Two British commandos, members of the secretive SAS were arrested by Iraqi police yesterday in the southern Iraqi city of Basra. The two men, dressed in Arab garb and driving an unmarked car, drew the attention of police.
British forces using tanks broke down the walls of Basra jail to free two service personnel arrested for firing on Iraqi policemen. Defence secretary John Reid has defended the actions of the British forces.
The MoD refused to comment after officials said that they were undercover officers dressed as Arabs.
Sources: PEJ News, Manchester Evening News, ePolitix.com
September 20, 2005
One Billion US Dollars Missing in Iraq
One billion dollars has been plundered from Iraq's defence ministry in one of the largest thefts in history. The money, intended to train and equip an Iraqi army, was instead siphoned abroad in cash and has disappeared.
Most of the money was supposedly spent buying arms from Poland and Pakistan. The contracts were peculiar in four ways. According to Mr Allawi, they were awarded without bidding, and were signed with a Baghdad-based company, and not directly with the foreign supplier.
Source: Independant Online
Most of the money was supposedly spent buying arms from Poland and Pakistan. The contracts were peculiar in four ways. According to Mr Allawi, they were awarded without bidding, and were signed with a Baghdad-based company, and not directly with the foreign supplier.
Source: Independant Online
September 03, 2005
Pastor: God Destroyed New Orleans
Is the recent hurricane something to celebrate? Reverend William Shanks, pastor of the New Covenant Fellowship of New Orleans seems to think so;
"New Orleans now is abortion free. New Orleans now is Mardi Gras free. New Orleans now is free of Southern Decadence and the sodomites, the witchcraft workers, false religion - it's free of all of those things now" said Rev. Bill Shanks, pastor of New Covenant Fellowship of New Orleans, and he continued; "One Category 5 hurricane coming up the river will take care of all Sodomite marriages ... I believe this will open the floodgate for God to bring judgment on our land."
Source: Workbench, Agape Press
"New Orleans now is abortion free. New Orleans now is Mardi Gras free. New Orleans now is free of Southern Decadence and the sodomites, the witchcraft workers, false religion - it's free of all of those things now" said Rev. Bill Shanks, pastor of New Covenant Fellowship of New Orleans, and he continued; "One Category 5 hurricane coming up the river will take care of all Sodomite marriages ... I believe this will open the floodgate for God to bring judgment on our land."
Source: Workbench, Agape Press
Homeland Security bans Red Cross
As the National Guard delivered food to the New Orleans convention center yesterday, American Red Cross officials said that federal emergency management authorities would not allow them into New Orleans.
"The Homeland Security Department has requested and continues to request that the American Red Cross not come back into New Orleans," said Renita Hosler, spokeswoman for the Red Cross.
Calls to the Department of Homeland Security and its subagency, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, were not returned yesterday
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"The Homeland Security Department has requested and continues to request that the American Red Cross not come back into New Orleans," said Renita Hosler, spokeswoman for the Red Cross.
Calls to the Department of Homeland Security and its subagency, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, were not returned yesterday
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
New Orleans: Rescue or Combat Operation?
According to the Army Times, combat operations are underway on the streets "to take this city back" in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. While some fight the insurgency in the city, other carry on with rescue and evacuation operations. Helicopters are still pulling hundreds of stranded people from rooftops of flooded homes.
"This place is going to look like Little Somalia," Brig. Gen. Gary Jones, commander of the Louisiana National Guard’s Joint Task Force told Army Times Friday as hundreds of armed troops under his charge prepared to launch a massive city-wide security mission from a staging area outside the Louisiana Superdome. "We’re going to go out and take this city back. This will be a combat operation to get this city under control."
Source: Army Times
"This place is going to look like Little Somalia," Brig. Gen. Gary Jones, commander of the Louisiana National Guard’s Joint Task Force told Army Times Friday as hundreds of armed troops under his charge prepared to launch a massive city-wide security mission from a staging area outside the Louisiana Superdome. "We’re going to go out and take this city back. This will be a combat operation to get this city under control."
Source: Army Times
August 29, 2005
Halliburton Whistleblower Demoted
(Associated Press) Bunnatine H. Greenhouse, who had been the Corps of Engineers' top procurement official since 1997 and publicly criticized the Pentagon's decision to award Halliburton Co. a no-bid contract for work in Iraq, has been demoted. "Her removal will send a message to all concerned that if they dare stand up to corrupting influences within the Army contracting world their careers will be destroyed," her attorney, Michael D. Kohn, wrote in the letter to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
Kris Kolesnik, executive director of the National Whistleblower Center, which is advising Greenhouse on contacts with members of Congress and the news media, said in an interview that Kohn was informed by the Pentagon's Inspector General's office that it is still preparing a report based on Greenhouse's allegations.
Source: MSNBC
Kris Kolesnik, executive director of the National Whistleblower Center, which is advising Greenhouse on contacts with members of Congress and the news media, said in an interview that Kohn was informed by the Pentagon's Inspector General's office that it is still preparing a report based on Greenhouse's allegations.
Source: MSNBC
August 28, 2005
Ariel Sharon's Son Indicted
Omri Sharon, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's son and close adviser, is to stand trial in the "shell companies" campaign funding affair, following the filing of an indictment against him Sunday morning at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court.
One of the intriguing questions the trial will illuminate is whether any new evidence against Ariel Sharon might arise that could persuade Mazuz to indict him as well. This is theoretically possible.
Sources: Haaretz, CNN
One of the intriguing questions the trial will illuminate is whether any new evidence against Ariel Sharon might arise that could persuade Mazuz to indict him as well. This is theoretically possible.
Sources: Haaretz, CNN
August 24, 2005
File FCC Complaint Against 700 Club
The FCC has defined profanity as including language that "denote[s] certain of those personally reviling epithets naturally tending to provoke violent resentment or denoting language so grossly offensive to members of the public who actually hear it as to amount to a nuisance." Using this test, Pat Robertson's broadcast clearly violates the community standards issue.
If you are outraged about Pat Robertson's broadcast where he advocated using international political assassination and want to file an FCC complaint against Mr. Robertson and/or the Christian Broadcasting Network, go to the Christian Broadcasting Network web site and get the broadcast information for your area for the 700 Club and then visit the Federal Communications Commission's web site to lodge an actual complaint.
You may also file a complaint via e-mail at fccinfo@fcc.gov or by calling:
1-888-CALL-FCC (1-888-225-5322) voice or
1-888-TELL-FCC (1-888-835-5322) TTY.
If you are outraged about Pat Robertson's broadcast where he advocated using international political assassination and want to file an FCC complaint against Mr. Robertson and/or the Christian Broadcasting Network, go to the Christian Broadcasting Network web site and get the broadcast information for your area for the 700 Club and then visit the Federal Communications Commission's web site to lodge an actual complaint.
You may also file a complaint via e-mail at fccinfo@fcc.gov or by calling:
1-888-CALL-FCC (1-888-225-5322) voice or
1-888-TELL-FCC (1-888-835-5322) TTY.
August 23, 2005
Pat Robertson Advocates Assassination
In a recent US television broadcast, Christian extremist Pat Robertson advocated international terrorism to assassinate a foreign head of state, Hugo Chavez. In the past, Mr. Chavez has repeatedly accused U.S. President George W. Bush of backing efforts to topple his government, a charge the U.S. denies. "We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability," Robertson said.
In October 2003, Robertson, criticizing the State Department during an interview on the 700 Club, said "maybe we need a very small nuke thrown off on Foggy Bottom to shake things up," referring to the nickname for the department's headquarters in Washington. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher called the remark "despicable."
Sources:
Los Angeles Times
CNN
USA Today
Washington Post
700 Club
In October 2003, Robertson, criticizing the State Department during an interview on the 700 Club, said "maybe we need a very small nuke thrown off on Foggy Bottom to shake things up," referring to the nickname for the department's headquarters in Washington. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher called the remark "despicable."
Sources:
Los Angeles Times
CNN
USA Today
Washington Post
700 Club
August 20, 2005
They Burn Books Don't They?
This happened long ago, far away, in a land no one remembers...
The Harvest Assembly of God Church (Butler County, PA.) gathered to burn their own possessions that they felt were disloyal to God. Among the "objectionable material" was music from artists such as REM, Bruce Springsteen, and Foreigner. Disney movies and Harry Potter novels were destroyed for promoting sorcery. Additionally, Mormon and Jehovah's Witness materials were burned for not being truly Christian since they promoted several gods.
Sources:
The File Room
Theocracy Watch
American Library Association
The Harvest Assembly of God Church (Butler County, PA.) gathered to burn their own possessions that they felt were disloyal to God. Among the "objectionable material" was music from artists such as REM, Bruce Springsteen, and Foreigner. Disney movies and Harry Potter novels were destroyed for promoting sorcery. Additionally, Mormon and Jehovah's Witness materials were burned for not being truly Christian since they promoted several gods.
Sources:
The File Room
Theocracy Watch
American Library Association
August 19, 2005
Web Site of the Week
Waiting For Bigfoot
San Francisco-based American artist Jill Miller is participating in Norwich Gallery's EAST 05 international exhibition, July 2 - August 20, 2005. Although she will exhibit a performance work, she will not appear in the gallery. At least not in the flesh. Miller's durational performance-installation, "Waiting for Bigfoot," will be located in a remote Northern California forest ("Bigfoot Country"). A live video feed will be delivered to the Norwich Gallery as real-time video via satellite uplink, 24 hours a day. The artist will live at the campsite, situated in the epicenter of Bigfoot sightings, for the duration of EAST 05.
San Francisco-based American artist Jill Miller is participating in Norwich Gallery's EAST 05 international exhibition, July 2 - August 20, 2005. Although she will exhibit a performance work, she will not appear in the gallery. At least not in the flesh. Miller's durational performance-installation, "Waiting for Bigfoot," will be located in a remote Northern California forest ("Bigfoot Country"). A live video feed will be delivered to the Norwich Gallery as real-time video via satellite uplink, 24 hours a day. The artist will live at the campsite, situated in the epicenter of Bigfoot sightings, for the duration of EAST 05.
August 17, 2005
Jews Plan Mass Suicides
Teen surfers from a number of communities in Gaza's Gush Katif settlement bloc are threatening to take their surf boards out to sea on evacuation day and commit mass suicide by drowning, according to The Jerusalem Post.
A threatened mass suicide was prevented by the movement’s late leader Meir Kahane during the evacuation of the Yamit settlement in Sinai in 1982.
Members of a New York-based ultra-Orthodox Jewish movement were threatening to commit mass suicide on Wednesday in protest at the Gaza Strip pull-out, security sources and associates said.
Sources:
Ha'aretz
New York Jewish Week
International Christian Embassy Jerusalem
News24, South Africa
A threatened mass suicide was prevented by the movement’s late leader Meir Kahane during the evacuation of the Yamit settlement in Sinai in 1982.
Members of a New York-based ultra-Orthodox Jewish movement were threatening to commit mass suicide on Wednesday in protest at the Gaza Strip pull-out, security sources and associates said.
Sources:
Ha'aretz
New York Jewish Week
International Christian Embassy Jerusalem
News24, South Africa
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