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Wednesday, December 24, 2003 Pakistan to Hold Scientists Liable Pakistan on Tuesday promised legal action against people found to have been involved in sharing nuclear secrets with other countries and reaffirmed its commitment to nuclear nonproliferation. Nick @ 08:27 AM EDT | Visit News Board | TrackBack (0)U.S. Says Terror Threat Serious in Run-Up to Xmas Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said a threat of possible year-end terror attacks against the United States was serious, while other parts of the world were also on alert on Christmas Eve. Washington told its citizens in Bahrain (1, 2) there was a terror threat in the Gulf Arab state during the Christmas holidays, Turkish police issued a similar alert to companies and banks in Istanbul, Indonesian police stepped up patrols in Jakarta, and Cypriot police beefed up security around a Christian television station. The US has already warned of end-of-year terror threats in Kenya, Yemen, and Saudi Arabia. NBC News, the Los Angeles Times and the Associated Press (1, 2) have more on the plots and possible targets within the United States. Airport security has increased around the United States and in Mexico, especially regarding international flights. CNN has more on preparedness steps in general, while the New York Times reports on increased air patrols in and around New York City and Washington, DC. Additionally, UPI reports on al Qaeda's internal debate regarding target choice. Nick @ 07:55 AM EDT | Visit News Board | TrackBack (1)White House Faulted on Uranium Claim The President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board has concluded that the White House made a questionable claim in January's State of the Union address about Saddam Hussein's efforts to obtain nuclear materials because of its desperation to show that Hussein had an active program to develop nuclear weapons, according to a well-placed source familiar with the board's findings. Nick @ 07:27 AM EDT | Visit News Board | TrackBack (0)A jury spared the life of Lee Boyd Malvo on Tuesday, deciding that his crimes were vile and that he posed a future danger to the community, but still choosing to impose a life sentence rather than death for his role in the sniper attacks. Nick @ 07:21 AM EDT | Visit News Board | TrackBack (0)Immigration Reform on Bush Agenda President Bush plans to kick off his reelection year by proposing a program that would make it easier for immigrants to work legally in the United States, in what would constitute the most significant changes to immigration law in 18 years, Republican officials said yesterday. Nick @ 07:20 AM EDT | Visit News Board | TrackBack (0)Israelis End Gaza Raid But Peace Meeting in Doubt Palestinian officials said an Israeli raid in which nine people were killed in the Gaza Strip had put in doubt talks to prepare for a vital peace summit even as Israel's army rolled back on Wednesday. Nick @ 07:15 AM EDT | Visit News Board | TrackBack (0)Suicide Car Bomb Kills at Least 4 in North Iraq A suicide car bomb outside a government building in the Kurdish city of Arbil in northern Iraq on Wednesday killed at least four people and wounded 20, Iraqi officials said. Nick @ 07:14 AM EDT | Visit News Board | TrackBack (0)U.S. troops battle rebels in Baghdad U.S. forces battled insurgents in southern Baghdad, shaking the Iraqi capital into the early hours today with some of the heaviest explosions and gunfire in weeks. Nick @ 07:13 AM EDT | Visit News Board | TrackBack (0)Japan, Korea Halt U.S. Beef Imports on Mad Cow Scare Japan and South Korea suspended imports of U.S. beef Wednesday after the United States reported its first case of mad cow disease. Those two countries -- the top two buyers of U.S. beef -- were followed by other key Asian buyers such as Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan, while Australia and New Zealand said they would stop U.S. beef at their ports pending the outcome of U.S. tests on the infected animal. This morning Russia, Thailand and Hong Kong also banned American beef. Nick @ 07:11 AM EDT | Visit News Board | TrackBack (0)Italian Officials Say They Suspect $11 Billion Ruse at Parmalat Parmalat, the Italian dairy and food giant, engaged in a tangled scheme involving dozens of offshore front companies to invent assets to offset perhaps as much as $11 billion in liabilities over more than a decade, Italian investigators said on Tuesday. Nick @ 07:08 AM EDT | Visit News Board | TrackBack (0)Administration Is Exempting Alaska Forest From Protection The Bush administration announced on Tuesday that the Tongass National Forest in Alaska, the largest in the country, would be exempted from a Clinton-era rule, potentially opening up more than half of the 17 million-acre forest for more development and as many as 50 logging projects. Nick @ 07:07 AM EDT | Visit News Board | TrackBack (0)Tuesday, December 23, 2003 The bulletin boards have moved to a new server, discuss.agonist.org. Let me know if you have any problems. jay @ 01:25 AM EDT | Visit News Board | TrackBack (0)Monday, December 22, 2003 My health hasn't been very good for the last month. One day I'll be fine the next I feel awful but I seem to be on the mend at this point. If you've emailed me and I haven't replied I apologize. In the interim Bill and Nick have been 'holding up the fort' and they have done it very well. I hope to be posting again very soon. Sean-Paul @ 06:02 PM EDT | Visit News Board | TrackBack (0)Sunday, December 21, 2003 Elite Israeli Troops Refuse To Serve in the Territories Thirteen reservists from Israel's elite military commando unit stated Sunday in a letter to the prime minister that they would no longer serve in the occupied territories, joining other influential security officials who have recently criticized Israeli military tactics and treatment of the Palestinians. More from the Jerusalem Post, including text of the letter. Nick @ 10:50 PM EDT | Visit News Board | TrackBack (0)Aids activist murdered in gang rape An AIDS activist in South Africa was gang raped and then beaten to death after telling her attackers she was infected with the HIV virus, it has emerged. Nick @ 10:50 PM EDT | Visit News Board | TrackBack (0)Iraq's Sunnis Now Feeling Under Siege In interviews across the Sunni triangle, which delivered Hussein much of his support and suffered the most with his fall, many insist they are no longer fighting for the privilege they enjoyed in previous decades, but rather for their community's survival in a country with a Shiite Muslim majority. Once divided and discredited clergy have stepped forward to try to end a crisis of identity, bringing a message of political Islam to a community that once embraced secular Arab nationalism and tribal traditions. Nick @ 10:42 PM EDT | Visit News Board | TrackBack (0)U.S. Threat Level Rises to Orange Federal officials said today that because fresh intelligence suggests al Qaeda is planning multiple catastrophic terrorist attacks in the United States, they were raising the national threat alert status to "high risk," or code orange, a step administration officials previously had said they were reluctant to take except in the most unusual circumstances. Nick @ 10:40 PM EDT | Visit News Board | TrackBack (0)Arafat: Sharon coordinated 'disengagement plan' with U.S. Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat said Saturday that he has no doubt that the comments on unilateral disengagement, made by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at the Herzliya Conference on Thursday, were coordinated with Washington, the Itim News Agency reported. Nick @ 10:38 PM EDT | Visit News Board | TrackBack (0)Judge: I saw police commit felonies A judge presiding over the cases of free trade protesters said in court that he saw ''no less than 20 felonies committed by police officers'' during the November demonstrations, adding to a chorus of complaints about police conduct. Nick @ 10:34 PM EDT | Visit News Board | TrackBack (0)Lebanon jails 26 over bombings of U.S. outlets Lebanon sentenced 26 men to between three months and 20 years in prison on Saturday over a string of bomb attacks on U.S. restaurants and an alleged plot to assassinate the U.S. ambassador, judicial sources said. Nick @ 10:34 PM EDT | Visit News Board | TrackBack (0)Indonesian jail tested as cleric linked to terror draws followers Inside a jail in Jakarta, hundreds of inmates dressed in Muslim garb gathered around a mosque recently and listened intently to the words of a bespectacled, elderly cleric and fellow prisoner. But the speaker was no ordinary Muslim cleric. He is Abubaker Ba'asyir, 65, accused by foreign governments of being the spiritual leader of a regional terrorist organization, Jemaah Islamiyah. Nick @ 10:33 PM EDT | Visit News Board | TrackBack (0)Three probes hold promise of new insight into Red Planet Three unmanned spacecraft, two from the United States and one from Europe, representing the efforts of 18 nations, are barreling toward the Red Planet, where they will attempt to land and overcome punishing odds. If the solar-powered probes are successful, they will spend several months examining the soil, rocks and air for evidence that Mars was once, and possibly still is, suitable for microbial life. Nick @ 10:32 PM EDT | Visit News Board | TrackBack (0)U.S. soldier reaches out to understand Iraqi tribal system In the American campaign to win over a skeptical Iraqi public, Lt. Col. Alan King is an unlikely ambassador: a Lutheran from Arlington, Va., with a blond crew cut and a wry smile. Unlike T.E. Lawrence, the British adventurer who helped Arab tribes expel their Ottoman rulers in the early 20th century, King does not try to dress like the tribal chiefs or live among them. But King has done more to engage Iraq's tribal leaders than anyone else in the U.S. military or the civilian-led occupation authority. Nick @ 10:32 PM EDT | Visit News Board | TrackBack (0)Officials: Libya's disarmament could yield intel U.S. intelligence officials predicted on Saturday that better relations with Libya would lead to a windfall of intelligence that could help stop the spread of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. Nick @ 10:31 PM EDT | Visit News Board | TrackBack (0)Students and teachers here can talk freely about almost, but not quite, everything, and Syria is increasingly a country of the young. Nearly 60 percent of the population is under the age of 20, and the beginnings of political change allow them to live with far fewer constraints, in a society that is far less rigid. Nick @ 10:30 PM EDT | Visit News Board | TrackBack (0)United States agrees to resettle thousands of refugees The United States, still dealing with one of the legacies of the Vietnam War, has said it may accept thousands of ethnic Hmong refugees from Laos for resettlement. Nick @ 10:30 PM EDT | Visit News Board | TrackBack (0)Malaysia to deport top Muslim terror suspect Thirty months ago, Malaysian authorities locked up Mohammad Iqbal Rahman as a top leader of an al-Qaida-linked Muslim extremist group. The U.S. government called him the terrorist network's "primary recruiter and second in command." U.S. acting tough with N. Korea Vice President Cheney intervened recently to insist on an uncompromising approach to nuclear arms talks with North Korea, effectively blocking a resumption of negotiations this year, according to a senior administration official. Efforts are under way to get the diplomacy back on track. But the vice president's move illustrates the difficulty the Bush administration is having in agreeing on what incentives - if any - to offer the reclusive communist state to give up its nuclear-weapons programs. Nick @ 10:27 PM EDT | Visit News Board | TrackBack (0)U.N. to cut off food aid to North Korea Food rations for more than three million hungry North Koreans will end within weeks because the country's leaders refuse to let donor nations adequately monitor how food aid is delivered, the chief of the U.N. World Food Program said yesterday. Nick @ 10:26 PM EDT | Visit News Board | TrackBack (0)Special Forces get bigger role A Special Operations task force's recent capture of Saddam Hussein was just the sort of mission Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his war planners envision when they think about the future of the military. Nick @ 10:26 PM EDT | Visit News Board | TrackBack (0) |
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