The New York Times
AGAIN? STILL?
A Violent Day in Baghdad Kills More Than 20
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: August 9, 2005
Filed at 3:42 p.m. ET
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- A suicide car bomber struck a U.S. convoy waiting at an intersection Tuesday in Baghdad, killing seven people -- including one American soldier -- and wounding more than 90. More than a dozen others died in scattered attacks across the capital.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Iraq.html?hp
Four in 9/11 Plot Are Called Tied to Qaeda in '00
By DOUGLAS JEHL
Published: August 9, 2005
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 - More than a year before the Sept. 11 attacks, a small, highly classified military intelligence unit identified Mohammed Atta and three other future hijackers as likely members of a cell of Al Qaeda operating in the United States, according to a former defense intelligence official and a Republican member of Congress.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/09/politics/09intel.html?hp&ex=1123646400&en=8cdd39c879100274&ei=5094&partner=homepage
Voracious Snakehead Fish Discovered in a Queens Lake
By ANTHONY DePALMA
Published: August 9, 2005
New York welcomes all, as the big green lady in the harbor says, no matter how poor, how tired, how hungry or how wretched. But Lady Liberty never mentioned anything about ugly, or freaky, or downright devilish, and even she might have a hard time getting at all gushy about some of the most recent immigrants to the city.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/09/nyregion/09snakeheads.html
Melanoma Is Epidemic. Or Is It?
By GINA KOLATA
Published: August 9, 2005
The nation is in the grip of what looks like a terrifying melanoma epidemic: melanoma is being diagnosed at more than double the rate it was in 1986, increasing faster than any other major cancer.
But why the numbers are increasing is a contentious subject, so touchy that one dermatologist called it "the third rail of dermatology."
Many dermatologists argue that melanoma, the most deadly of the skin cancers, is in fact becoming more common. And they recommend regular skin cancer screening as the best way to save lives. But some specialists say that what the numbers represent is not an epidemic of skin cancer but an epidemic of skin cancer screening, and a new study lends support to this view.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/09/health/09skin.html
The Sydney Morning Herald
Web pedophile caught flying to Australia
August 10, 2005
An American has been arrested in a police internet sting before flying to Australia to allegedly sexually abuse children.
In an explicit internet chat, Harold Lynn Winslow, 55, apparently believed he was talking to an Australian man who had been arrested for having sex with his grandchildren. Instead, he was talking to an undercover officer.
"I like the seven to 10s myself, and would really like to have a 10-year-old," Winslow allegedly said. A resident of Bradenton, Florida, he was taken into custody by US customs and immigration officials at Florida's Tampa International Airport on Saturday.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/web-pedophile-caught-flying-to-australia/2005/08/09/1123353318894.html
BUT, ISRAEL CAN'T SELL WAR TECHNOLOGY TO CHINA. I SEE.
Uranium deal leaves exporters aglow
By Cynthia Banham and Stephanie Peatling
August 10, 2005
Australia will start exporting uranium to China after the Federal Government announced yesterday it would begin negotiating a nuclear co-operation agreement with Beijing.
The announcement, by the Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer, came after months of sensitive negotiations and lobbying from China, which wants to expand its civilian nuclear program as a way to deal with its increasing energy needs and pollution problems.
Mr Downer said the nuclear agreement would contain safeguards to ensure the uranium was used "exclusively for peaceful purposes".
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/uranium-deal-leaves-exporters-aglow/2005/08/09/1123353318897.html
Bank robbers tunnelled their way to $89m haul
August 10, 2005
Sao Paulo: Police have launched a manhunt for the perpetrators of the biggest bank robbery in Brazil's history.
Brazil's central bank was robbed of 156 million reais ($89 million) by thieves who dug a tunnel under the bank's office in the north-eastern city of Fortaleza, police said.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/bank-robbers-tunnelled-their-way-to-89m-haul/2005/08/09/1123353318265.html
Willow headed for Big Apple
August 10, 2005
Kit Willow's describes One Thread range as organic, contemporary, tribal and feminine.
Melbourne fashion designer Kit Willow has been selected to showcase her One Thread range during New York Fashion Week next month.
Willow's clothing range will show at New York's Bryant Park during the week-long fashion festival, joining nine other up and coming designers and some of the industry's biggest names.
"This is a big honour and has made it possible for the label financially to show at one of the world's major fashion weeks," Willow said today.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/fashion/willow-headed-for-big-apple/2005/08/09/1123353311931.html
Willow
Willow's diaphanous lingerie has been replaced by sexy suiting and sheer, pleated party dresses.
Click on a thumbnail image to enlarge it
http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/2005/05/04/1115092564719.html
US nears deal to send Guantanamo detainees home
By Robin Wright and Josh White in Washington
August 10, 2005
The United States is nearing agreement with 10 Muslim governments to return their citizens held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in an effort to quicken the pace of transfers and increase the role of countries whose nationals are alleged terrorists.
Washington hoped to conclude the agreements within the next two months, a senior State Department official said.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/us-nears-deal-to-send-guantanamo-detainees-home/2005/08/09/1123353318235.html
9/11 hijackers watched a year earlier
August 10, 2005 - 5:49AM
September 11 ringleader Mohammed Atta and three other hijackers were identified by US defence intelligence officials more than a year before the attacks but information about their possible connections to al-Qaeda were never forwarded to law enforcement, a US congressman says.
Curt Weldon, vice chairman of the House Armed Services and Homeland Security committees, said the hijackers were identified in September of 2000 by a classified military intelligence unit known as Able Danger, which determined they could be members of an al-Qaeda cell.
At the time, Weldon said, the unit recommended that its information on the hijackers be given to the FBI "so they could bring that cell in and take out the terrorists," Weldon said in an interview.
Defence Department lawyers rejected the recommendation because they said Atta and the others were in the United States legally, he said.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/911-hijackers-watched-a-year-earlier/2005/08/10/1123353344186.html
Micheal Moore Today
Of the Many Deaths in Iraq, One Mother's Loss Becomes a Problem for the President
By Richard W. Stevenson / New York Times
CRAWFORD, Tex., Aug. 7 - President Bush draws antiwar protesters just about wherever he goes, but few generate the kind of attention that Cindy Sheehan has since she drove down the winding road toward his ranch here this weekend and sought to tell him face to face that he must pull all Americans troops out of Iraq now.
Ms. Sheehan's son, Casey, was killed last year in Iraq, after which she became an antiwar activist. She says she and her family met with the president two months later at Fort Lewis in Washington State.
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Mom of Slain Soldier Stages Bush Protest
By Deb Reichmann / Associated Press
CRAWFORD, Texas - The angry mother of a fallen U.S. soldier staged a protest near President Bush's ranch on Saturday, demanding an accounting from the president of how he has conducted the war in Iraq.
Supported by more than 50 shouting demonstrators, Cindy Sheehan, 48, told reporters, "I want to ask George Bush: Why did my son die?"
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3585
Mom Protesting Iraq War Meets Bush Aides
By Deb Riechmann / Associated Press
CRAWFORD, Texas - The angry mother of a fallen U.S. soldier staged a protest near President Bush's ranch Saturday, demanding an accounting from Bush of how he has conducted the war in Iraq.
Supported by more than 50 demonstrators who chanted, "W. killed her son!" Cindy Sheehan told reporters: "I want to ask the president, 'Why did you kill my son? What did my son die for?'" Sheehan, 48, didn't get to see Bush, but did talk about 45 minutes with national security adviser Steve Hadley and deputy White House chief of staff Joe Hagin, who went out to hear her concerns.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3588
Soldier's mom digs in near Bush ranch
Senator sees 'echoes of Vietnam' in vigil to meet president
CRAWFORD, Texas (CNN) -- A mother whose son was killed in Iraq says she is prepared to continue her protest outside President Bush's ranch through August until she is granted an opportunity to speak with him.
Later, in a TV interview, a Democratic senator from California said the episode evokes images that were commonplace during the Vietnam War.
Cindy Sheehan's 24-year-old son -- Army Spc. Casey Sheehan of Vacaville, California -- was killed in Baghdad's Sadr City on April 4, 2004. The Humvee mechanic was one of eight U.S. soldiers killed there that day by rocket-propelled grenades and small arms fire.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3589
UPDATES ON CINDY SHEEHAN VISIT TO CRAWFORD
Saturday, Aug. 6, 2005
Photos of the Aug. 6 activities are at the bottom of this page, plus a message from Cindy Sheehan to George W. Bush.
The Lone Star Iconoclast is covering Saturday's journey to Crawford by several groups, including Veterans For Peace, Military Families Speak Out, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Code Pink, Crawford Peace House, and others.
Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq last year, is seeking a meeting with President Bush, who is vacationing in Crawford, to have some of her questions answered about the war. Several busloads of interested individuals are expected in Crawford to support her cause. Sheehan has said that she is willing to camp out in Crawford until she gets to meet with the President.
Iconoclast reporter Nathan Diebenow is on the scene and will be dispatching reports during the day. As they come in they will be reported here:
http://www.iconoclast-texas.com/News/2005/31-40/31news02.htm
War Plans Drafted To Counter Terror Attacks in U.S.
Domestic Effort Is Big Shift for Military
By Bradley Graham / Washington Post
COLORADO SPRINGS -- The U.S. military has devised its first-ever war plans for guarding against and responding to terrorist attacks in the United States, envisioning 15 potential crisis scenarios and anticipating several simultaneous strikes around the country, according to officers who drafted the plans.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3601
UK says Saudi attacks in 'final stages' of planning
RIYADH (Reuters) - Britain warned on Monday that militants were in the final stages of planning attacks in Saudi Arabia as Washington shut its missions there for two days and Australia told its citizens to avoid travel to the kingdom.
Saudi Arabia, battling a two-year campaign of violence by supporters of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, said it had no solid information of any imminent attack in the oil giant.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3599
Leak Investigation: An Oversight Issue?
Newsweek
Aug. 15, 2005 issue - The departure this week of Deputy Attorney General James Comey, who has accepted the post of general counsel at Lockheed Martin, leaves a question mark in the probe into who leaked the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame. Comey was the only official overseeing special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald's leak investigation. With Attorney General Alberto Gonzales recused, department officials say they are still trying to resolve whom Fitzgerald will now report to. Associate Attorney General Robert McCallum is "likely" to be named as acting deputy A.G., a DOJ official who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the matter tells NEWSWEEK. But McCallum may be seen as having his own conflicts: he is an old friend of President Bush's and a member of his Skull and Bones class at Yale. One question: how much authority Comey's successor will have over Fitzgerald. When Comey appointed Fitzgerald in 2003, the deputy granted him extraordinary powers to act however he saw fit—but noted he still had the right to revoke Fitzgerald's authority. The questions are pertinent because law-yers close to the case believe the probe is in its final stages. Fitzgerald recently called White House aide Karl Rove's secretary and his former top aide to testify before the grand jury. They were asked why there was no record of a phone call from Time reporter Matt Cooper, with whom Rove discussed the CIA agent, says a source close to Rove who requested anonymity because the FBI asked participants not to comment. The source says the call went through the White House switchboard, not directly to Rove.
—Michael Isikoff
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The Meeting
Scooter Libby and Judy Miller met on July 8, 2003, two days after Joe Wilson published his column. And Patrick Fitzgerald is very interested.
By Murray Waas / American Prospect
I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, has told federal investigators that he met with New York Times reporter Judith Miller on July 8, 2003, and discussed CIA operative Valerie Plame, according to legal sources familiar with Libby's account.
The meeting between Libby and Miller has been a central focus of the investigation by special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald as to whether any Bush administration official broke the law by unmasking Plame's identity or relied on classified information to discredit former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, according to sources close to the case as well as documents filed in federal court by Fitzgerald.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3595
The New York Post
WAR OF THE ROSES
August 9, 2005 -- ALBANY - Setting up a historic, all-female face-off for the U.S. Senate, Westchester District Attorney Jeanine Pirro yesterday declared she'll seek to unseat Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Republican Pirro made the precedent-shattering announcement of her candidacy for the GOP nomination yesterday - and wasted no time in going after Clinton.
She accused the former first lady of using New Yorkers as "her doormat" as Clinton tries to return to the White House, by refusing to commit to serving a full term — and not run for president in 2008 — if re-elected next year.
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/51543.htm
PIRRO'S CHALLENGE
August 9, 2005 -- Hillary Clinton's got a race on her hands — but not one she's likely to lose sleep over.
Westchester District Attorney Jeanine Pirro announced yesterday that she's running for Clinton's Senate seat next year.
We wish her luck. (She'll need it.)
Pirro joins two other Republicans — attorney Ed Cox, son-in-law of the late President Richard Nixon, and former Yonkers Mayor John Spencer — who already have formed exploratory committees for what will be (for all of them) an uphill race.
At the outset, Pirro makes an important point: Clinton has her eyes set on the White House in 2008. If she retains her seat next year, she's likely to give short shrift to that job while campaigning for president the following two years.
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/editorial/51484.htm
Mayor slams Pirro over Riverkeeper funds
Westchester District Attorney Jeanine Pirro & Buchanan Mayor Dan O'Neill
by Martin Wilbur
Buchanan Mayor Dan O'Neill has sharply criticized Westchester District Attorney Jeanine Pirro for permitting a Riverkeeper-sponsored program to receive money from a Peekskill manufacturing plant that pleaded guilty to environmental infractions.
O'Neill fired off a June 30 letter to Pirro chastising her judgment in agreeing to permit the Englehard Corporation, a pigment-manufacturing facility off of Welcher Avenue, to pay an undisclosed sum to the Riverkeeper-Hollowbrook Conservation Program.
In its guilty pleas, the Englehard Corporation pledged to spend $4.2 million to upgrade the plant. It was sentenced to two $10,000 fines as well.
The corporation is also required to complete community service. A stipulation of that community service is to allocate funds to the Hollowbrook Water Watch, a conservation organization to protect the Hollowbrook Watershed, which includes Peekskill, Putnam Valley, Cortlandt and Yorktown.
http://www.northcountynews.com/archives_2004/7-14-04/news4.htm
WPCNR MAIN STREET JOURNAL.
By John F. Bailey.
November 13, 2003
An orderly, quiet, relentless squad of supporters of convicted New York Transit Police officer Richard Diguglielmo, currently in prison in the seventh year of a 20-year to life term for the killing of Charles Campbell in the parking lot of his father’s deli, picketed District Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s private book-signing party for her law enforcement colleagues at Vintage on Main Street in White Plains Wednesday evening.
One of the sign-carriers was Rosemarie Diguglielmo, the former police officer’s mother, who said her group was continuing to picket Mrs. Pirro’s book publicity stops because the District Attorney's book, To Punish and Protect, (that many of her employees inside were purchasing),
distorts the circumstances of the shooting. It was the third such Pirro publicity tour that the “PirroBusters” have picketed.
http://www.truthinjustice.org/Diguglielmo.htm
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