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Londoners have paid the price for Iraq and Afghanistan, says George Galloway. The Respect MP, whose Bethnal Green and Bow constituency includes the site of at least one of the bomb attacks, said the attacks were "despicable". But he told MPs it was the US-led coalition's actions in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo which had inflamed hatred of the West in the Muslim world. In response, minister Adam Ingram accused Mr Galloway of "dipping his poisonous tongue in a pool of blood". The armed forces minister added that Mr Galloway's comments were "disgraceful". Same mistakes? Earlier Mr Galloway said he was...

It was the furtive movements of a couple of demonstrators that caught the attention of police officers last spring outside the Planned Parenthood clinic on 16th Street NW. And then the officers saw it, in a glass jar passed from one protester to the other: A human fetus. Holding it in his pocket, according to police testimony, was Jeff White, an antiabortion activist. When officers asked what he had, White pulled out the jar and confirmed that it contained a fetus. Set in a clear liquid, the tiny limbs were plainly visible...

US and Britain in UN secretary general's sights Jonathan Steele Friday March 11, 2005 The Guardian The UN secretary general, Kofi Annan, launched a fierce attack on Britain and the US yesterday for weakening human rights in the name of the war on terror. "We cannot compromise on core values," he said in Madrid on the first anniversary of the train bombings that killed 191 people in the Spanish capital. "Human rights and the rule of law must always be respected." Addressing a three-day conference which included about 20 heads of state and government as well as terrorism experts, lawyers...

BEIJING, Nov. 30 (Xinhuanet) -- Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma agreed on Monday to hold a new election... this, after the results were disputed over allegeations of widespread fraud. Kuchma's decision is supported by the two rival candidates, opposition leader Viktor Yushschenko and current Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich, who was declared the winner. Kuchma's agreement to hold new elections signals a shift in his position. He's previously supported Yanukovich. At a meeting attended by Yanukovich and other officials, he said new elections should be held for the good of Ukraine. And he warned on television that the country's financial system can...

SEOUL : Badges depicting North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il, a key symbol of his personality cult, are disappearing from peoples' chests in the communist country. South Korea's Unification Ministry confirmed that lapel badges of Kim are no longer being worn by North Koreans travelling from the Stalinist state to China on official business. In the past, they wore either a badge portraying Kim or a similar badge portraying his father, the Stalinist state's founder Kim Il-Sung who died in 1994. "North Koreans travelling to and from China who formerly wore the badge of either Kim Il-Sung or Kim Jong-Il on...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction programs had deteriorated into only hopes and dreams by the time of the U.S.-led invasion last year, a decline wrought by the first Gulf War and years of international sanctions, the chief U.S. weapons hunter found. And what ambitions Saddam harbored for such weapons were secondary to his goal of evading those sanctions, and he wanted them primarily not to attack the United States or to provide them to terrorists, but to oppose his older enemies, Iran and Israel. The report of weapons hunter Charles Duelfer was presented Wednesday to senators...

<p>CAIRO, Egypt -- Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi expressed regret Sunday that Ronald Reagan died without standing trial for 1986 airstrikes on his country, while other Arabs used the occasion of the former president's death to lambast his Mideast policies. Gadhafi said he was sorry that Reagan died Saturday before he could stand trial for deadly 1986 airstrikes he ordered that killed Gadhafi's adopted daughter and 36 other people.</p>

WASHINGTON, June 6 — From the shores of Normandy to President Bush's campaign offices outside Washington, Mr. Bush and his political advisers embraced the legacy of Ronald Reagan on Sunday, suggesting that even in death, Mr. Reagan had one more campaign in him — this one at the side of Mr. Bush. In France, Mr. Bush heralded the late president as a "gallant leader in the cause of freedom," and lionized him in an interview with Tom Brokaw. In Washington, Mr. Bush's aides said that it was Ronald Reagan as much as another president named Bush who was the role...

Outsourcing Strikes Back It’s not only not a bad thing — it’s a pretty darn good thing. Reluctantly, Republicans have concluded that the outsourcing issue is not going away. Their first response was to shoot the messenger — in this case, Council of Economic Advisers chairman Greg Mankiw, who simply said the phenomenon is an inevitable byproduct of free trade. House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R., Ill.) called for Mankiw’s head and Mankiw was forced to apologize. Journalist Robert Novak called the White House action "clumsy." With polls showing growing numbers of Americans apprehensive that their jobs may soon be sent...

I wonder if those present at todays 911 hearing who applauded Clarke's admission that his 2001 'background briefing' to the press was "political", realized what they were applauding? Does it not then follow that his recent celebrity is also political?

"Gina, we'll talk," Democratic presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich told Gina Marie Santore after the two had breakfast Thursday with a gaggle of reporters and photographers nearby. The New Jersey woman beat out about 80 other contenders for a date with the twice-divorced Ohio congressman in a contest on a political Web site. Asked if there would be a second date, Santore said, "I guess we're going to have to consult the schedulers." But she said she "absolutely" endorses the liberal Kucinich, whose standing in polls puts him near the bottom of the nine-member Democratic field. Kucinich used that to poke...

Just over at Rush's site, all gibberish

The people at Harvard's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy stand behind Al Franken. The center — a part of the John F. Kennedy School of Government which says it is "dedicated to exploring the intersection of press, politics and public policy in theory and practice" — chose the sometime comedian to be one of its Shorenstein Fellows for Spring 2003. An effusive press release said Franken would be "working on a book examining whether or not there is a liberal bias in the media, including a look at the media's treatment of George W. Bush and...

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Drug traces are spread to clean bills through everyday circulation By John Weedon Nearly all German euro notes show traces of cocaine, Nuremberg's Institute for Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Research reported this week, citing a new study. In early 2002, shortly after the introduction of euro cash, scientists had detected traces of this drug on just two out of every 70 banknotes. By August 2002, 90 percent of 700 tested euro notes were found to be affected. The German findings correspond to evidence for the United States and Britain, countries with reportedly high cocaine consumption, the institute's Professor Fritz Sörgel said....

Time to Pound My Head Against the Wall Once Again The Economist's Lexington correpondent devotes a full page to Hillary Rodham Clinton (with a time out for slams at Sidney Blumenthal for being a "brown-noser" and Paul Krugman for being "shrill"): ... wronged woman... staggering revelations... Clintonia... that bitchy, chaotic house party.... Since September 11th, the United States has had more important things to think about.... Mrs Clinton's past... future... an incredibly potent force... a heroine... a hate-figure... the most likely next Democratic president... "Draft Hillary"... conservative... capacity to elicit frenzied support from her core constituency... money... volunteers... Mrs Clinton's...

You would think if "gun control" was going to work anywhere it would be on a small island. Particularly a small island at whose ports of entry the zealots of HM Customs like nothing better than performing intimate cavity searches on the off-chance you've got an extra bottle of duty-free Beaujolais tucked away up there. Surely, if you also had a Walther PPK parked out of sight, these exhaustive inspectors would be the first to notice. But apparently not. Since the Government's "total ban" five years ago, there are more and more guns being used by more and more criminals...

According to Fox News WSJ says Uday is set to surrender!

The elderly Iraqi farmer who, according to Baghdad officials, literally shot his way to fame by downing a state-of-the-art US Apache helicopter with an old carbine has flatly denied he had anything to do with the crash. At the height of the war, Iraqi TV showed pictures of the downed aircraft and said it had been shot down by farmer Ali Abid Minqash. It broadcast poetry in praise of the "farmer who harvests both rice and Apaches". The local branch of the agricultural union also presented Mr Minqash with a plaque to commemorate his action. Pictures of the results of...

 Friday March 14, 2003 Front Page News Features Opinions Sports Comics About us Advertising Jobs Archives Search News   options NEWS Campus Briefs Captive child found Plans for WTC reconstruction cause concern Christopher Yeung * Ka Leo O Hawai'iJoanna Afshani, a member of Shaloha Hillel, a campus-based Jewish organization, questions Ka Leo's publication of a series of political cartoons that depicted Hitler and used racial slurs. Ka Leo content called offensive Political cartoons, Valentine's spread raise concern By Stanley LeeKa Leo Senior Staff Writer March 14, 2003 More than 50 students, faculty and community members attended a meeting last night...