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KEN RITTER, Associated Press WriterFriday, June 21, 2002 ©2002 Associated Press URL: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2002/06/21/state2108EDT0170.DTL (06-21) 18:08 PDT LAS VEGAS (AP) -- The FBI said it would end its investigation of a southern Nevada man's claim that he overheard a conversation about a possible terrorist attack after the man failed a polygraph test Friday. FBI Special Agent Daron Borst called the investigation "substantially complete," and Michael Hamdan's claim "not credible," after agents spent 41/2 hours questioning Hamdan and administering a lie detector test at the FBI office in Las Vegas. Hamdan, 54, told The Associated Press that he failed the polygraph test....

The AGRIBUSINESS EXAMINER June 21, 2002 #170 Monitoring Corporate Agribusiness From a Public Interest Perspective EDITOR\PUBLISHER: A.V. Krebs ADDRESS: PO. Box 2201, Everett, Washington 98203-0201 E-MAIL: avkrebs@earthlink.net WEB SITE: http://www.ea1.com/CARP/ TO RECEIVE: Name and e-mail address CONTRIBUTIONS WELCOME !!! U.S. APPEALS COURT REINSTATES LAWSUIT ALLEGING ADM AND OTHERS ENGAGED IN CORN SWEETNER PRICE FIXING SCOTT KILMAN, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: The Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated a seven-year-old civil lawsuit alleging Archer Daniels Midland Co. and its rivals rigged what is now a $2.4 billion market for a corn sweetener used in everything from soft drinks to candy....

Documents: Routier planned insurance scam before slayings 06/22/2002 By HOLLY BECKA / The Dallas Morning News Darin Routier asked his father-in-law whether he knew anyone who would burglarize his home as part of an insurance scam months before his sons were killed, according to affidavits made public Friday by his wife's defense lawyers. Robbie Gene Kee, stepfather of convicted child-killer Darlie Routier, first told his wife about the conversation two years ago, according to the lawyers. He wrote out his affidavit last month. Last year, a private investigator hired by the defense confronted Mr. Routier, who first denied having...

Iraqis who oppose President Saddam Hussein will meet in the British capital of London with 90 of their army officers in July to discuss overthrowing his regime, those organizing the meeting said Thursday. Iraqi army officers will come "from all over the world" for the July 6 to July 8 meeting, Albert Yelda of the Iraqi National Coalition told AFP news agency. All Iraqi opposition movements, large or small, have been invited to the meeting, which is scheduled to be held at an undisclosed location, he added. They will review how to topple the existing regime, Iraq's future and the...

Jeb Bush rips Davis for state of budget President's brother on fund-raising trip By Philip J. LaVelle STAFF WRITER June 21, 2002 Florida Gov. Jeb Bush yesterday blamed Gray Davis for California's record $23.6 billion budget shortfall and told a San Diego audience it would be "unconscionable" for the Democratic governor to be re-elected in November. Bush's remarks, denounced by the Davis campaign, were made during a breakfast at the U.S. Grant Hotel, one of several stops on his fund-raising swing through California. "Don't let Gray Davis talk about how his $23 billion, or soon-to-be $30 billion, budget deficit somehow...

I recently decided to participate in the National Marrow Donor Program Registry in which a blood sample is tissue typed. Should someone (that I do not know) need a donor and my tissue type be a match, I would donate marrow (or blood for peripheral stem cells).I am a big fan of Rand's, though not an orthodox Objectivist. I wonder what she would have to say about thisCertainly she considered the altruistic philosophy - self sacrifice - to be evil. Yet she did allow for voluntary charity in cases where the recipient was deserving and the donor not harmed by...

Rosie O'Donnell's weight has soared to 300 pounds -- putting her in danger of a heart attack or stroke. The 5-foot-7 comedienne is "in a fight for her life," reveals a frightened friend, adding: "Her blood pressure is through the roof." The talk queen's longtime lover -- who's four months pregnant with the child they plan to raise together -- is desperately trying to get her to lose weight. In The ENQUIRER that goes on sale Friday, you'll discover the startling reasons behind Rosie's health crisis … the secret insecurity that drives her … the effect the extra pounds are...

Remarks by Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, Arlington, VA, Thursday, June 20, 2002. Thank you, Joanne [Joanne Shirley, Chairman of the Board]. Thank you for everything that you and the members of the National League are doing to keep people focused on our unfinished business in Southeast Asia and other parts of the world. General Davis told me that he was at a dinner last night where the speaker spoke after dinner for an hour and a half, so by my count I have until midnight. [Laughter] I'll try to let you go sooner than that. I'm very...

DoD News Briefing Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld Friday, June 21, 2002 - 10:30 a.m. EDT (News Briefing at the Foreign Press Center) Rumsfeld: Thank you very much. I might make a few remarks before responding to questions. First, good morning. I'm pleased to have a chance to meet with the representatives of the news media from so many countries, countries that are making important contributions to the global war on terrorism. Needless to say, September 11th was not simply an attack on the United States, it was -- citizens from dozens of countries lost their lives that day....

MCHENRY -- The Illinois Libertarian Party will be filing petitions on Monday for the slate of statewide candidates in Fall 2002 elections. The Illinois Republican Party is concerned about the effect Libertarian Party candidate for Governor former State Rep. Cal Skinner may have on the Governor's race. Cook County Republicans are now asking for assistance in challenging the Libertarian Party slate's petitions. "I'm not surprised at all about this," said Skinner of Crystal Lake. "As a matter of fact, a challenge just like this took place in 1998, and the Secretary of State's staff was allegedly involved in going through...

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In an aggressive new effort to shut down abusive corporate tax shelters, the Internal Revenue Service plans to begin demanding that companies and accountants turn over internal work papers that the tax agency in the past largely left alone. .The papers it will seek can amount to a guide to all the questionable tax strategies a company has employed, along with its accountants' assessment of the chances the agency will disallow them, tax experts say. .The shift comes at a time when the IRS is struggling to increase its audit rates of individuals and businesses and to make the audits...

An additional 14 bodies of victims of the May 25 China Airlines crash were recovered early yesterday, bringing the number retrieved to 144, according to officials from the Aviation Safety Council. The search for the bodies of the remaining 81 dead will be given top priority, while the salvage of the aircraft wreckage will continue, sources said. The wreckage is at the bottom of the sea in the Taiwan Strait and the remains of the victims will have to be recovered before the wreckage is salvaged, a spokesman for the council said, adding that the search for the wreckage may...

To ask the question, "Can the State of Israel be both a Jewish and a democratic state?" has become very fashionable, and very painful, in recent years. I suspect that most observers of the Jewish-Arab conflict imagine that this question became a major problem before our eyes as the conflict between Jews and Palestinians has became ever more embittered. I have read much Zionist writing which imagines that in earlier times, nearer the beginnings of the new Jewish settlement in Palestine, the Jewish society was accepted as the model of democracy for Arabs. This happy vision even used to be...

MEDICAL JOURNAL EXPOSES CUBA’S BIOTERRORISM LINKMay Have Been Source of West Nile Virus, Producing Anthrax-Like ToxinsWashington -- Iraq may have unleashed the West Nile Virus in the United States via Cuba through the release of migratory birds infected with the virus, and may be producing antiobiotic-resistant toxins for future attacks, according to two articles published in The Medical Sentinel, The Official Journal of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (Volume 6, Number 4). In the first, "West Nile Virus - Is Castro’s Bioterrorism Threat Being Ignored," author Ernesto F. Betancourt, Castro’s Washington Representative in the ‘50s and former...

Israel spy ops in US /september 11 I have not heard much about this story lately should be interesting. Report tonight on 20/20

Prepare to bask. Today - summer solstice - the sun lingers its longest in the sky, almost a full 17 hours from sunup to sundown. While most of us will go about our business enjoying the promised partly sunny day, the pagans - witches, druids and such - will take time to celebrate the seasonal shift from cool spring to full-on heat wave. Some will hike up Mount Pisgah at dawn. Others plan drumming circles at dusk and potlucks on Saturday. K.C. Anton planned to sing the sun up at home with his wife, daughter and close friends in a...

<p>It's America's biggest spy organization and the principal translator of messages sent between and from foes of the United States.</p> <p>Now, with the release of information that the National Security Agency received foreshadowing terror messages on September 10, people are asking questions about the third leg of the country's intelligence tripod, which includes the CIA and the FBI.</p>

Woman executive sues over raunchy party, alleged discrimination By DEVLIN BARRETT Associated Press Writer June 21, 2002, 5:39 PM EDT NEW YORK -- A top executive at Deutsche Bank sued the company for alleged sex discrimination Friday, charging she was sent to a business meeting at which "a scantily-clad Marilyn Monroe look-alike" fondled her co-workers. Virginia Gambale, a top bank spokeswoman, filed suit in Manhattan federal court, accusing several male executives of passing her over for promotion. "The overall work environment at Deutsche Bank is inhospitable to women, particularly to those few women in higher-level positions such as Gambale's," the...

PARIS, June 20 (Reuters) - A French judge has refused an anti-racism group's request for an immediate ban on Italian writer Oriana Fallaci's controversial book which suggests the September 11 attacks had shown the true face of Islam. French anti-racism group MRAP asked Judge Herve Stephan to ban Fallaci's "Rage and Pride", saying its contents amounted to incitement of racial hatred. Stephan said on Friday he saw no point in an urgent ban because the book was already on sale in Italy and France. He referred the case to another court which will hear it on July 10. Fallaci, a...