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New Al Qaeda plot to blow up planes on September 11th smashed
New Al Qaeda plot to blow up planes on September 11th smashed
Police have smashed a suspected al Qaeda terror cell nursing a "profound hatred of US citizens" plotting to bomb civilian and military jets.
The force of the planned explosions would have been worse than the train bombings in Madrid and the Tube and bus attacks in London on 7 July, 2005, according to German security sources. Those attacks killed 191 and 52 people respectively.
Three men aged 22, 28 and 29 have been arrested in Germany days before they planned to strike, and bomb-making equipment and explosives have been seized. Details here...
Chinese hackers cyber-attacking British government networks
Chinese computer hackers are infiltrating British government networks, giving them access to secret information, according to media reports on Thursday.
The reports in The Times and The Independent newspapers come a day after US President George W. Bush said he may bring up the issue of suspected Chinese cyber-attacks on the US defence department in a meeting with China's President Hu Jintao. Follow up here
The reports in The Times and The Independent newspapers come a day after US President George W. Bush said he may bring up the issue of suspected Chinese cyber-attacks on the US defence department in a meeting with China's President Hu Jintao. Follow up here
Bush ‘Still Believed Saddam Possessed WMD’ In April 2006
In Oct. 2004, President Bush finally admitted that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction: “Iraq did not have the weapons that our intelligence believed were there.”
Yet according to former White House chief of staff Andy Card, this statement was just rhetoric. In his new book on Bush, Robert Draper writes that the President continued to privately insist through April 2006 that Saddam had possessed weapons of mass destruction.
China Expands Military Training for Youth
China has greatly expanded a youth military training program and will provide compulsory training this year to 50 million children as young as 9 years of age, an exclusive USA Today investigation reveals. Full Story
China has greatly expanded a youth military training program and will provide compulsory training this year to 50 million children as young as 9 years of age, an exclusive USA Today investigation reveals. Full Story
Six nuclear warheads were mistakenly loaded onto a B-52 bomber and flown between North Dakota and Louisiana, FOX News has confirmed.
The weapons could have been fired but they never were armed and the public never was in danger, said the source, confirming a report Tuesday in the Military Times newspaper.
Click here to read the full story in the Military Times. Click here to read more at FOXNews.
Judge ’scolds’ Bush administration on spying secrecy.
Today, U.S. District Judge Henry H. Kennedy Jr. “scolded” the Bush administration “for responding with sometimes blanket secrecy to a request for documents on its warrantless wiretapping program.” While the judge agreed that the documents could not be released, he criticized the government’s reasons for holding them back. Find out the rest of the story here.
The U.S. economy will slow sharply this year and fall behind growth rates in most of the world, according to forecasts in a U.N. report released Wednesday.
Woes in the housing market will drag U.S. gross domestic product for 2007 to a modest 2 percent growth, compared with 3.3 percent last year, the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development said in its flagship annual report.
Woes in the housing market will drag U.S. gross domestic product for 2007 to a modest 2 percent growth, compared with 3.3 percent last year, the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development said in its flagship annual report.
For the first time since 2001, both the European Union, at 2.8 percent, and Japan, 2.3 percent, are predicted to have higher GDP growth than the United States.
In Other News…
Upon arriving in Iraq yesterday, President Bush told the Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister Mark Vaile, “we’re kicking ass” in Iraq. His comments come in spite of a new Government Accountability Office report that finds the escalation has failed to improve the security situation.
The nation’s Medicaid directors yesterday told the Bush administration that its new restrictions on the federally funded State Children’s Health Insurance Program will limit the number of children covered. In a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt, the National Association of State Medicaid Directors “said the new standards reduce flexibility, making it difficult for states to expand coverage.”
“A half-hour before his Saturday news conference announcing his plans to resign, Sen. Larry Craig left a voice mail — at a number he apparently didn’t intend to dial — stating his intent to possibly rethink the decision.” Listen to the audio here.
From The Right: Michelle Malkin: The Democrats' Foreign Funny Money Here's a peculiar thing about the holier-than-thou Campaign Finance Reform crowd. Whenever the stench of dirty money starts wafting from Democrat Party coffers, the clean election lobbyists are nowhere to be found. They'll raise hell and hackles over American corporate donors. But when it's shady foreign operators infusing cash into our electoral system, you'll only hear one sound: the deafening swell of crickets chirping.
From the Left: Keith Olbermann: Bush Playing Us With "Withdrawal" President Bush told troops in Iraq some of them may be able to come home. To a country dying of thirst, the president seemed to vaguely promise a drink from a full canteen -- a promise predicated on the assumption that he is not lying. Yet you are lying, Mr. Bush. Again. But now, we know why.
Quote Of The Day: "The same folks that are bombing innocent people in Iraq were the ones who attacked us in America on September the 11th." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., July 12, 2007
(Sources: TownHall, TruthOut, AP, FOXNews, ThinkProgress, NewsMax, DrudgeReport, NYT, DailyMail, CNN, SydneyMorningHerald, WashingtonPost, PoliticalCartoons.com, WashingtonTimes, AFP)
From the Left: Keith Olbermann: Bush Playing Us With "Withdrawal" President Bush told troops in Iraq some of them may be able to come home. To a country dying of thirst, the president seemed to vaguely promise a drink from a full canteen -- a promise predicated on the assumption that he is not lying. Yet you are lying, Mr. Bush. Again. But now, we know why.
Quote Of The Day: "The same folks that are bombing innocent people in Iraq were the ones who attacked us in America on September the 11th." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., July 12, 2007
(Sources: TownHall, TruthOut, AP, FOXNews, ThinkProgress, NewsMax, DrudgeReport, NYT, DailyMail, CNN, SydneyMorningHerald, WashingtonPost, PoliticalCartoons.com, WashingtonTimes, AFP)
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