Gaza flotilla: 2 dead, dozens injured in navy boarding
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"Gaza flotilla: 2 dead, dozens injured in navy boarding." By JPOST.COM STAFF AND YAAKOV KATZ 05/31/2010 07:00 SNIPPET: "Passengers tried to wrest weapons from soldiers, Army Radio reports; Turkish leadership in emergency meeting to discuss response to attack at sea. Passengers tried to grab weapons away from soldiers boarding the Gaza protest flotilla, starting the violence, Army Radio reported Tuesday morning, responding to accusations that Israeli commandos assaulted the ships guns blazing."
Published on Tuesday 7th of February 2012 02:31:09 AM
ANOTHER DAM THREAT: TERROR THREAT TO DENVER AREA DAM CLOSES ROADWAY
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Another Dam Threat July 16, 2008 http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/another_dam_threat By Fred Burton and Scott Stewart At the stroke of midnight July 8, the Denver Water Board closed the road over Dillon Dam in Summit County, Colorado, citing security concerns. The board’s decision, which was implemented without advance notice to local governments and citizens, has not been well-received. It has sparked protests by enraged residents and has even prompted officials from Summit County, three affected towns nearby and the local fire and rescue department to file suit in state district court in a bid to force Denver Water to reopen the road. The...
Published on Tuesday 7th of February 2012 02:31:09 AM
Threat Matrix: January 2008
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Still in Control Pervez Musharraf was calm, confident and—despite a flurry of rumors—not about to announce his resignation. Instead, the Pakistani president's "concession" to his troubled nation was an announcement that he would allow Britain's Scotland Yard to help local law enforcement agencies with their investigation into last week's assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. Speaking in a nationally televised address two hours after Pakistan's election commission announced the postponement of the ballot to Feb. 18, six weeks later than had been scheduled, Musharraf was notably deferential in his remarks about Bhutto, often invoking her "martyrdom" and extolling...
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How conflicts between the Administration and the CIA marred the reporting on Iraq’s weapons.
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Since midsummer, the Senate Intelligence Committee has been attempting to solve the biggest mystery of the Iraq war: the disparity between the Bush Administration’s prewar assessment of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction and what has actually been discovered. The committee is concentrating on the last ten years’ worth of reports by the C.I.A. Preliminary findings, one intelligence official told me, are disquieting. “The intelligence community made all kinds of errors and handled things sloppily,” he said. The problems range from a lack of quality control to different agencies’ reporting contradictory assessments at the same time. One finding, the official went...
Published on Tuesday 7th of February 2012 02:31:09 AM
JOHNSON'S SECOND TD THE DIFFERENCE - [Cincinnati beat a real team!]
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CINCINNATI (AP) -- Corey Dillon was all but forgotten, along with the last 12 years of Bengals follies. Dillon wasn't even in the stadium Sunday as his downtrodden team pulled off a reputation-changing win. Jon Kitna's 53-yard touchdown pass to Chad Johnson and two tipped interceptions gave Cincinnati a 27-24 victory over the Seattle Seahawks.With their first win over a top-notch team, the Bengals (3-4) proved they're no longer dreadful and no longer dependent upon one moody running back. "We believed we were going to win this game," offensive tackle Willie Anderson said. "This is a new team." Cincinnati has...
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Former treasury secretary C. Douglas Dillon dies at 93
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NEW YORK (AP) - C. Douglas Dillon, a Wall Street investment banker and diplomat who served as secretary of the treasury in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, has died, his family said. He was 93. Dillon died Friday at New York Presbyterian-Cornell Medical Center, where he had been hospitalized for several weeks with severe infection. The scion of a noted financial family, Dillon was hand-picked by president-elect John F. Kennedy to head the Treasury department after six years as U.S. ambassador to France and nearly two years as undersecretary of state for economic affairs under President Eisenhower. As an...
Published on Tuesday 7th of February 2012 02:31:09 AM
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