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Bank to be brought to account over BCCI collapse Liquidators of failed lender seek £1bn damages in High Court case starting next month By Katherine Griffiths, Banking Correspondent 05 December 2003 As this year's festive celebrations pass, and new year resolutions are still uppermost in many people's minds, there will be plenty in the City who will be looking into the past. They will be taken, via a high-profile court case, back more than 30 years to the establishment in Britain of a bank which was seemingly a great success story, before it collapsed dramatically in the biggest corporate failure...

I'm looking to purchase yet another computer for one of my kids and just looking for advice & personal recommendations from other Freepers. I've bought one barebones system for my youngest son and we're satisfied doing business that way as long as the price is right. I've been to the brick and mortar and the online stores that I can find and we're just having the usual trouble, trying squeeze a $2000 machine into a $700 budget. One of my older sons is telling me we absolutely must get something that runs 800 mghz Front Side Bus and a $190...

If you are a Matrix fan, you've seen the first two, and have now see the third installement, Revolution.....What did you think?

@media print { .ignoreOnPrint { display:none; } } September 9, 2003 Hope & Prayer: The State of Seaport Insecurity By Deborah Gage and John Mccormick With Randy Barrett  Every day, 1,500 containers arrive at the Port of Oakland, ready to be moved swiftly onto the rails and highways that will take their contents into the heartland of america. While they are being unloaded, a terrorist in a rowboat can paddle in uncontested, set off a bomb and rock the heart of the harbor with an explosion. Meanwhile, u.S. Customs officials, who have to verify the contents of those 19-ton packages of...

  Knowledge and Power The U.S. government may have too much of both by Lincoln D. Stein New ArchitectMarch 2003I had just finished a talk at a symposium...and sat down to lunch with some of the graduate students who organized it. I asked one of them where she had dredged up some of the material that she used to introduce me, and she responded that she had "googled" me. I goggled at her. Googled me? Yes, she said, like you do before you go on a date.I'd never heard the term, and had no idea that it was a...

[Did not see this posted elsewhere, apologies if I missed it] Full text: bin Laden's 'letter to America' Online document: the full text of Osama bin Laden's "letter to the American people", reported in today's Observer. The letter first appeared on the internet in Arabic and has since been translated and circulated by Islamists in Britain. Observer Worldview Sunday November 24, 2002 In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, "Permission to fight (against disbelievers) is given to those (believers) who are fought against, because they have been wronged and surely, Allah is Able to give them...

  The Hague Treaty Adoption Diverse laws, uniform enforcement By Bret A. Fausett New Architect September 2002 It's easy to lose track of physical location on the Internet. We all know that Web servers, mail servers, routers, and the rest of the devices that make the Internet work all occupy discrete space in the physical world. But we don't usually know, or even care, whether the information we seek is served from Kansas City, Kansas, or Bombay, India. Physical location does matter, however, even on the Internet. If you register your next domain name with Gandi.net, you'll be doing...

www.TheDay.com: Eastern Connecticut's News SourceThird-party voices: 'What the hell did you guys do with all the money?' The state's last independent governor, Lowell Weicker, sees two-party politics at work as he ponders the fate of the tax bounty he left behind. By Gregory N. Stone - More Articles Published on 08/11/2002 Sean Elliot/TheDay Lowell P. Weicker Jr., a U.S. senator from Connecticut from 1971 until 1988 and governor from 1991 to 1995, was interviewed by The Day's editorial board on Aug. 6. He lives in Deep River. The American third-party movement that helped elect him governor of Connecticut and kept...

The Scout, the suspect and the SWAT team Shooting: On March 1, FBI agents had a clear plan to catch a man wanted in a bank robbery. What unfolded was a remarkable series of mix-ups with a near-fatal outcome.By Gail Gibson, Michael James and Laura BarnhardtSun StaffOriginally published March 18, 2002 The order from an FBI commander to a SWAT team waiting outside a Glen Burnie 7-Eleven was simple and direct. "Follow the red car." To FBI Special Agent Christopher Braga, it signaled that the man inside the car, the one wearing the white baseball cap, was the bank robbery...

FBI's use of deadly force demands accountability By David SimonOriginally published March 14, 2002 HERE'S A fundamental truth about police work in America: In this country, only a law enforcement officer has the authority to use deadly force against fellow citizens in time of peace. As a well-armed society, we find it necessary to arm our law officers as a consequence and to accept that they will have to use those weapons as an act of personal deliberation. This is an extraordinary right. But on foot patrol, in a radio car, on drug raids or during car stops, there...

Details unfold in FBI mix-up Agents had photo of real suspect before shooting other man; Revealed in affidavit; They also knew air pistol apparently was used in robbery By Gail GibsonSun StaffOriginally published March 13, 2002 FBI agents involved in the mistaken traffic stop and shooting of an unarmed Pasadena man March 1 had a photograph of the actual bank robbery suspect they sought and earlier that day had discovered that an air pistol, not a handgun, apparently was used in the holdup, court records show. Those details, contained in an FBI affidavit in the bank robbery case, could...

Need some help here, I hope I haven't posted this wrong as it's certainly not a news story. but... Can anyone help me with finding the status of a bill once it hits the President's desk? Senate 107-188 passed on 20 Dec having originally began as House Resolution 2278It was sent to the Whitehouse for signature but I can't seem to find any place on the whitehouse.gov site to view bills pending the president's signature, or even to find commentary related to whether the president intends to sign this bill, what the effective date might be etc.It's a relatively innocuous ...

ABC News has a very short term poll regarding the right to carry. They will announce the results before the end of their current broadcast. Don't let this announcement be bad news. Freep this poll The poll is on the right hand side about 3 or 4 inches down your screen.

Excerpt: "...The global court consistently asserts the supremacy of international law over any national legislation." With Slobodan Milosevic's extradition to an official from the U.N. war crimes tribunal yesterday, Yugoslav governmental authorities are now facing the prospect that the nation's former president may become a more powerful symbol as a prisoner than he was as dictator. Despite growing evidence of war crimes during Milosevic's regime, which has recently been uncovered by the Serbian government, Milosevic retains the loyalty of a considerable number of the Serbian people. A recent report by the Interior Ministry of Serbia states that "some 1,000 bodies ...

International policy-makers this week ended a round of talks aimed at setting common rules affecting online trade and commerce, but they made little progress in bridging divisions that threaten to delay a pact. In the works for nearly a decade, the Hague Convention on Jurisdiction and Foreign Judgments is practically unknown outside international policy circles. Nevertheless, it could have broad implications for consumers and businesses by setting new rules for online copyrights, free speech and e-commerce--if it is approved. Critics--primarily from the United States--voiced their opposition to the treaty following the end of a two-week drafting session on Wednesday. The ...

ZDNet: Lawyers slam FBI 'hack' This story was printed from ZDNN, located at http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn. -------------------------------------------------------------- Lawyers slam FBI 'hack' By Robert Lemos, ZDNNMay 1, 2001 12:11 PM PT URL: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5082126,00.html A sting operation in which FBI agents downloaded data from two Russian-based computers has some high-tech lawyers concerned that the precedent may be used to justify indiscriminate, cross-border hacking. The incident came to light last week after the indictment of two Russians on charges of breaking into the networks of banks, Internet service providers and other companies. While the charges were somewhat routine, the methods the FBI used to ...

Monday June 19 05:12 PM EDT CIA Analyst Believed Slain in Robbery CIA Analyst Believed Slain in Robbery WASHINGTON (APBnews.com) -- A CIA analyst's slaying over the weekend was the result of a robbery attempt and not tied to his work at the spy agency, authorities said today.Metropolitan Police said John D. Muskopf, 28, was walking with a group of friends in Washington's Shaw neighborhood at 2:30 a.m. Saturday when a mid-sized red or burgundy car pulled up. Witnesses said a man jumped out of the car brandishing a handgun and demanding money."It appears Mr. Muskopf refused," according to a ...

Any freepers in Australia? Can anyone else verify this information? This appeared in the Orange County Register recently and if true, needs publicized. Text: Orange County Register Letters to the Editor Section It has now been 12 months since gun owners in Australia were forced to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed, a program costing the government more than $500 million dollars. And now the results are in: Australia-wide, homicides are up 3.2 percent; Australia-wide, assaults are up 8.6 percent; Australia-wide, armed robberies are up 44 percent (yes, 44 percent). In the state of Victoria, homicides with firearms are ...

 Home | Asia | World | Business | Technology | Sport | Entertainment | Newspapers  Yahoo! Asia - NewsWorld Friday, January 7 2:39 AM SGT Tape of NATO strike on train shown at three times normal speed Tape of NATO strike on train shown at three times normal speed WASHINGTON, Jan 6 (AFP) - A videotape of a US missile hitting a commuter train on a railroad bridge in Serbia last April was inadvertently shown to the public at three times normal speed, a Pentagon spokesman confirmed Thursday."There was never any intent to deceive or mislead," said Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Vic Warzinski.The April 12 attack, which destroyed the train and killed at ...

Macau residents hope Chinese troops will deter crime Chinese troops arrived in Macau on Monday following the handover   December 20, 1999 Web posted at: 4:38 p.m. HKT (0838 GMT) In this story: Gamblers continue betting Jiang turns attention to Taiwan Falun Gong members hauled away RELATED STORIES, SITES From staff and wire reports MACAU (CNN) -- Hundreds of Chinese soldiers rolled into Macau in trucks and armored personnel carriers on Monday, just hours after Portugal returned the gambling haven to China after 442 years of colonial rule. Tens of thousands of people, cheering and waving banners and flags, lined ...