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Chemical Weapons Found In Iraq By Mike Minton Talon News January 12, 2004 Danish troops Friday discovered what is believed to be Mustard Gas or some other form of blistering agent inside a cache of 36 aging warheads near the town of Al Quarnah, just north of Basra, where some 400 Danish soldiers are stationed. Lt. Nikolaj Groen, spokesman for the Danish Defense Command, told Talon News, "I can confirm that 36 mortar shells, with what is believed to be a blister gas, have been found by Danish forces in Iraq." In an exclusive phone interview, Major Wolf, the Duty...

Lithuanians, Jews, Nazis, the Holocaust, and Collective Guilt By Andrew L. Jaffee, August 14, 2003 Home   Search   Forum   Terms Let him who is without sin cast the first stone. - Jesus of Nazareth, from the Gospel of John "All Jews are communists." "All Lithuanians are Nazis." Have you heard these things said before? I have. A recent visit to the State Jewish Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania spurred me to think very carefully about collective guilt and the Holocaust. Being an American of both Lithuanian and Jewish ancestry has sometimes put me in an awkward position. First, I'm born and raised American--you know,...

Eastern European wave filling Shore jobs Published in the Home News Tribune 7/07/02 By JOHN LOFTUS STAFF WRITER [Ocean City, N.J. --]  There are plenty of jobs in Bulgaria. But Ana Ivanova says the money isn't good. So for the second summer in a row, she has come to Ocean City, N.J., to work for the kind of pay college kids earn in an American resort town. That would be about four times, maybe more, she said, than she could get back in her hometown, Sofia, the Bulgarian capital. Trouble is, as of late June, she had not found a...

NAGANO, Japan - The sport of figure skating was reeling again Saturday Israel was accused of "buying" the ice dance bronze medal of Galit Chait and Sergei Sakhnovski at the world figure skating championships. The Lithuanian team claimed that results were "pre-decided" and accused the father of Chait of mafioso-type behavior after the Israelis took bronze ahead of husband and wife team Povilas Vanagas and Margarita Drobiazko on Friday. The Lithuanian delegation lodged an official protest with the International Skating Union (ISU) following the free program at Nagno M-Wave Arena, in which five of the nine judges voted for the...