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Bin Laden's Goal: Kill 4 Million Americans Stewart Stogel Wednesday, July 14, 2004 "It is not a question of if....it is a question of when," so claims the author of a controversial new book "Osama's Revenge: The Next 9/11: What the Media and the Government Haven't Told You," (Prometheus Books). Paul Williams, an investigative journalist and author, says information he has obtained and some he was given access to, all point to another attack by al-Qaeda on the U.S. mainland. "I believe that between now and 2005, Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda will attack the U.S. with (stolen) nuclear weapons,...

"...Kerry broke ground in an interview that ran in the Dubuque, Iowa, daily, the Telegraph Herald. A Catholic who supports abortion rights and has taken heat recently from some in the church hierarchy for his stance, Kerry told the paper: "I oppose abortion, personally. I don't like abortion. I believe life does begin at conception. "I can't take my Catholic belief, my article of faith, and legislate it on a Protestant or a Jew or an atheist," he continued. "We have separation of church and state in the United States of America."

Israeli troops kill militant leaders in secret tunnel By Ohad Gozani in Tel Aviv (Filed: 28/06/2004) Israel's most wanted man and six other Palestinian militants have been killed in a raid by paratroopers who found the men huddled in a secret tunnel beneath a house in the old city of Nablus. Among the dead was Nayef Abu Sharkh, 40, the commander of the militant group the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in the West Bank. Local leaders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad and four other gunmen were also killed. Palestinians shout for revenge at the funeral of Nayef Abu Sharkh The troops...

NABLUS, West Bank (AP) - Acting on a tip, Israeli troops ambushed Palestinian militants holed up in an underground tunnel Saturday, killing seven fugitives including the most-wanted man in the West Bank. Army commanders said the killing of the fugitives was the main goal of a three-day operation to root out militants in the West Bank city of Nablus. Troops began withdrawing from the center of the city soon after the raid. Soldiers also killed an eighth militant during an earlier raid in Nablus, the largest West Bank city. Also Saturday, Israeli border police clashed with hundreds of Palestinians protesting...

Iraqi Kidnappers Kill Lebanese Hostage Saturday June 12, 2004 5:01 PM BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Iraqi gunmen kidnapped three Lebanese in Iraq and killed one of them, a Lebanese Foreign Ministry official said Saturday. Hussein Ali Alyan, a Shiite Muslim from southern Lebanon who worked in construction, was tortured and killed in ``grisly circumstances'' and his body dumped on a road near Baghdad, the official said. Alyan was kidnapped separately from the two other abducted Lebanese, identified as Habib Samour and Roger Haddad. Haddad was released, but Samour was still held by his kidnappers, the official said. It wasn't clear...

Saudi terrorists kill US military adviser to royal family's guards By Robin Gedye (Filed: 09/06/2004) Saudi terrorists yesterday killed an American military adviser to the elite National Guard hours after al-Qa'eda warned Muslims to stay away from westerners, who were now a priority target. The dead man, Robert Jacobs, 62, worked for the Vinnell Corporation, an American defence contractor hired by the US military to train the guard, whose duties include protecting the Saudi royal family. Saudi police at the scene of the shooting It was the fifth assault on westerners in Saudi Arabia in five weeks and the second...

Dominican, Haiti Floods Kill at Least 360 2 hours, 51 minutes ago By PETER PRENGAMAN, Associated Press Writer JIMANI, Dominican Republic - The caskets of dozens of children lined this town's streets after floods swept away whole villages and sent desperate families into the darkness and mud in a frantic search for loved ones. At least 360 were dead and hundreds missing. Trucks dumped more than 100 bodies into a mass grave outside of Jimani, a town of about 10,000 on the Haitian border, on Tuesday. Sobbing families, meanwhile, waited for the tiny caskets of their children to be buried...

Friday prayers at the mosque: A Jew is hiding behind me, come and cut off his head video Transcript: I advise you, oh America, Britain, and those whom Allah said about you: Allah's wrath upon you, the Jews, oh the sons of apes and pigs - there is no strife on the face of the earth that you have not sparked - Whenever they start the fire of strife, Allah extinguished it. May Allah extinguish your light and your fires. But we, we are the men whom Allah has chosen, and wanted, and made us strong, so as to pluck...

Israel Tries to Kill Islamic Jihad Chief in Gaza 39 minutes ago By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) - Israel tried to assassinate the top leader of the militant Palestinian group Islamic Jihad in a missile strike in Gaza City on Saturday in apparent retaliation for the killing of 13 soldiers this week. Islamic Jihad officials said four missiles hit a building housing Mohammed al-Hindi's office but that he safely fled the area. The attempt on his life drew a vow from his followers of an "earthquake-like" revenge attacks against the Jewish state. The air raid followed Israel's assassinations of the...

Spanish government wants to monitor mosques to check Islamic extremism 06:44 PM EDT May 03 MADRID, Spain (AP) - The government is considering monitoring mosques and imams to curb Islamic extremism blamed for the March 11 terror bombings in Madrid, the foreign minister said Monday. "I think it is important to know what is being preached on Fridays in the various religious forums that have been growing in Spain in a totally uncontrolled fashion," Miguel Angel Moratinos told the Telecinco television network, referring to prayers on the Muslim holy day. He said that, as Spain's North African immigrant community has...

“Do you find me sadistic?" These words, spoken by the character Bill (David Carradine) in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill Vol. 2, could have been uttered by Tarantino himself. Of the violence perpetrated on and by female characters in Kill Bill Vol. 1, Tarantino gushed, "There's something intrinsically cool...something intrinsically more painful about beautiful women being abused that way, all right?" Tarantino's sadism in KB2 is manifested less by the overt violence inflicted on his characters than by the pain his seemingly endless, dramatically bloated, and verbose narrative inflicts on viewers. The second volume brings to a close the quest for...

Iraq Militants Threaten to Kill American April 10, 2004 03:23 PM EDT BAGHDAD - Militants on Saturday threatened to kill and mutilate Thomas Hamill, an American civilian captured during the ambush of a convoy west of Baghdad. Also Saturday, the kidnappers of three Japanese taken hostage in Iraq said they will release them within 24 hours, the Arabic news channel Al-Jazeera reported. The kidnappers of the Japanese, identifying themselves as the "Muhahedeen Squadron," said they made the decision after mediation by the Islamic Clerics Committee, an Iraqi Sunni Muslim organization, Al-Jazeera reported. In a statement, the kidnappers urged the Japanese...

"Legitimate voice???" John Kerry and Moqtada al-Sadr political cartoon.   Apr. 8, 2004... Kerry’s voices Sen. John Kerry once again showed his inclination to place America in a weaker position. He has constantly inferred that his foreign policy would sublimate America’s interest to the French and Germans who have publicly stated as one of their goals the weakening of America’s influence. Now, in an interview with NPR, he said that the Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr -- who is leading a band of thugs against Americans and other Shiites -- has a legitimate point of view and his newspaper shouldn’t...

A veteran Plant City High School agricultural science teacher faces fines and criticism after killing two day-old rabbits with a shovel as her stunned class looked on, authorities said Tuesday. But Jane Bender won’t face criminal charges for killing the sickly rabbits, which had been rejected by their mother, officials said. Investigators said Bender killed two rabbits and buried them in a field near the agricultural lab with two others from the same litter that had died. “We felt this person had to be held accountable,” said Hillsborough County Animal Services investigator Dennis McCullough, whose agency filed two civil counts...

MILL VALLEY, Calif. — Senator Kerry of Massachusetts yesterday retreated from his earlier steadfast denials that he attended a meeting of Vietnam Veterans Against the War at which a plan to assassinate U.S. Senators was debated. The reversal came as new evidence, including reports from FBI informants, emerged that contradicted Mr. Kerry’s previous statements about the gathering, which was held in Kansas City, Mo. in November 1971. “John Kerry had no personal recollection of this meeting 33 years ago,” a Kerry campaign spokesman, David Wade, said in a statement e-mailed last night from Idaho, where Mr. Kerry is on vacation....

'I wanted to be a martyr and kill Israeli soldiers' By Toby Harnden (Filed: 26/02/2004) A woman suicide bomber arrested by Israeli forces as she prepared to blow up a Tel Aviv bus station vowed yesterday to carry out a successful "martyr attack" as soon as she is freed from jail. "Yes, I will do it again if I can," said Obeida Khalil, 27. "When I put the suicide explosives belt on I felt very happy, very content. I was angry when they caught me because I was not able to be a martyr. "I wanted to be the first...

The remains of at least 60 criminals executed during the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries were found in a medieval moat at Oxford Castle. Excavations in a medieval moat around Oxford Castle have so far yielded the remains of 60 to 70 criminals, mostly men in their twenties, executed during the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. Archaeologists believe that dozens more await discovery. "This excavation has given us a much greater understanding of the way in which the bodies of executed criminals were treated in postmedieval England," said Andrew Norton, the field archaeologist running the dig. The victims, all of whom are...

Cell phone linked to deadly crash Tuesday, January 13, 2004 5:33PM EST The Associated Press A truck driver fumbling for a cell phone plowed his tractor-trailer into a stopped school bus near Maxton today, killing a 5-year-old girl and injuring her mother and more than a dozen other children, troopers said. The wreck happened just after 7 a.m. on two-lane N.C. Highway 71 near the North Carolina-South Carolina line. Pre-kindergartener Sheila Hernandez was struck and killed as she attempted to board the bus. Maria Hernandez, 25, was severely injured as she stood nearby, watching her daughter. Trucker Gary Kendall Garnett,...