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Today’s Tornadoes
Tornadoes Kill 1 in Iowa College Town
Staff and agencies14 April, 2006
By TODD DVORAK and JOE NUGENT, s 16 minutes ago
IOWA CITY, Iowa - Tornadoes tore across a university campus overnight, ripping walls off a church and sorority house, crushing houses and cars, and killing a woman in a mobile home southeast of town.
"There was debris flying everywhere inside the house," Fortman told ABC‘s "Good Morning America" Friday. "I couldn‘t go down stairs because there was debris and glass flying up the stairs, so I just hid in a telephone booth we have in our house and I just hid there crying."
The twisters swept across eastern Iowa, with the worst damage in a path from Iowa City southeast through the small town of Nichols, about 20 miles away, the National Weather Service said.
He said the tornado hits farms, knocked a tractor-trailer off a road, then hit the mobile home with a man and woman inside.
http://www.localnewsleader.com/olberlin/stories/index.php?action=fullnews&id=176011
One dead after tornadoes rip eastern Iowa
IOWA CITY --- Severe storms ripped through eastern Iowa Thursday, spawning tornadoes that killed one person, crushed homes and cars and left thousands of people without power.The fatality occurred in Muscatine County, where a tornado destroyed a mobile home."We have a path in the Nichols area that four to five miles long," said Maj. Dave White of the Muscatine County sheriff's office.The tornado hit south of town, damaging a farm and knocking a semi off the road, White said. A man and woman were in the mobile home, and the woman was killed.
http://www.wcfcourier.com/articles/2006/04/14/news/top_story/doc443fca50e4679475850099.txt
'It was wicked': Storm clean-up under way in Iowa City
'Whole buildings are missing,' a witness says
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Iowa City, Ia. — The tornado on Thursday that ripped through the heart of Iowa City, where thousands of people live and work, was wider and stronger than many storms, yet caused few injuries, authorities said today. "We feel very fortunate that we made it through this storm with only very minor injuries," said Steve Parrott, spokesman for the University of Iowa.
http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060414/NEWS08/604140396/1001/galleries
National Weather Service Says Iowa City Twister Likely F2
Agency Says Up To Six Tornadoes Hit Johnson County
DES MOINES, Iowa -- Officials now have an idea about the destruction left by Thursday night's storms that triggered several tornadoes in eastern Iowa.
Surveys by the National Weather Service said that up to six tornadoes hit Johnson County on Thursday night.
Donna Dubberke of the National Weather Service said the tornado that hit Iowa City was an F2, with winds estimated at 150 mph. She said it originated on the southwest side of the city and cut a straight path to the northeast that was about three and a half miles long and one-third of a mile wide.
http://www.kcci.com/news/8701016/detail.html
LA Times
Appeals Court Slaps L.A. Over Arrests of Homeless
By Henry Weinstein and Cara DiMassa, Times Staff Writers12:32 PM PDT, April 14, 2006
Los Angeles' policy of arresting homeless people for sitting, lying or sleeping on public sidewalks as "an unavoidable consequence of being human and homeless without shelter" violates the constitutional prohibition against cruel and punishment, a federal appeals court ruled today.The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, decided in favor of six homeless persons, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California. The suit challenged the city's practice of arresting persons for violating a municipal ordinance, which states that "no person shall sit, lie or sleep in or upon any street, sidewalk or public way."
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-041406sidewalk_lat,0,1735011.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Delta, Pilots Reach Tentative Deal to Avert Strike
From Associated Press7:03 AM PDT, April 14, 2006
ATLANTA -- Delta Air Lines Inc. and its pilots union have reached a tentative agreement on pay and benefit cuts that could avert a strike, according to a memo today from the union to its pilots.No details of the agreement were released. The deal would be subject to ratification by the airline's 5,930 pilots.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-041406delta_wr,0,3730828.story?coll=la-home-business
State's Olive Oil Tasters Flunk Test of Distinction
Stripped of authority to certify grades such as extra virgin, an industry panel weighs its future.
By Jerry Hirsch, Times Staff WriterApril 14, 2006
California's olive oil police have been pulled over.An industry panel that for five years has certified the quality of California's olive oil — discerning virgin from extra virgin oil — has flunked an international taste test.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-olive14apr14,0,4104572.story?coll=la-home-business
Chad Forces Repel 2nd Coup Bid in a Month
The attack bolsters fears that the government is being undermined by the civil war in Sudan.
From the Associated Press
April 14, 2006
Government forces used attack helicopters, tanks and heavy weapons Thursday to repel rebels who had charged 600 miles in pickup trucks from the Sudanese border to reach the capital of this volatile nation in the center of Africa. Four tanks guarded the presidential palace Thursday night. Reporters saw 13 bodies in the streets, and residents reported many more. Gen. Mahamet Ali Abdullah, speaking on state-run radio, said that government forces had killed hundreds of rebels.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-chad14apr14,0,1818032.story?coll=la-home-world
Sunnis Allege More Deaths, Abductions
Leaders say nearly 90 people were kidnapped or slain, apparently by forces linked to police.
By Borzou Daragahi, Times Staff WriterApril 14, 2006
BAGHDAD — Sunni Arab political leaders said Thursday that nearly 90 Sunnis had been reported abducted or killed over the last two days by groups with possible ties to Iraq's Shiite Muslim-led Interior Ministry forces. In one incident, 25 men just released from detention allegedly were whisked away by gunmen in sport utility vehicles. The Sunni leaders also said the bodies of 20 people abducted April 4 by security forces had been found in Baghdad.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-prisoners14apr14,0,2134306.story?coll=la-home-world
Dozens of Iraqi Police Feared Dead in Ambush
By Borzou Daragahi, Times Staff Writer8:27 AM PDT, April 14, 2006
BAGHDAD -- Dozens of Iraqi police officers were missing and feared dead today following an audacious, multi-pronged ambush of a motor vehicle convoy the previous night.Also, Friday prayer leaders turned up the heat on political leaders struggling to form a government amid ongoing violence nearly four months after Dec. 15 elections.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-041406iraq_lat,0,4250917.story?coll=la-home-world
Marines Suffer 2 Dead, 22 Wounded in Iraq
By VANESSA ARRINGTON, Associated Press Writer4:06 PM PDT, April 14, 2006
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Two U.S. Marines were killed and 22 wounded -- two of them critically -- in fighting in western Iraq, the U.S. military said Saturday. It was the biggest number of American casualties reported from a single engagement in weeks. A U.S. statement said the casualties were suffered Thursday as a result of "enemy action" in Anbar province but gave no specific location or details of the fighting.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/ats-ap_top10apr14,0,4905181.story
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Resignation Building
What Rumsfeld knew
Interviews with high-ranking military officials shed new light on the role Rumsfeld played in the harsh treatment of a Guantánamo detainee.
By Michael Scherer and Mark Benjamin / Salon
April 14, 2006 Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was personally involved in the late 2002 interrogation of a high-value al-Qaida detainee known in intelligence circles as "the 20th hijacker." He also communicated weekly with the man in charge of the interrogation, Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, the controversial commander of the Guantánamo Bay detention center.
During the same period, detainee Mohammed al-Kahtani suffered from what Army investigators have called "degrading and abusive" treatment by soldiers who were following the interrogation plan Rumsfeld had approved. Kahtani was forced to stand naked in front of a female interrogator, was accused of being a homosexual, and was forced to wear women's underwear and to perform "dog tricks" on a leash. He received 18-to-20-hour interrogations during 48 of 54 days.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=6533
"My belief is Rumsfeld does not really understand the dynamic of counterinsurgency warfare."-- Maj. Gen. Charles H. Swannack Jr.
More Retired Generals Call for Rumsfeld's Resignation
By David S. Cloud and Eric Schmitt / New York Times
WASHINGTON, April 13 — The widening circle of retired generals who have stepped forward to call for Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's resignation is shaping up as an unusual outcry that could pose a significant challenge to Mr. Rumsfeld's leadership, current and former generals said on Thursday.
Maj. Gen. Charles H. Swannack Jr., who led troops on the ground in Iraq as recently as 2004 as the commander of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division, on Thursday became the fifth retired senior general in recent days to call publicly for Mr. Rumsfeld's ouster. Also Thursday, another retired Army general, Maj. Gen. John Riggs, joined in the fray.
"We need to continue to fight the global war on terror and keep it off our shores," General Swannack said in a telephone interview. "But I do not believe Secretary Rumsfeld is the right person to fight that war based on his absolute failures in managing the war against Saddam in Iraq."
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=6524
Retired general: ‘Uplifting’ if Rumsfeld removed
Six former senior officers have publicly called for change due to Iraq
NBC News
WASHINGTON - A retired Army general on Friday continued the volleys of criticism against Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his handling of the Iraq war, telling NBC News that “a fresh start in the Department of Defense ... would be incredibly uplifting” for the armed forces.
Retired Maj. Gen. John Batiste, who commanded the 1st Infantry Division in Iraq until last November, appeared on NBC’s “Today” show to reiterate criticisms he leveled earlier this week.
Batiste said Rumsfeld had “failed to build the peace” in Iraq, and criticized “a leadership style which is intimidating, abusive. There was not a two-way street of respect.”
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=6525
Retired general: ‘Uplifting’ if Rumsfeld removed
Six former senior officers have publicly called for change due to Iraq
NBC News
WASHINGTON - A retired Army general on Friday continued the volleys of criticism against Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his handling of the Iraq war, telling NBC News that “a fresh start in the Department of Defense ... would be incredibly uplifting” for the armed forces.
Retired Maj. Gen. John Batiste, who commanded the 1st Infantry Division in Iraq until last November, appeared on NBC’s “Today” show to reiterate criticisms he leveled earlier this week.
Batiste said Rumsfeld had “failed to build the peace” in Iraq, and criticized “a leadership style which is intimidating, abusive. There was not a two-way street of respect.”
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=6525
"This is a very significant vote of no confidence..."
Ex-General: Rumsfeld Deserves Criticism
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Retired Maj. Gen. John Batiste, one of several high-ranking military men urging the ouster of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, said Friday there is no coordinated effort to get him fired, calling a recent series of critical statements "absolutely coincidental."
"I have not talked to the other generals," Batiste, interviewed from Rochester, N.Y., said on NBC"s "Today" show. Nevertheless, he said he thinks the clamor for Rumsfeld to step down is "happening for a reason."
Batiste, who commanded the 1st Infantry Division forces in Iraq, said he declined an opportunity to get a promotion to the rank of lieutenant general and return to the wartorn country as the No. 2 U.S. military officer because he could not accept Rumsfeld's tough management style.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=6526
President Bush Expresses Full Support, Appreciation for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
Earlier today I spoke with Don Rumsfeld about ongoing military operations in the Global War on Terror. I reiterated my strong support for his leadership during this historic and challenging time for our Nation.
I reiterated my strong support for his leadership during this historic and challenging time for our Nation.
The Department of Defense has been tasked with many difficult missions. Upon assuming office, I asked Don to transform the largest department in our government. That kind of change is hard, but our Nation must have a military that is fully prepared to confront the dangerous threats of the 21st Century. Don and our military commanders have also been tasked to take the fight to the enemy abroad on multiple fronts.
I have seen first-hand how Don relies upon our military commanders in the field and at the Pentagon to make decisions about how best to complete these missions. Secretary Rumsfeld's energetic and steady leadership is exactly what is needed at this critical period. He has my full support and deepest appreciation.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/04/20060414.html
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Camp Casey Easter
Once again the President will be home for the holidays. We as Gold Star Families for Peace have had our holidays forever tarnished by George Bush's' reckless policy of occupying Iraq. We will be returning to Camp Casey for our Easter holiday and we invite you to join us. Everyone is welcomed.
It is important that we let George Bush know that his war and policies are unacceptable. Because of his free speech zones this is about as close as anyone who disagrees with him can get. Imagine thousands of us at his backdoor showing him the error of his ways.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/mustread/index.php?id=621
Easter in Crawford
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Despite the announcement that President Bush is NOT planning to take his usual Easter vacation at his ranch, peace activists from around the country, including Cindy Sheehan and other Gold Star Families for Peace, will return to Camp Casey for four days of rallies, performances, teach-ins and more. Also at the heart of this event: Vets for Peace, Military Families Speak Out, Code Pink and more.
We welcome all who would like to join us for these days of action, as the calls to stop the war and the Bush policies of torture, secrecy, and lies, are directed at the Western White House.
Mark your calendars, buy your tickets, plan your route, but find your way to Crawford for the Spring excitement, April 13 - 16. The March to Redeem the Soul of America will provide a lead in to the Crawford events, starting in Dallas on April 1 and arriving in Crawford on the 14th.
http://crawfordpeace.nfshost.com/easter
Dr. Lowery, Dean of Civil Rights Movement, to give Easter sermon at Camp Casey in Crawford
April 6, 2006
For Immediate Release
Dr. Lowery, Dean of Civil Rights Movement, to give Easter sermon at Camp Casey in Crawford
Reverend Dr. Joseph E. Lowery will deliver the Easter Sunday service at Camp Casey to a diverse group of attendees, including veterans, consumer, peace and civil rights advocates. Following the Easter morning worship, Dr. Lowery will officiate at the Third Anniversary Celebration and Prayer Service of the Crawford Peace House on April 16, 2006, at 1:00 PM in the Garden at 9142 East 5th Street , (Highway 185) Crawford, TX. All are invited. For more information visit the web site www.crawfordpeacehouse.org or call 254-486-0099.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/mustread/index.php?id=625
Iraq speeches have done little to buoy war support
By Richard Benedetto / USA Today
WASHINGTON — Like a man on a treadmill, President Bush has gotten almost nowhere making speeches over the past seven months to boost public support for the war in Iraq. Since Bush began a round of Iraq speeches last fall, approval for his handling of Iraq has remained stuck, with about a third of the nation approving what he's doing.
Shortly before the speeches began in late September, 32% of Americans approved of Bush's handling of Iraq, according to a Sept. 16-18 USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll.
The rating inched up as high as 39% in the ensuing months, but the latest poll, taken April 7-9, showed that approval had dropped back to 32%.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=6530
U.S. Building Its Largest Embassy in Iraq
By Charles J. Hanley / Associated Press
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The fortress-like compound rising beside the Tigris River here will be the largest of its kind in the world, the size of Vatican City, with the population of a small town, its own defense force, self-contained power and water, and a precarious perch at the heart of Iraq's turbulent future.
The new U.S. Embassy also seems as cloaked in secrecy as the ministate in Rome.
"We can't talk about it. Security reasons," Roberta Rossi, a spokeswoman at the current embassy, said when asked for information about the project.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=6529
Cheney Authorized Leak Of CIA Report, Libby Says
By Murray Waas / National Journal
Vice President Dick Cheney directed his then-chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, on July 12, 2003 to leak to the media portions of a then-highly classified CIA report that Cheney hoped would undermine the credibility of former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, a critic of the Bush administration's Iraq policy, according to Libby's grand jury testimony in the CIA leak case and sources who have read the classified report.
The March 2002 intelligence report was a debriefing of Wilson by the CIA's Directorate of Operations after Wilson returned from a CIA-sponsored mission to Niger to investigate claims, later proved to be unfounded, that Saddam Hussein had attempted to procure uranium from the African nation, according to government records.
The debriefing report made no mention of Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, then a covert CIA officer, or any role she may have played in her husband's selection by the CIA to go to Niger, according to two people who have read the report.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=6532
China fears drive big US arms projects
By Jim Wolf / Reuters
WASHINGTON - U.S. fears of a rising China are spurring billions of dollars worth of weapons projects, from nuclear-fueled attack submarines to fighter jets to destroyers.
Even as President George W. Bush prepares to welcome President Hu Jintao to the White House on Thursday with full military honors, Washington is factoring in potential conflicts over such sore spots as Taiwan, competition for scarce resources and any threat to its predominance in Asia.
"Of the major and emerging powers, China has the greatest potential to compete militarily with the United States and field disruptive military technologies that could over time offset traditional U.S. military advantages absent U.S. counter strategies," the U.S. Defense Department said in a long-term strategy review released in February.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=6531
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Rally To Stop Genocide
Join our rally in Washington, DC on April 30th, 2006. The Rally to Stop Genocide will feature leading voices in the effort to stop the genocide in Darfur, including a broad spectrum of prominent faith leaders, political figures, human rights activists, celebrities, survivors of the Holocaust and genocides in Cambodia, Kosovo, Srebrenica, Rwanda, South Sudan and Darfur. Take action, be involved. Please sign up to participate in the Rally to Stop Genocide so we can share resources and tools for you to activate your community, and make your participation a success.
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Neil Young, Son of Famed Reporter, Records "Impeach the President" Song
By E&P Staff / Editor & Publisher
NEW YORK As an E&P "Pressing Issues" column recently noted, rock star Neil Young is the son of a famed Canadian journalist, so it should not surprise many that he recently recorded a song in California with a very reportorial -- or at least pundit -- feel to it.
It’s called “Impeach the President,” so there can be little question what it is about.
Apparently it was recorded with a 100-voice choir. Rumors have circulated the past few days on the Web, but E&P has tracked down the strongest confirmation in a blog kept by Sherman Oaks, Ca. musician/singer Alicia Morgan.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=6527
LET’S GET SOMETHING STRAIGHT.
The Bush Administration is fighting a desperate war here in the USA and they are pullling out the plugs on everything to try and turn around and distract this country from the fact they are bunch of criminals. They have been toying with this government and it's 'AFFECT' on the people to WIN political opinion in their favor.
IN REGARD TO THE IRAQ INVASION AND WMD:
There is ONE rather GLARING truth that the news media seems to IGNORE CHRONICALLY.
There were United Nations' Inspectors ON THE GROUND in Iraq long before Rumsfeld and his 'Hot Dog' General, "What's His Name" - Tommy Franks started their "Shock and Awe" bombing of Baghdad.
There were United Nations' Inspectors ON THE GROUND in Iraq ...
There were United Nations' Inspectors ON THE GROUND in Iraq ...
There were United Nations' Inspectors ON THE GROUND in Iraq ...
There were United Nations' Inspectors ON THE GROUND in Iraq ...
There were United Nations' Inspectors ON THE GROUND in Iraq ...
They were finding NOTHING !
They were finding NOTHING !
They were finding NOTHING !
They were finding NOTHING !
They were finding NOTHING !
NOTHING !
NOTHING !
NOTHING !
NOTHING !
NOTHING !
Lacking Biolabs, Trailers Carried Case for War
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/inde [...]
Administration Pushed Notion of Banned Iraqi Weapons Despite Evidence to Contrary
By Joby Warrick / Washington Post
On May 29, 2003, 50 days after the fall of Baghdad, President Bush proclaimed a fresh victory for his administration in Iraq: Two small trailers captured by U.S. and Kurdish troops had turned out to be long-sought mobile "biological laboratories." He declared, "We have found the weapons of mass destruction."
YESTERDAY, a CNN Journalist, "Old What's His Name?" Oh, yeah, David Ensor came out and stated "The Intelligence was Bad and the President Cannot Be Held for it's use...Blah, Blah, Blah..."
"W"rong !
"W"rong !
"W"rong !
"W"rong !
"W"rong !
There were United Nations' Inspectors ON THE GROUND in Iraq ...
There were United Nations' Inspectors ON THE GROUND in Iraq ...
There were United Nations' Inspectors ON THE GROUND in Iraq ...
There were United Nations' Inspectors ON THE GROUND in Iraq ...
There were United Nations' Inspectors ON THE GROUND in Iraq ...
The USA Intelligence ESTIMATES...
The USA Intelligence ESTIMATES...
The USA Intelligence ESTIMATES...
The USA Intelligence ESTIMATES...
The USA Intelligence ESTIMATES were presented to the United Nations' Security Council as evidence of WMD and that is why the inspectors were sent in the first place. It didn't matter how paranoyd The Bush Oval Office had become because they were in over their heads with 911 and the Nation's Security; the United Nations' HONORED all those concerns and had United Nations' Inspectors ON THE GROUND in Iraq.
That is why they were sent. They weren't sent just to provide a 'SHOW' preceding invasion. They were sent to 'CHECK' the facts of WMD on the GROUND against any ESTIMATES, any RECORDS, any REPLY by the Hussein government.
The USA was about to invade Iraq out of impatience and the United Nations went to prove the grounds or lack of grounds for the invasion.
The United Nations is an impartial party and that is why they were involved and NOT David Kay from the beginning.
What is so hard about this?
George Walker Bush and Richard Cheney invaded a disarmed country when there were United Nations' Inspectors ON THE GROUND in Iraq and they were finding NOTHING !
Bush and Cheney invaded BEFORE the final findings of the United Nations' Security Council.
They acted AGAINST the bill handed down by the USA Legislature stating invasion was a last resort. We hadn't reached that point YET !
GOT IT YET?
GOT IT YET?
We don't belong in Iraq.
We never did !
It's an illegal war !
Helllllllooooooooooooo......
END.
OF.
DISCUSSION !
Truth Was Stamped "Secret"
Lacking Biolabs, Trailers Carried Case for War
Administration Pushed Notion of Banned Iraqi Weapons Despite Evidence to Contrary
By Joby Warrick / Washington Post
On May 29, 2003, 50 days after the fall of Baghdad, President Bush proclaimed a fresh victory for his administration in Iraq: Two small trailers captured by U.S. and Kurdish troops had turned out to be long-sought mobile "biological laboratories." He declared, "We have found the weapons of mass destruction."
The claim, repeated by top administration officials for months afterward, was hailed at the time as a vindication of the decision to go to war. But even as Bush spoke, U.S. intelligence officials possessed powerful evidence that it was not true.
A secret fact-finding mission to Iraq -- not made public until now -- had already concluded that the trailers had nothing to do with biological weapons. Leaders of the Pentagon-sponsored mission transmitted their unanimous findings to Washington in a field report on May 27, 2003, two days before the president's statement.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=6507
White House hotly denies report on Iraq WMD
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Wednesday angrily denied a newspaper report that suggested President George W. Bush in 2003 declared the existence of biological weapons laboratories in Iraq while knowing it was not true.
On May 29, 2003, Bush hailed the capture of two trailers in Iraq as mobile biological laboratories and declared, "We have found the weapons of mass destruction."
The report in The Washington Post said a Pentagon-sponsored fact-finding mission had already concluded that the trailers had nothing to do with biological weapons. The newspaper cited government officials and weapons experts who participated in the secret mission or had direct knowledge of it.
The Post said the group's unanimous findings had been sent to the Pentagon in a field report, two days before the president's statement.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=6509
continued ...
Tornadoes Kill 1 in Iowa College Town
Staff and agencies14 April, 2006
By TODD DVORAK and JOE NUGENT, s 16 minutes ago
IOWA CITY, Iowa - Tornadoes tore across a university campus overnight, ripping walls off a church and sorority house, crushing houses and cars, and killing a woman in a mobile home southeast of town.
"There was debris flying everywhere inside the house," Fortman told ABC‘s "Good Morning America" Friday. "I couldn‘t go down stairs because there was debris and glass flying up the stairs, so I just hid in a telephone booth we have in our house and I just hid there crying."
The twisters swept across eastern Iowa, with the worst damage in a path from Iowa City southeast through the small town of Nichols, about 20 miles away, the National Weather Service said.
He said the tornado hits farms, knocked a tractor-trailer off a road, then hit the mobile home with a man and woman inside.
http://www.localnewsleader.com/olberlin/stories/index.php?action=fullnews&id=176011
One dead after tornadoes rip eastern Iowa
IOWA CITY --- Severe storms ripped through eastern Iowa Thursday, spawning tornadoes that killed one person, crushed homes and cars and left thousands of people without power.The fatality occurred in Muscatine County, where a tornado destroyed a mobile home."We have a path in the Nichols area that four to five miles long," said Maj. Dave White of the Muscatine County sheriff's office.The tornado hit south of town, damaging a farm and knocking a semi off the road, White said. A man and woman were in the mobile home, and the woman was killed.
http://www.wcfcourier.com/articles/2006/04/14/news/top_story/doc443fca50e4679475850099.txt
'It was wicked': Storm clean-up under way in Iowa City
'Whole buildings are missing,' a witness says
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Iowa City, Ia. — The tornado on Thursday that ripped through the heart of Iowa City, where thousands of people live and work, was wider and stronger than many storms, yet caused few injuries, authorities said today. "We feel very fortunate that we made it through this storm with only very minor injuries," said Steve Parrott, spokesman for the University of Iowa.
http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060414/NEWS08/604140396/1001/galleries
National Weather Service Says Iowa City Twister Likely F2
Agency Says Up To Six Tornadoes Hit Johnson County
DES MOINES, Iowa -- Officials now have an idea about the destruction left by Thursday night's storms that triggered several tornadoes in eastern Iowa.
Surveys by the National Weather Service said that up to six tornadoes hit Johnson County on Thursday night.
Donna Dubberke of the National Weather Service said the tornado that hit Iowa City was an F2, with winds estimated at 150 mph. She said it originated on the southwest side of the city and cut a straight path to the northeast that was about three and a half miles long and one-third of a mile wide.
http://www.kcci.com/news/8701016/detail.html
LA Times
Appeals Court Slaps L.A. Over Arrests of Homeless
By Henry Weinstein and Cara DiMassa, Times Staff Writers12:32 PM PDT, April 14, 2006
Los Angeles' policy of arresting homeless people for sitting, lying or sleeping on public sidewalks as "an unavoidable consequence of being human and homeless without shelter" violates the constitutional prohibition against cruel and punishment, a federal appeals court ruled today.The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, decided in favor of six homeless persons, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California. The suit challenged the city's practice of arresting persons for violating a municipal ordinance, which states that "no person shall sit, lie or sleep in or upon any street, sidewalk or public way."
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-041406sidewalk_lat,0,1735011.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Delta, Pilots Reach Tentative Deal to Avert Strike
From Associated Press7:03 AM PDT, April 14, 2006
ATLANTA -- Delta Air Lines Inc. and its pilots union have reached a tentative agreement on pay and benefit cuts that could avert a strike, according to a memo today from the union to its pilots.No details of the agreement were released. The deal would be subject to ratification by the airline's 5,930 pilots.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-041406delta_wr,0,3730828.story?coll=la-home-business
State's Olive Oil Tasters Flunk Test of Distinction
Stripped of authority to certify grades such as extra virgin, an industry panel weighs its future.
By Jerry Hirsch, Times Staff WriterApril 14, 2006
California's olive oil police have been pulled over.An industry panel that for five years has certified the quality of California's olive oil — discerning virgin from extra virgin oil — has flunked an international taste test.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-olive14apr14,0,4104572.story?coll=la-home-business
Chad Forces Repel 2nd Coup Bid in a Month
The attack bolsters fears that the government is being undermined by the civil war in Sudan.
From the Associated Press
April 14, 2006
Government forces used attack helicopters, tanks and heavy weapons Thursday to repel rebels who had charged 600 miles in pickup trucks from the Sudanese border to reach the capital of this volatile nation in the center of Africa. Four tanks guarded the presidential palace Thursday night. Reporters saw 13 bodies in the streets, and residents reported many more. Gen. Mahamet Ali Abdullah, speaking on state-run radio, said that government forces had killed hundreds of rebels.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-chad14apr14,0,1818032.story?coll=la-home-world
Sunnis Allege More Deaths, Abductions
Leaders say nearly 90 people were kidnapped or slain, apparently by forces linked to police.
By Borzou Daragahi, Times Staff WriterApril 14, 2006
BAGHDAD — Sunni Arab political leaders said Thursday that nearly 90 Sunnis had been reported abducted or killed over the last two days by groups with possible ties to Iraq's Shiite Muslim-led Interior Ministry forces. In one incident, 25 men just released from detention allegedly were whisked away by gunmen in sport utility vehicles. The Sunni leaders also said the bodies of 20 people abducted April 4 by security forces had been found in Baghdad.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-prisoners14apr14,0,2134306.story?coll=la-home-world
Dozens of Iraqi Police Feared Dead in Ambush
By Borzou Daragahi, Times Staff Writer8:27 AM PDT, April 14, 2006
BAGHDAD -- Dozens of Iraqi police officers were missing and feared dead today following an audacious, multi-pronged ambush of a motor vehicle convoy the previous night.Also, Friday prayer leaders turned up the heat on political leaders struggling to form a government amid ongoing violence nearly four months after Dec. 15 elections.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-041406iraq_lat,0,4250917.story?coll=la-home-world
Marines Suffer 2 Dead, 22 Wounded in Iraq
By VANESSA ARRINGTON, Associated Press Writer4:06 PM PDT, April 14, 2006
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Two U.S. Marines were killed and 22 wounded -- two of them critically -- in fighting in western Iraq, the U.S. military said Saturday. It was the biggest number of American casualties reported from a single engagement in weeks. A U.S. statement said the casualties were suffered Thursday as a result of "enemy action" in Anbar province but gave no specific location or details of the fighting.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/ats-ap_top10apr14,0,4905181.story
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Resignation Building
What Rumsfeld knew
Interviews with high-ranking military officials shed new light on the role Rumsfeld played in the harsh treatment of a Guantánamo detainee.
By Michael Scherer and Mark Benjamin / Salon
April 14, 2006 Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was personally involved in the late 2002 interrogation of a high-value al-Qaida detainee known in intelligence circles as "the 20th hijacker." He also communicated weekly with the man in charge of the interrogation, Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, the controversial commander of the Guantánamo Bay detention center.
During the same period, detainee Mohammed al-Kahtani suffered from what Army investigators have called "degrading and abusive" treatment by soldiers who were following the interrogation plan Rumsfeld had approved. Kahtani was forced to stand naked in front of a female interrogator, was accused of being a homosexual, and was forced to wear women's underwear and to perform "dog tricks" on a leash. He received 18-to-20-hour interrogations during 48 of 54 days.
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"My belief is Rumsfeld does not really understand the dynamic of counterinsurgency warfare."-- Maj. Gen. Charles H. Swannack Jr.
More Retired Generals Call for Rumsfeld's Resignation
By David S. Cloud and Eric Schmitt / New York Times
WASHINGTON, April 13 — The widening circle of retired generals who have stepped forward to call for Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's resignation is shaping up as an unusual outcry that could pose a significant challenge to Mr. Rumsfeld's leadership, current and former generals said on Thursday.
Maj. Gen. Charles H. Swannack Jr., who led troops on the ground in Iraq as recently as 2004 as the commander of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division, on Thursday became the fifth retired senior general in recent days to call publicly for Mr. Rumsfeld's ouster. Also Thursday, another retired Army general, Maj. Gen. John Riggs, joined in the fray.
"We need to continue to fight the global war on terror and keep it off our shores," General Swannack said in a telephone interview. "But I do not believe Secretary Rumsfeld is the right person to fight that war based on his absolute failures in managing the war against Saddam in Iraq."
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Retired general: ‘Uplifting’ if Rumsfeld removed
Six former senior officers have publicly called for change due to Iraq
NBC News
WASHINGTON - A retired Army general on Friday continued the volleys of criticism against Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his handling of the Iraq war, telling NBC News that “a fresh start in the Department of Defense ... would be incredibly uplifting” for the armed forces.
Retired Maj. Gen. John Batiste, who commanded the 1st Infantry Division in Iraq until last November, appeared on NBC’s “Today” show to reiterate criticisms he leveled earlier this week.
Batiste said Rumsfeld had “failed to build the peace” in Iraq, and criticized “a leadership style which is intimidating, abusive. There was not a two-way street of respect.”
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Retired general: ‘Uplifting’ if Rumsfeld removed
Six former senior officers have publicly called for change due to Iraq
NBC News
WASHINGTON - A retired Army general on Friday continued the volleys of criticism against Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his handling of the Iraq war, telling NBC News that “a fresh start in the Department of Defense ... would be incredibly uplifting” for the armed forces.
Retired Maj. Gen. John Batiste, who commanded the 1st Infantry Division in Iraq until last November, appeared on NBC’s “Today” show to reiterate criticisms he leveled earlier this week.
Batiste said Rumsfeld had “failed to build the peace” in Iraq, and criticized “a leadership style which is intimidating, abusive. There was not a two-way street of respect.”
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"This is a very significant vote of no confidence..."
Ex-General: Rumsfeld Deserves Criticism
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Retired Maj. Gen. John Batiste, one of several high-ranking military men urging the ouster of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, said Friday there is no coordinated effort to get him fired, calling a recent series of critical statements "absolutely coincidental."
"I have not talked to the other generals," Batiste, interviewed from Rochester, N.Y., said on NBC"s "Today" show. Nevertheless, he said he thinks the clamor for Rumsfeld to step down is "happening for a reason."
Batiste, who commanded the 1st Infantry Division forces in Iraq, said he declined an opportunity to get a promotion to the rank of lieutenant general and return to the wartorn country as the No. 2 U.S. military officer because he could not accept Rumsfeld's tough management style.
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President Bush Expresses Full Support, Appreciation for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
Earlier today I spoke with Don Rumsfeld about ongoing military operations in the Global War on Terror. I reiterated my strong support for his leadership during this historic and challenging time for our Nation.
I reiterated my strong support for his leadership during this historic and challenging time for our Nation.
The Department of Defense has been tasked with many difficult missions. Upon assuming office, I asked Don to transform the largest department in our government. That kind of change is hard, but our Nation must have a military that is fully prepared to confront the dangerous threats of the 21st Century. Don and our military commanders have also been tasked to take the fight to the enemy abroad on multiple fronts.
I have seen first-hand how Don relies upon our military commanders in the field and at the Pentagon to make decisions about how best to complete these missions. Secretary Rumsfeld's energetic and steady leadership is exactly what is needed at this critical period. He has my full support and deepest appreciation.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/04/20060414.html
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Camp Casey Easter
Once again the President will be home for the holidays. We as Gold Star Families for Peace have had our holidays forever tarnished by George Bush's' reckless policy of occupying Iraq. We will be returning to Camp Casey for our Easter holiday and we invite you to join us. Everyone is welcomed.
It is important that we let George Bush know that his war and policies are unacceptable. Because of his free speech zones this is about as close as anyone who disagrees with him can get. Imagine thousands of us at his backdoor showing him the error of his ways.
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Easter in Crawford
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Despite the announcement that President Bush is NOT planning to take his usual Easter vacation at his ranch, peace activists from around the country, including Cindy Sheehan and other Gold Star Families for Peace, will return to Camp Casey for four days of rallies, performances, teach-ins and more. Also at the heart of this event: Vets for Peace, Military Families Speak Out, Code Pink and more.
We welcome all who would like to join us for these days of action, as the calls to stop the war and the Bush policies of torture, secrecy, and lies, are directed at the Western White House.
Mark your calendars, buy your tickets, plan your route, but find your way to Crawford for the Spring excitement, April 13 - 16. The March to Redeem the Soul of America will provide a lead in to the Crawford events, starting in Dallas on April 1 and arriving in Crawford on the 14th.
http://crawfordpeace.nfshost.com/easter
Dr. Lowery, Dean of Civil Rights Movement, to give Easter sermon at Camp Casey in Crawford
April 6, 2006
For Immediate Release
Dr. Lowery, Dean of Civil Rights Movement, to give Easter sermon at Camp Casey in Crawford
Reverend Dr. Joseph E. Lowery will deliver the Easter Sunday service at Camp Casey to a diverse group of attendees, including veterans, consumer, peace and civil rights advocates. Following the Easter morning worship, Dr. Lowery will officiate at the Third Anniversary Celebration and Prayer Service of the Crawford Peace House on April 16, 2006, at 1:00 PM in the Garden at 9142 East 5th Street , (Highway 185) Crawford, TX. All are invited. For more information visit the web site www.crawfordpeacehouse.org or call 254-486-0099.
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Iraq speeches have done little to buoy war support
By Richard Benedetto / USA Today
WASHINGTON — Like a man on a treadmill, President Bush has gotten almost nowhere making speeches over the past seven months to boost public support for the war in Iraq. Since Bush began a round of Iraq speeches last fall, approval for his handling of Iraq has remained stuck, with about a third of the nation approving what he's doing.
Shortly before the speeches began in late September, 32% of Americans approved of Bush's handling of Iraq, according to a Sept. 16-18 USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll.
The rating inched up as high as 39% in the ensuing months, but the latest poll, taken April 7-9, showed that approval had dropped back to 32%.
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U.S. Building Its Largest Embassy in Iraq
By Charles J. Hanley / Associated Press
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The fortress-like compound rising beside the Tigris River here will be the largest of its kind in the world, the size of Vatican City, with the population of a small town, its own defense force, self-contained power and water, and a precarious perch at the heart of Iraq's turbulent future.
The new U.S. Embassy also seems as cloaked in secrecy as the ministate in Rome.
"We can't talk about it. Security reasons," Roberta Rossi, a spokeswoman at the current embassy, said when asked for information about the project.
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Cheney Authorized Leak Of CIA Report, Libby Says
By Murray Waas / National Journal
Vice President Dick Cheney directed his then-chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, on July 12, 2003 to leak to the media portions of a then-highly classified CIA report that Cheney hoped would undermine the credibility of former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, a critic of the Bush administration's Iraq policy, according to Libby's grand jury testimony in the CIA leak case and sources who have read the classified report.
The March 2002 intelligence report was a debriefing of Wilson by the CIA's Directorate of Operations after Wilson returned from a CIA-sponsored mission to Niger to investigate claims, later proved to be unfounded, that Saddam Hussein had attempted to procure uranium from the African nation, according to government records.
The debriefing report made no mention of Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, then a covert CIA officer, or any role she may have played in her husband's selection by the CIA to go to Niger, according to two people who have read the report.
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China fears drive big US arms projects
By Jim Wolf / Reuters
WASHINGTON - U.S. fears of a rising China are spurring billions of dollars worth of weapons projects, from nuclear-fueled attack submarines to fighter jets to destroyers.
Even as President George W. Bush prepares to welcome President Hu Jintao to the White House on Thursday with full military honors, Washington is factoring in potential conflicts over such sore spots as Taiwan, competition for scarce resources and any threat to its predominance in Asia.
"Of the major and emerging powers, China has the greatest potential to compete militarily with the United States and field disruptive military technologies that could over time offset traditional U.S. military advantages absent U.S. counter strategies," the U.S. Defense Department said in a long-term strategy review released in February.
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Rally To Stop Genocide
Join our rally in Washington, DC on April 30th, 2006. The Rally to Stop Genocide will feature leading voices in the effort to stop the genocide in Darfur, including a broad spectrum of prominent faith leaders, political figures, human rights activists, celebrities, survivors of the Holocaust and genocides in Cambodia, Kosovo, Srebrenica, Rwanda, South Sudan and Darfur. Take action, be involved. Please sign up to participate in the Rally to Stop Genocide so we can share resources and tools for you to activate your community, and make your participation a success.
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Neil Young, Son of Famed Reporter, Records "Impeach the President" Song
By E&P Staff / Editor & Publisher
NEW YORK As an E&P "Pressing Issues" column recently noted, rock star Neil Young is the son of a famed Canadian journalist, so it should not surprise many that he recently recorded a song in California with a very reportorial -- or at least pundit -- feel to it.
It’s called “Impeach the President,” so there can be little question what it is about.
Apparently it was recorded with a 100-voice choir. Rumors have circulated the past few days on the Web, but E&P has tracked down the strongest confirmation in a blog kept by Sherman Oaks, Ca. musician/singer Alicia Morgan.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=6527
LET’S GET SOMETHING STRAIGHT.
The Bush Administration is fighting a desperate war here in the USA and they are pullling out the plugs on everything to try and turn around and distract this country from the fact they are bunch of criminals. They have been toying with this government and it's 'AFFECT' on the people to WIN political opinion in their favor.
IN REGARD TO THE IRAQ INVASION AND WMD:
There is ONE rather GLARING truth that the news media seems to IGNORE CHRONICALLY.
There were United Nations' Inspectors ON THE GROUND in Iraq long before Rumsfeld and his 'Hot Dog' General, "What's His Name" - Tommy Franks started their "Shock and Awe" bombing of Baghdad.
There were United Nations' Inspectors ON THE GROUND in Iraq ...
There were United Nations' Inspectors ON THE GROUND in Iraq ...
There were United Nations' Inspectors ON THE GROUND in Iraq ...
There were United Nations' Inspectors ON THE GROUND in Iraq ...
There were United Nations' Inspectors ON THE GROUND in Iraq ...
They were finding NOTHING !
They were finding NOTHING !
They were finding NOTHING !
They were finding NOTHING !
They were finding NOTHING !
NOTHING !
NOTHING !
NOTHING !
NOTHING !
NOTHING !
Lacking Biolabs, Trailers Carried Case for War
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Administration Pushed Notion of Banned Iraqi Weapons Despite Evidence to Contrary
By Joby Warrick / Washington Post
On May 29, 2003, 50 days after the fall of Baghdad, President Bush proclaimed a fresh victory for his administration in Iraq: Two small trailers captured by U.S. and Kurdish troops had turned out to be long-sought mobile "biological laboratories." He declared, "We have found the weapons of mass destruction."
YESTERDAY, a CNN Journalist, "Old What's His Name?" Oh, yeah, David Ensor came out and stated "The Intelligence was Bad and the President Cannot Be Held for it's use...Blah, Blah, Blah..."
"W"rong !
"W"rong !
"W"rong !
"W"rong !
"W"rong !
There were United Nations' Inspectors ON THE GROUND in Iraq ...
There were United Nations' Inspectors ON THE GROUND in Iraq ...
There were United Nations' Inspectors ON THE GROUND in Iraq ...
There were United Nations' Inspectors ON THE GROUND in Iraq ...
There were United Nations' Inspectors ON THE GROUND in Iraq ...
The USA Intelligence ESTIMATES...
The USA Intelligence ESTIMATES...
The USA Intelligence ESTIMATES...
The USA Intelligence ESTIMATES...
The USA Intelligence ESTIMATES were presented to the United Nations' Security Council as evidence of WMD and that is why the inspectors were sent in the first place. It didn't matter how paranoyd The Bush Oval Office had become because they were in over their heads with 911 and the Nation's Security; the United Nations' HONORED all those concerns and had United Nations' Inspectors ON THE GROUND in Iraq.
That is why they were sent. They weren't sent just to provide a 'SHOW' preceding invasion. They were sent to 'CHECK' the facts of WMD on the GROUND against any ESTIMATES, any RECORDS, any REPLY by the Hussein government.
The USA was about to invade Iraq out of impatience and the United Nations went to prove the grounds or lack of grounds for the invasion.
The United Nations is an impartial party and that is why they were involved and NOT David Kay from the beginning.
What is so hard about this?
George Walker Bush and Richard Cheney invaded a disarmed country when there were United Nations' Inspectors ON THE GROUND in Iraq and they were finding NOTHING !
Bush and Cheney invaded BEFORE the final findings of the United Nations' Security Council.
They acted AGAINST the bill handed down by the USA Legislature stating invasion was a last resort. We hadn't reached that point YET !
GOT IT YET?
GOT IT YET?
We don't belong in Iraq.
We never did !
It's an illegal war !
Helllllllooooooooooooo......
END.
OF.
DISCUSSION !
Truth Was Stamped "Secret"
Lacking Biolabs, Trailers Carried Case for War
Administration Pushed Notion of Banned Iraqi Weapons Despite Evidence to Contrary
By Joby Warrick / Washington Post
On May 29, 2003, 50 days after the fall of Baghdad, President Bush proclaimed a fresh victory for his administration in Iraq: Two small trailers captured by U.S. and Kurdish troops had turned out to be long-sought mobile "biological laboratories." He declared, "We have found the weapons of mass destruction."
The claim, repeated by top administration officials for months afterward, was hailed at the time as a vindication of the decision to go to war. But even as Bush spoke, U.S. intelligence officials possessed powerful evidence that it was not true.
A secret fact-finding mission to Iraq -- not made public until now -- had already concluded that the trailers had nothing to do with biological weapons. Leaders of the Pentagon-sponsored mission transmitted their unanimous findings to Washington in a field report on May 27, 2003, two days before the president's statement.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=6507
White House hotly denies report on Iraq WMD
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Wednesday angrily denied a newspaper report that suggested President George W. Bush in 2003 declared the existence of biological weapons laboratories in Iraq while knowing it was not true.
On May 29, 2003, Bush hailed the capture of two trailers in Iraq as mobile biological laboratories and declared, "We have found the weapons of mass destruction."
The report in The Washington Post said a Pentagon-sponsored fact-finding mission had already concluded that the trailers had nothing to do with biological weapons. The newspaper cited government officials and weapons experts who participated in the secret mission or had direct knowledge of it.
The Post said the group's unanimous findings had been sent to the Pentagon in a field report, two days before the president's statement.
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