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Cuban torturers hiding in Florida?Officials searching for men who brutalized Americans in Vietnam A special criminal investigations unit in the U.S. Department of Justice is pursuing reports that two notorious Cuban nationals suspected of participating in a brutal torture program conducted against American POWs in Vietnam are hiding somewhere in southern Florida. A public affairs spokesman for the Justice Department declined to comment on the investigation, citing policies on open cases, but former State Department official Richard Krieger, who now directs Florida-based International Educational Missions, which haunts foreign war criminals and human-rights violators in the U.S., said that "Justice is...

For years, US Senator John Forbes Kerry had sought to know the true story of his immigrant grandfather, Frederick A. Kerry, the patriarch who established the family in Boston and then mysteriously took his own life. The story, it turns out, began in a small town in the Czech Republic that once was part of the Austrian empire. Birth records there show that Frederick A. Kerry was born as Fritz Kohn to Jewish parents, according to a genealogy specialist hired by the Globe. Kohn changed his name to Kerry around 1902 and emigrated to the United States in 1905, eventually...

15 Years ago, The New York Times could tell the truth of Kosovo "In Yugoslavia, Rising Ethnic Strife Brings Fears of Worse Civil Conflict" Portions of southern Yugoslavia have reached such a state of ethnic friction that Yugoslavs have begun to talk of the horrifying possibility of ''civil war'' in a land that lost one-tenth of its population, or 1.7 million people, in World War II. The current hostilities pit separatist-minded ethnic Albanians against the various Slavic populations of Yugoslavia and occur at all levels of society, from the highest officials to the humblest peasants. A young Army conscript of...

The Ideal Democrat Voter: Night of the Registered Dead This is a Halloween Tale of an all-too-forgotten constituency and how a selfless Democrat Party serves it. Death comes to every voter. However, according to Terry McAuliffe, Ed Rendell, and Dick Daly, this natural fact alone does not excuse one from one’s duty to the Democrat Party. In fact in many ways, to Democrats like McAuliffe, Daly, and Rendell, the Dead Democrat is the Ideal Democrat. For example, the Dead Democrat is silent. White House Scandals, Presidential Perjury, Selling Rocketry to China, Nuclear Materials to North Korea, etc., bother the Dead...

Albanian and Russian observers sent to monitor American elections Democrats see hopes of revenge in Florida dwindle The joke, during the endless presidential election recounts in Florida two years ago, was that Russia and Albania would send poll monitors to help the United States with its unexpected bump on the road to democracy. Now, the joke has become reality. A high-level delegation of European and North American election observers – including members from Russia and Albania – arrived yesterday for a week-long mission to watch Florida's mid-term elections, which take place on Tuesday. Their task: to see if the world's...

The Eunuchs are Whining WE'VE FINALLY given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don't want to fight it. They would, except it would put them on the same side as the United States. With the media suffering from fainting spells, the country is being run by people who can splice cables and land jets on ships in the dark of night. These are men, a subspecies of Americans heretofore invisible to the elites. But now the elites are complaining that the men aren't working fast enough. Not exactly smashing stereotypes of liberals as mincing pantywaists, the left's entire contribution ...

Mr. Christiane Amanpour (James Rubin) Haunting Bush State Dept. Bill Clinton isn't the only member of the last administration who doesn't seem to want to go away. Bush appointees at the State Department are complaining privately that the agency's old Clinton flack still seems to enjoy unprecedented access. "There's lots of squawking," says U.S, News & World Report's "Washington Whispers," "that former Clinton diplomatic spokesman James Rubin is still treated royally." "Whispers" reports that "Rubin keeps in touch with his old pals, even calling the switchboard to get patched through to U.S. posts." Meanwhile, his more famous spouse, CNN Mideast ...