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TAMPA - With details emerging Thursday that the Sept. 11 commission omitted crucial information from its final report last year, a group of 9/11 widows called for creation of a new independent panel. "I'm very disturbed, and I want to get some answers," said Kristen Breitweiser, whose husband, Ronald, died in the World Trade Center. "I want to know what the truth is." Her organization, the September 11th Advocates, or the Jersey Girls, was instrumental in pushing for creation of the Sept. 11 commission. On Thursday, the now-disbanded commission became embroiled in controversy, after acknowledging it omitted crucial information about...

WASHINGTON - Stung during the 1990s Democratic fund-raising controversy, John Kerry (news - web sites) is returning a $2,000 check from the son of South Korea (news - web sites)'s disgraced ex-president after learning the donor was charged with tax evasion. Kerry's presidential campaign also acknowledges that some of its fund-raisers met with a South Korean government official who was trying to organize a Korean-American political group. That official has been sent home amid questions he was involving himself in American politics. The Kerry campaign said it did not know about the $2,000 donation from Chun Jae-yong or his background...

United States Special Forces Operations are said to have blown up an Iraqi Oil Pipeline that delivered more than 200,000 barrels of oil per day to Syria. (at a profit of 2 million a day for Saddam Hussein exempt from the United Nations oil for food programme)The Kuwaiti paper reported on Wednesday that United States forces sabotaged the Iraqi oil line to Syria last week in an operation in Northwestern Iraq.The newspaper quoted United States forces as saying that the forces also blew up a railroad link between Iraq and Syria.The United States sources said that the destruction of the...