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Police push for domestic spying |
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9:43 pm EST, Nov 29, 2002 |
] "Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly has declined to
] cite a single specific case in which the consent decree
] hindered a police investigation." Local guys want the same leeway their big brothers got last year. Police push for domestic spying |
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Yahoo! News - Bin Laden Targeted U.S. Defense, State, CIA Chiefs |
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12:08 am EDT, Sep 19, 2002 |
Osama bin Laden targeted the heads of the Defense Department, State Department, CIA and FBI, and offered a $9 million bounty for the assassination of four top intelligence officers, a congressional investigator said on Wednesday. In August 1999, U.S. intelligence agencies obtained information that bin Laden's organization had decided to target the top officials at the State and Defense departments and the CIA, said Eleanor Hill, staff director of the joint 9/11 inquiry of the House and Senate intelligence committees. Yahoo! News - Bin Laden Targeted U.S. Defense, State, CIA Chiefs |
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Yahoo! News - Saddam Hussein Trained Al Qaeda Fighters - Report |
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2:27 am EDT, Sep 15, 2002 |
British Prime Minister Tony Blair's promised dossier on Iraq is to reveal that Saddam Hussein ( news - web sites) trained some of Osama bin Laden's key lieutenants, The Sunday Telegraph reported. The dossier is also expected to disclose that the Iraqi leader has reconstructed three plants to manufacture biological and chemical weapons, it said. This is what the world has been waiting to see. It is interesting to note that the UK is releasing this information. Show me the information! Yahoo! News - Saddam Hussein Trained Al Qaeda Fighters - Report |
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Yahoo! News - L.A. Times Fingers Rival in Tupac Shakur's Murder |
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1:23 pm EDT, Sep 6, 2002 |
Six years after rapper Tupac Shakur was killed in an unsolved drive-by shooting in Las Vegas, the Los Angeles Times on Friday identified his arch-rival, Notorious B.I.G., as a key player in the crime. Notorious B.I.G., whose real name was Christopher Wallace, was himself gunned down in Los Angeles the following year. The Times reported in its online edition that it was Wallace who provided the weapon used to murder Shakur as well as $1 million bounty. As Paul Harvey would say...'and now you know the rrrrrrrest of the story'. Yahoo! News - L.A. Times Fingers Rival in Tupac Shakur's Murder |
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U.S. Department of State - Saddam Hussein's Iraq |
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11:46 am EDT, Aug 29, 2002 |
Prepared by the U.S. Department of State The purpose of this report is to present the facts concerning Iraq under Saddam Hussein. There are a wealth of charges and counter-charges concerning actions undertaken by Saddam and by the international community towards Iraq. Based on publicly available information, the facts contained in this report demonstrate that under the regime of Saddam Hussein, Iraq continues to repress its people, threaten the region, and obstruct international efforts to provide humanitarian relief. This is from 1999... U.S. Department of State - Saddam Hussein's Iraq |
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11:36 am EDT, Aug 29, 2002 |
"Cheney doesn't give us the intelligence sources of his information and can't be expected to. But it is inconceivable that he should be speaking in that high pitch of resolution unless he has the evidence on which he frames his analysis. We assume that he is justified in the evidence he has, and right in the course recommended, and that the acquiescence of Congress is implicit. Which means: The American people should now be told that we are at war against Saddam Hussein. " I can't tell if Buckley is really serious about his assumption or if he is being sarcastic. Maybe it doesn't matter... IRAQ: QUESTION CLOSED? |
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