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Flames lit up the sky over New Brighton late last night after a train derailed and several tanker cars caught fire, burning into the early hours this morning and prompting an evacuation of more than 200 homes. Police said as many as 500 to 600 people were told to leave their homes as a precaution in an area including numerous businesses.

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Coalition Forces continue to transfer facilities and responsibility to Iraqi security forces, as illustrated in a recent ceremony. The transfer of bases and battle space represents successes of Iraqi troops over the past several weeks. In other instances, Iraqis participate, and take the lead, in major operations against insurgents and terrorists.

Q: Can you just flesh out in a little more detail the kinds of logistical problems you're facing? Are they problems of transportation, with coordination and other things? Just describe in a little more detail how that's unfolding and what you're facing. Mr. Egeland: Our main problems now are in northern Sumatra and Aceh. We have problems all over, and I agree that it is beyond the reach of all our combined resources in these five massive parallel operations from Somalia to Indonesia. In Aceh, today 50 trucks of relief supplies are arriving. They will have arrived because it's already...

Excerpt from Jan Egeland Biography Mr Egeland holds a Magister Artium in Political Science, University of Oslo. He has been a Fulbright Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley and a fellow at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, and the Truman Institute for the Advancement for Peace, Jerusalem. Mr. Egeland has been Chair of Amnesty International, Norway, and Vice Chair of the International Executive Committee of Amnesty International. Which means he gets a gross salary of UnderSecretaryGeneral|Gross $186,144 but pays no Income Taxes for I quote from the link: Income taxes: Most member states have granted United Nations staff...

I have just one simple little question. How can I find out which public relations firm handling the major campaing underway on behalf of Saddam Hussein and his Baht party in Iraq? This campaign is really being done well; a lot better than the U.S. response.

<p>Muslim scholars who want to get rid of the oft-used word "jihad" are meeting with U.S. officials today in Washington.</p> <p>The academics, who have origins across the Muslim world, want to engage in an ideological battle within Islam to replace "jihad" with a term that labels terrorists as cowardly pirates who kill women and children, which in Islam is the crime of "hirabah."</p>

There's eleven of them named Cooper, Smith, Stratton, Taylor, my surname, etc., scattered in the Union graveyards. Eleven I can prove easily. Might be twelve I can prove because there was a Peyton killed out west. The Peytons were Cherokee forcibly removed from the red clay swamps of Georgia to the richest oil field in the Plains.(Many families have more heroes buried in those graveyards, and would be owed more, too.) I can prove the eleven, because the "Smith" was one of the Smiths of Virginia. The Founding Families of Virginia did a geneology four or five decades ago. The...

It appears to me that President Bush is repeating Churchill's Big Mistake. In my opinion (Churchill wrote pretty much the same thing in the last volume of his History of World War II) Churchill's big mistake was that he completely ignored politics in 1945. The Labour Party headed by Clement Atlee (who became Earl Atlee in 1955) did not ignore partisan politics and won big. Atlee was Prime Minister 1945-51. In 1951, Churchill was returned to power as Prime Minister, but the damage had already been done. I'll not comment on UK domestic affairs, but internationally there are many situations ...

Overall objective and strategy will be found here. This one is means and methods. Winning a war is the first step towards winning the peace. We can look at history for wars won, but peace lost. If essentially the same war must be fought again, the peace was lost. Example: WW I was won by the allies; who lost the peace. If you look just at the last 8 years, you will notice either the war was lost (Somalia), or the peace was lost (Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo) in every case. The Clinton was exceptional. No other administration in our history ...

Yet another post on the illegal drug trade. There have been a lot of them. Everyone participating agrees that the present approach to the War on Drugs is failing. Most participants favor capitulation. They think we should pack up and go home. We did that in Vietnam. Let's not do it again. This time, home is here. It is not really surprising that the War on Drugs is failing. It was begun back in the 60's by the same people guilty of Vietnam. It has been fought tentatively as if we were afraid of hurting the feelings of the poor ...

as much as will fitPardons Peggy Ann Bargon - endangering eagles (ref) William A. Borders Jr., president National Bar Association - racketeer (reference) Almon Glenn Braswell - having a too funny name Ernest Harley Cox Jr. -- bank fraud, lying (ref, ref) Richard Douglas -- Espy money-laundering (ref) Edward Reynolds Downe -- SEC violations (ref, ref) Alvarez Ferrouillet -- Espy money-laundering (ref) Lloyd Reid George - mail fraud (ref, ref) Louis Goldstein - fraud (ref, ref) Pincus Green - fraud, racketeering, tax evasion (ref, ref) John Hummingson -- Espy money-laundering (ref) Stanley Pruet Jobe - bank fraud (ref) Ruben H. ...

This is a spin-off of bush ranch's post. The press release is not the pardon. Click on source above, or here for more info. Am I right? Is this possible? Or have I missed something? Clinton could have pardoned himself, even for things he has not been charged with. However, I don't think blanket pardons are allowed, if I read this stuff correctly.

This is humor. Results from researching Charles Wilfred Morgan III, pardoned by Clinton, turned up whole sale slaughter of cute little whales. Charles W. MorganWhale killer par excellance. Extract from the link (following standard procedures for quotations as used by America's news outlets such as NY times, Wash. comPost, NBC, CNN, ABC, etc.)[1]: Charles W. Morgan caught and [killed]600 whales... made over a million dollars, which was much more back then... made 37 voyages... sailed 4 years before returning to port... could carry 2,700 barrels of oil

What is the proper way to cite a freeper as the source for information? Is anchoring the thread sufficient? That brings up the top item, the article, not the reply with the info.

A bit more info can be found here My summaries of what these people did: Commutations Linda Sue Evans - terrorist (bombs) Melvin Reynolds, ex-Congressman, typical Democrat - liar and thief Susan Rosenberg - cop-killer (perhaps as accessory or accomplice), terrorist Pardons William A. Borders Jr., president National Bar Association - racketeer Henry Cisneros - Freepers know all about this guy. Note how Washington Post does not spell out exactly what he did? Roger Clinton - dope pusher John Deutch - idiotic agent for every intelligence agency, hostile or friendly, government or not, in the whole world. Though he is ...

I think this is really good news, though it doesn't compare to the inaugeration in importance. One worthless office to be closed, unless the Clinton administration sneaks one through. Here is an extract. Administration refers to Clinton admin. Committee refers to Senate committee. Pardon Attorney. The Administration takes strong exception to the Committee's action to eliminate funding for the Office of the Pardon Attorney and to move the Office from the Department of Justice. For over 100 years, the Office of Pardon Attorney has assisted the President in carrying out this power. The Office consists entirely of career, nonpartisan, Department ...

Robert Ray joins the list of American Traitors. Nothing could be more damaging to the country than letting go a criminal who obstructed justice in a civil rights case and lied under oath. Robert Ray's duty was to prosecute, not to forgive. How can he forgive wrong done to the entire nation? So Robert Ray joins this list (which is incomplete): Benedict Arnold -- nearly lost us the Revolutionary War. Aaron Burr -- tried to setup a hostile, independent country. Lyndon Johnson, Robert MacNamara and the others -- for the way the Vietnam War was conducted. Robert Ray -- severe ...

I thought "Taxing the Poor" was just a gag used occasionally by Rush Limbaugh. Then, I noticed the trend of the odds in the various Maryland Lottery games. The odds get worse year after year. Surely, if the state is going to promote gambling, it ought to offer decent odds. What do you think?

PLO-Israeli diplomacy appeared to be going well, culminating in the Oslo Accords; so, why, oh Why did Bill Clinton butt-in? The whole history is posted elsewere, for example, http://almashriq.hiof.no/general/300/320/327/oslo.html. (This is not the best history link, just the quickest. None of my history links are unbiased and I don't have time to handle a full discussion. The whole "unbiased" history may never be known.) In outline, the major events were President Bush got something going in Madrid, and the US got out of the way. Negotiations without US involvement culminated in the Oslo Accords. The US under Bill Clinton got ...

The NEA is not National, not an Endowment, and not for the Arts. To be "for the Arts" requires discernment. Such discrimination violates the First Amendment. The NEA in practice goes far beyond a mere violation of our Bill of Rights. The NEA actively promotes depravity that is almost as bad as Hollywood's standard products, and is far worse than that stuff you can browse at porno shops.