By Yossi Melman, Haaretz Correspondent Israeli intelligence was involved in editing and creating the sanitized version of information about Iran’s recently revealed secret uranium enrichment facility near Qom. The revelation comes in an interview given by the director of the Central Intelligence Agency Leon Panetta to TIME magazine. Panetta said that the CIA had known [...]
By ROBERT PEAR and DAVID M. HERSZENHORN WASHINGTON — The Senate Finance Committee legislation to revamp the health care system would provide coverage to 29 million uninsured Americans but would still pare future federal deficits by slowing the growth of spending on medical care, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday. The much-anticipated cost analysis [...]
Canada Free Press: The current chief organizer of ACORN, who was up to her eyeballs in the $1 million embezzlement scandal at the embattled radical leftist group, lied and lied and lied some more in an appearance at the National Press Club yesterday. The contemptible Bertha Lewis, who now prefers to call herself “CEO†of [...]
AP KABUL (AP) – A large explosion rocked the center of Afghanistan’s capital early Thursday, near the Indian Embassy and the Interior Ministry. Information on casualties was not immediately available. Associated Press reporters heard the explosion in the morning and saw a plume of smoke rising from a site in downtown Kabul. An AP reporter [...]
By The Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) In its inaugural case, the newly established Supreme Court of the United Kingdom heard arguments in a challenge to the nation’s counter-terrorist financing policies. The case, A v. Her Majesty’s Treasury will provide an opportunity for the Court to consider the narrow question of asset seizures in terrorism [...]
Sometimes, a cigar is a penis Wall Street Journal: WASHINGTON — Two federal regulators criticized parts of Rep. Barney Frank’s proposal to overhaul financial regulation, saying it will let large companies escape restrictions on the types of financial products that contributed to last year’s crisis. Wall Street firms have pressed Mr. Frank, chairman of the [...]
USA TODAY ONLINE Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio says he will continue his controversial “crime suppression operations” despite a Department of Homeland Security decision to strip him of authority to arrest suspected illegal immigrants based solely on their immigration status, the East Valley Tribune reports. “It’s all politics,†says Arpaio, sheriff of Maricopa County. Arpaio will [...]
By ANNE BAYEFSKY On September 29, Richard Goldstone presented his report on the Gaza conflict to an enraptured UN Human Rights Council. The Council, in which the Organization of the Islamic Conference holds the balance of power, commissioned his report. Goldstone promoted his 575-page smear campaign against the State of Israel by parading his Jewishness [...]
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Rasmussen Reports: Al-Qaida is becoming the weapons of mass destruction of the Obama administration’s war in Afghanistan. Or, to be more precise, it is a reverse WMD. For the George W. Bush administration, the likely presence of WMD in Iraq was a major justification for going to war. For Vice President Joe Biden and some [...]
ADNKronos: Rome, 7 October – A leading Al-Qaeda militant on Wednesday called on Muslims worldwide to defend Uighurs in China’s restive northwestern region of Xinjiang. He told Uighurs to prepare for a holy war or Jihad and urged a “vast media campaign” to raise awareness of their fate at the hands of “oppressive” China. In [...]
KABUL (Reuters) – The Afghan Taliban pose no threat to the West but will continue their fight against occupying foreign forces, they said on Wednesday, the eighth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion that removed them from power. U.S.-led forces with the help of Afghan groups overthrew the Taliban government during a five week battle which [...]
Politico: The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the Senate Finance Committee’s health reform bill will cost $829 billion over 10 years – bringing it well within the president’s $900 billion target and clearing the way for a committee vote as early as Friday. The CBO also said the bill would cover 94 percent of Americans [...]
Jerusalem Post: Israeli diplomatic officials would not comment Wednesday on claims made by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that several countries had offered to sell enriched uranium to the Islamic Republic. In an interview Wednesday with the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency, Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying that “there have been some proposals by individual countries [...]