Tsunami Damage to Thialand - Left picture taken December 31, 2004 - Right picture taken as stable both November 15, 2002 and February 28, 2003. 

The Heat Conduit moves from Equatorial South America at the Mouth of the Amazon to the African Continent and onto the 'heat' of the war torn areas of Iraq where there is a huge heat deposit on a daily basis. Due to the warring there the 'biotic areas' are absent and a place where there is chronic heat producing explosions, etc. Also noted in this photo is the heat of southern Africa moving into the South Polar Cap.

The more astounding aspect of this pattern is seen in The Western Hemisphere. The 'Heat Conduit' in the Atlantic between South America and Africa has changed direction as of about a weeks ago and is moving now with the North Polar Vortex rather than moving East to West (from Africa to SA). The next Satellite of

The heat building over Indonesia due to Intrared Wavelength as a result of Solar Radiation is moved by a Classical Global Warming "Heat Transport System" into the Antarctica Continent, also known as The South Pole. 1.20.05

Afghanistan adds to the war heat into the north polar cap. 1.20.05 Human Induced Global Warming. No it is not acceptable.

Phi Phi Island of Krabi Province, Thialand 

1.20.05 The Heat of War transported north to the Arctic Ocean resulting in dissoluton of the ice cap.

Unrelenting Weather Pattern of Indonesia compliments of Global Warming 1.20.05 

Indonesia is caught in the Crosshairs of Global Warming/Climate Change

Jakarta Now
1.20.05

BRAVING THE FLOODS: A number of residents of Cililitan Kecil in East Jakarta help evacuate several women who are trapped on the second floor of their flooded home. As of Wednesday, there were still a number of people who refused to leave the rooftops of their houses, despite the flooding caused by incessant rain in the city and floodwaters coming down from Bogor along the Ciliwung river. JP/P.J. Leo


The Land is too saturated. Indonesia

The Jakarta Post

Thousands flee homes as floods paralyze Jakarta

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
Panic, fatigue and confusion were etched on Wagino's face, a resident of Kalibata in East Jakarta whose house on the Ciliwung river bank was swept away in Wednesday's floods.

The Men who should be Inaugurated

Regarding the security of our nation, after returning from a visit to Syria and Palestine, the now Senator John Kerry took his place on the firing line while Ms. Rice sounded more an rhetoric and ultimatums. Who does CON-D Rice think she is?

CONDOLEEZZA RICE, SECRETARY OF STATE NOMINEE: The time for diplomacy is now.

SEN. JOE BIDEN (D), DELAWARE: And the time for diplomacy, in my view, is long overdue.

SEN. JOHN KERRY (D), MASSACHUSETTS: The current policy is growing the insurgency not diminishing it.

KERRY: The dynamics of the election could actually without the proper actions provide a greater capacity for civil war.

RICE: The political process, as you well know and you all know better than I, is one of coming to terms with divisions.

California Democrat Barbara Boxer took the gloves off suggesting Rice deliberately hyped the Iraq threat and used the image of a nuclear mushroom cloud to scare the American people.

SEN. BARBARA BOXER (D), CALIFORNIA: This is my personal view that your loyalty to the mission you were given to sell this war overwhelmed your respect for the truth and I don't say it lightly.

RICE: I have to say that I have never, ever lost respect for the truth in the service of anything. It is not my nature. It is not my character.

BOXER: If you were rolling out a new product, like a can opener, who would care about what we said? But this product is a war and people are dead and dying.

RICE: Senator, I'm happy to continue the discussion but I really hope that you will not imply that I take the truth lightly.

Rice is an arrogant little witch, isn't she?


The above is from a CNN NewsNight transcript. CNN is attempting to grow up and grow out of bad habits where FOX is not, but it's still stumbling over some very profound issues that compromise freedom and democracy. In actuality, CNN is producing 'segments' for propaganda regarding Nuclear Proliferation on the part of other countries, including China, who a huge trading partner with the USA at the insistence of Neil Bush, Georgie's brother. The point is 'The Mushroom Cloud' techniques of CNN are hard at work again and in all fairness I haven't looked at MSNBC or FOX their competitors to say the same but I am confident they are.

Never once in any propaganda segment does the media criticize the USA for initiating the global build up of nuclear weapons as in The Cold War of the 1950s, nor do they hold the Bush Administration responsible for espionage on the soil of sovereign nation of Iran.

The thing about propaganda is that it is a form of racketeering called influence peddling. All the cable networks seem to be guilty of it one way or another. The United Nations needs to consider this influence as an assault against Human Rights of nations that are attempting peaceful measure to settle disputes while being of no consequence to the national security of the USA.

Arrogance Matters

If Condolessa Rice cannot conduct herself in a civil and respectful manner, feeling threatened by an inquiring Senator of the same gender, then should she actually be Secretary of State?

No.

We don't need temper tantrums in the State Department or in the presence of other 'Dignitaries.' Georgie has temper tantrums enough. Last time he through one on behalf of his Daddy, he bombed Iraq.

Again I ask, do we need someone who cannot conduct herself in a civil and respectful manner, feeling threatened by an inquiring Senator of the same gender, then should she be Secretary of State?

No. She will abandon diplomacy and encourage this nation to 'go to guns' everytime she feels a wrinkle in her skirt. Who needs it?

Michael Moore 

"The Truth"

MICHAEL MOORE !!!

Documentatarian.

The people of the United States of America found a new savior. A man who believes in and humbles himself before God, A documentarian by the name of Michael Moore. When one considers the overwhelming odds Mr. Moore, his documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 and his subsequent "Slacker Tour" had to overcome the Re-election of George Walker Bush to the presidency; there is every reason to believe with a loss by only 100,000 votes, in an election laced with voter irregularities, that Mr. Moore has profound impact on the nation of people that love him.

The Peoples Choice award presented symbolicly by Martin Sheen of The West Wing was a very small token of gratitude to a man brave enough to take the heat.

Georgie and Me

Everyone speaks of the 7 minutes following this moment as 'shock' and a reasonable reaction to the news that the second World Trade Tower was struck by a plane.

The fact of the matter is these seven minutes were complete indifference regarding of the suprise. The appearance of George Walker Bush in front of a classroom of children to read the book "My Pet Goat" was planned as a PR Stunt. In the film Fahrenheit 9/11 it is perfectly clear George knew perfectly well before entering the classroom that the first World Trade Tower was struck. It didn't matter to him. His 'appearance' with a classroom of children to continue a First Term Length PR Campaign was more important than a profound tragedy in American History that was beginning to unfold.

Regardless of Bush believing the First Trade Tower Tragedy was an accident or not it required decisions regarding national attention to facilitate safety in New York City including the possiblity of a Tower Fire that might get out of control. The entire issue has far more reaching implications than just the following seven minutes past this picture and the words "American is Under Attack, Mr. President."

What transpired after George left the classroom was not leadership as it took a full month to get the USA Naval Vessels headed for the Middle East out of port; it was more Public Relations work as is his entire career as president, First Term or Second.

Laura and Me

To further illustrate the damage cable network is providing in promoting a War Against Women, Larry King aired an interview with Laura Bush at her husband's side. During this one hour interview Mrs. Bush spoke 674 words whereby Mr. President spoke 5566. Laura was allowed to nod her head in agreement as much as she like however.

There was a subsequent hour long interview after my observations were posted to a message board regarding the ludicrous treatment of the First Lady. It didn't go much better with Larry King supporting the conversation and discussing areas of expertise by Mrs. Bush, namely family.

CNN/FOX never discusses Birth Control/Abortion as a Woman's Right to Choose. They are undermining democracy and the long and hard fought for values for women that an autonomous identity and financial independence as a person not just a spouse and mother is a RIGHT of Women and not something at the consent of an Evangelical Christian President.

This is the Nuclear Reactor that Bush is having a cow over. The Iranians need the electricity this reactor can provide. Their society needs it. The Iranians need assistance in 'securing' their country from exploitation of terrorists that might be in their society. That reactor is no different than any reactor in the USA or Britain or any other country that produces power around the globe. 

From the New York Times. Melting Sea Ice. In the Arctic Ocean, Human Induced Global Warming has already dissolved three thousand year old ice at The Hunt Ice Shelf.


OPENING WATER The Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, a study commissioned four years ago by the United States and the seven other countries with Arctic territory, projects that rising global concentrations of heat-trapping emissions will drive up temperatures particularly quickly at high latitudes. Some benefits are predicted. For instance, expanding areas of open water in summer could be a boon to whales and cod stocks. The ice retreat could also create summertime shipping shortcuts between the Atlantic and Pacific and allow oil and gas exploration in previously ice-cloaked waters. But a host of troubles lie ahead as well. The loss of sea ice, for example, could hurt both polar bears and Inuit seal hunters. Details are available on the Web at www.amap.no/acia.

Morning Papers - It's Origins

Bush's Climate Change Policy

"Addressing global climate change will require a sustained effort, over many generations. My approach recognizes that sustained economic growth is the solution, not the problem – because a nation that grows its economy is a nation that can afford investments in efficiency, new technologies, and a cleaner environment."

President George W. Bush

Climate Change Policy based on 'Economics Growth.' New technologies, efficient investments. Does that include 'jobs?' It is unclear if that includes jobs because I haven't seen the results of any efficient environmental investments since Bush started his environmental 'finger crossing' four years ago.

If we measure this policy by JOB Growth equating to Economic Growth, it isn't working.

2,931,000 - Number of jobs lost in the private sector since Bush took office.

135,000 - Average number of jobs created monthly under every President since Truman.

(-79,189) - Average number of jobs created monthly under Bush.

2,447,000 - Number of people who have become unemployed since Bush took office.

37 percent - Increase in the unemployment rate since Bush took office.

4.1 percent - Unemployment rate when Bush took office in January 2001.

5.6 percent - Unemployment rate in March 2004.

8,170,000 - Total number of unemployed Americans.

675,000 - Number of Americans experiencing long-term unemployment (27 weeks or more) when Bush took office in January 2001.

1,871,000 - Number of Americans suffering long-term unemployment in March 2004.

177 percent - Increase in long-term unemployment under Bush.

11.8 percent - Percentage of consumers who believe jobs are plentiful.

760,000 - Number of workers who have lost their unemployment insurance since December 2002.


I hadn't looked through "The Australian" in awhile. I've been reading a lot from the Sydney Morning Herald. These people are majorly traumatized. Not only that they are witnessing some major degradation of the Ice Continent, including growth of grass this summer in Antarctica. I won't call that a good sign. I think I'll spend some time with the Aussies and the Earth.

The Australian

Ships dumping garbage on the reef
Michelle Wiese Bockmann
January 18, 2005
INTERNATIONAL ships are illegally polluting the Great Barrier Reef by dumping garbage and oily bilge water into the sensitive area, prompting a crackdown by federal authorities.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11971005%255E30417,00.html

Bushfire threat to 500,000 houses
Brendan O'Keefe and Kelly Mills
January 15, 2005
SCIENTISTS believe 500,000 Australian homes are at high risk of being destroyed by fire because of their proximity to the bush.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11944482%255E30417,00.html

Elephants in danger
Daniel Hoare
January 12, 2005
DEFORESTATION and an increase in ivory hunting will follow the Sumatran tsunami in the coming months as a displaced Aceh population searches for new forms of income.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11917104%255E30417,00.html

'US planning strike on Iran'
Roy Eccleston, Washington correspondent
January 18, 2005
THE Bush administration is conducting secret reconnaissance missions in Iran aimed at identifying three dozen targets it suspects are linked to the Islamic state's alleged nuclear, chemical weapons and missile programs, according to the New Yorker magazine.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11972583%255E601,00.html

This is no time for a change of heart
The tsunami could provide a boost for Thai tourism. Vijay Verghese reports from Phuket and Khao Lak
January 15, 2005

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11954512%255E33975,00.html

Babylon's ruins wrecked
AFP
January 17, 2005
LONDON: As the US prepared to hand back the ancient ruins of Babylon to Iraqi authorities at the weekend, a leading British archaeologist claimed US-led troops had "irrevocably contaminated" a site that dates to the dawn of history.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11960627%255E30417,00.html

WMC to investigate bird deaths at uranium mine
Michelle Wiese Bockmann
January 11, 2005
A SOUTH Australian government taskforce will examine a huge spike in the number of birds killed at the Olympic Dam uranium mine, after more than 100 were found dead over four days in late December.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11905865%255E30417,00.html

Earth still shaking, rattling ... ringing
Leigh Dayton, Science writer
January 08, 2005
THE earth is still ringing like a bell, nearly two weeks after the powerful earthquake that launched the killer Boxing Day tsunamis.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11881741%255E30417,00.html

Region's 120 aftershocks
Amanda Hodge
January 11, 2005
THE traumatised Indonesian province of Aceh has suffered 120 significant tremors since the Boxing Day earthquake that triggered the devastating tsunami.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11905313%255E30417,00.html

Fire-threatened catchment a risk to city's water supply
Bernard Lane, Environment writer
January 07, 2005
MELBOURNE'S water supply is under threat from very high levels of bushfire fuel in its forested water catchments.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11873266%255E30417,00.html

Minister warms to climate task
Bernard Lane, Environment writer
January 03, 2005
FEDERAL Environment Minister Ian Campbell has made a resolution to win over sceptics who still dismiss the case for climate change as "crap".
He said he would confront the sceptics with "unassailable stories" of global warming, from the sudden collapse of an Antarctic ice shelf to a 12 per cent decline in Perth's rainfall over 25 years.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11838152%255E30417,00.html

Thaw sees grass take hold in Antarctica
December 27, 2004
GRASS has become established in Antarctica, showing the continent is warming to temperatures unseen for 10,000 years.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11789045%255E30417,00.html

Birds lost from wetlands
Amanda Hodge
January 10, 2005
LESS than two decades ago Peter McLellan needed a horse to muster cattle across the Macquarie Marshes, so deep was the water that spread across the vast floodplain to feed one of the country's most important bird breeding sites.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11897418%255E30417,00.html

Day the Earth was shaken to its core
Science writer Leigh Dayton
December 29, 2004
WHEN it hit, the earthquake that unleashed Sunday's killer waves caused the Earth to wobble on its axis and changed the regional map forever.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11800106%255E30417,00.html

Aftershocks shake stricken islands
December 29, 2004
AN aftershock measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale rattled India's Andaman and Nicobar islands early yesterday.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11800592%255E30417,00.html

Murray lake hits record salinity levels
Asa Wahlquist
January 03, 2005
THE long dry has pushed salinity in the major lake at the end of the Murray River to a record high.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11838149%255E30417,00.html

Wildlife saved by a mysterious sixth sense
Leigh Dayton, Science writer
December 31, 2004
WHAT did the animals know?
There are no signs they perished in large numbers when the tsunami slammed through Sri Lanka's Yala National Park on Sunday.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11816535%255E30417,00.html

70 of our bird species in grave peril
Greg Roberts
January 08, 2005
THE prospects for more than 70 Australian bird species - almost one in 10 of the nation's total - surviving beyond this century are grim.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11881845%255E30417,00.html

Loved to death
Matthew Denholm
January 06, 2005
PEOPLE love penguins. Maybe it's their little tuxedos or their Charlie Chaplin waddle. Whatever the attraction, it is undeniably strong. So strong that, in one of the world's top penguin-watching sites, people are in danger of loving penguins to death.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11860373%255E30417,00.html

Priceless marine life devastated
Reuters
December 30, 2004
PRECIOUS coral reefs and mangrove areas will have been crushed by the huge waves that have devastated southern Asia - an environmental and economic setback that could take years to reverse.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11808841%255E30417,00.html

70 of our bird species in grave peril
Greg Roberts
January 08, 2005
THE prospects for more than 70 Australian bird species - almost one in 10 of the nation's total - surviving beyond this century are grim.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11881845%255E30417,00.html

Rabbit plague on coast
Amanda Banks
December 30, 2004
A PLAGUE of rabbits is devastating Perth's fragile coastal dunes, destroying plants and rendering years of volunteers' regeneration work a waste.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11808885%255E30417,00.html

Thang Nguyen: Why are the Indonesians so worried?
January 18, 2005
SINCE the earthquake and tsunami hit Indonesia on Boxing Day, many countries around the world, led by Australia and the US, have together sent thousands of troops, aid workers and supplies to the province of Aceh, the area most affected, as part of an international relief effort to help victims of one of the world's worst catastrophes.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11969301%255E7583,00.html

Neil Clark: Laughter the best medicine for curbing fascism
January 18, 2005
IN David Lean's classic 1944 film This Happy Breed, husband and wife Frank and Ethel Gibbons pause for a moment to listen to a Blackshirt haranguing the crowd in Hyde Park, London. They glance at each other, smile and then utter the immortal words: "Let's go for a nice cup of tea."

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11969297%255E7583,00.html

Haaretz

Abbas orders Gaza security forces to deploy against mortars
By Arnon Regular, Aluf Benn, and Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondents
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has issued orders for Palestinian security services in Gaza to deploy in the area from which rockets and mortars are being launched at Israeli targets, with a special intervention force of 500-700 officers from the security forces to be formed for the purpose.

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/528399.html

Majority of Palestinians now support two-state solution
By Akiva Eldar, Haaretz Correspondent
Some 54 percent of the Palestinians support a two-state solution on the basis of the 1967 lines, with border corrections and no massive return of refugees, confirming that there has been a change in Palestinian public opinion since the death of Yasser Arafat.

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/528457.html

Pines-Paz halts Citizenship Law changes
By Yuval Yoaz, Haaretz Correspondent
Interior Minister Ophir Pines-Paz has suspended all legal procedures connected with the amendment to the Citizenship Law in order to reexamine restrictions on Palestinians who wish to get legal status in Israel as the result of family reunification.

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/528704.html

The Times of India

Now, a 'Khan-for-Iran' deal

CHIDANAND RAJGHATTA
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
[ TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2005 12:00:00 AM ]

WASHINGTON: Pakistan and United States have struck a "Khan-for-Iran" deal. According to well-known investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, Washington has agreed to wink at Pakistan's nuclear transgressions and spare its nuclear proliferator A Q Khan in return for Islamabad's cooperation in neutralizing Iran's nuclear program.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/993242.cms

Godhra carnage was pre-planned, insists SIT officer

PTI
[ TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2005 12:01:00 AM ]

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/993246.cms

Michael Moore Today

http://www.michaelmoore.com/

("ON TO 'THE CASPIAN SEA'" - my words, not Mr. Moore's. This is it. This is where the rest of the world draws the line on Bush. Iraq might have it's resolve before elections. Maybe before Inauguration. I think for a President to declare war it's suppose to take an Act of Congress. I guess Georgie has that 'nailed down' huh?)

Bush Won't Rule Out Action Against Iran Over Nukes

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush said on Monday he would not rule out military action against Iran if that country was not more forthcoming about its suspected nuclear weapons program.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=995

(Here we go again. It won't be so easy this time. Iran is not disarmed. Did anyone 'clue' Rumsfeld in about that? There are already existing treaties with the EU and Iran. This is nothing but pure military aggression against a country that has oil, again. With the discovery of espionage in Iraq, I am surprised Iran hasn't moved against the USA in Iraq already. Seriously. That is a major breach in 'trust' and 'good faith' of which Bush is not capable of either.)

Now US ponders attack on Iran; Hardliners in Pentagon ready to neutralise 'nuclear threat' posed by Tehran

By Julian Borger in Washington and Ian Traynor / Guardian
President Bush's second inauguration on Thursday will provide the signal for an intense and urgent debate in Washington over whether or when to extend the "global war on terror" to Iran, according to officials and foreign policy analysts in Washington.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1001

continued later ...

Morning Papers - continued...

A mudslide closed the street in front of 3035 W. Galer St. yesterday, but no one was injured. Jennifer and Ross Anderson didn't know there was a slide outside until Jennifer tried going to the store around 4 p.m. (January 18, 2005)


In history, January 18…

…1644, Perplexed Pilgrims in Boston reported America's 1st UFO sighting

… 1733 1st polar bear exhibited in America (Boston)

… 1778, English navigator Capt. James Cook reached the Hawaiian Islands, which he dubbed the "Sandwich Islands."

… 1788, the first English settlers arrived in Australia's Botany Bay to establish a penal colony, displacing the native Aborigine.

… 1882, born Sylvia Pankhurst English feminist

… 1912, Captain Robert Scott reaches the South Pole in a quest to be the first person to do so. Unfortunately, a month earlier, Roald Amundsen had already achieved that goal.

… 1919, the World War I Peace Congress opened in Versailles, France.

… 1922, Irish author Liam O'Flaherty & others occupy the Rotunda in Dublin

...1929 Stalin proposes to ban Trotsky from the Politburo

… 1933, born David Bellamy English botanist/tv-program maker

...1942, Nazis arrest journalists Frans Goedhart & Wiardi Beckman

...1943, Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto begin resistance of Nazis

… 1943, during World War II, the Soviets announced they'd broken the long Nazi siege of Leningrad.

… 1943, a wartime ban on the sale of pre-sliced bread in the United States -- aimed at reducing bakeries' demand for metal replacement parts -- went into effect.

… 1949, 1st US Congressional standing committee headed by Negro (W Dawson)

…. 1958, 1st black in the NHL (William O'Ree, Boston Bruins)

… 1959, Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open

… 1960, US & Japan sign joint defense treaty

… 1961, Zanzibar's Afro-Shirazi party wins 1 seat by a single vote & parliament by a single seat

… 1962, Southern University closed due to demonstrations

… 1962, US begins spraying foliage in Vietnam to reveal Viet Cong guerrillas

… 1962, US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

… 1962, born David O'Connor equestrian 3-day (Olympics-silver-96)

… 1964 Plans for the World Trade Center announced (New York City NY)

… 1975, the situation comedy "The Jeffersons," a spin-off from "All in the Family," premiered on CBS TV.

… 1991 Eastern Airlines goes out of business after 62 years

… 1991 US acknowledges CIA and US Army paid Noriega $320,000 over his career

… 1991 Longest tennis match at the Australian Open, Boris Becker beats Italy's Omar Camporese in 5 hours & 11 minutes

… 1993 Martin Luther King Jr holiday observed in all 50 states for 1st time

… 1995, the death toll continued to climb in Kobe, Japan, where a major earthquake had claimed more than 6,000 lives. The Kobe Earthquake happened because the Japanese geologists didn't know it was there.

Missing in Action

1964 METOYER BRYFORD G. OAKDALE LA AC IN SEA-3 RECOVERED N/SUBJ

1964 STRALEY JOHN L. BEAVER FALLS PA AC IN SEA- 3 RECOVERED N/SUBJ

1967 MADSEN MARLOW E. MINNEAPOLIS MN

1968 BOLES WARREN W. MARBLEHEAD NECK MA

1968 HINCKLEY ROBERT B. SPRINGFIELD ME 03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98

1968 JONES ROBERT C. MADISON NJ 03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98

1968 ROEHRICH RONALD L. SPRINGDALE AR

1968 SMITH WAYNE O. LOUISVILLE KY 03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98

1968 SIMONET KENNETH A. CHICAGO IL 03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV

1969 COADY ROBERT F. NEW ORLEANS LA


The following is probably more 'Israeli' than most people are comfortable with but I don't Bush/Rise. At all.

Buenos Aires Herald

Solá vetoes budget

Buenos Aires Governor Felipe Solá yesterday issued a full veto of the budget bill passed by the local Legislature last month, taking the provincial branch of the Peronist ruling party to the brink of a division that could endanger governability both at provincial and national level.

The Boston Globe

Three U.S.-based scientists to receive Wolf Prizes
January 18, 2005
TEL AVIV, Israel -- An MIT physicist is among three U.S. scientists who will receive $100,000 Wolf Prizes for physics and mathematics, the Wolf Foundation announced Tuesday.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/01/18/three_us_based_scientists_to_receive_wolf_prizes/

Suicide attack in Gaza wounds 6 Israelis
January 18, 2005
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself near a major road used by Israeli settlers and soldiers in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, wounding at least six Israelis. A Palestinian bystander also was hurt, according to Palestinian rescue officials.

http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/01/18/suicide_attack_in_gaza_wounds_6_israelis/

U.N. lifts travel ban on aid workers
By Burt Herman, Associated Press Writer January 18, 2005
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- The United Nations on Tuesday lifted a travel ban on aid workers in Indonesia's tsunami-battered Aceh province, the scene of a decades-long conflict between rebels and government forces that has raised concerns about the safety of relief efforts.

http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2005/01/18/un_lifts_travel_ban_on_aid_workers/

Fla family sues over student's beating
January 18, 2005
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A 12-year-old boy and his mother sued a school bus company and the school board, saying they should have done more to prevent seven other students from beating the boy last year in an attack caught on videotape.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/01/18/fla_family_sues_over_students_beating/>

Trump could have bought two Mercedes for the cost of one dress. He is nuts? The man owes more than he is worth. I mean "Hello" but like Bush he's great for the economy, right? That is why there is such bonding in the world of the wealthy with Bush. They never are worth much but own a great deal. But, the Middle Class needs to watch their budget. Right.

Melania Knauss picks Dior gown for wedding
By Samantha Critchell, AP Fashion Editor January 18, 2005
NEW YORK -- When Melania Knauss walks down the aisle to marry real estate mogul Donald Trump, she'll be wearing a sumptuous gown by Christian Dior.

http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2005/01/18/melania_knauss_picks_dior_gown_for_wedding/


Haaretz

Eight Israelis hurt in suicide blast at Gush Katif Junction
By Nir Hasson and Arnon Regular, Haaretz Correspondents, Haaretz Service and News Agencies
Eight Israelis were hurt when a suicide bomber struck Tuesday evening at the Gush Katif Junction in the Gaza Strip.

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/528761.html

Al Aqsa Brigades leader says group will halt attacks on Israel
By Reuters
In a boost to newly elected Palestine Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades leader in Jenin, Zachariya Zubeidi, said Tuesday that his militants would stop attacks in Israel.

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/528920.html

I TOLD YOU SO. What gives Condolessa Rice the authority to 'OVERSEE' anything when it comes to the well being of Israel. Where are the loan guarnatees Condi? She might try 'offering' her serves rather than INSISTING on oversight. This is the woman who 'sat' on the information regarding the attack by Osama bin Laden on the USA. Do I trust her with Israel? NO !! I am confident Prime Minister Sharon will walk softly but carry a very BIG stick "it to her."

Rice: I will personally oversee Israel-Palestinian contacts
By Nathan Guttman, Haaretz Correspondent, AP and Haaretz Service
Condoleezza Rice, who will likely replace Colin Powell as U.S. Secretary of State said Tuesday she plans to personally manage Israeli Palestinian contacts. Rice was speaking to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during a hearing meant to confirm her nomination.

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/528924.html

Body of sixth Israeli tsunami victim identified
By Jonathan Lis and Yoav Stern, Haaretz Correspondents
The body of an Israeli tourist who was killed in the Asian tsunami disaster was identified Tuesday as Aya Shapira, 27, of Ramat Hasharon.

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/528934.html

An eye for an eye
By Yoel Marcus
The prime minister's decision to give Abu Mazen the cold shoulder until the terror stops is perfectly justified. This is no trick or gimmick to get out of implementing the disengagement plan. Sharon actually prefers to have someone to talk to on the other side when the pullout goes through.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/528435.html

The national poet and the new generation
By Shiri Lev-Ari
Everyone in the copyright and new media department of ACUM, the Association of Composers, Authors and Publishers of Music in Israel, breathed a sigh of relief. The end of 2004 marked 70 years since the death of national poet Haim Nahman Bialik, and his work entered the public domain.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/527933.html

Racist legislation
In the summer of 2003, the Knesset promulgated a disgraceful law. The amendment to the Citizenship Law applied a sweeping prevention of unification of families and marriages between Israeli Arabs and Arabs from the region. Since the law was passed by the votes of 53 MKs - including Shinui - there has been a total halt to any requests by Israeli Arab citizens, including those who were already married and had children, to enable them to live in Israel with their relatives.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/528450.html

Tay-Sachs, the `Jewish disease,' almost eradicated
By Tamara Traubman
The genetic mutation disease Tay-Sachs, a fatal inherited disease of the central nervous system that mostly affects Ashkenazi Jews, has been almost completely eradicated, experts say, who claim that a genetic illness has become extinct for the first time.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/528417.html

The Seattle Post Intelligencer

Sex-ed bill takes an approach of all or nothing
By KYLE ARNOLD
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
OLYMPIA -- If schools want to talk about sex at all, a bill introduced yesterday may force them to teach everything, from abstinence to condom use.
The bill proposed by Rep. Shay Schual-Berke, D-Normandy Park, would standardize sex education guidelines in public schools across the state in hopes of giving students more complete knowledge.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/208336_sexed18.html

Ho -- oh ... Time for Santas to get back to their 'other' jobs
By KERY MURAKAMI
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
The trees are down, the ornaments carefully stored until next Christmas. With holiday distractions gone, the future for many seems like an endless damp, clammy slog through January, February and then March.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/208331_santa18.html

Look at affirmative action developments
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Significant developments in the nationwide debate over whether race should be considered in university admissions:

- 1978: U.S. Supreme Court strikes down racial quotas in the case of white student Allan Bakke, who sued the University of California after being rejected by the medical school. Court allows use of race as a "plus factor" when selecting students.

- 1995: University of California Board of Regents votes to end the use of race or gender in admissions, approving a resolution drafted by Regent Ward Connerly.

- 1996: California voters pass Proposition 209, a campaign chaired by Connerly, which prohibits considering race or gender in government hiring, contracting or education.

- 1996: The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a case involving the University of Texas law school, prohibits race-conscious admissions policies.

- 1997: Texas makes all students in the top 10 percent of their graduating class automatically eligible for admission to public university.

- 1999: UC regents approve a plan to admit top 4 percent of each high school graduating class.

- 1999: Florida eliminates use of race or gender in public hiring, contracting and university admissions and instead guarantees admission to high school graduates in the top 20 percent of their class.

- 2001: UC regents rescind 1995 vote banning race-based admissions - a merely symbolic move because of Proposition 209. UC also adopts "comprehensive review" admissions, which do not consider race but take into account poverty or other hardships.

- 2003: U.S. Supreme Court, in two cases from the University of Michigan's undergraduate program and law school, bans the use of rigid formulas that award points based on race. However, court permits colleges to consider race as part of a "holistic review" of every application.

- 2005: Connerly and others announce they believe they have enough signatures to put a proposed constitutional amendment banning race and gender-based preferences in university admissions and government hiring on the November 2006 ballot in Michigan.

Term is up for affirmative action foe
By MICHELLE LOCKE
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
BERKELEY, Calif. -- Ward Connerly - reviled as an Uncle Tom, hailed as a man of principle and unflinching courage - is moving on to another battlefield. Connerly's term as a member of the University of California Board of Regents is drawing to a close after 12 turbulent years in which he led the university, and then the state of California, to drop affirmative action.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=UC%20Affirmative%20Action

Training jet, plane collide over Okla.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
FREDERICK, Okla. -- An Air Force training jet and a crop-duster collided Tuesday plane over southwestern Oklahoma, killing the crop duster pilot, authorities said.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Aircraft%20Collision


Strong earthquake hits northern Japan
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
TOKYO -- A magnitude 6.3 earthquake hit the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido on Tuesday, shaking computers and desks in offices but causing no injuries or substantial damage.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Japan%20Earthquake

This thing about honoring Chinese dictators that were unkind to the people of China may not be a good idea regardless of the respect intended. China did not make a big fuss over Ziyang. If the Chinese government finds Ziyang offensive to think about maybe we all should and send letters of apology for honoring a dishonorable man. I mean this is a phenomena in the USA that is a bit enabling to disaster. I could never understand how a president like Nixon even got the 'honors' he did except to help the family cope. That's hideous. The family should have coped with the crimes he committed no differently than anyone else in this country. I believe the passing of Ziyang should be an example of what 'dishonor' is and how a society actually distains those that dishonor it. Nixon should have been impeached no different than Bush should be. And if this country isn't interested in leaders that offer dignity to the country than at least honor the countries that do. I apologize to China. The press in the USA didn't stop to realize their tribute would actually be a slap in the face. Sincerely, sorry.

China defends 1989 Zhao Ziyang deposition
By JOE MCDONALD
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

Chinese paramilitary officers march across Tiananmen Square where security appeared to have been increased in Beijing, China, Monday, Jan. 17, 2005. Zhao Ziyang, former Communist Party leader who helped launch China's economic boom but was ousted after sympathizing with the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protesters, died Monday in a Beijing hospital. Authorities are concerned his death may lead to protest from his sympathizers. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

BEIJING -- China on Tuesday defended its 1989 decision to depose former Communist Party leader Zhao Ziyang for sympathizing with the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protesters, indicating there were no plans to honor him in death.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=China%20Zhao%20Ziyang

U.S. sets penalties against Chinese firms
By TERENCE HUNT
AP WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT
WASHINGTON -- President Bush said Tuesday that the Chinese government heard the United States "loud and clear" after sanctions were imposed against eight Chinese companies for helping Iran with its missile programs.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apwashington_story.asp?category=1151&slug=US%20China%20Sanctions

India: Pakistan fires across Kashmir line
By NEELESH MISRA
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
NEW DELHI -- India accused Pakistani soldiers Tuesday of firing mortar shells across the dividing line in Kashmir in the first violation of a 14-month cease-fire between the South Asian nuclear-armed rivals.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=India%20Pakistan

HERE COMES more to the Bush Anti-Semitic mantra aimed at 'taming' Israel. This is too tempting to pass up.

You can quote me: "This administration is pathologic."

OUTPOSTS. Gee that word sounds familiar. "Outposts of tyranny." Gosh, Ariel I didn't know you were a tyrant, did you? This is how Bush's Bunch 'starts' their mantras of disaster. They first find 'the vocabulary' and then they follow it up with action. Israel is on Bush's agenda, that is why it's become 'Enemy Number One' everywhere except in Israel and every Jewish table in the USA. No word of a lie. Bush sees 'the holy land' as a Christian domain. Condi is a Neocon. She couldn't care less about Jews. I don't care what kind of words come out of that woman's mouth. It is nothing more than two-faced politics pandering to what is acceptable for aggression in the world.

The reason we are still in Iraq, as I firmly believe we are the problem in Iraq, is to protect not Iraq's interests but that of Bush's aspirations to further invade countries surrounding The Caspian Sea. The Caspian Sea has been a priority of this administration from the days of The Cheney Energy Committee.

One has to realize we are all 'waiting' for this administration to 'turn it's act around' but they aren't going to do anything but declare more and more their right to Pre-Emption. A country, perhaps Iran, perhaps Russia along with China needs to bring 'rein in' the USA. There are overatures that need to be recognized here as well as the ones that are being sounded regarding Bush's intent to turn from the Geneva Conventions. Any self respecting citizen who is not a White Christian needs to make plans other than living in the USA when the day comes that domestically Bush is not respecting the Geneva Accords. There is no reason for what is going on that negotiations and peace won't solve. I am not a 'dove' if I thought Iran or North Korea were a real threat if not provoked but Bush's 'Fly Trap of a Mouth' is provoking everyone and now there is espionage in Iran. That in and of itself is an invasion into sovereign lands and it is reason for Iran to seek allies and attack the USA where they stand in Iraq.

The entire International 'Situation' is a mess. It is the complete fault of Bush. When we should all be uniting to help the nations of the Indian Ocean Tsunami Bush is stamping his foot at Iran and attempting to dominate Israel in speeches made by Rice.

I don’t hold much hope for the USA in this situation anymore. The world needs protection from Bush and the sooner the matter is brought before the United Nations the better. In actuality, I expect Musharraf to be one of the first to register disgust and mistrust before anyone else.

Rice names 'Outposts of Tyranny'
By MARJORIE OLSTER
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
In an echo of President Bush's "axis of evil," Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday named Cuba, Myanmar, Belarus and Zimbabwe as "outposts of tyranny" requiring close U.S. attention.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apwashington_story.asp?category=1152&slug=Outposts%20of%20Tyranny

Sidling up to Democrats for Confirmation. No thank you. No trading domestic assault weapons ban for stupid interrogation orders and attacks against the Geneva Convention. With Condi's focus on Jews if the USA turns off the Geneva Conventions domestically every Hebrew in the country needs to head for the hills. These people are nothing but bigoted white supremists, nothing has changed my mind yet. Their minorities are figure heads that never 'trickle down' to profound civil rights at 'the user friendly' level.

Gonzales backs assault weapons ban
By JESSE J. HOLLAND
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
WASHINGTON -- Attorney General nominee Alberto Gonzales told the Senate on Tuesday that he supports extending the expired federal assault weapons ban.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apwashington_story.asp?category=1152&slug=Senate%20Gonzales

Car bomb explodes in Spain's Basque area
By ALBERTO LETONA
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
GETXO, Spain -- A car bomb exploded Tuesday near the main Basque city of Bilbao after a warning call purportedly from the armed separatist group ETA, and a policeman was slightly wounded, the Interior Ministry said.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apeurope_story.asp?category=1103&slug=Spain%20Bomb

This is no different than one sees with a dictator from time to time to maintain 'The Politics of Fear' and achieve control to his dictatorship.

Hitler relative believed gassed by Nazis
By SUSANNA LOOF
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
VIENNA, Austria -- One of the thousands of victims of the Nazi regime's program to kill mentally ill people was a relative of Adolf Hitler, two historians said Tuesday.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apeurope_story.asp?category=1103&slug=Hitler%27s%20Relative

Thousands turn out to bury Mandela's son
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Former President, Nelson Mandela, center, and his wife Graca Machel, attend his son, Makgatho Lewanika Mandela's funeral in Qunu, Eastern Cape, South Africa, Saturday, Jan. 15, 2005. Makgatho Mandela died of AIDS related complications. (AP Photo/Obed Zilwa)

QUNU, South Africa -- The grandson of Nelson Mandela heeded the former president's call for more openness about the AIDS epidemic on Saturday, revealing that his mother had died from the virus that also killed his father.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apafrica_story.asp?category=1105&slug=South%20Africa%20Mandela

IAEA has Iran site it'd like to check
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
VIENNA, Austria -- The U.N. nuclear watchdog agency is pushing for a fresh look at an Iranian military complex linked by the United States to possible atomic arms research just days after being granted limited access, diplomats said Tuesday.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apmideast_story.asp?category=1107&slug=Nuclear%20Agency%20Iran

Families gather at occupied Mexico prison
By GLORIA PEREZ
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

Relatives protest in front of the entrance of Mexico's troubled, top security prison La Palma just west of Mexico City on Saturday, Jan. 15, 2005. More than 750 troops and police officers took over the nation's top security prison on Friday after officials repeated warnings that two of hemisphere's most notorious alleged drug bosses had joined forces behind bars. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

ALMOLOYA DE JUAREZ, Mexico -- Hundreds of inmates' relatives gathered outside Mexico's top-security prison on Sunday as federal authorities announced plans to occupy the facility for at least another week.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/aplatin_story.asp?category=1102&slug=Mexico%20Prison%20Crackdown

Extortion on the rise in Colombia
By KIM HOUSEGO
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
BOGOTA, Colombia -- Believing that Colombia's violence had ebbed, Giovanni Colmenares and his family moved from the United States back to Colombia last year, opened a bar in Bogota and were looking to buy an apartment. But then one day assailants hustled him into a car and put a gun to his head.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/aplatin_story.asp?category=1102&slug=Colombia%20Extortion%20Epidemic

Forward

Right Mobilizes Against Gaza Pullout As Bush, Sharon Plan To Meet Abbas
Jewish Leaders Host Critics
By MARC PERELMAN
January 14, 2005
A revisionist study of Palestinian demographics — undermining the arguments for Prime Minister Sharon's Gaza disengagement plan —was given red carpet treatment this week at several American citadels of pro-Israel support, including two conservative think tanks and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.

http://www.forward.com/main/article.php?id=2542

Justice Comes to Neshoba County: Revisiting a Time of Hate in Mississippi
By CHARNEY V. BROMBERG
January 14, 2005
There were things that happened to me in Mississippi I never told my parents: the shotgun in my belly as I backed out of the Canton A&W Root Beer Stand, standing between that sorry old man and the black kids who had gone inside after an outing we had organized; the bullets that had zipped over my head only days after I arrived in the state; or the contract the Klan had on me in 1966, according to the FBI agent I went to see in Jackson after a week of shootings and cross burnings in Scott County.

http://www.forward.com/main/article.php?id=2557

Chicago Tribune

Hundreds lose heat service
By Nancy Ryan
Tribune staff reporter
Published January 18, 2005, 7:38 AM CST
As windchills plunged below zero, more than 800 homes on the city's Southwest Side lost natural gas service this morning after a valve tripped on a gas main, officials said.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-050118heatout,1,6912270.story?coll=chi-news-hed

RFK Jr. Eyeing Attorney General's Race
By MARC HUMBERT
Associated Press Writer
Published January 18, 2005, 8:14 AM CST
ALBANY, N.Y. -- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has talked to top state Democrats about a possible run for New York attorney general in what could turn into a race against his estranged brother-in-law -- Andrew Cuomo, according to people familiar with those conversations.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-kennedy-attorney-general,1,1986183.story?coll=chi-news-hed

The Miami Herald

Broward approves vote on slots
By ERIKA BOLSTAD
ebolstad@herald.com
Broward County voters will decide March 8 whether four parimutuels here will be allowed to add slot machines.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/10673041.htm

Governor: Cut taxes, medical help
BY GARY FINEOUT
gfineout@herald.com
TALLAHASSEE - Gov. Jeb Bush, who rode into the Capitol six years ago with a promise to make government smaller and a zeal for cutting taxes, reasserted his conservative side today, proposing a budget that calls for substantial tax cuts while eliminating programs intended to help working Floridians with massive medical bills stay out of poverty.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/10673388.htm

Whistleblower trial opens in Hollywood
By JERRY BERRIOS
jberrios@herald.com
Attorneys made their opening pitches this morning in the whistleblower lawsuit filed by former Hollywood Police Chief Richard Witt against the city.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/10673291.htm

State promises tomato aid
By JIM WYSS
jwyss@herald.com
Facing a dramatic drop in national tomato consumption that makes it cheaper for growers to let crops rot in the field rather than harvest them, Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles H. Bronson told South Miami-Dade farmers today he will launch a national campaign to persuade large retailers to drop prices and spur buying.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/10673124.htm

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Is this sanctioned by The United Nations or Will the USA 'Plant' The Necessary Proof?

Weapons of Mass Destruction Hunt moves to Iran

The Sydney Morning Herald

US troops enter Iran in hunt for WMDs: report
By Ian TraynorJanuary 18, 2005

US special forces have been on the ground inside Iran scouting for suspected nuclear weapons sites that could be destroyed with air strikes, the US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh says.

In the latest issue of The New Yorker, Hersh, who uncovered abuses against prisoners at Abu Ghraib jail last year, reports that Pakistan, under a deal with Washington, has been supplying information on Iranian military sites and on its nuclear program, enabling the US to conduct covert ground and air reconnaissance of Iranian targets.

Acting on information from Pakistani scientists knowledgeable about Iran's nuclear program, Hersh reported, US commandos had penetrated the country's east seeking to pinpoint underground installations suspected of being nuclear weapons sites.

Hersh told CNN on Sunday: "I think they really think there's a chance to do something in Iran, perhaps by summer, to get the intelligence on the sites.

"The last thing this government wants to do is to bomb or strafe, or missile attack, the wrong targets again. We don't want another WMD flap. We want to be sure we have the right information."

The New Yorker report said the US had been conducting secret reconnaissance over and inside Iran since the middle of last year with a view to identifying up to 40 possible targets for strikes should the dispute over Iran turn violent.

"This is a war against terrorism, and Iraq is just one campaign," Hersh quoted one former US intelligence official as saying. "The Bush Administration is looking at this as a huge war zone. Next we're going to have the Iranian campaign."

Another unnamed source described as a consultant close to the Pentagon said: "The civilians in the Pentagon want to go into Iran and destroy as much of the military infrastructure as possible."

That appeared to be a reference to noted neo-cons in Washington, such as the Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, and his deputy, Paul Wolfowitz.

Arguments about Iran's suspected nuclear program have raged for 20 months since it was revealed that it had been conducting nuclear activities for 18 years in violation of treaty obligations.

The International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna has had inspectors in the country throughout the period. While finding much that is suspect, the inspectors have not found any proof of a clandestine nuclear bomb program.

The agency head, Mohamed ElBaradei, has infuriated the US over his even-handed dealings with Iran, while the Europeans have been pursuing a parallel diplomatic track that has won grudging agreement from Tehran to freeze its uranium enrichment activities.

Hersh reported that the US campaign against Iran was being helped by Pakistan under a deal in which Islamabad provided information in return for reducing the pressure on Abdul Qadeer Khan, the disgraced metallurgist who is the father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb and who was revealed last year to be the head of the biggest international nuclear smuggling racket uncovered.

A White House aide, Dan Bartlett, said Hersh's report was "riddled with inaccuracies".

The Guardian