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Poisonous gun pellets killed lake flamingos LARNACA (AP) - Cyprus yesterday said it is trying to prevent more deaths of migratory flamingos after dozens of the birds died from eating shotgun pellets. Environment Minister Costas Themistocleous said at least 40 flamingos, which have made the Larnaca Salt Lake their home for the winter, were found dead this week. He said a nearby shooting range will be closed as the birds were found to have died from lead poisoning caused by swallowing shotgun pellets fired into the lake. “An operation has started to try to remove the flamingos from the dangerous...

Militant group threatens to kill Arafat minister By Justin Huggler in Jerusalem 08 February 2003 A leading militant group has threatened to kill Yasser Arafat's Interior Minister in the first "martrydom attack" on a Palestinian. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades branch in Nablus warned Hani al-Hassan, the Palestinian Authority Interior Minister, not to enter the West Bank city. "Those who are able to reach the heart of Tel Aviv despite all barricades and checkpoints to carry out a successful operation are capable to reach this person and all those who provide protection for him," says a leaflet distributed in Nablus. "The...

Plot to kill British forces chief foiled By Peter Popham and Jo Dillon 02 February 2003 Terrorists in Italy may have been plotting to assassinate Britain's head of the armed forces, Admiral Sir Michael Boyce, police confirmed yesterday. A newspaper photograph of Sir Michael, the Chief of the Defence Staff and Tony Blair's key war adviser, was among the objects found on Thursday when 28 Pakistanis were arrested during a raid on a Naples apartment. The photograph, in an Urdu-language Pakistani newspaper, had been ringed in ink. The find has been linked to a visit by the admiral to Nato's...

Afghan warlords kill at will, says UN envoy By Ahmed Rashid in Lahore (Filed: 31/01/2003) The United Nations has issued a trenchant condemnation of all the nations and agencies involved in Afghanistan for failing to curb warlords and clamp down on arbitrary executions. The report calls for an international commission of inquiry backed by the international community. Another report, by the International Crisis Group, strongly criticises President Hamid Karzai's government, the UN, America and western coalition forces for doing nothing to improve human rights. Western and Afghan leaders have said that, to preserve the fragile stability in the country, the...

OLYMPIA - A man arrested on a firearms charge might have been plotting to assassinate Governor Locke. James D. Brailey, Jr., 43, was arrested Wednesday when federal agents and state troopers raided his home near Olympia. Federal court documents in Tacoma say an informant told authorities in March of 2001 that Brailey planned to kill the governor. The documents also give the following account of the informant to federal agents: They say Brailey, Jr. was a member of the Jural Society -- a group that does not believe in state or federal government. Instead, they believe in a "people's government"...

Breaking News ISRAELI GUNSHIPS KILL TWO TEENAGERS Israeli helicopter gunships have fired three missiles into a Palestinian orchard in the Gaza Strip and killed two teenagers. Witnesses said two helicopters struck the orchard located near the road between the Khan Younis and Rafah refugee camps just after dark. A Palestinian man was also wounded. A senior Israeli security source confirmed the air strike, saying: "I can confirm we hit three wanted men." But Palestinian medical officials said the dead were Mohammed Kawara, 14, and Abdullah a-Najar, 19. They claimed that neither they nor the wounded man were known to be...

Algerian Islamists kill 56 in raids on army and families By Aomar Ouali in Algiers 06 January 2003 Islamic militants ambushed a military convoy in north-east Algeria and attacked families near the capital, Algiers, in a weekend of killings that claimed at least 56 lives, Algerian media reported yesterday. The ambush on Saturday night killed 43 soldiers and seriously wounded 19 others, the deadliest assault suffered by the Algerian military in at least five years. In the other attack, Islamic militants killed 13 people from two families overnight on Saturday in Zabana, 30 miles south of Algiers, the official news...

The following organizations have lent monetary, grassroots or some other type of direct support to anti-gun organizations. In many instances, these organizations lent their name in support of specific campaigns to pass anti-gun legislation such as the March 1995 HCI "Campaign to Protect Sane Gun Laws." Many of these organizations were listed as "Campaign Partners," for having pledged to fight any efforts to repeal the Brady Act and the Clinton "assault weapons" ban. All have officially endorsed anti-gun positions. AFL-CIO American Alliance for Rights and Responsibilities American Association of School Administrators American Association for the Surgery of Trauma American Bar...

<p>SAN GABRIEL, Calif.(AP) - A man armed with a meat cleaver inside a bank was shot and killed by two police officers after he raised the knife above his head, officials said.</p> <p>Police responded to a call about 2:20 p.m. that a man wielding a knife was inside a Cathay Bank, said Deputy Scott Butler, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.</p>

Militants kill top colonel in Hebron ambush By Justin Huggler in Hebron 17 November 2002 Israeli armoured vehicles poured into Hebron last night, as it emerged that nine of the 12 Israelis killed in an ambush here on Friday were soldiers or members of the paramilitary border police. Among them was the Israeli army commander in Hebron, Colonel Dror Weinberg – the most senior officer to die in the two-year intifada. The other three dead were armed Jewish settlers who had rushed to the help of the soldiers. The killings, the work of Palestinian militants most Israelis thought were all...

Zimbabwe police kill American aid worker By Peta Thornycroft in Harare (Filed: 13/11/2002) An American aid worker who was helping to feed hundreds of starving schoolchildren in Zimbabwe was shot dead by security forces at a road block. Dick Gilman, 58, a retired American software specialist from Connecticut who had been in the country for less than three weeks, was shot near the border with Mozambique on Monday. A US embassy official said two American officials had been sent to the eastern town of Mutare to investigate the shooting. Police in Harare said Mr Gilman had been "rude" and had...

J.C. Penney Catalog: GI Joe Commandeers Barbie's Dream Houseby Eric Garris September 27, 2002 Thumbing through the J.C. Penney Christmas Catalog, Antiwar.com's Administrative Assistant Anastasia Kellar came across this horrific picture in the toys section.Here is what J.C. Penney's says about this product:Forward Command Post $44.99 Take command of your soldiers from this fully outfitted battlezone. 75-piece set includes one 111/2"H figurine in military combat gear, toy weapons, American flag, chairs and more. Assembled dimensions; 32x16x32"H. Plastic. 10 lbs. Ages 5 and up.This looks like the sort of toy that Norman Podhoretz or Bill Kristol would buy for their...

Woman Shoots Intruder in Self Defense Reported by Cheryl Chodun Web produced by Kelly Reynolds Two terrified women felt they had run out of options. The women huddled in a closet clutching a handgun while intruders roamed through their Detroit flat. But it wasn't until one of the suspected thieves opened the closet door that the women fired. One suspect is hospitalized. He is in serious condition. He is under arrest. Police are searching for at least one more suspect and probably more. They say what happened inside the flat on Sorento looks like a clear case of self-defense. With...

<p>Preventing rape is not funny. At least it shouldn't be. Somebody should have mentioned that to the audience before the recent first televised gubernatorial debate at Penn State. Candidates were asked what they would do to encourage rape victims to report the crime to authorities. One of the four gave an answer few were expecting. The audience and the other three thought he was joking.</p>

National Weekly Arab-American Paper Publishes Poems: "Yes, I am a Terrorist" and 'Bush is an Ape' Al-Watan is an Arabic-language "national weekly Arab-American newspaper" published in Washington D.C., San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York, whose mission is to provide Arab and Muslim Americans "with the most current, valuable, reliable, and informative news on political, economic, social, cultural, and educational issues, which concern the Arab-American community in their relations with the U.S. society at large… through maintaining a positive relationship with the community... coordinating efforts with Arab and Muslim American organizations to promote the achievements of the community as...

Scribes veto children being dressed to kill August 27 2002 at 07:24PM Gaza City - The Palestinian journalists union on Tuesday called for militant groups to stop dressing children up in uniform or handing them weapons to be photographed with. The union also has called on photographers not to film children who had been dressed up in military outfits to be presented to the media. The union said its statement was aimed at protecting children's rights. The union also asked Palestinian factions to refrain from allowing masked men into demonstrations, to avoid possible attacks perpetrated by them. The Israeli army...

Fox News is reporting that a five month old infant was snatched from a stroller and killed in New York state.

Israeli shots kill Palestinian boy's school dream   By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Five-year-old Ayman Fares could hardly wait for his first day of school but Israeli gunfire cut short the Palestinian boy's dreams, his mother said on Friday as his flag-wrapped body headed for an early grave. "They stole his happiness and ours," said Sumaya Fares, weeping as she held up a pair of Ayman's jeans and a blue shirt while receiving mourners at her house at the Khan Younis refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, shortly before the burial. Sumaya said she had already bought Ayman his school uniform and...

FAIRFIELD, Calif. (AP) - A man has been charged with poisoning his ex-girlfriend's lipstick and anti-depressant medication with insecticide. At a preliminary hearing Tuesday, Vincent Hall, 36, pleaded innocent to felony charges of poisoning and making threats. An attempted murder charge was dropped, and bail was set at $10,000. Hall faces a maximum of nine years in prison if convicted. The former girlfriend testified that the alleged poisoning attempt came a few days after she and Hall agreed to split up, and that Hall had moved his belongings out of her home by the time she returned from work...

<p>This year's boating season opened with a mystery: the theft of almost a third of the new moorings placed around the islands of Boston Harbor.</p> <p>Harbor officials doing an inventory of the islands' moorings on Sunday found that 15 of the 50 buoys installed last August by the Boston Harbor Islands Partnership to provide safe anchorage and on-site waste removal services to private boaters had been stolen.</p>