https://freerepublic.com/tag/by:hags/ en-us Mon, 30 Jan 2006 01:10:55 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1567619/posts A former senior military advisor to Saddam Hussein is warning that the chemical weapons used by top Al Qaida terrorist Abu Musab al Zarqawi in a foiled 2004 plot to attack Amman, Jordan were the same weapons Saddam Hussein transported to Syria before the U.S. invasion. Gen. Georges Sada offered the stunning revelation Saturday while explaining why he didn't decide to go public about Saddam's hidden WMD stockpile until recently. "As a general, you see, we should keep our secrets," Gen. Sada told WABC Radio's Monica Crowley. But when news broke of the foiled WMD attack on Amman, he changed... Newsmax https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1567619/posts#comment Mon, 30 Jan 2006 01:10:55 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1543318/posts During the 1990's under President Clinton, the National Security Agency monitored millions of private phone calls placed by U.S. citizens and citizens of other countries under a super secret program code-named Echelon. On Friday, the New York Times suggested that the Bush administration has instituted "a major shift in American intelligence-gathering practices" when it "secretly authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americans and others inside the United States to search for evidence of terrorist activity without [obtaining] court-approved warrants." But in fact, the NSA had been monitoring private domestic telephone conversations on a much larger scale throughout the... Newsmax https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1543318/posts#comment Mon, 19 Dec 2005 16:06:43 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1542309/posts Uber environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is trying to put the kibosh on plans to build the kind of wind-farm he regularly touts as an environmentally sound alternative to fossil fuels, saying it would block views of Nantucket Sound from Cape Cod - which just happens to be home to the Kennedy family compound in Hyannis port. Newsmax https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1542309/posts#comment Sat, 17 Dec 2005 14:50:12 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1521648/posts NEW YORK - Eighteen-year-old Chen Tsu was waiting on a Brooklyn subway platform after school when four high school classmates approached him and demanded cash. He showed them his empty pockets, but they attacked him anyway, taking turns pummeling his face. He was scared and injured — bruised and swollen for several days — but hardly surprised. Yahoo News & AP https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1521648/posts#comment Mon, 14 Nov 2005 12:28:45 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1229718/posts <p>Unlike McCain, Bush, and Gore,,,, Kerry has adamantly refused to authorize >the release of his military records. Most think it's because of his phony >battle medals. I think the real reason is below. He was not granted an >Honorable Discharge until March 2001, almost 30 years after his ostensible >service term had ended!</p> https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1229718/posts#comment Tue, 28 Sep 2004 22:59:40 GMT