] There is something terribly wrong when the United States,
] after Sept. 11, fails to condemn the pardoning of
] terrorists and instead allows them to walk free on U.S.
] streets.

Moral Misstep (washingtonpost.com)

] Venezuelan condemned the United States for providing
] asylum to at least three Cuban dissidents accused of
] terror acts, El Universal newspaper reports.

Venezuelan slams the U.S. on asylum - (United Press International)

] The Pentagon has determined that a detainee held for an
] extended period in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, should no longer
] be classified as an unlawful enemy combatant and will be
] returned to his native country, a senior official said
] Wednesday.

Supreme Court ordered judicial process nets innocent victim.

The New York Times - U.S. Will Send Detainee Home From Cuba

] If you went to the north wall windows, you could look up
] and see the flames and the smoke and regrettably people
] now starting to jump, because of heat, smoke, or whatever
] it was. I'm only telling this secondhand because I
] personally could not take myself to the window to view
] that. I just didn't want that image burned in my brain,
] and I'm forever grateful that I didn't go and take in
] that sight.

NOVA Online | Why the Towers Fell | Above the Impact: A Survivor's Story | PBS

PBS has been playying a lot of 9/11 related content, including this documentary about the fight over the tower design. Worth checking out...

frontline: sacred ground | PBS

] In a late Tuesday night court filing, the department told
] U.S. District Judge Gerald Rosen it supports the Detroit
] defendants' request for a new trial and would no longer
] pursue terrorism charges against them. The defendants at
] most would only face fraud charges at a new trial.

Nah, the U.S. Government never makes mistakes when it prosecutes people. Anyone who is accused of being a terrorist must be a terrorist. Thats why its ok to throw them in GITMO without trial.

Yahoo! News - U.S. Seeks to Throw Out Terror Convictions

] I have never been and I will never be a Government
] official and I have no privileged information. My
] perspective is entirely based on what I see, on what I
] read and on the fact that my family has lived in this
] region for almost 200 years. You may regard my views as
] those of the proverbial taxi driver, which you are
] supposed to question, when you visit a country.

Harari is a well known physicist. His view is conservative. He makes strong arguments.

A Isreali view of the middle east conflict

] The father then walked into the garage, picked up a
] propane tank, a lighting device and a can of gasoline he
] used to douse the van, police Capt. Tony Rode said. He
] smashed the van's window, got inside and set it ablaze,
] despite attempts by the Marines to stop him, Rode said.
]
] The Marines, reservists who are members of a military
] Casualty Assistance Calls Officer team, pulled Arredondo,
] 44, from the burning vehicle and extinguished the flames
] on him, police said.
]
] Arredondo was initially taken to Memorial Regional
] Hospital in Hollywood with burns over as much as 50
] percent of his body, emergency officials said.
]
] Melida Arredondo told the Miami Herald that her husband,
] an immigrant from Costa Rica, "was very proud of Alex
] serving," though he wished his service would have been
] during a "more peaceful" time.
]
] But Luz Marina Arredondo, Alexander's grandmother, felt
] the government was at fault for her grandson's death.
]
] "I blame them a lot," she said. "They send them like
] guinea pigs over there."

ABCNEWS.com : Man Burns Marine Van After GI Son's Death

] National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice says the
] United States needs to work harder at reaching out to
] Muslims if it is to win the war on terrorism. President
] Bush's top security adviser admitted Thursday that the
] United States has not done enough to counteract
] widespread anti-American sentiment in the Muslim world.

Rice urges dialog with Islam

] Fierce fighting erupted in the city of Najaf Thursday
] after a rebel Shi'ite cleric defied an Iraqi government
] threat to attack his stronghold in a holy shrine and
] rejected demands that he end his uprising.
]
] Thick black smoke poured into the sky from near the Imam
] Ali Mosque, soon after Moqtada al-Sadr spurned the
] ultimatum from interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi. U.S.
] aircraft and tanks pounded the area around the shrine.

That sucks...

Al Sadr waffles....