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US citizen tells of links with 'UK terror cell' Staff and agencies Thursday March 23, 2006 An American citizen with links to al-Qaida appeared at the Old Bailey today to give evidence against seven British men charged with conspiring to carry out a UK bombing campaign. Mohammed Babar, 31, who was born in Pakistan, arrived at the central London court amid heavy security after being transported by police from a secret location. He has already pleaded guilty in a New York federal court to being part of an alleged British plot and has been given immunity from prosecution in the...

Found this when I was looking around and don't know if the Freeper who put it together is still posting here but thought some could use the links. FYI Jai's News Plus Address:http://www.mantra.com/newsplus/

FOUR prison officers have been sacked and two more counselled in the wake of the so-called "Sausagegate" scandal, which hurt and humiliated a vulnerable inmate of the privately owned and run Port Phillip Prison. The Bracks Government has put GSL Australia, operator of the Laverton maximum-security complex, on notice over a spate of alarming incidents. The prisoner was tricked into believing he was leaving the jail, coerced into inserting a sausage in his body, then strip-searched by officers "in" on the "joke". The dismissed officers were corrections supervisor Trevor Spearman, who allegedly tried to cover up the incident, and corrections...

CARMARTHENSHIRE CAIRN REVEALS LINKS WITH BRONZE AGE SCOTLAND by Roz Tappenden 17/02/2006 The excavation took place in 2004. © Cambria Archaeology New research on an excavated Bronze Age burial mound in south Wales has revealed links to funeral sites as far away as the Orkney Islands. The burial mound on the Black Mountain in Carmarthenshire was unearthed by Cambria Archaeology in 2004 after it was feared that the weather and visitors to the area were causing permanent damage to the site. Fan Foel from Llanddeusant. © Cambria Archaeology Archaeologists discovered a large rectangular stone cist at the centre of the...

WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) wrote at least four letters helpful to Indian tribes represented by Jack Abramoff, and the senator's staff regularly had contact with the disgraced lobbyist's partners about legislation affecting other clients. The activities — detailed in billing records and correspondence obtained by Associated Press — are more extensive than previously disclosed. They occurred over three years as Reid collected about $68,000 in donations from Abramoff's firm, lobbying partners and clients. Reid's office acknowledged last week having "routine contacts" with Abramoff's lobbying partners and intervening on some government matters, such as blocking some tribal...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9, 2006 – If you or another servicemember or military family you know needs help, the support you're seeking might be just a few clicks away on the "America Supports You" Web site. The green button on the www.AmericaSupportsYou.mil site takes military members to a long list resources and America Supports You partners, all standing by and ready to help, Allison Barber, deputy assistant secretary of defense for public affairs, told the American Forces Press Service. They include traditional military and government programs, but also corporate, grassroots and individual efforts that help meet needs the Defense Department...

/8/2006 - BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq (AFPN) -- Ensuring that pilots and ground forces are aware of one another’s intentions, limitations and capabilities is a full-time job. That responsibility falls into the hands of three people assigned to the 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing Ground Liaison Office, or GLO. Comprised of one Airman and two Soldiers, the GLO provides a conduit of information between the Air Force and the ground combat units it supports. “We stay up-to-date on strategic and tactical operations and provide that information to the planners within the 332nd AEW,” said Army Sgt. 1st Class Patrick McCormack, 332nd...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 22, 2005 – The contributions U.S. servicemembers are making in Iraq are helping ensure the peace and security families across the United States will enjoy this Thanksgiving, the commander of coalition operations in Iraq told Pentagon reporters via satellite today. "I am struck in this holiday season by the enormous sacrifice of the young men and women over here -- the things that they're doing on a daily basis on our behalf as a nation," said Army Lt. Gen. John R. Vines, commander of Multinational Corps Iraq and the U.S. Army's 18th Airborne Corps. Vines called their contributions...

Here's some of the feedback after the House GOP showdown. The MSM is spinning it full speed as the opposite instead of a vote for all representatives to stand on what they believed. The question was "Do you put yourself on record as wanting immediate withdrawal of our troops?". After years of political anti-war statements by democrats, we saw they were spineless to vote their convictions... so it's spun as a republican stunt instead of the chance for democrats to vote what they truly believe.

Spanish police expose more CIA links to secret flights of detainees · 42 operatives traced going through Palma airport· Names unearthed match Italian and German inquiries Giles Tremlett in Madrid Tuesday November 15, 2005 The Guardian (UK) Spanish police have traced up to 42 suspected CIA operatives believed to have taken part in secret flights carrying detained or kidnapped Islamist terror suspects to interrogation centres and jails in Afghanistan, Egypt and elsewhere. A Spanish police report seen by the New York Times provides the names of the mainly American crew and passengers of a dozen suspect flights that landed in...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 14, 2005 – This holiday season, military members serving overseas will have a chance to send their love to their families in a very special way, thanks to a Denver-based nonprofit organization. Operation Hope, a program started two and a half years ago by the Beacon of Hope Outreach Center, is launching a service called Home for the Holidays. This service allows military men and women serving overseas to register their families for gifts, said Leo Pacheco, president and executive director of Beacon of Hope Outreach Center. Servicemembers can register their families via the Operation Hope Web site,...

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This site has many links to audio witnesses, photos of the memorials as well as the poignant tribute by Take Back the Memorial: FDNY Audio Dispatches on 9/11 WTC Firefighter Communications on 9/11 Oral Histories From Sept. 11 Compiled by the FDNY FDNY 9/11 Tribute New York City Fire Department home page Take Back The Memorial Rally at Ground Zero on Saturday, Sept. 10. The Black Day

AL ASAD, Iraq, Sept. 6, 2005 – Keeping in touch with friends and family at home is always a challenge during deployments. Though communications in combat zones have evolved, some still find it difficult to contact people they care about. Freedom Calls Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded to keep military personnel closer to those they love, is taking the next step in wartime communications. “Faced with extended tours of duty, our front line soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan are not able to speak with members of their families for months at a time,” the organization says on its Web site....

The inevitable happens: With many blaming the growing scope of Katrina's devastation on the Bush administration, Sen. Hillary Clinton called yesterday for a 9/11-style probe into how the federal government responded to the crisis. "It has become increasingly evident that our nation was not prepared," Clinton (D-N.Y.) said in a letter to Bush asking him to set up a "Katrina Commission." After the water is pumped out and the mud hosed out, there will be plenty of blame to go around, between all three levels of government and over the last few decades. The "Katrina Commission", should it actually eventuate,...

SAN DIEGO -- A half-smoked marijuana cigarette was used to link a man to the slaying of a San Diego woman 17 years ago, NBC 7/39 reported Monday Mark Elder, 47, was arrested in Florida Friday after a police officer noticed that Elder matched a description sent out on a nationwide alert. The alert was issued after DNA from the 1988 San Diego murder case was matched to two rape cases in Florida. Saliva from Elder's joint was tested at a lab in San Diego. It matched DNA found at the scene the apartment where Janet Moore, 27, was killed...

WASHINGTON -- A vote in the House of Representatives this week to punish Mexico for failing to extradite the suspected killers of Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy David March and other law-enforcement officers divided Southland lawmakers, though not entirely along partisan lines. Sponsored by two Colorado legislators, the amendment threatens to cut off aid to any country that refuses to extradite suspects in the killings of U.S. law officers. It would affect about $66 million in aid to Mexico, which has blocked the extradition of suspects who face either death penalty or life imprisonment sentences. It passed 327 to 98....

Stephen Hayes, whose book The Connection detailed the links that are said not to have taken place between Saddam and al Qaeda, returns to the fray. Marvelling at the bare-faced lies of CNN which has been stating that there were no links -- and that the 9/11 Commission said so, when it said explicitly that there were -- he adds a few more examples of the contacts: 'In 1992 the Iraqi Intelligence services compiled a list of its assets. On page 14 of the document, marked "Top Secret" and dated March 28, 1992, is the name of Osama bin Laden,...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When Google Inc.'s 19 million daily users look up a long-lost classmate, send e-mail or bounce around the Web more quickly with its new Web Accelerator, records of that activity don't go away. In an era of increased government surveillance, privacy watchdogs worry that Google's vast archive of Internet activity could prove a tempting target for abuse. Like many other online businesses, Google (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) tracks how its search engine and other services are used, and who uses them. Unlike many other businesses, Google holds onto that information for years. Some privacy experts who otherwise...

Researcher Develops Methods to Test Artifacts' Links to the Bible Newswise — A Purdue University professor has invented a system to judge whether ancient inscriptions refer to people in the Bible. Lawrence Mykytiuk (MICK-ee-took) uses the system to test whether archaeological inscriptions refer to ancient Hebrew kings such as David, Omri, Jeroboam II, Uzziah and other Old Testament personages such as Mesha and the high priest Hilkiah. The system and results are detailed in his new book, "Identifying Biblical Persons in Northwest Semitic Inscriptions of 1200-539 B.C.E." (Society of Biblical Literature, $42.95). Mykytiuk's work steps outside the conflict between two...