They didn't know they were being taken to an internment camp to die.
People lighting candles along the train tracks leading to Auschwitz to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the camp's liberation Thursday.
Haaretz
World leaders gather in Auschwitz, 60 years after liberation
By Aviva Lori, Haaretz Correspondent, Haaretz Service, and the Associated Press
Referring to Auschwitz as "the capital of the kingdom of death," President Moshe Katsav asked at a ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of the camp's liberation Thursday whether the memory of the Holocaust had lost its power to deter further acts of anti-Semitism.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/532497.html
Sharon to meet Abbas, present goodwill gestures
By Aluf Benn and Arnon Regular
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will meet Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia in about two weeks and present a package of steps and goodwill gestures to help strengthen the new leadership and encourage them to continue efforts to prevent terror.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/532448.html
WHAT KIND OF DEMANDS will the USA make on Israel next? Reasonable ones? And if Israel doesn’t DO what the USA ‘demands’ what then? I thought the settlements and the withdrawals were between Palestine and Israel not the USA and Israel. I think Bush’s White House takes to high a tone for a country so off track in their political policies.
U.S. gov't official: Israel must stop building in the settlements
By Nathan Guttman, Haaretz Correspondent and Reuters
WASHINGTON - U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State David Satterfield on Thursday called on Israel to stop all construction and development in the settlements, saying such activity damages Israel's own interests.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/533003.html
The legacy of Auschwitz
By Samuel Pisar
Sixty years ago today the Russians liberated Auschwitz, as the Americans approached Dachau. The Allied advance revealed to a stunned world the horrors of the greatest catastrophe ever to befall our civilization. For a survivor of both death factories, where Hitler's gruesome reality eclipsed Dante's imaginary inferno, being alive and well so many years later feels unreal.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/532464.html
The Seattle Post Intelligencer
Boeing wins key 7E7 order from China
By JAMES WALLACESEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
The Boeing Co. has finally won a key 7E7 order from a group of Chinese airlines for as many as 60 planes.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/209652_boe27ww.html
GOP says 300 voted illegally
By NEIL MODIESEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
Republicans have confirmed that 240 convicted felons and 60 other people voted illegally in the election that Democrat Christine Gregoire won by 129 votes, state GOP Chairman Chris Vance said yesterday.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/209591_revote27.html
State had 'big file' on child who diedCase of 4-year-old in Lake Stevens is investigated
By CLAUDIA ROWE AND CHRISTINE FREYSEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTERS
A 4-year-old who died last week at her Lake Stevens home had repeatedly come to the attention of state child welfare workers as an alleged victim of abuse or neglect and spent time in foster care before being returned to live with her family, authorities said yesterday.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/209596_childdeath27.html
Golf courses opening because of unusual weather
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SPOKANE, Wash. -- The lack of snow in the Spokane area may have skiers teed off, but it has golfers teeing off - at least six golf courses have opened in recent days.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/aplocal_story.asp?category=6420&slug=GLF%20Winter%20Golf&searchdiff=0&searchpagefrom=1
Body of NYC cabbie found after blizzard
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK -- The body of a 70-year-old cab driver lay undiscovered for three days after snow from a blizzard encased his car, blocking the view inside, police said.
Rich countries poach doctors from Africa
Rich countries poach doctors from Africa
By DULUE MBACHUASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
LAGOS, Nigeria -- Lagos Island Hospital lost two of its best surgeons and several nurses to Gulf nations, Europe and America last year, leaving it in a dire situation shared by hospitals across the developing world.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apafrica_story.asp?category=1105&slug=Africa%20Migration
White House won't appeal media ruling
By GENARO C. ARMASASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration will not ask the Supreme Court to overturn a ruling that struck down the Federal Communication Commission's sweeping changes of media ownership rules.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apwashington_story.asp?category=1152&slug=Media%20Ownership
London explains arrest of Gitmo detainees
By ROBERT BARRASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
LONDON -- Police arrested four British citizens freed from Guantanamo Bay based on available intelligence, though they were released without charge a day later, London's police chief said Thursday.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apeurope_story.asp?category=1103&slug=Britain%20Guantanamo
The Jerusalem Post
Sharon: 'We are on verge of historic breakthrough'
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said on Thursday that Israel and the Palestinians were on a verge of an historic breakthrough in relations.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1106796049396
Speaking at a conference of the Contractors' Association in Tel Aviv on Thursday evening, the prime minister said, "If the Palestinians act forcefully to disband terror groups and put an end to violence and incitement, we could move forward in our contacts to implement the Road Map."
Mubarak phones Sharon, praises positive atmosphere
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak telephoned Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Thursday in order to congratulate him on the positive atmosphere that has been created in the region in thewake of the dialogue with the Palestinians, the Prime Minister's Office said.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1106848122494
The Russian Missiles in the Area is due to Bush’s aggression against Iran. Bush is making the USA a permanent fixture in the region and Russia feels every country should be armed to protect their sovereignty. Those missiles are most likely not for aggression against Israel so much as defense from the USA. In placing the missile sales to Syria on hold following a phone conversation between Putin and Sharon, would Israel be willing to provide a treaty with an understanding an alliance between Israel and Syria also include a defense of Syria if needed? Are these two countries capable of that level trust and compassion? I think Israel is capable of providing missile defense for Syria is the need arose through an alliance. Why can’t that happen? The two countries need to settle border disputes and be better neighbors. It is upto Israel to resolve it’s security issues. I know the Prime Minister is capable.
Putin to 'Post': Missile deal possible
Russian President Vladimir Putin, in an exclusive interview with The Jerusalem Post, Thursday, refused to rule out his country's sale of anti-aircraft missiles to Syria, insisting that such missiles served defensive purposes only and would not affect the balance of forces in the region.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1106796048843
The Los Angeles Times
Murder Counts Filed in Metrolink Derailment
The man whose apparently aborted suicide attempt caused a commuter train to derail, leading to a crash that killed at least 11 people, has been charged with murder, the district attorney said today.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-012705train_lat,0,6934146.story?coll=la-home-headlines
The Auschwitz Imperative
The mass slaughter of Germany's Jews, 1.5 million at Auschwitz alone, was not incidental to Hitler's war aims, but their purest expression. This has long been an accepted historical truth, except in the strange world of the United Nations. This hole in history gave extra significance to a special General Assembly session Monday in which Secretary-General Kofi Annan broke with decades of disgraceful U.N. silence, enforced by anti- Semitic Arab states, about the murder of the Jews: "The United Nations must never forget that it was created as a response to the evil of Nazism, or that the horror of the Holocaust helped to shape its mission." Those words are true and overdue.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-ed-auschwitz27jan27,0,646355.story
concluding at the beginning with satellites.
