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BERLIN (Jan. 4) - Cuba lay behind the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Lee Harvey Oswald and its agents provided the gunman with money and support, an award-winning German director says in a new documentary film. Wilfried Huismann spent three years researching "Rendezvous with Death," based on interviews with former Cuban secret agents, U.S. officials and a Russian intelligence source, and on research in Mexican security archives. The film, shown to journalists in Berlin on Wednesday, says Oswald traveled to Mexico City by bus in September 1963, seven weeks before the Kennedy shooting, and met agents at...

I will address the topic of Christianity and Islam by limiting myself to a brief presentation of historical facts, without entering into the specifics of religious and theological dialogue. This seems useful to me, because the celebration of the fifth centenary of the birth of Pius V was a bit muted, especially in academic circles. The victor at Lepanto in 1571, this pope who had the courage and the energy to construct an alliance of almost all the Christian kingdoms against the Ottoman empire – which was advancing to threaten Europe and had already established dominion over the Balkans –...

Top California Republicans are wondering if Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is moving left politically following his appointment to chief of staff of Susan Kennedy – a leading liberal activist and former aide to Democrat Gov. Gray Davis. "We're not moving anywhere," Schwarzenegger says, insisting that he is continuing to go "in the same direction." Some of his Republican colleagues wonder what direction that may be. "I'm getting more e-mails off of this [the Kennedy appointment] than I do for Viagra," said Mike Spence, president of the California Republican Assembly, in an interview with the L.A. Times newspaper. "Since the special election,...

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Tom Tancredo, the Colorado congressman who caused an uproar with the suggestion Muslim holy sites could be taken out in response to a nuclear attack on U.S. cities, is making no apologies if people are offended by his frank talk. "Many critics of my statements have characterized them as 'offensive,' and indeed they may have offended some," writes Tancredo in a guest commentary in the Denver Post. "But in this battle against fundamentalist Islam, I am hardly preoccupied with political correctness, or who may or may not be offended. Indeed, al-Qaida cares little if the Western world is 'offended' by...

Rove Rage The poverty of our current scandal. By Christopher Hitchens Wilson and Schumer: Rove should go Writing to a friend in 1954, P.G. Wodehouse commented: Are you following the McCarthy business? If so, can you tell me what it's all about? "You dined with Mr. X on Friday the tenth?" "Yes, sir." (Keenly) "What did you eat?" "A chocolate nut sundae, sir." (Sensation) It's like Bardell vs Pickwick. Wodehouse of course was only affecting ignorance and making light of a ludicrously pompous and slightly sinister proceeding. But he was essentially correct in his lampooning of the McCarthy hearings, since...

Contact: Uniting A Better America Re-election Foundation Office of The Director of Public InformationWashington DC info@ubarf.org Bold, decisive steps were taken today by War Hero and Senator from Massachusetts, John Forbes Kerry. He and his untold millions of admirers have decided to use the plain unvarnished truth to stifle the yammering hordes of the VRWC. I.E., the Truth about the Senator's outstanding service to his country in the Navy, during the VietNam Era. The War Hero and Senator signed the DoD Form 180, releasing as many of his records as necessary to settle this issue once and for all. In...

No one noticed as Turkey, an erstwhile ally, nabbed the gold medal recently in the global anti-American stakes. Mercifully, half the 22,000 people surveyed in 21 countries by the BBC around the world did not agree, "America's influence on the world is very negative."http://www.washtimes.com

Tune into Mike Reagan on your local affiliate, or go online to www.radioamerica.org. 6 straight hours of coverage from real people at the polls. 1800-510-TALK. Mike is taking callers from across the political spectrum, and is talking to lots of elected offficials, too. Interesting as heck! AND NO MSM LEFTYDRIVEL!

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) - Democratic candidate John Kerry accused President Bush on Tuesday of hiding bad decisions and raised the specter of bad news still to be revealed. Bush invited Democrats to cross over to his campaign as it began its final week, arguing that their party was no longer led by men of strength and resolve. Kerry said a stream of bad news coming out of Iraq showed the Bush administration glossing over the reality of the situation there. "Mr. President, what else are you being silent about? What else are you keeping from the American people?" Kerry...

How free-market investors contribute to genocide in Darfur while they take the profits Sudan's oil reserves yield two billion dollars in annual revenue . . . —Samantha Power The New Yorker, August 30, 2004 For six years, the most passionate, meticulous researcher on the atrocities committed on black Africans in Sudan by the Khartoum government has been Eric Reeves, a professor of English at Smith College in Massachusetts. With prodigious energy, he devotes most of his time to writing about this holocaust and informing others, including me. In a recent study, Reeves focuses on "the many European and Asian companies...

It’s altogether possible I’ll have to apologize to myself for ignoring a lesson that was handed to me free of charge; a lesson that might illuminate the most important dark corner of the world today. Years ago, it was common for Americans to chide the British for having no sense of humor. The ongoing joke was; there was a humor appreciation society in London that met every Monday to hear the latest jokes; and then regathered a week later to laugh; slow to get the point, don’t you see? I’ve missed this particular point for fifteen years, and it’s no...

Kerry's Close So how can you tell when he's closing, people keep asking me. And when is he going to start? He is John Kerry, who I've watched in every election he's ever won. As best as I can tell, he started yesterday; the truth is, he really started today, taking questions and saying the same thing he did yesterday. For John Kerry, closing means discipline. It means defining the message, and sticking with it, hammering everything through it, until the end. "As I said in my speech yesterday," John Kerry kept saying in answer to questions today, and then...

Pit Bull Attacks Baby, Is Thrown Off Roof NEW YORK -- A pit bull attacked and bit a 3-month-old baby at a Brooklyn apartment building on Sunday before a man threw the dog off the roof to its death, witnesses said. The attack, which seriously injured the baby, occurred around 5 p.m., when a woman took the baby to visit friends at an apartment in the building. "The dog got jealous and started jumping for the baby," witness Emmanuel Santiago said. "It caught the baby in the head." A man grabbed the baby and put it on a bed,...

From correspondents in Rome February 11, 2004 LARGELY seen until recently as a logistical base for Islamic terrorists, Italy has become a departure point for suicide attackers linked to al-Qaeda and active against US-led forces in Iraq, according to an Italian intelligence report released today. The document also warned that forces staging anti-coalition attacks in Iraq might expand their scope and targets. The report came weeks after Italian investigators said they shut down a European network suspected of recruiting Islamic militants to carry out attacks on US-led forces in Iraq. The investigators said the volunteers were drawn from Muslim youths...

Saudi Prince Orders Jailed Christians Released Two Egyptian Copts Freed After 10 Days Two Egyptian Christians jailed in the Saudi capital of Riyadh 10 days ago for leading a house church were ordered released this morning by Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud. Sabry Awad Gayed, a pediatrician working in a clinic in El Bat’ha for the past four years, and Eskander Guirguis Eskandar, employed as a carpenter, were arrested on October 25 on accusations of establishing a non-Muslim place of worship. On the day of their arrest, Saudi police reportedly questioned why the two of them and Eskandar’s brother...

presented in London by the imam Karim Aga Khan. For a fruitful relationship between the great Muslim tradition and Western civilization ROMA – Last October 19, the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London celebrated its 25th anniversary – like the pontificate of Karol Wojtyla – and for the occasion, the imam of all the Shia Ismaili Muslims in the world, Prince Karim Aga Khan (see photo) gave a speech on the interpretation of the Koran that sounds revolutionary in comparison to the thinking dominant in the Muslim world. It is revolutionary, but perfectly orthodox. The Ismaili are part of...

The Columbus paper reports on a court case today in Ohio that has larger implications for parent-daughter relations in Muslim families living in the West. The facts of the case are thus: When Mohamed Shide, 38, a Somali immigrant who arrived to the United States in 1998, went to pick up his sixth-grade daughter, Rahma Rage, outside Eastmoor Middle School, he saw her standing with a boy. On getting home, Shide slapped Rage and put a pocketknife to her throat, then threatened to kill her with a butcher knife from the kitchen - or so Rage told an assistant principal...

Tit for Tat: Mexican Oil is a Fair Exchange By George Putnam It is this reporter's opinion that some of my very best reports are the work of listeners to my daily "Talk Back" sessions. Louis Giovannini of Los Angeles, one of our regular listeners, writes in discussing at great length America's crude oil situation, noting that Saudi Arabia is one of our longstanding allies (America's biggest foreign supplier of oil, next to Canada) -- and that it's about time we seek another source and stop buttering up the Saudis. Louis suggests that we look to our neighbor to the...

The British-based Islamist group Al-Muhajiroun is holding a conference on the second anniversary of September 11 to honor the 19 terrorists who hijacked the commercial jets used in attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. A poster touting the event to be held at four locations in England includes photographs of the al Qaeda hijackers and refers to them as "The Magnificent 19" — a word play on the 1960 film "The Magnificent Seven." Omar bin Bakri Muhammad, the group's leader, told the London Arabic newspaper Al-Sharq al-Awsat that participants will discuss the motives of the hijackers, whom he...