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Where we differ with Americans Jamal Khashoggi, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, ARAB NEWS, Arab News Where we differ with Americans By Jamal Khashoggi JEDDAH, 12 April — US President George W. Bush said recently, “I mean what I say when I call upon the Arab world to strongly condemn and act against terrorist activity.” We, the Arabs, have no problem with “strongly condemning and acting against terrorist activity.” In fact, we did not need a US president to “call upon” us to do that. We have always condemned terrorism, and condemned it “strongly”. The president’s call was not for anything specific, say,...

Police want to find a red van that may be hauling some dangerous cargo and putting it in the wrong hands. A boy claims that the van is where he got hold of two grenades he thought were fire crackers. According to officials at ATF, these were live, military style smoke grenades that can cause serious injuries and burns. Sirens blared right in front of Detroit Police headquarters as the surrounding streets were being blocked off and officers with the bomb squad suited up. Around 1:30 this afternoon, a man walked into headquarters with a box containing what appeared to...

Cheney Sees 'Gathering Danger' in Iraq June 20 — DETROIT (Reuters) - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein represents a "gathering danger" to the United States, Vice President Dick Cheney said on Thursday, while warning that Washington will act preemptively against threats of terrorism. "We are greatly concerned about any possible linkup between terrorists and regimes that have or seek weapons of mass destruction," said Cheney. "In the case of Saddam Hussein, we've got a dictator who is clearly pursuing and already possesses some of these weapons," he said. "A regime that hates America and everything we stand for must never be...

An Open Letter to President Bush Khaled Al Maeena, Editor-in-Chief Arab News. Senior columnist, Asharq Al-Awsat, Al Madina, Urdu News, Gulf News, Arrab News An open letter to President Bush Dear President Bush, I hope you will appreciate the spirit in which this letter is being written. I have been a long-time admirer of the political principles of the American Founding Fathers. However, I am also someone who has come to the conclusion that those principles have been so consistently undermined in recent times that they have little or no relevance now. My intention is to give you a firsthand...

DCrisis of Confession Reflects Crisis of Confessors Interview with Father Ivan Fucek, Theologian of the Apostolic Penitentiary VATICAN CITY, JUNE 20, 2002 (Zenit.org).- A theologian adviser to the Holy See confirmed that John Paul II decided to relaunch the sacrament of God´s forgiveness in the universal Church by writing the apostolic letter "Misericordia Dei" on his own initiative. When presenting that document to the press May 2, Archbishop Julián Herranz, president of the Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legal Texts, said that the "crisis of confession is above all a crisis of confessors." To understand better the Holy Father´s...

The Plan to Have the UN Rule by John F. McManus President, The John Birch Society The very first purpose claimed for the United Nations in Article 1 of the UN Charter reads as follows: "To maintain international peace and security." The UN has always promoted itself as a champion of peace. The word "peace" (or "peaceful") appears five times in the very first sentence of Article 1. And the UN's claim that it stands only for "peace" has been repeated by journalists and government officials throughout the world ever since the organization was founded. In 1945, however, at the...

<p>In a remarkable series of experiments, University of Minnesota researchers have shown for the first time in mice that rare stem cells taken from bone marrow can form the tissue of many different organs.</p> <p>The research, led by Dr. Catherine Verfaillie of the University of Minnesota Stem Cell Institute and published in advance online Thursday by the journal Nature, is a major advance in adult stem-cell research, with implications for future medical treatments.</p>

Arab NewsSAUDI ARABIA'S FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE DAILY http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=16198 Tourism festival off to a colorful startBy Yasser Rasheed, Arab News Staff Published on Friday, June 21, 2002 JEDDAH, 21 June — Makkah Governor Prince Abdul Majeed, who is also chairman of the Tourism Committee in Jeddah, inaugurated yesterday the activities of Jeddah Tourism Festival at the Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Stadium in the presence of thousands of visitors. Jeddah Governor Prince Mishaal ibn Majed, chairman of the executive committee of the festival, was also present. The inauguration kick-started a number of popular programs to mark the two-monthlong festival. Prince Abdul Majeed noted...

Arab NewsSAUDI ARABIA'S FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE DAILY http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=16195 Boycotting US goods: No faltering pleaseBy Nourah Abdul Aziz Al-Khereiji Published on Friday, June 21, 2002 A recent report that airline reservations from the Kingdom to the United States were 40 percent of what they were last year shocked me. I had hoped that the number of Saudis traveling to the United States this year would be only five percent of what they were last year. It is understandable that there are emergency situations in which businessmen or students will have to go to that country.How can we Arabs want to go...

Batajnica exhumation begins 18:19 BELGRADE, Thursday – Exhumation and autopsy of a large number of unidentified bodies found in the outer Belgrade area of Batajnica began on June 1, the Belgrade District Court announced today. The court’s investigating judge, Milan Dilparic, told B92 that two mass graves had so far been discovered at the site, which lies within the police anti-terrorist unit’s training compound. The first graves were excavated on the same site in June last year. To November last year, 305 bodies had been found in two excavations in Batajnica. They included the bodies of women, children and the...

<p>Terrified partygoers in an East Village bar watched in horror yesterday as a crazed gunman went on a racially motivated rampage, shooting three people and spraying hostages with gasoline while threatening to burn them alive, cops and witnesses said.</p> <p>"It's time for all of you crackers to pay - you know what this is about," Steven Johnson, 34, reportedly snarled as he jammed a gun against the head of one woman and ordered her to tie up 16 other hostages.</p>

So, how long do you hold a grudge? Do you teach it to your children like the Hatfields and McCoys?When I read that the Arabs were teaching their children to hate England, America, Israel, and assorted others I noticed that they started with the Crusades.I expect they left out this part of history, the battle of Tours and the invasion by the Saracens of Spain from 711 to 715.This has been going on a long time. It has been going on since the start of Christianity, since the beginning of Judaism. That's a few thousand years.  Medieval Sourcebook: Arabs, Franks,...

Witnesses: Israeli Tanks Roll Into Nablus June 20, 2002 09:48 PM ET NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli armor rolled into the West Bank city of Nablus before dawn on Friday, just hours after Palestinian militants killed six Israelis in a near-by Jewish settlement, Palestinian witnesses said. Dozens of tanks and armored vehicles, including bulldozers, entered the city from three different directions. Some of them surrounded the Balata refugee camp on Nablus's southern outskirts and others rumbled toward the main government headquarters, the witnesses and security officials said. In the western sector of the city, troops opened fire sporadically, but...

The 50 Worst Movies of All TimeIt’s a scientific fact that four out of five flicks cause headache, nausea, and vomiting. But which cause severe gunbarrelsuckingitis?Maxim, July 200250. Can’t Stop the Music (’80)By 1980 disco was gasping on life support. Unfortunately, nobody told the Village People it was time to pull the plug. So moviegoers were subjected to this last ode to mirror balls, disguised as an inspirational biopic of how the group’s construction worker, cop, Indian, GI, cowboy, and biker joined forces and learned to spell YMCA.49. Harley Davidson & the Marlboro Man (’91)Dress up pretty boy Don Johnson...

In the wake of a suicide bomb attack Tuesday on a crowded Jerusalem city bus that killed 19 people and wounded at least 70 more, the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, took credit for the blast. Israeli officials called it the deadliest attack in Jerusalem in six years. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon immediately vowed to fight "Palestinian terror" and summoned his cabinet to decide on a military response to the organization that Sharon had once described as "the deadliest terrorist group that we have ever had to face." Active in Gaza and the West Bank, Hamas wants to liberate all...

Does viewing images of barbarism strengthen us or demoralize us? That may have once been a question for media theorists, but the horrific images of decapitated Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl -- available on the Internet – have made it a pressing matter for us all. After murdering Pearl, his Islamofascist kidnappers edited and distributed a ghastly video of their butchery that included statements by the reporter -- clearly made under duress – as well as scenes from the continuing conflicts in the Middle East and South Asia.  The question of whether to watch these images has turned...

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What do you think about the fact that we are doing everything we can as a nation to capture thug terrorists, but you can still walk over our southern border anytime, day or night, and never have to worry about being captured? Many women are complaining, as I am, that we are being virtually molested at the airport prior to getting on an aircraft, and all in the name of national security, yet our southern border is as porous as it has ever been. Doesn't that make you mad, all you ladies out there who have had a some guy's...