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The shadow of Jacques Chirac will loom large over a Paris courtroom today when 47 people, including some of the president's closest former allies, go on trial over a vast kickback scheme allegedly run...

Article in the Flemish newspaper “Het Volk” from 12 March 2005 MOLENBEEK (BRUSSELS, BELGIUM) BREEDING-GROUND FOR MUSLIM TERROR The municipality of Brussels Sint-Jans-Molenbeek is a breeding-ground for a complete generation of Muslim extremists. Some of the Brussel’s Imams also recruit active jihad fighters who are prepared to give their life for the holy war. Attacks in Belgium have not been planned sofar because Belgium is considered an ideal operating base. Investigation journalist Hind Fraihi, a faithful Moslem woman, lived two months disguised as a sociology student in the heart of Molenbeek. “I am astonished about what I discovered. I wrongly...

66 PEDOPHILES STAND TRIAL – BIGGEST CASE EVER IN FRANCE In the French City of Angers an exceptional pedophile trial starts today. Exceptional due to the high number of defendants: 66 adults from a marginal area in Angers. They are accused of having molested 45 young children (often their own). But also exceptional because of the atrocities the victims suffered (a mother let rape her 10 year old son for a new tire); 39 different persons raped a girl the same age. The youngest molested child was 6 months, the oldest 14 years. The boys and girls were videotaped during...

The godfather of gonzo believes America has suffered a "nationwide nervous breakdown" since 9/11, and as a result is compromising civil liberties for what he calls "the illusion of security." The compromise, he says, is "a disaster of unthinkable proportions" and "part of the downward spiral of dumbness" he believes is plaguing the .....

At the official site of the Belgian Flemish Socialist Party, the creative young socialists have designed “urinoir-stickers” to be placed in urinals—featuring a caricature of President Bush. http://www.s-p-a.be/nationaal/mensen/wieiswie/detail.asp?sCode=ORG