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<p>For $2,000, anyone - including terrorists - can get a car and dress it up to look like a New York police vehicle, a Post investigation has found.</p> <p>Last week, state officials alerted law enforcement to be on the lookout for terrorists with fake ambulances or police vehicles.</p>

w w w . h a a r e t z d a i l y . c o m Powell: U.S. will respect electoral choice of Palestinian people The United States will respect the electoral choice of the Palestinian people and, if they choose Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat, "we will deal with the circumstances as we find them," U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Tuesday. U.S. President George W. Bush said in a speech on Monday that the Palestinians can have a state only if they choose a new leadership "not compromised by terror" -...

Federal regulators are looking into claims that Sun Microsystems Inc. discriminated against U.S. workers in favor of foreign workers on temporary visas during the company's November layoffs, according to a Sun spokeswoman. Info on the layoff itself here.

SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) - Police investigating the kidnapping of a 14-year-old Salt Lake City girl said on Tuesday they had confiscated three cars from a handyman who once worked for the girl's father and who was now at the "top of the list" of people they are questioning. Police said the three cars included one that handyman Richard Albert Ricci had received from the girl's father, Ed Smart, in exchange for work he did at Smart's million-dollar Salt Lake City home. "We want information concerning the whereabouts of Mr. Ricci and his activities with any of these cars between...

Tuesday June 25, 2002; 5:29 p.m. EDTMartha Stewart: Democrat Mega-Donor Embattled doyenne of domesticity Martha Stewart has been a major Democratic Party donor for most of the 1990's, giving the legal maximum to the campaigns of Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton and Al Gore, along with more than a hundred thousand dollars in additional cash to related Democratic causes. Federal Election Commission records reviewed by NewsMax.com showed that Stewart has given nearly $170,000 to Democratic Party accounts since 1992, including $3,000 to Bill Clinton for his 1992 and 1996 presidential campaigns, $2,000 for Gore's 2000 White House bid and $1,000...

w w w . h a a r e t z d a i l y . c o m Belgian court to decide Wed. on PM trial for Sabra and Chatilla A special Belgian court is to announce its decision Wednesday on whether to accept a Lebanese Palestinian's complaint against Prime Minster Ariel Sharon for his role in the 1982 massacre at the Sabra and Chatilla refugee camps during the Lebanon war. Legal sources in Belgium said Wednesday's decision would be the final one in a process that began a year ago when survivors of the massacres went...

<p>He gets good grades, runs track in middle school, and zooms around on a skateboard. He wolfs down his food and drinks a gallon of milk a day. He's a typical, healthy 14-year-old, everybody says.</p> <p>Everybody, that is, except his mother.</p>

RABAT (Reuters) - Morocco has arrested three more Moroccans suspected of plotting attacks on U.S. and British warships for Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda group, according to a security investigator. The three men, who include a policeman and court clerk, were arrested at the weekend and are in custody at a Casablanca jail with three Saudis and four Moroccans arrested in recent weeks on suspicion of links to the alleged plot. "We arrested three new suspects linked to al Qaeda terrorist network...The three are now held in Oukacha prison with the other seven accused," the investigator, who declined to be...

I am looking for some information/advice about modern technology in the trucking industry, and I was hoping to find some Freepers out there who might be able to help me. I am particularly interested in on-board vehicle navigation systems and the types of information that can be reported through them for individual vehicles. What I am looking for is not for my own use within this industry, but is more of a general idea about the availability of data that trucking companies would collect for themselves. Instead of posting my request here I’ll send the details to anyone who is...

Reported FBI is raiding (and they did use the term "raiding") the home of a Ft. Detrick researcher in connection with the Anthrax case. Didn't have any further info, just came in.

Palestinians Say Bush Is an Obstacle to Peace June 25, 2002 By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) - Ordinary Palestinians branded President Bush an obstacle to peace Tuesday, saying his Middle East policy speech would encourage Israel to go on occupying the West Bank and Gaza Strip. "It was a silly speech by a silly and weak president," said teacher Ahmed A'lesh. "It would have been better if Bush had shut up instead of inciting against (Palestinian President Yasser) Arafat and branding us with 'terrorism."' Bush, in the long-awaited speech Monday night, said the United States would support the creation of...

I am asking Freeper help and advice on this. There is a certain Sheriff Deputy in Atlanta who works as a side job at an abortion clinic. The last two weekends, he has arrested "little old ladies" for being on the sidewalk. Ginny was first, and now Louise. The City of Atlanta will not honor his arrest, and he must summons Sheriff Deputy cars to take his "notorious" "little old ladies" to jail. This smells of RICO and other things. Additional, the escorts for the abortion clients are supposedly involved in Witchcraft (one witch and one warlock, if my understanding...

I have a crazy question to ask which was prompted by my listening to today's Rush Limbaugh show. Does anyone have any large machinery that could dig ditches, faster than the firemen, around these forest fires? Rush brought up the point that large digging machines could make the areas fire-proof much faster, and a lot easier, than manually digging ditches. I had never considered that before. Is there a reason, other than possibly messing up the dirt in the forest, why some large construction company can't loan out their workers to get these fires under control? If it is possible...

<p>NEW YORK (AP) --  After analyzing six decades of expert research on corporal punishment, a psychologist says parents who spank their children risk causing long-term harm that outweighs the short-term benefit of instant obedience.</p> <p>The psychologist, Elizabeth Gershoff, found links between spanking and 10 negative behaviors or experiences, including aggression, anti-social behavior and mental health problems. The one positive result of spanking that she identified was quick compliance with parental demands.</p>

= Howdy Freepers, For the last six weeks the FRN Conference Committee ably assisted by Diotima and ReaganGirl have been working on speakers for the upcoming Friva Las Vegas First Annual Conference! It is my distinct pleasure in announcing the the following: Our Reception will be hosted by Ms. Laura Ingraham! Freepers will remember Laura from her guest appearances on MSNBC during the impeachment of bill clinton! She is now the host of The Laura Ingraham Show" and has promised to deliver a wonderful speech! Her wit, style, grace and incisive reasoning has troubled the left for years and now...

<p>Why does the popular culture -- including the movie industry -- place such a powerful premium on downplaying the obvious connection between international terrorism and fanatical Islam?</p> <p>Just 10 days before the government announced the detention of Jose Padilla (also known as Abdullah Al Muhajir) on charges of plotting a ''dirty bomb'' explosion on American soil, Hollywood unleashed Bad Company, its second thriller in two weeks about nuclear terrorism in the United States.</p>

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The recent audio recording of al-Qaida's spokesman threatening new attacks against the United States appears to be legitimate, a U.S. official said Tuesday. Government analysts have matched the voice of Sulaiman Abu Ghaith to his voice from previous recordings, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Officials will analyze the recording further before making a final determination, the official said. In the recording, Abu Ghaith says bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, are alive, and so is Taliban leader Mullah Omar. The message was released as an audio file on Islamic Web sites. A similar...

w w w . h a a r e t z d a i l y . c o m White House: Bush plan also requires that Israel take action WASHINGTON - The White House clarified Tuesday that President George Bush's plan for peace announced the previous day obligates Israel as well as the Palestinians to take action in order to reach peace. "We view this as parallel tracks going hand in hand, not as a sequencing sort of arrangement," said White House spokesman Ari Fleischer. With many in the Arab world calling Bush's speech on Monday tilted toward...

Residency Challenge to Romney's Campaign Is Rejected By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 4:10 p.m. ET BOSTON (AP) -- Republican Mitt Romney is eligible to run for governor, a state board ruled Tuesday, unanimously rejecting Democrats' claim that he doesn't meet Massachusetts' residency requirement because of the time he spent in Utah running the Salt Lake City Olympics. The ruling apparently lays to rest a dispute that has dominated the governor's race for weeks. The Democrats said they would not appeal.

<p>Let's imagine that Hizbollah's stated policy of "mega-terrorism" bears fruit, and a second Pi Glilot attack succeeds. Alertness and sharpened contingency plans mean that the blast and oil-fed fires kill fewer Israelis than expected, and "only" 2,500 die. Two weeks later, Hamas' new strategic direction bears fruit and they manage chemical attacks at several points in and around Tel Aviv. A couple thousand people are hospitalized, a couple hundred die. The total for both attacks is now 3,000 dead and 6,000 injured, many severely.</p>