"MIAMI (Reuters) - At least 10 Florida journalists received regular payments from a U.S. government program aimed at undermining the Cuban government of Fidel Castro, The Miami Herald reported on Friday.
Total payments since 2001 ranged from $1,550 to $174,753 per journalist,...
"For the first time, a video has been released showing al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden meeting with suspected terrorist Ramzi Binalshibh, purportedly as they prepare for the September 11, 2001 attacks, according to Al-Jazeera, which aired the tape Thursday.
Binalshibh is a...
As the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks
approaches, President Bush is reemphasizing his focus on the war on
terror as the defining struggle of the age. With historical analogies
his constant tool, the...
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U.S. military lawyers on Thursday challenged President George W. Bush's
plan to try terrorism suspects, including the accused September 11
mastermind, as
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With the transfer of the 14 men to Guantanamo, there currently are no
detainees being held by the CIA, Bush said. A senior administration
official said the CIA had detained fewer than 100 suspected terrorists
in...
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Here is a post featuring a series of side by side photos detailing the retreat of Alaska's glaciers over time. It's a sequel to a previous post on the same site, with a link to the original set as well. Much like...
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It's getting more and more difficult to lose and election these days:"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Disaster may not be too strong a word for Rep. Katherine Harris (news, bio, voting record)' Senate campaign.Her makeup and...
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"There is something important to be learned from the recent experience of the United States and Israel in the Middle East: that massive military attacks, inevitably indiscriminate, are not only morally reprehensible, but useless in achieving the stated aims of those who carry...
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"BAGHDAD, Iraq | The man who supervised the bombers of a revered Shiite shrine in Samarra last February, an act that set off a wave of brutal sectarian violence, has been captured.
Iraq’s national security adviser, Mowaffak al-Rubaie, said the second-ranking leader of...
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"An experiment could be done to test if high explosives or a
*long-burning fire* could reproduce the observed corrosive destruction
of the steel. A real investigation, as opposed to a whitewash
investigation, would do this. Actually, if you think about it, a
long-burning fire...
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"We then clarified the role of the *spin*: Give the public enough
plausible-sounding information to keep our limited attention span
moving past the point of contention until we no longer care."
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"Some of the facts that they are told about rape in the United States is that rape is the fastest growing violent crime; it is the most under-reported crime with 84% of the victims never reporting the crime; women ages 16-24 are at the highest risk of being sexually...
On September 8, 2001, the Sarasota Herald Tribune announced that
President Bush would visit to Booker Elementary. On September 11, 2001,
how did the Secret Service know that President Bush was immune from a
hijacked plane heading straight for Booker Elementary?
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