**Operation Infinite Freedom - Situation Room - 2 JUN 03/Day 75 - LIVE THREAD***

Everywhere TexKat goes, or Ragtime Cowgirl transcribes... | 2 JUN 03 | null and void

[TexKat]

Progress in Mideast peace requires taking on zealots

For more than two years, President Bush has avoided getting deeply involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. And for understandable reasons. Many U.S. presidents before him, most recently Bill Clinton, tried mightily to broker a peace accord only to see their efforts dashed by extremists on both sides who have perpetuated the tragic cycle of bloodshed in the Middle East.

On Wednesday, Bush finally will try his hand as a peace negotiator when he meets in Jordan with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and new Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas. Yet Bush's diplomatic foray wouldn't be taking place without hopeful signals from Sharon and Abbas that they are willing to consider compromises to revive peace talks abandoned in 2000.

[TexKat]

Journalists Questioned in Israel Bombing

JERUSALEM - Israeli security agents interrogated several foreign journalists in connection with a suicide bombing attack by a Briton in Tel Aviv on April 30, an Israeli security source said Monday.

The bomber blew himself up in front of Mike's Place, a popular Tel Aviv bar near the U.S. Embassy, killing two musicians, a waiter and himself. Later it was discovered that a second bomber, also a British citizen, planned to explode at the same place, but his explosives malfunctioned.

[TexKat]

Journalists Questioned in Israel Bombing

JERUSALEM - Israeli security agents interrogated several foreign journalists in connection with a suicide bombing attack by a Briton in Tel Aviv on April 30, an Israeli security source said Monday.

The bomber blew himself up in front of Mike's Place, a popular Tel Aviv bar near the U.S. Embassy, killing two musicians, a waiter and himself. Later it was discovered that a second bomber, also a British citizen, planned to explode at the same place, but his explosives malfunctioned.

[TexKat]

Imam Samudra, left, talks to his lawyers during his trial in Denpasar, Indonesia, Monday, June 2, 2003. Samudra is charged with planning and executing the Oct. 12 attacks, that killed 202 people, mostly foreign tourists, at a nightclub in Bali.

Alleged Bali Bombings Mastermind on Trial

BALI, Indonesia - The Islamic militant accused of carrying out the deadly nightclub bombings on Bali raised his fist, shouted at his lawyers and then sat listlessly as prosecutors opened his trial Monday by accusing him of being a terrorist who wanted "to declare war on the United States."

Imam Samudra, 32, is accused of planning the Oct. 12 attacks, which killed 202 people, mostly foreign tourists. He is suspected of being a key figure in the al-Qaida-linked Southeast Asian terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah, believed responsible for the bombings.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

The internet has proven to be a real blessing. People are finding their own news, they aren't dumb. Bloggers may replace the VLWC journalists some day.

SOD Rumsfeld says he has a great deal of faith in the American people to find trustworthy news sources.

My faith is not as strong. Sigh. Thank God for FR and Freepers, and kindred media spirits.

[TexKat]

U.S. Troops Captured, Let Go by Iranians

WASHINGTON - Four U.S. soldiers and five civilians in two boats were taken captive by Iranians, blindfolded and interrogated before being released, U.S. Central Command said Monday. Two of the civilians were still being held.

Four soldiers from the Army's 1092nd Engineer Company, a civilian Army contractor, two civilian captains and two boat drivers were sailing up the Shatt al Arab waterway in the al Faw peninsula Sunday to pick up Iraqi South Oil Co. personnel when they were taken by force by Iranians, a spokesman, Cmdr. Dan Gage, said from Central Command headquarters in Tampa, Fla.

[NormsRevenge]

If sitting in this forum and posting news items for hours and hours is required to turn back the tide of creeping socialism and fanaticism from our shores and our institutions, then so be it.

We are blessed to be at the helm of this brave new tool meant to save the uninformed masses from their own inaction and ignorance.

LOL.. Now get back to it! ;-)

Thanks for yours and all the many others efforts in here everyday. God bless your flattened little finger tips and noses. ;-)

FR ^{power to FRee people}

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Our little part for the war effort. (^; Did I tell you at least one staffer from Sen. Frist's office has a few more tools to find the war news now?

Good night, Norm, Kat, nully, all.

[TexKat]

Qari Abdul Hai, with his head covered, leaves a Multan jail for an appearance in court in Multan, Pakistan on Monday, June 2, 2003. The Islamic militant suspected in the kidnapping of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was brought before a judge Monday and informed he had been sentenced to death for the killings of six minority Shiite Muslims.

Suspect in Pearl Case Brought to Court

MULTAN, Pakistan - An Islamic militant suspected in the kidnapping of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was brought before a judge Monday and informed he had been sentenced to death for the killings of six minority Shiite Muslims.

Qari Abdul Hai, the alleged leader of the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi militant group, was convicted in absentia for those crimes in 1998. Hai was brought to the court Monday in Dera Ghazi Khan, about 60 miles west of Multan, with a sheet over his head and his hands handcuffed.

[Socratic]

"Open Letter from an Arab-American Student (Worthwhile reading)"

10,000 thanks for posting this link!

[TexKat]

U.N. weapons inspectors reported to the Security Council on June 2, 2003 that Iraq had failed to declare what appeared to be mobile biological arms labs, but they did not back up sweeping U.S. claims of arms caches. Members of a weapons inspection team examine a trailer in northern Iraq in late April.

U.S. soldiers block former Iraqi soldiers and officers as they protest outside former Saddam Hussein's Presidential Palace Monday June 2, 2003 in Baghdad, Iraq. The protesters are demanding payment of wages for the past three months and urged the U.S. not to dissolve the Iraqi Army.

Former Iraqi soldiers and army officers argue with U.S. soldiers as they block them at the entrance to the former Saddam Hussein's Presidential Palace Monday June 2, 2003 in Baghdad, Iraq. The protesters are demanding payment of wages for the past three months and urged the U.S. not to dissolve the Iraqi Army.

A US Army soldier with the 1st Armored Division watches as Iraqis wait in line for household gas cannisters in Baghdad

Sacked Iraqi soldiers from the disbanded Iraqi army protest in front a U.S. soldier next to the headquarters of the U.S.-led administration in Baghdad, June 2, 2003. More than 3,000 angry soldiers shouted slogans and vowed to launch suicide attacks on U.S. troops unless they were given wages and compensation. Poster reads 'Pay the Salary to Iraqi Army Better from Pay Bloods of U.S.A. Army'.

U.S. soldiers remove weapons from el-Salaam mosque in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday June 2, 2003. Anti-aircraft weapons, RPGs and explosives were amongst a modest cache of weapons found on the roof of the mosque.

A Muslim cleric looks on as US soldiers remove weapons from el-Salaam mosque in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday June 2, 2003. Anti-aircraft weapons, RPGs and explosives were among a cache of weapons found on the roof of the mosque.

A U.S. soldier warns a photographer as Former Iraqi soldiers demand for payment of their wages for the past three months in Baghdad on Monday, June 2, 2003.

[TexKat]

British Prime Minister Tony Blair smiles alongside President George W. Bush before the working session of the Group of Eight (G8) summit in Evian, France, June 2, 2003. Blair insisted his government did not doctor evidence about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction to try to justify the war in Iraq.

[TexKat]

U.S. soldiers argue with former Iraqi soldiers demanding payment of their wages for the past 3 months, in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday June 2, 2003.

U.S. soldiers take an Iraqi prisoner, center in white, inside a temporary base in Fallujah, a city 30 miles west of Baghdad, Monday, June 2, 2003.

A former Iraqi Army soldier argues with a U.S. soldiers during a protest outside of the Republican Palace in Baghdad on Monday, June 2, 2003. Hundreds of former Iraqi soldiers protested outside the office compound of Iraq's U.S. occupiers, demanding pay for all troops dismissed when the American civil administrator abolished the country's military. The protest was largely peaceful, though there were a few scuffles between demonstrators and American soldiers guarding the entrance to the compound, which until the U.S. invasion was a palace compound of Saddam Hussein and his top officials.

[Howlin]

Hans Blix just HAD to get in one more swipe at Bush, didn't he?

Good riddance.

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p>Moving On To Next Thread
***Operation Iraqi Freedom***
Situation Room - Day 76-

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*sigh* Ignore the previous post...

Moving On To Next Thread
***Operation Iraqi Freedom***
Situation Room - Day 76-

[TexKat]

Thanks nully!!!

Howlin, Blixy's time has come or will he linger like Clinton.