Truckers
To Be On Lookout For Terrorists
Hoping to take advantage of alert eyes along the nation's
highways, the government is trying to enlist more truckers
in the battle against terrorism. - AP
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Blair
Says G-8 Should Consider Chirac Tax Plan to Aid Africa
U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair said the Group of Eight
industrialized nations should consider all options for
fighting poverty and disease in Africa, including a French
proposal to tax capital flows. - Bloomberg
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Oil-for-food
probe chief has conflict of interest? Paul Volcker was
paid adviser to company connected to firm benefiting from
program
Paul Volcker, the former head of the Federal Reserve who
is heading up a U.N. investigation of the oil-for-food
scandal, is an adviser to a company linked to a French
oil firm that benefited from the United Nations program.
- WorldNetDaily
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Russia
and Syria sign major weapons deal - U.S., Israel upset
at Moscow's new alliance
Russia and Syria this week signed a major weapons agreement
in addition to the energy and trade deal the two countries
reportedly reached Wednesday, prompting American and Israeli
officials to privately voice concern over Russia's assistance
to countries accused of aiding the insurgency in Iraq.
- WorldNetDaily
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Bush
Says Iraqi Leaders Will Want U.S. Forces to Stay to Help
President Bush said in an interview on Thursday that he
would withdraw American forces from Iraq if the new government
that is elected on Sunday asked him to do so, but that
he expected Iraq's first democratically elected leaders
would want the troops to remain as helpers, not as occupiers.
- NY Times
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Huckabee
Criticizes Bill Sponsors
Little Rock (AP) - Governor Huckabee has criticized immigration
legislation in the Arkansas Legislature, describing the
bill as "inflammatory...race-baiting and demagoguery,''
and challenges the Christian values of its main sponsor.
- AP
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Immigrant
indicted in fake ID case
A Jackson County man has been indicted by a federal grand
jury on charges of illegal possession of a firearm and
selling counterfeit Social Security cards as well as other
identification documents. - AP
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Arizona,
Phoenix top the ID theft list
Lawmakers want to create new categories to allow for stiffer
sentences. Tucson had 973 cases in 2003. Tuscon Citizen
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The
secret list of ID theft victims - Consumers could be warned,
but U.S government isn't talking
Linda Trevino, who lives in a Chicago suburb, applied
for a job last year at a local Target department store,
and was denied. The reason? She already worked there --
or rather, her Social Security number already worked there.
- MSNBC
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Mexico
threatens Arizona over anti-illegals measure
Official says challenge in international courts possible
to block voter-passed Proposition 200. A Mexican government
official has threatened to use international courts to
block an Arizona law meant to limit public benefits and
voting rights to legal residents of the U.S. - WorldNetDaily
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Israeli
Army Says Reducing Operations in West Bank, Gaza
Israel will sharply reduce its military
operations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in response
to efforts by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to
end attacks on Israelis.
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Al-Zarqawi
Associates Arrested in Iraq
The government on Friday announced
the arrests of two close associates of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi,
including the chief of the terror mastermind's Baghdad
operation. The announcement came two days before historic
elections that extremists have vowed to subvert.
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Outsourcing
Reversal: Chinese Firms in U.S.
Places from Richmond, Va., to Barstow,
Calif., are already wooing foreign direct investments.
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Report
- North Korea Has Bought 'Nuclear Bomb'
North Korea has bought a complete nuclear
weapon from either Pakistan or a former Soviet Union
state, a South Korean newspaper has reported.
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FBI
to Expand Intelligence Gathering in U.S.
The FBI is significantly expanding
its intelligence-gathering activities in the U.S., including
stepped-up efforts to collect and report intelligence
on foreign figures and governments, a function that
long has been principally the CIA's domain, intelligence
and congressional sources said Thursday.
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Bush
Seeks Higher Airline Security Fees
A fee charged to airline travelers
to help pay for airport security would more than double
under President Bush's spending proposal for the Homeland
Security Department.
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Bush
pledges to withdraw troops if asked by Iraq
President Bush said in an interview
on Thursday that he would withdraw American forces from
Iraq if the new government that is elected on Sunday
asked him to do so, but that he expected Iraq's first
democratically elected leaders would want the troops
to remain as helpers, not as occupiers.
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US
keeps Iran in its sights
The indications are that despite its
military being dragged into a morass in Iraq, the US
will remain committed to its cause and will continue
to go after the "evil" it sees in nations like Iran.
For this, war preparations are already in the pipeline
in northern Iraq on the one side of the Iranian border,
and in the southwestern parts of Pakistan on the other
side -Syed Saleem Shahzad/Asia Times
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YOU
MIGHT BE A CONSTITUTIONALIST IF...
...knowing that there are countless
other patriotic, God-fearing Americans across this nation
who realize that both major parties have become impotent
and irrelevant when it comes to representing constitutional
principles, I offer the following test. Read it and
see if you, too, are a Constitutionalist -Pastor Chuck
Baldwin/NewsWithViews
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Key
questions on Clarke measures
What will Charles Clarke's new proposed
provisions allow the government to do? The home secretary
will be able to impose control orders on anyone, whether
British or foreign, without charge if there are reasonable
grounds to suspect that person of involvement in terrorism,
domestic or international -Guardian UK
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U.S.
Travel Alert Irritates Mexico
A U.S. warning about violence along
the border in Mexico created unexpected friction with
a crucial neighbor Thursday, just as new Secretary of
State Condoleezza Rice and other new members of President
Bush's team are starting to take office
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ACLU
supports Sibel Edmonds in FBI case
The ACLU, using whistleblowers as examples,
stated its case that Congress needs to get involved
in the case of Sibel Edmonds, a former language specialist
fired from the FBI after coming forward with serious
national-security concerns
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Gitmo
Soldier Details Sexual Tactics
Female interrogators tried to break
Muslim detainees at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo
Bay by sexual touching, wearing a miniskirt and thong
underwear and in one case smearing a Saudi man's face
with fake menstrual blood, according to an insider's
written account
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GOP
Congressman Renews Push for Immigration Curbs
n a move that could put him at odds
with President Bush, the chairman of the House Judiciary
Committee introduced legislation Wednesday that would
effectively deny driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants,
tighten requirements for political asylum and complete
the border fence between California and Mexico
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DHS
personnel system unveiled
The Homeland Security Department will
limit the scope of union bargaining, make it easier
for managers to discipline poor performers and, over
the next four years, dismantle the General Schedule
pay system, under new regulations to be published soon
in the Federal Register -GovExec
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US
Navy released first pictures of damage sustained by USS
San Francisco attack sub after it collided with underground
mountain
Photo Gallery
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Sentators
to Introduce 'Stop Government Propaganda Act'
In response to continued revelations
of government-funded "journalism" -- ranging from the
purported video news releases put out by the drug czar's
office and the Department of Health and Human Services
to the recently uncovered payments to columnists Armstrong
Williams and Maggie Gallagher,who flacked administration
programs -- Sens. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Frank
R. Lautenberg (D-N.J.) will introduce a bill, The Stop
Government Propaganda Act, in the Senate next week.
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Feith
May Be Charged With Leaking Intelligence
"If we were not caught in a Bushzarro
reality warp, Douglas Feith-and Richard Perle, Paul
Wolfowitz, David Wurmser, William Kristol, Charles Krauthammer,
Elliott Abrams, to name but a few of the more prominent
Strausscons-would be arrested and packed off to the
Hague to face prosecution for war crimes and crimes
against humanity," writes Kurt Nimmo.
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