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FALLUJAH, Iraq - Guerrillas shouting "God is great" launched a bold daylight assault Saturday on an Iraqi police station and a security compound west of Baghdad, meeting little resistance as they gunned down policemen and freed prisoners in a battle that killed 23 people, police said. Most of the dead were police.

 

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Piracy is the illegal copying of software. It is unfair to the programmer! Someone else is gaining profit for work which he did not do and the programmer is not fairly rewarded for his time and money. Use of In-Phone Cameras Prompts Bans. Add U.S. National - AP to My Yahoo! By MARTHA IRVINE, AP National Writer CHICAGO - Tiny cameras used to be the stuff of spy novels. Now they're everywhere, built into cell phones, digital organizers and other devices. I love my daddy! Child Pornography is Immoral But Not Illegal In Some Countries With No Law Against It!...Check Interpol's Website For Alerts On The Situation In Trinidad, West Indies. There is a threat to privacy when data stored about us on a computer system is used in a way that it was not originally intended to be used. Citation: Lost And Found-The Adoption Experience by Betty Jean Lifton(Author of Twice Born) The author is concerned not just with adoptees but with the experience of adoptive parents and birth parents. [This is the Death Penalty For Military Combatants in any of the Nato Member Countries...Click For War Crimes Tribunals] Marines Investigate Photo Posted on Web. By DOUG SIMPSON, Associated Press Writer NEW ORLEANS. The Marines are investigating a photograph circulating on the Internet that depicts a soldier with two Iraqi boys and a sign, in English, proclaiming the soldier had killed one boy's father and impregnated the boy's sister. A Washington, D.C.-based Muslim civil rights group complained about the photo and urged the Marines to punish the soldier. Investigators have not determined if the photo showing Lance Cpl. Ted J. Boudreaux Jr. was altered, said Capt. Jeffrey Pool, a spokesman for Marine Reserves in New Orleans. Results of the investigation and possible punishment were expected Wednesday, Pool said. "How the military reacts to this case I think will send a message to Muslims in the Middle East and worldwide as to how seriously the United States takes these issues," said Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Boudreaux is with the Headquarters and Service Company, 3rd Battalion, 23rd Marines; the company was deployed in Iraq (news - web sites) from last May to September. Pool said he did not know exactly when Boudreaux was in Iraq. No phone number for the soldier could be obtained Tuesday. I learnt a lot in class today!...What is Sex Crime?CLICK THIS LINK! White House. Bush Is Stumped on Question of Mistakes. By CALVIN WOODWARD, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON President Bush (news - web sites) acknowledged a good deal of introspection after all the questions lately about his government's actions before the Sept. 11 attacks and in Iraq (news - web sites), but not a whiff of contrition. Bush was asked in his prime-time news conference if he had made any mistakes. "I'm sure something will pop into my head here," he said Tuesday. It didn't. Bush is rarely one to second-guess himself and wasn't about to now, despite failures highlighted in the government's pre-Sept. 11, 2001, intelligence operations, the futile search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and all the recent violence there. "Hindsight's easy," he said. Sure, he would have liked to have had a Homeland Security Department and Patriot Act before the terrorists struck. Yes, the country should have been on a war footing when it is now apparent "the enemy was at war with us." Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites) apparently found Bush's attitude off-putting. "The president may refuse to acknowledge a single mistake in the course of his presidency," he said, "but with deaths mounting and American sacrifice increasing, it's time he offered a specific plan that secures real international involvement, gets the target off the backs of our troops and starts to share the burden in Iraq." Bush asserted the Iraq war was justified. "Of course, I want to know why we haven't found a weapon yet," he said. "But I still know Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) was a threat. And the world is better off without Saddam Hussein." On the protracted struggle against insurgents trying to drive the Americans out, Bush said liberty doesn't come easily, and invoked the American Revolution: "I mean, we had a little trouble in our own country achieving freedom." He declared, "I would've gone into Afghanistan (news - web sites) the way we went into Afghanistan. Even knowing what I know today about the stockpiles of weapons, I still would've called upon the world to deal with Saddam Hussein." And there was to be no apology for what the government did and did not do in the months before the terrorist attacks, when the air was thick with signs of trouble that his administration says were too vague to act on. "Here's what I feel about that," he said. "The person responsible for the attacks was Osama bin Laden (news - web sites). That's who's responsible for killing Americans. And that's why we will stay on the offense until we bring people to justice." Millions of computers worldwide hit by Internet worm, experts say "We'll just have to wait and see," he said. "This worm is unlike previous ones in that it does not appear to be causing any damage to computers," said Huger. "It will slow your computer down, but there does not appear to be any direct damage to the hard drive. About the Webpage. LOST FOSTER CHILDREN. WORLDWIDE CAUTION FOR U.S.A. 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XMAS IS COMING! | RIGHT WING POLITICS IN AMERICA /WAR PICTURES. | Research LOST AND FOUND SOLDIERS. | Combat Support Hospital. ! | COPYRIGHT PAGE FOR EDUCATORS. Jury Convicts Belgian Pedophile Dutroux By ALEXANDER RATZ, Associated Press Writer ARLON, Belgium - A jury Thursday convicted a former electrician in a series of child abductions, rapes and murders in a case that horrified Belgium for nearly a decade and led to judicial and police reforms. AFP Slideshow: Child Killings Trial in Belgium The 12-member jury convicted Marc Dutroux, a 47-year-old ex-convict, of abducting six girls in 1995-96. It also found him guilty of murdering two of the girls and an accomplice. His ex-wife, Michelle Martin, was found to be responsible for the deaths of two others of the six girls — two 8-year-olds who were the first to disappear. According to testimony, the two starved to death while imprisoned in a basement cell in his house while Dutroux served a short jail term for car theft. Martin testified she was too afraid to go downstairs to feed the two girls. CELEBRATION TIME-A PREGNANT WOMAN! NIN-OS ENCONTRANDO NIN-OS Y PADRES!(ENGLISH VERSION AND SPANISH VERSIONS 1 & 2. Combat Support Hospital For Sick Pedophiles. THANK YOU VERY MUCH...PLEASE REMEMBER TO TAKE AN ADULT GENDER PHOTOGRAPH AND E-MAIL IT TO ME AT THE E-MAIL ADDRESS BELOW THE GLOBAL ANTI-TERRORISM POLICY PROJECT...Teach And Learn With The Internet...A MANAGERIAL PERSPECTIVE. Jackson, who had been scolded by the judge for showing up late to his last hearing, had arrived 40 minutes early Friday, smiling and waving to fans as entered the courtroom under an umbrella. He wore a dark jacket with a red armband and red tie. In court, the pop star was calm as his lawyer entered the plea of not guilty. Superior Court Judge Rodney Melville asked Jackson if that was correct, and he nodded. In brief comments afterward, Jackson's new defense attorney Thomas Mesereau Jr. said the case should not be about lawyers or celebrity. "This case is about one thing only. It's about the dignity, the integrity, the decency, the honor, the charity, the innocence and the complete vindication about a wonderful human being named Michael Jackson," said Mesereau, who took over the case last weekend after Jackson decided to remove the high-profile team of Mark Geragos and Benjamin Brafman. Jackson thanked "the fans around the world for your love and support from every corner of the Earth." The indictment, issued in secret earlier this month, replaces charges filed by prosecutors that alleged seven counts of lewd or lascivious conduct involving a child under 14 and two counts of administering an intoxicant to a child under 14. The judge agreed to requests from the prosecution and defense to seal parts of the conspiracy count, which alleged circumstances of child abduction, false imprisonment and extortion. The alleged victim was identifed as "John Doe" and a witness to some alleged molestation was identified as "James Doe." The alleged child abduction, false imprisonment and extortion are not individual charges. Rather they are alleged as among 28 "overt acts" leading to the conspiracy count. The indictment was released with the names of the alleged co-conspirators deleted. It also said there were "other uncharged co-conspirators and co-conspirators whose identities are unknown." The judge said the transcripts of the grand jury proceedings would be turned over to attorneys Monday but will remain under seal pending a hearing May 28. Jackson waived his right to a speedy trial. With an indictment, prosecutors don't have to go through a preliminary hearing before the judge to show there is enough evidence to put the pop star on trial. Outside the courthouse Friday, some fans waved handmade signs toward the throng of television cameras. A banner reading "Michael — Being here is the least we could do. To all: Through this media circus don't let your ears deceive you" was also draped along the fence. A Web site for Jackson fans had encouraged them to show up and demonstrate support for their idol. A hotel in nearby Solvang gave fans a special rate. Police Chief Danny Macagni said 42 of Santa Maria's 107 police officers were assigned to the courthouse, along with about 50 sheriff's deputies, to handle the throng. At his first court appearance Jan. 16, Jackson had showed up 20 minutes late after taking time to greet cheering fans. Judge Rodney Melville told him, "you have started out on the wrong foot here. I want to advise you that I will not put up with that. It's an insult to the court." After that hearing, Jackson danced on top of an SUV for a crowd of 3,000 fans. Experts had said it was likely that Jackson's new lawyer advised him such raucous displays are not in his best interest. On Thursday night, two to three dozen fans gathered outside the singer's Neverland Ranch about 30 miles from the courthouse for a candlelight vigil. Some wore black "Free Michael" T-shirts, and one dressed as the singer. Pedro Rivero, a 22-year-old from Madrid who said he had met Jackson "too many times to count," said he had a feeling he needed to be at the arraignment. "Everything that's happening is so unfair," said Rivero. "He's just so genuine, so pure." ___ Jackson Charged With Child Molestation (AP) - Michael Jackson was formally charged with child molestation Thursday, setting the stage for what could become one of the most sensational celebrity trials this Internet-wired, 24-hour-cable world has ever seen. The charging documents specified seven counts alleging lewd or lascivious acts upon a child under 14 and two counts of administering an intoxicating agent. Reports: Grand Jury Indicts Jackson 1 hour, 20 minutes ago LOS ANGELES - Pop star Michael Jackson (news) was indicted by a Santa Barbara County grand jury investigating child molestation allegations, television news organizations reported Wednesday. The reports by ABC, CNN and MSNBC cited sources that were unidentified. They had no details about the indictment, nor was there any official confirmation or announcement. Grand jury indictments are usually secret until a defendant is arraigned. Jackson's spokeswoman, Raymone Bain, issued a statement to the AP saying the singer will plead not guilty during his scheduled April 30 arraignment — if an indictment has been issued. The statement did not confirm that an indictment has been handed down. The singer and his attorneys "are confident that after a trial ... Jackson will be fully exonerated," the statement read. "Michael is looking forward to his day in court." Tellem said court administrator Gary Blair would determine when the court would officially release any information about the grand jury. Messages left at Blair's office were not immediately returned. The grand jury has spent the last three weeks hearing from witnesses, including a 14-year-old boy who claims the pop superstar sexually abused him. Four months ago, county prosecutors charged Jackson with seven counts of lewd or lascivious acts on a child under the age of 14 and two counts of administering an intoxicating agent, reportedly wine. Jackson pleaded not guilty in January to those charges. In determining whether there was enough evidence for the case to go to trial, Sneddon chose to present evidence to the closed grand jury, rather than at a preliminary hearing, which would be open to the public. Citation: Lost And Found-The Adoption Experience by Betty Jean Lifton(Author of Twice Born) The author is concerned not just with adoptees but with the experience of adoptive parents and birth parents. www.sos-childrensvillages.org Current, Ex-Spy Officials Oppose Agency Fri Apr 16,10:57 PM ET Add White House - AP Cabinet & State to By CURT ANDERSON, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - While the Sept. 11 commission appears likely to recommend an overhaul of U.S. intelligence agencies, the idea that a separate domestic spy agency be created outside the FBI (news - web sites) is meeting strong opposition from current and former officials. FBI Director Robert Mueller, former Director Louis Freeh, Attorney General John Ashcroft (news - web sites), his predecessor Janet Reno (news - web sites) and CIA (news - web sites) Director George Tenet all recommended against a new homeland spy agency in testimony before the panel this week. In a rare alignment, the position of the five on the issue dovetails with that of the American Civil Liberties Union (news - web sites). The ACLU maintains that such an agency could evolve into the ultimate Big Brother, with power to launch covert activities against U.S. citizens, dig into private lives and conduct surveillance without legal cause. "Even during the most frigid days of the Cold War, we never saw the need to create a secret police force that would work outside the constraints of the Constitution," ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero said. In testimony before the 9/11 panel, Freeh said: "Americans, I don't think, like secret police." Yet given the FBI's multiple failures prior to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, questions remain whether an agency devoted for decades to law enforcement can make intelligence a mission of equal or greater importance. Former Rep. Lee Hamilton, vice chairman of the commission, said it appears Mueller "is moving in the right direction and has made much progress" in building a new intelligence capability at the FBI. "The key question for us is whether he can succeed with the very difficult mission that he has set out, and we have not come to a judgment with respect to that," said Hamilton, D-Ind. The proposal would set up an organization similar to Britain's Security Service, known as MI5, which collects, analyzes and disseminates intelligence aimed at disrupting terrorism, espionage and sabotage directed against Britain. It has no law enforcement powers. Chico is the cat's mother!...Click all links and scroll down, go back or forth on the browser to navigate this page.  [Click for photos on the war against sexual abuse of boys and unlawful carnal knowledge against the order of nature...A paedophile priest betrayed the trust of boys. He used alcohol to lure teenage boys. 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Claims of al-Qaida's Africa diamond links remain one of the most unsettled areas in international investigations into the terror group, splitting U.S. officials and the intelligence community on the quantity and quality of the evidence. The dossier, apparently prepared by U.N.-backed investigators for presentation recently to the Sept. 11 commission and other officials in Washington, moves the matter forward. It shows that sources interviewed by prosecutors are corroborating in detail accounts of links between al-Qaida and West Africa that news media and independent watchdog groups have previously reported. "It is clear that al-Qaida has been in West Africa since September 1998 and maintained a continuous presence in the area through 2002," the U.N.-backed war-crimes investigators in West Africa, led by American David Crane, said in the confidential report obtained by the AP. Separately, one U.S. intelligence official told the AP that evidence of an al-Qaida-Africa diamond link now was "close to overwhelming." The official estimated al-Qaida proceeds in the diamond dealings at $15 million. The roster of al-Qaida fugitives allegedly witnessed in Liberia ahead of Sept. 11, 2001, include names that have since become infamous. They include Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian wanted in the 1998 bombings of two African U.S. embassies, and arrested July 25 in Pakistan after an intense gunbattle. Other al Qaida figures placed in Liberia by direct sources cited in the dossier: _ Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, a native of east Africa's Comoros islands, accused in 1998 and 2002 al-Qaida attacks in east Africa. Mohammed is wanted under a $25 million U.S. bounty. _ Egyptian Mohammed Atef, an alleged Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) military chief, killed in Afghanistan (news - web sites) in 2001. _ Pakistani Aafia Siddiqui, the only prominent female figure in al-Qaida, considered by the United States to be a likely "fixer" for the group in the United States and elsewhere. Media reports have said Siddiqui was in Monrovia to iron out problems between other al-Qaida operatives. _ Kenyan Sheik Ahmed Salim Swedan, wanted in the 1998 attacks in east Africa. _ Egyptian Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, wanted in the 1998 attacks. While the others are alleged to have largely scattered outside Africa after the Sept. 11 attacks, the dossier suggests Abdullah may have remained active — citing "source information" linking Abdullah to diamond smuggling in neighboring Guinea. Witnesses depict Liberia's former president, Taylor, himself giving the al-Qaida operatives entree to the shady West African world of guns, cash and diamonds before Sept. 11. Taylor, who has since been ousted and is now in exile in Nigeria, allegedly brought together rebels, state leaders and Islamic extremists under the common goal of cash. Accounts in the report include an alleged September 1998 get-together at Taylor's executive mansion where middlemen introduced him to Abdullah. The Liberian leader subsequently directed the al-Qaida figure to rebels controlling the mining of fine gems in neighboring, diamond-rich Sierra Leone, the investigators quote sources as saying. The following year, Ghailani and Mohammed met Taylor at his private home in Monrovia. Abdullah later ordered Ghailani and Mohammed to do al-Qaida's diamond-buying, "because they were of African descent and would not arouse any suspicion," the dossier quotes one of its main sources as saying. The report also cites a "highly credible source" as placing former al-Qaida No. 2 Atef and Ghailani in Monrovia, at times meeting with diamond-dealing rebels, in 1999 and 2000. However, neither this dossier nor other official accounts to reach the public have offered any direct proof that al-Qaida used diamond profits to fund the Sept. 11 attacks. The Sept. 11 commission estimates the 2001 attacks cost al-Qaida more than a half-million dollars to pull off. The current dossier was put together by prosecutors trying war crimes in Sierra Leone, where rebels waged a 1991-2002 terror campaign bent on gaining control of that country's government and diamond fields. Taylor, accused of backing the rebels, is the U.N.-Sierra Leone court's top surviving indicted suspect. The tribunal is pushing for Taylor's extradition from Nigeria, where he fled after opposition forces and international pressure routed him from Liberia's capital in August 2003. Those making the link between al-Qaida and Africa diamonds charge the U.S. government has turned its back on the case in part over discomfort over the CIA (news - web sites)'s own alleged Cold War-era links to Taylor. One problem for those trying to put together a case for evidence of al-Qaida in Africa diamond-dealing: much of the evidence cited has been from the disreputable figures involved in the dealing themselves. When Americans gave one of the key sources a polygraph test early on, he failed, the AP was told. There was other corroborating evidence at the time, but circumstantial: a tightening of the region's diamond markets at the time al-Qaida was allegedly cornering millions in small- and medium-size gems, according to Western officials. Other evidence is emerging more recently, intelligence officials, investigators and analysts told the AP. They said the evidence includes phone calls linking alleged al-Qaida middlemen and diamond-dealers, and information from al-Qaida suspects captured and interrogated since Sept. 11. U.N.-backed investigators, including Crane, have been anxious the United States recognize the al-Qaida-diamond link — hoping it would spur U.S. pressure for Taylor's extradition on the war-crimes indictments. One such investigator went before the Sept. 11 commission to present the war-crimes' court's evidence on al-Qaida in West Africa, commission spokesman Al Felzenberg confirmed, without identifying the investigator. The commission's final report made clear its position, however: "No persuasive evidence exists that al-Qaida ... funded itself through trafficking in diamonds from African states engaged in civil wars." "We're confident in the thoroughness of our staff in assessing what they were given, and we stand by the report and their conclusions," Felzenberg said Friday. A Memorial Of The Twin Towers In Manhattan...CLICK THIS LINK! Bush: GIs Who Abused Prisoners Should Pay By RON FOURNIER, AP Political Writer SOUTH BEND, Ind. - President Bush (news - web sites) urged Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to make sure that U.S. soldiers are punished for "shameful and appalling acts" committed against some Iraqi prisoners. Slideshow: Abuse of Iraq Prisoners Investigated -Use Photoshop Imaging Software To Examine The Photos. Bush urges punishment for abusers of Iraqis Iraq Militiamen Clash With U.S. Troops Fallujans emerge from their homes to survey their shattered city And a Democratic lawmaker criticized the Pentagon (news - web sites) for not moving faster on the allegations of sexual, physical and psychological abuse at a detention facility in Iraq (news - web sites). Lawmakers from both political parties have urged the administration to act quickly as condemnation rises across the world. Dealing with the international fallout over images of prisoners being mistreated by U.S. forces, Bush called the Pentagon chief before a campaign trip Monday to check on the status of an investigation. "The president wanted to make sure appropriate action is being taken against those responsible for these shameful and appalling acts," said White House spokesman Scott McClellan. Rep. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., said "officials within the department of defense have known at least since Jan." An internal U.S. Army report completed in February found that Iraqi detainees were subjected to "sadistic, blatant and wanton criminal abuses," according to The New Yorker magazine. Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a Sunday television interview that he had not yet read the report. "This is an unacceptable response," Bingaman said Monday. "If he believed that swift action was required, he might have directed those in ... his command ... to get that report to him immediately upon completion and to give him concrete action items." McClellan did not say what action would be appropriate against anyone found guilty of abuses, but said Bush wants those responsible punished. "The shameful actions of a few do not represent the 99 percent of our men and women in uniform who are performing superbly," McClellan said. He contrasted the U.S. abuses, which are being investigated and could lead to criminal charges, with wrongdoing under the former Iraqi leader. "Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) encouraged and tolerated this kind of behavior — the U.S. does not," McClellan said. Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) called the incidents "despicable acts" and said that "my colleagues at the Pentagon have a number of investigations under way." 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PARIS (AFP) - Millions of computers have already been infected by a new Internet computer worm that caused disruptions over the weekend and may spread rapidly when businesses resume work Monday morning, experts warned.   AFP Photo   The worm, named Sasser, began to spread on Saturday, and unlike a virus does not travel through e-mails or attachments. It can spread by itself to any unprotected computer linked to the Internet.   It attacks through a flaw in recent versions of Microsoft's Windows -- Windows 2000 (news - web sites), Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP (news - web sites) -- and causes the computer to shut down, then rebooting it, repeating the process several times. But it appears to do no lasting damage.   The anti-virus company Panda Software said Sunday slightly more than three percent of the world's computers, around 18 million out of the estimated 600 million operating worldwide, were infected.   For the moment the worm, the third major Internet infection this year after Mydoom.A in January and Bagle.B in February, does not appear to be a worldwide phenomenon. One American specialist reported only a few hundred computers infected, another did not rank Sasser in its 10 most common infections. Experts said they did not know who started the virus, but Alfred Huger, head of engineering at California-based computer security firm Symantec, said it was started deliberately by an individual. "Of that much we're sure," he said. "What we're not sure of is that individual's motives, because the virus is not doing any damage, and it's not installing a backdoor" which would give future access to other viruses. "We'll just have to wait and see," he said. 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Click For Separation Of Powers!...judiciary and legal powers. [This is the Death Penalty For Military Combatants in any of the Nato Member Countries...Click For War Crimes Tribunals] I learnt a lot in class today! What is Critical Sex and Money?...CLICK THIS LINK...Is it a crime to think critically? Should a government commit crime? Let's debate on the legalization of prostitution in democratic Trinidad and Tobago. Presidential Elections - AP Bush Defends Decision to Invade Iraq By DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press Writer OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - President Bush (news - web sites) defended his decision to invade Iraq (news - web sites) even as he conceded on Monday that investigators had not found the weapons of mass destruction that he had warned the country possessed. Allowing Iraq to possibly transfer weapons capability to terrorists was not a risk he was willing to take, Bush said. "Although we have not found stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, we were right to go into Iraq," Bush said after inspecting a display of nuclear weapons parts and equipment, including assembled gas centrifuges for uranium enrichment, from Libya. The hardware was shipped here in March as part of an agreement with Moammar Gadhafi to end his country's nuclear weapons program. The president offered a broad new defense of the March 2003 invasion of Iraq three days after the release of a Senate report that harshly criticized unsubstantiated intelligence cited in the run-up to the war in Iraq, a crucial battle in the war on terrorism. The key U.S. assertions leading to the 2003 invasion of Iraq — that Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) had chemical and biological weapons and was working to make nuclear weapons — were wrong and based on false or overstated CIA (news - web sites) analyses, a scathing Senate Intelligence Committee report asserted Friday. Intelligence analysts fell victim to "group think" assumptions that Iraq had weapons when it did not, the bipartisan report concluded. Many factors contributing to those failures are ongoing problems within the U.S. intelligence community, which cannot be fixed with more money alone, it said. And Bush said his administration was doing everything possible to avert the attacks he said terrorists are now plotting. Al-Zarqawi Terror Group Kidnaps 3 Turks BAGHDAD, Iraq - Militants loyal to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said Saturday they have kidnapped three Turkish workers and threatened to behead them in 72 hours, heightening tensions just ahead of a visit by President Bush (news - web sites) to Turkey. The latest in a series of abductions claimed by al-Zarqawi's movement — which has beheaded two previous hostages, an American and a South Korean — threatened to cast a shadow over a NATO (news - web sites) summit opening in Istanbul Monday, where Bush is seeking the alliance's help in stabilizing Iraq (news - web sites). The Arab television station Al-Jazeera aired a video issued by the kidnappers, showing the three Turks (news - web sites) identifying themselves in Turkish and telling their jobs in Iraq. In a statement with the video, al-Zarqawi's group, Tawhid and Jihad, threatened to behead the men in 72 hours unless Turkish companies withdraw from Iraq, an Al-Jazeera anchor said. The station received the tape Saturday, an employee at the station told The Associated Press. The message did not say when or where the three were abducted. It appeared the deadline was Tuesday, but the message did not specify what time it runs out. The abductions are likely to stoke anti-war sentiment in Turkey, where Bush is already extremely unpopular. Hours ahead of Bush's arrival in Ankara, police battled scores of protesters Saturday, eventually firing tear gas to disperse them. News of the new abduction came just as the body of Kim Sun-Il, a South Korean worker decapitated by al-Zarqawi's followers last week, were brought back to his hometown, Busan. His slaying has prompted nightly vigils in the Korean capital, Seoul, urging the government to call off its plans to send 3,000 troops to Iraq beginning in August. Last month, al-Zarqawi's group claimed responsibility for the beheading of American businessman Nicholas Berg. And on Thursday, fighters loyal to al-Zarqawi launched a wave of coordinated attacks in five cities in Iraq, battling with U.S. troops who eventually regained control but only after some 100 people, including three Americans were killed. The fighting came only days ahead of Wednesday's handover of sovereignty from Iraq's American occupiers to Allawi's government. Insurgents hit the offices of the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq — one of the country's biggest Shiite parties — with shoulder-fired grenade-launchers, said party member Maitham Ibrahim. Three party members died and two were injured, hospital officials said. Gunmen also overran the offices of Allawi's political party, the Iraq National Accord, setting off an explosion that sent smoke and flames leaping from the building's third-story windows, witnesses said. No one was hurt. U.S. Maj. Neal O'Brien, spokesman of the 1st Infantry Division, said four guerrillas — one wearing an explosives-packed vest — also attacked Baqouba's blue-domed government building. Guards fired back, killing the four, he said. Two other insurgents died in an attack on a police station, O'Brien said. In Mahmoudiyah, 20 miles south of Baghdad, insurgents killed two Iraqi National Guardsmen in an ambush. Another police officer was killed in a separate attack there, said the director of the Mahmoudiyah general hospital, Dawoud al-Taei. Elsewhere, an American supply convoy made a wrong turn, mistakenly entering the Shiite holy city of Najaf, Gov. Adnan al-Zurufi said. Militiamen loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr fired on the convoy, which didn't fire back. Two civilian bystanders were wounded. Najaf has been relatively quiet since an agreement several weeks ago to end clashes between U.S. soldiers and radical Shiite militiamen. In the capital, gunmen attacked a police station in the New Baghdad area but officers fought back in a rare show of force. The attackers fled, and police arrested three Iraqis, an Interior Ministry official said. Meanwhile, repair crews patched up the larger of two southern crude oil pipelines damaged by saboteurs and resumed pumping to offshore terminals, an official with the South Oil Company said Saturday. Hours after the pumping resumed, attackers blasted another small crude oil pipeline that feeds into domestic storage tanks, near the town of Latifiyah, about 30 miles south of Baghdad, said 1st Lt. Alaa Hussein. In the wave of violence ahead of Wednesday's transfer of sovereignty, most attacks have been directed at the ill-equipped Iraqi security forces — the foundation of the new government's power. The United States has recently issued about 55,000 armored flak jackets to Iraqi forces, a senior U.S. commander said on condition of anonymity. U.S. officials believe al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian extremist, is operating from Fallujah, which emerged as a virtual green zone for insurgents after U.S. Marines gave up their siege of the city in April having failed to rout rebels there. U.S. jets launched an airstrike against a suspected al-Zarqawi hideout in Fallujah on Friday — the third such strike in less than a week. LET'S CELEBRATE THE WAR AGAINST TERRORISM! The U.S. recently lifted restrictions on the use of U.S. passports for travel to Libya. While Libya has taken steps to cooperate in the global war on terrorism, the Libyan Government remains on the U.S. Government's State Sponsors of Terrorism List. Although Libya appears to have curtailed its support for international terrorism, it may maintain residual contacts with some of its former terrorist clients. Recent worldwide terrorist alerts have stated that extremist groups. continue to plan terrorist attacks against U.S. interests in the region. Therefore, any American citizen that decides to travel to Libya should maintain a strong security posture by being aware of surroundings, avoiding crowds and demonstrations, keeping a low profile, and varying times and routes for all required travel. In light of these security concerns, U.S. citizens are urged to maintain a high level of vigilance and to take appropriate steps to increase their security awareness. There is no U.S. Embassy in Libya. Therefore, the U.S. Government is unable to provide any assurances of the safety of travel to Libya by U.S. citizens. U.S. Government interests are represented by the Government of Belgium, which, as a protecting power, can provide only limited emergency services to U.S. citizens. United Nations sanctions on Libya were lifted on September 12, 2003. Many U.S. sanctions, however, remain in place. Most financial and commercial transactions with Libya and designated persons by " U.S. persons" are prohibited, unless licensed by the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). " U.S. person" means someone subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, including any U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident of the United States, wherever located, or any person within the United States. This restriction also applies to corporations, partnerships and associations. OFAC has issued a general license for transactions relating to travel to, from, and within Libya and residence in Libya. The general license authorizes the purchase of airline tickets, hotel rooms, etc. However, certain restrictions on payments will continue to apply to these transactions; for example: while there are no restrictions on how payment may be made to travel service providers in the U.S. for any travel-related expenses, the use in Libya of credit cards and checks drawn on U.S. banks remains prohibited. Travelers should be prepared to engage in cash-only transactions while in Libya. Additionally, while in Libya, U.S. persons are authorized to open and maintain bank accounts at a financial institution in Libya to pay for maintenance, residence and travel-related transactions while in Libya. Americans who decide to travel to Libya despite this Travel Warning should exercise a high level of caution. Updated information on travel and security in Libya may be obtained from the Department of State by calling 1-888-407-4747 within the United States, or, from overseas, 1-317-472-2328. Those travelers should consult the Department of State's latest Consular Information Sheet for Libya, which includes further details on the Treasury Department sanctions, and the current Worldwide Caution and Middle East and North Africa Public Announcements, which are available on the Department's Internet site at http://travel.state.gov. CBS Airs Alleged GIs Abuse of Iraqis. By DAVID CRARY, AP National Writer NEW YORK - One photograph shows Iraqi prisoners, naked except for hoods covering their heads, stacked in a human pyramid, one with a slur written in English on his skin. That and other scenes of humiliation at the hands of U.S. military police that appear in photographs obtained by CBS News have led to criminal charges against six American soldiers. CBS says they were taken late last year at Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad, where American soldiers were holding hundreds of prisoners captured during the invasion and occupation of Iraq (news - web sites). At least one of the six is also a prison guard in civilian life. In March, the U.S. Army announced that six members of the 800th Military Police Brigade faced court martial for allegedly abusing about 20 prisoners at Abu Ghraib. The charges included dereliction of duty, cruelty and maltreatment, assault and indecent acts with another person. In addition to those criminal charges, the military has recommended disciplinary action against seven U.S. officers who helped run the prison, including Brig. Gen. Janice Karpinski, the commander of the 800th Brigade, a senior military official said Wednesday in Baghdad. The investigation recommended administrative action against several of the commanders, which could include punishments up to relieving them of their commands, said the official, speaking on condition on anonymity. When the abuse charges were first announced, U.S. military officials declined to provide details about the evidence. But on Wednesday, at a news briefing in Baghdad, Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt said the investigation began in January when an American soldier reported the abuse and turned over evidence that included photographs. "That soldier said, 'There are some things going on here that I can't live with,'" said Kimmitt, who also confirmed that CBS had obtained the photographs. One picture shows an Iraqi prisoner who was told to stand on a box with his head covered and wires attached to his hands. CBS said the prisoner was told that if he fell off the box, he would be electrocuted. Other photos showed naked prisoners being forced to simulate sex acts. The Army ordered an investigation into the actions of 17 soldiers from the 800th Brigade, which is based in Uniondale, N.Y. Ten were investigated for criminal actions, six of whom were charged in March. The other seven were officers who faced an administrative investigation. Those officers have received copies of the probe and will now have the chance to rebut the claims, with a final decision expected within a month, the senior military official said. "We're appalled," Kimmitt said. "These are our fellow soldiers, these are the people we work with every day, they represent us, they wear the same uniform as us, and they let their fellow soldiers down." "If we can't hold ourselves up as an example of how to treat people with dignity and respect, we can't ask that other nations do that to our soldiers," Kimmitt said. "60 Minutes II" identified one of the implicated soldiers as Army Reserve Staff Sgt. Chip Frederick, who described to Rather what he saw in the Iraqi prison. "We had no support, no training whatsoever, and I kept asking my chain of command for certain things, rules and regulations, and it just wasn't happening," Frederick said. "60 Minutes II" reported Frederick will plead not guilty to charges including maltreatment and assault, claiming the way the Army operated the prison led to the abuse of prisoners. He also said he did not see a copy of the Geneva Convention rules for handling prisoners of war until after he was charged, the show reported. Former Iraqi prisoners told The Associated Press last November of mistreatment in detention, including beatings and punishments that included hours of lying bound in the sun. Amnesty International, the London-based human rights group, said in March that many former detainees in Iraq claimed to have been tortured and ill-treated by coalition troops during interrogation. Methods often reported, it said, included prolonged sleep deprivation, beatings, exposure to loud music and prolonged periods of being covered by a hood.   Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said Thursday that British detectives would visit Libya on April 3 as part of the investigation into Fletcher's death. No one has yet been charged with her killing. Gadhafi's government also took responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing (news - web sites) and agreed to compensate relatives of the victims, a move that resulted in the lifting of U.N. sanctions against Libya. Libya's relations with the United States also have improved. In the highest-level meeting in decades, a U.S. envoy earlier this week gave Gadhafi a letter from President Bush (news - web sites) commending Libya's progress in eliminating weapons of mass destruction. U.S. Will Seek Custody of 'Deserter' in Japan 2 hours, 5 minutes ago Add Top Stories - Reuters to My Yahoo! By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will ask the Japanese government for custody of Charles Robert Jenkins if the former U.S. soldier charged with deserting to North Korea (news - web sites) goes to Japan for medical care, U.S. officials said on Thursday. Slideshow: Accused U.S. Army Deserter Leaves North Korea "Our view is that Sgt. Jenkins ... is a deserter from the U.S. Army. He has been charged with extremely serious offenses," State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said. Boucher said the United States would act under the terms of a U.S.-Japanese agreement governing the American military presence in Japan. "The Status of Forces agreement gives us the right to request custody of Sgt. Jenkins, and we intend to request custody when we have a legal opportunity to do so" once Jenkins is in Japan, Boucher told a briefing. Jenkins, who the United States says deserted in 1965 while an Army sergeant and joined North Korea's propaganda machine, was reunited in Jakarta last week with his Japanese wife Hitomi Soga, whom he met after North Korean agents kidnapped her in 1978. "We do understand the Japanese government plans to bring Sgt. Jenkins to Japan later this week to undergo emergency medical treatment," Boucher said. "And the clarification is that in Indonesia there is no extradition treaty. In Japan, there is." The U.S. ambassador to Japan, Howard Baker, had said his government was sympathetic to Jenkins' health problems, and had left open the possibility that the United States might not seek immediate custody if he went to Japan for medical care. STOMACH OPERATION Plexico said, "Sgt. Jenkins' travel to any country would not change the position of the U.S. He is charged with serious offenses under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (the U.S. military legal code), and those charges should be addressed through the appropriate military judicial or administrative process." Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, a staunch ally of the United States, said his government was working to enable Jenkins to receive treatment in Japan soon but the timing had not been decided. Koizumi backed the U.S.-led Iraq (news - web sites) war and expended political capital to send Japanese soldiers on an unpopular noncombat mission there. Operative Sought al-Qaida's Help in Iraq By ROBERT H. REID, Associated Press Writer BAGHDAD, Iraq - An anti-American operative in Iraq (news - web sites) appealed for help from al-Qaida leaders to help spark a sectarian war between Shiite and Sunni Muslims in an effort to "tear the country apart," U.S. officials said Monday.  [Click for photos on the war against sexual abuse of boys and unlawful carnal knowledge against the order of nature. A paedophile priest betrayed the trust of boys. He used alcohol to lure teenage boys. This happens all around the world where sick deviants gratify their sexual lust against girls too! This is an example of crimes against humanity.] Wife: Soldiers in Iraqi Abuse Case Are Scapegoats By Sue Pleming WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. soldiers accused of abusing Iraqi prisoners were following orders and are being used as scapegoats to protect their superiors, the wife of one of the soldiers and the lawyer for another said on Tuesday. Slideshow: Abuse of Iraq Prisoners Investigated Martha Frederick defended her husband, a soldier who faces prosecution for the abuse of Iraqis at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad. "He was told to do these things and when he did them he thought that he was doing them in the sense of national security," Frederick said. The U.S. military has brought charges of assault, cruelty and maltreatment against six soldiers, members of a military police battalion. It has also reprimanded six officers in connection with abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison after photographs were broadcast around the world showing naked Iraqi prisoners stacked in a pyramid or positioned to simulate sex acts. In e-mails to his wife, Staff Sgt. Ivan Frederick questioned some of the abuses he witnessed, such as leaving inmates naked in their cells or making them wear female underwear and handcuffing them to the doors of their cells. "He questioned it from my understanding and he even tried to come up with some rules knowing that pretty much this was something he did not normally do," said his wife in an interview on NBC's "Today" show. She complained her husband was being thrust into the limelight while others were protected. "Those who are responsible are standing behind the curtain and watching him take the fall for it. It's almost like being a pawn in a chess game," she said. 'STAGED PICTURES' Houston lawyer Guy Womack, who is representing reservist Charles Graner in the abuse case, said his client should not be court-martialed and that pictures taken of him abusing Iraqi prisoners were staged. "You court-martial the right person. You don't court-martial the soldier who is following orders. He was under the command and the direction of intelligence officers, both military and civilian," Womack told NBC's "Today" show. Graner, who was a corrections officer at a North Carolina prison, was on duty in Iraq (news - web sites) for a military police unit. Womack said the pictures were staged and part of the psychological manipulation of prisoners, adding that his client was told to smile for the camera along with a female soldier who was pointing at a prisoner's genitals. "These pictures themselves are abhorrent, but you have to put them in context," Womack said. Reserve Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, who oversaw prison facilities in Iraq, said she took responsibility for some of what had happened but pointed out military intelligence was in charge of interrogations -- not the military police under her command. Her lawyer, Neal Puckett, told CNN, "What's clear in all of this and what's apparently yet to be investigated is that the military intelligence personnel were the folks that had complete, exclusive control over what went on in the interrogation rooms." Democratic Sen. Jeff Bingaman called for a congressional investigation into the abuse and asked when U.S. military leaders had become aware of what was going on at the prison. "Clearly we need to know what the secretary of defense knew at what point and what he did about it; the same with the head of the Joint Chiefs; the same with the president. We need to know what was the response of our government to this horrendous set of facts once they got them," said the New Mexico senator. Middle East - AP U.S. Launches Airstrike in Fallujah By ROBERT H. REID, Associated Press Writer BAGHDAD, Iraq - The U.S. military launched its third airstrike in a week Friday in Fallujah, using precision weapons to destroy a suspected safehouse for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's terror network. Rice Condemns Deadly Attacks Throughout Iraq The Jordanian-born terrorist claimed responsibility for coordinated attacks in other Iraqi cities that killed more than 100 people Thursday — less than a week before Iraq (news - web sites)'s new government takes power. Insurgents set off car bombs and seized police stations in an offensive aimed at creating chaos before the handover. "Wherever and whenever we find elements of the Zarqawi network, we will attack them," a military statement said of the strike. As the situation worsened, Iraq's interim vice president warned that a drastic deterioration in the country's security could result in the implementation of emergency measures or martial law — however undesirable that may be in a democratic society. "Announcing emergency laws or martial law depends on the nature of the situation. In normal situations, there is clearly no need for that (step)," Ibrahim al-Jaafari, a Shiite and member of the Islamic Dawa Party, told The Associated Press in an interview. U.S. and Iraqi forces regained control in heavy fighting and American forces set up checkpoints around Iraq to intercept weapons, guerrillas and bombs. They fear that al-Zarqawi, the militant who claimed responsibility for the offensive, plans a string of car bombings in Baghdad, said Col. Michael Formica, commander of the 1st Cavalry Division's 2nd Brigade. A large number of victims from Thursday's attacks were killed in simultaneous car bombings in Mosul, but some also died as U.S. troops battled the guerrillas. The U.S. military responded with heavy firepower, dropping 11 500-pound bombs and a 2,000-pound bomb. The assaults were launched Thursday morning, when black-clad guerrillas attacked police stations and government complexes in Baghdad, Baqouba, Mosul, Ramadi and Mahaweel. U.S. troops and insurgents traded heavy fire on the outskirts of Fallujah, where explosions were also heard early Friday. The heaviest fighting was in Baqouba, northeast of the capital, where guerrillas shot their way into a government office complex, seized two police stations and destroyed the home of the provincial police chief. The stations were recaptured later, said Maj. Neal O'Brien of the 1st Infantry Division on Friday. Two American soldiers died in the Baqouba fighting, the 1st Infantry Division said. Insurgents also attacked a police station in a Baqouba suburb late Thursday, killing three officers and injuring one, said Dr. Nassir Jawad, who is in charge of the Baqouba morgue. Isolated skirmishes were also reported into Thursday evening, O'Brien said Friday. But the day's worst bloodshed came in Mosul — the country's northern metropolis often touted as a success story in restoring order in Iraq — where the U.S. military said 62 people were killed, including a U.S. soldier, and more than 220 people were wounded. Most died when at least four car bombs rocked the police academy, two police stations and the al-Jumhuri hospital. U.S. troops recaptured the Sheik Fathi police station in a hail of gunfire, and Iraqi troops raided a nearby mosque used by insurgents, the U.S. military said. Mosul's governor imposed an overnight curfew. Al-Zarqawi's followers claimed responsibility for Thursday's attacks in a statement posted on an Islamic Web site often used by his Tawhid and Jihad movement. The statement said the "occupation troops and apostates" — meaning Iraqi police — "were overwhelmed with shock and confusion." Al-Zarqawi earlier claimed responsibility for the kidnappings and beheadings of American businessman Nicholas Berg and South Korean hostage Kim Sun-il, and an audiotape released Wednesday purporting to be by al-Zarqawi threatened to kill Iraq's prime minister. Analysis showed it likely was al-Zarqawi's voice, a CIA (news - web sites) official said. During the handover ceremony, interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said the attacks were "only acts of disturbances conducted by cowards" meant "to foil the democratic process." ___ Bush Vows Justice on Iraq Prison Abuse (Updated May 5th. 2004) By TERENCE HUNT, AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON - Acknowledging mistakes but stopping short of an apology, President Bush (news - web sites) told the Arab world on Wednesday that Americans are appalled by the abuse and deaths of Iraqi prisoners at the hands of U.S. soldiers. He promised that "justice will be delivered." · Newsview: Bush Condemns, No Apology · Bush Vows Justice on Iraq Prison Abuse · Official: Bush to Seek $25B for Iraq War "The people in the Middle East must understand that this was horrible," Bush said, trying to calm international outrage. He went on two Arabic-language television networks to take charge of the administration's damage-control efforts. Presidential Elections - AP Heinz Kerry, Kennedy Addressing Democrats By DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press Writer BOSTON - Democrats, energized by their last first lady, get their first long look Tuesday at the multimillionaire heiress who would be their next one as they turn to John Kerry (news - web sites)'s outspoken wife and an aging liberal warrior to define the Massachusetts senator they would put in the White House. Latest headlines: · Heinz Kerry, Kennedy Addressing Democrats AP - 7 minutes ago · Kerry Wants 9/11 Panel to Extend Its Work AP - 13 minutes ago · Clinton electrifies Democrats for White House bid AFP - 24 minutes ago Teresa Heinz Kerry, widow of a Republican senator who inherited his family's ketchup fortune, and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (news, bio, voting record) will offer the nation a more personal and family view of the party's candidate for president on the second night of the Democratic National Convention. Kerry was appearing Tuesday in the Navy town of Norfolk, Va., Tuesday, where he was calling for the Sept. 11 commission to continue working past its scheduled end date of Aug. 26 to ensure recommended reforms are put in place. Kerry is to arrive at the convention Wednesday as the question of whether he or Bush can best protect America from terrorists continues to dominate the political debate. His wife, Heinz Kerry, who drew attention this week by telling a reporter to "shove it" said in an interview broadcast Tuesday she would do it again, displaying the same unapologetic bluntness that Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) showed when he defended uttering a vulgarity to a Democratic senator last month. "If someone is really attacking your honor, or trying really to be dishonest, really to try to get you, I think most Americans, most people, would say, you know, defend yourself. And that's what I did," she said on CBS-TV's "The Early Show." In the interview, which was taped Tuesday, Heinz Kerry also acknowledged her reluctance to see her second husband run for the White House. Her first husband, Sen. John Heinz, R-Pa., was killed in a plane crash in 1991 "What I'd like to do is focus on making sure that I give voice to the stories that I'm hearing of people across Illinois who are struggling with health care bills that are rising, trying to save for college and retirement at the same time," Obama said in an interview Tuesday on CNN's "American Morning." "During the Vietnam War, many young men, including the current president, the vice president and me, could have gone to Vietnam and didn't. John Kerry came from a privileged background. He could have avoided going too, but instead, he said: Send me," Clinton said. In keeping with the Democratic convention strategy of avoiding strong Bush-bashing, Clinton jabbed the Republicans sharply on the economy, tax cuts and corporate windfalls, while taking more subtle digs at the president himself. Kerry has "a willingness to hear other views, even those who disagree with him," Clinton said. "John Kerry will make choices that reflect both conviction and common sense." Sen. John Edwards (news - web sites) watched the opening speeches at his home in North Carolina, resting a raspy voice and doing some last-minute polishing of the speech in which he will accept the party's vice presidential nomination Thursday, aides said. Republicans, in town to combat the Democrats' message, aimed to contrast what they called Clinton's more centrist policies with Kerry's liberal voting record in the Senate. "It's going to be difficult for Kerry to wrest control of these folks from the thrall of Bill Clinton," veteran GOP strategist Rich Galen said. Pre-convention polls show Kerry tied or slightly ahead of Bush, although the same surveys show the president with a clear advantage over his challenger in handling the war on terror. The first national political convention since Sept. 11, 2001, was influenced by the terror attacks in ways both big and small. In a ceremony of remembrance, the hall went nearly dark but for small flashlights held aloft as the strains of "Amazing Grace" floated across the arena from the violin of a 16-year-old musician. Outside, armed officers stood guard along a seven-foot-tall metal security fence that ringed the convention complex. Bush, meanwhile, stayed out of the public eye at his Texas ranch. ___ On the Net: Kerry-Edwards campaign: http://www.johnkerry.com Bush-Cheney campaign: http://www.georgewbush.com Democratic National Convention: http://www.dems2004.org Bush Vows Justice on Iraq Prison Abuse 57 minutes ago Add White House - AP to My Yahoo! By TERENCE HUNT, AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON - Acknowledging mistakes but stopping short of an apology, President Bush (news - web sites) told the Arab world on Wednesday that Americans are appalled by the abuse and deaths of Iraqi prisoners at the hands of U.S. soldiers. He promised that "justice will be delivered."   AP Photo AFP Slideshow: Abuse of Iraq Prisoners Investigated Bush Speaks to Arab World (AP Video) Latest headlines: · Newsview: Bush Condemns, No Apology AP - 19 minutes ago · Bush Vows Justice on Iraq Prison Abuse AP - 57 minutes ago · Official: Bush to Seek $25B for Iraq War AP - 1 hour, 10 minutes ago Special Coverage   "The people in the Middle East must understand that this was horrible," Bush said, trying to calm international outrage. He went on two Arabic-language television networks to take charge of the administration's damage-control efforts.   Bush said he retained confidence in Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, but White House aides said the president let the secretary know he was not satisfied with the way he was informed about the unfolding controversy. In particular, Bush was unhappy he was not told about incriminating pictures before they were shown on television or about a 2-month-old Pentagon (news - web sites) report before it turned up in the news.   Rumsfeld did not know about the images until CBS aired them last Wednesday, a senior White House official said.   Bush also said he learned of the photographs of the alleged abuse when the rest of the world did. "First time I saw or heard about pictures was on TV," Bush told the Al-Hurra television network.   The difficulty of Bush's task became clear in the first question of a television interviewer who said the evidence of torture made many Arabs believe that the United States was no better than Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s government, notorious for torture and murder. The president murmured under his breath at the comparison.   Bush said the abuses were "terrible" for America's image abroad. "I think people in the Middle East who want to dislike America will use this as an excuse to remind people about their dislike," he told Al-Arabiya television, a satellite channel based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, that is popular around the Arab world.   Six months before the U.S. election, the prisoner-abuse controversy poses a major problem for Bush, already on the defensive about rising American casualties and persistent violence. Portraying itself as the provider of freedom in Iraq (news - web sites), the administration finds itself rocked by condemnation over pictures of American soldiers gloating over naked prisoners and scenes of abuse at the U.S.-run Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad.   Angry lawmakers called Rumsfeld to Capitol Hill to testify on Friday while Senate leaders — Republicans and Democrats alike — discussed a Senate resolution to condemn the abuses. The number of prisoner deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan (news - web sites) known to be under U.S. investigation or already blamed on Americans rose to as many as 14.   Separately, the administration asked Congress for an additional $25 billion for U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, a change from the White House's earlier plans not to seek such money until after the November elections.   Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites), Bush's Democratic rival, said the president's remarks were not enough. "The president of the United States needs to offer the world an explanation and needs to take appropriate responsibility," he said. "And if that includes apologizing for the behavior of those soldiers and what happened, they ought to do that."   Bush said that what happened at Abu Ghraib was "more than an allegation, in this case, actual abuse — we saw the pictures. There will be a full investigation." While Bush did not offer an apology, Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites), his national security adviser, had said Tuesday that "we are deeply sorry for what has happened," and the commander of U.S.-run prisons in Iraq, Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, apologized Wednesday for the "illegal or unauthorized acts" of U.S. soldiers.   "We've already said that we're sorry for what occurred and we're deeply sorry to the families and what they must be feeling and going through as well," White House press secretary Scott McClellan said. "The president is sorry for what occurred and the pain it has caused."       Asked why Bush himself had not apologized, McClellan said: "I'm saying it now for him." There was mixed reaction in the region to Bush's remarks. "Bush's statements today will not restore the dignity which the tortured detainees lost," said Sari Mouwaffaq, a Baghdad mechanic. "Bush's apology, or his attempt to find excuses, has no value to us." Sami Ibrahim, a 24-year-old Egyptian real estate agent, said, "I won't believe what he says. I don't trust their intentions anyway." But Raad Youssef, a 49-year-old teacher in Baghdad, said that during Saddam's rule, "there were many genocides that were committed and nobody dared to reveal them at that time and now officials of the former regime did not try to apologize. Bush's attempt to repair the damage is a good thing in my opinion."   Make Your Own Web Page To Advertise Your Business-Call 868-752-7048. Mary Kay Cosmetics are the Best! . CELEBRATE A BIRTHDAY INSTEAD OF A FUNERAL! SOLIDARITY OF 19 COUNTRIES-NATO Europe - AP British Cops Nab 13 in Anti-Terror Raids By BETH GARDINER, Associated Press Writer LONDON - Police conducted anti-terrorism raids in London and several towns Tuesday, arresting 13 people believed involved in preparing terrorist acts. London's Metropolitan Police said the afternoon and evening arrests were "part of a pre-planned, ongoing intelligence-led operation." The men were detained "on suspicion of being concerned in the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism," the police statement said, without elaborating. The arrests were in northwest London, the suburban area of Bedfordshire, the town of Luton in the Hertfordshire area just outside the capital, and the town of Blackburn, in the northernwestern region of Lancashire. The suspects, who are all in their 20s and 30s, will be brought to a central London police station for questioning by anti-terrorism officers, police said. They declined to specify the men's nationalities. Police said the investigation leading to the arrests had been underway for some time and did not say whether they were linked to the terror threats disclosed by American authorities Sunday to financial industry buildings in New York, Washington D.C., and Newark, N.J. Pakistan's information minister said Monday his country found plans for new attacks against the United States and Britain on a computer seized during the arrest last month of a senior al-Qaida suspect wanted for the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in East Africa. While British authorities say the threat from terrorism remains high, they have not warned of any specific threat like that announced in the United States. The intelligence behind the latest U.S. terror warnings was as much as four years old, and law enforcement officials are trying to determine whether the plot was current, with terrorists still trying to organize such an attack. Police will have up to two weeks to hold the men before deciding whether to charge them, but courts grant that permission only a few days at a time. Suspects arrested in previous anti-terrorism raids have often been released without charge before the two weeks expire. Next Story: British Cops Nab 13 in Anti-Terror Raids (AP) · Thirteen arrested in anti-terrorist operation in Britain (AFP) · Gibraltar motion on sovereignty likely to fuel row with Spain (AFP) · Government refuses to panic at fresh terrorism threat (AFP) · Eriksson set for Wednesday grilling (AFP) · Lightning kills boy, injures four girls as storms lash Britain (AFP) CIA Puts Harsh Tactics On Hold. By Dana Priest, Washington Post Staff Writer The CIA (news - web sites) has suspended the use of extraordinary interrogation techniques approved by the White House pending a review by Justice Department (news - web sites) and other administration lawyers, intelligence officials said. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The "enhanced interrogation techniques," as the CIA calls them, include feigned drowning and refusal of pain medication for injuries. The tactics have been used to elicit intelligence from al Qaeda leaders such as Abu Zubaida and Khalid Sheik Mohammed. Current and former CIA officers aware of the recent decision said the suspension reflects the CIA's fears of being accused of unsanctioned and illegal activities, as it was in the 1970s. The decision applies to CIA detention facilities, such as those around the world where the agency is interrogating al Qaeda leaders and their supporters, but not military prisons at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and elsewhere. "Everything's on hold," said a former senior CIA official aware of the agency's decision. "The whole thing has been stopped until we sort out whether we are sure we're on legal ground." A CIA spokesman declined to comment on the issue. CIA interrogations will continue but without the suspended techniques, which include feigning suffocation, "stress positions," light and noise bombardment, sleep deprivation, and making captives think they are being interrogated by another government. Asked yesterday about the memo's circulation to a wider group of officials than previously known, White House spokeswoman Erin Healy replied in an e-mail: "It would not be uncommon for the Department of Justice (news - web sites) to discuss issues with lawyers throughout the administration. Regardless, the President's policy is very clear. He expects detainees to be treated in a manner consistent with our laws, treaties and values. The President has spoken out against torture, he has never authorized it, nor will he. As we have said, portions of the memo are overbroad and the Department of Justice is reviewing it." The legal debate over CIA interrogation techniques had its origins in the battlefields of Afghanistan (news - web sites), secret counterterrorism operations in Pakistan and in President Bush (news - web sites)'s decision to use unconventional tools in going after al Qaeda. The interrogation methods were approved by Justice Department and National Security Council lawyers in 2002, briefed to key congressional leaders and required the authorization of CIA Director George J. Tenet for use, according to intelligence officials and other government officials with knowledge of the secret decision-making process. When the CIA and the military "started capturing al Qaeda in Afghanistan, they had no interrogators, no special rules and no place to put them," said a senior Marine officer involved in detainee procedures. The FBI (news - web sites), which had the only full cadre of professional interrogators from its work with criminal networks in the United States, took the lead in questioning detainees. But on Nov. 11, 2001, a senior al Qaeda operative who ran the Khaldan paramilitary camp in Afghanistan was captured by Pakistani forces and turned over to U.S. military forces in January 2002. The capture of Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, a Libyan, sparked the first real debate over interrogations. The CIA wanted to use a range of methods, including threatening his life and family. But the FBI had never authorized such methods. The bureau wanted to preserve the purity of interrogations so they could be used as evidence in court cases. Al-Libi provided the CIA with intelligence about an alleged plot to blow up the U.S. Embassy in Yemen with a truck bomb and pointed officials in the direction of Abu Zubaida, a top al Qaeda leader known to have been involved with the Sept. 11 plot. A former senior Justice Department official said interrogation techniques for "high-value targets" were reviewed and approved on a case-by-case basis, based partly on what strategies would work best on specific detainees. Justice lawyers suggested some limitations that were adopted, the former official said. The former official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, said the administration concluded that techniques did not amount to torture if they did not produce significant physical harm or injury. However, interrogators were allowed to trick the detainees into thinking they might be harmed or instructed to endure unpleasant physical tasks, such as being forced to stand or squat in stress positions. "Clearly, that is not considered torture," the former Justice official argued. "It might be unpleasant and it might offend our sensibilities in most situations, but in these situations they were necessary and productive." At the same time, the former official said, "we never had a situation where we said, 'You can do anything you want to.' We never, ever did that. We were aggressive, but our people were very scholarly and lawyerlike." INTERNATIONAL HOME-LESSON FOR STUDENTS OF "THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL...Criticize this enrichment assignment. Rifles seized by police can be smelted to make decorative ornaments for museums at universities in Trinidad and Tobago. Middle East - AP Militant, Policeman Killed in Saudi Clash By ABDULLAH AL-SHIHRI, Associated Press Writer RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - A firebrand cleric who issued religious decrees for an al-Qaida-linked terrorist group was killed Wednesday during a car chase and shootout with police that also killed a policeman. Militant, Policeman Killed in Saudi Clash Al-Roshoud has called for a holy war against the Saudi royal family and Western interests in the Persian Gulf. He is the latest high-ranking member of an al-Qaida-linked group killed in Saudi Arabia's crackdown on homegrown militants following a spate of terrorist attacks on Saudi soil. A former high school professor of Islamic studies, al-Roshoud was known for writing statements on Islamic Internet sites and issuing fatwas, or religious edicts, justifying terrorist attacks against the Saudi government and foreign influences in the kingdom. With his death, at least 10 of the 26 militants on a state-issued most wanted list have been killed, including the June 18 slaying of Abdulaziz al-Moqrin, al-Qaida's leader in Saudi Arabia. The Interior Ministry statement, carried by the official Saudi Press Agency, said police first noticed several suspicious people carrying weapons as they left a safe house also used for making explosives and got into a car in the northern Riyadh suburb of King Fahd. Security forces called on the men to stop, the statement said, but they refused and shot at the police, who returned fire. An official told the AP that a car chase ensued, followed by a gun battle. Another militant fled the scene in a stolen car. Security forces sealed off the neighborhood, and police helicopters, patrol cars and ambulances converged on the scene. State-run Saudi TV showed footage of a car, believed to have been the one driven by the militants, parked in the middle of a road with at least one bullet hole through its front window. During the past year, Saudi Arabia has been rocked by suicide bombings, gunbattles and kidnappings targeting foreign workers. The attacks have been blamed on al-Qaida and sympathizers of the anti-Western terror network headed by Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden (news - web sites). The most recent attack was the June 12 kidnapping of American engineer Paul M. Johnson, Jr., who was decapitated after the government rejected a demand to release all detained militants in the oil-rich country. Middle East - AP al-Qaida Statement Threatens Australia By MAGGIE MICHAEL, Associated Press Writer CAIRO, Egypt - An online statement by a group representing itself as al-Qaida's European branch threatened on Saturday to turn Australia into "pools of blood" if it doesn't withdraw its troops from Iraq (news - web sites). It was the second statement in a week by the Tawhid Islamic Group, a previously unknown group which on Wednesday threatened attacks in Bulgaria and Poland if their troops remained in Iraq. "We call upon you to leave Iraq before your country turns to pools of blood," the statement warned the Australian government. Defiant Saddam Rejects War Crimes Charges By HAMZA HENDAWI, Associated Press Writer. BAGHDAD, Iraq - A defiant Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) rejected accusations of war crimes and genocide in court Thursday, telling a judge in his first public appearance since his capture that the real "criminal" was President Bush (news - web sites). Finger-Jabbing Saddam Defies Iraqi Tribunal Saddam was handcuffed when brought to the court but the shackles were removed for the 26-minute arraignment at Camp Victory, one of his former palaces on the outskirts of Baghdad. "I am Saddam Hussein, the president of Iraq (news - web sites)," Saddam said unprompted, sitting down in a chair facing the judge on the other side of a wooden railing. When asked his name, he repeated it in full: "Saddam Hussein al-Majid, president of Iraq." The appearance, broadcast on Arab satellite television stations, gave Iraqis their first look at the former dictator since his capture by the U.S. military seven months ago. They saw a Saddam whose mood ranged from nervousness and exasperation to contempt and defiance — even flashes of anger. At times, he seemed to lecture the young judge. Unaccompanied by a lawyer, Saddam refused to sign a list of charges against him unless he had legal counsel, and he questioned the court's jurisdiction. "Please allow me not to sign until the lawyers are present. ... Anyhow, when you take a procedure to bring me here again, present me with all these papers with the presence of lawyers. Why would you behave in a manner that we might call hasty later on?" he said. Saddam also accused the White House of orchestrating the hearing. "You know that this is all a theater by Bush, the criminal, to help him with his campaign," he said. White House spokesman Scott McClellan said Bush watched a televised replay of the hearing. The 67-year-old Saddam appeared most agitated when the subject came to the invasion of Kuwait — one of the broad charges against him. "The armed forces went to Kuwait," Saddam said. "Is it possible to raise accusations against an official figure and this figure be treated apart from the official guarantees stipulated by the constitution and the law? Where is this law upon which you are conducting investigations? "How could Saddam be tried over Kuwait that said it will reduce Iraqi women to 10-dinar prostitutes? " Saddam asked, referring to himself in the third person. "He defended Iraq's honor and revived its historical rights over those dogs." At this point, the judge admonished him and said he would not tolerate such language in the courtroom. A formal indictment with specific charges is expected later, said Salem Chalabi, director of the Iraqi Special Tribunal. Those were expected to include war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity. The trial is not expected until 2005. In Amman, Jordan, lawyers claiming to represent Saddam expressed outrage they were not at his side for the hearing. "This is tyranny and absolute cruelty," said Ziad al-Khasawneh, who said he was hired by Saddam's wife, Sajidah. "How can this be called a fair trial if President Saddam Hussein, may God bless him, was denied his basic right to a lawyer?" Saddam wore a charcoal-colored, pinstriped jacket with a white shirt open at the collar, and black trousers and shoes. He often stroked his trimmed, gray-and-black beard and had heavy bags under his eyes. He sat calmly, gesturing with his hands while addressing the court and sometimes taking notes on a piece of yellow paper. His appearance was in sharp contrast to video taken of him after his December capture, when he looked heavier, his beard was longer and his hair was gray and unkempt. Saddam was flown by helicopter from an undisclosed location and driven to a courtroom on a U.S. base. He was led from an armored bus escorted by two Iraqi guards and ushered through a door guarded by six more Iraqi police. The bus was escorted by four Humvees and an ambulance. Saddam arrived in a blue jumpsuit, but was given a suit to wear that came off the rack from a Baghdad store — attire that would not be humiliating but also not flashy. Saddam was heard before he was seen, his chains clanking as he walked down the corridor. When he first sat down, he was visibly nervous — his eyes roving left to right. He was particularly interested in the Iraqis in the room, especially Chalabi and National Security Adviser Mouwafak al-Rubaie, who were to his right. He used his hands constantly, poking the air, dragging a thumb across his eyebrow, brushing a fly from his cheek. When asked if he could afford a lawyer, Saddam retorted: "The Americans say I have millions hidden in Switzerland. How can I not have the money to pay for one?" At one point, according to a commentary by Arab broadcaster Al-Jazeera, Saddam asked the judge whether he would be tried under laws from his rule. Saddam told the court that the U.S.-led forces in Iraq were not "coalition troops but invasion troops," according to Al-Jazeera. Saddam insisted the judge refer to him as the "president of the Republic of Iraq" because "this would be respecting the will of the people." "Unfortunately, they are already being unfair to Iraqi journalists," Rahman said afterward, noting that some U.S. television reporters were allowed inside in addition to the pool. Saddam and 11 of his top lieutenants were transferred to Iraqi custody Wednesday. They no longer are prisoners of war but are still locked up, with U.S. forces as their jailers. "The next legal step would be that the investigations start proper with investigative judges and investigators beginning the process of gathering evidence," Chalabi said. "Down the line, there will be an indictment, if there is enough evidence — obviously, and a timetable starts with respect to a trial date." President Ghazi al-Yawer told an Arab newspaper that Iraq's new government has decided to reinstate the death penalty, which was suspended during the U.S. occupation. U.S. and Iraqi officials hope the trial will lay bare the atrocities of Saddam's regime and help the country recover from years of tyranny, the U.S.-led invasion and the insurgency that blossomed in its aftermath. But the trial could also widen the chasm among Iraq's disparate groups — Kurds, Shiites and Sunnis. "It's going to be the trial of the century," al-Rubaie told Associated Press Television News. "Everybody is going to watch this trial, and we are going to demonstrate to the outside world that we in the new Iraq are going to be an example of what the new Iraq is all about." Wednesday's transfer of legal custody took place in secret. Chalabi said the defendants were individually informed of the change in their status to criminal suspects. "Some of them looked very worried," Chalabi said of the other defendants, who include former Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz, the regime's best-known spokesman in the West; Ali Hasan al-Majid, known as "Chemical Ali"; and former Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan. The initial proceedings took place in secret because of fears that insurgents, many of them Saddam supporters, might exact revenge on participants. Issam Ghazawi, a member of Saddam's defense team, said he received threats in a telephone call Wednesday from someone promising that anyone trying to defend Saddam would be "chopped to pieces." U.S. officials had hoped to delay proceedings against Saddam until the Iraqis set up a special court and trained a legal team. But Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, whose government regained sovereignty Monday, insisted on taking legal custody of Saddam quickly. The Americans agreed on condition they keep custody of him. Trying Saddam and top regime figures presents a major challenge to the Iraqis and their American backers. However, the turmoil of the past 14 months has led to a longing for the stability and order of the ousted dictatorship, at least among Sunni Arab Muslims who now feel threatened by the possibility of a Shiite-dominated government. "Saddam Hussein was a national hero and better than the traitors in the new government," a resident of Saddam's Sunni-dominated hometown of Tikrit told APTN, refusing to give his name. In Fallujah, an insurgent stronghold west of Baghdad, resident Ammar Mohammed said the Americans should be put on trial first because they "killed thousands of Iraqis in one year of occupation." World - Reuters Powell Calls for Resolve Over Iraq Kidnappings By Dean Yates BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) urged allies in Iraq (news - web sites) not to bow to guerrillas waging a campaign of hostage-taking and bombing as an attack wounded 14 foreign soldiers in Baghdad on Tuesday. Slideshow: Iraq Insurgents bent on undermining Iraq's interim government fired several mortar rounds in the capital just after dawn, killing an Iraqi civilian and wounding 14 foreign soldiers. Guerrillas have snatched a dozen foreigners in the past week and threatened to kill them, piling pressure on foreign forces and firms to leave Iraq as a 15-month insurgency shows no sign of abating. Among them was an Egyptian diplomat -- released overnight having been seized as he left a Baghdad mosque last Friday -- who said his captors had apologized and given him gifts when they freed him. Speaking on a visit to Hungary, which has sent 300 troops to Iraq, Powell called on allies to stay the course. "Democracy is hard. Democracy is dangerous. And this is the time for us to be steadfast, not get weak in the knees," Powell said in a Hungarian television interview at the start of a week- long tour of Europe and the Middle East. "We must not allow insurgents, those who will use bombs and kidnapping and beheadings, to triumph." The United States has insisted its troop coalition in Iraq was strong despite the departure last week of the Philippines, which pulled out to save the life of a Filipino hostage. It joined Spain, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua and Honduras as nations that have left what was once a 34-member coalition. HOSTAGE CRISIS Hostages from India, Kenya, Egypt, Pakistan and Jordan, mainly truck drivers, have been seized in the past week. The United States, Australia and Iraqi officials have accused Manila of encouraging more abductions with its pull-out. Egyptian diplomat Mohamed Mamdouh Qutb, the number three in Egypt's embassy, said he was taken because his captors had objected to Cairo hosting a visit last week by interim Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi. "At the beginning they threatened to kill me. But later they apologized and at the end they gave me a string of prayer beads and a dagger as presents," Qutb told Reuters. "I think it was a vivid experience," he said. "I just hope it doesn't happen again." Insurgents fired several mortars in Baghdad near the Green Zone compound that houses the interim government and the U.S. embassy. The area is regularly targeted by guerrillas. A U.S. military spokesman said he had no information on the nationalities of the wounded troops, or where they were when the attack happened. Many American soldiers are based in the zone. "It's not right, young men are being killed every day. For what?" wailed an elderly woman at the scene where the Iraqi civilian was killed. 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The independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks said Wednesday that no evidence exists that al-Qaida had strong ties to Saddam Hussein. Although bin Laden asked for help from Iraq in the mid-1990s, Saddam's government never responded, according to a report by the commission staff based on interviews with government intelligence and law enforcement officials. The report asserted that "no credible evidence" has emerged that Iraq was involved in the Sept. 11 strikes. A Crime Scene Investigation Need Highly-Trained, Scientific, Technologically-sound Police Of Integrity, and Forensic Scientists on-site together. Some say that education is separate from sex but military sex education is a combination! Educated people are brilliant in sex too! British diamonds are forever! Brazilians celebrate gay rights in June 2004! CAUTION: The World Bank and Twin Towers can fall as a result of powerful seduction forces involving women managers. Hacking Ran Therapy Sessions on Psych Ward By PAUL FOY, Associated Press Writer SALT LAKE CITY - Former patients at a psychiatric hospital where Mark Hacking worked as an orderly said Hacking, who is accused of killing his wife, insisted patients call him "Franz" although they knew his real name. The two former patients, one speaking on condition of anonymity, also told The Associated Press that Hacking once ran unauthorized group therapy sessions. Hacking, 28, is in jail and accused of killing his wife and disposing of her body in a garbage bin. Lori Hacking, 27, is believed by authorities to have discovered that her husband had been lying for years about his education and plans to become a doctor. The couple had packed for a move to a North Carolina medical school where, it turns out, he wasn't enrolled. Hacking's family was astonished to discover he had also been lying about having graduated from college. The University of Utah said Friday that Hacking ran group "activities," not therapy sessions, although the former patients recalled Hacking relishing a role as therapist — asking about their concerns and taking notes on their behavior. They said he acted "like a person in authority" and rewarded them with cigarette breaks. Former patient Nedzad "Ned" Rosic said Hacking was known as a "psych tech" but acted as a therapist while "shaving his head and pretending to be Franz." Hospital officials confirm Hacking wore a "Franz" name tag but say it wouldn't have been officially issued. "Apparently there was a period, taking off on a 'Saturday Night Live' skit, when he introduced himself as `Franz,'" said University of Utah hospital spokeswoman Ann Brillinger. "Hans and Franz" was a skit featuring a pair of narcissistic bodybuilders. Administrators at the University Neuropsychiatric Institute refused to take calls from the AP on Hacking's conduct on the job he resigned July 23. Brillinger said Friday she was providing answers she obtained from institute staffers she didn't identify. Hacking was licensed by Utah as a health care assistant, a position equivalent to his job title at the institute, which was psychiatric technician, Brillinger said. Such employees work under the direction of nurses and deal with patients' basic needs, but aren't allowed to provide counseling, Brillinger said. Hacking also went by another alias, Jonathan Long, giving it to officials when his family admitted him at the University of Utah Medical Center psychiatric ward. The hospital is not where Hacking worked. Hacking was admitted the night after the search for his wife began, after police found him running around naked in sandals outside a motel where he had taken a room. Salt Lake police are searching for Lori Hacking's remains at a municipal landfill. Two of Hacking's brothers who visited him at the psychiatric ward July 24 said he confessed to them to having killed his wife and putting her body in the trash. Hacking's attorney, Gil Athay, has said he will raise the issue of mental illness and challenge his client's confession to relatives. Lori Hacking's father, Eraldo Soares, issued a statement Friday expressing outrage with the apparent "cold-blooded" murder of his adopted daughter and assailing her husband's "selfish and shameful" deceptions. Legal Battle for Presidency Underway. Wed Oct 20, 7:45 AM ET Politics - washingtonpost.com By Jo Becker, Washington Post Staff Writer The ballots have yet to be counted, much less recounted. But attorneys for President Bush (news - web sites) and John F. Kerry are already engaged in an intense legal battle for the presidency that could once again give the courts a say in who is declared the winner. · The missing Middle East: Bush, Kerry sidestep Israeli-Palestinian conflict. With less than two weeks to go before Election Day, an unprecedented number of lawsuits challenging basic election rules are pending in many of the battleground states. Both sides are in the final stages of training thousands of lawyers who will descend on the polls on Nov. 2 to watch for voter fraud or intimidation. Each campaign has teams of attorneys ready in the event of a recount in one or more states. Both are hitting up donors to pay the legal tabs in case there is a disputed outcome that leaves the winner in doubt after the polls close. Four years after the election between Bush and then-Vice President Al Gore (news - web sites) deadlocked in Florida and produced a 36-day legal whirlwind ultimately decided by the U.S. Supreme Court (news - web sites), courtroom battles have become as routine a part of the campaign as rallies and television ads. The result, experts say, is a race shaping up to be the most litigious in U.S. history. "Bush v. Gore really let the genie out of the bottle," said Richard L. Hasen, an election law professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. "Election law has become just another part of the political strategy of the parties." Both sides say they have assembled what amounts to the largest virtual law firms in the country, relying on new volunteers as well as old hands who cut their teeth in the 2000 recount. In Florida, the Kerry team is headed by Miami lawyer Steven Zack, whose partner, David Boies, argued Gore's case before the U.S. Supreme Court in 2000. Bush's Florida team is headed by Hayden Dempsey, who in 2000 worked as a lawyer for Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. Barry Richard, a Tallahassee lawyer who argued Bush's case before the Florida Supreme Court (news - web sites) four years ago, is on tap to defend the president again if necessary. Nationwide, the Democrats plan to have more than 10,000 lawyers standing by at the polls in battleground states to identify and address voting problems, particularly in the heavily minority precincts that saw a disproportionate number of ballots discarded in 2000. About 2,000 lawyers will be stationed in Florida alone, Democrats say. With memories of Palm Beach County's infamous "butterfly ballot" still fresh, the legal team is scrutinizing ballot designs and has money set aside for conducting a public education campaign should a confusing ballot layout make that necessary. Meanwhile, Democratic legal specialists are ready to wage recount battles in as many as five states at once. The Kerry campaign said it has raised more than $3 million for legal expenses. "This has been one of the top, if not the top, priorities," said the Kerry campaign's general counsel, Marc Elias. "The legal team is satisfied that we are working for a candidate who will not shy away from a full engagement with the other side." Republicans say they will have lawyers covering 30,000 precincts who will be prepared to challenge at the polls the eligibility of voters whose registrations seem suspect. The GOP has assigned its state party organizations to lead the effort. In Florida, Dempsey said he is primarily concerned with ensuring that fraud and illegal voting by felons do not dilute the votes of those eligible to cast ballots. Republican sources say Dempsey will command a core team of about 265 lawyers, but he is not saying. "I have no doubt that we will have more than enough," he said. "If we go into a recount situation, we are far better prepared to respond than before." And although Bush-Cheney general counsel Tom Josefiak said in an interview that "this election needs to be decided by the voters, not a bunch of lawyers," in a fundraising letter he sent out over the weekend he implored donors to "make sure we have the resources to defend the outcome of this election if it comes under attack." The GOP would not say how much it has raised. Not surprisingly, the legal efforts have provided both sides with political fodder. Democrats point to a history of Republican "ballot integrity" initiatives and charge that the GOP is trying to intimidate black voters, who overwhelmingly support Kerry over Bush. Republicans counter that the Democrats are cynically using the issue of minority-vote suppression to motivate their political base, pointing to a party handbook that advises lawyers to mount "preemptive strikes" to raise awareness about past voter intimidation efforts even in places where none currently exists. Democrats have been particularly aggressive in the pre-Election Day legal skirmishing. By filing lawsuits now, Democrats say, they hope to avoid a recount altogether. "We're going to protect our vote, and by doing that, we think we'll win," said Bob Bauer, the Democratic Party's national counsel for voter protection. Lawsuits filed by the party and Democratic interest groups in Florida and Ohio, another critical state, seek to prevent local election officials from rejecting thousands of incomplete registrations. The lawsuits contend that in both states, Republican election chiefs are requiring that forms contain information that is irrelevant to determining a voter's eligibility. The parties are also fighting over "provisional ballots" given to people who show up at the polls and do not find their names on voter rolls. The Help America Vote Act passed by Congress in 2002 required that those ballots be counted if it can be determined after Election Day that the voters were eligible. A number of Republican election chiefs have decided that those ballots should be counted only if they are cast in the voters' proper precincts. Democrats, who contend that provisional ballots will be used mainly by poor and minority voters who tend to move a lot, have sued in several states. Some federal courts have upheld those rules, but others, including one in Michigan yesterday, have sided with the Democrats in ruling that the provisional ballots should be counted regardless of where they are cast. Both sides are keeping an eye on Colorado, where a ballot initiative could change the way that state's nine electoral votes are allocated, from a winner-take-all approach to one that divvies them up based on the popular vote. If the presidential election comes down to Colorado's electoral votes, they say, a legal battle to decide the presidency could once again land at the door of the U.S. Supreme Court. The effort is not confined to the two parties. A coalition of civil rights groups have put together an "Election Protection" program to deploy 6,000 lawyers and law students to assist minority voters. And the Republican National Lawyers Association, which is not formally affiliated with the GOP, has trained about 1,000 lawyers to watch out for unlawful activities at the polls. The fact that some of the rules are still in flux so close to the election has some experts concerned that poll workers could add to the chaos of Election Day by giving voters incorrect information. Add that to all the lawyers who will be at the polls, said Doug Chapin, director of electionline.org, a group that tracks election reform, and "it's going to be impossible to get through Election Day without some kind of major problem somewhere." Politics - U. S. Congress Lawmakers Got Flu Shots on Medical Advice Wed Oct 20,2004 WASHINGTON - Some members of Congress got flu shots before they headed home to campaign this month, despite the vaccine shortage. They were following the advice of the Capitol physician. While new federal guidelines encourage healthy adults to skip a shot this year, dozens of lawmakers — 35 in the Senate alone — are 65 or older. Older people and very young children are most at risk for severe complications from the flu. Capitol physician John Eisold considers all lawmakers prime candidates for getting and spreading the flu because of all the time they spend visiting retirement homes, holding babies and shaking hands, said a spokesman for Eisold. So even though President Bush (news - web sites) said he would forgo a flu shot this year because of the shortage, Eisold urged lawmakers to get their shots before they left Washington. The Capitol received less than 2,000 doses of vaccine at the end of September, before British authorities barred Chiron Corp. from shipping millions of doses of flu vaccine to the United States. The Capitol medical staff began providing shots, free of charge, the first week in October. It was unclear how many lawmakers were vaccinated, but Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, a heart-lung transplant surgeon, was among them, Frist spokesman Bob Stevenson said. Frist got his shot before the new guidelines were issued, Stevenson said. Last year, more than 9,000 flu shots were dispensed in the Capitol. Lawmakers, congressional staffers, maintenance workers and even reporters can get vaccinated there. Several lawmakers said they were following the president's lead this year. Rep. Phil Gingrey (news, bio, voting record), R-Ga., a physician, found it prudent and, perhaps not incidentally, good election-year politics to do so. "He's making sure there are enough shots for children and seniors," spokesman Brian Robinson said. CLICK! SAMPLE SCRIPT FOR THIS GRAPHICAL PRESENTATION by A STUDENT TEACHER (CLASSIFIED INFORMATION). A Focused Approach To ICT's In Education...GLOBAL HUNGER: A Gender Focus or perspective! France Expels Schoolgirls Over Scarf Law By ELAINE GANLEY, Associated Press Writer PARIS - Two Muslim girls were expelled from high school Wednesday for refusing to remove their head scarves — the fourth such expulsion in two days — as officials began punishing those who defy a new law banning conspicuous religious symbols from being worn in public schools. Slideshow: French Head Scarf Ban A 17-year-old girl was forced out of school in the eastern city of Mulhouse following a disciplinary hearing, said Gilles-Jean Klein, spokesman for the Strasbourg school district. Another girl was expelled from a school in the town of Flers in the western Normandy region, according to the Caen school district. Two other girls, aged 12 and 13, were forced out of school Tuesday in Mulhouse, bringing the total to four students expelled since the law took effect at the start of the new school year in September. A fifth student, also in Mulhouse, also risked expulsion later Wednesday, Klein said. Six more students could face a similar fate before the end of the week, the Education Ministry said. At the start of the week, 72 student faced expulsion for refusing to remove conspicuous religious signs or apparel — 17 of them in the Strasbourg area. Most are Muslim girls who wear Islamic head scarves, although the number includes some Sikh boys who refuse to remove their turbans. The law, passed in March but applied starting in September, bans conspicuous religious signs and apparel, including Muslim head scarves, Jewish skull caps and large Christian crosses. It is intended to uphold France's constitutionally guaranteed principle of secularism, considered undermined by a growing number of Muslim girls wearing head scarves in public schools. Authorities have also said they view it as a way to fight rising Muslim fundamentalism in France and to protect the rights of women, widely viewed here as submissive to men if they wear head scarves. France has proceeded cautiously after a group claiming to hold two French journalists hostage in Iraq (news - web sites) since Aug. 20 demanded that the law be lifted. A required period of dialogue aimed at persuading those who defy the legislation to change course has continued for weeks. However, schools began convening hearings to decide difficult cases this week, and a total of nine were being held at schools around France before the All Saints Day vacation period, which ends after the Nov. 1 Roman Catholic holiday. Those expelled have the right to appeal their cases. If they are under 16 — the legal age for leaving school — the expelled students must continue their education at a private school, by correspondence or another means, Klein said. At the start of the school year in September, some 600 cases of defiance of the law were reported. Most have been resolved through dialogue — as called for in the legislation, Education Minister Francois Fillon said Tuesday. The small Sikh community in France, estimated at 5,000 to 7,000 people, has learned that turbans also can pose a problem. Three Sikhs with turbans at a school in Bobigny, outside Paris, have been kept out of class since the start of the year. In the first court case resulting from the law, Sikh leaders have asked an administrative court to force the Louise-Michel school to convene a disciplinary council or let the boys return. A ruling is expected Friday. This web site was designed by JESSIE MOSES (Author, Publisher, Editor-In-Chief).  [Jessie Moses]. Copyright (C) All rights reserved. 1997-2006. Computer Hacking Is A Crime! A girl in my class is called J. Crime Valentine Ros...What's her middle name? "Who are the parents of crime?...That is Crime!...I do not like crime in school at all so I will tell everyone and draw a picture of crime," says John-John. The theme for my Carnival Band 2004 is "Grandma's Big Beautiful Safe House for Child Protection.". It is located in Mount Gommery, Bethel Village, Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago. The overtone of this portrayal is adult child protection issues against kidnapping, child-trafficking and the courage to heal...the voice of survivors crying in the wilderness! CAUTION: STOP SEX CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN 0-18 yrs. of age. CRIME-A NATIONAL ENEMY OF THE STATE. ATTENTION: YOU ARE WANTED BY INTERPOL, THE INTERNAL AFFAIRS DIVISION OF THE POLICE ADMINISTRATION AND THE ANTI-KIDNAPPING SQUAD, TRINIDAD FOR (10) COUNTS OF COMPUTER CRIMES -ATTEMPTING TO KIDNAP THIS WEB PAGE FOR THE FIRST INSTANCE ON DECEMBER 1st.,2003 AND THE SECOND TIME ON OR ABOUT FEBRUARY 4, 2004, STALKING THE AUTHENTIC AUTHOR, JESSIE MOSES, STEALING HER OPTICAL BIFOCAL EYEGLASSES, BINOCULARS, CAMERA AND MOBILE PHONE ON OCTOBER 24 th. 2003, ATTEMPTING TO STEAL THE KEYS TO HER PRIVATE HOME AND HER WEBPAGE PASSWORD, USING SPY SOFTWARE FOR ESPIONAGE, STEALING COMPUTER FILES, USING HACKING TOOLS DOWNLOADED FROM THE WEB FOR CHILD SOLDIERS! AND TRYING TO VIOLATE THE BODY OF A WOMAN IN AN UNNATURAL WAY(AGAINST THE ORDER OF NATURE)WITHOUT CONSENT plus UNLAWFUL CARNAL KNOWLEDGE OF ANOTHER MAN'S PROPERTY, NAMELY HIS WIFE OR DAUGHTER. AND ALLEGEDLY CHANGING PERSONAL REGISTRATION INFORMATION (NAME, PIN CODE, PASSWORD) FOR A WEB PAGE ON AN AMERICAN COMPUTER SERVER IN ORDER TO STEAL THE PHOTOGRAPH OF A MINOR BOY!.  [This page is a dedication to computer programmers who work all day and night to make it happen-Peace and Love!] Read the book: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Oxford University Press Publisher-Cost $5.95 U.S.! This author charts the progress of Pip (alias John-John 2003)from childhood through often painful experiences to adulthood, as he moves from the Kent marshes to busy, commercial London, encountering a variety of extraordinary characters ranging from Magwich, the main escaped convict, to Miss Havisham, a foster-mother living with beautiful Estella. Whose child was Estella? Pip never saw his biological parents. He chose a "father"! In the early stage of the "Great Expectations", Pip meets Magwich and learns about great surprises such as the second convict Compeyson being the "bisexual horner-man" of Ms. Havisham. Who is the foster-father of Estella? She was married first to Drumle who mistreated her, he was an uncouth brute and he bent her into a mellow form for Pip. Estella had no male father-figure but through her suffering she learnt how to love a nice man like Pip. Estella was brainwashed and "pre-programmed" for Pip by Ms. Havisham and a large sum of money was left for Pip by a benefactor, Magwich-Great Expectations! Estella is indeed the biological daughter of Magwich! Who is the biological mother of Estella? Is Mr. Jaggers the attorney(abogado) and law guardian of Pip? Did Pip become a lawyer too...who is the best friend of Pip? On his death bed in prison, Magwich was told that Estella was his daughter. Pip told him! Pip did his own investigation and used his critical-thinking skills to uncover secrets and find his "roots" or heritage. He has his own values and discovered his true self, his priorities and whether such values will allow one to prosper in the complex world of early Victorian England. This is the major question posed by Charles Dickens in this disturbing novel, intended to lead to a breech of international peace. Was Estella's biological mother the hired maid of the attorney Jaggers who acquitted her for murder of another woman? Jealousy caused that murder! Did Estella know of this fact? Let's examine the relationship between the two convicts Magwich and Compeyson as the story unfolds. Did Mr. Jaggers, the lawyer practice his profession according to ethics of the career or did he seek his own interest? Can the same lawyer represent both sides or "cross the floor"? Home-Lesson: Compare the autobiography of Pip and John-John (2004) focusing on the latter moving from Spain to France. He had to learn to speak two languages. The author of this web page is the mother of John-John and his father is a pain-management specialist. Coming soon to a computer near you, the e-book, "MURDER SHE WROTE" by Jessie Moses. Research LOST AND FOUND PARENTS-A MASS GRAVE/SUMMARY KILLINGS AND CONTRACTUAL DOCUMENTS. A PILOT'S INVESTIGATION. Copyright Laws...Reproduction of works without the authorization of the copyright owner is prohibited. The Copyright Act of Trinidad And Tobago Act No. 8 of 1997. Working in groups of three, look at the following eight photographs, and choose at least six of them. Arrange them in an order that makes a good story with a happy ending. Discuss the development of the story in the group and invent details that you need. Then, working individually write(type) the story in the textbox above or below. Click this link for more photos and slide shows and a crime scene. CELEBRATION TIME-A PREGNANT WOMAN! A Caribbean Book On HIV/Aids And Children by Barbara A. Dicks, PhD., MPH Editor. THE ANTI-TERRORISM AROUND THE WORLD POLICY PROJECT...Teach And Learn With The Internet...A MANAGERIAL PERSPECTIVE.  Search: Lycos Tripod      Dating Search Share This Page  Report Abuse  Edit your Site  Browse Sites      « Previous | Top 100 | Next » Jackson Charged With Child Molestation (AP) - Michael Jackson was formally charged with child molestation Thursday, setting the stage for what could become one of the most sensational celebrity trials this Internet-wired, 24-hour-cable world has ever seen. The charging documents specified seven counts alleging lewd or lascivious acts upon a child under 14 and two counts of administering an intoxicating agent. An Al-Jazeera Public Announcement: Weary soldiers in Iraq must rest by a camel and think about the philosophy of life and death...CLICK!  [Click for photos on the war against sexual abuse of boys and unlawful carnal knowledge against the order of nature...A paedophile priest betrayed the trust of boys. He used alcohol to lure teenage boys. This happens all around the world where sick deviants gratify their sexual lust against girls too! This is an example of crimes against humanity.] About the Webpage. Scroll Down On The Arrow and CLICK GO TO RESEARCH!... Where Is John-John SEARCH ENGINE?HOME PAGE VIEW A FLYER ON 9-11-01 Memorial Services. WARNING TO U.S.A CITIZENS ABROAD!...WORLDWIDE CAUTION! IRAQ WAR Starts on March 19, 2003. SPEECH By PRESIDENT BUSH PRISON SERVICES AND MEDIATION. THE LIBERIA CIVIL WAR. TEACH AND LEARN WITH THE INTERNET!BIRTHDAY BOY! WEAPONS CACHE SEIZED BY POLICE AND MILITARY UNIFORMS. IRAQ WAR Starts on March 19, 2003. SADDAM HUSSEIN-A FUGITIVE! PEEK-A BOO...He's Hiding...Can You Find Him?...Two FUGITIVES called Magwich and Saddam.?TEACH AND LEARN WITH THE INTERNET...The Battle For Control!A BLUE COLOURED HOME PAGE. LOST FOSTER CHILDREN AROUND THE WORLD(GLOBAL). 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READ "CONTRACT MURDER AND/Or SUMMARY COMPENSATION With A Secret Clause !" by Jessie Moses. | A Roadmap To Peace? | Children's Voices in War...NINOS ENCONTRANDO NINOS Y PADRES!|  [HISTORY UPDATE-Bones of Dinosaurs such as Tyranosauras Rex are still found in museums.] Operative Sought al-Qaida's Help in Iraq By ROBERT H. REID, Associated Press Writer BAGHDAD, Iraq - An anti-American operative in Iraq (news - web sites) appealed for help from al-Qaida leaders to help spark a sectarian war between Shiite and Sunni Muslims in an effort to "tear the country apart," U.S. officials said Monday. The officials confirmed a report Monday in The New York Times about the alleged plan, which was outlined in a 17-page letter that U.S. forces confiscated from an al-Qaida suspect in Iraq. "We believe the report and document are credible. We take the report seriously," Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, deputy chief of operations, told a news conference. He said the letter would be made public later. A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the letter was on a computer disk found on Hassan Ghul, a senior al-Qaida courier arrested last month by Kurdish forces as he tried to enter the country from Iran. The Times said its reporter viewed the Arabic document and a military translation on Sunday. It said the document is the strongest evidence to date of contacts between extremists in Iraq and al-Qaida. Kimmitt said the letter was believed written by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian who is suspected of having ties to al-Qaida. "We are persuaded that al-Zarqawi was the author of the letter. It is our understanding that this letter was being taken out of the country for delivery abroad," he said. Coalition spokesman Dan Senor said the letter talks about "a strategy of provoking violence, targeted at Shiites leaders that would result in reprisals against other ethnic groups within the country." The strategy is "focused on provoking ethnic sectarian warfare in this country in the hope of tearing this country apart," Senor said. The Times report quoted unidentified U.S. officials as saying that American forces arrested a man who had the document on a computer disc and was taking it to Afghanistan (news - web sites) to get it to al-Qaida's senior leaders. The author of the document claimed he had directed about 25 suicide bombings inside Iraq, but said the resistance against the U.S. occupation was struggling to recruit Iraqis and to combat American troops. Senor said "it is clear that the type of techniques we have seen all these have fingerprints of al-Qaida and foreign fighters." The letter expresses frustration over efforts to force the United States out of Iraq and suggests that attacks on Shiites would prompt retaliation against Sunnis and a cycle of widening violence, the newspaper said. "It is the only way to prolong the duration of the fight between the infidels and us," the letter says, according to the New York Times. "If we succeed in dragging them into a sectarian war, this will awaken the sleepy Sunnis who are fearful of destruction and death at the hands" of Shiites, it said.  [This is the National Flag of Spain below and Nato Member Countries...Click For U.S. Marines In Rota, Spain.]  [This is a first experience of snow in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania U.S.A. CLICK ALL LINKS-IMAGES AND WORDS] I love my daddy! Terrorism cast its lethal shadow across the globe--yet the world's resolve to defeat it has never been greater. . . . This chilling report details the very clear and present danger that terrorism poses to the world and the efforts that the United States and our partners in the international community are making to defeat it. The cold, hard facts presented here compel the world's continued vigilance and concerted action. About the Webpage. 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Read the Book : The Courage To Heal by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis - Harper and Row Publishers, NY 1998. CLICK for Missing Persons in New Orleans, U.S.A! CLICK TO SEARCH FOR YOUR MISSING, LOVED ONES! Bush Promises Help for Katrina Victims By JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer. BATON ROUGE, La. ,U.S.A President Bush traveled South on Monday to promise "a huge effort" for Hurricane Katrina victims in a visit somewhat sullied by thinly-disguised friction with Louisiana's governor over the pace of relief. Bush first stopped at the Bethany World Prayer Center. At the second stop — a visit to an emergency operations center — Bush kissed Blanco on the cheek, but it wasn't clear whether they had made up. The two said little publicly during the appearance. CLICK! Officials are now reporting some progress, and some new worries. Hundreds of federal health officers and nearly 100 tons of medical supplies were on their way to the Gulf Coast to try to head off disease outbreaks, feared because of the hot weather, mosquitos and standing water holding human waste, corpses and other contaminants. CLICK FOR A SAMPLE COMPUTER TECHNICAL "LEGAL" CASE made by this author Jessie Moses. HURRICANE KATRINA LEAVES MASSIVE DEATH AND DESTRUCTION IN NORTH AMERICA! CLICK! CLICK! Bush agenda: Family time, plenty of turkey, phone calls. CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) President Bush's Thanksgiving Day agenda was a lot like that of most Americans: time with the family, plenty of turkey and dressing, maybe a nap in front of the Dallas-Denver football game. President Bush calling U.S. troops from his ranch in Crawford, Texas on Thanksgiving Day. By Eric Draper ... People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals still doesn't approve of free-range turkeys, preferring that people instead adopt vegetarian lifestyles. But Bush did win rare praise from PETA on Tuesday when he spared two turkeys from becoming dinner, sending them to be honorary grand marshals at Disneyland's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Air Marshal Kills Passenger, Citing Threat By JOHN PAIN, Associated Press Writer MIAMI - An agitated passenger who claimed to have a bomb in his backpack was shot and killed by a federal air marshal Wednesday after he bolted frantically from a jetliner that was about to take off, officials said. No bomb was found. The man, identified as Rigoberto Alpizar, a 44-year-old U.S. citizen, was gunned down on a jetway just before the American Airlines plane was about to leave for Orlando, near his home in Maitland. It was the first time since the Sept. 11 attacks that an air marshal had shot at anyone, Homeland Security Department spokesman Brian Doyle said. CLICK BACK TO THE TOP OF DOCUMENT! World Troops to confront New Orleans looters amid mass evacuation. Mira Oberman and Patrick Moser New Orleans, U.S., September 1, 2005 (AFP) A National Guardsman was shot and a rescue helicopter came under fire as mounting violence shadowed massive efforts Thursday to evacuate the hurricane-stricken city of New Orleans. HURRICANE KATRINA LEAVES MASSIVE DEATH AND DESTRUCTION IN NORTH AMERICA! CLICK! TEACH ASTRONOMY, METEOROLOGY, EARTH SCIENCE, AND GLOBAL WARMING IN SCHOOLS. CLICK THIS LINK TO SEARCH FOR DEAD/MISSING FRENCH CITIZENS IN NEW ORLEANS, U.S.A. DRESS FOR THE WEATHER AND BE PREPARED FOR GLOBAL NATURAL DISASTERS AT ALL TIMES. CLICK TO SEARCH FOR YOUR MISSING, LOVED ONES (approx. 15,000 dead)! CLICK BACK TO THE TOP OF DOCUMENT! READ THE BOOK : The Courage To Heal by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis - Harper and Row Publishers, NY 1998. 25 years later, ex-paramour remembers Lennon's intellect, wit Larry Rodgers The Arizona Republic Dec. 8, 2005 12:00 AM Music lovers worldwide will be sharing their memories of John Lennon today, the 25th anniversary of the day he was shot to death at age 40 outside his home in New York City. One of those who got close to the former Beatle was May Pang, who worked as a personal assistant for Lennon and his second wife, Yoko Ono, in the early '70s. When the couple's marriage became strained in mid-1973, Lennon moved out of New York's Dakota complex and took up with Pang, 10 years his junior, for 18 months. He was reunited with Ono in February 1975, ending what he called his "lost weekend." advertisement Pang, 55, now lives in New York and is raising two teenage children. She wrote a 1983 book, Loving John, which is out of print. Pang shared some memories of Lennon: Question: When you think about John, what are the strongest traits that come to mind? Answer: He was a gentle and kind man, and sometimes naive, (but) his strong point was his wittiness. He was very intellectual and always searching for a higher self. Q: What is the most misunderstood quality about John? A: What bothered me were the incidents where they thought he was a depressed person and drinking all the time. How could he have done all this work (three albums) in that time frame if he was drunk and always out of it? Q: What was John's motivation for taking a break from his marriage? A: They were not communicating as much, they were not getting along. Everyone who was working in the house could feel (that there was) not the closeness that the two had had. Q: What has made John's music, both solo and with the Beatles, so enduring? A: His writing was to the point, he could say what he felt and put it down on paper. He had great melodies. He was always edgy. The Beatles were the only band where every album took us to another height. Q: Are you planning to do anything for the 25th anniversary of John's death? GENDER TERRORISM AND HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN YEAR 2006 : ENFORCE TELE-MENTAL HEALTH VACATION DAY GLOBALLY - Dial-a-cat! Focus on Rights, Civil Liberties, Law, Common Sense & Capacity Building, Online Family Life Education. A: I'll light a candle and I'll remember that day. But I don't choose to celebrate it too much. I'm just going to talk about the happier times. FBI warns about fake Katrina charity Web sites. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Many of the 4,000 Web sites advertising relief services for Hurricane Katrina could be fake and about 60 percent of them come from overseas -- a sign they may be bogus, the FBI said on Tuesday. Senior FBI and Justice Department officials warned Americans who want to donate money to the relief effort to be cautious to avoid fraudulent charities, including those that pretend to be major organizations like the Red Cross. CLICK THIS LINK FOR ETHICS IN EDUCATION! About This Website Development Project. (1997-2006)CLICK! General Information About Iraq War | U.S.A Flag Raising Ceremony | It took several days for food and water to reach the tens of thousands of desperate New Orleans residents who took shelter in the increasingly squalid and deadly Superdome and city convention center. Outlying areas, though receiving less nationwide attention, suffered some of the same problems. Officials are now reporting some progress, and some new worries. Hundreds of federal health officers and nearly 100 tons of medical supplies were on their way to the Gulf Coast to try to head off disease outbreaks, feared because of the hot weather, mosquitos and standing water holding human waste, corpses and other contaminants. Judge: No evidence Saddam was beaten In new courtroom drama, ex-Iraqi leader accuses U.S. of torture, lies Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein accused the White House on Thursday of lying about his weapons of mass destruction. • Procedures for Saddam Hussein’s trial Updated: 11:17 a.m. ET Dec. 22, 2005 BAGHDAD, Iraq - An investigative judge said Thursday that officials never saw evidence that Saddam Hussein was beaten in U.S. custody, contradicting the ousted Iraqi leader’s claims that he was abused and “the marks are still there.” U.S. officials strongly denied Saddam’s allegations as “completely unfounded.” Saddam, in turn, denounced those denials as “lies.” In a theatrical exchange becoming increasingly common at the trial, an assistant prosecutor asked to resign and the defense team threatened to walk out. Saddam also mocked President Bush’s claims that Iraq had chemical weapons. CLICK TO SEARCH AND MOURN FOR YOUR MISSING, LOVED ONES (approx. hundreds dead)! CLICK BACK TO THE TOP OF DOCUMENT! READ THE BOOK : The Courage To Heal by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis Harper and Row Publishers, NY 1998. World 1,800 dead as massive quake rocks South Asia AFP Danny Kemp and Rana Jawad Islamabad, Pakistan, October 8, 2005 (AFP) - An earthquake measuring at least 7.6 on the Richter scale caused massive devastation on Saturday across a swathe of Pakistan, India and Afghanistan, leaving more than 1,800 dead with fears for many more. FBI warns about fake Katrina charity Web sites. Travel Penthouses at 30,000 Feet By Carol Matlack The superrich are increasingly buying widebody planes, remodeled to their own preferences for luxurious living aloft. Think a luxuriously appointed private Gulfstream or Lear jet is the ultimate way to fly? Not any more. Increasingly, the world's superrich are buying big, big planes -- the same kind of widebody Boeing and Airbus jets the airlines use on long-haul flights -- and outfitting them with everything from his-and-hers bathrooms to onboard movie theaters. "Private jets are becoming flying apartments," says Jacques Pierrejean, a French designer who specializes in aircraft interiors. The planes are outfitted with computers, fax machines, and high-speed Internet connections, so work can continue uninterrupted. Time-pressed executives and celebrities also like to bring spouses and friends along when they travel. The widebodies have space for several guest rooms, as well as entertainment facilities such as big-screen TVs and video-game consoles. Not all the fun is family-style: New York designer Doret says one of his clients wants to install a pole in his plane so he can watch strippers dance. FROM DIVINE TO DECADENT. Another motivation, it seems, is one-upmanship. "As soon as someone gets one of these [big planes], others want it," Doret says. So it's not surprising that some clients are already eyeing the biggest plane of all: the doubledecker Airbus A380, scheduled to enter service late next year and designed to carry up to 800 passengers. Pierrejean has done preliminary designs for a wealthy Middle Eastern client who wants to buy an A380 for personal use. Among the amenities he has requested are an onboard movie theater, a prayer room, and a discotheque. With features like that, why bother landing? Technology Porn industry gears up for mobile phones, iPods Rob Lever Washington, U.S., November 15, 2005 (AFP) - The small screen is heating up with a new wave of racy images and film clips making their way to mobile phones and the new video iPods, raising new questions for telecom companies and regulators. Films, television shows and images are all making their way to the small screen, and analysts say that undoubtedly opens the door to pornography or other adult-oriented content. Within days of the launch of Apple's new video iPod, companies were rushing to deliver content ranging from mild to shocking. "We think the growth of viewing adult content on iPod devices will be explosive in the coming months," said Harvey Kaplan of Xobile.com, which describes itself as "the leading provider of adult movies for mobile phones." Kaplan told AFP that the mobile phone market remains far larger than that of "portables," which include video iPods, Sony PlayStations and Windows-based portable video devices. But he said both segments are surging. "We actively sign up about 20,000 new subscribers every month," Kaplan said, adding that three-fourths are from outside the United States. "We can deliver to any mobile phone anywhere in the world." In the United States, he said the market has been limited by mobile phone companies that are reluctant to become partners with the porn industry for fear of being stigmatized and by community standards more staid that other parts of the world. "In the US it's very slow, even for bikini-clad content," Kaplan said, adding that one mobile phone company that offered such an option "raised community outrage." "Nobody wants to be the first company to allow adult content," he said. Still, many companies are positioning for a growing market. Playboy struck deal this year for "iBod" photo galleries for the iPod photo device -- which preceded the video iPod -- and has a deal with Dwango Wireless to offer adult content for mobile phones. Kaplan said a new rating system adopted this month by the cellular industry -- which could allow parents to block sex-oriented content -- would be a boon to the adult entertainment industry. The Wireless Association announced guidelines for "generally accessible" and "restricted" content using criteria based on the movie, television, music and games rating systems. This allows carriers to requires parent or guardian permission to access any material inappropriate for subscribers under 18. The move to create content categories that could allow filters "is fabulous for a company like ours," Kaplan said. "The chief thing we get accused of is going after children. The bottom line is that kids are the worst customers possible. They don't have credit cards or their cards are stolen. We don't want them to see the content." The research firm Research and Markets estimated a year ago that the "wireless adult content market" would be worth 90 million dollars in the United States and one billion dollars globally by 2008. Yankee Group earlier this year estimated the US market for adult content at 192 million dollars by 2009, but said growth would depend on whether wireless carriers take action to protect minors to avert government regulation. But Jeff Kagan, an independent telecom analyst, said he sees the market moving slowly for erotic programming on mobile phones, even as the carriers start offering other types of films, music and television shows. "The US carriers have all shied away form anything that would cause trouble or hurt their image," Kagan said. "They have basically said they are staying out of the porn business. They have no control of what their clients do, but when they hear about it they try to shut it down." Kagan said the companies "would like access to a whole new revenue stream but it opens up a whole number of issues ... it's a touchy subject." But Kagan said the issue is different for iPods and similar devices. Since they don't use regulated public networks, there are fewer impediments to customers downloading whatever they choose. "It's the same effect but there are different rules," Kagan said. "But that's the problem with technology." Health is Wealth: A Personalized Homepage of Jessie Moses and John. E-Mail address jessiemoses1@yahoo.caCLICK ALL LINKED WORDS AND IMAGES! Let freedom ring! Show your own identification card! Stop getting in to trouble! Michael Jackson has been ordered to apologise to America's Jewish community after allegedly branding them "leeches". In a recorded call from 2003, aired by US TV network ABC this week, the eccentric singer is alleged to be heard saying Jewish members of the music industry had conspired against him to wreck his career. On the tape - a recorded message for former adviser, Dieter Wiesner - Jackson says: "They suck them [stars] like leeches. ... They start out the most popular person in the world, make a lot of money, big house, cars and everything and end up penniless. "It's a conspiracy. The Jews do it on purpose." The 'Billie Jean' singer's alleged comments have outraged America's large Jewish population and now the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) have demanded Jackson make a public apology. ADL director Abraham H. Foxman slammed the pop star in a statement, saying: "Michael Jackson has an anti-Semitic streak. "It seems every time he has a problem in his life, he blames it on Jews." ...The singer infuriated Jewish groups in 1995 when his song 'They Don't Care About Us' included the lyrics: "Jew me, sue me, everybody do me, kick me, kike me." At the time, Jackson apologised, claiming the lyrics were supposed to demonstrate the hatefulness of racism and anti-Semitism and later altered the line. The star's spokeswoman Raymone K. Bain said yesterday (23.11.05) the singer had no comment to make on the current allegations. Read about Michael Jackson.CLICK THIS LINK! Request News Alerts Sent To E-Mail inboxes! • www.mj.com Study: 11 million U.S. adults not literate in English. WASHINGTON (AP) An estimated one in 20 U.S. adults is not literate in English, which means 11 million people lack the skills to perform everyday tasks, a federal study shows. From 1992 to 2003, the nation's adults made no progress in their ability to read a newspaper, a book or any other prose arranged in sentences and paragraphs. They also showed no improvement in comprehending documents such as bus schedules and prescription labels. The adult population did make gains in handling quantitative tasks, such as calculating numbers found on tax forms or bank statements. But even in that area of literacy, the typical adult showed only basic skills, enough to perform simple daily activities. Perhaps most sobering: The 11 million adults who are not literate in English include people who may be fluent in another language, such as Spanish, but are unable to comprehend text in English. CONCLUSION : This is the best online school for adults! Happy New Year 2006! TELE-HEALTH IN SPAIN! Dial-a-male cat globally For Natural Anti-Disaster/Anti-Terrorism Health Education E-Books, Global Family Gender Issues & Anti-terror Wars, CLICK THIS LINK FOR ETHICS IN EDUCATION! About This Website Development Project. (1997-2006) "Tranquilo" ex-violent Global Sexual Press 9--, and Dial-a-Cat for an educated, civil, "civet-cat" & expired library membership/Alumni benefits. Call the chief and the "abogado." The Theme "FIGHT GLOBAL CONSPIRACY, authored and illustrated by Jessie Moses is temporarily "linked" online to a ring on conspiracy sites. I am not a terrorist. My readers can get a different view on global terrorism, perhaps linked to Arabic Al-Jazeera TV station. I do not know, nor communicate with these writers, and attest that I have no allegiance to Al-Qaeda. You may preferably do a keyword search on "CONSPIRACY" if you are not happy with the conspiracy. I voted! This is how I deal with the threat or a conspiracy!" 23 Killed, Prisoners Freed in Iraqi Raid BUSAN, South Korea - President Bush and other Pacific Rim leaders urged Europe on Saturday to show new flexibility on farm subsidies, an issue that has stalled global trade negotiations. ADVERTISEMENT Wrapping up their annual summit, the 21 leaders of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum also promised to boost cooperation on fighting terrorism and preparing for a possible flu pandemic. They urged further progress at international talks on North Korea nuclear disarmament. But it was the trade issue that dominated the two-day APEC summit, just three weeks before a key World Trade Organization meeting in Hong Kong. The leaders, who clearly blamed Europe for the deadlock in remarks on the sidelines of the summit, stopped short of naming the continent in their statement on trade. Officials said it was too politically sensitive. "We urge all other WTO members, and especially those that have the largest stake in the global trading system and derive the biggest benefits therefrom, to show the flexibilities needed to move the negotiations forward," the leaders' statement said. Unblocking disputes over agriculture are the key to progress, the statement said. Australia and Canada wanted the statement to name Europe as the main obstacle in the WTO, but other leaders objected because they did not want to single out any country or region, officials said. "You don't have to name names," Philippine Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo told The Associated Press, adding it was quite obvious who the statement was directed at. In his weekly radio address Saturday, Bush called it a strong statement. "Asian Pacific leaders are working with us toward the goal of a freer and fairer global trading system, which will benefit America and other nations around the world." Counterterrorism, bird flu, energy security and other issues were dealt with in a separate statement. The agreements were announced after the leaders posed for a photo in traditional South Korean silk overcoats called durumagi. About 1,000 anti-globalization protesters attempted to march to the meeting venue, a cupcake-shaped villa on the South Korean coast named "Nurimaru," or "pinnacle of the world." But they were blocked by security forces and dispersed peacefully after several hours. On Friday, police clashed with activists from a crowd of about 4,000 protesters who failed to disrupt the meeting. South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun said a resolution to the standoff between the two Koreas would spread peace and economic cooperation throughout the region. "The North Korean nuclear issue is a factor of security anxiety not just for South and North Korea, but also a factor of anxiety that affects the whole of Northeast Asia," Roh told journalists after the meeting. In a speech to U.S. troops at Osan Air Base south of the capital Seoul, Bush avoided direct mention of the North Korea nuclear issue. But he made a thinly veiled reference to Kim Jong Il's totalitarian regime as he praised democratic South Korea. The South "is now a beacon of liberty that shines across the most heavily armed border in the world. It is a light reaching to a land shrouded in darkness," Bush said. "Together the United States and (South Korea) have shown that the future belongs to freedom, and one day all Koreans will enjoy the blessings of freedom." Fears of a possible human pandemic spawned by bird flu have grown in recent days with China announcing its first human cases. Under a new bird flu initiative, APEC countries committed to openness and information sharing. They said they would conduct a simulation exercise early next year to test responses to a possible pandemic. APEC's bird flu plan "commits our economies to effective surveillance, transparency and openness, and close domestic, regional and international coordination and collaboration," the leaders said. The leaders also said they would seek to dismantle terrorist groups and counter threats from weapons of mass destruction. They launched an initiative to protect intellectual property, seeking to stem counterfeit goods and software piracy. And they also pledged to find ways to offset the effects of high oil prices. File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a fast, easy, and reliable way to move an entire Web site from one location onto Angelfire's servers. FTP is also a useful when moving individual files that you've built on your machine over to your Angelfire member directory. You can also back up a copy of your Angelfire site on your personal machine with FTP. The possibilities are endless! Follow the simple directions below to have your site up and running on Angelfire in no time. What is FTP, and why would I want to use it? How do I get started? Okay, got it open...what next? It's asking for a username, and password. What do I tell it? I'm in! What now? Anything important I should know? What does "back up" mean? How do I back up my files? My friend said I needed to get an FTP program, is that true? I've already got an FTP program. How do I set it up to work with Angelfire? Q: What is FTP, and why would I want to use it? FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol, and is very handy for uploading files (including your entire website) from your computer to Angelfire, or vice versa. If you have a lot of files to upload, doing them a handful at a time through the Angelfire Webshell can take a while. FTP makes it fast and easy. Q: Sounds like something I'd want to use, how do I get started? First, let's run through the basic requirements. You will need: an Angelfire account (Don't have one? Click here to sign up for free or view our subscription plans.) an internet connection Microsoft Internet Explorer This tutorial will use Internet Explorer as a means of FTP. Let's face it, no one wants to spend money on expensive software, do they? So, step one would be to open Internet Explorer. Q: Okay, got it open...what next? Go to the address bar (the place where you type in the address of the site you want to visit), and type in ftp.angelfire.com. Press Enter. Q: It's asking for a username, and password. What do I tell it? We'd hoped this one would be obvious, but maybe not. Enter your Angelfire membername and password. Do not enter your domain name, if you have one as part of your hosting with us. Only enter your membername. Your membername appears at the end of your Angelfire URL (https://www.angelfire.com/member/name). Q: I'm in! What now? You should see a view that looks a lot like the files you browse through on your computer. If it's the first time you're logging into the account, you should see a folder called cgi-bin, and an HTML file. The index.html file is the "main" page people will see when they come to your website. So, if you're changing that, be sure your "main" page, is named index.html. Now, the uploading part. Open a new browser window, and locate the files on your computer that you want to display on your website (including your images). Highlight the files you want to move (you can upload as many as you want at once, or as many as your internet connection can handle), then simply drag them over to the FTP window. You will see a dialog box that says "copying files" while the files are copied to your Angelfire directory. That's it. The files are now in your Angelfire webspace. Q: Anything important I should know? In relation to FTPing the files to your webspace? Yes, here's a few things to keep in mind: Your file names and images need to be HTML compliant. That means no spaces or non-alphanumeric characters within their names. You can't create subdirectories (folders) in your Angelfire account from Internet Explorer; that needs to be done from the Web Shell or through an FTP client. If you delete a file from your Angelfire site, be sure to keep a copy for yourself on your computer. We don't regularly back up member files, so we are unable to restore deleted files. A great reason for using FTP is to back up your website. Q: Back up? What do you mean? Back up. You know, an additional copy of your website files stored on your computer. So, in case you delete some files accidentally from your webspace, you can put them back and not have to create everything from scratch. That wouldn't be much fun, would it? Q: How do I do that? Well, FTP works the same in both directions. We already went over how to upload the files from your computer to your Angelfire web space. To back up your files, or download them, simply follow the steps in the reverse direction. Locate the files within your Angelfire FTP window, highlight them, and drag them over to the window displaying your computer files. Q: My friend said I needed to get an FTP program, is that true? Well, if you've got money to spend, and want an FTP program, go for it. Who are we to tell you that you can't buy one? By all means, if you want to use an FTP program, go for it. Here's a link to our our help section, regarding FTP Programs and access. Q: I've already got an FTP program. How do I set it up to work with Angelfire? Here's the info you'll need to use an FTP program: Host name: ftp.angelfire.com User ID: Your Angelfire member name Password: Your Angelfire password Directory: Leave this field empty to FTP to your root directory (you can choose a subdirectory later if you wish) Copyright 1997-2007. Author Jessie Moses, Electronic Publisher, Graphic Designer, Educator. INTRODUCTION - CAUTION AGAINST CRIME ON OR AROUND U.W.I CAMPUS ENVIRONS! READ ABOUT INTERNATIONAL LABOR ORGANIZATIONS (I.L.O). IN T & T LABOR UNION LEADERS ARE PROFESSIONALS WITH "UNDERWORLD" MILITARY TRAINING IN RUSSIA TOO! BE EMPOWERED WITH GOD'S SPIRIT FOR DIVINE PROTECTION! WORK IS LOVE MADE VISIBLE. Take Warning! This is the best online school for adults! Welcome to Papua, New Guineans and Happy New Year 2006! CLICK FOR GEOGRAPHY IN 1902. CELEBRATE INDEPENDENCE IN 1975. IN 1997, 20,000 died in a revolt ( 9 year secessionist revolt.) TELE-HEALTH IN SPAIN! GLOBAL JUSTICE. A boy was charged for "wasting the police time." He faked a kidnapping, and demanded a ransom from his mother. His father lived outside the home, and had diminished responsibility. The 14 year boy pleaded guilty and was released on a bond and curfew. His mother must supervise and love him until death. He must receive a thorough explanation from all teachers and adults shaping his mind and heart. 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CLICK FOR A SAMPLE COMPUTER TECHNICAL PROPOSAL made by this author Jessie Moses. I like reading online. Read about capital punishment in California State. Should the death penalty be abolished? The Privy Council won, and reversed the coviction of prisoners on death row! HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT : ENFORCE TELE-MENTAL HEALTH VACATION DAY GLOBALLY - Dial-a-cat globally For Natural Anti-Disaster/Anti-Terrorism Health Education E-Books, Global Family Gender Issues & Anti-terror Wars, "Tranquilo" ex-violent Global "Sexual" Cats on therapy- tamarind whip, birch, and cat-o-nine tails, plus Online Family Life Education: Press 9--, and Dial-a-Cat for an educated, civil, "civet-cat" & benefits of expired membership. HURRICANE KATRINA LEAVES MASSIVE DEATH AND DESTRUCTION IN NORTH AMERICA! CLICK! Christmas, 2004, an enormous earthquake shook the seas off the island of Sumatra, generating a tsunami that swept across the Indian Ocean. Indonesia, the Maldives, Thailand, Sri Lanka, India and even Kenya and Somalia on the east coast of Africa -- 4,000 miles away -- felt the fatal touch of this natural disaster. Over 180,000 lives were lost, 130,000 are still missing and presumed dead, and several million lost their homes and livelihoods as a result. Date: December 26, 2004 Time: 7:59 a.m. local time (2:59 p.m. GMT) Earthquake Magnitude: 9.15 Epicenter: 155 miles southeast of Banda Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia Wave Height: 50 to 100 feet at northwest Sumatra coast Fault Slippage: 16.5 to 50 feet wide along 800 miles Tsunami Fatalities: Estimated 300,000 people Source: United States Geological Survey This month, Richard Bangs Adventures explores the aftermath of one of history's most catastrophic natural events, visiting sites not only of destruction and loss, but of rebuilding and hope. It is a search for lessons in nature's wrath. In particular we visit the Moken people of Thailand's Surin Islands, a tribe known as the "sea gypsies," who suffered but one fatality in their traditional villages despite the havoc the wave wrought on the island. Our shepherd among the sea gypsies will be John Gray, one of the pioneers of sea kayak adventures over the past 20 years. A resident of Thailand for 16 of those years, John has built up friendships and connections with Thai in all walks of life, and offers his insight as he escorts us on our journey among the Moken, where listening to the voices of the ancestors can save your life. POLICE SHOOTS POLICE IN BALTIMORE! CLICK THIS LINK FOR ETHICS AND CIVIL RIGHTS IN EDUCATION! LET FREEDOM RING! Health is Wealth: A Personalized Homepage of Jessie Moses and John. E-Mail address jessiemoses1@yahoo.ca Health is Wealth: A Personalized Spanish Frontpage of Jessie Moses and Johnny. E-Mail address jessiemoses1@yahoo.ca CLICK ALL LINKED WORDS AND IMAGES! HAPPY SURFING! 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