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has ordered his security services and members of his ruling Baath party to shoot and kill anyone suspected of planning "hostile action" against his government. Most party members, who according to official statistics number about one million, carry guns and mount armed patrols in residential neighborhoods throughout the country. But their loyalty is not certain as many of them pointed their guns at Saddam's troops during uprisings that took place shortly after the 1991 Gulf War over Kuwait. A source refusing to be named told Iraq Press that Saddam's order was issued recently and has been conveyed to the security...

About once every two weeks or so, our rights hang in the balance, barely surviving the threat represented to them by the Bush administration. This is one of those times — at least it was on Monday, although by today this latest threat may already have passed.The military detention of Jose Padilla has produced one of the choruses of periodic howls from the predictable quarters, and from some unpredictable ones as well, including Alan Keyes and the New York Post's excellent film critic and columnist Jonathan Foreman.Jude Wanniski, firmly in the predictable camp, hazards to guess the reason why...

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands- A bomb blast shattered windows and blew out walls at a police post near the port city of Rotterdam in a pre-dawn attack Wednesday. The building was unstaffed and there were no injuries, police said. Police combed the area for the assailant, who apparently escaped on a motor scooter after throwing an explosive devise through the window. "The damage is enormous," said police spokeswoman Leonie Wolters. "We can no longer use the building." She said the type of explosive found in the wreckage may lead police to the attacker, but declined to give details. There had been no...

Two Arrested in Connection with US Consulate Bombing in Karachi Authorities in Pakistan have conducted a series of raids on people suspected of attacks against Westerners and of having links to the al-Qaida terrorist organization. There were a number of arrests. Officials say at least two of the detainees are being questioned in connection with last week's bomb attack on the U.S. Consulate in Karachi that killed 12 people. They say they believe the two belong to the outlawed Sunni Islamic militant group, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi - which is believed to have expanded its targets to include foreigners because of anger over...

In this day and age, States’ rights have been long forgotten. After all, is it not the federal government that takes care of everything from Welfare to Medicare to Social Security to public education? In essence, if we pay our tax dollars, then the federal government will allow us to participate in these programs. Yes, the federal government even seems to be interested in protecting your rights. Take, for example, the 1st, 2nd, 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, which protect every citizen’s civil liberties. And if the States decide to restrict one’s freedoms, the federal government is quick to get...

 Weekday Commentary from Scott Middleton Home Jobless Claims DipSource: CNN/Money   The Week in GraphsGuest EditorialJames E. Sinclair CEO & Chairman, Tan Range Exploration6/19/02  A Top in Gold at $330 or simply a Chapter in Gold's "Long Term Bull Market?" Changing Preferences The Velocity of Money & The Short Seller's NightmareGLOBAL ANALYSIS with J. R. Nyquist The Error  Thursday's Market Scoreboard  June 20, 2002  Dow Industrials 129.8 9431.77  Dow Utilities 4.51 277.08  Dow Transports 7.74 2747.36  S & P 500 13.7 1006.29  Nasdaq 32.08 1464.75  US Dollar to Yen 123.5  US Dollar to Euro .9650  Gold 3.4 323.7  Silver 0.03...

<p>May 16 was a day that customers of Bank für Kleine & Mittlere Unternehmen, a small German bank, won't soon forget. In a stormy meeting with depositers in Berlin's Karl-Liebknect-Haus, bank board Chairman Marlene Kück declared that BKMU was bankrupt and the most the depositers could expect to get back would be the 20,000 euros ($19,000) guaranteed under the state-sponsored deposit-insurance scheme. "It's an absolute scandal," said Andreas Popp, a pensioner who claims that the bank's demise will cost him tens of thousands of euros. "I had always assumed German banks were as safe as houses. Then this happens."</p>

Yasser Arafat has again called for an end to Palestinian suicide attacks on Israeli civilians because they have "nothing to do with our national rights to resist Israeli occupation and the settlement danger". A high-sounding sentiment in some eyes, perhaps, but it's sharply at odds with how most Palestinians regard the uprising which erupted at the end of September 2000. A poll last month by the Jerusalem Media and Communications Centre showed that a large majority - nearly seven out of 10 people - supported the suicide operations, about 60% of those expressing their "strong" support. The Palestinian view appears...

A civilian power reactor being built in Bushehr triggers fears that Russian scientists are secretly sharing missile technology. MOSCOW – As Aeroflot Flight 515 from Moscow begins its predawn descent into Tehran, the group of middle-aged Russian experts on board begins to fill out landing cards for Iran. Pulling out dog-eared, still-valid Soviet passports, the men write down their profession – engineer – and their destination: Bushehr, the city on the Persian Gulf that is home to Iran's nuclear-power project – and to 1,000 Russian engineers and technicians. Russia sees the Bushehr reactor as a mammoth civilian venture, an $800...

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Wednesday, June 19, 2002 Arena's stars attracting attention Chris Borg Everyone's agreed that the last eight of the World Cup features a few teams nobody would have tipped to get this far. Arena: In quarter-finals (Allsport) Senegal? South Korea? Neither of those, surely, would have been in anybody's list of quarter-finalists - probably not even those of the most optimistic Senegalese or South Korean supporter. But America? Team USA? Sorry, but that somehow seems even more outlandish. Cast your minds back to the last World Cup - the Americans' performance was (to put it politely) unconvincing, featuring three defeats...

SANTA MONICA — A Santa Monica elementary school has banned the game of tag, once synonymous with youth and innocence, because they say it creates self-esteem issues among weaker and slower children. "We had some children who were not playing 'it' appropriately. How do you differentiate between those that are playing correctly and those that aren't?" asked Franklin Elementary School Principal Pat Samarge. In the school's weekly newsletter, Samarge told parents that without adult supervision, the game would be banned. The principal said children playing tag suffered both physical and emotional injuries. "Little kids were coming in and saying 'I...

WASHINGTON- Women serving in the military overseas should not be denied their constitutional right to safe and legal abortions, Sen. Patty Murray said Thursday in trying to reverse a policy of prohibiting privately funded abortions in military hospitals abroad. Murray, D-Wash., proposed lifting the ban in an amendment to a $393 billion defense spending bill the Senate is now considering. Chances of including the measure in the defense bill that eventually goes to the president are not high. The Republican-controlled House last month, for the seventh straight year, rejected a similar amendment. The vote this year was 215-202, largely along...

WASHINGTON- Rep. J.C. Watts of Oklahoma, the fourth-ranking member of the House Republican leadership, left open the possibility of retirement on Thursday. "At this point, I don't know," he said. But Watts, the only black Republican serving in Congress, also said he never makes announcements about his plans too far in advance of Election Day and would wait until he is in Oklahoma to announce his intentions. "Fact is, I don't have to focus on re-election right now," he said. He added, "These things come up every two years, some rumor about this." Watts made his remarks at a time...

Saudi Arabia: Expats Under Attack Again 20 June 2002 Summary A car bomb killed a British banker in Saudi Arabia, the first such attack in several months. The bombing resembled a series of attacks that took place in 2000 and 2001, suggesting that perhaps the responsible party has regenerated. Analysis A British banker was killed June 20 in a suspected car bomb attack in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh. The 35-year-old man died when his vehicle exploded in the street outside a residential compound at 9:45 a.m. Saudi time. The bomb is believed to have been planted on the...

GAZA, June 20 (Xinhuanet) -- Leaders of the Islamic resistance movement Hamas announced Thursday that their armed wing would continue resistance against the Israeli military occupation of Gazaand the West Bank. Hamas spokesman Abdel Aziz Ranteesi condemned the calls of Palestinian officials and figures for halting suicide bombing attacks targeting Israeli civilians. "If we have an effective weapon in our hands and the whole worldis trying to take it off us, this kind of reaction shows it to be the most effective way," said Ranteesi, referring to suicide bombing attacks. Instead of calling for ending the military operations, those (Palestinian)...

FBI SEIZES DOCUMENTS IN CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION OF HILLARY CLINTON SENATE CAMPAIGN Storage Facility Raided, Clinton Photographs and Documents Seized Search Warrant Sought Documents Related to Hillary’s Campaign For Senate, Hollywood Tribute To Bill Clinton, Hillary’s Campaign Finance Director Also Targeted (Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, reported that the FBI seized documents relating to Hillary Clinton’s campaign for the U.S. Senate. The documents were seized in a May 30 raid of a California storage facility containing documents of Peter Paul, the entrepreneur who funded Hillary Clinton’s Senate campaign with over $2 million...

Thanks you for your June 13 editorial about taxing tobacco. We know from research that teen-age smoking goes down when the price of tobacco goes up. Cigarette smoke now kills about 500,000 Americans annually; more deaths than from alcohol (including drunken driving), cocaine, morphine, heroin, murder, suicides, car accidents, fires and AIDS combined. Alcohol not only is not in the same league as tobacco; it’s not in the same game; it need not even suit up. I saw a headline last week that 17 people have died of heroin in Maine this year. According to the Centers for Disease Control...

EL CAJON – Charles "Andy" Williams pleaded guilty today to more than a dozen felony charges stemming from the deadly shooting spree at Santana High School last year. The 16-year-old Williams now faces a minimum of 50 years to life behind bars, and a maximum of 435 years to life. Union-Tribune Andy Williams has grown to more than 6 feet tall while in custody. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Santana High School Shooting In a tense and hushed hearing, Williams answered "guilty" to a numbing litany of charges read by Superior Court Judge Herbert Exarhos. He pleaded guilty to two counts of murder and...