Guttman says that as soon as the Washington Post reported that ``Bush had made some headway in the race to win American Jewish support,'' in his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Sharon, ``Kerry didn't waste a minute, and jumped on the bandwagon, announcing his support for Sharon's plan'' for disengagement in Gaza.

Macedonia admits staging raid, killing innocents...

Bush Asks Saddam's Generals for Help...

Well, THERE'S a confidence-builder!...

Young Shi'ites are lining up to fight - not for firebrand Shi'ite cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr, but for Sunnis in Fallujah.

A senior Iraqi general was greeted by flag-waving crowds yesterday as he arrived at the Sunni stronghold city of Fallujah to take over from withdrawing American forces. Scenes of jubilation greeted Major-General Jassem Mohamed Saleh at Fallujah's eastern edge.

One minute we are told that the clash between US soldiers and anti-coalition forces is an epoch-shaping battle. A recent report described Fallujah as 'a defining moment in America's history'; British journalist in Washington Andrew Sullivan said the battle of Fallujah contained 'the entire future of the attempt to break the back of Islamist terror and Muslim autocracy'. It's 'Iraqalypse Now', said some reports (1). Yet this morning we hear that US marines have started to pull out of Fallujah, having handed authority over the city to a new 1000-strong Iraqi force called the Fallujah Protective Army, headed by a former Ba'athist general no less.

Israel emptying Jerusalem of Palestinians by bulldozing their homes...

Italy acquits 'terror plotters'...

Israel ‘Regrets’ Killing Palestinian University Lecturer...

UK troops in Iraqi torture probe...

Ireland scraps plan for e-voting in June elections...

Macedonia faked 'militant' raid...

The scales fall from their eyes!...

"She had dozens of bookmarks for really foul porn sites," said Joe DelGiorno. "And ads for porn were popping up every few minutes. Her homepage had been switched to some weird Web page. She was all upset and crying; she's a religious woman. She shouldn't have to deal with this garbage. If I find the people who did this to her I will make them suffer."

One of the images allegedly showed an Iraqi, bound and gagged, hanging from a rope on a fork-lift truck.

Top INSIGHT INTO SINCLAIR BROADCASTING'S BLOCKING OF NIGHTLINE...

Controversy Swirls Over Humiliation Of Iraqi Prisoners...

Bush ignores the horrors of his war...

Here in Toronto we are working hard on the upcoming International Citizens' Inquiry into 9/11 and we are trying to make as many people aware of the event as possible which will take place on May 25-30.

IRAI POWS WERE PARADED NAKED IN PUBLIC A YEAR AGO...

CRITICISM OF ISRAEL IS NOT "ANTI-SEMITISM"...

American contractors and soldiers torturing Iraqi prisoners in a prison outside Baghdad? A huge story, by anyone's standards, surely, especially when pictures of the abuse were broadcast on the US TV network CBS. So it was no surprise that newspapers around the world made huge, horrified play of the events at the Abu Ghraib prison. It was more of a surprise, however, that the story did not receive the same level of coverage in the US papers.

Former Navy secretary unleashes tide of Iraq criticism...

9/11 Widow thinks Bush let it happen...

For the resistance, that is. There's no sugar-coating the fact that the Bush administration has suffered a major, public defeat in Fallujah. The United States looked the insurgents in the eye there—and blinked. Instead of flattening Fallujah if the insurgents didn't hand over heavy weapons and stop fighting, U.S. forces have meekly retreated, under cover of a plan that would put some of the same insurgents on the U.S. payroll.

Court Rules John Demjanjuk Was Nazi Guard...

Iraqis detained by U.S. troops have complained of torture and degrading treatment, Amnesty International said Wednesday. There were also reports of troops shooting detainees, the London-based human rights watchdog said in a report based on interviews with former prisoners of the Americans across Iraq.

Torture of Iraq Prisoners Prompts Wave of Revulsion...

Chilling TV pictures of Iraqi prisoners being tortured and abused by US soldiers will damage Britain and signal the “end of the story” for America in Iraq, it was claimed today. The pictures taken by US soldiers guarding Iraqis were broadcast on TV news bulletins in the US last night. The graphic photos show hooded and naked prisoners being abused, some sexually, with US soldiers smiling and looking on.

Arab TV stations broadcast images of U.S. forces humiliating Iraqi prisoners...

Today on CBS television, Paul Bremer boasted, "In the last three or four weeks we've seen a rather dramatic reduction in the number of attacks on the coalition. They are down by about 50 percent," I read this quote to my friend Hamoudi here in Baghdad. He raises his eyebrows and says, "But attacks on helicopters has been up 100%. The resistance is finding it easier to attack the helicopters than the ground patrols. Attacks are not decreasing, they are changing. Doesn't Mr. Bremer see this?"

Iraqi torture images 'will damage Britain'...

Military Coffins: Two Views...

American troops today admitted they routinely gun down Iraqi civilians - some of whom are entirely innocent.

In a recent press release, CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad said CAIR had received a letter from an American soldier accusing his superior officer of engaging in sexual conduct with "pre-ragheads" - a term the officer used to refer to the pre-pubescent Iraqi girls.

Eight In Ten Canadians (82%): Bush No Friend Of Canada, Doesn’t Really Know Canadian Issues...

Robert Fisk: “What is Happening Is An Absolute Slaughter Every Night of Iraqi People”...

Inspired by the attack of their British colleagues on Tony Blair's foreign policy, more than 20 former US diplomats have so far signed a letter to President George W. Bush protesting against his pro-Israeli stance.

Irish e-voting system gets canned...

Guantanamo Bay chief takes over after shameful jail abuse...

What are the Jordanians doing? - Mediating. The Iraqis? - Buying. The Americans? - Closing their eyes. It is no wonder that in Baghdad rumours circulate that the Israelis, including a former chief of staff, have bought already half of Iraq.

US war crimes : how troops tortured Iraqi prisoners...

Those on the streets of Iraq will want payback, so soldiers that are not barbarian scum like these will have to pay the price for a few disgusted sonavabitches. Thanks Guys and gals. The woman General looked like she was right out of a Zina Wuttmueller movie. A real hateful Bitch, she'll probably cry at her court martial. Bush's nazis!

FORGET WHAT THE US SAYS IT IS DOING, THIS IS WHAT IS BEING DONE!

The Justice Department succeeded this week in temporarily preventing an FBI whistleblower from testifying in a class action lawsuit over the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Gilad Sharon not complying - judge...

James Miller, 34, from Braunton, Devon, was killed by an Israeli Defence Force soldier on May 2 last year, while working in the town of Rafah.

Howard wants a 9/11 before the election....

Israel press mulls possible Sharon defeat...

A New York man accused of illegally shipping missile parts and accessories for a fighter jet radar system to Israel has pleaded not guilty....

A well-planned, politically solid session of the World Tribunal on Iraq took place April 15-17 in Brussels, Belgium. The hearings showed that key Bush administration members planned aggression against Iraq starting years before the war was launched.

Political strategy is not my strong suit, but I wonder if this is the best tactic that President Bush-s supporters should take. Aligned as they are with a man who risked his life in the air over Texas while Mr. Kerry fought in Vietnam, complaints that the Senator doesn-t deserve one of his three Purple Hearts sounds, well, a little less than gracious.

Arab Stations Show Iraqi Prisoner Images...

‘Terrorist’ was DND radio anchorman...

Sinclair Broadcast Group has ordered its seven ABC stations not to broadcast Friday's "Nightline" that will air the names and photographs of the more than 500 U.S. troops killed in the Iraq war.

Deep inside Saddam Hussein's most notorious prison, a bound and blindfolded Iraqi was forced to balance on a box and told he would be electrocuted if he fell. But the torturers were not Saddam's henchmen, they were American soldiers.

Iraqi security forces took over positions from withdrawing U.S. Marines on Friday, and a U.S. official said an agreement had been reached to allow an Iraqi security force to patrol the city and end the monthlong siege.

Photos show jail abuse by US troops...

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A senior US military spokesman says Brigadier General Janis Karpinski was suspended from her duties in late January after six US soldiers were indicted for mistreating prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.

If American soldiers in Iraq are suffering the same rate of injuries as their British counterparts - which is reasonable for several reasons - it would translate into a total of 22,000 seriously wounded US servicemen and women since Iraq was invaded, with a monthly injury rate of about 500.

Cunning enemy hits morale of U.S. Marines in Iraq...

On the anniversary of defeat in Vietnam, it's once again about an empire getting its butt kicked...

NY TIMES: NEOCONS COOKED INTEL FOR IRAQ WAR...

The Chicken Hawk Squawk...

A study mapping the prisons built in the boom of the last two decades has found that some counties in the United States now have more than 30 percent of their residents behind bars.

"I have been trying for thousands of years to get humanity to follow the Left-Hand Path, and these guys are the pits at helping me," he said disgustedly, in a recent interview. "I've been behind some major players--Pol Pot, Stalin, Hitler, Lincoln, FDR--and compared to them, these guys are buffoons. They couldn't even con the US administration into invading two insignificant little countries without fouling it up. I wanted millions dead, decades of war and murder and destruction, and trillions of dollars wasted. These punks couldn't even do that. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse? Try Pony League klutzes always dropping the ball!"

More Agents Track Castro Than Bin Laden...

Asked at a hearing of a House appropriations subcommittee how many American troops had died in Iraq, the deputy defence secretary, Paul Wolfowitz, estimated the total was about 500 - more than 200 soldiers short.

National Guard leaving Golden Gate Bridge security detail...

The Abu Ghraib prison was a symbol of Saddam's horrific tyranny: electrodes hanging out of the walls, floors stained with the blood of god-knows-how-many victims, bodies dangling from meat-hooks, like in some cheap Grade-B horror flick. So when the Americans came and "liberated" the place, the long-suffering Iraqi people were supposed to be grateful. After all, the sadistic torturers of the Ba'athist regime were gone, and it was a new day – or was it?

"As it has become clear that US interests and democracy in Iraq are basically incompatible, the United States has, unsurprisingly and as many predicted, chosen to preserve the supremacy of its own interests and its control of Iraqi affairs at the expense of a genuine transfer of power and the establishment of a political system in which Iraqis are able to choose their political system and control their destiny and resources."

Bushway operatives are now trolling heavily in the "exurbs" -- middle-class and upscale housing developments sprouting all over the countryside, where small farmers have been forced off the land by ruthless, government-greased agribusiness conglomerates and predatory banks. Developers lure stressed-out city-dwellers to these gilded holding pens by constructing a cozy simulacrum of an old-fashioned rural community, complete with fake storefronts -- beguilingly realistic, but only a few feet deep -- and, yes, fake horses, made of metal, gently nosing over white picket fences. Mehlman's minions believe exurbia offers rich pickings for the Bush cult -- and they're probably right. People who live in fake towns, with fake stores and fake horses, are likely to be happy with a fake president, who uses fake evidence and fake words about "freedom" and "peace" to launch all-too-real wars of conquest while turning the national treasury into a candy store for his cronies.

How is it that the son of anti-war social activists who grew up marching on Washington wound up in a military unit in Iraq? But the question that haunts his family is far more profound, singed on their souls by tears of grief: Why are good young men like their son and brother dying in an unjust war - for nothing?

Hundreds of Thousands of Outraged Parents, Students and Teachers Tell President Bush to Fire Education Secretary...

But the differences between Europe and the U.S. are growing, registering like a series of small quakes on the Richter scale. Trade disputes over agriculture, steel, and genetically modified foods; broken treaties and promises on global warming, sustainability, nuclear test bans, and the international court; sharply differing opinions on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and on the use of militarism vs. diplomacy to resolve disputes; eastward expansion of the European Union into traditional NATO areas; multilateralism vs. unilateralism, the list is long and growing. European corporations are expanding around the globe, challenging their U.S. counterparts. A rising Euro now is competing with the dollar as a global currency. The Europeans are closer to putting their John Hancocks on a new Constitution that will bind them closer as a continent.

As the presidential campaign turned into a brawl this week over John Kerry's stint in Vietnam and what he did or did not do with his medals, some Democrats were actually pretty pleased. They figured that any opportunity to compare Mr. Kerry's military background with President Bush's — not to mention Vice President Dick Cheney's — was welcome and they took advantage of it.

The good news for opponents of the war in Iraq is that President Bush's challenger has finally called for a rapid American withdrawal. "Every day the U.S. military remains in Iraq," he said, "we imperil U.S. security, drain our economy, ignore our nation's domestic needs and prevent democratic self-rule from developing in Iraq." The bad news is that the challenger's name is Ralph Nader. John Kerry, by contrast, sounds as though he thinks the only thing worse than making a mistake is correcting it.

Graphic photographs showing the torture and sexual abuse of Iraqi prisoners in a US-run prison outside Baghdad emerged yesterday from a military inquiry which has left six soldiers facing a possible court martial and a general under investigation.

Asked how many American troops have died in Iraq, the Pentagon's No. 2 civilian estimated Thursday the total was about 500 - more than 200 soldiers short.

A Hawaii-based soldier deployed to Iraq has been charged with murder for the fatal shooting of a civilian.

The family of a local man serving in the U.S. Army in Iraq says they have heard nothing from the government about his reputed death, but have been besieged by neighbors and others calling with condolences.

Amnesty International - news.amnesty - Iraq: Torture not isolated -- independent investigations vital...

The demotion has outraged abuse victims.

Israel Criticizes Report On Swiss Holocaust Funds...

The public’s right to know was alluded to briefly by Thompson, who displayed the aplomb typical for those in-the-know addressing those frozen out. “I wish the American people could have seen it,” he taunted. So do we.

The world must be prevented by all available means from hearing, from the lips of a credible witness, that the Americans are full partners in Israel’s nuclear arms programme, while pretending to be the world’s sheriff for the prevention of nuclear proliferation

President Bush lied to the people and to Congress about weapons of mass destruction and the purported "grave and imminent" threat Iraq posed to the U.S. He let Osama bin Ladin go so he could sate his personal obsession with Saddam Hussein and now, many billions of dollars and hundreds of dead Americans later, Bush continues to deny reality and defy the Constitution.

With its lies about weapons of mass destruction and Al Qaeda connections fully exposed, the White House is now arguing that its criminal war on Iraq is being waged to bring liberation and democracy to the Iraqi people. “America’s objective in Iraq is limited and it is firm,” declared President Bush at a recent press conference. “We seek an independent, free and secure Iraq.”

THE United States’ policy on Iraq was in disarray last night, as the Pentagon admitted it was unaware of a breakthrough agreement to end the siege of Fallujah announced by its troops on the ground. While a new poll showed a majority of Iraqis want US and British troops to leave in the next few months, an American marine commander revealed that his troops were preparing to withdraw from the outskirts of Fallujah, a major U-turn in US policy.

Powell: U.S. losses diminish support for Bush administration...

Maher Arar says he is concerned he may never see most of the evidence at the public inquiry that's looking into his arrest and deportation to Syria.

Halliburton Man to Sub for Khodorkovsky...

Less than a week after election officials in California recommended that electronic voting machines in four counties be banned for the November election, they have recommended that electronic voting machines in 10 other counties could be used as long as they give voters the option of choosing a paper ballot.

Iraqi abuse photos spark shock...

I volunteered to ride in ambulances evacuating the wounded. Surely they don't shoot ambulances? In fact, US snipers were targeting ambulances. I learned to pick out the beams of sniper rifles. I remember the medics' anger when the hospital's last working ambulance carrying British and American volunteers returned shot to pieces, how stunned they were when American, British and Australian volunteers came under fire after declaring their nationalities to US troops.

United States soldiers at a prison outside Baghdad have been accused of forcing Iraqi prisoners into acts of sexual humiliation and other abuses.

Abuse Of Iraqi Prisoners Probed...

He said footage showing alleged abuse might be shown on US television later on Wednesday but rejected suggestions that the announcement of the charges was linked to the public exposure which the case might receive.

NASA perhaps mulling libido attenuation...

World Trade Center leaseholder Larry Silverstein suffered a defeat Thursday in his court battle to double the money he receives from the trade center's $3.5 billion insurance policy.

Searchable database charts Bush-Cheney lies with over 400 entries so far...

Photos of U.S. humiliating Iraqi prisoners...

The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is investigating whether the unit — named the Counter Terrorism Evaluation Group by its creator, Douglas J. Feith, the under secretary of defense for policy — exaggerated the threat posed by Iraq to justify the war.

The silence of the "left" of New Labour on the massacre of civilians in Iraq by American occupation forces says it all. When it is down to former diplomats and Tory MPs to voice opposition, you know the game is up with those who, we are told, are proposing to "reclaim the party".

The four were not Syrian and may have entered the country on forged papers. It appeared their nationalities had not yet been established.

The rabbis, identified with far-right political movements, are members of a group called "Pikuah Nefesh," Hebrew for "saving lives," the highest precept in Judaism. The group believes that giving up any of the West Bank or Gaza violates religious precepts and endangers lives.

Some of Bush's answers were "surprising" and "new," said former Sen. Bob Kerrey, a Democratic member, but he declined to give details.

The Gassing of the Kurds — Halabja revisited...

You're not gonna like this...

Bringing democracy to Iraq beyond reach of U.S. Bringing democracy to Iraq beyond reach of U.S....

BUSH AND KERRY, UNITED FOR LIKUD...

Fears rise with 'hot lab' building boom...

Poll finds most Iraqis have negative impression of US troops...

Take Coalition Provisional Authority head L. Paul Bremer who issued Order 39 (September 19), which declares that 100 percent ownership of Iraqi banks, mines and factories is allowed to be foreign-owned and 100 percent of profits from these Iraqi institutions is allowed to be moved out of the country. Where do Iraqis fit in? Is it any surprise they feel cheated and robbed? Does a robbed man stand by and watch his possessions dwindle?

CBS Airs Alleged GIs Abuse of Iraqis...

CBS obtains photos of alleged prisoner abuse in Iraq...

On Sept. 30, 2003, the administration notified Congress of the allocation of $290 million from the Emergency Response Fund. to support the government in Afghanistan. In the transmittal, the director of the Office of Management and Budget indicated that the funds would be drawn from funds previously allocated to the Department of Defense. Yet the May 9, 2003 OMB quarterly report indicated that as of Feb. 28, 2003, DoD had already obligated all but $21 million of its funds. While we had objection to the support for the government of Afghanistan, your report begs the question, from whence came the money?

Washington wakes up to spyware, adware...

The U.S. Army faces a gathering threat that is more dangerous to its long-run capability than Saddam Hussein ever was. That danger, according to military strategists, lies in a foreign and military policy that is stretching the force to the breaking point, leaving it unable to execute its mission.

Did Ron Brown die for Enron’s sins?...

Zim agrees to hand over suspected mercenaries Zim agrees to hand over suspected mercenaries...

WAR PRESIDENT...

US soldiers have fired on a minibus full of civilians near a checkpoint on the outskirts of the besieged Iraqi town of Falluja.

The owner of the Triad’s local ABC affiliate pulled the plug on a Friday “Nightline” special in which Ted Koppel will read the names of all 530 soldiers killed by hostile fire since the start of the war in Iraq, the company confirmed today.

The Spanish interior ministry says it is investigating reports that two suspects in the 11 March Madrid train bombings were police informants.

Gilad Sharon has 5 days to hand over Greek Island documents...

Sharon vows to sustain 'nuclear ambiguity'...

While the media is proclaiming the recently concluded European Conference a reaffirmation of the fight against anti-Semitism, the reality is that Israel has been dealt a stunning political setback.

The subject of the NeoCons and their loyalty to Israel is no longer considered "anti-Semitism", per the recently concluded European conference on anti-Semitism.

Bush, You Lying Sack Of ......

Washington > Support for War Is Down Sharply, Poll Concludes" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/29/politics/29POLL.html?ex=1084205379&ei=1&en=daf9760e96ab0d2e" target="_blank">The New York Times > Washington >Support for War Is Down Sharply...

They want the logs of my web site with all the forum messages, and the IP addresses. That's right. All of them. A giant fishing expedition for every communication of everyone interested in the voting issue. This has nothing to do with a VoteHere "hack" investigation, and I have refused to turn it over.

'New Forms' of Anti-Semitism Denounced...

Hate not on rise, pollsters told...

Two reports issued this week found that anti-Semitic attacks are increasing worldwide.

A Claremont McKenna College psychology professor who claimed someone vandalized her car with racist and anti-Semitic slurs was charged Monday with filing a false police report and insurance fraud.

Nine of 10 Army Divisions Are Tied Down...

Why can no one name the hijackers or prove they flew the planes?

Syrian official suggests attackers too reckless to be al-Qaida...

Syria gunmen could be al-Qaida operatives...

I've been severely criticized for speaking out in opposition to this war. So have you, probably. We're told that we're aiding and abetting the enemy. We're told that we should support the president no matter what. We're told that patriotism demands that we support the war. They say that we're abusing the freedoms that our troops are in the Middle East defending. They say we should be ashamed to be protesting while the troops are in the desert protecting our right to do so. Well I say, Hogwash!

Forty-four Bulgarian soldiers want to quit the mission in Iraq, according to the latest official information.

A careful reader of the limited news coming out of Iraq will discover the US military situation is perilous and a few more bad moves could send the US Army and Marines retreating back to Kuwait in the same manner they fled southward 54 years ago in Korea. That was when a million Chinese foot soldiers suddenly appeared and attacked as overextended US forces approached the Chinese border. American firepower, airpower, and technology was unable to compensate for the confusion and lack of supplies for American ground troops.

The U.S. Roman Catholic priest who has provided the most visible help to victims of clergy sex abuse for the past 18 years has been fired by his archbishop and cannot celebrate public Masses.

Sharon faces defeat on Gaza plan...

WRH: WHO'S RESPONSIBLE FOR THE THE NATIONAL DEBT?...

Bush tax cuts for rich leave local governments only sin to pay bills...

They're Called Iraqis...

After declaring new truce deal, US planes bomb Fallujah...

Think Again: What Bush Surge?...

More bovine excrement from the propagandists...

Seat Belts Failing in Rollovers...

The Case for Impeaching George W. Bush...

MAPS AND CHARTS OF IRAQI OILFIELDS: CHENEY ENERGY TASK FORCE...

‘Bush overstepped authority since 9/11’...

The Bush administration is bracing itself for the latest memoir by a former insider. Joe Wilson, a former ambassador, will this week reveal the name of the government official who "outed" his wife - revealing her identity as a CIA operative in apparent revenge for his role in proving the White House made false claims about Iraq's efforts to develop nuclear weapons.

A second unit of the Iraqi armed forces has mutinied at Fallujah after being involved in heavy fighting with insurgents Ali Allawi, the Iraqi Defence Minister, said yesterday.

If that is the case, and it sure seems so at the moment, then this commission has to ask us all -- and I don't exclude myself -- how much of Congress and the press went to war with an air of juvenile glee. The Commission on Credulous Stupidity may call me as its first witness, but after that it has to examine how, despite our vaunted separation of powers, a barely elected president opted for a war that need not have been fought. This is Bush's cause, a noble but irrational effort much like the one that set off for Jerusalem in the year 1212. It was known as the Children's Crusade.

The Toledo Diocese is taking another look at a woman's previously dismissed claims of satanic sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests now that one of the clergymen has been charged with the ``ritualistic'' slaying of a nun 24 years ago.

British Petroleum quits Iraq...

Spanish Troops Relieved To Be Back From Iraq...

Pulp fictions triumph over truth...

Abuse Of Iraqi POWs By GIs Probed...

Army Finds Troop Supply 'Getting Thin'...

The Iraqi resistance is exploding and muslim support is mounting. None of our people are secure and the armed forces are striking out blindly against the population since the resistance is covert and has no face. They strike and disappear. We have succeeded in uniting the Arab world against us and alienating most of the rest of rhe world because of our aggressive attack without gaining their support.

The NRC staff was so concerned about safety at Davis-Besse that in September and October of 2001, they drafted an order that would require Davis-Besse to shut down for safety reasons. The owner did not want to shut down the plant. So, the owner came in and met with the NRC staff in October and November of 2001 and provided reasons why they thought the plant was safe to keep operating. The NRC looked at that information and ultimately agreed with the plant's owner and did not require the plant to shut down. But later in the spring of 2002, when the plant was finally shut down for a scheduled re-fueling outage, very serious cracks in the nuclear reactor vessel were found, boric acid was leaking out of those cracks and had eroded a large hole through the 6-inch steel cladding in the reactor vessel beneath Nozzles 1, 2 and 3. Scott Portzline told me, "When I first saw the photograph of the hole that was eaten into the Davis-Besse reactor, I could hardly believe it. We realized that we were really lucky that Toledo did not have a nuclear accident and studies indicated that we were just a month or so away from it (potential melt down event)."

The sonar operator, father of two-year-old Ellie-Mae, said: " I've never seen a boat in such poor condition. It's fair to describe it as a death trap.

Berlin cop gives Hitler salute at British embassy...

UN chief hits out at fraud claims...

Bush and Cheney to tell 9/11 stories...

French Jews Accuse Pope Of Siding With Muslims...

In another illustration of the current administration's commitment to keeping the American people in the loop, the White House demanded that there be no recording or formal transcription of today's joint interview of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney by the 9/11 commission.

''Bush Administration May Be Jeopardizing U.S. Interests in the Middle East''...

US marines hand Fallujah over to Saddam general...

A US general has been suspended in Iraq over the alleged abuse of prisoners by US troops in jails she ran.

It is clear that the American war crimes will not reach the International Court of Justice in The Hague. Today, America sets the world's moral standards. It alone decides who will be judged, who is a terrorist, what is legitimate resistance to occupation, who is a religious fanatic, and who is a legitimate target for assassination. That is how four Iraqi children, who laughed at the sight of a dead American soldier, merited being killed on the spot.

U.S. Marines to End Siege of Fallujah...

Trajkovski's presumed death came at a critical time for Macedonia, a tiny Balkan republic still tense after six months of ethnic conflict in 2001. Trajkovski, 47, had been widely hailed for his efforts to get Macedonians and rival ethnic Albanians to live together in peace.

Photographs broadcast by CBS News show U.S. military police apparently abusing Iraqi prisoners at a Baghdad-area prison late last year.

Pro-Western PM wins Macedonia presidency...

"Hiding the death and destruction of this war does not make it easier on anyone except those who want to keep the truth away from the people."

Pentagon flogs a dead horse...

Iraq attackers kill 10 US troops...

'Israel's actions don't justify anti-Semitism'...