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Some info has come out just recently and I posted it to chat. It got pulled with a comment by the Admin Moderator "No link, no dice" Since when does a chat item require a link? If all a sudden, an earthquake happens, can we not post it because of no link yet? Honestly I can't see posting any breaking news with these types of undefined rules. But it's ok if some Korean guy gets eaten by dogs and we get 14 threads about it... Comments? Does anybody know the rules?

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela's garrulous President Hugo Chavez on Thursday began a marathon four-day edition of his trademark television show to mark 10 years since the influential and widely watched program first hit the airwaves. Chavez is a tireless talker who uses frequent television appearances to make policy announcements, berate opponents and even sing during rambling speeches often delivered in the florid vernacular of working class Venezuelans. Normally transmitted on Sundays from a different corner of the South American oil exporting nation each week, 'Alo Presidente' is the boisterous socialist's favorite forum, with the program once running to eight hours....

Abu Hamza, the militant, London-based Muslim cleric, maintained close contact with the leadership of al-Qa'eda during the years when it operated a worldwide terrorist network from Afghanistan, according to FBI files. Documents obtained by The Daily Telegraph state that Hamza, the former imam of Finsbury Park mosque, north London, dealt personally with Abu Zubeidah, Osama bin Laden's director of operations. Zubeidah, a Palestinian who is now in US custody, communicated bin Laden's instructions and messages from his hideout in Afghanistan to al-Qa'eda cells around the world. Hamza had the power to refer recruits to Zubeidah for "leadership training" in Afghan...

Can anyone read anything on the poster in the background of this photo?

Interesting take on how talk radio programs take callers. See link for article. http://www.thespectrum.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060227/OPINION02/602270319/1014

I have some things in here that need to be said.  I have heard so many nay-sayers keep saying negative things about President Bush's selection of Harriet Miers as the next Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.  It has been said that this is a blown opportunity or a cowardly way out.  Having nominated someone without any judicial experience may not be always a wise choice, but it is not always a bad choice, either.  Remember, William Rehnquist was in Nixon's Justice Department when he was appointed to the Supreme Court, and he eventually turned out to be...

"And then depression set in ..."

The Swedish authorities have released from custody a man held on suspicion of trying to hijack a plane bound for Britain.And likely to hit the US Embassy in London, I might add - Ivan Kerim Sadok Chatty, 29, was arrested a month ago at a Swedish airport after a gun was found in his hand luggage. But the authorities say suspicions that he was planning a hijack have weakened since then. Despite his release, prosecutors say investigations into the incident will continue. They have imposed a travel ban on Mr Chatty, and ordered him to report to police regularly. Fears...

Tuesday, September 03, 2002, 12:00 a.m. Pacific'I love bin Laden ... I hate Bush': Man connected to Ujaama, hijacking suspect speaks outBy David HeathSeattle Times staff reporter A Swedish citizen suspected of conspiring with a former Seattle man to open a terrorist training camp in Oregon also has links to a Swede suspected of planning to hijack an airliner in Europe last week. Oussama Kassir, 36, an unemployed engineer in Stockholm, was an unnamed and uncharged co-conspirator in the indictment of James Ujaama last week. Federal officials say Kassir and another man went to Bly, Ore., with Ujaama in late...

<p>September 2, 2002 -- The man suspected of plotting to hijack a plane in Sweden and fly it into a U.S. embassy in Europe may have had kamikaze accomplices on the plane with him, according to British intelligence sources.</p> <p>Karem Chatty, a minor Swedish hood of Tunisian heritage, admitted to trying to smuggle a pistol on a flight from Vasteras to London Thursday. But lawyer Nils Uggla said Chatty, who did time for assaulting a U.S. Marine, "is very much against violence."</p>

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A Swedish man of Tunisian origin, arrested on suspicion he was about to hijack a plane, was planning to crash the aircraft into a U.S. embassy in Europe, Swedish intelligence sources said on Saturday. Police are looking for four more men, including an explosives expert, who worked with him on the plan, the sources said. "We know for sure that the plan was to crash the plane into a U.S. embassy in Europe," a military intelligence source told Reuters. The man, 29, was arrested on Thursday -- almost a year after the September 11 hijack attacks on...

The Muslim convert accused of trying to hijack a Ryanair plane from Sweden to Stansted attended an American flying school leaving with a qualification to pilot light aircraft. The revelation that Kerim Chatty, 29, had taken flying lessons in the US - just like the September 11 terrorists - came as detectives investigated reports that he was planning to crash the plane into an American embassy in Europe, possibly London. An intelligence officer in Sweden told Reuters: "We know for sure that the plan was to crash the plane into a US embassy in Europe." If London were the target,...

ORGANISERS of the Salafist conference in Birmingham that Kerim Chatty was planning to attend were desperate yesterday to distance themselves from any link to the 29-year-old Muslim convert. As delegates began to arrive at the Salafi Islamic Centre in the city, the sponsors of the three-day conference insisted that they did not support extremist groups such as al-Qaeda. Their spokesman, Abu Kahadeejah, said: “Many people claim to be Salafis but they don’t really know what it means. This does nothing for our cause.” Police have been watching several members of the Salafi community living in the UK since September 11....

A man arrested in Sweden on suspicion he was about to hijack a plane, was planning to crash the aircraft into a US embassy in Europe, according to a Reuters report. Swedish intelligence sources told the news agency that the 29-year-old Swedish man may have been working with others on the plan. Police are looking for four more men, including an explosives expert. A military intelligence source told Reuters: "We know for sure that the plan was to crash the plane into a US embassy in Europe." The suspected would-be hijacker is still being questioned in Sweden after trying to...