] LA HABRA -- Antiwar protesters burned and ripped up
] flags, flowers and patriotic signs at a Sept. 11 memorial
] that residents erected on a fence along Whittier
] Boulevard days after the terrorist attacks in 2001 and
] have maintained ever since.
]
] However, although officers witnessed the vandalism
] Saturday afternoon, police did not arrest three people
] seen damaging the display because they were "exercising
] the same freedom of speech that the people who put up the
] flags were,' La Habra Police Capt. John Rees said Monday.
]
] "For this to be vandalism, there had to be an ill-will
] intent,' he said.

Antiwar protesters trash 9/11 memorial

] When John Ashcroft was in the U.S. Senate he was always a
] champion of states' rights.
]
] Too much power is held in Washington. State government is
] closest to the people.
]
] Now that he's the attorney general, the states are
] wondering where he's gone. The message is clear from his
] U.S. Department of Justice: We feds know best.

Where's that states'-righter Ashcroft now? (captimes.com)

] Reporters watched a video that appeared to show Pakistani
] agents in bullet-proof vests scaling the wall of
] Mohammed's building, then handcuffing him and placing a
] black hood over his head.

okay, can you say stupid? Not only are we beating our chest about this takedown, but we're also giving the 'enemy' too much information about what we are capable of. Is not the reason why we haven't captured Bin Laden because we revealed that we had a lock on his satellite phone and he stopped using it? Does it make sense for both the Pakistani's and the US to reveal detailed information, including *video* of how our intelligence forces work?

Why is it that the press can see this stuff but we're still waiting on the 'conclusive evidence' that points to Iraq's WMD?

How mobile phones and an £18m bribe trapped 9/11 mastermind

] THE first President Bush has told his son that hopes of
] peace in the Middle East would be ruined if a war with
] Iraq were not backed by international unity.
]
] Drawing on his own experiences before and after the 1991
] Gulf War, Mr Bush Sr said that the brief flowering of
] hope for Arab-Israeli relations a decade ago would never
] have happened if America had ignored the will of the
] United Nations.
]
] He also urged the President to resist his tendency to
] bear grudges, advising his son to bridge the rift between
] the United States, France and Germany.
]
] %u201CYou%u2019ve got to reach out to the other person.
] You%u2019ve got to convince them that long-term
] friendship should trump short-term adversity,%u201D he
] said.

Bush Sr warning over unilateral action

] TERRIFIED Iraqi soldiers have crossed the Kuwait border
] and tried to surrender to British forces - because they
] thought the war had already started.
]
] The motley band of a dozen troops waved the white flag as
] British paratroopers tested their weapons during a
] routine exercise.
]
] The stunned Paras from 16 Air Assault Brigade were forced
] to tell the Iraqis they were not firing at them, and
] ordered them back to their home country telling them it
] was too early to surrender.
]
] The drama unfolded last Monday as the Para batallion
] tested mortars and artillery weapons to make sure they
] were working properly.

SADDAM'S SOLDIERS SURRENDER

] A REPORT declassified by the United Nations yesterday
] contained a hidden bombshell with the revelation that
] inspectors have recently discovered an undeclared Iraqi
] drone with a wingspan of 7.45m, suggesting an illegal
] range that could threaten Iraq's neighbours with
] chemical and biological weapons.

] US officials were outraged that Hans Blix, the chief
] UN weapons inspector, did not inform the Security
] Council about the drone, or remotely piloted vehicle,
] in his oral presentation to Foreign Ministers and tried
] to bury it in a 173-page single-spaced report
] distributed later in the day. The omission raised
] serious questions about Dr Blix’s objectivity.

UK Times - Iraqi drone 'could drop chemicals on troops'

] The man who spoke Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s
] words in English during a CBS interview with Dan Rather
] late last month was an actor using a fake Arabic accent,
] the Los Angeles Times reported on Wednesday.
]
] The paper said Steve Winfield is a member of the Screen
] Actors Guild (news - web sites) who bills himself on a
] Web site called "Fabulous Voices" as an expert in putting
] on foreign accents.

Hussein Translator on CBS Used Fake Accent?

] Officials at a mall where a man was arrested for refusing
] to remove an anti-war T-shirt asked Wednesday that
] trespassing charges against him be dropped.
]
] Police said managers from Crossgates Mall called and
] asked that the complaint against Stephen Downs be
] withdrawn. Police Chief James Murley said he would
] support the mall's decision.

ABCNEWS.com : Mall Wants to Drop Peace T-Shirt Charges

] Britain's The Observer newspaper has published a memo
] that purportedly orders increased espionage against U.N.
] Security Council diplomats. The memo is likely a forgery:
] It includes un-American spellings, and the writer
] apparently lacks understanding of the U.S. intelligence
] community's structure.

Observer story likely faked.

] Two North Korean MiG29 fighters and two other aircraft
] that Davis said appeared to be MiG23 fighters intercepted
] the Air Force RC-135S reconnaissance plane, which Davis
] said was conducting a routine intelligence mission over
] the Sea of Japan about 150 miles off North Korea's coast.
]
] The closest the fighters came was about 50 feet, Davis
] said.

This wasn't going after a high-altitude spyplane on an overflight of Korean airspace. This was going 150 miles into international waters, sending fighters to buzz a wing's length away from a 707....

N. Korea Jets Intercept U.S. Spy Plane