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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina - Authorities are monitoring up to 250 Arab Muslims who fought in Bosnia's 1992-95 war, including some who are suspected of having links to international terrorism, a top police official said Thursday. Zlatko Miletic, director of police for the Muslim-Croat part of Bosnia, told reporters that the Muslims under surveillance all live in or around the northeastern village of Gornja Maoca, where they settled after the war. Miletic said the Muslims were among 740 who obtained Bosnian passports during or just after the war, and that the names of nine men appeared on Egypt's list of most-wanted terror...

PRESIDENTIAL FAILURE, 9/11 + KATRINA by Mia T, 9.26.05 (viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE) thanx to jla and Wolverine for the audio "This is about the only place where I think I can do Hillary any good, just because I serve as a token redneck and I know a little bit about agriculture." bill clinton at the New York State Fair   ASIDE: If bill's "joke" articulates the clintons' local-yokel view of Upstaters, hillary's gingham shirt cum flag pin punctuates it. he clintons thought they would slip south, unnoticed, in the Big Easy sludge. Pick up an...

ROE, MEDICAL SCIENCE, THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT, ROSS PEROT + HILLARY CLINTON by Mia T, 7.27.05 As the John Roberts' Supreme Court nomination fight opens, the predicted battle to save or kill Roe v Wade already has taken to the streets, the Internet and the media. But the 32-year-old constitutional right to an abortion may face its gravest challenge not from red state values triumphing on the Supreme Court, but from medical research being carried out in elite blue state universities and in Europe and Asia.   It is the very language of Roe that carries the seed of its own...

Last week's revelation of 50 pre-September11,al Qaeda-related warnings to the Federal Aviation Administration, and the publication of an early 2001 National Security Council memo warning of the Osama bin Laden threat, point to the utter failure of the Goss-Graham and Kean-Hamilton commissions. Unable to stand up and state the obvious negligence and failure of senior intelligence community officials helped get America to September 11. The oblivious commissioners forced a reorganization of the intelligence community that increases bureaucracy and locks in the mentality that Americans are expendable. The recent disclosures show, again, that there was no lack of good intelligence before...

Since Sept. 11, U.S. officials and outside analysts agree, nearly 65 percent of al-Qaida's leaders have been killed or captured. About 3,400 al-Qaida suspects have been arrested in the United States and overseas, from Tunisia to Indonesia. Important logistical networks in Spain, Italy and Germany have been dismantled. Al-Qaida's financial infrastructure is being steadily dismantled worldwide. Much of the strength and growth of the organization during the 1990s resulted from its ability to operate from a geographical base with impunity, first in Sudan and then in Afghanistan. The training camps, safe houses and caves were the critical infrastructure for al-Qaida....