FOXNews.com - ATF: Brian Nichols Is in CustodyATLANTA - After a two-day massive manhunt in Atlanta, Ga., suspected courthouse triple slayer Brian Nichols (search) is in police custody, The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms told FOX News on Saturday.
BBC NEWS -- Japan WWII sex slave redress callJapan has only partially acknowledged their atrocious "war crimes" during WW II -- unfortunately, aiding them in this endeavor was international attention focusing on the Jewish holocaust, and our concentration on their "democratic rebuilding"... What is mention in this article is only a drop in the bucket -- entire villages killed, women and children raped, artwork and riches from conquered nations stolen, on and on and on. However, I do not see them [Japan] changing their policy on these issues -- the world has never really held their feet to the fire, yes, there were some token trials that got little or no attention because the Nuremberg trials were also in progress, but no full admission of their action was ever offered.
Taiwanese women forced to become sex slaves by the Japanese during World War II are campaigning for Japan to take legal responsibility for the crime.
They are hoping to collect a million signatures for a petition they, and other victims across Asia, intend to present to the UN in April.
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They sought an official apology from the Japanese.
The high court in Tokyo rejected their demand on the basis that the claims were filed many years after the abuse occurred.
Now the women are working with other victims - in Korea, the Philippines, China, Indonesia and the Netherlands - to bring the issue to the attention of the UN.
Telegraph --Saddam's $2m offer to WMD inspector
Well we are reintroduced to the whole "Iraq had WMD question" -- if Saddam is/was lily white and did not have WMD(s) why the Bribe?
"Saddam Hussein's regime offered a $2 million (£1.4 million) bribe to the United Nations' chief weapons inspector to doctor his reports on the search for weapons of mass destruction.
Rolf Ekeus, the Swede who led the UN's efforts to track down the weapons from 1991 to 1997, said that the offer came from Tariq Aziz, Saddam's foreign minister and deputy."
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BBC NEWS -- Sgrena operation 'kept from US'
Well the BBC is coming around to maybe the Americans didn't know -- wonder if the US MSM will?
"Gen Marioli's testimony is crucial because he is the man who was keeping the US forces informed of the car's arrival before the fatal shooting, in which a US patrol killed the secret service agent and injured Ms Sgrena and a second officer.
Gen Marioli's version, as reported by the papers, also contradicts a reconstruction by the Italian government and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who said the US military had been advised that Ms Sgrena was on board the car. "
FOXNews.com - U.S. Forces Partially Knew of Italian Hostage MissionMore news out of Italy -- guess what it is conflicting; however, it does have an Italian admitting the US was not
fully informed.
ROME — U.S. forces in Iraq were only partially informed about last week's Italian intelligence mission to release a hostage, which ended with a shooting on the road to Baghdad airport and the death of secret service agent Nicola Calipari, Italian newspapers said Friday.
While U.S. authorities were informed of the presence of Calipari and a colleague, they did not know that the mission was aimed at freeing journalist Giuliana Sgrena, Italian dailies La Repubblica and Corriere della Sera reported. Sgrena hade been kidnapped in Baghdad on Feb. 4.
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Both newspapers cited a report by Maj. Gen. Mario Marioli, an Italian who is the coalition forces' second-in-command. The report has been given to Rome prosecutors investigating the killing.
According to the newspapers, Marioli informed U.S. officials that Calipari and the other Italian officer were there, but not that the mission was aimed at releasing Sgrena. The lack of full information was possibly due to known U.S. opposition to Italy's policy of negotiating with kidnappers, Italian media have suggested.
However, the papers had conflicting versions over how much Marioli knew: Corriere said he knew that Calipari was working to have the hostage released, La Repubblica said he didn't.
News from Agape Press
Well go figure -- notice that his study was dismissed, why -- maybe because it disagreed with the "mainstream liberal line".
A senior research scientist from Harvard says abstinence and faithfulness are more effective than condoms to stop the spread of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
Dr. Edward Green of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies is the author of Rethinking AIDS Prevention (Praeger, 2003). He says he wrote the book after the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) dismissed his study of effective AIDS prevention program, and instead hired another researcher, one who favored condoms, to conduct another investigation."
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Nearly two years ago, Green testified before the U.S. Senate's African Subcommittee about the effectiveness of Uganda's ABC approach. He observed that, in little more than a decade, it had helped bring about a steep decline in the African nation's HIV/AIDS infection rates: they had dropped from 21 percent to 6 percent since 1991.
In his 2003 Senate testimony, Green noted, "Many of us in the AIDS and public health communities didn't believe abstinence and faithfulness were realistic goals. It now seems we were wrong."
The New York Times -- Detectives Killed for Mob, Indictments Say
Bad news for the New York Police Department if these allegations prove true.
Two retired New York City police detectives, onetime partners who had long been suspected of ties to organized crime, were charged by federal prosecutors yesterday with taking part in eight murders on behalf of the Mafia - most while one or both were still active members of the police force.
The charges, detailed in an indictment unsealed in Federal District Court in Brooklyn, were among the most startling allegations of police corruption in memory. In one case, in 1990, prosecutors said the detectives, driving an unmarked police car, pulled over a Mafia captain on the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn and shot him to death for a rival mob figure. In another, in 1986, they flashed their badges and kidnapped a mobster, threw him in the trunk of their car and delivered him to a rival, who tortured and killed him. "
This is a really bad story.
ATLANTA, Ga. — A man facing rape charges grabbed a deputy's gun and shot four people at the Fulton County Courthouse in downtown Atlanta, killing a well-respected judge, a court reporter and a sheriff's deputy and leading authorities on a citywide manhunt.
The suspect, identified as 34-year-old Brian Nichols and described as a balding black male, carjacked a series of vehicles following the 9 a.m. EST shooting. Nichols, 34, is described as a balding black male, 6'1" and weighing 200 pounds, of medium complexion. He was being held on rape charges stemming from an incident in August last year.
Well on this point -- you want hear anything else about them until they say something else that agrees with the Times' agenda... Nevertheless, for the time being, maybe a day, the New York Times believes Evangelicals are good people with an accurate outlook.
A core group of influential evangelical leaders has put its considerable political power behind a cause that has barely registered on the evangelical agenda, fighting global warming.
These church leaders, scientists, writers and heads of international aid agencies argue that global warming is an urgent threat, a cause of poverty and a Christian issue because the Bible mandates stewardship of God's creation. [Story here]
The love affair will last until the next debate over homosexual marriage or abortion...
USATODAY.com - Townes leads life where science and faith coexistHere is an interesting story -- with all the claims that "religious" peoples refuse to listen to science or even consider science from the far left elitist and academics -- this story is refreshing.
NEW YORK — When Nobel Prize-winning physicist Charles Hard Townes was a professor at Columbia University during the 1950s, a colleague, Willis Lamb, asked him if God ever helps him in the lab. Dr. Townes gave the question some thought. "Well," he recalls telling Lamb. "I think so."
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But even in these often discordant worlds, Townes has found little difficulty in reconciling his Christian faith with the empiricism of scientific inquiry.
"I don't think that science is complete at all," says the 89-year-old physicist. "We don't understand everything and one can see, within science itself, there are many inconsistencies. We just have to accept that we don't understand."
Within the great unknowns of the universe, Townes argues there is ample room for faith in God and His presence in human experience.
Further, I would submit there are many Christian scientist that prove the validity of the Bible constantly -- not to mention many scientist that have set out to prove "there is no god" only to become convinced that God does in fact exists.
FOXNews.com - Jacko Misses DeadlineBad move Jacko!
Superior Court Judge Rodney S. Melville said he would issue a warrant for Jackson's arrest and Jackson would lose the $3 million bail that has kept the accused child molester free after he failed to appear in court on Thursday, apparently because of severe back problems.
There seems to be a problem with Blogger so there will be light blogging today -- only when I can access the edit site.
CNN.com - Lebanon's ex-PM nominated to resume postI believe this is a setback for Lebanon -- and makes the resignation of Minister Omar Karami last week simply being for
show. What else are they [Syria] simply doing for show?
BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Lebanon's pro-Syria parliamentary majority has nominated former Prime Minister Omar Karami -- who resigned nine days ago in the face of anti-Syria demonstrations -- to resume his post.
The decision was announced Wednesday after consultations between with President Emile Lahoud and lawmakers.
Lahoud is expected to make the official appointment Thursday, political sources said.
Karami's resigned on February 28 following huge mass demonstrations in Beirut against his government. Those protests prompted a huge rally Tuesday in support of Syria presence in Lebanon.
WFMY -- 32,000 Social Security Numbers At RiskThis certainly is not good news -- we, as citizens, seem to be more at risk from those responsible for the security of our personal identity then by ourselves... I would like to see any Social Security reform includes much harsher penalties for those that mishandle our Social Security numbers since it is rapidly becoming the single most important thing we possess yet is requested -- demanded by clerks everywhere from the doctor's office to the car lot and the occasional utility company. Somehow, the privacy act of 1974 does not seem adequate anymore -- heck, I never even see it printed on 99% of the forms that request my social, DOB, and address information.
UPDATE:
ReutersThe U.S. Secret Service and the FBI said they were investigating the incident.
The information accessed included names, addresses, Social Security and driver's license numbers, but not credit histories, medical records or financial information.
Back in January there was a story about a young man and his father filing suit against the school because of mandatory "summer homework", I commented on it in
Academic Future. Well the results are in:
MILWAUKEE (AP) - A judge threw out a high school student's lawsuit against mandatory summer homework, saying he and his father should have done a little more studying themselves before bringing the case.
Students in the Whitnall High School math course - honors pre-calculus - were supposed to do three assignments by certain dates over the summer. Peer Larson, 17, and his father, Bruce, had filed suit in Circuit Court, arguing that homework should not be required after the 180-day academic year is over.
I repeat my previous advice "don't take the class since it is and "honor" and voluntary".
Michelle Malkin has a different take on the "Italian hostage" story -- and I find it interesting and want to know where the outrage is also.
The scandal is not that an anti-war propagandist has accused the U.S. of targeting journalists. That's par for the course. (Yes, hello again, Eason Jordan.)
The scandal is not that mainstream media sympathizers are blaming our military and dredging up every last shooting accident along the treacherous routes to Baghdad Airport. Again, no surprise here.
The scandal is that Italy -- our reputed ally in the global War on Terror -- negotiated with Sgrena's Islamist kidnappers and may have forked over a massive ransom to cutthroats for Sgrena's release.
Where is the uproar over this Islamist insurgency subsidy plan?
Iraqi politician Younadem Kana told Belgian state TV that he had "non-official" information that Italy paid the terrorists $1 million in tribute. The Washington Times, citing the Italian newspaper La Stampa, pinned the ransom figure at $6 million. Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera reported that the Italian government forked over between $10 million and $13.4 million to free Sgrena [Read here]
Here is one of our Men overseas -- this is one of the thousands that the left imply are criminals with their [the left] allegations of "targeting innocents". Appears to be a
hero rendering aid to me -- how can you possibly see anything else?
Stories like these are getting sickening -- US citizens mostly from the left, you know the ones that care some much, want to concentrate on one unfortunate death -- the Italian intelligence officer simply because they might be able to "get Bush" or "make the military look bad"... This is sad -- this conservative is interested in our men and women returning, but I also know we have started a job and have promised freedom. The below story and many more alike is what Iraqis have to look forward to if we leave in the immediate future. Don't you dare tell me that this is only happening because Americans are there.
This is Muslims killing Muslims -- why because they want freedom... These animals [insurgents] are no longer fighting a war against the American military and haven't been for sometime, no they are fighting against freedom and for a religious totalitarian state. The innocents being killed are
for freedom and Americans here at home have a problem with our fighting with them for freedom. Where would America be had the world opinion been let them do it for themselves during our fight for freedom -- many hate to admit or simply refuse to remember the French assisted us and if you think that assistance was solely or even mainly out of concern for our freedom you are delusional -- it was to weaken their enemy, England... Now our concerns are both Iraqi freedom and to weaken our enemy yet our citizens do not even think of the struggles and price we have paid for freedom -- Iraqi freedom is as of this moment coming quicker and at a lower cost of human life, if not in numbers certainly in percentages... People these animals would be killing freedom loving people weather we were there or not so get behind our military, support them, don't try to demoralize the military, so you can win a war of ideology again scaring our country... Let us assist in allowing people like these of the story to live and live in freedom while receiving the added benefit of weakening our enemy -- an enemy that will be more then happy to bring the fight here (our soil) if not occupied in Iraq.
QAIM, Iraq — Police said Wednesday they found 35 bodies in two different places in Iraq (search), some shot to death, the others beheaded.
Twenty of the corpses were found late Tuesday near Rumana, a village about 20 kilometers (12 miles) east of the western city of Qaim (search), near the Syrian border, police Capt. Muzahim al-Karbouli said.
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A separate discovery was made Tuesday south of Baghdad in Latifiya, where 15 headless bodies were found by Iraqi troops.
The decapitated corpses were found inside an abandoned base of the former Iraqi army, Defense Ministry Capt. Sabah Yassin said. The bodies included 10 men, three women and two children.
