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The Web Newsroom June 27, 2002 john david powell The Underreported Crime As staggering and as disturbing as the reports of alleged and actual incidents of child sexual abuse by members of the clergy is another more common and underreported classification of sex crimes against children. A 37-year-old West Virginia man is charged with 208 offenses of sexual assault against his 13-year-old daughter. A 35-year-old New York father and a 44-year-old man are indicted on 69 counts of various sex acts with the father’s 4-year-old daughter. A 53-year-old Wisconsin man is convicted for sexually assaulting his two daughters and a...

Bill seeks review of chemical, biological testing on servicemen in '60s By DAVID GOLDSTEIN The Kansas City Star WASHINGTON - Two members of Congress on Thursday introduced legislation seeking a review of a former military chemical and biological testing program to determine whether U.S. servicemen were exposed to nerve gas and other dangerous toxins. Called the Veterans Right-to-Know Act of 2002, the legislation calls on the General Accounting Office to oversee the Defense Department's efforts to investigate its testing program from the 1960s. The program has come under fire from veterans concerned about their health. The legislation requires a report...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Just weeks before Timothy McVeigh ( news - web sites) bombed the Oklahoma City federal building in 1995, U.S. intelligence and law enforcement received several warnings that Islamic terrorists were seeking to strike on American soil and that a likely target was government buildings, documents show. The information, though it was never linked to McVeigh, was stark enough that the Clinton administration urged stepped up security patrols and screening at federal buildings nationwide, including those in Oklahoma. The government, however, didn't fortify buildings with cement barriers like those hurriedly installed after McVeigh detonated his explosive-laden truck at...

Arafat Opts for the 'Hudaibiyah' Treaty June 27, 2002 Yassir Arafat has stretched his "Intifada" of Terror as far as he was allowed after Israel's Prime Minister Ariel (Arik) Sharon made various incursions into the areas previously gifted to Arafat under the Oslo Accords. Arafat knew that he was coming close to the end. But, even then, he expected benefits from the Europeans and the U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell for Israel's assaults which Arafat caused by his homicide bombings of Israelis. Even now, there is anticipation that the Bush family will, in deference to Arab interests, opt to...

Brinker - who has the nationally syndicated "Money Talk" radio show on Saturdays and Sundays - - put out a sell signal in Jan., 2000, I think it was, at what turned out to be the precise peak of the market. Ever since, the Dow's been going down - but a lot of the financial talking heads on TV have, all along, persisted in predicting imminent turnaround. Not Brinker. Valuations still too high, he has said all along. It's tough to hear such talk - easier to listen to happy talk - - but Brinker's been right! He says we're...

Israel intends denying entry to Louis Farrakhan, after the leader of the Nation of Islam organization declared that he planned to propose mediation initiatives of his own for the resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israel is also afraid that Farrakhan's visit could be provocative and result in disturbances, particularly if he asks to tour the mosques on the Temple Mount. Farrakhan is considered a radical and has spoken out against Israel and the Jews in the past. The U.S. and Jewish establishment refuse to maintain any ties with him or his organization. During a current tour of the Middle East,...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. While waiting for a helicopter to make another sweep at driving wild horses into a trap, Gary McFadden pondered the circumstances Friday for rounding up the herd that roams near Cold Creek, 50 miles northwest of Las Vegas. "It's kind of a pre-emptive strike," he said after the first 30 of the herd of some 200 crammed into a corral. "They're in pretty good shape, but their country's not. There's too many animals on it, so they'd just dwindle away," said McFadden, a Bureau of Land Management wild horse specialist. A...

BEIRUT, June 29 (AFP) - Dozens of US troops and intelligence services have been sent into northern Iraq from Jordan under a plan to overthrow President Saddam Hussein, the Lebanese newspaper As-Safir reported Saturday. In a front-page story datelined London, the daily quoted "well informed diplomatic sources" as saying Washington "has launched a security and military operation in Iraq." Central Intelligence Agency chief George Tenet had "personally visited northern Iraq during his last tour of the region and had given orders to start the security plan after US President George W. Bush (recently) approved a decision to ask the...

Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2002 June 29 A Deep Field In The Southern Sky Credit: R. Williams (STScI), HDF-S Team, NASA Explanation: This deep view of the cosmos is the sequel to the 1995 hit Hubble Space Telescope Deep Field. Billed as the Hubble Deep Field South, it was produced by pointing the space telescope toward a patch of sky in the southern constellation Tucana. Over a period of 10 days, many...

Three of the loudest mouths in New York's loudmouth congressional delegation were struck dumb this week as their colleagues were weighing in loud and clear on the Pledge of Allegiance.Thursday, the House -- by a vote of 416-3 -- passed a resolution that endorsed keeping the words "under God" in the Pledge after a federal appeals court declared them unconstitutional. But Reps. Jerrold Nadler (D-Manhattan), Nydia Velazquez (D-Brooklyn) and Gary Ackerman (D-Queens) all copped out when it came to take a stand.They voted "present."What a crew.Ackerman is an erratic crank, to be charitable about it.Velazquez's high-decibel defense of Bill Clinton's...

Former Vice President Al Gore answers questions between sessions at the Democratic Leadership '02 retreat at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, Tenn., Saturday, June 29, 2002. the Gores are hosting the event for Democratic donors and are discussing strategy for the 2002 elections. Gore said he would not make an announcement at the event on whether he will challenge Bush again for the presidency. (AP Photo/Greg Campbell)

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. Route passed through property now home to Moonlite Bunnyranch MOUND HOUSE-- A historical society that reveres the celebration of history as much as the history itself has established a monument to the Pony Express Trail in an unlikely place: the front yard of a brothel. It turns out the 1860s mail route from St. Joseph, Mo., to California passed smack dab through the middle of the property now home to the Moonlite Bunnyranch. Leaders of a local chapter of E Clampus Vitus said they would induct flamboyant brothel owner Dennis Hof...

YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS!!!! CLICK ABOVE LINK OR COPY/PASTE http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/goredad1.shtml And you thought Al Gore had a dicey relationship with the FBI. Well, the bureau had quite a low opinion of the former vice president's father, the late Senator Albert A. Gore. FBI documents obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request show that Gore Sr. was officially blacklisted for nearly 17 years, from 1954 until the Tennessee Democrat left the Senate in 1970. Gore Sr. was placed on the bureau's shit list (known formally as the "Not to Contact" list) after he branded the FBI a "snooping police...

For Immediate ReleaseOffice of the Press SecretaryJune 29, 2002 Radio Address by the President to the Nation The Cabinet Room      Audio THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. This week, we learned of another deeply troubling accounting scandal at a major American corporation. Reports allege that the company hid nearly $4 billion in expenses, and reported profits when it may have actually lost more than a billion dollars. The Securities and Exchange Commission immediately filed suit against the company to preserve documents, so that a complete and thorough investigation can take place, and to ensure that the company cannot give massive payments to...

An Iraqi opponent evokes a US plan for the assassination of Saddam Hussein Saturday June 29, 2002 - 18h58 GMT DOHA, June 29 (AFP) - the Iraqi opponent in exile Wafik Samarraï evoked Saturday "the broad outline" of an American plan to assassinate president Saddam Hussein, in a declaration with television Al-Jazira. According to the former person in charge for the services of Iraqi military information, "in this broad outline, this plan initially consists in gathering information, in particular by the means of a great number of satellites as well as human sources, to follow displacements of president Saddam...

<p>DENVER, Colo. — The U.S. Forest Service has fired Terry Barton, the employee charged with starting the largest wildfire since Colorado became a state.</p> <p>Forest Service spokesman Lynn Young said Saturday that Barton was fired because of her "conduct." He wouldn't elaborate because the investigation is continuing into the Hayman fire, which has burned 137,000 acres, destroyed at least 133 homes and cost more than $29 million to fight.</p>

ASHINGTON, June 28 — When the House voted early today to help elderly people buy prescription medicines, it was a major moment in the history of American health care and politics. The vote foreshadows a deepening federal commitment to the elderly and the aging baby boom generation, as well as a significant expansion in the role of government.Both parties laid claim to the title of being the best protectors of the elderly. Republicans hope to impose fiscal discipline on the proposed new program, but that will not be easy.The Republican bill, to add drug benefits to Medicare, was passed by...

A Thai man has been robbed after sucking two women's nipples smeared with knock-out drops.The Kom Chad Luek newspaper says the women approached the 27-year-old at a bus stop and asked him if he wanted to go back to a room.Nontakorn Pearsontea told police in Nakorn Ratchasima they took off their tops and asked him to suck their nipples.He agreed and the next thing he knew he woke up alone and all his cash, jewellery and his mobile had gone.Police say the "attractive" women coated their nipples with a sleeping drug.The victim told the paper: "The women tried to get...

Jonathan SkillingsThe debate over electronics recycling will grow a little more heated Monday with meetings of a legislative committee in California and a government-industry group in Minnesota. More resources from CNET:  •  CNET News.com: Top CIOs  •  Tech gifts for Father's Day, click here!  •  Find a job you love. Over 1 million postings.  •  Live Tech Help. Submit your question now. CNET Newsletters: News.com Daily Dispatch News.Context (weekly) News.com Investor (Daily) More Newsletters(CNet/ZDNet Privacy Policy) News.com Video:  •  Could Red Hat be the next Microsoft?    The upshot for companies is that, sooner or later, consumers are likely to...

Tomás de Torquemada Torquemada was my second choice for a screen name. Maybe its time to bring forward his cause for canonization? Let's all pray for the intercession of Torquemada in this current crisis. Any time the bishops mention the words homosexuality and/or pederasty as root causes of the current crisis (with the obvious exception of Bruskiewiecz, with whom Truthfulness does not require such extraordinary intercession) we will assume that de facto it is a miracle, and attribute it to his intercession. Alas, I fear, based on these criteria, that our dear Torquemada shall languish among the ranks of the...