded and championed by the European Parliament.
Since January 2006, Fava has been the driving force behind the European Parliament commission to investigate CIA “secret prisons” and extraordinary renditions in Europe.
On Tuesday, Fava’s commission released a draft report that vigorously condemned the United States for apprehending terrorists on European soil and transporting them to “secret prisons” around the world.
The report called for the closure of the U.S.-run interrogation and detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, “and for European countries to accept the return of their citizens and residents who are being held illegally by US authorities.” It also “revealed” (revealed?) that the governments of eleven European who granted landing rights and provided intelligence and police assistance to the CIA in apprehending suspected terrorists “were aware” of what they were doing.
One would certainly hope so.
Fava is a former journalist, in addition to being a leading member of Democrats of the Left, which is allied to Italy’s Socialist party. Those skills stood him in good stead as he compiled an impressive and compelling investigative file on CIA covert operations in Europe that he released to the public on Tuesday."