Despair. Don't you all recognize a miliary force in disarray? Fallujah was a failure. It destroyed a city, caused the withdrawal of Sunnis from the political arena in Iraq and then the USA military realized the people returning to Fallujah could easily be the people they wanted to defeat. There is 380 tonnes of high grade explosives on loose on Earth now. That is a direct result of Bush's Blundering. Enough of stupidity. Bring them home. Their purpose is too confused to continue.
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Darfur: Never again?
As the world prepares to commemorate Holocaust Day, crimes against humanity are still being committed in Darfur while diplomats bicker
By Anne Penketh / Independent
The attackers, as they have done so often, rampaged through terrified people, shouting "kill the slaves". They cried: "We have orders to kill all the blacks". Eight more villages in Darfur were torched in a single day by armed men in a concerted operation. No one knows how many were killed, but it is the latest evidence that inaction by the international community has emboldened the Janjaweed Arab militias and their backers in the Islamist government in Khartoum.
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("I can't believe the Republicans are campaigning against legislators elected by the people of this country.")
RNC Seeks Donations to Push Bush Agenda
"Past the Liberal Media Filter"
RNC Seeks Donations to Push Bush Agenda
By Sharon Theimer / Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The Republican Party is following up record fund raising for President Bush's re-election effort by asking donors to finance its efforts to get Bush's message "past the liberal media filter" to the public.
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"But all our Cabinet secretaries must realize that we will not be paying, you know, commentators to advance our agenda. Our agenda ought to be able to stand on its own two feet," Bush said.
Bush Says Won't Pay Commentators to Promote Agenda
By Adam Entous / Reuters
WASHINGTON - President Bush on Wednesday ordered his Cabinet secretaries not to pay media commentators to promote his legislative agenda, saying payments by the Education Department were improper and new leadership was now in place.
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Oil firms fund campaign to deny climate change
By David Adam / Guardian
Lobby groups funded by the US oil industry are targeting Britain in a bid to play down the threat of climate change and derail action to cut greenhouse gas emissions, leading scientists have warned.
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Blair Calls on U.S. to Take Climate Change Seriously
By Sean Maguire / Reuters
DAVOS, Switzerland - The United States, realizing it cannot defeat global threats like terrorism alone, must cooperate to fight other planetary challenges like climate change, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Wednesday.
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Appeals Court to Revisit Cheney Lawsuit
By Sam Hananel / Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The legal fight over access to the records of Vice President Dick Cheney's 2001 energy task force is back before a federal appeals court, seven months after the Supreme Court sidestepped the issue.
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Rumsfeld's Top Policy Adviser to Quit
By Robert Burns / Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's top policy adviser said Wednesday he has informed Rumsfeld that he will leave his Pentagon position sometime this summer.
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The Washington Post
Civil Service System on Way Out at DHS
White House Wants All Agencies to Have Option of Setting Own Personnel Policies
By Christopher Lee
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, January 27, 2005; Page A01
The Bush administration unveiled a new personnel system for the Department of Homeland Security yesterday that will dramatically change the way workers are paid, promoted, deployed and disciplined -- and soon the White House will ask Congress to grant all federal agencies similar authority to rewrite civil service rules governing their employees.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39934-2005Jan26.html
Bush Describes 'Ending Tyranny' As Ideal, Not Shift
By Peter Baker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, January 27, 2005; Page A01
President Bush yesterday characterized his Inauguration Day goal of "ending tyranny in our world" as a long-term ideal rather than a new policy redefining U.S. relations with repressive governments, as he ratcheted back expectations of a more muscular approach to spreading freedom abroad.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37761-2005Jan26.html
Iraqi Sheik Struggles for Votes, And Against Religious Tradition
By Anthony Shadid
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, January 27, 2005; Page A01
YUSUFAN, Iraq -- In the tribal meeting hall known as a diwan, on the edge of a forest of irrigated date palms in southern Iraq, Sheik Adnan Aidani grasped a stack of leaflets touting his underdog campaign. He had printed 2,000 of them. On any day, he extols the virtues of voting for him to dozens of skeptical followers, as they sip tea under portraits of his ancestors who led the tribe. His six sons said they corral anyone they meet. Their plea: Choose our father's list.
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THIS IS BLOWN OUT OF PROPORTION - Lasers are light. I am confident cockpit pilots can be fit with reflective eyewear to prevent laser blindness. I mean when I am on an icefield or snow field I have 'Category 4 Polarized' eyewear to prevent 'white blindness,' there isn't anything of that nature or better to bounce laser light off eyeglasses or cockpit windshield. Come on, who is kidding who here? NASA !!!
Laser Pointer Abuse Threatens Air Safety
By David A. Fahrenthold and Timothy Dwyer
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, January 27, 2005; Page A01
To astronomers, the new breed of hand-held laser pointer is a way to write in the sky, its two-mile-long beam allowing them to trace constellations and point out individual stars. To a lost hiker, the laser is a lifeline to a search and rescue team overhead. To a "Star Wars" fan, it is a prop for playing a lightsaber-wielding Jedi knight.
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11 Iraqis, One Marine Killed in Pre-Election Violence
By Sameer N. Yacoub
Associated Press Writer
Thursday, January 27, 2005; 6:40 AM
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Eleven Iraqis and one U.S. Marine were killed Thursday as insurgents clashed with U.S. troops and blew up a school slated to serve as a polling center. The pre-election violence followed the deadliest day for U.S. troops since the war's start. Another U.S. soldier died in an accident.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40777-2005Jan27.html
30 Marines, Sailor Die In Copter Crash in Iraq
Six Other Troops Killed in Deadliest Day for U.S.
By Cameron W. Barr and Karl Vick
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, January 27, 2005; Page A01
BAGHDAD, Jan. 26 -- A Marine Corps transport helicopter crashed during a sandstorm in western Iraq early Wednesday, killing 30 Marines and a sailor in the deadliest single event for U.S. forces since they invaded Iraq nearly two years ago. Four more Marines and two soldiers died in attacks, bringing to 37 the U.S. toll for the day.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36938-2005Jan26.html
In Hawaii, Time to Grieve Yet Again
Crash in Iraq Is Latest Setback for Military Town
By Josh White
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, January 27, 2005; Page A12
The helicopter crash in the western Iraqi desert yesterday was the deadliest single event in the Iraq war for U.S. troops, and officials said it dealt a particularly hard blow to a small military community in Hawaii, which had already seen 18 Marines die in Iraq since late October.
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The Gulf News
UN is finally asserting itself
Although it is early days yet, this could well turn out to be the year of the UN. Not generally known for standing up to American pressure, and sometimes, even outright bullying, the United Nations has been giving some encouraging signs of asserting itself. One of the clearest of these came last October in Secretary-General Kofi Annan's statement that the United States had invaded Iraq in the absence of a second Security Council resolution.
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State of the Union speech will hint at Bush agenda
By George S. Hishmeh, Special to Gulf News
United States President George W. Bush was denied smooth sailing on the otherwise festive Inauguration Day last Thursday. This was because his trusted aide, Condoleezza Rice, was not quickly confirmed, as was expected, as the country's 66th Secretary of State.
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Sudanese air force bombs people in Darfur
AP
Cairo: The Sudanese air force bombed villagers in South Darfur yesterday, the African Union reported. An international aid organization said casualties were inflicted.
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US wants Syria's support
Reuters
Cairo: Washington wants Syria and others in the Middle East to support peace moves between Palestinians and Israelis, which would help move the region closer to a comprehensive deal, US envoy William Burns said yesterday.
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Extremists held in Oman sweep, say diplomats
AP
Muscat: Omani authorities have arrested more than 100 suspected extremists across the country following unconfirmed reports they were planning to target a shopping and cultural festival, diplomats said yesterday.
http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=149449
"THIS IS A REALITY CHECK. I Think he's right to point a finger at the USA. We are the aggressors. Pre-emption is a lie to freedom and democracy. There can be no freedom, peace or democracy with occupying Pre-Emptive war. Bush is a liar."
Khatami says US tops list of countries that are endangering world peace
Reuters
Tehran: President Mohammad Khatami, responding to comments by a senior US official that Iran tops the list of world trouble spots, said yesterday that the United States was the country which most endangered global peace.
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Fear of militants and attacks mar poll hopes for women
Reuters
Baghdad: Doctor Samira stopped driving her car to the clinic months ago.
Each time she steps onto the streets of Baghdad to see patients, she covers her hair with a scarf to avoid abuse or even violence.
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Kuwaiti mosques free of extremists, says minister
By Nirmala Janssen, Correspondent
Kuwait City: Kuwait's Minister of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs has lambasted extremism as an imported phenomenon and said religious fundamentalism has no place in country's moderate society.
http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=149465
Palestinian forces to take over five West Bank cities
Agencies
Ramallah, West Bank/Gaza: Palestinian security forces will take over control in five towns and cities in the West Bank from the Israeli army within the next 10 days, a senior Palestinian security official said yesterday.
http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=149474
Qatar study warns against marriage among cousins
By Barbara Bibbo', Correspondent
Doha: Children whose parents are cousins are more likely to suffer from asthma, diabetes and other severe diseases, a study has found. More than half of all marriages among Qataris are between cousins.
http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=149466
Yemen trial set for 14 Al Qaida suspects
Reuters
Sanaa: A Yemeni court is to hear a case next month involving 14 Al Qaida suspects accused of involvement in attacks in the Arab country, a government party website said.
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